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Sporcle quiz:

Can you name the highest grossing worldwide box office films released in the 2000's?- 41 out of 50. Do you know I've never actually seen the #16 one? 22 I prolly blanked out on purpose. Missing 32 was BS because I put that title down and it didn't accept it. The others I missed were 34, 39 (really?! I mean, I have this movie on DVD, I didn't think it was that popular though!), 40, 42, 44, and 46.

I mean, quizzes like this, you definitely have to list all the movies currently out from a certain two extremely popular book series, the movies of the most popular fantasy franchise of all time (and a couple of others trying to be as popular but not nearly as successful), the movies of the most popular sci fi franchise of all time, all the blockbuster superhero/comic book movies, and all the big animation movies. Its the last category that always trips me up, because unlike the previous categories, I haven't seen all of those.

TV Commentary:

Human Target- Hey, its Marshall (from Alias, not HIMYM), AD Skinner, and Taylor Townsend. Good to see they're still getting work. Not that Mitch Pileggi hasn't been playing guest star bad guy or dickish high-ranking types in like a hundred different shows in the past few years. But yeah, I thought Autumn Reeser was rocking the nerd girl look in this ep.

Anyways, while I have been enjoying the show, it doesn't hold my interest as much as Burn Notice or Leverage (I'm picking current shows with somewhat similar themes, highly skilled ex-spy/military/professional thief types using their skills to help people out). It does seem to have a noticeably bigger budget though.

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So at work, a conversation about some company recalling a bunch of salami because it has salmonella turned into a discussion about curing techniques and some really fancy eye-talian meat or cheese. Which in turn reminded me of an episode of Archer (hilarious show, BTW) a few weeks ago, where the one guy says, "The citric acid cooks the fish". I was wondering if that was for real, and it is, he was referring to Ceviche. It does sounds intriguing, I think I'd like to try it one day.

When I was a kid, I used to hate seafood. But, some cutie forced me to try sushi, and I liked it. I eventually moved on to being able to eat cooked fish (again, because some cutie made me try it. Pretty much a lot of food I hated when I was a kid, I eventually tried and liked, because some cutie made me. Like eggs!), but I still prefer sushi to it. I dunno, cooked fish doesn't taste as good to me. This ceviche does sound appealing. (apparently, there's even Filipino ceviche?)

But heh, Archer does seem to drop random info like that. Like the fact that designer Hugo Boss made those cool looking Nazi uniforms. Now, I'm not saying Nazis are cool, but you have to admit they were pretty snappy dressers. Speaking of Nazis, I was reading this article on the 12 most controversial video games of all time, and I didn't realize that "Ethnic Cleansing" game was for real. I mean, that ep of SVU that first introduced Marcia Gay Harden's FBI character (oops, spoiler!), they reference a similar game, but I thought it sounded way too outlandish to be something that actually existed. But apparently it does. I guess they have referenced real video games before, like the GTA series (where the detectives make a break in the case because Stabler's son was at the station and saw some crime scene photos or something and he was all, "Oh, that's like (the SVU universe's analogue of GTA!)") and Second Life (where some girl is kidnapped because of the similarity of her avatar to some girl Locke's dad kidnapped years earlier. You know, whenever I see Kevin Tighe's name in credits, I always confuse him with Colonel Tigh.).

Speaking of video games, they revealed the final 3 new characters in the upcoming Super Street Fighter IV. As I said, the newest character they introduced, Juri, is a pretty awesome addition, (I mean, how can you not think she's cool from this anime-style trailer I've posted before.) but the other eight characters they added are returning from previous games. They already had Cammy and Fei Long from Super Street Fighter 2, but they had to complete the set by adding T Hawk and Dee Jay. And then there's Guy and Cody from Final Fight and the SF Alpha series, though I still think Cody's prison stripes look totally stupid. Couldn't they have put him in a smarter looking orange prison jumpsuit? And the last new one they had before this most recent announcement, was of course, Adon, who I always thought was cool.

But the newest three are from SF III. I was hoping for Alex, but between Zangief, Abel and El Fuerte (what's with all fighting games not only having a Bruce Lee looking guy, but a Rey Mysterio looking guy? I mean, doesn't Virtua Fighter and Dead or Alive both have Rey Mysterio analogues), and I suppose E Honda, they have enough grapplers. But, instead they have the ninja Ibuki (but isn't Guy a ninja?), the young karateka Makoto (again, isn't Sakura a short haired young girl who does karate?!) and Dudley (don't they already have a boxer with Balrog?).

But, anyways, there's a new character trailer out featuring the new Super SF IV characters from SF III.

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The new trailer for the latest Splinter Cell looks pretty cool (changed link to higher quality one). Is it wrong to like the later Bond movies over the early ones because the violence is more stylized? I mean, Connery is cool and all, but my favorite Bond is Brosnan. Though I did like the action in the Craig ones better. So, I would rank them Brosnan > Craig > Connery > Moore > Dalton > Lazenby.

Maybe its from watching too much Bourne and 24 and what have you, but for me to consider an action-spy movie good, yes, it does have to have a good plot, but I also want well choreographed CQB. I wanna see fancy joint locks and weapon disarms and wot-not. You know, real innovation when it comes to taking another person out.

That's why I still like 24, the stories can get ludicrous at times, but the action is always nice. And while I appreciate the cons on Leverage, I do enjoy watching Eliot fight. Not that I'm all about violence when it comes to the genre. In fact, I definitely applaud Michael when he comes up with clever ways of neutralizing the opposition without even laying a hand on them or firing a shot.

Oh, and I totally forgot my original reason for posting about Splinter Cell, that its totally distracting that they made Fisher's voice Michael Ironsides. I like hear it and think, "That's Michael Ironsides!" So I think old balding dude, which doesn't fit with what Fisher looks like, so it kinda takes me out of it because there's that disconnect between what he looks like and what he should sound like (or rather not sound like)

And is it me, or is Christina Hendricks' rack huge?!.