January 2007

Critics' Choice: Top Movies of 2006

Any assessment of art will contain a certain degree of subjectivity, and a Top 10 list of the year’s best movies is no exception. What were we looking for in a movie? Does it confirm a Christian worldview or attack it? And then, of course, from an aesthetic perspective, is the film entertaining? Would we recommend it to our friends?

BC - Gruul s Lair - Maulgar

Burning Crusade content. Gruul’s Lair might be the first 25 mans instance you will enter, since its recommended for players group lvl 65-68. This is a fast raid instance (similar to Onyxia) with 2 main encounters which are High King Maular+his minions and Gruul ast last encounter. In this video made by few members of Conquest you will see a preview of the first encounter High King Maulgar and his servants. Tuned and challenging encounter. Casuals, pack your bags.

Quatro The Movie

Quatro The Movie

Exploration The Escapade - Preview

I know what your thinking, "A preview? Wtf?" Well the truth is after some RL, I ran into some nice technical issues and lost well over half the movie.

I am in the process of redoing the scenes, and I have made the final release date of my last movie, Exploration The Escapade to January 16, 2007.

I had promised the public the final release on the 25th and not even that went over as planned. So here is something to hold you over, a 7 minute preview of whats to come in my final movie.

You may think I am simply doing this to rack up downloads, if thats the case you are sadly mistaken as I see myself no better then anyone else, and I take pride in serving the Warcraft community and not my place in the hall of fame.

In this preview you will get a glimpse of the never before seen Black Temple, The Battle of Mount Hyjal as well as random additions to the development zones.

Enjoy,

~Fanatik

Clocks Demise

World of Warcraft Ultimate Frusteration.

NAXXRAMAS THE MOVIE

Movie produced by Jack from french guild "Empire" (www.empire-guilde.org), also present in movie the guild "La Garde" (www.lagarde-guild.com).

Amelie

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Rent Movie.com movie reviews presents Amelie Movie Review a 2001 film starring Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz and directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Perhaps the most charming movie of all time, Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain is certainly one of the top 10. The title character (the bashful and impish Audrey Tautou) is a single waitress who decides to help other lonely people fix their lives. Her widowed father yearns to travel but won’t, so to inspire the old man she sends his garden gnome on a tour of the world; with whispered gossip, she brings together two cranky regulars at her café; she reverses the doorknobs and reprograms the speed dial of a grocer who’s mean to his assistant. Gradually she realizes her own life needs fixing, and a chance meeting leads to her most elaborate stratagem of all. This is a deeply wonderful movie, an illuminating mix of magic and pragmatism. Fans of the director’s previous films (Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children) will not be disappointed; newcomers will be delighted. –Bret Fetzer

Rent

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Rent Movie.com Movie Reviews presents (2005) Rent the Movie Starring: Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal Director: Chris Columbus This film adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern day East Village New York. RENT Movie Review The story centers around Mark (Anthony Rapp) and Roger (Adam Pascal), two roommates. While a former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, Mark tries to capture it through his attempts to make a film. In the year that follows, the group deals with love, loss, AIDS, and modern day life in one truly powerful story. Rosario Dawson, Jesse L. Martin, Idina Menzel, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Tracie Thoms, and Taye Diggs also star. Rent, the show that in 1996 gave voice to a Broadway generation, has finally become an energetic, passionate, and touching movie musical. Based loosely on Puccini’s La Bohème, it focuses on the year in the life of a group of friends in New York’s East Village–”bohemians” who live carefree lives of art, music, sex, and drugs. Well, carefree until Mark, an aspiring filmmaker (Anthony Rapp), and Roger, an aspiring songwriter (Adam Pascal), find out they owe a year’s rent to Benny (Taye Diggs), a former friend who had promised them free residence when he married the landlord’s daughter. Roger has also attracted the attention of his downstairs neighbor, Mimi (Rosario Dawson), while Mark’s former girlfriend, Maureen (Idina Menzel), has found a new romance in a lawyer named Joanne (Tracie Thoms). Philosophy professor Tom (Jesse L. Martin) finds his soul mate in drag queen Angel (Wilson Jermaine Heredia). But because this is the late-’80s, the threat of AIDS is always present. The remarkable thing about Rent the movie is that nearly 10 years after the show debuted on Broadway, six of the eight principals return in the roles they originated. They’re a bit older than would be ideal for their characters, but they do have the advantage of having learned the show directly from creator Jonathan Larson (who died of an aortic aneurysm while the show was in previews), plus they started young–we’re not exactly talking Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford here. Alongside a polished performance like Rapp’s–sometimes observer-commentator, sometimes participant in two of the score’s showstoppers, “The Tango Maureen” and “La Vie Boheme”–the two new additions (Thoms in place of Fredi Walker, Dawson in place of the edgier Daphne Rubin-Vega) slip comfortably into the ensemble; the pivotal Dawson makes a seductive case as Mimi when she tempts Roger in the mesmerizing “Light My Candle” or burns up the stage of the Catscratch Club in “Out Tonight.” Moviegoers who have an aversion to people who break into song while walking down the street probably won’t have their minds changed by Rent (even if they are singing rock songs), and the gritty subject matter and lack of big-name stars make it unlikely to cross over to general audiences the way Chicago did. But fans of musicals should find “Seasons of Love” as stirring as ever, and the show’s passionate admirers–the “Rentheads”–probably couldn’t have wished for a more sympathetic director than Rent fan Chris Columbus, or a more faithful representation of the show they love. –David Horiuchi

