Trick 'r Treat Review

Happy Halloween!


image from Wiki

Premise:
A mashup of short stories, kind of like Tales From The Crypt, or The Twilight Zone, only with interlocking plots that share characters who all live on the same street. Basically, the over-arching theme in them all, is that on Halloween night there's a whole lotta murder going down, and just about everyone is going to get away with it. Especially the creepy little pumpkin-head-costume kid.





Standouts:
The one thing that stands out strongest in this movie is how it amazingly didn't go to theaters. This film had everything, intriguing characters, original stories to tell, and a fantastic horror icon (featured on the cover and poster). You get vampires, werewolves, serial killers, ghosts and omnipotent supernatural demon-sprites. What more can you ask? If you say Zombies, then the ghosts are very zombie-like. So eat that. The runtime also stands out, as it wasn't even a full 90 minutes, but gave the same sense of closure and enjoyment that it would have given from a two hour film.


My Highlights:
The whole movie was fantastic, but I love the ending for the main reason people watch any horror movie - the big fight between a character and an unstoppable force. Shotgun vs. candy and razor blades. Guess who's armed with which and who wins in the end!

Overall Rating:
4 1/2 *'s out of 5. I wasn't very scared while watching the film, and the budget seemed a little lacking at times, but it was creative, concise, and instilled a deep sense of paranoia and fright in me upon leaving the safety of my house. After seeing this, I'm glad I'm done trick or treating, and anyone that comes to my house is getting anything and everything they want so long as they won't harm me.

When You Should See It:
This is a movie you should catch on board with right away, because it's going to be a big deal. I've heard that a Halloween costume based on the Pumpkin-Headed child is already being mass-produced, and over the next few years, it's going to be the next Jigsaw doll look. Be on the inside track, know what people are referencing when they talk about this, regardless of when you read this blog. Here's the DVD on Amazon, here's the Blu-Ray on Amazon, I don't care what you'd prefer, but buy it. Buy it now.

Clearance Bin Video Game Review: Spider-Man 3

Title: Spider-Man 3
System: Every current console
Rating: T



Script: Welcome to the Clearance bin video game review by Organized Remains. We’re looking at Spider-Man 3 for the Xbox 360, but it’s also available for all the other systems out there. This game will cost around $5.

You step into the shoes of Peter Parker, AKA The Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. This time in the trilogy, you’ve apparently lost all reason and understanding of the actions you’re asked to perform. After playing this game, I wish I could shoot webs, just to form a noose. The controls are nothing less than erratic, and Spidey is clearly on crack judging from what a hyper little man he is, jumping all about. Even when it comes to web-sligning, a normal swing is not enough of a thrill for this hyper little man.

While the map is nice and big, the overall graphics just lead so much to be desired. They spent more time creating a “Press X to Diffuse the Bomb” graphic, then they did on Spider-Man’s, apparently leather apparel. And speaking of leather apparel, let’s talk about who Spider-Man really is. Spider-Man, is NOT! SOMEONE WITH X-RAY SPIDER-SENSE-VISION! SPIDER-MAN IS NOT CAPABLE OF LEAPING TALL BUILDINGS IN A SINGLE BOUND! SPIDER-MAN IS NOT NEO FROM THE MATRIX, CAPABLE OF FREEZING TIME, WALKING BEHIND AN ENEMY, AND STRIKING THEM IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD! Learn your material before bastardizing the entire franchise, Activision!

Final Say: The movie Spider-Man 3 was uber-meh, the Spider-Man 3 Video game was worse. We could only stomach an hour of this abomination of a movie-turned-video game. So this game isn’t worth $5 Monopoly money, let alone real dough, especially for Spider-Man fans.

Owl City's "Ocean Eyes" Review

image from Amazon

Artist: Owl City
Album: Ocean Eyes
Release Date: July 28, 2009
Tracks: 12
Runtime: 43:00


Track Breakdown:
(All ratings out of 5 *’s)


1) Cave In – a fantastic and impactful opener to the album. The tone is very upbeat and peppy, and the lyrics are full of wordplay and smile-drawing rhyme scheme. There’s something very infectious about this track - 4 ½ *’s.


2) The Bird and the Worm – A very cute song with such pleasant visuals as “if you’re my girl, then I’ll kiss you between the ears.” It’s not very memorable or standing out, but I’d say it’s just a little bit over the edge of mediocre filler. - 3 *’s


3) Hello Seattle – While maintaining the peppiness and bubbly electronic tune, it’s rare that I can get into a song that mainly serves as promotion for a geographic location. Even subject-matter aside, there isn’t a whole lot of the great wordplay that often makes Owl City amazing. 2 *’s, very skippable.


4) Umbrella Beach – Another very bland song, and the singer definitely overuses the echo-special-effect on his voice. The beat is much more dancy than the previous song though, so it gets a mediocre 2 ½ *’s – probably skippable, but maybe a select few people’s tastes.


5) The Saltwater Room – Very woo-ing, very romantic, and very melodic. This song is a revival of great wordplay, great rhyming, and great rhythm. It also features a duet with female singer, Breanne Duren, who re-appears in the track On the Wing, and she definitely has a voice to fall in love with. 4 ½ *’s.

6) Dental Care – My absolute favorite song on the album due to the great wordplay. The lyrics seem innocently enough about someone nervous about going to the dentist, but there’s also some deeper meanings to the lyrics – “I’ve been to the dentist a thousand times so I know the drill” and “Golf and alcohol don’t mix so that’s why I don’t drink and drive, because good grief, I’d knock out my teeth, and have to kiss my smile goodbye.” It may be a little cheesy and childish, but every once and while that’s what we all need. Also, it reminds me of The Simpsons “DENTAL PLAN! Lisa Needs Braces…” – 5 *’s.

