There will be Blood

Never fancied this movie, but decided to see it as I wanted to see all the movies that were nominated for Oscars.

The story in the movie sounded dull, and when you think about it there could not have been much of a story there to work with.

Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day Lewis) is a sliver miner who comes across oil.  He soon builds an oil empire and the story is based around Little Boston and the oil underneath Little Boston.

Daniel Day Lewis performance in this movie was fantastic one of the best I have seen.  I was captured with him and his character right from the start till the end that's over 2 hours!  That alone deserves an Oscar as my mind tends to wander after about 40 minutes in the cinema, that or I decided to sleep.

I would recommend seeing this movie for his performance alone.

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Zack and Wiki : The Quest for Barbaros' Treasure

Bought this game on release day as we were doing a Tesco shop at the time.  The price was good so spent most of the shop on my mobile checking out the reviews of this game.

So it was a hunch buy, was not 100% sure what it was about but hey thought I would give it a go.

Zack and Wiki reminds me of a old point in click game like Monkey Island or Beneath a Steel Sky.  Where you used your mouse to click around the world and solved puzzles.  The mouse is replaced with the wiimote and the world is replaced with a level.

The story starts off with you on a plane before being attacked and crash landing.  You come across a treasure chest which turns out to be Barbaros head.  He then tells you if you find the rest of his parts he will tell you the location of his treasure.  So off you set trying to find his parts that are stored in treaure chests throught the map. 

What I enjoyed about this game the most was the way the Wiimote was used.  You actually interact with objects that you come across.  Some good examples are a saw, pick the saw up and you have to hold the Wiimote like you would a saw and then the motions to saw until you are finished sawing.  Another example is having to place objects using the Wiimote, using the Wiimote as a key or moving it to turn switches

The levels constantly get harder and more frustrating as the game progresses, many a time I would have to turn it off have a think for a few days before going back to solve the puzzle.  What makes this game so different is there is always more than one way to solve the level.

Anyone that enjoys a challenge and the old point and click adventure games should check out this title on the Wii by Capcom. 

I hope they make a squeal for this game but like most Capcom titles on Nintendo it will not sell well and will be ported. 

Next to finish Mario Galaxy or purchase no more heroes?

Demo of one of the levels can be played in flash on Wii or PC here Click gameplay and then play demo level.

http://www.zackandwiki.com/

Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles

Well with the writers strike now over it will take a while for TV to get back to the norm.  I watched the 1st few episodes of the Sarah Conner chronicles and got bored of it as was very average.  I have since went back to this because of having nothing else to watch,the show has picked up but still follows the same story from T2.... Terminator....chasing....other protecting.  Only so much you can take of the same story churned out again and again.

Not sure if I will stick to it, anyone got any suggestions on TV?