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Descent (1994)
THE Original 3D Full Imersion Shooter
This game followed after DOOM in the beginning of the era of 3D action shooters. Descent, however, was the first ever game to incorporate the third dimension in it's entirety. You can move up/down, left/right, forward/backward. You can turn right/left, bank up/down, and pitch or roll side to side. You fly a ship that has absolutely no spatial constraints. For over ten years I have been playing this game and it still ranks high on my list. Problem is, you have to have a Windows98 (or earlier) machine to play it. At the time I wrote this review WindowsXP was the current technology and unfortunately, they have killed DOS which is the environment that this game runs in. I have heard of some people successfully configuring later operating systems to run dos games but it is very difficult. That is a shame because this is one of the games that transformed the video game industry into what it is today and you can't even play it any more unless you are running a Legacy machine. I recommend that every video game fan play Descent at some point. It is to the PC video game realm what the original Nintendo 8-Bit system was to the console industry.
The Untouchables (1987)
Disney's The Godfather
I rented this movie thinking it was going to be something like the godfather or Goodfellas. Really, it wasn't. I would say that if Disney ever does a gangster movie it will be just like this one. And It'll probably have Kevin Costner in it as well. He's just not a very convincing tough guy and you can add that to the fact that his dialog is dry and unwhitty. Both Mel Gibson AND Harrison Ford turned down the role of Elliot Ness before Costner was asked to play it. Now we know why; Gibson and Ford don't do lame roles with lame dialog and lame action. The few action scenes in the movie are totally drawn out and over played and the two dollar musical score is right there all along remind the audience how a particular scene is supposed to make us feel... but we're not feelin' it.