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Angie's List, unsolicited emails are not nice

2014-12-03T19:09:00.002-05:00

The other day I was searching online for local businesses that provide certain home services and I came across Angie's List. I clicked the "Join" button and came to an online form, as I thought it was free to join at this moment. I filled in the zip code, email address and password fields, unchecked the checkbox to receive email offers and then I clicked the continue button.

I was then sent to a page with prices to use the site. As I didn't want to pay to join the site, I closed the browser tab and continued my search on Google. Today I check my email and I see an email from Angie's List, that was sent to me yesterday. Strange, right? I didn't sign up yesterday, so why am I getting this email from them? I open the email and in the email it says:

Hi Neighbor,

We noticed you recently stopped by Angie's List. Thank you for visiting!

We hope you found the information you were looking for. If not, please reply to this email and let us know.

You're also invited to come back and use promo code REVIEWS30 and receive 30% off your membership.

Please click here to join.

So now I may be on their email list but I never signed up or wanted any emails from them. I never gave permission for this to happen. This is not cool and something that shouldn't happen. Not cool Angie's List, not cool at all.

Anyways, it looks like Angie's List isn't the most trustworthy site out there, read the Time.com article: Why Angie’s List Keeps Getting Mixed Reviews.

New 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles trailer

2014-03-27T23:25:00.001-04:00

Today the trailer for the upcoming new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie was released and you can watch it below. I was a big fan of the old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies, cartoon and toys way back when I was a kid so I want to see this movie. Although the turtles do look a little weird in the trailer, not sure what exactly makes them look weird but they seem to be really tall and big and it looks like Shredder will be a skinny guy. What do you think of the trailer? I also included a review done by some movie guys below the trailer who make some good points.

Screencap of the part with Leonardo looking really tall and big

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Official Trailer #1 (2014)

Instant Trailer Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)

New Godzilla official trailer video

2013-12-11T13:22:00.001-05:00

A new Godzilla movie is coming in May 2014 and an official trailer video was released this week. Check it out below as it looks good and I want to see this movie at a theater. What do you think? And yes that is Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston in the movie.

Godzilla - Official Teaser Trailer

New movie trailer: 2 Guns

2013-03-31T02:14:00.003-04:00

Here's a trailer of a new movie coming out on August 2, 2013 that looks good, with Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg and lots of action. Check out the trailer below.

Academy Award(R) winner Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg lead an all-star cast in 2 Guns, an explosive action film that tracks two operatives from competing bureaus who are forced on the run together. But there is a big problem with their unique alliance: Neither knows that the other is an undercover federal agent.

Cast: Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Paula Patton, Bill Paxton, Fred Ward, James Marsden, Edward James Olmos

Battlefield 4 official 17 minute gameplay video

2013-03-29T23:47:00.002-04:00

EA has put out a 17-minute video of Battlefield 4 gameplay and it looks amazing and suspenseful at the same time with lots of action. Check it out below.

Battlefield 4: Official 17 Minutes "Fishing in Baku" Gameplay Reveal

Battlefield 4 will release Fall 2013. The "Fishing in Baku" video is shot entirely in-game and is the first glimpse of the human, dramatic, and believable single player campaign in Battlefield 4.

The Wolverine movie trailers

2013-03-29T23:43:00.000-04:00

Two trailers were released this week of the new The Wolverine movie coming out in July. The movie looks good and will have a lot of action, at least that's what the trailers make me think. Someone made a point on a site saying that it looks to be another superhero movie where the hero doesn't want his powers as they want to be more "human", so he/she loses them and then wants them back again, and watching the trailer it seems that this movie may go that route. Anyways, the movie looks good and I hope to see it in theatres.

The Wolverine Official Trailer #1

The Wolverine: International Trailer

New movie After Earth trailer

2013-01-11T01:41:00.002-05:00

Will Smith has a new movie named After Earth, coming out in June this year and his son will be in the movie as well. The trailer looks good, what do you think?

Movie trailer description: After a crash landing, a father and son explore a planet that was evacuated by humans 1,000 years earlier.

Movie 43 trailer

2013-01-11T01:38:00.001-05:00

The movie "Movie 43" has 43 actors/actresses in it and will have 12 different storylines. It was started back in 2010 and will be coming out in 2013. This can either turn out to be funny or just too much and bad.

A Good Day To Die Hard trailer

2012-10-25T19:06:00.002-04:00

One of my favorite movie series is having another one coming out next year. Bruce Willis will be making a 5th movie in the Die Hard series with A Good Day To Die Hard, coming out on February 14, 2013. I didn't really like the last one all too much, it was ok but it didn't match the previous ones. Watch the trailer below for the upcoming new one.

Iron Man 3 trailer video

2012-10-23T20:05:00.001-04:00

Here's the trailer for the new Iron Man 3 movie coming out in April 2013.