7) Meteor Shower – A bit of a short track, but with powerful vocal delivery, simplistic, romantic lyrics, and a very harmonic electronic tune, this track does everything it needs to. 4 ½ *’s.

8) On the Wing – After the last few amazing tracks, this one leaves quite a bit to be desired. On its own, it’s probably a pretty decent song, but the album-positioning definitely drags it down. The tune especially seems to be lacking in delivery. It’s not entirely skippable though, as has some pretty innocent and romantic lyrics that you can get into – 3 *’s.

9) Fireflies – The main single from the track, and definitely deserving of it’s popularity. There’s a good amount of versatility in the music, breaking it up between verses, bridge and chorus. The lyrics are especially simplistic, yet childishly dreamy and bringing on a kind of hypnotic mindset that brings you back to simpler times - 5 *’s.

10) The Tip of the Iceberg – I love a good rhyme scheme for a song, and while all Owl City lyrics are kind of childish and innocent, this one comes off as too Cat In The Hat. This is not because I can’t relate to snowy weather either, living in New England. This is just kind of obnoxious song – 1 ½ *’s – can’t imagine anyone not skipping this.

11) Vanilla Twilight – An expert electronic tune to it, and some very romantic, dedicate-to-your-significant-other kind of lyrics, but there’s a missing element. I think it would be a much better song with a more powerful chorus, as too much of the song is sung in a volumized-whisper. Still not an awful song, and certainly better than the previous track – 3 ½ *’s.

12) Tidal Wave – Motivational, up-beat, and inspiring. Some may scoff, and skip, but I think that this song is worth a listen. There isn’t anything that jumps out as a MUST-listen, but certainly the dark horse that could become a favorite for some – 4 *’s.


My Highlights:
The album’s single, “Fireflies”, my absolute favorite, “Dental Care”, “Meteor Shower”, “Cave In” and “The Saltwater Room”, which can all be given a listen on Lala.com. If you don’t want to venture to such an awesome website, find what you can on youtube, as they’re all great representations of the album.


Overall Rating:
Averaging all of the star ratings, I give this album 3 ½ *’s out of 5, which makes this over the half-way point by quite a bit, and borders on greatness. This album won’t draw buyer’s regret, and I suggest everyone give it a try. More often than not, I’m betting those who give it a chance will end up buying it. And because it’s a fairly independent, no-name band, ytou can find it around for cheap, possibly with one or more bonus tracks!

The Jeff Dunham Show

I just saw the new Jeff Dunham show. The guy with the puppets is back and has his own show. At first I was just expecting some stand up, which there was, but there are actual skits in the show based around the puppets. These puppets include Walter the old man, Peanut who is ironically allergic to peanuts, Achmed the Dead Terrorist, and Bubba J the redneck.

I did look at the reviews for this show, and I saw some people saying how offensive it was. While I see how it can be offensive, I've seen way worse. This is on the same network as South Park. When it comes to humor on race, or religion with puppets... can you really be that offended? They're puppets! Sure it's the comedian talking as the puppets, but... hes using puppets!

While the show wasn't hilarious, it had some moments. I'm even going to say that it's better than Mind of Mencia, but there are better shows on TV. So do you need to run out, and watch this? If you like the puppets, or even some what of the "Redneck" comedy. I would say check this show out, but there isn't a rush to see it.

Netflix for all

Great news for PS3 owners out there. Netflix instant watch will be available on the PS3 and it's coming soon.

Owning an XBox 360, I've already had the privilege of watching TV shows and movies on the TV. I hope this is the future of how we watch TV and movies. TV especially, without the Netflix instant watch I would have never seen:

-The Office
-30 Rock
-Survivor Man
-Weeds
-The Whitest Kids u'd Know
-Dexter
-Ect.

I Don't have Showtime, so I can't keep current with Weeds, but I am up to current with The Office and 30 Rock. So the Netflix instant watch is obviously a win-win for everyone. I get to see TV shows and the shows will gain me as a viewer for when the newer episodes are on TV. So why not add all TV shows onto instant watch? Time will only tell, because more and more shows are being added.

Clearance Bin Video Game Review: Dark Sector

Title: Dark Sector
System: Xbox 360, PS3, PC
Rating: M



Script: Hey there organized remains here. On today’s episode of clearance bin video game review we look at Dark Sector. It’s available for the xbox 360, PS3 and the PC. We found it for $5 at a local Blockbuster. I’ve always seen Dark Sector in clearance bins and I finally went for it and played it. If we take a look at the cover it looks like a clearance bin game. It’s just not appealing, but let’s not judge it on the cover.

You’re this guy working for the CIA. Your character seems to be upset about the job at task and keeps complaining about it. To quote Wiki “He has congenital analgia which renders him unable to feel pain. On a mission in a fictional former eastern bloc nation, he is exposed to a biological compound which mutates him, dramatically changing his right arm, and giving him the ability to grow a three-bladed throwable weapon called a glaive at will.”

This glaive is what makes this game different from most third person shooters. Basically a boomerang that’s apart of your body. Sadly throwing this thing isn’t a whole lot of fun, its cool when it comes to reaching items when you can’t reach them. When it comes to using it as a weapon it’s just not that fun. It’s like if you were to use the boomerang in Zelda, good to reach items… not as fun as a weapon. The gun situation doesn’t really help either, it’s just a normal shooting game if anything.

The game does feature online play, which I was surprised people are still playing. This only means that there are people out there that enjoyed this game.

Final Say: Dark Sector is just an average shooting game, which makes it worth the $5, only if you want a third person shooter with a throw of a boomerang. Like I said there must be people that enjoyed this game to continue to play online. So if you’re into third person shooters this might be a game to look into. If not, spend your $5 on a different game.

