Entertain Me!

Entertain Me…

The Pursuit of Happyness – I know Happiness is spelled wrong. Being the complete grammar and accuracy freak that I am, I hate it when words are spelled wrong. But in this case, I’m just correctly spelling the name of the movie; so I'll let it slide this time.

I was pleasantly surprised that I absolutely loved this movie. I’m not a big fan of sappy movies, but for some reason I thought this was a wonderful film on my first viewing of it. Even my wife was surprised when I got upset during the movie regarding the dismal life of Will Smith’s character.

In the movie, which is based on a true story, the character is a failing salesmen whose wife leaves him. Smith’s character dreams of one day becoming a Wall Street broker, so he takes an unpaid internship and as a result, he is forced to scrape through life by sleeping at homeless shelters with his young son. It’s a really sad story. In the end....Well, I won’t give away the ending.

Rainbow Six Vegas (Xbox 360) – I made the horrible mistake of buying Spiderman 3 from EBGames a few weeks ago. I knew that I wanted the game since I first heard about it because I loved Spiderman 2 on the original Xbox. So, the day that Spiderman 3 was released, I rushed out to the store to buy it. I'll admit, at first the game was a lot of fun....simply because of the fact that you get to swing around New York City as Spiderman. After awhile when you are tired of swinging around the City and actually decide to go on some of the main and side missions that are in the game, the game really devolves. So after swallowing my pride and $20, I cut my losses and sold it on eBay for $40 and purchased Rainbow Six Vegas for the same amount of money.

Even though Rainbow Six came out last November and Spiderman 3 just a week before I sold it they were going for the same amount of money on eBay. No doubt due to the fact that there were many other people like me who bought the game solely based on hype and then played it and hated it like I did.

As soon as I got Vegas, I knew I would like the tactical shooter. I’m currently on the second level of the game and am really impressed by it. It’s a tactical third person shooter where you go through Vegas casinos and the Vegas strip to stop a bunch of terrorists. Unfortunately, terrorists rampaging through Vegas strip clubs didn't make it in this version of Rainbow Six....at least I don't think so.

The graphics are amazing. The gameplay is fun. It’s a tough game, but I am thoroughly enjoying the single player experience. The multiplayer experience: not so much….Yesterday, some teenager I was playing multiplayer with told me that I sucked….I’m old.

Tune in tomorrow for another edition of Bore Me!...which details the recent movies/TV shows I've seen that have done just that.