Kramez
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    Unity Recommends: Halloween movies plus a game

    Friday, October 31, 2008, 01:07 PM [Unity recommends]

     

    I'd like to echo Seth's sentiments with my own Halloween wishes for y'all: get lots of candy. And also, watch some fun movies tonight. Start with THE BEST ROMANTIC ZOMBIE COMEDY OF ALL TIME aka "Shaun of the Dead" and then working your way to some classics like John Carpenter's "The Thing" and "Prince of Darkness," Raimi's awesome "Evil Dead II" and a real Peter Jackson movie, "Dead Alive."

    And if you have some time left over, play Dead Space. It's quite good! Much more Doom 3 than Resident Evil 4, with more than a hint of "Event Horizon" thrown in for good measure.

    Just looking at that image makes me want to go home right now and watch "Shaun" again. I love that movie!

    4.5 (5 Ratings)

    Unity recommends: Doomsday

    Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 10:13 AM [Unity recommends]

    I just watched Doomsday, an amazing homage of a movie. A curveball popcorn throwback to glory days of sci-fi action movies of the 80s, Doomsday isn’t even coy about its obvious nods to Escape From New York, Aliens, The Warriors, Mad Max and even a hint (well, a total swipe, really) of 28 Days Later. Even the score sounds like vintage John Carpenter keyboard noodling. The cast includes a former Lara Croft model, the fat English fella from Roger Rabbit, that doctor guy from Deep Space Nine and the one white-haired English actor who wasn't in a Lord of the Rings movie but probably should have been. Rhona Mitra is channeling Snake Plisken (with a touch of that other Snake, too) with all of her might and pulls it off pretty damn well.

    This movie has literally everything: Camera eyeballs. Gratuitous Mohawks. Accidental shotgun headshots. A gimp. Trashed APCs. Trashed Bentley. Trashed Glasgow. Multiple decapitations. Incongruous train escape. London burning. Leather pants. Leather boots. Leather everything. Car surfing. Slow motion knights on horseback. Exposed lady bits. Obviously expendable military hardasses. A dude who is neither quite the Ayatollah of Rock ‘n Rolla or The Duke, but almost. Extreme gore. Major daddy issues. Tattooed faces. Tattooed backs. Tattooed everything. Lock picking. Ass kicking. The world’s most dangerous bus. Crossbows. Foam grenades. Flying saw blades. Robotic gun turrets. A motorcycle with a skeleton on the front. Chicks sword fighting. Lots of shooting. Rioting. Cannibalism. Dance review numbers set to Fine Young Cannibals and Siouxsie and the Banshees. Exploding cars. Exploding rabbits. Exploding everything.

    If you like your dystopian futures filled with vomiting infected Londoners and costume designs one part nine inch nails, one part Burning Man and 100% awesome, Doomsday is the movie for you. Your PS3 was designed specifically by Ken Kutaragi just to play a BluRay disc like this.  Get it!

    4 (3 Ratings)