Stop Vin, please.

Remember when you saw “Boiler Room” and “Saving Private Ryan” and you though Vin Diesel was a pretty good actor? Then he decided not to be. From “The Fast and Furious” to “The Pacifier” Vin’s done all he can to  make us forget those early returns. Well somehow I missed out on the news that he and fellow mediocre “actor” Paul Walker were returning to make “Fast and Furious”, see what they did there? Drop the “The” and ready made sequel. Yes after Vinless “2 Fast 2 Furious” and “Tokyo Drift” the magic is back! And by “magic” I mean “ablity to tell the same story, show some cars and suck”

The story has Vin and Paul teaming up with the Feds to take down som heroin dealers blah, blah, blah, and probably fighting freedom haters everywhere.  PT Anderson has to find funding for “There Will Be Blood” but we’re throwing money at another FF flick? Nice. Does this mean Vin will be returning for another stab at the “XXX” franchise? I can only hope.

MicroWii

So for no particular reason, I nerd out and watch all two hours of Microsoft’s E3 press event, where they heralded the new and bestest home entertainment they’ll be offering through the X-Box 360.  I’m not a true console war type fanboy. I always enjoyed my SNES and Playstation 1 and 2,  even owned a Gamecube. (Hey it had Zelda.) But I kinda lost time, intrest, whatever until I was gifted (just like Jesus) last Christmas with a Wii.

Now there seems to be some internet hate that the Wii is only outselling everything because it doesn’t support hardcore gamers, its too popular soccer moms like it etc. Well hardcore gaming to me is a little old school. Mario, Zelda, hours with Metroid. To some it seems its blowing stuff up real pretty like on the X-Box 360. Well I would think the alleged “hardcore” are in denial mode now. After about 10 minutes or so of “hardcore” support, Microsoft’s E3 event went all “Hey, we like family stuff too!” Buzz words/phrases like “Everyone can play”, “fun for families” and “game night” were tossed around by everyone presenting. Avatars (hip Miis) and a redesigned “friendlier” X-Box dashboard? A game that puts “you in the movies”? Really just say you wanna be a Wii that you can also kill people on FPS style and get it over with.

Again, not hating, I credit X-Box for recognizing a demand and trying to cater to its needs. And the Netflix/X-Box partnership seems like its gonna be all kinds of cool. But I don’t wanna see anymore “Wii is a fad ” talk from microsoft peeps again in interviews.