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OK, let's just settle this right now, shall we?  No single group or organization or poll has really done a good job of selecting the best movies of all time. Naturally, they all have their biases and limitations. Annual lists -- the Oscars, the major critics' groups -- are chosen on an annual basis, and although they have sometimes made choices that contemporary retrospective surveys might overlook, they offer a year-by-year perspective rather than a more comprehensive, historical one. The popular imdb top 250 movies list, as you probably noticed,is widely inaccurate ( seriously they ranked the dark knight 12th, a movie so laughably mediocre that even with the incredible performance of heath ledger, it doesn't deserve to be ranked 300, also the shawshank redemption which ranks #1 has made everybody i know sleep for the whole 2 hours preceding the final twist. Don't get me wrong, it's a good movie, but it probably deserves to be ranked #12 )

Anyway, what the hell do they know about movies right ? Yeah, right ! Now let me present you some of the best movies ever made, i won't be using any numbers or ranks as this is obviously not a top-10 article, and the order here doesn't matter, but i can assure you they are all as good as each other, so let's start shall we ?

First off, let me say right away that this is the only recent movie in the whole article ( old is gold, they say ). You probably never heard of this indie film if you're not a movievore, despite the fact that  there's been a huge hype about it. "This is a story boy meets girl, but this is not a love story" as the movie says itself in the opening, it's about a guy who's in love with a girl, and though they start off as a nice summer couple, the girl doesn't share his feelings. This movie pulls all its strentgh from the main character, it's so easy to identify with Tom you end up feeling simpathy for him as he's desperately in love with summer (played by Zooey Deschanel), who is cute as hell even when she's acting like a total b*tch. The movie makes you hate summer for what she does to Tom, yet, in the end we realize that Tom is too needy and that she ends up making the right choice.

The narration is rather original for a chick flick, with the movie jumping from day 1 of their relationship to day 450 then back to day 23 then to day 480 and so on, you never know what to expect. Joseph Gordon Levitt and Zooey Deschanel have such an alchemy on screen, some scenes will make you shiver with delight. Anyway, let me make this clear, you won't enjoy the movie and you won't even understand it if you've never been desperate in love. It's all about identifying with Tom.

Oh, the movie also has excellent soundtracks.

With that said, this is the best romantic comedy out there, so let's move on.

Next up is:

Pulp Fiction sports a cast of mischievous rascals, including Samuel L. Jackson as a hitman who acts like a sociopathic Amway salessman, Ving Rhames and Bruce Willis as Deliverance re-enactors, and Christopher Walken as. . . well, as himself. And in case you've been living in a cave since 1994, Pulp Fiction is THE BEST MOVIE made since then. It is also known for being the first piece of cinema to ever include rape, a samurai sword, Bruce Willis and a gimp together in one scene. It taught a very valuable lesson, explaining the drastic dangers of giving another man's wife a foot massage. The word "fuck" is mentioned 265 times, as demonstrated here.

         "I double dare you motherfucker" Probably everyone's favourite scene

The film's unconventional structure and rich dialogue will hook you right away.

If you haven't seen it yet i recommend you jump off a cliff go see it right away.I also recommend every other Quentin Tarantino movie out there including the 1993 cult movie  True Romance which he didn't direct himself, but did write the scenario for. Just for the record, Tarantino is the only film-maker who made it to the status of rockstar.

Pulp Fiction is my favourite movie.

With that said, next movie is:

As the title suggests, the movie has something to do with... well, a fighting club !

Edaward Norton's character met Tyler Durben (played by Brad Pitt and arguably his best performance ever ) in a bar and ended up fighting. They find the bare knuckle street fighting so enjoyable that they decided to create a basement-based fight club. More and more people joined, that's until Tyler Durden decided to make the club something else.

On the surface this is a movie about street brawls. However it is a social commentary about the raging anger most people felt inside them in living in a society that is so frustrating and chaotic. Most people are on the lookout for ways to release these anger. These fight clubs gave them a sense of community, belonging, liberation, release, rebellion and rejection of the middle class consumerism values they have to live by.

                                   Don't expect to see this guy !

