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What movies, games, books, inventions, events, etc. are you looking forward to in 2010 and beyond?

Movies: Prince of Persia Sands of Time

Games: Don't really have one

Books: Not much of a book person

Inventions: Who knows? I'd like to see someone make fusion power of a space station using electricity to generate huge electromagnetic fields to protect the station of destruction or something like that

Events: Anything positive on the Iraq and Afghanistan war, or getting out of the Second Depression would be excellent

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Oh boy...

Movies:
* James Cameron's "Battle Angel"

Music:
* Aphex Twin's next album, if it ever gets released...
* Autechre's next album

Books:
* Hellsing 10 and it's ending
* Battle Angel Alita: Last Order's next volumes

Games:
* Sam & Max, Season Three
* and MAYBE Diablo III

np: Redcell - Active E Motion (B12 - B12 Records Archive Vol. 3 (Disc 1))

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Briareos wrote:
Movies:
* James Cameron's "Battle Angel"

Wait, are they making Battle Angel Alita movie? Brr, I hope it won't be as *adjective* as the Dragon Ball Evolution.

As for my expectations:

Movies:
*Toy Story 3 and all future Pixar productions
*Next two movies from the new Neon Genesis Evangelion
*New Ghibli productions I guess

Music:
*Hm, Freedom Call's new album perhaps
*And maybe Machinae Supremacy if they get around making one
*And of course Martin Leung's playing in Europe (I sincerely hope that someday he will and I will grab two tickets)

Books:
*Not book per se, but last volume of NGE manga

Games:
*My new productions of course
*And probably my first go on shareware if I get around making something worthwhile

Events:
*Passing my first year on Gdansk's Polytechnic! And passing all the next years too actually
*Moving from parents' house, meh

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skell wrote:
Wait, are they making Battle Angel Alita movie? Brr, I hope it won't be as *adjective* as the Dragon Ball Evolution.

Yes, they are: it's slated for 2011.

James Cameron's Avatar that's coming out at the end of this year might be a good indicator if he's still got it - he did make Terminator 1 & 2, Aliens and True Lies, after all, which are some of my favourite movies...

np: Redcell - Why The Reason (B12 - B12 Records Archive Vol. 4 (Disc 1))

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That's a relief, I guess it has quite a big chance to be a good movie. I watched the anime OAV and liked it, and then on a convention I won Manga's first volume and liked it even better (will have to get around getting the whole thing sooner or later).

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He discusses Avatar Here and Here (It's 2 part).

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Movies:
The Simpsons Movie 2
Some good anime movies

Games :
New Kirby game for DS
New Pokemon games
Hopefully this year,DROD :The Second Sky
Dr.Lunatic 3

Inventions:
Jetpack that works well!

Events:
Finnish Pokémon Events

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Toy Story 3 and college life.

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I'm looking forward to Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon. In the 60s Pynchon wrote Gravity's Rainbow, which is routinely considered the absolute best American postmodern work, and often the best American novel of the 20th century. Some also believe it is better than Ulysses. I believe this can be proven as a matter of principle: a book should be written with the reader in mind, no matter how much it confuses the reader. James Joyce stated sometime before his trial that the book was written with the purpose of giving himself a sort of popular immortality (which he succeeded in). Rainbow, though profoundly confusing at points, was clearly written to be read, and for all his complex literary puzzles and rich prose, Pynchon never forgot his goal: to create a book that was at once powerful, profound, hilarious and entirely unique, and no one can deny that he did just that.

After Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon dropped off the face of the earth for 30 years, only occasionally submitting articles and reviews to the New York Times, appearing on The Simpsons twice and publishing a collection of previously released short stories (which I absolutely recommend to anyone who wants to see postmodernism at its finest, along with his first three novels). Throughout the 90s and in 2006, Pynchon wrote three more novels, to polarized reviews, which is probably just what Pynchon expected.

Inherent Vice is reportedly just over 400 pages, which is his shortest book since Vineland, and third shortest novel overall (the shortest is The Crying of Lot 49, which is under 200 pages). Pynchon routinely over-writes his novels, which is fine when it is either given a structure as rigid as in Lot 49 or is given no structure at all, as in Rainbow, but it occasionally makes his novels seem unfocused.

It's also apparently a parody of film noir, which is my favorite genre.

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