I saw The Other Guys tonight at a local theater. I've been trying to save for the convention coming up, so I wasn't going to go, but then the theater advertised that all tickets were supposed to be $6 all day. I say supposed, because we ended up getting charged full price (which has gone up at that theater). No explanation was given as to why the promotion didn't apply to the movie we were seeing, but since we were there, we saw it anyway (probably something the theater was counting on).
The movie itself was pretty flippin' hilarious. There were times where I wondered if the film even had a plot, since it seemed to mostly be a bunch of over the top cop jokes. Samuel L Jackson and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson were great as the over-the-top action heroes that Mark Wahlberg's character longed to be. Kind of messed up what happens there, but I won't spoil it.
If you've seen other Ferrel movies, you know what to expect going in, and that about sums up The Other Guys.
The Multiplayer (MP) trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops was released today. It looked kind of neat, but I do have some problems with it. Namely, it still contains everything players complained about in Modern Warfare 2's MP. Of course, since it doesn't have MW in the title, people for some reason are going apeshit over it instead of getting pissed off. It still has the ridiculous knife kills, killstreaks, and everything else you'd come to expect from Treyarch ripping off Infinity Ward's work. I know some people will call foul on that, but it's true, Treyarch just takes the game engine IW develops as well as some of the scripted events and tosses 'em together and calls it a day/game. Sure, the end result might turn out ok (as was the case with WaW and probably will for BO), but that's really all Treyarch is doing at this point. Kind of makes you wonder what's going to happen next year now that IW was all but gutted.
Anywho, that's all for me. Nine days until Comic-Con.
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