Nice try, but you can't fool us, blue.
Or should I call you… Roxxxy??!???!?1

Might be a good place to bring up Creepshow as well…

Joe Dante is awesome. One thing I love about his movies is that they have an infectious sense of fun about them - you can tell he has a blast making them.

Surprised no one's mentioned the Two-Fisted Tales TV pilot. All in all, surprisingly good (though I did see it ages ago). Standard anthology film (they even came up with a cryptkeeper- like mascot), but some great moments throughout. The last story, Yellow, with Kirk Douglas and Dan Aykroid, blew my mind at the time.…

Give me Baron Werner Underbheit (sp?) anytime. Which brings me to the one obvious badass I haven't seen mentioned yet - Brock motherfucking Sampson!

pffff - I saw right through that joke

What the brit onanist said. Lone audience, I agree with your interpretation, but without having read the book first, I have no idea if I would have reached that conclusion… I honestly suspect not. (If you haven't read the book, well, then my hat's off to you)

The book and the movie diverge a fair amount - mostly on how Hakan is depicted. That actually changes what the ending means; I read the book before the movie, and was surprised at how much harsher the movie was than the book (even when the book is a lot closer to horror than the movie)

There was a Chevy Chase "comedy" that took the piss out of a couple of scenes of the Manitou. They had a version of the chant. Also, Chevy snorted the protective line of salt on the floor.

Hmm - I'd think the Changeling is leagues above this - as in, it's actually a good movie.

I adored this movie as a kid, but honestly, the ending was way beyond silly even then. "He's teamed up with the winter demons!" or some such nonesense. Not that it detracted in any way from the awesomeness…

Huh. I loved Rome Open City. Then again, my father loved Italian movies of the 60s and 70s. Made for some awkward moments, watching Fellini when I was 10 or so…
I'm a bit ashamed I never bothered to track down the other two in the trilogy - Paisan sounds lovely.

Shale is, you get him with the stone prisoner. They cut him out of the game, then readded him with Day-0 DLC.
Free when you buy the game, so I guess it's easy to overlook.

Oh, it won't, that's for sure. Looks like the people who knew how to ship games properly didn't make it to obsidian (it's interesting that the rest of Black Isle went on to form Troika Games, who also fucked up their games)
And I actually think KOTOR 2 is better than the first game, right until the last stretch where…

Obsidian was founded by black isle employees, including most of the main talent behind Fallout 1 and 2 and Torment. Their output hasn't been great lately, but their writing is consistently excellent. And then they batted Mask of the Betrayer out of the park, so I'm kind of hopeful. We'll see.

Dude, the fallout games + Torment + Mask of the betrayer trump anything Bioware have ever done. The Icewind Dales and KOTOR 2 were nothing to scoff at, either. It's got them a lifetime pass from me.
But yeah, you're probably right. They obviously don't have the resources or the ability to make proper AAA games. Come…

You shouldn't need to re-pay for your DLC if you still sign in with the same gamertag.
As for the ring - the flashing lights are just an indicator that something's wrong. The ring of death is three of the four lights. Two lights mean overheating (I got this a couple of times, and fixed it by giving it more room to…

The only seriously bad thing I can think of this game…
… is that Obsidian have their work cut out for them putting out Alpha Protocol after this.
I mean, people are going to -rightly- compare the two, and though I'm pretty sure Alpha Protocol is going to have better writing, there's no way they'll match the polish,…

I was surprised how they managed to humanize Jack, giving her a subtle (for videogames) vulnerability to undercut all the exxxtreme badassery she's supposed to convey.
I suspect most of that subtlety will go to hell if you choose her as a romantic interest, but hey. Until my second playthrough at least, I'm impressed.

Gah - that guy (thing?) in blue dragon was one of the most irritating characters in a genre known for having irritating characters. But the worst offenders I can think of at the moment are in the last Space Ocean. Once the overtly precious little moppet made her entrance, the game went straight back to the store.