Entertainment Weekly

posted on november 8, 2004, tag: entertainment

Lots of good stuff recently to entertain yourself with. If you haven't seen The Incredibles, you must. It is, in my opinion, Pixar's best work to date. I'm sure it helps a little bit that I'm a sucker for superheroes, but nonetheless it is a fantastic film. They have so much fun with the family's abilities and when you combine that with stellar visuals, great voice acting and a great story, you just can't lose.

Also worth seeing is Sideways, a movie most people haven't even heard of. It stars Paul Giamatti (Private Parts, Man on the Moon, American Splendor) and Thomas Haden Church (most notably "Lowell" from Wings) and it's a quirky, often hilarious road-trip picture about wine, love and failure. Oh, and wine. Can't forget to mention the wine. Anyway, see it. It was directed by the same guy who made About Schmidt and Election.

And if you're the video-game-playing type, this is a good month for you. Tomorrow, at long last, Halo 2 is released. I preordered my special edition copy nearly a year ago and I'll be playing it the moment I get home from work tomorrow. If you've got XBOX Live and you'll be playing Halo 2, please feel free to email your gamertag to me (garrett at maniacalrage dot net). I'm sure to be playing quite a bit and it would be fun to play with some of you guys.

Next week two more important games are being released: Metriod Prime 2: Echoes and... finally... Half-Life 2. Both look to be absolutely excellent games and both guarantee that I will be glued to my television or computer for quite some time. I am even considering taking a look back at Counter-Strike now that it's running on the Source engine. I haven't played CS since I left college, but I think I played it the equivilant of four lifetimes while I was there.

If you're not interested in first person shooters and have a Gamecube, take a look at Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. It's a fantastic game. I've been playing it for the last few weeks and I can't put it down. Very clever and a whole lot of fun (plus about 30 hours of gameplay!).

Oh, and we can't forget that the Nintendo DS comes out in the States on November 21. Very excited about that, even though I'll probably wait until around Christmas to get once since they'll only have a few games out until then. We'll see. I have a feeling there will be quite a few game-related entries here in the coming weeks.

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