Into Oblivion
As you may know over the last few months I've occasionlly been talking about Oblivion, the new Elder Scrolls game from Bethesda. After a brief research yesterday I noticed that the release date was November 25th which is only 10 days away!
I was also looking at the minimum specifications required to run the game and they are quite high:
Recommended:
Operating System: Windows XP
Processor: CPU Pentium 4 2.4GHz or Athlon64 3000
Video Card: Geforce FX 5700 or Radeon 9600 or higher
CD-ROM: CDRom 52x or DVD Rom 16x
RAM: 512 MB RAM
Minimum:
Operating System: Windows 98/2000/ME/XP
Processor: Pentium PIII 800 MHz Processor or AMD Athlon
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 2™ or ATI Radeon™ 7000 or higher
CD-ROM: 4X or Faster
RAM: 256 MB RAM
Luckily my new machine will be able to run it at recommended - yay! Unfortunately I will be entering a hibernative type state taking away my ability to move from the computer for periods of up to 5 hours and only then to scavenge for food.
What is it that causes people [generally males aged between 16-24] to turn into computer game addicts? In extreme cases, this had led to death. But this is not confined to earth. You can clearly see below that what the military found in Aliens was an advanced species wiped out because they could not break away from their computer.
In other news, Lou and I watched Return of the King [extended version] last night. Spurred on by the showing of The Two Towers on Sunday evening, we had watched The Fellowship of the Ring that afternoon and yesterday decided that you could not watch the first 2 parts of a trilogy and miss the conclusion. Having read the book before the Fellowship screened in 2001 and now re-reading it, there are a lot of scenes I would have shot differently to Peter Jackson. Personally I feel that there is some great material in the book that has been changed when the original material was just as good if not better at explaining background story and character development. However, the overall feel of the movies remains intact and if you have read the book you will no doubt fill in the whole story in your head as the trilogy progresses. It is still a masterpiece in cinema history and will remain a favourite down the generations.
I would give the trilogy 5 hobbits out of 5.
posted by Phil @ 8:40 pm
1 Comments:
I agree that LOTR is a great trilogy on film, but I have to also agree with you that there were some scenes in it that should have remined true to the book. The skateboarding elf scene springs to mind - what were you thinking Peter Jackson?!?
Also there were a lot of parts in the film that were simply unexplainable and not comprehensible at all unles syou had read the book. Phil you told me why the cloak Frodo had was able to disguise himself and Samwise in the film (because the elves had given them a magic cloak of camouflage) and that Hobbits eat a hell of a lot yet Frodo and Sam always have food on them but tiny bags (again they were given magical Lamnas bread by the Elves, a bread that would never run out).
Without this information the film looks stupid and unrealistic - how can an Orc stand right in front of two Hobbits wearing brown and green in the middle of a grey rock slide and not see them?!?
Sadly the extended DVD's don't shine much more light on the subject. Because of this I find that I am resigned to the "outsider" group of people who watched the film, enjoyed it but sadly are still in the dark, unlike the "insider" people who were able to watch and fully understand the film.
I'd have to give the trilogy four and a half rings out of five - close to perfect but still lacking.
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