Retro Summer Heat: Bad Girls Go to Hell Trailer

Posted on July 19, 2013 by geelw

This post is for the smiling guy I saw out walking today wearing a suit and tie all buttoned up and saying to his baking lady friend (trying to keep up in her high heels and about to melt makeup) “This heat is NOTHING to me! HAHAHAHAHA!”

Yeah, you suck and the planet you come from sucks as well.

Note: SOME would say this trailer is NSFW, but given that I’m posting this after work hours, YOU can watch it and not feel guilty or cheap. Unless you’re watching this at work and get creeped on by your boss. Oops – now he’s going to think a lot less (or more) of you and you’ll get a raise or a demotion or something. Whatever it is, even if it’s “good”, it’s not good, as now he’ll be sliding by with a grin on his mug, a mug in his claw and a “Whatcha watchin’?” leer to really freak you out. OK, other than clips on some ancient HBO show and stills from a book a friend lent me many years ago, I’ve actually never seen a Doris Wishman-directed film. The trailer makes me want to. It’s the title, silly. Well, OK… the sheer camp value is also the kicker here. Anyway, yeah… some of you need another shower, the rest of you want to chase me around the room with a spiked baseball bat. It’s too hot for the latter, so just stick your head and feet into a nice bucket of ice (or ice cream) and cool off. You can hate me in the winter or something…

Or you can hate the fine folks at Sleaze-O-Rama for twisting your arm and “making” you click that link… and yeah, Bad Girls go to Hell 365 days a year – they just wear less in this weather.

EDF 2025 Recruitment Video #2: Not to “Bug” You Again, But You’re Wanted…

Posted on July 19, 2013 by geelw

Only in Japan do you get these goofball game videos that manage to be informative and amusing (well, if you understand the language, that is). I’m still waiting for my copy of the game to arrive, but others who ordered their copies at the same time I did seem to be finally getting them this week. No worries of course – it just means I’ll have a LOT of catching up to.

Meanwhile, the fine folks over at Game Empire HD are STILL uploading some great gameplay videos and as you can see above and below, things get quite chaotic in these later missions. Well, I did say that I needed some distractions this summer, so this will indeed count as one of them.

OK, I’m shutting up now. It’s too hot (again, as in 103 or so with the heat index) and I need to go do stuff that requires less effort. Sleep? Not yet… but maybe I’ll do something really nuts like cook something in the oven just to generate sweat and make me drink more water then fall into the shower for the third time today. We shall see…

Random Film of the Week*: Code 46

Posted on July 19, 2013 by geelw

*OK, the official title of this post is: Random Film of the Week: Code 46 (Cinematic Katenjammer Not-So-Secret Santa Review Swap in July Version), but that’s too damn long a title even for my long-winded self. That and you can’t put links into titles on WordPress as far as I know…

As a fan of her always intriguing acting work, I’d watch Samantha Morton play a computer-generated paper bag character blowing down a dirty alleyway (I can see it now: “Dreamworks Animation presents… Trash Tale“), but thankfully (more or less), I got to watch Code 46 again and this time, write a little something about it.

Michael Winterbottom’s impressive 2003 speculative sci-fi love story/drama has some great intentions, solid performances and a lovely, realistically grimy futurist visual style all going for it, but it’s not a film for those with short attention spans nor those expecting a movie that’s going to blow their minds with flashy special effects. It’s one of those extremely well made yet surprisingly middle of the road movies which may at first seem odd for the director known for some outstanding (24-Hour Party People) as well as controversial (Butterfly Kiss, 9 Songs) films.

That said, it’s not “bad” by any stretch of the imagination and in fact, has some truly memorable scenes that will resonate with many viewers who want more than the usual weekend box office romance of the week flick. Nevertheless, for all its slow-burning tension, interesting nudity choices and “disturbing” plot twists, there’s a strangely creeping predictability to most of the film that made it feel like a distant memory playing itself back the first time I saw it. Or a memory to come I’d rather not have.

But then again, perhaps this is how it’s supposed to be…

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Strider Gets An Extra Life Courtesy of Capcom & Double Helix…

Posted on July 19, 2013 by geelw

Well, this was an interesting surprise to see popping up in the inbox yesterday: An all-new Strider game on the way from busy developer Double Helix headed to PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and PC. Of course (throwing my two cents down here)… it would be better to get this out on the Wii U and Vita as well, but we seem to be in the age of publishers only wanting to get games out on platforms where there’s guaranteed interest and bigger initial full-price sales from a larger dedicated install base rather than trying a title out on a platform that may only rack up less than stellar sales figures or just have users saying they’ll wait for a price drop. Which, by the way is dumb on a game that’s no doubt going to be budget-priced. Hopefully.

Of course, for someone like me who’d rather have MORE choice than less and can clearly see this doing decently enough on some systems it’s not (currently) coming to, the news is great but a tad annoying. Sure, development costs no doubt factor into the decision to not bring this to the Wii U or Vita, but I say Capcom should do some sort of outreach into both of those communities and see if there’s interest in buying this one on either platform (I think there is) and perhaps getting those versions out at some point. With a classic like this making a comeback (that actually looks quite good and seems to be quite challenging based on that video above) as a digital-only release, it’s not as if there will be a ton of unsold retail boxes clogging up an inventory somewhere, right?

Oh… and if this doesn’t toss in the original arcade game as an extra, that would be really silly. Make it happen, Capcom.