Charlottes Web

Charlottes Web Movie Review
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Rent Movie.com movie reviews presents Charlottes Web Movie Review a 2006 film starring Julia Roberts, Steve Buscemi and directed by Gary Winick.From the opening credits (done with skillful paper art used for a storybook, “3-D” effect), Charlotte’s Web is charming. To quote the spider, Charlotte (and I suspect author E.B.White would agree), this film version of his story is both “Terrific” and “Radiant”. I was in tears by the end; this film spins a web of great humor and visual delight, and a very moving sort of beauty in both content and form. I was very struck by the art direction….moonlight on Charlotte and her web, the lane turning from Summer to Fall; the wonder of the Fair, with multitudes of details, all done in bright, small spots of color, equally treated, whether balloons or people.  much thought and talent was put into the making of this film.
Without ever being didactic or simple, the messages, too, are lovely and clear. When Wilbur the Pig speaks highly of Charlotte (voiced beautifully by Julia Roberts), a sheep asks, “Are we seeing the same creature?”; “I guess not,” he replies.
In a similar, quietly understated way, the entire barn is awoken to the miracle of Sunrise, as they share the experience with their new young friend, Wilbur. “Has it always been this way?” they wonder. The simple handling, too, of Wilbur’s heart-break, as Charlotte’s hundreds of newly born babies go flying off: “I had so much I wanted to tell you,” he says, “And someone I wanted to tell you about.” There are the makings of a classic fim in this movie rendition of a well loved book.
The funniest moments? Steve Buschemi’s Templeton the Rat, on his back in the buttermilk, the Crows with their discussions of, and adventures with the scarecrow, but the most side-splitting and also most endearing moment was the flying spiders, imitated by the Sheep.
Dakota Fanning, impressive previously for her charismatic role in Man on Fire, is well-cast as Fern, and I was intrigued by Louis Corbett as her brother, Avery. In his initial scene, he asks why Fern gets to have a pig. We laugh, and we feel for him; the screenplay has Avery as a younger brother, and less of an adversary, which works very well.
See this movie with every artist you know, every child you know, and every cynic you’d like to reawaken to Wonder.
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Chronicle of the Annoying Quest Ep9

Well here’s the lower quality version of episode 9. It was up on our site a week ago, so if you haven’t done so yet, you may want to go register there. www.bakasavants.com

NfS Hot Pursuit 3

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Comical Server Lag

I actually made this a long time ago, back when World of Warcraft had some serious server issues. By now pretty much everything is fixed, but I still find this video funny. I love the way it came out.

Skullcrusher Mountain

A music video for the Jonathan Coulton song "Skullcrusher Mountain". Jonathan makes his songs available online (www.jonathancoulton.com) via the Creative Commons license, which enables projects such as this video. He has a podcast called Thing A Week where he puts out a song a week to keep his creative juices flowing. He’s said he’s going to keep it up until someone pays him to do it for real.

The song at the end of the video is "So Far So Good", another great Jonathan Coulton song.

Mind control fun

Having fun with mind control in Menethil.

Forever Walking Alone

Forever Walking Alone

Music:
Dragonland - Forever Walking Alone

Kimimaru @ Bloodfeather

Ventrilo Fun

Speak’s for itself.

A Current Afair Wow Segment

LOL - A Current Afair Ch 9 Australia with another report on a minority of the World of Warcraft community

Battlestar Galactica opening

A machina film of the BSG opening, World of Warcraft style.

WoW presentation by Joi Ito at 23C3

World of Warcraft talk Joi Ito gave at the recent 23rd Chaos Communications Congress that took place in Berlin. His talk is on how World of Warcraft really breeds relevant real world skills, many of which are helpful and/or essential in the corporate business world.

Who Killed the Electric Car

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Rent Movie.com movie reviews presents Who Killed the Electric Car? Movie Review a 2006 film starring Phyllis Diller, Colette Divine and directed by Chris Paine. Though this documentary is filled with interesting facts and utterly charming people, GM’s little EV1 stole the show. An adorable piece of art and functionality, the EV1 came and went without my notice. Yet how I now miss it! Oddly, it was killed by its own parent company - as tragic a plot as any Shakespearean play.
Who Killed the Electric Car? is done as a mystery, with multiple suspects. The soundtrack at times is absolutely brilliant, and the film, whose subject matter could be quite distressing, is done in a manner both fair, hopeful and, at times, humorous. I really liked it. It captured not just my interest, but my heart.
Some people hope to spot Elvis at the local 7-11. I hope to spot an EV1.
Shanti Mai
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