Alice In Chains - "Black Gives Way To Blue" Album Review

image from Amazon

Artist: Alice In Chains

Album: Black Gives Way To Blue

Release Date: 9/29/09

Tracks: 11

Runtime: 54:12

Track Breakdown:

(All Ratings Out Of 5 *’s)

1) All Secrets Known – Mainly because this was the first track on the album, it gets a generous amount of credit. Lyrically, the song is about a new beginning and carpe diem and such, so for a return album of a huge band like Alice In Chains, this works very well - 4 *’s. It’s also got the same kind of melodic industrial grunge sound to it we love so much as well, so don’t worry about the band selling out.

2) Check My Brain – The first single of the album, and the guitar riff to it is so ominous and rough that it sounds less like a guitar and more like a formula one racecar. The song as a whole sounds pretty decent, though it promotes California pretty heavily, in a sarcastic kind of way, which may not be relatable to everyone. In fact it was written by guitarist and now lead vocalist Jerry Cantrell’s move to California from Seattle. I think with better lyrics it would have been the next “Man In The Box” but there was a distinct “It Factor” lacking from it – 4 1/4 *’s.

3) Last Of My Kind – LET THERE BE METAL! This is just dirty, devil worshipping rock, and if it’s not the next single, you can expect to hear it on a soundtrack for an action movie. You get voice distortion, yelling, a great beat, crazy guitar solo, and some lyrics that sound like narration by Lucifer himself - 5 *’s.

Sample Lyrics

I'm trapped in the cold outside
There ain't no shelter
And they want to force my hand
Until I take what I wanted
And break all the lies
And defeat the ****ing liars
Smash all the temples
And crawl through the rubble
And cry to the fallen

4) Your Decision – It’s mostly acoustic with some drumming, it’s got soft vocals, but at the same times, there’s a demonic quality to it. That demonic quality is even noticeable before the hypnotic guitar solo sound vaguely reminiscent of Lynyrd Skynyrd. If I were to make a music video for this song, it would be of a bunch of cult followers holding hands and doing a circling dance around a fire. 4 *’s.

5) A Looking In View – Alice In Chains have always been one to sing about the down-trotted, and give loving, understanding tributes to the scum of the earth, much like Johnny Cash did. This track tells the tale of a criminal, possibly a thief, who knows he’s the black sheep of his community and wishes to just live a normal life, but grows spiteful because of this. While this track tells a great tale, and doesn’t have a dull moment in its seven minute runtime, I think it was lacking a certain something that would push it to the tippy-top of the ladder – 4 *’s, once again.

6) When The Sun Rose Again – Some very experimental sound on this track, mixing acoustic, tribal, and hippy grooves. The message is once again very dark and relatable, narrating someone who was on the run being caught and how they react when their back is up against the wall. I can’t see this ever making radio play, or being on a soundtrack, but it gets a lot of points for the way it was constructed and its overall artsy factor – 4 *’s.

7) Acid Bubble – This is the perfect vengeance song. When your wronged by someone, likely an authority figure, and you burn down their entire kingdom as retribution, this is the song you play as you walk away from the towering inferno that he once owned. I especially love the entire change around mid-song to really draw some headbanging – 5 *’s.

8) Lesson Learned – The one low point of the album so far, and it’s definitely nothing offensive. I actually feel sympathy for only giving this track this rating, but there was really not a lot about it that stood out to me at all – 3 *’s. Not that terrible, but not exciting.

9) Take Her Out – I had a good feeling about this track when I read the title, and it didn’t disappoint. This definitely made up for the previous track’s near-mediocrity. If I had to say there was one inspiration for this song, it would be 80’s power-pop. There’s just this hair metal kind of retro groove to it, and it’s a very relatable topic about a guy wanting to get back his girl so he can show her how much he appreciates her, something he probably should have done in the past. 5 *’s.

10) Private Hell – A fantastic and relatable song, with a dark and metal vibe to it. This track features a narrator who feels remorse that he or she refuses to let their vulnerable side be seen by the one they love. The isolation that the narrator builds for his or herself is what they describe as their own private hell. 5 *’s. This is gonna be a huge breakup tune.

11) Black Gives Way To Blue – Lighter (or cell phone) waving arena rock at its finest. You hear the opening guitar riff and you almost wanna call out “FREE BIRD!” because you know it’s going to be an epic melody. This track gives the depressed, uninspired and degenerated of today’s youth a whole new anthem. We even get some lovely funeral-like piano. I wasn’t depressed before listening to this song, but I know quality when I hear it, and Alice In Chains hit the nail on the head with what they were going for here - 4 ½ *’s.

My Highlights:

“Last of My Kind”, “Acid Bubble”, “Take Her Out” and “Private Hell”, which is a lot of highlights for a non-best of, but these are the tracks to give a test-drive to before you shell out the money for this album.

Overall Rating:

The average of all of the songs combined turns out a glorious 4 ½ *’s! That’s a nine out of ten, people! Every track is a hit, and it’s going to return Alice In Chains to a peak of popularity. Go out and buy this album, because you’ll be hearing the tracks a lot in the future, and it’s going to be worth your money.

Thoughts on: Mario and Luigi: Bower’s Inside Story

I’ve always been on the side that Nintendo has the best RPGs. Don't get me wrong, Sony and Microsoft have some good ones on their side too, I just find most of my favorite RPGs are on a Nintendo system. Mario and Luigi are back and this time with the help of Bowser they have to fight to get back what is theirs. Bowser eats this mushroom which makes him suck everything up, including Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, toads, and enemies.

I love the fighting mechanics in this game. You have the ability to make your attacks stronger by hitting a button at the right time. You also can defend yourself or counterattack when enemies are trying to hurt you. Most RPGs don’t have this feature, and I’m not sure why. Most RPGs just have you and enemies hitting back and forth.

The story is fun to play through. This 20 hour game has a lot going on. You get to play as the Mario bros and Bowser. You have to help each other out. For example: A flying castle ends up falling on Bowser. Mario and Luigi have to travel inside Bowser and find his legs. You play through this mini game and once you beat that, Bowser becomes this giant. This is where you end to turn your DS to the side and fight as giant Bowser.

