This movie has been criminally overlooked for years. It was abox office failure, but a critical darling. The film was co-written and directed by Brad Bird -- whom also wrote and directed The Incredibles -- one of my favorite directors. The story is basically E.T. with a giant robot instead of an alien, but it is by no means a rip-off. The Iron Giant has always been a favorite of mine, I own it on DVD and video. Please consider it. Not enough people give this movie the credit it deserves.

Plus, after so many anime movies we should start watching a few of the great American animated films as well. Yes, they do exist.

Synopsis 

This is the story a nine-year-old boy named Hogarth Hughes who makes friends with an innocent alien giant robot that came from outer space. Meanwhile, a paranoid U.S. Government agent named Kent Mansley arrives in town, determined to destroy the giant at all costs. It's up to Hogarth to protect him by keeping him at Dean McCoppin's place in the junkyard.

More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Giant

The creators of maplestory made a new mmo, and it runs Valve's SOURCE engine for its physics. So far as I've been playing it for a couple of days and its really fun. The graphics system is also crazy. My GeForce 8800 GT needed overclocking to securely play it on Medium quality. Running it on full graphics with multicore enabled has to be insane, so graphics are very solid. The gameplay is very different from a typical MMO. Not a stand around and wait on chance for a dodge, its similar to a action game because it runs as you walk around encountering enemies and like say Dynasty warriors, you run in slash and you can dodge their attacks by yourself. Currently only 3 (soon to be 4) classes available. I'd reccomend it to anyone wanting to try it. Audio is pretty well done. It starts off with a prologue and CINEMATIC. I mean pretty unique for a starting in MMO. I'd actually put it similar to guild wars in that aspect.

 

 

The name of the game is Vindictus from Nexon

I have a question for everyone and anyone, and its about censorship...

But first of all let me voice my opinion.

I feel that censorship in the media now a days has actually let up fairly well and i hope it doesnt change. Take for example:

Video games arent really anything new, the ESRB lets parents be the judges of what material to show their children, as it should be. Parents SHOULD be the main part in how a child is raised. And yes, i still get pissed like everyone else when you see some retard of a mother buying Left 4 Dead for their 5 year old son, but hell, its their choice. It just saddens and enfuriates me when someone in that situation, snaps and does something stupid, and it gets blamed on video games. Ha, yeah right...

Television has suprisingly lighten up on censorship the most in the past few years. From shows like Flapjack, which can be down right horrifying/disgusting at times, to newer shows like Regular Show, which get away with light swear words like "pissed" and suggestive situations like "he's going to drop his balls". I still think that it could be lightened a little more tho because, now again, this a situation for the parent to be more proactive, instead of just siting their child in front a television set to shut them up. I can still remeber shows my mom didn't want me watching, like Ren and Stimpy, and even lighter, Rocco's Modern Life. Although i did go back a watch these, im kinda gald my mom didnt let me watch them, because i enjoyed them more as an adult than i would have ever as a child.

Movies are the last thing i was going to touch base's on just because i have to least to say about it. I never really understood why they stopped showing NC-17 movies in theaters, but i guess its because of piss-poor sales. Im glad you gotta be 13 for PG-13 movies, and im glad you gotta be 17 for R. I dont think it could have been choosen better. But coming from experience, its still awkward as hell sitting next to your mom or dad during a sex scene if you're under the age.

But thats really all i have to say,

What do you guys think?

          I think that for most people music can carry a lot of sentimental value, and sometimes a certain song can be attributed to a specific memory. I'm curious to see what songs are important to you guys, and perhaps you could share the story behind it!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    For me, the song "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel reminds me of the first time a guy ever held my hand. We had gotten to be good friends near the end of my 8th grade year, and he was in high school so we would see each other nearly every day after school hours. We basically got to know each other through music, because we liked a lot of the same bands; particularly experimental freak folk bands like Neutral Milk Hotel. Well, one day we visited this field in our town that is full of yellow daffodils every late spring. It's supposed to be off limits, but the daffodils had gotten so tall that we could lay in them unseen, and we were both laying in the daffodils watching the clouds while he held my hand and started singing this song. It was so sweet, I could never forget it. We grew apart when I actually got to high school, and the last I heard of him he's in Amsterdam. But this song always makes me think of laying in the daffodils.