This is the final Friday in August. The final Friday of the summer.
Summer blockbusters are officially OVER!
September and October are usually mediocre months in preparation for all the Oscar buzzworthy movies that come out in November and December. So without further jibber jabber, I bring you today’s movies.

Sabretooth Myers against Fake Jamie Lee Curtis

Halloween – this is a remake/prequel of 1978’s classic horror film by John Carpenter. This time the writing and directing was taken over by Rob Zombie. We get backstory on Michael Myers’ younger years and insane asylum years before that fateful night where he came back to kill his sister…. and a shitload of other people.

Who the hell is this guy?

Apparently the hamster that powers our database server had a massive coronary. Ganklin is currently on the phone with our host trying to get them to resuscitate the little bastard. Hopefully everything will be running smoothly again soon.

Seriously. No one can say anything on this amazing system of tubes we call the internet without some other loud mouth yelling “you’re a –fill in the blank– fanboy!” What’s the deal with that? In particular I’m pointing my finger over at most of those jackoffs over at Digg.com who instantly claimed we’re fanboys because of Phil’s Metroid Prime 3 post yesterday. Phil was attacking Gameslop, and instantly every Xbox/PS3 moron comes out of the woodwork and calls us fanboys because they clearly don’t have a brain cell in their head. People were not much smarter with Steve’s comments on the Xbox360’s birth into our world either.

Well, to them I say: screw you! Maybe try reading the article instead of instantly jumping on any one of the band wagons out there…considering that between all of us here on the Shamoozal staff we probably own every single gaming console that ever existed in the universe known to mankind. You certainly can not call us fanboys.

I am not ashamed to admit that I enjoy World of Warcraft, or the Warcraft Universe in general. Though some of my fellow Shamoozal staffers may mock me and act as though they are somehow above a game like WoW, I’ve decided to start writing about aspects of the game for this site. With my Blood Elf Priest on track to hit level 35 tonight, I think it’s safe to say I’m back in the game for the long haul.

Anyone who has spent any length of time in a zone doing quests, grinding mobs, or gathering mats for their profession knows that even though Blizzard’s music initially sets a lush aural landscape… three hours of the same 5 minutes of music looping can drive you bat-shit insane. Plus, listening to an album or playlist really helps you break up your time into smaller chunks. So, without further ado… I present some of my favorite music to play World of Warcraft to. So go to your in-game Sound Settings, un-check ‘Enable Music’ and start swinging that battlehammer or summon up an imp! After the Jump…

Demons and Wizards – Touched by the Crimson King
This band is a side-project of the vocalist for Blind Guardian, Hansi Kürsch, and the guitarist of Iced Earth, Jon Schaffer. Stern fans will recognize Iced Earth as the band that Richard Christy used to play drums for prior to becoming a regular on the radio show. This album is full of powerful anthems like Beneath these Waves and Terror Train. It also features an amazing cover of The Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin.

Blades of Glory – Will Ferrell and Jon Heder are rival figure skaters who get banned from singles skating after a huge fight on national television. They must join forces along with their new coach Craig T. Nelson (aka Hayden Fox) in doubles skating to still take part in the sport they love.
Kickin’ it Old Skool – Jamie Kennedy awakens from a coma after 20 years and tries to reunite his old break dancing crew who have been out of the game as long as Jamie has been gone. He’s gotta get with the times and talk his boys into dancing again so they can win a competition.
A Night at the Roxbury – this is one of Will Ferrell’s first movies straight from SNL getting the special edition treatment. The famous SNL skit of the club goers who have no luck with the ladies was turned into a movie about their life of doing nothing but hitting clubs all night and disappointing their dad all day.
Dane Cook: The Lost Pilots – supposedly before Dane Cook became super popular he tried his hand at a couple of sitcoms. One is about him being a comedian and the other is about him being a slacker who drags his buddies through crazy adventures. Both were never picked up by any TV stations but are getting the DVD treatment because Dane Cook is the biggest stand-up comic around these days.

Meet The Parents/Fockers is getting a double set edition along with Carlito’s Way/Rise to Power. And at long last we get what everyone was waiting for, the Crocodile Dundee Trilogy.
For television series we get the very cool Heroes Season 1, Samurai Jack Season 4, Friday Night Lights Season 1, The Odd Couple Season 2, Dragon Ball Z Season 3, Legion of Superheroes Volume 1, and Showtime’s Masters of Horror Season 1.