You just need to check this game out. I can’t see how anyone wouldn’t enjoy this game. The only thing people might complain about is that it might be “childish.” Which if you think Mario games in general are for children, then you’ve played way to much Call of Duty, and need to take a break.

Drag Me To Hell Review

200th Post!!





image from Amazon

Premise:
Sam Raimi directs and produces his first horror film since the Evil Dead trilogy, and his time spent on the Spider-Man films have certainly paid off. In this film loan officer Christine Brown (Alison Lohman, who played Angela, the daughter in Matchstick Men), denies a vicious old gypsy a third extension on her mortgage loan. The gypsy puts a malicious curse on Christine that makes her constantly see the supernatural old broad as well as a malevolent goat-demon, who in three days, will personally drag her to the depths of hell. And Justin Long from Dodgeball, Waiting, Accepted and Live Free and Die Hard fame plays Christine Brown’s boyfriend, Clay Dalton. Don’t know how that fits in? Join the club.


Standouts:
The first thing that stood out to me was how cheesy this film’s premise was. A gypsy? Do these still exist? This seems like a premise you’d of seen in the seventies or eighties, but Raimi can’t even say he wrote it at the time of Evil Dead, it was just ten years ago that it was penned. Once I put that out of my mind, I had difficulty coping with the PG-13 rating. There’s a severe lack of the disturbing, the racy, and an over-abundance of “FLASH-SCARE!” scenes. And with all of this in mind, I still loved the film. According to an interview at dragmetohell.net, Raimi defends his rating and lack of gore by stating he didn’t want to do Evil Dead all over again. I find that respectable. While his film didn’t really scare me and felt almost like a family-horror movie, something you’d watch with a ten year old sibling despite the language just to see them tweak out from every “FLASH-SCARE!” scene, I was thoroughly entertained. There’s almost a certain sense of comedy in some of the scenes that should be genuinely scary, and to produce a great 80’s style cheesy horror movie in this day and age, and make it work, says a lot about a film’s credibility.


My Highlights:
Anytime something gushes into Alison Lohman’s mouth. This poor girl has blood, vomit, maggots, eyeballs, everything you can think of explode in her face. And it can’t just hit her face with a KER-SPLAT. It goes right in her gaping mouth. Every. Time.


Overall Rating:
One of the most entertaining horror movies that really worked well for plot and character I’ve seen in recent history. All of the antagonists could be sympathized with, and all of the protagonists could be understandably hated against by antagonists. Sam Raimi knows what he’s doing. 4 ¼ *’s out of 5.


When You Should See It:
Halloween is a little more than a week away! This is a great horror movie! Hello!? Actually, despite my big rating for the film, I can’t see this movie being for everyone. It is DEFINITELY a rent, but it’s style and drawbacks just may be depreciated by some… lesser mortals. But go out and rent it if you can find it, even if it’s not October when you read this.

All aboard!

Ozzy Osbourne is one of the founders of Rock N' Roll with the band Black Sabbath. While I've always been fans of Ozzy and BLack Sabbath, I had a dream last night that was just... interesting.

At my job I work with Shawn (other guy on Organized Remains), and in the dream we saw Ozzy Osbourne in the store. I told Shawn to go say something to him, and Shawn walks up to him and says "Can we have your autograph?" Ozzy then starts mumbling about the recession and how life is tough. Ozzy ends up saying "F*** off kid" to Shawn. There is one of the biggest awkward silences I've ever witnessed (I still feel awkward thinking about it!), and Shawn slowly drifts away.

Short dream yes, but pretty humorous now that I'm awake. I'm guessing I had the dream with Ozzy either because my girlfriend Sarah was talking about his daughter being on Dancing with the Stars, or because of Brütal_Legend just being released.

I'm sure Ozzy can be a very nice guy to his fans, and I will still continue to like the guy. Just sometimes you get some weird dreams about people.

Zombieland Dream Scenes

We here at Organized Remains just recently viewed the horror-comedy film Zombieland in theaters. You can find our full review here, but in short, we thought it was quite well done and very entertaining. The further away we get from having seen the film, the more one glaring critique that Nick and I share has been sinking in. The action scenes in the film were very enjoyable, but as seen in the trailer, one of the biggest scenes come from a zombie massacre in an amusement park. The creators certainly did have some fun with the amusement park setting, but the creators seemed to continually rely on a staple of gun-play. Bigger and better guns throughout the movie is certainly logical and entertaining, but with an interesting setting for a zombie massacre as an amusement park, here are some scenarios that we were slightly dissapointed not to have seen.

1)

The Round Up.

It may not have been able to do much damage against the zombies, but it would make for some epic lulz to have Columbus be chased around the perimeter of the circle before jumping out at the last second before it turns on. You then have a dozen or two flesh-eating undead trapped by gravity up against a wall as it spins in circles, and not trying to eat our main characters.

2)

The Twist AKA The Scrambler.

Some imagination may be helpful here, but we have a version of this ride local to us here involving pitch blackness and blaring loud techno music. If a horde of zombies are lead into here, you have rotating groups of carts ready to crash into zombies and potentially behead them with sheer force.

3)

The Log Flume.

A main character would have to find a way to avoid being bitten by a zombie through most of the ride, but the end result would be worth it. You position the main character in the front seat of the flume, have the zombie jump onto the back of it before it takes off, continually climbing up the seats and swiping at our beloved main character. Then we have the big finale, how every log flume ends - with a huge drop! If you're sitting in a log flume seat, your perfectly safe, but if your climbing on top of the seats, your going bye-bye off of that flume during that drop. And if the makers of Zombieland knew the perfect effect for one thing, it was a zombie KER-SPLAT

4)

Bumper Cars.