The movie features (relatively) few fighting scenes and a lot of twists, so we're far away from the retarded fight movies (ong-bak, never back down etc... ). In fact, this is not a fight movie. Fight Club is a much different picture. It's about finding a meaning to our "pointless" lives. Lives which consist of routine all day and every day. Meaning to a life in which, the best thing all day is when we get home and sit our asses in front of a moniter/TV and fry our brains.

The plot is excellent, the narration is terrific and the final plot we'll leave you all speechless !

This is one of my favourite movies too !

Alright i've got to go, so next time i'll talk about more good movies. Oh, also the dentist story i promised you, i'll tell you about it next time ^^

I don't know if you guys heard of it already, but dolphin is both a gamecube and a wii emulator on pc, how fast it runs depends on the game and the pc specs, most people who possess the Wii use dolphin because it allows them to run wii games in high definition, plus it enables more eyecandy like 8x antialiasing and stuff. Anyway, i've just finished playing resident evil 1 remake on dolphin on my crappy laptop (core 2duo @2ghz, 3gb ram the gpu doesn't matter because dolphin is cpu-intensive, also it doesn't support quad core yet) and it runs rather well most of the time, i only get slowdowns in scenes when the whole background is animated like exterior scenes with trees branches and wind blowing through.

If you've never heard of it, resident evil is a game where you are trapped in a creepy mansion with plenty of zombies and plenty of bizarrre "happenings" .Everytime you kill a zombie he gets back to life and becomes faster and deadlier, bullets are scarce, and weapons are not effective enough. To keep it short, you are going to have to run for your life. You also have a lot of puzzles to solve and items to find. New players to the series may find the games difficult especially because the control scheme and disorienting static camera angles won't make it easy for them. While i think the controls are really enjoyable because i've been playing the series since i was 11, most people won't, this is an old school game with precise controls and a high difficulty level. Forget all those new games coming out nowadays with ridiculously watered down challenges and characters that automatically jump/fight back ! Also, the new resident evil 4 and 5 don't even count as resident evil games, if you've discovered the series with the new games you won't like the old ones !

The game has been out for 8 years now, but the graphics are still really really good and the ambience doesn't get old, see by yourself ( click to enlarge):

                        I remind you that it's a survival-horror game

Seeing this pic you might wonder how is a guy's glowing anus supposed to be survival-horror, well, that's one of the game's (retarded) puzzles !

Anyway, i really think the main character (jill valentine) is pretty as hell (that's why i've put her up there on the blog's theme), her eyes are simply mesmerizing ! Some people say it's because she's been modeled after a model ( :D ) but the real-life model is less pretty i think ! By the way, her name is julia voth ( note that they have the same initials ). Here's a comparative pic:

I also played zelda the windwaker on the emulator, this one runs perfectly fine ! 30fps, no bugs whatsoever and almost no slowdowns. but something caught my eye, the higher you put the resolution, the less effective the cel shading seems to be. At native resolution (640*480) everything looks really great just like the console, but when you put the resolution as high as 1600*1200 the cel shading seems less effective for some reason, things look less cute, although they still look good, it's not the way they're intended to be, they simply look less cartoonish and more 3D. Maybe it's just that the game was only designed to run at 640*480 on crappy tv sets, and maybe it's just me but either way it's not a big deal ! If you haven't played those 2 games yet, i suggest you go ahead and play them now, these are 2 unforgettable experiences !

I once had a girlfriend who was fond of zelda games while still not looking like a big fat nerd, and if you're like me, you know it's worth mentioning as those specimens are really really one of the rarest ! Speaking of girlfriends, looks like i'm not going to have any for some time, i'm going to get braces very soon. it's not that braces look that bad, but girls always have something against them especially when you don't look like brad pitt. Why get braces when i'm this old you might ask ? Well, it's seems i still have milk canines ! While everything else is pefect, it seems my milk canines didn't fall off and the new canines have grown somewhere you can't see'em ( and no one noticed it for 7 years now). I went for that radio scan after a dentist noticed something was wrong with my canines :D i'll post my radio next time, it really looks like it's from a horror movie or something ^^

You can find the newest dolphin builds here ( though the newest aren't always the best) http://forums.dolphin-emu.com/forum-6.html .You can ask me for help if you don't know how to configure the emulator !