The Eyes Of A Spectator

I finally beat Assassins Creed, so I'll review it pretty soon, maybe tomorrow or something, cause I'm too tired to write and think that much.

I've also seen a couple new releases of movies, like the hulk, wanted, and some others so i'll add them to my review list.

I passed everything, and now I'm REALLY happy.

Last night, before I went to sleep, I was awake for over 41 hours. Yeah, that's right, I'm cool. I woke up for my physics regents test, took that, and since Wednesday, I didn't sleep, until around 1 AM this morning.

Anyway, this is great and exhilarating, all that studying payed off, and now I'm free from high school. I was more relieved than happy to be graduating, because my physics test determined if I would graduate or not, and I passed with a 70, after struggling the whole year through.

I also realized last night, while I was sleeping, that high school was all in all, a great experience. Even with the family troubles, school troubles, and high school drama, it's great. I have friends, experiences of my own, and my family was there for me, even though.

To all those who stuck by me as friends, I love you guys, I'll remember you forever.

Boy am I happy.

This may not interest you readers very much, but I'm not a very good academic student. I barely passed through my last year of high school. I'm down to the last regents which is in 2 days, and it's supposed to be really hard. Physics is not my forte, and I have to really work at it.

The Math B Regents was very hard, and I had to study hard to keep up. I slacked off the beginning of the year and toward the end I didn't know much, so I had to pick it up. Last year in my school, over 40% of the students failed, which is a ridiculous high amount. If you fail, the school calls you and tells you, and on top of that, I had to get a minimum score of 74, to pass the entire class. Last year, on top of the 40% failing, the highest score in the entire school was an 85. I got really scared. But noone called my house, and my math teacher reassured me, so I'm now happy.

In another update, I'm halfway through Assassins Creed, it won't be long before I give it a review. I just haven't been on windows xp for a while. Also, I just saw the new hulk movie, and I'll be giving that a review as well.

The Creature Creator at least.

Spore has been in production for a long time now, a very long time. I've been following it for almost 3 to 4 years for as much as I can remember. It's not that hyped, but the game looks very very promising. For those who don't know about Spore, it's a "God" Game, which allows you to pretty much create any creature you want, its your imagination put into a game.

If you already don't know about Spore, there are many youtube videos on the game, and a lot of fan sites as well. This game wouldn't matter much to you if you weren't a gamer, but its a game pretty much for anyone. I'm not going to explain all about the game, because you could easily find out what it's about on many different sites. So I'll just put up a little mini-detail on what the Spore Creature Creator allows you to do.

So far, the creator was released officially on June the 17th for Windows, however was leaked on the 16th, not that big of a deal. Then on the 18th it came out for Mac, which made me very happy, because I own a Mac, and don't have a Windows computer. Currently, there is no Linux version, I doubt there will be, but you never know.

If you want to download the demo/trial version, you can get it at www.spore.com. There's a link that will bring you to the download link, or the store where the full version can be bought for 10 dollars.

Here We Go.

What It Is.
The creature creator gives you many options and variations of eyes, mouths, limbs, feet, arms, weapons, and details to add on to your creature. There are very few limits to what you can create, and how you can create it.

How It Works.
Earlier on, Will Wright, the creator of Spore, came up with a unique game engine, based on Procedural Generation, which most of you don't know, means coming up with animations on the fly. So basically, as your building your creature, all of the core animation and dancing, singing, movement is created right there and then.

My Experience.
The creator is indeed fun to fool around with, especially if you do have all the parts, the trial version only gives you 25% of all the available parts, and at a cost of 10 dollars, you can have all of the parts. I've toyed around and made about 10 creatures to my liking, and it was fun making them, showing it to my cousin and my father while making the creatures, it is very cool.

My Future Expectations.
Using the creator, this only made me more eager for the game, at first I was talking to my friend and he told me, "whats the point of it if you can only create stuff and not even play the full game". Well he has a point, and at a certain part of using it, you get bored eventually, because there really isn't much to do except create creatures, with which you can't really do much else. The 10 dollar deal is a real let down, because once you get the actual game, which is coming out in September, your going to be getting the creature creator anyway, I mean, it's in the game. So buying this and the actual game is a waste of money.

My rating for this "mini-game".
I give this mini-game a 7 out of 10, only because it gets very repetive and very boring after a dozen or so plays.

Realizing that this is my first official movie review ever, don't harass me. If you try to, I won't let you anyway. This review will give away spoilers, so don't read if you don't want to.

Review of "You Don't Mess With The Zohan".

Plot Summary.

