The times they are a Changin.

The motivation for this blog post came today, from a comment I made upon a youtube video. My comment was on a Machinima preview of the upcoming "Aliens Vs. Predator" video game. I was being quirky and decided to input a clever Aliens reference in my comment. I said "I like to keep this for close encounters", now it is not the comment itself that is of much interest rather the reply I received from it. They were like "Haha that is from Call Of Duty 4, when Gaz is talking to Soap". Which is pretty funny because the game was itself referencing Aliens and paying homage to the film. So it started me thinking, how new audiences of people who only play video games, or only watch movies, miss their clever references to eachother. Call Of Duty 4 is choked full of clever references that movie buff, and 80s individuals enjoy. For the people who have never seen the film, or lived in the time will think that the clever saying was strictly from that game. Meaning if they hear it mentioned in in conversation they would be all like HEY THATS FROM COD4 OMFG. This of course happened long before video games movies always are referential and are always paying homage to something or other. This is not the main point of the post, instead I want to talk about what ages, and how things stand the test of time.

Video games in recent years, have been under intense scrutiny recently for that allogations that games encourage violence, and cause people to go on murderous rampages. Which is complete bullocks, but surprisngly movies were under similar assumptions not to long ago. For example the movie Scream 2, which was made in 1997, has this topic as its main focus. SPOILERS FOR SCREAM 2 coming up (which is a damn good film that i recommend you watch before reading this) 2 individuals get killed during a screening of a slasher film. Media instantly begins to question if the film itself and its contents caused the killer to be encouraged. Do violence in media cause violence in real life. Thoose kind of questions, and the main killer even plans on using a plea for insanity claiming that movies were what caused him to go on the killing spree. END OF SPOILERS I just find it interesting that the torch has been passed so to speak from movies to video games. You very rarely hear a person go ZOMG that twilight movie caused me to suck peoples blood.

Another time related topic, is the future in movies. For example Judgement Day in terminator 2 was said to occur on August 29, 1997 which quite frankly never happened. Yes I know in theory they stopped judgement day from occuring....but that is not so, in Terminator 3 it is said July 25, 2004 was the new judgement day date. Which yet again did not happen, and the same can be said for the recent movie 2012 the world will still be fine and complete in 2012 trust me on that one folks. Now we cannot say for sure the Back To The Future 2's version of 2015 is false, because we have 5 years to develop Flying Cars, hover boards, self adjusting clothes....and 25 more jaws sequel. The one thing we can say for certain though, is that thoose phonebooths will not exist. Since there are barely any phonebooths still left in the world, and the amount of cellphones will soon have them dissappear all together. Future can be revealing but effects can also age or destroy the feeling of the film. For example in todays standards Avatar is the most beautiful film ever made, but in about ten years technology will have advanced to a point where Avatar is no longer the ultimate. Time has shown that film that create full cgi worlds age very poorly, wheras cleverly implimented practical effects can cause the film to be beautiful years, and years after its original release. Don't beleive me, just watch the Star Wars Prequels they already look out dated and hold, and they were made less then 6 years ago. In my opinion a film like District Nine, that had some CG, but alot of practical effects will have a more timeless, and classic appeal in a few years then Avatar will.

Well thoose are just my ramblings for today, leave your comments below on what you think of this situation, and it should be noted that I may be unable to make a blog update again until Thursday. I may be able to sneak a little one in on Tuesday but Wednesday I will be gone to the big city getting college stuff done and overwith. This is another CRANKY Blog have a good day!
Sincerly, Gigans
P.S Last quiz question was a quote from Fright night unfortunately noone decided to attempt to guess it.
P.s.s Todays Trivia quote is "I know now why you cry, but it is something I can never do" The correct answer may get something special so don't slack off lol.