Lego Video Games

I grew up playing with Legos like most kids and I always loved getting a new lego kit to put together. I still enjoy Legos to this day, but they are far

too expensive for me to continually invest money in.

The recent wave of Lego themed video games are some of the most addictive games I have ever played, namely Lego Star Wars and Lego Batman. They are so cute and fun and have hours and hours of gameplay with a high replay quotient.

Most games take me no more than a week or two to beat, but with the fun side missions including collecting all the coins, finding and collecting minikits and red blocks all while unlocking a vast amount of new characters and vehicles these games last a long time and I don't want to return them or trade them in for something better when I'm finished with them.

I'm definitely looking forward to playing Lego Harry Potter and to reexplore Lego Indiana Jones as I ran through it as fast as I could the first time around since it was a rental.

CGI

CGI technology has been used excessively in films for quite some time. CGI is very expensive and takes a lot of manpower to implement. Seems like producers sink most of any given film's capital into special effects instead of character development, plot, script, etc. What's even more upsetting is when they follow this formula and the CGI/special effects aren't even that impressive. Case and point: Superman Returns and the Nightmare on Elm Street remake.

Superman Returns was a completely unnecessary film and did not add anything of value to the Superman mythos. It was just a way of getting Bryan Singer's name on the movie (pissing off a lot of X-Men fans in the process because he couldn't work on X-Men 3)

In the Nightmare remake, Freddy Kreuger, a horror icon, was reduced to a CGI burn victim who looked more deformed than burned and scarred. In the original Nightmare on Elm Street series, all that was used was make up and ratty clothing to create his signature and memorable look.

Even the original Star Wars Trilogy used make-up, not CGI. CGI didn't even exist in 1977 when A New Hope was released. Plus, the shots of the rebel and imperial ships in the hangars were cardboard cutouts to save money. And Star Wars is freaking amazing. Filmmakers should use CGI when they have to, not just because its expected.