SimCity Trailer shows basics of building your city

2012-10-05T02:13:00.000-04:00

Wow the new SimCity game looks so cool and interesting. In the video below they walk you through starting a city and building roads and other things to start your city. I would be buying this game but since you have to be online to play it (there's no offline option), I won't be buying it.

Arnold's new movie: The Last Stand

2012-08-19T03:27:00.000-04:00

Oh no don't look now but Arnold Schwarzenegger is making a new movie due to come out in 2013, named The Last Stand.

Action icon Arnold Schwarzenegger makes his much-anticipated return to the big screen in Korean director Kim Jee-woon's hard-hitting US directorial debut, THE LAST STAND. After leaving his LAPD narcotics post following a bungled operation that left him wracked with remorse and regret, Sheriff Ray Owens (Schwarzenegger) moved out of Los Angeles and settled into a life fighting what little crime takes place in sleepy border town Sommerton Junction. But that peaceful existence is shattered when Gabriel Cortez (Eduardo Noriega), the most notorious, wanted drug kingpin in the western hemisphere, makes a deadly yet spectacular escape from an FBI prisoner convoy. With the help of a fierce band of lawless mercenaries led by the icy Burrell (Peter Stormare), Cortez begins racing towards the US-Mexico border at 250 mph in a specially-outfitted Corvette ZR1 with a hostage in tow.

Resident Evil 6 Comic-Con 2012 trailer

2012-07-18T21:33:00.000-04:00

A new trailer was released at Comic-Con 2012 for the upcoming Resident Evil 6 game. Check it out below.

Resident Evil 6 Comic-Con 2012 Trailer

The Walking Dead season 3 4-minute trailer

2012-07-14T03:48:00.001-04:00

Season 3 of The Walking Dead will start on Sunday, October 14th, and the season will have 16 episodes. Season 3 will also be split up with the first 8 episodes starting in October and the second half starting in February. Watch the awesome 4-minute trailer for season 3 below.

Season 3 Comic-Con Trailer: The Walking Dead

Some things I noticed in the trailer were: there doesn't appear to be any survivors in the prison, at least from what I watched in the trailer. The comic has the group find a few survivors in the prison. Merle is back and looks like he has a knife attached to his missing hand. It will be interesting what role Merle has in the season. Is he with the Governor? Or is he on his own? I'm not a fan of his character, but he'll most likely cause some commotion in a few episodes. The Governor and/or his men capture Andrea and Michonne and are brought back to Woodbury. It looks like the Governor wants to take the prison after Rick and his group have made it relatively safe.

I'm really excited about season 3 and I can't wait for October. Anyone see anything interesting that I didn't mention above?

New game Watch Dogs demo video

2012-07-12T23:27:00.002-04:00

Wow look at the amazing detail and graphics this new upcoming game named Watch Dogs has in the below video. This looks almost like a movie.

New Primal Carnage dinosaurs vs humans game

2012-07-12T03:16:00.003-04:00

A new dinosaurs vs humans online-multiplayer game named Primal Carnage is being worked on and from the videos already out, the game looks like it'll be fun to play. Read more about the game on the official site. Watch the alpha gameplay videos below. I think I'll definitely give this game a try when it's released.

Players can play as either dinosaurs or humans and both have different classes. The dinosaur classes are: T-Rex, Raptor, Dilophosaurus, Pteranodon, and Compsognathus. The human classes are: scientist, commando, pathfinder, trapper, and pyro.

Primal Carnage is an asymmetrical online-multiplayer class-based game of humans versus dinosaurs. Choose to play as either side and prepare to engage in a heart-pounding, fun, and visceral experience of combat, stealth, strategy, and survival. Hunt and be hunted!

The human Mercenaries play from a standard first-person perspective, relying on their weapons and teammates to survive the hostile environment. They move together from objective to objective, eliminating anything that threatens them and their mission.

The Dinosaurs play from a third-person perspective, employing an awareness of their surroundings and their own natural abilities to hunt their prey. Each predator hunts differently, and feels at home as it stalks through the jungles, fields, or skies.

The Mercenary team has been dispatched to reclaim the island by getting to and holding the abandoned facilities which are spread throughout the maps. However, the humans must pass through the primal wilderness to reach these locations, and it’s in the jungles and tall grasses where the Dinosaurs intend to stop them.
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Primal Carnage - Character Showcase 1

Primal Carnage - Alpha Gameplay Video 3

New FPS The Walking Dead game coming

2012-07-06T23:31:00.002-04:00

Activision is working on making a new The Walking Dead video game, which will be a first-person shooter. It is not related to Telltale's The Walking Dead episode games. According to IGN, this new game will have a story around Daryl and Merle Dixon before they meet up in Atlanta with survivors from season 1 of the TV series. The game will be released in 2013 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.

