For those unaware PAX East is less than 4 days away. Not only am I attending for the third year in a row but this year I am an enforcer. That is basically what they call the show volunteers that help with everything from set up to entertaining people waiting in line. I just found out that I am doing line entertainment Friday and Saturday nights and I couldn’t be more excited about it. Next week after the show I will attempt to do a comprehensive update on everything there was to see and do there.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon far exceeded my expectations and rejuvenated my excitement for the franchise. I thought the first Transformer movie was good but definitely not great. The action was pretty exciting and the story was passable but I think the biggest thing for me was finally getting to see the robots from Cybertron in a live action big budget movie. The giddyness I felt over seeing Optimus Prime transform for the first time still makes me happy even now. The second Transformers movie, Revenge of the Fallen, was just awful. The story was so convoluted and made absolutely no sense that halfway through I just kind of stopped caring what happened. I kept thinking that atleast the action sequences would be fun but that was a huge let down too. The director of the Transformers movies is Michael Bay, who is known for his huge, over the top action scenes with large explosions, went too far this time. He tried to fit so much into every scene that it was hard to follow who was hitting who and whether an Autobot was hitting a Decepticon or the other way around. The worst part of the movie was when the three Destructicons merged together to form one giant robot and the wrecking balls ended up being unfortunately placed right between the bots legs and was not an oversight by the editors either, it was purposeful. I’m all inappropriate humor in almost all forms but this was just so out of place, unnecessary, and just unfunny that it alone could have ruined the movie. Even though this is intended to be a review of the third movie, for comparison, I’ll give my numbers for the first two as well. Transformers I will give a 3 out of 5, good but not great. Transformers: Revenge of the fallen I will give a 1 out of 5, not worth watching even if you like Transformers. Also, before you ask it is possible to get a 0 which I cannot give it because I did watch the whole thing.

So as you might expect based on what I had to say about Revenge of the Fallen, I wasn’t expecting much from Dark of the Moon. I had heard from others that it was better than the first two but I still had my doubts. Thankfully those doubts would be put to rest. I loved how mature this movie felt compared to the others. This was due to both the action and story. In the first two movies there was always this threat of invasion but the plans were always thwarted before anything really happened.I don’t want to ruin anything about the story so all I will say is that it is not the case with this movie, the shit does indeed hit the fan. Also, most of the action int he first two movies was robot on robot violence. In this movie humans and robots go toe to toe with some exciting and even deadly results for both species. Some aspects of the story were a little predictable but I will say there were also a couple of things that while not shocking was a little bit of a surprise. I would also like to say that there was a pretty good amount of humor thrown in but it was added at the right places and was the right amount. The special effects and cg animation was very well done but I would expect no less from a movie with the budget that this one probably had. Now lets talk about some of the cons of the film. In this film the role of sexy female love interest is played by Rosie Huntington-Whiteley instead of Megan Fox. Truthfully not much has changed in that area which is good and bad. I say good because I personally think they are both fairly attractive, on the other hand they are also both not the best of actresses. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley’s acting is particularly bad and is one of the low points of the film. Another problem that I had isn’t so much a problem about this movie specifically but of the series. I know that Transformers has always been about the Autobots versus the Decepticons but I think that if the movies are going to continue than they need to change things up a little bit. All three movies have the same basic premise of the Decepticons using some hidden technology to try to take over the world and the Autobots side with the humans to try to stop them. By the third movie I find myself wanting something different but maybe I’m just saying that because I would in no ways consider myself a die hard Transformers fan. Having said all that though I would definitely recommend this movie to anyone whether they have seen the first two or not. If you like Transformers specifically or action movies in general than you will most likely like this movie and that is why I give it a 4 out of 5.

