I finally saw Garden State today. It really is a lovely movie. Funnier than I thought it would be. Zach Braff has lips like James Franco -- the kind that I just want to bite. It was really distracting, actually.

I had a few minor pharmacological issues with it, but overall, I really enjoyed it.

You couldn't have Mortal Kombat without Raiden, or Resident Evil without zombies. What does Doom need?

Demons. A Doom movie will pretty much be Resident Evil with demons in space. Scientists on a Mars colony do Something Really Stupid and open a portal to Hell. The lead guy comes upon the devastation and blasts his way through armies of infernal evil while trying to figure out what happened and how to stop it. ...exactly the same premise, now that I think of it, but it predates RE, so I'm going to say that RE is Doom with zombies.

Scientists on a Mars colony do Something Really Stupid and open a portal to Hell.

Well, it's not original, but suck isn't tied irrevocably to it.

I still want a Tekken 3 movie.

I saw Wimbledon today. Oh, there's a movie made to make ita cry. Kirsten Dunst didn't bother me as much as she did in Spiderman, and Bettany was amazingly charming. The best friend was hot.

I saw Wimbledon today. Oh, there's a movie made to make ita cry. Kirsten Dunst didn't bother me as much as she did in Spiderman, and Bettany was amazingly charming. The best friend was hot.

I totally agree. And I think Kirsten was less irritating because she was, in a sense, rather incidental to the plot. The movie was all about Paul. And that brief shot of his abs. And, designed for ita: playing tennis through pain. And while Paul was incredibly charming in the scene where Kirsten is hiding behind the pillar from her father, I think the more emotionally real relationship was the one he had with his best friend. Who was, indeed, pretty.

I could care less about a Tekken 3 movie, though, as I've never seen 1 or 2, and I'm not really feeling the lack. I did see Mortal Kombat, but I think that was just visuals attached to a soundtrack that was designed to sell to people with high intensity aerobic exercises in mind. And I've seen Tomb Raider, 1 and 2. They were fine. But pretty much pointless. The pirate movie based on the ride, rather than some lazy sitting down games, was so much more fun.

Of course, I've never been a huge video game fan. Or a comics fan. Hmm.

What, game-wise, sets Doom aside from any other first-person-shooter games?

Nothing that is immediately translatable to the film format. Doom & Doom II had some of the best designed levels of any game ever, along with great monster design but that's really it. The fame of the game lies with the sheer fun of running around shooting zombies and demons.

I could care less about a Tekken 3 movie, though, as I've never seen 1 or 2, and I'm not really feeling the lack.

One of the main reasons you've never seen Tekken 1 or Tekken 2 is that they don't exist. The movies, that is. I've never seen the games played, so I have no attachment to them going onscreen. But I do like the Tekken 3 characters quite a bit. Plus? Capoeira!

Is Tekken 3 the one where the jaguar-man King is introduced? I once had an arcade full of spectators watching me beat my pal Mike and then about 11 cycles against the game itself while playing that character. All the more impressive since it was the first time I'd played that iteration and I'm normally not all that good at videogames.

We saw Shaun of the Dead last night.

So very funny.

You know, I know Jude Law has had a rough time personally, but how excited am I that he's in like every movie coming out for a year? Pretty darn happy. Saw the Closer trailer last night, and....Ooh. Also realized I have waited long enough to see Sky Captain that I can use my free ticket now! (It's not good the first 10 days of a run.)

I've seen the I Heart Huckabees trailer twice now, and I keeps on wanting to see it. Still more Jude Law.