But as usual I has to keep on truckin' and turning it off and on again seems to clear up most problems apart from unsaved work.
Watching: complete and utter crap, unsurprisingly. Michelle Yeoh vehicle Silver Hawk is a bit fun as she plays an obnoxious globe-trotting masked superhero who speaks - like the rest of the cast - in broken English and within the first five minutes of the movie has jumped the Great Wall of China on a motorcycle, mugged a truck, and then cavorted with a baby panda who she's just rescued from kidnappers. This is a stupid film but that is not to say it isn't entertaining, though obviously the stupidest thing about it is the enduring superhero trope that dictates that no-one will recognize you if you wear a little half-mask, not even when you are a globe-trotting supermodel who is always in the same country and city as a superhero just before they appear.
I seem to remember Blood Beach as being better than it actually is, but it's still okay as shlock movies go. Possibly Caravan of Courage is not as good as I recall, either, but there's only one way to find out...
On the gaming front the title sequence for the new Bond - Bloodstone - is quite terrible and has put me off the game as a consequence, as I think by now anyone in the entertainment business should be aware that even the makers of Superman Returns knew you have to get your title sequence right. I didn't mind the Jack White/Alicia keys movie theme, but I am of the opinion that the Kerli effort was better for the neat touch of blending the trademark Bond riff and his signature eye-shootin' thingy into the title montage alongside an action sequence that managed to go one better on the movie because you can actually tell what the fuck is going on during it, and I have a bit of a soft spot for the 2004 Mya Bond theme that admittedly has more to do with the game being damn good even if the story is ludicrous - I mean, a supervillain plans to weaken the levees around New Orleans so the city will be flooded? Like that could ever happen!
Anyway: Bloodstone - rubbish title sequence.
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