prince of persia: the sands of time, splice, and the sims 3: ambitions

prince of persia: the sands of time - 4.5/10 - i thought this film would blow. i have not played the game so i have no idea how well it portrays the game at all. i'm really not a big fan of jake gyllenhaal either except for his role in donnie darko. we'll just overlook all of gemma arterton's role as she was a bit much. the movie, however, was actually somewhat enjoyable. there was enough action to keep me preoccupied throughout the film and the plot was okay even if it was somewhat predictable. i wouldn't go rushing to theaters to see this one but i think it'd be an okay popcorn flick dvd rental.

splice - 3/10 - bah! this film was so promising. i love horror. i love science. mix the two together and voila; perfect freaking movie...not so much in this case. so the movie starts off well enough in a lab where scientists are mixing animal dna to try and find proteins that will help solve diseases in livestock. so they decide to get carried away and go for a human/animal cross even though they're directly told not to do so. surprise surprise they do it anyway. spoilers ahead: so they create dren (nerd backwards) which is a pretty neat looking critter. here's where the movie becomes idiotic. so the two idiot scientists, clive and elsa, are in a relationship and have sex in front of dren (by accident of course, they just couldn't possibly think that since she was behind that curtain she would hear them). so dren decides this looks like a good idea and starts getting all affectionate with clive. well one day she kisses clive and apparently this is just too much because he drops his pants and they have sex (images i will never be able to get out of my head) but he doesn't finish so she doesn't kill him as they get caught by elsa. fast forward a bit and it looks like dren is dying since her growth rate was so quick. well turns out she was just changing from a female to a male so after being buried dren comes out of the ground to kill any competing males then manages to grunt out "inside you" when elsa asks what he wants as he proceeds to rape her. elsa manages to kill him after he's finished as clive comes in and stabs dren before dren kills clive. the movie ends with elsa pregnant - hello splice 2. i suggest skipping this one altogether. i mean species is a much better representation of what i guess the director was trying to go for here so go watch it instead.

sims 3: ambitions - i really dunno what i think of it at this point. the new occupations are pretty neat. you can be a ghost hunter, a designer, all sorts of nifty new things. there's even a new neighborhood to play in, granted it's a swamp, and i'm not kidding there, but at least it's a new neighborhood. now i find that i cannot for the life of me get past one thing they added that is completely ruining my game in my opinion. for any of you that played the sims2 and got the seasons expansion, weren't you really annoyed when it was fall and the leaves would drop from the trees and your sims would spend hours raking leaves? i know i was. well unlike seasons where you could just delete the trees or get rid of autumn all together, this expansion comes with an even more heinous task: laundry. those freaking sims change clothes all the time and leave little piles of laundry all over the place. they forego urinating to go move the clothes to the dryer. i play the sims for fun. to lord over my minions and have them do my bidding. i thoroughly dislike this humdrum task being placed in the game. oh and think you can get away with not doing laundry by deleting your washer and dryer? hell no! your sims will have to take their clothes to the laundromat, i kid you not. so for now the expansion has left me a bit deflated as my sims are too busy with laundry to do much and i really don't see why adding this feature in brings anything whatsoever to the game.

eh enough of my ranting about splice and the sims 3 expansion. enjoy the silence.