Only in a comedy movie like Zombieland could this work, but it'd be an amazing squish. Two of our main characters, probably Witchita and Little Rock are chased into the Bumper Cars by a zombie or two and are chased around the perimeter of the floor. Witchita can use some object like a pipe previously acquired to take out the legs of a zombie nearing Little Rock. Witchita and Little Rock circle the wagon and charge each other head-on, quite literally, as they sandwich the head of a zombie and the audience watches it explode!

5)

Ferris Wheel.

With all of the gunplay, just shoot out the center bolts or something ridiculous like that, that audiences would believe, and watch it run free. The rolling, run-away ferris wheel may be a bit cliche, but man would it be amazing to see zombies just mowed down by a ferris wheel.

Trick or... Trick

Pranks during the Halloween season are usually under the lines of egging someone's house, or jumping out and scaring people. ExFilms took their prank to a new level, with the best Halloween prank we have ever seen.

Take Timmy here, a dummy (meaning not real) who is on the search for treats, but ends up tricking. The best part of the video is near the end (it always is), but you should be entertained through the whole thing.



Props for the great costume.

Shane McMahon Resigns From Family Wrestling Empire

Famous professional wrestling organization, World Wrestling Entertainment, formally known as World Wrestling Federation, World Wide Wrestling Federation, and Capitol Wrestling Corporation has always been a family run business. In the CWC days, between the 1920's to 1950's, it was run by big time boxing promoter, Jess McMahon. Jess McMahon handed the business down to his side, Vincent J. McMahon in the 1950's, who turned CWC into World Wide Wrestling Fedaration, an off-shoot of the National Wrestling Alliance. In the early 1980's, Vincent J. McMahon retired and sold WWWF to his son, Vincent K. McMahon, who changed the entire landscape of professional wrestling. Thanks to Vince McMahon Jr. (the better known, still making television appearances McMahon) professional wrestling became more-so about the entertainment, gimmicks, stories and angles than about the in-ring wrestling product. Vince McMahon's biggest contribution to the industry was WrestleMania, which put wrestling into homes across the globe, and also into those homes came a fast-rising icon, Hulk Hogan.

Vince McMahon took a wife, Linda, and birthed two children - Shane and Stephanie McMahon. When WWF became a publicly owned company (meaning anyone with stock has a say), everyone took office jobs - Vince as Chairman, Linda as CEO, Shane in Marketing and Stephanie in Creative. As Shane and Stephanie McMahon were being groomed for their positions, new icons in the late 90's were born, in Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock. Unfortunately for the industry, Austin had to retire in the early half of the new millennium, and at the same point, The Rock had decided to transition into the film industry. Shane and Stephanie McMahon were clearly impacted by the big wrestling boom of the late 90's however, and once settled into their respective roles, brought WWF into WWE, and groomed a new resurgence of popularity.

Shane McMahon traveled the globe, putting WWE wrestling television programming into nearly every imaginable nation. Shane McMahon is also credited for recognizing the Mixed Martial Arts boom and attempted to cross-promote with MMA company, PRIDE, but that plan fell through due to UFC buying the promotion. In the past decade, die-hard fans have noticed significant changes in the general style and production of their television programming, from continually advancing technology, innovative, fan-interacting on the internet, and On-Demand programming. Shane McMahon has contributed greatly to the family business, but has announced (off-screen, indicating this is no storyline) that he will resign from the family business to pursue other ventures. With the resume and credentials he possesses, only success can follow, and he'll be deeply missed and adorned by wrestling fans for his sacrifices, including death-defying leaps from huge heights.





(Song choice is not a representation of how we at Organized Remains feel about his career choice. The song is merely fitting for his wrestling matches.)

GameFlyAway

2,200 video games sound like a lot? If you have answered no, you might be the postal worker that stole 2,200 video games from GameFly envelopes. Just like the Netflix thief they took a lot. Stealing one or two probably would have neverbeen caught, but 2,200? I know when I ship my Gamefly games out it goes to the Philly Gamefly, but never had a problem with shipping. So maybe this guy has been off these days.

This man is facing 12 to 18 months in prison, for stealing $86,000 worth of video games. At least he didn't steal 25 MP3 songs... right? Smart man for staying out of the music business and going straight to the video game business.

I'd love 2,200 video games, but I could never do this, mainly because of the cases. I can't have games on disks without cases. Cartridges I can deal with no case, but disks! My nerd self is crying outloud. Did this man really play all of the games though? Maybe he was selling them for a profit, or maybe he couldn't afford any video games. Too bad he never saw the Clearance Bin Video Game Reviews, then he could have known what great deals he could have gotten legally for cheap.

Clearance Bin Video Game Review: The Simpsons

Title: The Simpsons
System: We played it on the Xbox 360, but it's available on most consoles
Rating: T


Script: Welcome to the Clearance Bin Video Game Review by Organized Remains. We’re looking at The Simpsons game for the Xbox 360, but is also for every other system out there. The price we found it at was $10 used.

Here at Organized Remains we grew up with The Simpsons, and let’s just get it out of the way. Yes the new episodes are weak, indeed! When I got this game, I thought it was going to be based on the movie… sigh. Luckily I was very surprised! They wrote a story just for the game. Get this! The story is actually great and hilarious. It has many references to older Simpsons’ episodes, and making fun of many video games.

The Gameplay is pretty good. You get to play as all five Simpsons characters (even Maggie), but each chapter or episode allows two characters. Each character has their own power, so you need to help each other out. While in an episode you will have to switch between the two characters assigned to the episode.

That is unless you play two-player. Playing two-player made this game a lot more fun for me. Well that is unless you have a second player that doesn’t cooperate. Luckily I had a great teammate, and didn’t have to kick anyone off the controller. So playing two-player is greatly recommended.