Blades of Glory is a really funny movie. Funnier that I thought it was going to be.
A Night at the Roxbury really makes me laugh too. Its one of those movies I would have never seen in theaters but then saw it on TV years later and cracked up.
But if I was going to buy something it would be Heroes Season 1. I would definitely want to rewatch that show before the new season started. Its one of the best shows on TV right now.

The older I get, the less I value the opinions of game journalists. Chances are it has gotten to the point where I’m older than most of these people, and I have probably been playing games longer than most of them. If there is one site that I find myself valuing less and less as time goes on, it would be Gamespot. If Gamespot’s Twilight Princess review caused controversy on the internets, than their review of Metroid Prime 3 will probably cause the world to explode by tomorrow morning.

Personally, I could care less what these people score the game, but the part that absolutely killed me was one of the “cons” that they had listed.

“Steamlined controls make things a little too easy and a little less adventurous.”

So you mean to tell me that there is a finally a FPS on the Wii that controls well, and this is a negative thing? My respect for Gamespot has severely waned over the years, but this line alone is enough to make me never want to read their rubbish again. Clearly, I have yet to play Metroid Prime 3, but to list a positive as a negative is probably one of the stupidest things I have ever read in my life.

I was following this thread over at AnimationNation.com from Michel Gagne’s upcoming game, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet. I’ve written about Gagne before, and it seems the man is up to his old tricks by now working on what looks like a really fun shooter that is remeniscent of the interstitials he did for Nickelodeon last Holloween.

All the artowk is flat and in silhouette but moves with extremely smooth and fluid animation. An earlier version of the teaser he posted said that ITSP was going to be hitting the Xbox360 in 2008, however a new version of the teaser has been posted with that line removed. More info and a link to the trailer after the jump…

He is still looking for a publisher, so its possible he’s just keeping all doors open to him at this point. I think that he is gearing the game as a downloadable on one of the three major consoles. I could totally see this working very well on either the 360 or PS3’s marketplace if priced at say ten or fifteen dollars. I’m assuming that this simply wouldn’t fly on the Wii’s Shop Channel as everything on there has already been published at some point by a larger company like Konami or Nintendo itself. Xbox Live Arcade is obviously far ahead of the curve here, and even Sony’s store offers more diverse titles than the Wii. However, its been long rumored that the WiiWare section would be a home to smaller niche games made by publishers to experiment and take advantage of the Wii’s unique controller.

This has been a common complaint since the Xbox 360 launched and I’m sure there will be many Xbox apologists who will dismiss this article with now-standard “QQ” argument. However, I’m going to take the hits and write this post anyway. Microsoft has set so many bad precedents with the Xbox 360 that I shudder to think what repercussions will occur for console generations to come. So without further ado:

Article starts after the jump…

1. Multiple SKUs

The summer is really closing out now.
There’s not too much buzz for the movies of this week. In fact, many of you might not have heard about anything coming out this week. That’s why I’m here. Whether you like it or not (probably more NOT), I’m telling you about movies for this Friday.

WAR!!!!!!!!!!!

War – Jason Statham’s FBI partner is killed by an assassin played by Jet Li. So now Statham is set on REVENGE! The “War” is on. Get it? That’s the title of the movie.

The face only the British can love.

Every 100 years, a group of the worlds bravest warriors gather together and take part in a game of strength, skill, agility, wisdom, and chance. Five brave warriors accept the nerdiest challenge of all time. Find out who can turn on an old NES the quickest, can enter the Konami code with lightening speed, has the best luck with a 20 sided die against Dragon breath, and down a can of Red Bull with the greatest of ease. Who will be the next Shamoozal Warrior? You can only find out by listening to the latest and greatest Shamoozal Radio Podcast #09.

Aside from our hot new game, this is also the first show we recorded live, though you’re getting the edited version. The gang talks about the latest Shamoozal news; Frank rips into his “Word with a total turd” post; we talk upcoming games like Metroid Prime 3 and Bioshock (it was upcoming when we recorded this); and we finish the summer movie season with thoughts on Superbad, Hot Rod, and Harry Potter. Overall we had a great time and would love to have everyone back and then some.
Links and stuff after the jump…