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Reviews by RB6K
You kids aint seen nothing.
Posted : 8 months, 2 weeks ago on 17 March 2008 03:57
(A review of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers)There was such a big deal made about power rangers when it came out in the UK, adverts for weeks before its pilot episode, loads of attention given to it, and when it began it was mostly warranted! The theme tune went to number 1 in the charts, the toys were the "most wanted" in all good stores, and every game at school was Power Rangers or an argument over who got to be Red/Green/White. The characters were all classic, it wasn't greatly acted but a lot of effort went into it, all the monsters and bad guys actually cost money to make and it was considered a real tv show worth watching. Sadly most kids grew out of it real quick and so they had to keep reinventing it to keep things fresh, the first couple of times it survived, changing the dinosaur vehicles they used at first, then making them into animals.... it got worse each time. Things progressively got worse for the power rangers though, Zordons wallet seems to have became increasingly empty until present day where the Power Rangers have been reduced to motor bikes!! I kid ye not, Motor bikes, compared to dinosaur robots called zords that combined into one megazord or the far cooler "mega dragon zord" in the later episodes. This show had a lot of imagination and originality which made it a brilliant show for young boys, now days there is no imagination and that shows when you look at how dumb children are becoming. It seems this show is a good example of how creativity is diminishing throughout every generation. Soon we will all be forced to watch shows like 2 and a half men and read autobiographies by Katie Price!  1 comments, Reply to this entry
FF in epic proportions!
Posted : 8 months, 2 weeks ago on 16 March 2008 06:13
(A review of Final Fantasy XII)Utilizing the fact it was created in a time when disks were capable of holding vast amounts of data FF12 is the most epic and vast Final Fantasy of the series. Its towns and villages are HUGE and the world map IS a world, unlike FFX where you had "big areas" but it felt like a small jaunt. The story in this is a little more adult than the previous titles, i think it decides that being a serious franchise is far better than selling out to the new generation of idiotic children we are spawning. Its like watching real films after years of watching teen flicks, you suddenly realize that you have been missing out on something brilliant all along. The characters in this are great, the voice acting has improved leaps and bounds since the days when Yuna laughed in FFX and all you heard was "ha....ha....ha" The only trouble is they INSIST on having the main characters voice be that of a whiny American adolescent. There is no need for it! This game is challenging, more so than previous ones. There is an insane amount of scope to the game, and you can basically form the characters in any way you want. You get to chose the weapons, the magic, what each character will do in any given scenario. I love the fact it gives you so much control, you get to adapt to each surrounding and figure out your own style of beating the game. (For example, i had my characters using mainly sledge hammers to batter their way through their enemies for most of my game, reflecting my personal preferences. Others perhaps would prefer to use bows? Or rely heavily on magic. The choice is entirely yours!) There is so much to do in this game that il be honest i pretty much skipped most of it for sake of completing the story first. So now i am replaying it as i need to tie it all up, the game is worth replaying. If you played through 9 and 10, and didnt like them (i liked them a lot personally) you owe it to yourself to set things right with Final Fantasy 12! It is a lot better. 3 comments, Reply to this entry
Genius idea for a show!
Posted : 8 months, 2 weeks ago on 16 March 2008 04:26
(A review of Are You Dave Gorman?)Dave Gorman is one of these people that doesn't just imagine things, like the rest of us, he DOES things. This is a show about how Dave Gorman basically goes out of his way to make contact with EVERY other person named "Dave Gorman" he can find. He meets up with them, finds out things about them and essentially bases a whole show around them. This is absolute brilliance! I wish he hadn't thought of it so i could. Everyone would love to have their own personal club where everyone had the same name, and there was enough of them to populate a small country! The show is very funny, Gorman can certainly tell a tale, and he comes up with very inventive ways to keep the program interesting. I recommend this to you, and also suggest that you watch "Dave Gormans Googlewhack adventure" which is yet another show about him doing something crazy. I hope he is sitting at home right now coming up with another fantastic idea, as watching him do what im not capable of doing makes great television! 0 comments, Reply to this entry
The only band who consistantly betters t
Posted : 8 months, 2 weeks ago on 16 March 2008 04:16
(A review of Decemberunderground)When i heard "The Art of Drowning" i thought it was brilliant, "Sing the Sorrow" came and blew it out of the water. I figured they must have peaked there, but after much anticipation "Decemberunderground" came out and yet again surpassed all their previous work. I once read that whilst creating this album they wrote and put into motion over 100 different songs before deciding on the final 12 they put on the album (8 more were released online, some of which were covers though) I think it shows in the album that they have put a lot of work into it, the timing, the words, the instruments are all expertly done. They seem to have been given a bit of a budget to play around with which is great too, as they haven't abused it. The songs at the start of the album are not hugely amazing, they are good, and of that AFI sound, but the later through the album you go the better the songs are. (I tend to start it from about track 4 when i want to hear only the best) This band are not remotely Emo, nor are they trying to be cool like most bands of this era, they are extremely creative and i think you can grasp that from the lyrics. Someone new to the band may tar them with the same brush as the many other groups there are out there, but AFI are original and every album they release will be something different. If you line up all of their releases you will notice this straight off. They have certain things that are their way of doing it etc which they imprint on songs, but other than that its generally different each time around. I recommend this album to anyone who likes proper singing, proper lyrics (not just songs about sex, drugs or whatever else) and deeper meaning to their songs. If you dont like screaming in songs, there might be 1 or 2 tracks you want to skip, but dont let them put you off the whole thing! They use screaming when appropriate, in some songs, but not in most of them. In fact i personally skip the songs that are *too screamy* and i love all their work! 0 comments, Reply to this entry