Final Say: Playing this well done platformer, laughing at the in-game jokes, having the ability of playing as different characters with different abilities, playing two-player, collecting collectables and watching great story cutscenes. I have to recommend this, I just had a blast playing this game. It’s a 5 to 6 hour game, so $60 I would think is asking too much, but at the current $10 used price, you cannot lose!

Quarantine Review

Premise:
Late night television host, Angela (Jennifer Carpenter, of Dexter fame) heads out to the Los Angeles fire station with loyal cameraman, Scott (Steve Harris). After we get acquainted with some of the charming firemen on duty, a call is made to a local apartment complex. Angela and Scott get to tag along, since the danger reported was supposedly minimal. Little do they know that the entire building is soon to be quarantined due to zombie outbreak.

Quarantine trailer

Standouts:
The first thing that will standout to you as you watch this, is the Blair Witch Project/Cloverfield-famed shaky cam, giving this a large sense of realism. Some feel that this movie would have done better if it was done full-on Hollywood, with a normal camera, a tense music score, and more big name actors, but they do a remarkable job in this remake of the Spanish-made, [REC]. Jennifer Carpenter is lovely, and a very charming heroin that you want to see survive. Characters are all fairly believable, and the directing finds a way to really draw you in to care for each and every one of them.


My Highlights:
The entire last quarter of the film starts at the level of great, then gets only better. The ending is one of the most heart-pounding, jaw-clenching, suspense building freakouts I've ever seen. One word - Anne Frank.


Overall Rating:
Definitely one of the few movies I've ever seen that truly scared me, and I watch a lot of horror movies. Not having to rely just on "open the door-ZOMBIE!" tactics, this film will hold a special place for me in my heart, and thus, I give it 4 *'s out of 5. There was a small missing element that could have made this 5*'s, but for the life of me watching it, I don't know what it is. I thought it was spectacular.


When You Should See It:
Right away. Halloween is right around the corner, and I suggest just shilling out the money to buy it. If you spent all of your money on a Halle Berry replica Catwoman Halloween costume, sign up for Netflix now while it's still on Instant Watch.

World of Goo on Sale

I bought World of Goo when it first came out, which was a year ago. Now the people are letting you decide how much you want to pay for it. So you could pay a penny (if you're the devil), or pay $15, or pay $3.51.

World of Goo is a very fun game to play and I recommend you buying it for at least $5 to $10. This is a small company with a very fun game, it's the least you people can do!

World of goo
by ruff700

There is some gameplay, so you can learn what it's about, but you should check this game out.

Link: http://2dboy.com/games.php

Bus Stop

Watch this: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a9f_1255448875

Story: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/6306995/Motorist-could-be-fined-for-splashing-children.html

Summary: Man that splashed the children with his car in the video will most likely be fined.

Did the children deserve it? I remember standing at the bus stop, there were always trouble makers. One time one of the trouble makers threw a rock at a car as it was driving by. So the trouble makers should have gotten soaked, but the whole group? Sometimes if someone does something wrong, everyone gets punished. That still doesn't mean everyone deserved it.

A fine? The punishment should be for the people in the car to get sprayed with a FIREHOSE!!!! MUAHAHHAA!... While they are driving to work, but then again do people like this have jobs? You obviously have a lot of time on your hands to calculate a puddle in front of a bus stop. To predict the perfect speed to hit the puddle, and to get a camera along to film. Then you gotta upload it to the internets. So ya, probably no job.

Final Word: I can see high schoolers doing this, but these people are 29! The woman said, "she only did it because the children were enjoying it." She could be right, kids are into crazy things these days. We will never know the truth!

My Name Is Bruce Review

Premise:
A bunch of mischievous gothic kids unleash an ancient Chinese evil, in the form of the God of war... and Tofu. Bruce Campbell, star of the Evil Dead trilogy among other B-list, low budget horror films, plays a ultra-poverty stricken caricature of himself. Campbell is kidnapped by the ailing victimized town, believing he's the dynamic action hero he portrays in his films, and can save them all from death and destruction.


Standouts:
Goosebumps meets UHF. Non-Asian Asians, Inexplicable French handymen, random blue-grass songs, awful acting, but hilarious, charismatic, hair-died Bruce Campbell. It's awful, it's funny, it's awfully funny. The writers especially know their audience is nerds, making jokes about Amazon and the internet.


My Highlights:
Bruce Campbell picking a weapon in a gun shop, and being offered huge customized chainsaw. But anything that comes out of Campbell's mouth in this movie is the highlight, because he's constantly ridiculing the film making process and Hollywood, as well as his own career.


Overall Rating:
Enjoyable for what it was, but in the grand spectrum of things, it's a 2 1/2 *'s. I was entertained, but at the same time asking "Why am I watching this crap?" Well, it was meant to be crap. It's satire. But still, crap is crap. So that balances out to it being mediocre.


When You Should See It:
If you know who Bruce Campbell is - seen any of his Evil Dead movies, seen Burn Notice, or are basically a movie nerd, you'll get some enjoyment out of this film and Bruce Campbell's ridiculous antics. So go give this a rent, or watch it on Netflix: Instant Watch like I did. But go-out-and-buy, or give a chance if you're not the target audience, this is not for you.

Zombieland Review

image from Fandango

Premise:
The story follows Columbus (Jesse Eisenburg) a neurotic, nerdy 20-something college kid. There's no mention of cause for the outbreak of zombies in this film, but Columbus is narrating, so there shouldn't be. He details for the audience his first run-in with the walking dead, and then jumps to the present where he befriends a kill-spree-loving redneck, Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), and distrusting femme fatals, Wichita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin).