Before I start the review, I'll basically speak about the movie, and what it is about, for those of you who haven't seen it, and want to know more about it. It's basically a movie where Adam Sandler portrays this odd character Zohan, from Israel. For some reason he speaks remarkably good English, even though his accent gets in the way a little bit. He also many other good things, such as, everything. He is basically a god, and cannot be touched. He decides to go over the slightly gay side, and become a hair designer, and make your hair, silky smooth. He's also a counter-terrorist, but he wanted to get away, so he feigned his own death, and went to America in search of enlightening his career. His parents hate the idea, but he does it anyway. He hooks up with his Israeli brotherhood, right across the Pakistanis, and they always fight. Then he gets his shot, and earns his designer stance in a shop, working with a really hot Emmanuelle Chriqui, playing Dalia. While working there, he pretty much, well, "pleases" every single one of his patients. Later he falls in love with the girl, who turns out to be the sister of "The Phantom". Another god-like character who pretty much gets everything he wants. That's basically the plot outline.

The Good.

I'm not much of an Adam Sandler fan, but he has made some decent movies, and one of my favorite movies of all time, being Punch Drunk Love, and one good movie Reign Over Me. If you've seen those movies, you probably know that he can be a somewhat "serious" actor. Comedy isn't really his great part of acting, but he does a lot of it, and a lot of people like it. In this movie, the comedy was kind of meshed in with the seriousness, make it a lot more funnier than it was put out to be, like Harold And Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, but not that funny. The good thing about the comedy is that, because of the stories suckiness and really bad detail, the comedy outdid it, and managed to make it an okay movie. All in all, the comedy part was great. I can't really think of anything else about the movie that was that good.

The Bad.

There were many times I thought to myself, what a horrible plot line. It's just very bad. I mean think about it. An Israeli counter-terrorist who wants to become a hair designer. I don't think so. It's just one of those movies were you can't really put yourself in that situation, because it would never happen. Next is the effects or whatever it is, that was used. They absolutely give Zohan the complete meaning of utter coolness and godliness. He literally cannot be touched in this horrible characterization. He swims apparently faster than a speed boat, can run at the speed of a speed boat, and can take down bullets when they are fired. Not to mention his genitalia is impenetrable by a piranha who's on crack and steroids. He's also great at cooking, screwing, fixing anything, beating anything, and doing any other thing you could name, including hair designing. Seriously, of all the things you could do, if you were that good, why a hair designer, why?

My Overall Thoughts.

I probably would not get this movie on DVD, but would still go see it with racially comically inclined friends, preferably Jews from Israel. It's a good laugh, but you realize it's not a very good movie towards the end.

My Rating.

I give this awful script a 6/10, and I gave it 1 point up from 5, only because of the fact that I live in a town full of Israeli Jews.

Ah school, the final teenage years starting to come to an end. After the last day, I kind of realized that the drama and suffering is the some of the best and most memorable stuff a person can have in there life. It's where you meet people and do new things and become corrupted like hell. It kind of is hell, but its your own personal hell, because you make what it is. I've enjoyed my years there, and intend to keep my close friends even closer over the next years, if I can. Some of them are going off to colleges that are afar, but I'll still have friends close by.

I'll be reviewing the movie Don't Mess With The Zohan, which I saw about a couple days ago, I still have to figure out all the details of how I'll review it, so it'll sound good. So I have to reviews in queue as of the moment, the Zohan, and the Creed. Stay tuned.

Something I write while laying down on my bed thinking and pondering about life.

There's nothing more like being trapped in your room. A room with absolutely no decorations that you put up yourself. Filled with books and notepads, clothing, and inhabited by what your father and mother tells you to put. As I lay down on my bed, I see this small plastic ornament given to me by my friend. It stares and shines while people look at it while entering my room. Of course its interesting, its not me. Its not who I am. I put it there to be courteous of my friends who acknowledge and respect the fact that I put it up there, thus acknowledging our friendship. Even so if it weren't there, it would have gone unnoticed, so it wouldn't have mattered anyway. I just wrote this to say that sometimes its good to do things and decorate things accordingly to make your friends and family happy. After all, it is only your friends and family that are true to you and make you truly happy, and that's all you really need in life.

On another subjects.

While I was trying to get rid of Linux, which I simply didnt like after testing [dont attack me please], Linux did something bad. Very bad, penguins aren't supposed to be this bad. It deleted my entire hard drive. Luckily however, I run Mac OS X, so I had time machine, and had everything backed up. So, there went Assassins Creed review. I'll get back on it when I can though. I have regents and finals coming up, because its towards the end of school, but I will progress alot faster this time around since I know what to do.

I have recently acquired the game Assassins Creed. I may have gotten it a little late, but I have it nonetheless. It was originally created for PS3, because of the sheer amount of graphics it has. It was then later ported to Xbox 360, and then after a while, for the PC.

I have it for the PC, and have started playing it, and so far have thought of it to be okay. I'll end up doing a review for it, after I beat it.

In other news, Obama has finally been nominated democratic candidate! Whoo!