Predictable and Mundane
Posted : 8 months, 2 weeks ago on 16 March 2008 03:58
(A review of Two and a Half Men)2 and a half men might as well be one episode filmed from different angles. You get Charlie who mainly cracks lines about women, beer, and being a man. His nerdy brother whos main humor centralizes around his pathetic life and loner ways and thirdly his Son. His son is averagely funny, again its the exact same type of joke, he will either misunderstand something, because he is a kid and doesn't know the meaning, he will say something obvious, or he will say something grown up when expected to be dumb. Thats the entire show summed up in a nut shell. There are other characters, their old mum who is like 65 years old but gets more than her nerdy son. Their man hating house keeper, and their stalker neighbor. All there to just fill the mundane gaps with more carbon copied jokes from the episode before. The shows only good quality is that it does exactly what you expect it to. Its like a hammer, no frills, you know what it does and you know exactly who does what, so if it makes you laugh they have achieved something. Its as if someone has given them 6 ingredients and said make me a tv show! You can only make so many things with 6 ingredients, and 2 and a half men proves that. Overall, if you just want to watch something and you have no real specific tastes and this is on, give it a watch. But if you want something that is part of your likes and dislikes, something to follow on the long term and follow through with to the end, this is not that kind of show. You have no excuses to watch this when there is so much more on offer in the world. 2 comments, Reply to this entry
A lesson in flogging a dead horse.
Posted : 8 months, 2 weeks ago on 16 March 2008 03:50
(A review of Smallville)Smallville started out brilliantly showing the early life of Clarke Kent before he became known as Superman. It was clever and fun to watch, he barely had any powers bar strength and speed and so you got to watch him learn throughout the years. This set it apart from any old Superman show because he couldn't just rely on his super hearing, or his heat vision, or flight! He doesn't have these powers yet. Growing up is not helped by the fact the young Lex Luthor has just so happened to of moved to his town, they start off the best of friends but Lex's story is in my opinion, the more interesting on the show. He begins as a guy who feels like he can make a difference, hes a good guy and he just wants to make his mark. Of course we all know he is going to turn into a villainous mastermind, and so over the 7 years the show has been running for, this is exactly the spiraling slope you see him slip down. I found each season of it enjoyable, the only major down fall of the show is they follow a similar format each year, where by Clarke saves the day each ep, mid season he learns a new ability, with crazy results, red kryptonite makes him evil, with crazy results. He loses his powers, with crazy results. Theres a big bad guy to fight, everyone winds up in their own individual "big finale" circumstances, and Clarke *usually* winds up leaving Smallville. The next year it starts with him coming back, and then repeats! Its not as arduous as it sounds, well not for the first 5 years, its only by that point you begin to think the show is falling apart. They bend the feasibility sometimes with characters like Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen being regulars in it now, and even Super girl is a main character in season 7. The show ended at season 6 for me, on a whimper. I will watch season 7 one day, but when i watched episode 1 and knew exactly what was happening before it did i decided its not worth it. To summarize, it is worth watching. You will enjoy it and the characters are great in it. The stories each episode are fun and usually pretty original, its just once it gets later into the series you begin to notice they only follow a set template and it gets silly. If they do a Season 8 of the show it will be going too far with it, things should of ended by now. Id say this will appeal more to teens than older audiences. But fans of Superman are missing out if they dont watch this. 0 comments, Reply to this entry
Outragious, and Great
Posted : 8 months, 3 weeks ago on 15 March 2008 01:50
(A review of Neighbours)Neighbors is in basic terms, an Australian soap about the people who live on "Ramsay Street" but since it has been running since the 1980's it has become an Australian institute and a firm British favorite. The stories they do are usually quite outrageous, you get plane crashes, bombs, identical twins 1 evil 1 good, and thats only one storyline they have had in recent years! They always tackle dramatic story lines about illness and old age, and also the usual relationship issues and life problems. The characters range from 0-75 ish and thus there is something for everyone as they generally intertwine what with living on the same street etc. I find the characters are usually lovable and fun, and neighbors has a lot of comedy to go along side the tragic stories so you actually care when something bad happens. Its not like a few British Soaps such as Eastenders and Emmerdale who prefer to focus on depressing stories and are at a constant low morale. Neighbors loves to bring your morale as high as possible 1 moment then crush everything with something terrible. Countless times someone has got married, had a baby, done something incredible, only to find someone else is having the worst luck imaginable. Neighbors is a great show and the only people that tend to dislike it in England are those who frankly have never sat and watched it!! I am guilty of doing this, i thought it was rubbish, i was adamant people were lame for watching it, and then i became hooked. Thats the problem with Soaps really, you CANT call them bad because the story changes so rapidly you are watching a totally different show one week to the next, and so of course, flipping that the other way, neighbors is guilty of some boring story lines too of course, but usually they are running along side something else which means things are kept in line. The episodes are only 20 minutes long so it manages to fit things all in quite well, i really recommend it for anyone who thinks they like soaps, or wants something constant to watch. Its probably aimed more at late teens through to mid thirty year olds, but of course plenty above and below watch it too. 0 comments, Reply to this entry
Pure, Classic animation.
