Top CD Entertainment Show

Winners:
DVD Australia - Aimee Levinstein
CD Greenday - Ryan Putter
CD Greenday - Ettiene Niewouet

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20 May 2009

DVD: Australia

OK remember when you first watched the third lord of the rings movie and it tried to end eleven times? This film makes that look like child’s play. It’s a staggering 2h45m long and if you don’t have Kleenix for the duration of the film will then your in trouble. I even felt moved by what was happening in front of me.
Of Course you know that Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman are in it but then it turns out Nicole is playing a British Aristocrat, way to show your heritage. The Film is a display of cultural strife between The Colonists and the Native Aborigines around world war 2. Of Course like all good war movies there’s a love story and don’t worry guys there’s a love scene in there somewhere so you won’t have to watch 2hours worth of Nicole taking about her feelings.
Murder, Love, War, and a truly good excuse to show your girlfriend you have feelings even if you have to do it for the whole film.
Baz Luhrman as outdone himself in my opinion. Although the extras consisted to two deleted scenes common it want more than that
Times online calls it

addictive nonsense.
Variety says it
provides a luxurious bumpy ride
I’m still giving it a 7/10

Game: Wanted- Weapons of Fate

Once again they’ve taking the recipe of taking a comic book making it a movie then turning it into a video game. It has to one of my favourite game formats a pick up a weapon and shoot everything that stands in your way. Now it’s not messing up the story line from the film or even the comic it more to do with the future of the storyline so hardcore fans have nothing to worry about.
The training levels are quick to pick up and always no shooting game is complete without its excessive violence, although the experience is rather short and you feel it could have done with a couple extra weapons.

Planet xbox 360
it’s apparent that the publisher is not just trying to cash in a quick check
IGN
does manage to recreate the look and sounds of the movie
I’m saying it’s a 5/10 at best

Greenday- 21st Century Breakdown

Ok music wise I like it, It’s got anthems, ballads and a couple good jams as I’d expect of any CD, Although I have to beg the question what the hell happened to the Album Art? It look like they decided to be cheap and not print the CD booklet properly. I know the Global Recession is hitting people hard but really you gotta go and make it look like you printed it out on powerpoint?
The CD follows something of a Stage Production with Acts and an intro that sound a little something like this…
Otherwise a sound effort
Popmatters says it seems like:
Armstrong feels that the only way to follow his massively successful rock opera is ... with another rock opera.

Culture Bully recons
The bar has again been raised

I’m gonna go with a 7/10

Top CD Entertainment Show

13 May 2009

Winners: Aiden East- DVD How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
Eleanor Meissenheimer - Ashtray Electric BonJour
Amandus van den Berg - Ashtray Electric BonJour

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Demigod

Set in a magical world where gods walk among mortals, Demigod blends action, strategy and role-playing elements into a thrilling new experience. Select the demigod that will lead your minions into battle and unleash the dogs of war against your rivals. Your demigod will do whatever it takes in order to ascend to true godhood.
Once in the Arena, each demigod will be joined by support troops that fight to the death as you struggle to seize key control points and slowly turn the tide of war in your favour. Your demigod will level up during the course of each battle, becoming even more powerful as you unlock new abilities and powers. It’s a brutal conflict of demigod versus demigod, where the very ground beneath their feet will tremble and quake.
Alright you can’t escape the fact that someone feels they aren’t making enough money from the craze that is Dota and decided to get Stardock behind them to make an actual out of box dota game.
Of course it is an Atari game (I mean the computer game designers not the band) so as a seasoned game player I wasn’t about to just throw in the towel. Basically this is a game that takes the best elements of Titan Quest and Dota and presents it to you as an epic Strategy/RPG Hybrid Game
Oh an definitely a game to be played at full graphics. So you better have a sweet PC.
A 6/10 from my side


How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

Ok I’ve heard about this movie from a lot of my friends and based on their commentary it was gonna be the worse hour and 40minutes of my life. So I settled down and started the DVD. In all honesty I actually enjoyed it. Although they a pretty intelligent crowd and have probably read the book the movie is based on. Simon Pegg made me laugh and I enjoyed the short appearances by a few sharp british actors but though they could have done more with those characters.

Yes Megan Fox does show us her body does look good in a wet dress but I was kinda shocked to see “Wolverines” William Striker (Danny Huston) trying to be a fashion expert. Unexpectedly interesting in my eyes. I’ll give it a 5/10




Ashtray Electric Album

Ok so I listened to the new Ashtray Electric Album we had them in studio last week if you remember but Top Cd was awesome enough to hook me up with the album so I could check it out this week.

It’s a DVD CD double disk which is a bargin since you only paying for the CD.

The CD has all the tracks you know and love. But looking specifically at the DVD it shows the making of the new video the video itself and a short uncut documentary of the band’s view of thier impact on the SA music industry so far and on themselves as a band.

It’s a sweet long drive CD and the DVD is perfect for SA music fanatics. A bodacious 8/10 from my side