Standouts:
Just about everything in this movie was done right. The characters were believable, the acting was top notch, the jokes were timely and hilarious, and the horror was downright terrifying. You will be crapping your pants like never before when these zombies attack people you care about, even though you were just in tears laughing as they maul nameless extras. So much in this movie works, that when you see something that's the least bit disappointing, something you'd probably overlook in any other film, it becomes a glaring blemish. My biggest complaint is Woody Harrelson's dialog. He had some of the cheesiest, lamest, most unoriginal lines imaginable. But he kicks SO much zombie butt that you can't complain about his character, or his acting.

And while Nick does not share my sentiments, though does not particularly disagree, I love Emma Stone. I'll watch anything with her in it, and drool over her no matter what.



My Highlights:
The opening credits hit really hard for us, because while the visual montage is so gruesome and hilarious, it's got this dark, taboo, evil to it. And that evil comes in the form of "For Whom The Bell Tolls" by Metallica. Woody Harrelson's final standoff with what can only be described in Left 4 Dead terms, as a massive zombie horde is incredible and will have you rooting for him, as well as his achieving the one accomplishment he started the film setting out to do - find a delicious twinkie.


Overall Rating:
One of the better movies that you could possibly see this year, but I'm sad to say I can only award it 4 *'s. It's definitely one of my absolute favorite zombie movies ever, possibly even beating Shaun Of The Dead, but at the end of the day, that's still what it is - a zombie movie. A five star zombie movie may be the hardest obstacle to overcome, because they're all so constricting to the same formula. But this is definitely a fantastic movie, that you'll want to see with a big group of people and make your evening a party.


When You Should See It:
Right away, while it's in theaters. This seems like a film that's going to be in theaters for quite a while until it's bled everyone dry, but it has all the merit to do this. It's going to be rubbing elbows with cult favorite status, so get in while the going's good.

Clearance Bin Video Game Review: Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick

Title: Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick
System: Playstation 2
Rating: M



Script: Welcome to the clearance bin video game review by OrganizedRemains.com. This time we look at the game Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick, based on the Evil Dead movies. $6.99 is going to be the cost of this game.

Ash is the guy, the Deadites killing guy, the bad mouth talking guy, baboon butt wearing guy… What!? You get to use different types of weapons, such as a chainsaw, Boomstick, dynamite, and a shovel. The Deadites are the main enemy, so they should be fun to kill… right? Wrong, repetition, repetition, repetition. Over and over you hit these things, and they just keep coming… even crawling!

You’re going around collecting keys to different locations, finding a cop badge, and sweet talking the guards. *Insert funny quote here* Sweet talking is important in this game, not because it’s what you’re supposed to do, but there is a button just for it. That’s right press the triangle button and you can hear the quotes from Ash.

This game was lacking maps. It could have done so much better just from a map being there. People agreed with this so much, that they took time out of there busy lives to make maps. Just because there were no maps it took us double the amount of time to finish the first level!

Final Say: We made it to the second level of the game, but did not want to go any further. Worth $6.99? No, we think it should cost half that. So if anything, you should see the movies, and not this game.

Fable 2: Episode 1 *Free*

Free video games are worth a shot, but when it comes to well known free games, the more the better. In a total of 5 Fable 2 episodes, the first is free of charge. While I'm guessing they will charge you for the other 4 episodes, there might be a chance they might be free.

So what's to lose? It's free! Here is the link or just go on Xbox Live.

Game Thoughts: Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box

Source of Image
Professor Layton and Luke are back with a new mystery to solve. Professor Layton’s teacher gets his hand on a box that ends him up in trouble. So Layton and Luke set out to discover this box and find out about the curse behind it. The game shows amazing animated cut scenes right on your DS, that help develop the story so nicely.

“Puzzles” is a great way to describe this game. Word puzzles, number puzzles, mazes, and many more types of puzzles. Things you should have before playing this game: Brainpower… or a walkthrough. So we know the people that are looking for a FPS game is gone. I can now say that the puzzles in this game make you think, but its fun! It’s not like sitting in a classroom, where the teacher shows about ten slides in a 3 hour class, and talks about each slide for about 20 minutes.

Final Say: There isn’t much to say except I had a blast spending 9 hours on over 100 puzzles. I loved following the story and the characters. I had a lot of fun and was glad to see a "To Be Continued" after the credits. This is a must buy for the DS story/puzzle lovers. Not so much for the people not looking for a puzzle game.

Also See: Professor Layton and the Curious Village Review

The Hangover Review

image from Wikipedia

Premise:
Doug (Justin Bartha) is getting married so he has his bachelor party in sin city, Las Vegas, with friends Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms), and zany brother-in-law Alan (Zach Galifanakis). Unfortunately, soon after checking into their hotel, the gang has a celebratory drink on the roof and black out soon after. When they wake, their entire night has been full of debauchery and craziness, but they remember none of it. To top this all off, Doug is completely missing! So the final three members must back-track the occurances of their night to find the groom.





Standouts:
There are so many things that strike you about this movie as you watch it. The laughs-per-minute is a huge number, so you'll be thoroughly entertained from start until the end. On the flip side, because of certain cameos, I'm not sure how well this movie will stand the tests of time, but for the next twenty years or so, this is a great movie. It even has some Heather Graham nudity, and she is T-a-s-t-y: Tasty.


My Highlights:
Anything to come out of Zach Galifanakis' mouth. There is an endless amounts of highlights in this movie. Not to mention this film practically made the career of Dr. Ken.


Overall Rating:
Due to the high amount of jokes in such a short amount of time, you'll be entertained more than enough. I give this film 4 *'s.


When You Should See It:
Wait for it to hit DVD around December of 2009 and definitely give it a rent. It may not be a run-out-and-buy DVD however, because who knows how many times you'll want to watch it. Everyone should see it at least once.

A Vacation

National Lampoon's Vacation is back! With a sequel... with Rusty. Ah the son of Clark Griswold. Will the son take over as crazy dad with a set of kids? This is a hard call, because to be honest Rusty is my least favorite out of the family.

