Change Your Image
rwilco
Reviews
Pay It Forward (2000)
Blah.
Haven't any of you read the frigging book? Only one of you it seems. :P Anyway, I thought that this movie was very poor in comparison to the book. The ending is ALMOST like the book's ending... almost. For some reason, it just seems better in the book. No wait, the book was definitely much better. They ripped up a beautiful story, and turned it into THIS. Here's an example of the changes. (S P O I L E R S) Reuben St. Clair is Trevor's teacher in Atascadero, California in the book, a black man, missing just about half of his face due to something that happened in the Vietnam War. In this movie, he is a white man named Eugene Simonet with bearly visible burns(until you see his chest) that was burnt by his psychotic drunk of a papa. Trevor McKinney helped out Jerry, Mrs. Greenberg, and Mr. St. Clair in the book. Not so in the movie. He tries to help Jerry, Mr. Simonet, and Adam, a boy that is always beaten up by the bullies at school. In this movie, the characters related to Mrs. Greenberg, with the exception of Sydney G., have all been replaced with Arlene's mother, who was already in the book(in a smaller role) anyway. This is four characters related to her and her herself. Plus, Trevor doesn't get to meet Bill Clinton in the movie. Poor Trevor. The movie industry has changed him into a foul-mouthed young boy who not only doesn't get to meet the president now and then die in Washington, trying to fulfill his third bit of "Paying it Forward"(long story; READ THE BOOK). No, no, he dies trying to help his friend at school from being beaten up after getting on tv. So, all in all... Book Movie Book: 9 out of 10 Movie: 3 out of 10
Final Fantasy VI (1994)
Whoa
This game 0wnz you!!! It is perhaps the sweetest game ever! Terra(Tina), Locke(Lock), Edgar, Sabin(Mash), Shadow and everyone else in the game are so cool! Even the crappy characters(Relm and Gau) can't bring ff6 down! The story is very detailed, and with, oh, 30 characters or so in all(14 are permanent members), how can ya go wrong? Plus... Kefka 0wnz you...
Fainaru fantajî V (1992)
Better than every RPG I've played but Xenogears!
God, I love this game! I myself have only played the PSX version but that's good enough! The king of Tycoon feels something is wrong with the wind, and thus goes to the Wind Shrine to check on the Wind Crystal. His daughter, Reina, wishes him luck. The scene switches to a pirate on his ship named Faris. He notices something wrong with the wind as well... then it switches to THE INSIDE of the meteor. An old man says that it has already began, and thus he must hurry. Then, You take on the role of Bartz, a traveler of the world born in (Lix in Japan; not sure about in the US). He and his chocobo, Boko, hear something bad going on, so they go to see what's wrong. A meteor has crashed near Tycoon, and as Bartz walks near, he finds two goblins taking Reina. He fights them, gets Reina, tell her his name... well, that's only the beginning. In Final Fantasy 5, the system used is the Job System.
Explanation of the Job System: You will gain many crystal shards throughout the game, which are "Jobs". They allow a large amount of freedom in customizing your team (Bartz, Reina, Faris, and Galuf, the old man). For example, you can have Bartz become a Knight, or Faris become a Dragoon. The one class they have without jobs equipped is called a Suppin(or BARE, if you own the PSX version, like me). Then there's the Ability system. Your jobs are devided by "levels". You gain levels by gaining certain amounts of ABP(Ability Points). By gaining a level, you gain a skill. E.G.: You have a Lvl2 Dragoon. You have his skills, "Jump" and "Lance". Now you equip a White Mage job to your character. You can put one of those skills on that job!
This game holds MUCH MUCH more secrets than ff6. The only secret that tops any of the ones in FF5 is finding GoGo in ff6. My overall score? 9 and a half out of 10 The game is great, but because of Krile... I had to knock the score down by half a point. - Jed Bookout