I would prefer Army 2 with Raimi and Campbell, even though I didn't see the new Evil Dead, have no intentions on seeing the new Evil Dead, and always thought the original trilogy was overrated anyways, with Evil Dead II being the only real standout for me, even if it was basically a remake of the original five years later.

I just thought Campbell had something original with the character of Ash, no different than Kurt Russell as Snake Pliskken in the Escape films. To me that IS that franchise, no different than Escape being the Carpenter/Russell duo. That's their thing. Recasts, and reboots are un-necessary and unwanted. The fact in today's film world that they didn't just proceed with Army 2/Evil IV rather than rebooting it was kinda dumb.

I mean I don't know precisely was went on in the film, whether it's a reboot or sequel. I was shocked when I saw Friday The 13th 2009 in theaters, and discovered it was basically Friday The 13th Part XII, disguised as a reboot, rather than an actual reboot.

Unless it's a Christopher Nolan situation, or an irrepairably damaged franchise like Halloween or Hellraiser, I almost always prefer sequels to reboots.

I'm still waiting for New Line to completely forget about Nightmare 2010, and just do a straight-sequel with Robert Englund back as Freddy. The dude was a fucking icon as that character. That'd be like recasting Larry Hagman with Clint Eastwood as J.R. on Dallas. No man, no way.

I've been listening to the trainwreck that is Queensryche out of curiosity. I always thought Rage For Order was overrated and stand by that, but it's got a couple singles on it. But flat out Operation: Mindcrime and Empire was their moment in the sun. To a lesser extent Promised Land, but you could already hear the decline, and that was really it. They just flat lined. I did hear signs of life in their American Soldier album, which might've been their best work since their heyday, but it was just a fleeting head-scratcher of "why can't they always do this?"

Everybody is raving about the new Todd LaTorre-fronted Queensryche being "the old 'Ryche", and LaTorre being Tate in his prime, but honestly? I just don't hear it. For the most part, even a weakened Tate still sings HIS songs better than LaTorre, and even with Tate's older, fatter, diva-er mistakes live, LaTorre has utterly no stage prescence, almost akin to a grunge singer, just standing on stage with no charisma, doing the best job he can. LaTorre is no slouch, and although Queensryche 2013 is probably their best work since American Soldier, this whole thing with this band is really odd. Tate is no better without the band, and the band is no better without Tate, and neither of them is anything together.

I think in hind-sight had they just stopped chasing the dollar, took a break like alot of the Seattle rock bands, and culled their material to 2-3 albums of material basically since Empire... their reputation would still be in tact.

Sometimes less is more.

...and for old times sake

Complete bad assery -- still.

Yeah but "Chester" and "DuVall" are two different things. 'With Chester Bennington' is done both out of respect for Weiland, but also the fact that Bennington had/has massive success with another band. Kind of like Queen + Paul Rodgers.

William DuVall is/was a nobody. Nothing more than one of Jerry's touring musicians, and frankly he still kinda is. Alice in Chains even in it's present version is basically just Jerry, Sean & Mike Inez. DuVall is the Pat Smear of AIC.

Interesting. Good to see the site back...

I've never enjoyed the Gotham-backdrop to the GTA games. There's not enough to do with the maps. It's all metro-city. An urban jungle. Unless you use cheats that allows you to jump cars off the tops of skyscapers (gotta admit that was pretty bad ass in GTA IV), there's just not enough to do. So what do you do with that? You expand your weapons arsenal... which was insanely BOR-ING in GTA IV. Not until The Ballad of Gay Tony expansion, did the game expand the weapons to something cooler, especially the RoboCop/anti-tank gun, as well as that badass devestating shot gun that could total entire cars.

Maybe had GTA IV reflected more of a Seattle/Vancouver-vibe like GTA III, rather than just straight up NYC, you could've had a Gotham-map surrounded by like mountains or something more interesting. I always thought it would've been cool to go back to Vice City and do modern day Miami, but expand it out to the Indian Reservation in the Glades, as well as the islands in the Keys. That would've been an interesting thing to do.

But after the map for San Andreas came out, I feel in love with the multi-appeal aspect of it. It as it all. Desert, beach, city, mountains, water, all of the above.

Now to have basically that, but WAY BIGGER and in full HD? Plus I think the storyline and playability is gonna crush GTA IV, personally.

Where do I sign?