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Well it's already over for a few days, but here are the pictures we took at Abunai! this year.

Well a few days ago I got the "blessing" of getting another year on this rotating giant orb done.

All in all it was a pretty good day this year. Also the present I got from Osaka is really cool. Well the real present will be Metroid: Other M when it's released, but meanwhile I got this nice drawing.

(sorry for the bad quality of the picture, it was taken with my cellphone)

I hope I can many more of these good years in the future ^.^

well this where some good days XD,
I'm sure some of you where watching e3 live the passed few days (I know i was).
and i saw the microsoft, nintendo and ps3 conference. And personally i got abit dissepointed in what i saw T.T.

first of all microsoft, They started of good with showing Halo and Gears of wars. I never played them but i have to say when i was watching i told zero i might get that gears of wars when it comes out, looked pretty fun for a shooter but then they brought out their project natal (aka kinect), and from there the show went down alot for everybody it seems O.o;; but i still found it somewhat intresting to watch, not that i'm planning on buying one cause face it if the rumors are true it is really expencive but the "games" looked pretty ok :P. The Kinectamils (or something :P) looked pretty funny and showed that the Kinect works perfectly, so i don't think ppl should fear it really, and it looked like a fun game for kids and hell even i found it pretty damn cute in some weird way :P. But other then that the games where kinda like wii stuff although i think playing Wii fit or that kinect fitness thing i think i'd prefer the kinect version. But in the end it was a ok show, but i don't know if my Xbox will get alot of games this year, so i'll have to wait and see i guess....

Now nintendo, i'm sorry to say but they really won the e3 for me, not only did they show the new Zelda & Metroid but my childhood flew by me while they announced games that haven't been seen in the passed 10+ years. And i'm not talking about just any games, no i'm talking about the Nostalgia games that made nintendo big, Kirby, Donkey kong, a new mario sports game (wich are always fun for a giggle), Golden eye from N64 that gets a small remake or port anyway who cares I'll admid the graphics looked crappy but It's god freakin GOLDEN EYE XD. This game was the first big shooter on any console around and made shooters what they are today, alot of the ppl who played it before will know what i'm saying ;-) . There also was new footage of Epic mickey and Golden sun for DS by the time they started talking about 3DS I never could have dreamed the announcements they had to offer us there first of all KID ICARUS IS BACK !!!! XDD <3 , zero introdused me to this game on the snes and i loved it but after like 20 years of begging fans they open their 3DS announcements with that and i already had to get one, but they also announced they are already working on a new Kingdom hearts, Final fantasy, Metal gear solid, Resident evil, Nintendogs, Paper mario, Zelda, Animal crossing, Starfox, Death or alive and a Codename chocobo game and many many more.... XD Seriously if i was a guy i could say i officially jizzed my pants, but as a girl i guess i got gangbanged by nintendo O.o;;; , Also the graphics on the 3DS look better then the normall DS (and i mean really better even abit better then psp) so yeah after 2 years they really made a new comeback, but this to me also means that for the next 2 years nintendo wont bring out something new and big out anymore ;) but with all the things they are gonna give us i don't think we should complain.

After that it was sony's turn and It was hard to top nintendo's. And i really have a hard time to stay nice here... :/ First of all i don't hate sony i always been a PS1 and PS2 fangirl but PS3 messed up for me at first it cost to mutch for me and by now i still only have 5 games on ps3 i would like to have... so ... yeah... . :/

I felt like they needed filler for their show they started of really good by showing Killzone 3 (in 3D) it looked good had the same Killzone vibe in it like i remember in the first one (and seeying in the second) but after that ... oh god it went down for an hour and a half showing us trailers from games we already knew for about half a year that they where coming, showing move wich was the same as microsofts kinect for me (sorry but did you see the price >.<; you'll end up paying about 160$ ) but it looked like it worked well and i think in the end move will have more "hardcore" stuff then kinect anyway then kevin butler came bragging on how everyone suckt and they rocked for 10min blahblahblah XD then they showed portal 2 and steam that are coming to ps3 wich is really cool :D (so yeah that one impressed me) and then in the end they announced what was their biggest game Twisted metal wich is cool but i never would call it one of the biggest race games ever on Playstation like they where acting it up, in the end for me this was a thing to say well i guess i'll have to wait another year to get convinced for a PS3
I felt like they didn't have anything special to show so they just tried to confuse ppl with numbers and trailers you already knew. But if you don't agree think about it or look at it again and you'll see what i mean. Just like Microsoft this press conference was no WOW factor and in the end the only one that made me go OMG they have to be joking, more then 3 times was nintendo.