So, as you may have guessed from the title of this post, I just watched the movie Real Steel. Who knew that a movie about robots would have so much heart. The truth is the movie really isn’t about robots. Don’t get me wrong the movie features plenty of boxing robots but that is not supposed to be the focus of the movie. The movie for the most part is about the relationship between a man and his young son. I don’t want to go too much into the story in case anyone reading this planned to watch it. I will say that the story wasn’t great but it was good. There were no dramatic twists or turns and everything was fairly predictable but for this type of movie I think that’s okay. The action scenes I thought were very well done. The robot boxing was exciting and well choreographed. The robots themselves were cool looking as well as being very realistic and fitting in well with the environment and the live actors around them. I’ll be the first to admit that I am poor judge of acting. I can recognizing horrible acting when i see it but aside from that I have a hard time distinguishing great from passable. Despite saying that I would say that the acting is good but not great. I was impressed by the actor who played Max, the son. I typically don’t expect much from child actors but I thought he did a pretty good job. Hugh Jackman played the father, Charlie. I like Hugh Jackman as an actor and love a lot of the characters he tends to play but I don’t think that this was one of his bests. Whether that’s on him or the script I can’t tell. To wrap things up I’ll say that if your bored and looking for an exciting and for the most part lighthearted story then pick this up. On the other hand if your looking for a great piece of cinema this might not be for you, so on that note if I had to rate it I’d give Real Steel a 3 out of 5.

If you have been to my site before than you would have noticed a couple new additions. I created a new banner for the site and added a background(Hubble Deep Field). For those who haven’t been here before, Welcome!

I last left off talking about Star Wars:The Old Republic, the new mmorpg by Bioware. While not the sole reason it is a main factor as to why i haven’t updated the site in awhile. I got it at launch and have been playing it a lot since then. While I won’t write a full review of it now I will say that this game is so much fun. I highly recommend it to anyone who is looking to get into an mmorpg or is bored of the one they’re currently playing.

Anyways, enjoy the new and improved EverythingNerdy.com and if you have any suggestions on how to make it even better, other than just updating more than once a month, let me know in the comments.

Hello again, I’ve been neglecting this site for too long so I thought I would do my first “real” post, which is going to be on Star Wars: The Old Republic or SW:TOR. I’ll give a brief description of it for those who don’t know about it. Its a video game exclusively for the PC and is a massive multiplayer online role playing game or mmorpg for short. As you might have guessed it takes place in the Star Wars universe, however, its during a period of time many might be unfamiliar with unless you’ve played the Knights of the Old Republic games. The KOTOR games and SWTOR take place a couple thousand years before the events of the Star Wars movies. SWTOR is being developed by Bioware, a video game company responsible for some of the best and most popular rpgs over the last couple years such as the Mass Effect series and the Dragon Age series.

When the game was first announced I was pretty excited for it. I played World of Warcraft off and on since it launched and have played other mmorpgs too, such as Rift, EVE, and Star Wars Galaxies. Along with my excitement came some hesitation and cautious optimism. As much admiration and faith i have in Bioware’s ability to produce great games I also knew how hit and miss mmorpgs can be. Also, Bioware had set some pretty lofty goals and were planning on doing some things never seen in an mmo before. Some of the innovations they planned were full voice acting for most if not all NPCs. They also wanted to revolutionize how storytelling is implemented in mmo’s. Modern day rpgs are known for fantastic stories and giving the player the ability to make choices and shape the storyline. Mmorpgs, however, are known for just the opposite, unorignal stories and no choice given to the player. These things had really piqued my interest in the game and made me hopeful that they would be able to accomplish everything they had set out to do. I even went ahead and applied to get into the beta test, which is when the developer lets selected people to play an early version for free before it is released so that they can get feedback on how to make the final product better. Well, it took awhile but when the last round of beta testing started the weekend after thanksgiving I got my invite.

Anyways, I’m getting pretty tired so I’ll call it a night and tomorrow I’ll discuss my personal experience with the beta.

I just installed WordPress so that I can finally start working on this website. However, its getting a little late so I think I’ll put off adding the bells and whistles till tomorrow. This is going to be an ongoing process as I learn how to use WordPress and the ideas for the site take shape.