The Return of Titles, Final Fantasy IX, and more movies!
Hey, the titles are back! Whoop de fuckin doo!
Yeah, I brought em back. Makes it easier for me to remember what the fuck I was talking about in a journal entry. So what if they’re lame – I’m lame 
Anyway, I just finished writing my two DVD reviews, but I’m too lazy to format and upload them today. I’ve been playing Final Fantasy IX all day yesterday, and I’m now at Disc 2 (at the Cleyra Trunk, if you know where that is). So far it’s been great. The combat system is a little too simple for me, as well as the card game. There are a shitload of references to Final Fantasy VII in this game – I guess when the executive producer told them to go back to the FF7 formula, they included the nostalgia that came with it. A little more micromanagement in this game though, coz of the four-character combat lineup. The graphics are, well, sucky compared to even Final Fantasy VII, but the motions are fluid. The music has been pretty crappy (except for the Dark City Treno theme), but the worldmap theme is the “least” annoying. I’ll be playing this game some more tonight…
While I was eating lunch, I was watching Showtime and there was this movie called “Touch” that was airing. It had Christopher Walken and Bridgitte Fonda (yummy) in it, so I went and watch it. It was a pretty funny satire about a young man named Juvenal who has stigmata (Skeet Ulrich) and who can heal people, who is being exploited by businessmen (Walken) and religious extremists (Tom Arnold), as well journalists, tv personalities and even priests. It was set in the world of dry cynicism and political correctness, and I thought it was well played out. Not surprisingly, it is not out on DVD so I can’t review it. It seems to be unpopular to devout christians and closet christians alike (yeah right, no surprise there), and some people seem to take it a tad too seriously.
Anyway, whether you like to eat pig meat or not, I recommend watching this film. You might find it sucks, depending on how you watch films, but I found it really funny. It’s a film directed by Paul Schrader from a screenplay by Schrader based on the novel by Elmore Leonard (I haven’t read the book and I don’t plan to).
Well, I gotta get back to my video games, dude…