Posted : 8 months, 3 weeks ago on 15 March 2008 01:24
(A review of The Animals of Farthing Wood)Oh No! Grandma has died, how do we break it to tiny Tim and his lil sister? They are too young to understand death, too young to understand that life just is not fair and that sometimes you make your own success stories by overcoming the obstacles life throws at you. Worry not a second longer parents of earth, for Animals of Farthing Wood covers everything! A truely brilliant tale of a group of animals who live in "Farthing Wood" discovering that their home is about to be turned into a housing estate. Coming together they decide their only option is to find salvation, and their resident Toad knows exactly the place. Ignoring their differences, and the fact that most of them eat each other on a daily basis the animals agree to co-operate and go to great lengths to ensure each of them makes it. Sadly, a fair few do not survive! Overcoming fires, floods, roads, rouge shotgun wielding farmers, and city folk. (just a number of the things that threaten them on their way to "White Deer Park") is not easy, and whilst most of them often escape unharmed, you are left with the regret and sadness that some creatures are just incapable of survival when removed from their natural habitat. Once they reach the park the story deals with the impact a large group of animals invading a habitat which is not used to them has, and deals with rival tribes forming between the preexisting animals and the new, and also the coming to grips with facts that now they have to fend for themselves individually again. I recommend everyone watch this as it is not your usual "cartoon" it is an animated tale! And a damn good one, if you have the attention span, read it instead, it was originally a novel. It definitely helps younger folk to understand the world, as unlike most tv shows, the characters are NOT going to just come back next season, or narrowly escape death by sheer coincidence. Everything is natural and it is perfectly portrayed as such. There are many morals to be taught here. 0 comments, Reply to this entry
Everything that is wrong about America!
Posted : 8 months, 3 weeks ago on 15 March 2008 01:12
(A review of The Parkers)The Parkers is the show that defines exactly why most people HATE American tv shows. It is awful, the characters are pathetic and lame. It has the most pointless mundane story lines and just about everything to it is irritating. I think it might of been a spin off from Moesha yet another AWFUL AWFUL tv show, which makes you wonder who the hell got fired for making this?! No one in these shows could act, none of it was funny. I used to turn my television off and go out to play when this came on, it probably stopped me dieing young of a heart attack bought on by obesity, but i feel for the people who did watch it, they must have the intellect of a gnat! 0 comments, Reply to this entry
Could have been so much more!
Posted : 8 months, 3 weeks ago on 15 March 2008 01:08
(A review of Final Fantasy: Unlimited)I bought this from ebay expecting a quality Final Fantasy series with real storyline and wonderful characters on an epic adventure. I should have done my homework on it before hand as it turned out to be a children's program, it was still quite enjoyable (i paid £20 for the series so i was going to watch it all!!) The characters were pretty good when you base it on the level of television it was meant for (children too young to watch Pokemon but too old for childrens tele..so what 8?) The episodes seemed a bit monotonous when each time they would be faced with a big bad to kill and then the most heroic character would whack out his gun, speak the lines "SOIL IS MY POWER" and mix some capsuals to create an esther capable of killing the bad guy. If this hadn't of happened in every episode i might of enjoyed it a lot more. The story is about "Yu" and "Mi" two children searching for their parents who went missing when they were sent to research a new world that had been discovered running alongside their own. The children, missing their parents, embark on an adventure to try and find them, and are accompanied by folk they meet throughout that world (whilst traveling on a train that carries them to each world) who are slightly more interesting i must say and the worlds are usually quite cool. I had hoped that the series would show the children growing up on a long and drawn out tale, but sadly they remain the same irritating age from start to finish. The story wraps up neatly in 4 dvd's and theres nothing more to go through. I hope in future any other FF cartoons while be slightly more serious and thus awesome. This one isn't bad by any means, il be saving it for my kids assuming DVD's are not obsolete by then! The art in it is quite good, i liked the imagination used to create the characters etc, although im positive there are far better and creative series' out there. The story is not awful, just childish, the characters are pretty cool in some cases. If you have a young boy he would probably enjoy this, and you could watch it over his shoulder and pretend your not... but then you should really be doing that by "treating them" to Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet if you want real cool television you can both enjoy. 0 comments, Reply to this entry
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