Freddy's coming for you,
Three, Four, better lock your door,
Five, Six, grab your crucifix,
Seven, Eight, gonna stay up late,
Nine, Ten never sleep again.
Most of you peeps must remember that rhyme no??
Yes i'm talking about the famous Nightmare on elm street Krueger song, I recently decided to give the New Movie a go, but first i decided to check out all the old movies (including the newer Freddy Vs. Jason), Then Yesterday I decided to watch the Documentary Never sleep again and today I finally closed my Freddy week by watching the new remake movie. (So prepair for a wall of text cause this is gonna be really really long to read...)

First of all Horror movie remakes are a reall trent these days (ano 2000+) by hollywood well not only horror but everything really the only thing they can somewhat still make "original" are Marvel comic movies wich was fun for the first few that they made like Spiderman but after 500 comicbook superhero movies it kinda gets boring, Anyway since i'm more of a horror type person I really don't care for remakes alot but still try to watch them without focussing to mutch on the original one, And even if i do there is only 1 Remake so far that i find better then original one and that was Last house on the Left, But I really think that is because lets face it the original one takes place in the Hippy time (70's) so updating that to the modern time with keeping the theme was good for me personally Anway back to the Nightmare movies

The Original Nightmare movies where kinda based as a classic I'm not gonna go into it to much cause everyone knows them, Freddy grew out to be a famous icon like Jason, Dracula and so on, Now I saw the Documentary Yesterday, Its only about a Month old or so but i really have to say Never sleep again: The elm street legacy Is a masterpiece of a doc. Seriously Ok it really is a long thing to watch (was 4 hours for the doc. itself). But it was really fun to see, you get every juicy fact there is about the movies they speak about all of them 1 by 1 wich i really loved AND ! even gave me more respect for the second movie wich always was the one I hated most (and prob. most of the fans hated the most), Almost every actor gets a few min to speak in it wich is also fun cause you get to see the ppl on who they are all grown up, only Johnny Depp and Patricia Arquette are missing but even they get their own comments by other actors in the movie by saying how great they where on the set so... . Even though i am not a Nightmare freak i really have to say that everyone should see this documentary, I even noticed how zero was glaring at the screen from time to time and smile along with it cause even he thought it was funny and he never even seen any of the movies so :P that has to say something right? and even if you saw the documentary of 4hours there is an extra 4 hour disc with fan made extra's Including the famous AVGN Nightmare videogame review wich is also pretty funny to see if you didn't already... .
So everyone GO OUT AND BUY NEVER SLEEP AGAIN: THE ELM STREET LEGACY NOW!!!

Next the new movie... .
I don't know where to start really... I just saw it let it sink in an hour to try and make it sound better... .
I watched it like i saw last house on the left and every other remake sober mind not to expect anything good, bad or whatever,
and even though i did i found myself too bored after 30 min my intrest already sunk into a new low and i couldn't focus on it all too much anymore.
My personal let downs:
1) Lets start with Freddy himself right, it always was Robert Englund playing him, and whenever you saw Robert jump into the screen you just saw his eye's lit up with passion for the role and that's what Freddy became to me, A active, funny, not to serious guy that likes to have fun on his prey, kinda like a cat plays with a mouse before eating it ;). The new guy however Jackie Earle Haley, Idk :/ He was too blend and i know other ppl keep saying it's the script he had to work with and ok that could be but to me he just kept reminding me on the new batman movies and had the same irritating stupid voice that made me fall asleep more then go like :o OMG he's evil isn't he? So yeah I'm really sorry but he is never going to be able to come even close to Robert, I'm not saying that he should have had though, He could have made it something New and fun but instead, he really didn't do it for me and the make up didn't help it either He looked more like a mummified Micheal Jackson, then a burned guy really.

