Movies

Best Movies of the Year

12. 300
Easily the best comic film adaption to date, we can only hope Watchmen turns out as well.

11. Knocked Up

10. Live Free or Die Hard
Truly, an updated take on the Die Hard franchise, this film showed us that John McClane still has some life left in him. It'd be higher on the list if it didn't eventually derail into bombastic action sequences.

09. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

08. Grindhouse

It's the end of the year, and that always means lots of work to do if your job is making video games. So I apologize for the length of our absence, but - hey! - we're back. And we brought our plastic guitars with us. We talk about Rock Band (the game that makes us both feel like we have some shred of musical talent), the movie Beowulf, and - on an unexpectedly serious note - the role of women in the video game industry.

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Show Notes and Links

• We talk about Rock Band, the new video game by Harmonix
• Here's some dude shredding "Green Grass and High Tides" by the Outlaws on Expert; we can't do this, to our dismay, but we both love this game
• We thought Beowulf (in 3D) was a thoroughly mediocre experience, but at least it had "naked" Angelina Jolie
• Finally, we discussed women in the video game industry:
• This discussion was brought up when we were discussing the (relatively) recent Assassin's Creed/Jade Raymond/Ubisoft "controversy"
• Jon brought up an MTV interview with Morgan Webb

Let's face it: not all music stands the test of time. Even fewer music videos stand the test of time. In our newest feature, I will cover some terrible music videos of songs you may or may not recognize. Note that I'm not necessarily going for the worst music videos of all time - I'm just going for the ones that are embarrassingly bad, by bands that are relatively well-known. We can all go on YouTube and find something truly terrible, but that's not the point of this exercise. Actually, I'm not sure what the point is, only that there is one, and it's what I want it to be.

Today, I'll bring you one of my all-time favorites: Van Halen's "Jump". A seminal song. An awful music video. Yes, this was made when music videos were in their infancy, but there's really no excuse for something this bad.

Okay, let's start the analysis.

Busy Reading TPS Reports

Dear UCLA Football Team,

We would like the USC Trojans to be in the BCS Championship Game. To this effect, we would like you to respect "the system" and let them win this Saturday. Please note that if you do not do so, you will be going against every media personality out the air, and you will also screw up our "system".

Thanks,

The BCS and University Presidents

It seems the players at UCLA didn't get the memo. I guess we were too busy reading TPS reports or something. I guess we were too busy caring about winning the game. You know, too busy working hard and showing up on the day of the game. Too busy not looking past our next opponent to our bowl game, mediocre as it might be. Sorry, guys. Our bad.