My Recommendation List Episode I

Today I am making recommendations. My first is the anime Azumanga Daioh. I greatly enjoy this anime and have watched it multiple times. It may be considered "girly" but I like it anyways and recommend it to any fan of slice-of-life high school anime. You can watch it here.

I also have to recommend Kung Fu Hustle to anyone who has not yet seen it. It is a fantastic action comedy by acclaimed Chinese director Stephen Chow. I must say it's quite hilarious and more than that the effects and fight scenes are amazing. Highly recommended to anyone who likes kung fu movies or Jackie Chan type films.

I also would like to make the recommendation of the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan for all my fantasy reading fans. It's got a Lord of the Rings type feel and is very well written. The final book is due to come out later this year. I recommend you pick up all of the books ASAP.

Harry Potter And the Order of the Sorcerer's Half-blood Hangover of the Chamber of Azkaban

Today I was able to see some great movies. I finally got to see Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince along with The Hangover. Of course Harry Potter is loosely based on the book by the same name. I only say loosely because I'm not so sure a lot of the parts were in there, then again I only read the book once where as I've read the first five at least 7 times each. Never-the-less the movie was still great. I loved every minute that I saw when I wasn't waiting in a horrendously long line for a drink refill or running to the bathroom because I drink too much. 9/10 for movie 6/8 (the last book was split into two movies).

The Hangover was hilarious. There's a good reason why it was the number one movie in America for so long. The whole time I was thinking "I could totally see me and my buddies doing this". I also loved the whole cast, even though many of them I hadn't seen before or had only seen a few times. I can't wait to get it on DVD. 9/10 to this glorious comedy.

Crank Private Ryan to Hell

This post will be a trio of movie reviews. First up is Crank: High Voltage. I greatly enjoyed this movie and all aspects; the humor, off the wall action and awesome film techniques were just as good if not better than the first. It's the continuing story of Chev Chelios that picks up right at the end of the first movie. The Triads scoop up his body after he falls from the helicopter at the end of the first movie and remove his heart, replacing it with an artificial one. Just as in the first movie he has to do outrageous things in order to keep himself alive including an awesome public sex scene in the middle of a race track (which has me stoked to get the uncensored DVD). I give this movie 5/5 because of the total awesomeness.

The second movie is Saving Private Ryan. Of course this movie is one of the great war movies of the 1990s. Starring Tom Hanks, Matt Damon and Vin Diesel (yup his first movie). I really enjoyed it, I even got extremely choked up towards the end. If you haven't seen it yet then you need to see it. It gets a well earned 5/5.

Lastly is Drag me to Hell which I just got home from seeing (hence the late post). This is a film written by Sam Raimi and Ted Raimi. Sam Raimi also directed the movie and has also directed great films like Spiderman and Evil Dead. The plot concerns a banker who denies a loan to an old gypsy woman who then begs her and when shamed curses her. It's a pretty good film for making you jump and of course Ted Raimi makes a little cameo appearance. I liked all of the actors especially Justin Long. There were also some pretty gross parts but not like gory gross. I give it a 4/5

Anime, SDCC and a Webcomic

Sorry I haven't posted in a few days but I've been trying to catch up with anime like I said I was going to. I finally finished watching Slayers and Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid. I greatly enjoyed them both. I also caught up on The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya since I was 3 episodes behind. I can't wait until the "endless eight" episodes are over. It's getting tedious watching the same thing over and over but I'm sure that the end will justify the means.

During my anime watching I've discovered that there is currently a Shugo Chara! anime. This is both good and bad news; good in the sense that "yay there's an anime!" and bad in the sense that "damn I'll have to finish the Slayers anime and Full Metal Panic Fumoffu before I can really get to it!" However if any of you readers (I know there must be at least 2 of you) want to watch it you can click here.

Today I was also found a link to a preview of Left 4 Dead 2 in a tweet by one of the people I follow on Twitter, Tim Buckley, creator of the web comic CTRL+ALT+DEL (which I recommend for any gamer) to read it click here. To see the SDCC (San Diego Comic Convention) preview of Left 4 Dead 2 click here.

I must return to watching anime now, until next time, game on.