2) Nancy and all the other guys, Well *sigh* I kinda was feeling like i was watching Twilight again (and I saw one off the ppl that actually IS in twilight i think O-o not sure though) anyway i'm gonna say it short, They didn't do a really great job but they didn't suck either, these days good actors arent easy to find nomore, so i can look passed it. But i didn't feel sorry for them when they would get killed, I didn't feel like i had a connection to any of them (same with every other remake of horror these days wich is really sad :/) Horror means that you make a plot wich makes you hope your Main person makes it out alive and that you cheer for them, and really i didn't care if freddy killed her or not you even don't get to spend any time WITH nancy till halfway in the movie (and it's only 90min long ppl...)And as for me it didn't seem like the parents really mind their kids being killed either, even if they where only 5 min or so in the movie they really didn't care... BUT, I do have to say one positive thing Atleast i somewhat liked the small detail of changing the use of coffee into redbull and drugpills >.< even if by the end it made them look more like junky's then teens but it was pretty much a good upgrade. (if you ask me that is)

3) Ok story and Special effects, I'm really sorry but are you even trying guys?? I know this was a remake but omg! XD I see ppl saying this alot about the new one and it's true, Changing the topic from a mystery guy who comes in your sleep and killing you into hello nancy do you remember me i used to molest you and your friends long time, Isn't really a good plan ok the original one was about it too but that one took it more subtiel, now i saw the documentary like i said above and they stated that they would have made it more of a main topic in the old movie BUT because of a big trial that was actually going on about a school doing the same they tried to cut it down abit, and i think the new one should have done the same, and all the stuff about the picture and looking up everyone who used to be in their class to see if they all died or not idk, when i saw that part i felt like they should have made it a new movie and if they did the same THEN and just named them difrent and then find out that nancy, glenn and the others where in the same kindergarden and got killed a few years back i could have accepted the story alot more,
Also the re-used scene's the wall, bathroom, bodybag scene's, ok why??? I can understand you wonna tribute them but using only HALF of it isn't doing it well >.> I DID, like the remake of the pulling something from freddy out of a dream part, It was something abit more new??? but the wall part was kinda crappy on screen and i really thought the original one was worked out better, the bedroom scene with the famous dragged around room stuff was really... :/ idk it didn't make me go oh wow this is better, I even found it less bloody and less shocking, same for the bodybag part, it felt half finished, and after seeying the documentary and seeying how they made it in the original with so few money, I had the feeling like Bay didn't even try to bring something Fresh to it, Even the puns where taken out of the old movies and used again in the LAMEST way I thought they could....

Anyway in the end, I felt sorry for Wes Craven, He made one of the BEST American horror Icons (in the end freddy Is/wasn't like any other horror slasher) and other people just screwed it up for him, And after seeying how Michael Bay ruined another Horror movie again i'm starting to get angry at him more and more, He is the same b**** Then Uwe Boll in my eyes,
Uwe Boll has the gift to mess up Videogames to players,
And Micheal bay really knows how to kill of the old horror movies (and soon prob. nostalgic kid memory's cause i see here he's also on the list for a new TMNT movie *sigh*)
Anyway I guess what we all should find sad most, is that kids these days grow up with these find them great, and all the classics will be forgotten, I just hope that parents will look around abit at what hollywood is doing atm, and atleast show their kids the old classics like Karate Kid, Nightmare on elm street, Chucky, War of the worlds, The day the earth stood still and so on, Cause if hollywood really keeps up going on and on and on, Even back to the future looks like one day it could be remade, and really O-o would you really like to see a new doc & micheal j fox???

anyway sorry for the text wall :P but i just felt like getting this all down to those brave enough to read it <3 thank you ;)