Well where could they be traveling to? Across America, Vegas, Europe, or even at their house. It's all been done! Maybe they will be traveling to their local Wal-Mart... Get lost after the family loses their GPS and end up going to New York City! Wouldn't that be CRRRRRAZY!? Even more crazy! They end up inventing a new computer that makes it possible to actually go inside the internet. Oh it would be great! Pop ups, Google, checking E-mails, Myspace/Facebook, Wikipedia, and Youtube will make for great destinations! Now wouldn't that be even crazier!? I better shut up before they take one of these ideas and make it into a movie.

Alright want some proof? Here is your proof. So should we see this film and will it be straight to DVD (or even just VHS)? I think when we get some Trailer magic going on, we can make a decision on whether this movie is worth it. For me though, I will have to see it, being a fan of the series and even sitting through this. The new movie will have to be put on my list.

Video Game Thoughts: Persona 4

Source of Image
Xbox 1 and Gamecube are dead. Dead, as in, no one is making new games for them. Playstation 2 is not dead, and that can either be good or bad. I rented the game Persona 4 for the PS2. It came out one year ago and was one of the few PS2 only games to come out. So is it good? Can PS2 still have great games? The answer to that question is yes! Persona 4 has an amazing story to it and is very fun to play.

An RPG about you and a group of friends, who learn about murders that are going to happen before it does. The story is the most satisfying part of the game. You get to know all the characters in the game, in-and-out. For people that don't like stories, you might want to stay away. You don't really get to play until 3 hours into the game. You get to walk a little, and save, but that's it for 3 hours. Usually I would complain about this, but the story was great and you got to learn about the characters in the game. So kudos on the story.

The actual game part is on par on with other great RPG games out there: Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, ect. You can use your weapon outside of the fights, so it's a lot like the system in Earthbound. You can see your enemies before entering battle mode, but if you want you can hit the enemy before entering the fight. If you manage to hit them before they hit you, then you have the advantage of getting the first hit.

Only complaint is that it's on the PS2. I love the PS2 don't get me wrong, but I would love to see this game with less loading time and to have HD graphics.

Final Say: Very long game, I haven't finished it, but I've read it can take 40 to 60 hours to beat. I've played through half the game and I'm having a blast. So for you RPG fans out there, you need to play Persona 4! Not an RPG fan? I guess you could skip over it, but you're missing out.

Season DVD

Malcolm in the Middle was a classic sitcom that came out in 2000. Everyone liked it that I knew of, so I have a question! What's up with the season DVDs!? They have season DVDs of season 1 and 2. There are 7 seasons! We are missing 5 seasons! The kid that played Dewey is 18 and wants to show his life growing up!

Now that I'm on the subject, why no season DVDs of Rocko's Modern Life? The only thing that comes close is a greatest hits DVD. We want all the episodes not just a select few! Ren and Stimpy, Doug, and Rugrats all have the first seasons out on DVD, why not Rocko's Modern Life?

The argument might be, "Maybe people are not interested in these shows anymore and the DVD sales wouldn't be great." Below is a picture of TV Guide's online listing for Malcolm in the middle. That listing is only for a Tuesday, which shows 8 different showings of 8 different reruns on two T.V. stations. Maybe the only argument now is "It plays on T.V. so much, you don't need to buy the seasons on DVD." Well unless you don't want to watch commercials and be able to control which episodes you watch.


Well there was my little rant about season DVDs. I could go out with a sign and protest outside of Fox Studio, and Nickelodeon, but I won't waste my time. Instead I will complain on my blog.

FlashForward Review

Thursday nights have become the night for heavy hitting, ratings drawing, big network shows and FlashForward is a new show that definitely deserves attention. It is currently only a few episodes into it's first season, so you can catch up on Hulu.com right away in time to catch the next episode, which comes on Thursdays on ABC, 8:00 PM Eastern Standard Time.

The show is based upon the 1999 novel by the same name, and revolves around one singular incident. One day, people are going about their busy lives - doctors are performing surgery, cops are busting bad guys, and the hopeless are committing suicide, when suddenly, for just a mere two and a half minutes, everyone on the planet blacks out. In their blackouts, everyone's conscious jumps forward six months, to the same exact date. So the show primarily follows FBI agents Mark and Demetri in their hunt for answers - what caused the blackouts, why six months forward, who knows what?

The first episode is simply mind blowing and looks like a full-length Roland Emmerich film. It's downright terrifying to display how much disaster and carnage can occur in a world with billions of people blacked out for just two minutes. Cars, planes, helicopters all crash. Everyone deserves to give at least the first episode a chance, because it's definitely 5 *'s worthy.

Clearance Bin Video Game Review: TMNT

Title: TMNT
Rating: E
System: Xbox 360 (Also available on other consoles)



Script: Welcome to the Organizedremains.com Clearance bin video game review. TMNT or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the Xbox 360 is the game we’re looking at today. This game will cost you $5 to buy.

Ok was that counter really necessary? I would have to say no. I start out in tutorial land and I’m having fun jumping around. Sadly the fun goes down a slippery slope, because you get bored of just jumping around.

As you go through, you start playing as different turtles, which is cool and you can even get help from another turtle that you're not playing as. After jumping around from object to object, and hearing a turtle talk every time you collect a coin, you start to cringe and glance over at the clock to see how much time you’ve spent on this game.

Like all other TMNT game, there is plenty of fighting, but the fighting in the game is awful. There are no enemies for a while, and then out of no where, you will start to fight a big group. The fighting is repetitive and boring.

There is a plus to this game for the achievement people. The achievements in this game are very simple, and should only take you about 3 hours to collect them all. Speaking of 3 hours, that’s how long it will take you to beat this game, and that is not even worth your time.

Final Say: This is the first game I've ever experienced a tutorial funner than the actual game. So is $5 worth it? Well it is to the people that want the achievements, but for everyone else, do you really want to hear… over and over?