Halo can you go?

Just in time for the holidays, some sneak peaks behind the graphics system of Halo 3, which won't coming for another 10-12 months or so. If you were second guessing the decision to purchase an Xbox 360 over the short supplied PS3, Bungie/Microsoft are hoping to sway your uneasiness to what's coming. This will be one of many strategically released behind the scenes video of the game that'll rolling out in the coming months.

ho ho ho!

Live Free or Die Hard...Seeing This Franchise Jump the Shark

Just when you thought the last decent action movie trilogy would go untouched, here comes round 4 in the Die Hard Series- Live Free or Die Hard.

The trailer has a very different tone to it than it predecessors, it almost looks too serious. Bruce looks too much of a tough guy as well, all clean and bald 'n shit. I liked him better as a degenerate everyman in a dirty wifebeater, receding hairline and all.

With McTiernan not tied to direct this, which is understandable considering he's facing jail time, I'm concerned that this episode may soil what is one of the best movie franchises around. Also, where's the European villain? Though Die Harder was a great flick, the first and third films featuring the Grubers played by Alan Rickman and Jeremy Irons were by far two of the best antagonists in movie history. Stretching the Gruber blood line to a third would have been difficult, but I just think Europeans make the best bad guys. There's also apparently plotlines that involve McClane's son and daughter-this is very concerning- didn't they see Rocky V?! Part of my hatred for that film was the horrendously annoying child acting. Unless they whip out another breakout kid like Haley Joel Osment (now on DWI charges) or 'lil D (Dakota Fanning), this could be very bad. From the looks of it, it appears that the kid from the Mac commercials is McClane's son, also from the critically acclaimed Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.

Yippie-ki-yay.

Blade: "I Don't Do...Taxes"

What the hell happened Wesley? What's with the thumbs up? Don't you know you're facing 16 years in the Big House?!

I remember when I first saw you in Major League as Willy Mays Hayes ("hit like Mays, run like Hayes," or was it the other way around?)- your future looked so promising. I forgot that you were also in the football classic Wildcats before that. Between taking over The Carter in New Jack City, and getting into Annabella Sciorra's italian pants in Jungle Fever, there was no stopping you. Then you teamed up with Mr. Hemp himself in White Men... and became a household name.

Then Mr. New Jack City became Sell Out City, with a running diarrhea of crap like Passenger 57 ('always bet on black'), Rising Sun with Sir Connery, Demolition Man with Rocky Balboa, and of course To Wong Foo, among others.

I recall my up close and personal moment with you while attending the NY premiere of your shitty baseball thriller movie, The Fan, with Bobby DeNiro. It was the summer of my freshman year in college, while interning at Sony Pictures' Mandalay Entertainment in Manhattan. You are much shorter in real life, kinda like I predict I would react when seeing Tom Cruise in person. Though the movie was horrendous, I did enjoy the glamour and glitz of the premiere, and meeting Mark Messier and Brian Leetch, both drunk of their rockers at Planet Hollywood's afterparty, was a moment I won't forget. I also recall that you were with an asian chick, even before if was en vogue for black men to 'git wit' asian women (see Tiki Barber). A true pioneer you were Mr. Snipes.

A few year's later, you became Blade, with 2 sequels, you became cool again. But now this tax evasion stuff...c'mon man! You ain't Nino Brown! You're Wesley Freakin' Trent Snipes!

Beat this man! Don't let them take you down. To quote a favorite crappy movie title of your's: Play it to the Bone!

Cold hard ass kicking

Now that the weather is starting to get uncomfortably cold, I've begun my yearly hibernation of not doing any outdoor physical activity for the next four months. Finding the right activity has always been a challenge. I've pondered taking a martial arts class, but after viewing the clip below, the fear that I may look something like this makes me question this path.