Advantages: Tommy Lee Jones Disadvantages: the plot, the other actors, the screenplay
Quint is a serial criminal, hired by the US government to do some of their dirty work. Fulfilling his job to steal an important audio tape from a company under investigation, but under constant surveillance from his enemies, he is forced to hide the tape in the back of a racing car called Black Moon. Planning to follow the racing car across the US, he stumbles across another crime - the theft of a fleet of cars, including the racing car, from under the owners' noses by an attractive young woman called Nina. Nina is in the employ of a master criminal, Ryland, and in order to get the car back and therefore the tape, Quint needs to access Ryland's high security lair.
Along the way, Quint, who is attracted by Nina, manages to bed her. Nina, long fed up of her boss who rescued her from the streets and gives her very little freedom, helps ...
Advantages: High-energy groove-dance-rock-funk music - fantastic band! Disadvantages: Mostly their old stuff - I'd like to hear some of their new songs live.
This DVD is of Northern funksters The Music at their 2003 tour's homecoming gig at The Blank Canvas, Leeds. Through the clouds of smoke (dry ice?), coloured lights and oceans of waving arms and flailing crowd-surfers, we see the young dance-rock crew struttin' their groovy stuff across the stage. The first thing that struck me (as I have never seen them live before... hopefully I'll get to see them one day...) was how much their songs sounded like the studio versions: I'd always thought that a lot of the sounds on their debut album "The Music" required assistance from drum machines, synths, keyboards etc., but they don't. The Music manage to get futuristic dance music out of 4 boys with guitars!
Singer Robert Harvey's voice seems to be a love-it-or-hate-it thing (like Marmite): unusual, unearthly, unique, unmistakable, and suited ...
Advantages: Nation boundaries, All ages from prehistoric to modern Disadvantages: None
Rise of Nations is a real time strategy combined with a turn based tactical game. It was released in May 2003.
--- the BASICS ---
In RoN, the player is challenged to take over the world following individual battles. In addition to the campaign, gamers can also choose to play maps against AI or online opponents.
In this game, the player have to gather resources (food, wood, coin and metal; oil later in the game) and amass knowledge in order to build / upgrade units and advance through the ages, while fighting against the enemy. There are 8 ages of the game - Ancient, Classical, Medieval, Gunpowder, Enlightenment, Industrial, Modern and Information age. With each age come better units and more powerful vehicles / ships.
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(Ancient)
This is where the standard game start. During this age the units are virtually useless ...
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