Players will control Daryl as they attempt to avoid detection from zombies that hunt using sight, sound and smell and will choose between fighting them or using stealth to avoid detection. According to Activision, "No place is truly safe for Daryl as he makes his way through the Georgia countryside in this new, post-apocalyptic world."

Supplies will be scarce and players will need to carefully manage food, ammunition and supplies as they make their way through the game. Daryl will encounter "a slew of other characters” along the way that can help or hurt him. Whether or not these characters accompany Daryl is completely up to the player and “represents just some of the major decisions that will constantly be made while fighting to survive."
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The Walking Dead first look at prison

2012-07-03T01:03:00.000-04:00

Two first-look pictures of The Walking Dead season 3 and the prison are out and I can't wait for it to be October already to see the new episodes. Check out the one picture below as it looks like some of the group is surrounded by walkers. In the picture we see: Rick, T-Dog, Daryl, Maggie and Glenn. So maybe the others stayed somewhere else while this group went to clear out a part of the prison? You can see the second picture released via the link below.

Seen briefly in the distance in the final shot of season 2, the prison will become the new fortress/home for Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and company when the AMC drama returns in October... if they can clear it out the undead walkers, that is. And now we have our exclusive first sneak peek of the jail, as well as the current zombie inhabitants that call it home.
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Image Credit: Gene Page/AMC

If you can't wait until October like me for The Walking Dead, well this weekend AMC will be showing all 19 episodes from the first two seasons. A special live Talking Dead show on Sunday will show a scene from season 3! Check out the AMC schedule here for this weekend.

Latest The Dark Knight Rises trailer

2012-07-01T04:28:00.000-04:00

I meant to post this sooner, but here's the latest trailer for the new Batman movie coming out in July, The Dark Knight Rises. I definitely want to see this movie when it comes out.

Resident Evil 6 Leon gameplay video

2012-06-22T19:15:00.001-04:00

Here's an 18-minute video of Resident Evil 6 gameplay with Leon Kennedy and a new character named Helena Harper alongside, as it feels like old times with a city filled with zombies. Check it out below but if you don't like spoilers then don't watch it. The gameplay looks good and the feel with the music and player movements almost brings it back to Resident Evil 2 and 3.

The Walking Dead season 3 first look video

2012-05-22T00:51:00.000-04:00

The Walking Dead doesn't come back on television until October, but there was a new video posted by AMC with characters and the show's crew talking about the upcoming season. Check out the below video.

Aside from out-of-character bits from cast regulars like Lincoln, Laurie Holden, Norman Reedus, Lauren Cohan (with some slight British accentry of her own!), and more, the clip confirms that veteran director Ernest Dickerson, who helmed the season 2 finale, will do the same for season 3's premiere. Check out the video below!
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New The Expendables 2 trailer video

2012-05-04T00:22:00.000-04:00

Here's a new trailer for the new upcoming movie, The Expendables 2. The trailer makes it look good but who knows. I'm hoping it's good.

The Dark Knight Rises trailer 3

2012-05-01T21:37:00.001-04:00

Here's the 3rd trailer video for the new upcoming movie The Dark Knight Rises.

NHL playoffs round 2 predictions

2012-04-29T15:49:00.001-04:00

I was going to post my first round predictions but I forgot about posting and remembered half-way through so I thought I would skip round 1 and post my predictions for round 2. And here we are as now the round 2 match-ups are decided.

Eastern Conference
New York Rangers (1) vs Washington Capitals (7)
Seeing how the Rangers went to 7 games with the Senators this won't be a "cake walk" for the Rangers. The Capitals should play a tough grinding series like they did vs Boston so it should be a close series. I'm going to pick the Rangers in 6 games.

Philadelphia Flyers (5) vs New Jersey Devils (6)
Flyers have had a long wait compared to the Devils so the Devils may come out stronger in the first 1 or 2 games, but I think the Flyers will win this series in 7 games.

Western Conference
St. Louis Blues (2) vs Los Angeles Kings (8)
Seeing what the Kings did to the Canucks I'm expecting this to possibly be the best series in the playoffs. This is a real tough prediction because both teams are playing well, have hot goalies and play that gritty hard grinding games that the playoffs are made of. My prediction will be the Kings in 7 games. I think goalie Jonathan Quick will be the key to the Kings success in this series.

Phoenix Coyotes (3) vs Nashville Predators (4)
This series will be a goalie battle, Mike Smith vs Pekka Rinne, and whoever plays better and their team's defense plays well that team will win. My prediction will be the Predators in 7 games.

What are your predictions?

Crysis 3 gameplay trailer video

2012-04-29T15:10:00.000-04:00

New York City is now a jungle in the new upcoming Crysis 3 video game and the action looks good. Check out the trailer below.