movie: Silent Hill

First of all, if you have never played the game, you will not need to in order to enjoy this movie. I would have to say this movie is the best video game movie ever made. It followed the game very closely throughout most of the movie, including even the same camera angles used in the game.

I generally think that most horror movies are bad, I have seen very few horror movies that I have actually considered good. That being said this is a 'decent' movie. It was entertaining and has one of the most disturbing scenes I have seen in a movie in a long time. Some things that could have been worked on is the acting and screenplay, but besides that it was not bad. A fun movie to see with a group of friends.

-Roberth

Vegas

I took a trip to vegas with 2 of my friends Mike and Christ aka Muskrat (they are brothers) and my girlfriend Sarah last weekend. Basically...it was pritty dope. Vegas is always fun harharhar. I did not come out ahead on my slot machine playing, even with my "tactics" to try to improve my ods. But I did find a new favorite slot machine by the name of Hexbreaker. I do now know if it is better than the cool Alien slot machine but it is fun. We walked around and look at some of the hotels which was pritty cool. My favorite hotel was still the Bilagio. We were randomly walking around and need to go to the restrooms and WOW. Their restrooms are rediculous everything is like marble and me, Mike, and Muskrat all thought the mirrors made us look better haha too good. An amazing hotel, I recommend everyone go see this hotel if they are in vegas. I have yet to see the Wynn hotel but it might top the Bilagio in terms of luxury...not sure yet since I have not yet seen it, but maybe next time we go down.

Next time we also have to go into the expensive watch shop at the Bilagio and ask for a Schaffhausen watch even though they do not carry it haha. The trip was cool minues Hoover Dam delay on the way there which took a serious 8 hours of driving from Phoenix to Vegas which is only supposed to be like 5 hours and 30 min. Whatever though.

Man, on a random note. On the way back to Tucson Sarah had to make an emergency stop to use the restroom and we stoped at this place called "Casa Blanca" at this Shell "gas station" at like 11:00pm. This was probably the weirdest gas station ever. There were people there looking like they might want to pump gas...YET there was no gas attendent. An there was no cashier or cash register anywhere. A bathroom is out of the question at this gas station. And even more strange, they had a bullieten board with a lot of papers and flyers attached which is REALLY strange considering this thing is out in the middle of nowhere (as in no visible local activity at all). Oh man, what a crazy gas station.

Anyway, Vegas was tight, we will need to do it again, but this time stay like 3 nights instead of 2 cause 2 nights seems too short and rushed.

-Roberth

Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams

Capcom generally puts out quality titles and this is no exception. There are 5 characters to play from in this game and although all of the characters moves are performed the same way, it is still fun to create combos with each character. RPG elements are present in the game as you can equip different accessories, power up swords, gain levels, power up skills (gain skills by powering up other skills), and so on. There is also a cool 2 player co-op mode, which is fun, but has a frusterating camera problem when playing 2 players. I guess the game was not made to be played 2 player co-op, but if you are going to have it in the game the game then at least make the camera half decent. The graphics are very good for PS2 standards (actually PS2 continues to impress me putting out games that have amazing graphics, and they seem to be getting better and better. Quite impressive for this late in the ps2's last generation games for ps3 comes out). I would give this game an 8.5/10.

-Roberth

Book: Night by Elie Wiesel

I ran into this book by browsing around Borders. As I was walking by the new releases section I saw the title of the book and thought it was interesting so I read the synopsis. Immediately I was stunned reading that the author was born in Transylvania, Romania, the country where I was born. And even more amazing is that Elie Wiesel won the Nobel Peace Prize...a Romanian winning a Nobel Peace Prize?...you're joking right?...seriously?...now I was hooked, I had to read this book.

This book is about Elie when he was merely a child, approximately 14 years old, around the time of WWII. The story is of his survival of one of the most notorious Jeweish camps during that time. The book is only 115 pages long, but WOW, so powerful and captivating. His writing style reminds me of Heminway's style a little, short sentences nothing to complicated. Images from this book will stick with you forever. The way he describes the horror happening around him is so simple yet so powerful that it stains your memory.

A truley amazing book. Read it immediately, you can probably finish this book in 3-4 hours.

-Roberth