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A few weeks ago we had the pleasure of viewing Make My Day. A creation of Hidden Frame Productions, Make My Day reminds us of those Choose Your Own Adventure books we enjoyed as younglings, as the premise is that you take the main character and guide him through his day using choices presented to you. While just about every scenario results in the death of the main character, the numerous ways that he dies had us laughing out loud. If you enjoy independent film, or if you simply enjoy laughing at something so over the top you have to wonder what was going through the mind of the creator, we can whole-heartedly recommend Make My Day. You can grab a copy for $15 USD, or you can win one here.
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A few weeks ago we had the pleasure of viewing Make My Day. A creation of Hidden Frame Productions, Make My Day reminds us of those Choose Your Own Adventure books we enjoyed as younglings, as the premise is that you take the main character and guide him through his day using choices presented to you. While just about every scenario results in the death of the main character, the numerous ways that he dies had us laughing out loud. For only $15 USD, this one is definitely a great gift or stocking stuffer for anyone with even a slight sense of humor.
WIN IT!: Want to win your own copy of Make My Day? Just head on over to our Holiday Giveaway Forum Thread for details! Two readers will walk away with a Make My Day DVD courtesy of Hidden Frame Productions and Gear Live Media.
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Well, the Doom Movie has finally hit theatres and I went and checked it out. Needless to say, the movie was about as good as the Super Mario Brothers Movie. It has many things that tie in well with the game series, from the sounds of opening doors to the Computer Systems used as locks. Also, just like any other hollywood video game adaptation, there was the stuff that was changed. The Demons of Doom weren’t from hell, they were instead genetic experiments gone bad. Sound familiar? The movie itself is very slow paced. A good chunk of it is spent with all the Marines roaming the corridors of the UAC Base looking for the “missing scientists” and hearing creepy noises only to find absolutely nothing. Without destroying the movies lack of story, I’ll simply state that the best parts of the movie were the 3 minutes of the first-person style view and the credits.
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This week, The Final Cut takes a closer look at Doom, starring The Rock; and Stay, with Ewan McGregor. Also showing on the big screen come Friday are Shopgirl, North Country, and Dreamer; and in limited release you can look for Kids In America, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, After School Special, Uspizin, and Protocols of Zion. Had the opportunity to check out any of this weekends’ releases? Tell your fellow Gear Live readers what you thought by leaving your opinion in the comments section. Check out our thoughts on Doom and Stay after the jump…
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This week, The Final Cut takes a closer look at History of Violence, with Viggo Mortensen; and Serenity, starring Nathan Fillion. Also in theaters nationwide this weekend are The Greatest Game Ever Played and Into The Blue. In limited release you can catch Duma, MirrorMask, Capote and The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio. You can catch The Final Cut’s recommendations after the jump, and if you catch one of this weekends releases, feel free to leave a comment with your opinion.
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Microsoft and Intel announce their support for HD DVD
Posted by Jesse Easley Categories: Corporate News, Home Entertainment, Movies,
The HD Format DVD war is still going on and Toshiba’s HD DVD camp just got 2 more allies. Microsoft and Intel announced yesterday that they will be supporting the HD DVD format over Blu-Ray. Each format has a significan’t amount of followers, but at this point it really is a wash as far as who is ahead. The main reason for Intel and Microsoft’s support is the storage capacity. For a while, Sony has claimed Blu-Ray has the most storage, but yesterday it was established that due to Toshiba’s dual-layer technology, their discs will hold up to 30GB rather than Blu-Ray’s 25GB. Which format will prevail?
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This Week, The Final Cut takes a closer look at two of this weekends nationwide releases- Flight Plan with Jodie Foster, and The Corpse Bride with Johnny Depp. Also out this Friday are Oliver Twist directed by Roman Polanski; Proof, starring Gwyneth Paltrow; Roll-Bounce with Bow Wow and Nick Cannon; and in limited release, Daltry Calhoun starring Johnny Knoxville. You can check out The Final Cut’s recommendations after the jump, and if you’ve had the chance to catch any of this weekends flicks, feel free to leave your opinion in the comments.
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This week, The Final Cut takes a closer look at Just Like Heaven with Reese Witherspoon, and Lord of War with Nicolas Cage. Also out this weekend in nationwide release are Cry Wolf, a film about two kids who create a story about a serial killer which turns real; and Venom, another movie starring teenagers, this time being chased through Louisiana by a man possessed with 13 evil spirits. In limited release, look for The Thing About My Folks, HellBent, G, Everything Is Illuminated and Thumbsucker. As always, if you’ve seen any of this weekends’ releases, feel free to leave a comment with your opinion. More after the jump…
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Windows Vista Netflix Management Application
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Home Entertainment, Movies, Software,
If applications like these are what’s in store with Windows Vista, then it makes me just a little more excited for the release of the next Microsoft OS. The screenshot is a Netflix management tool built on Avalon which works off of the Netflix RSS feeds. It looks slick, optimizing itself depending on what type of PC and screen resolution you are using.
Today at the Microsoft PDC keynote in Los Angeles, during the Jim Allchin keynote, Darryn Dieken, group program manager for Avalon demo’d an experimental Netflix application built on Avalon using Netflix’s pre-existing RSS feeds. The application was built by the design firm Rezn8 with design direction from two of us on the Media Center team.
Unfortunately, I am more of a Blockbuster Online kind of guy.
Read More | Matt’s Media Center Weblog
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Mattel’s Vidster Digital Video Camera Impressions
Posted by Edwin Soto Categories: Cameras, Home Entertainment, Movies, Toys,
Vidster is a digital video camera marketed toward kids who have bigger dreams than to end up making the next Blair Witch sequel. Incredibly easy to use, it’s ready to go right out of the box. Upon inspection, it looks cheapish and plastic, however keep in mind that it retails for $79.99 and it is intended to withstand the punishment of kids. It comes with 32MB of onboard memory but it is expandable up to 512MB using an SD slot. At only 15 fps, the video quality seemed disappointing and sometimes sluggish. Forgetting that it’s intended for kids, I tried to play around with it but found it difficult to manipulate the buttons with my huge sausage fingers. The camera takes 1.3 megapixel still shots and has a 1.1-inch color LCD with 2x digital zoom. The product seems to thrive once it’s connected to a PC over its USB connection. The editing software used is a version of autoProducer 3.5 designed specifically by muvee Technologies for Vidster. The software is simple enough for kids to use by integrating music into their scenes, emailing their creations, or even burning them to DVD.
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