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Three great Studio Ghibli films: Spirited Away - sheer genius Princess Mononoke - Both highly entertaining and thought provoking Grave of the Fire Flies - About a guy and his little sister trying to survive in Japan near the end of WW2. A powerful, emotional, highly distressing film. Have the tissues ready.

The Magnificent Seven & The Seven Samurai! (western remake/japanese original) Both the original Samurai (the latter) and cowboy western (the former) versions are very, very good.

The general majority attitude to female gamers around here is both disturbing and depressing in equal measure. I feel ashamed of my gender. In fact, I think I'll just mosey on into a quiet corner over here and cut my balls off...

Truman Show Remember: It has Jim Carrey, but it's not a comedy, and you really need to watch it twice to fully understand it all. It's brilliant - very powerful and highly satirical. Also: Gattaca. Also brilliant. Which I think I will watch right...... now.

People usually get depressed during winter 'cause it's dark, and people don't get enough exercise because it is cold out. I would recommend you go for walk. That always makes me feel better somehow. I'm one of these types who enjoys padding the pavement at night. Nice moon out tonight actually... As for you Kurt, I would just chill man. You're still young, and it's difficult to know what to do sometimes. Are you still at school? I know I felt exactly the same when I was in school, especially towards the end. It just sucks all the life out of you. I found that I couldn't get my head together at all until I left. Now I have these weird things like "ambitions" and "ideas". Remember:School is evil

I still don't get what's so exciting about it's la-de-da new interface design. I just want the 64-bit functionality for my desktop.

The Black Stallion. Barely anyone's seen it. EVRYONE SHOULD SEE IT. It's about this kid who ends up becoming friends with this wild horse (trust me it's much better then it sounds). It's extaraordinarly well wrought. There's a single line of dialogue in the whole 2 hour film. Amazingly shot, great acting. Brilliant story. Fantastic. That, or Hercules in New York, starring Arnold "Strong" (geuss who) in his movie debut. It's hilariously funny, but for all the wrong reasons. Definitly recommended.

UFC: Throwdown anyone?

Either a Pokemon, or a brand new MMORPG would be great. What I don't like about most MMORPGs is that they're so damn complicated, constantly having to keep track of stats, items and about a billion important keyboard shortcuts. I hope Nintendo do what they do best and make a sweet, simple, immersive, fun MMORPG.

I think the software library will be key to attracting girls. All the violent, male dominated, overly complex games around aren't great for encouraging most girls, or indeed anyone who doesn't already regulary play video games into the industry. With the Revos brand controller, Nintendo can clear the way for new simplier control schemes which should go well with Nintendos own brand of fun, accessable family entertainment.

Swish! Hopefully they'll drag Alan Cumming in to the voice for Nightcrawler. He's a brilliant actor, and often seems to turn just about any role he touches into pure gold. It would be great to start seeing more of his calibre of acting talent in video games in the future.

Why is Kirstin Dunst starring in a a highly inaccurate re-telling of the life of a French pre-revolutionary aristocratic monarch?

Damn their hides!

Wow, it's really going epic on our arses. Dang, I really need to the X-men movies on DVD. I'm just hoping that we get another good dose of *BAMF* Nightcrawler *BAMF*. Although I've got a funny feeling he died at the end of X-men 2. I honestly can't remember, I havent seen it since it was in the cinema. I certainly remember some kind of tense situation involving a nuclear reactor or something. Screw Wolverine, why isn't Nightcrawler the star?

Hey don't be so hard on yourself. The Socceroos have shown some pretty decent form recently. Obviously it's gonna be a tough group, but I reckon that Australia should have a pretty decent chance of making it into round two. Besides, stranger things have happend in football.

Holy hell! And I thought I was having a bad week! I really hope the police catch the assholes responsible and you get your stuff back. Remind me to update my contents insurance!

Of course, don't forget that the Revo isn't supporting HD display, which could mean that we'll see some pretty nifty graphix out of what is a comparitively small amount of (rumoured) tech. I still want to wait and see a) some screenshots and b) some actually, real bonafied stats ideally arranged into a "broadway" and "hollywood" column, before passing judgement.

Hey does anyone know where I can get some tips on brightening up my PC case a little. I've looked around, but all I can find are some stickers saying something like "64-bits of Whooopass" or something gittish and some awful neon lighting. Is there a website that has a guide on say, painting my own design on my case. I'm sure this kinda thing is obvious to others, but I would like to have at least a small ioata of what I am doing before splashing a tub of Dulex around £700 worth of PC.

What about multi-media drivers like Direct X9?

Are you sure all your video drivers are up to date?

What sort of video files are we talking about here?

Sly Racoon 1-3. Great, great paltforming. I don't know why I like them so much. I just do.

I recently attempted to install Norton Internet Security 06 on my PC under the assumption that installing a well known and reliable Security programme would be a good thing. However, when I restarted my PC after installation (as instructed) I found that my PC was practically frozen. It took ten minutes to even load the task bar and everything was very, very slow. I was also unable to start any programmes as a result (including Norton). It just seemed to have ripped a bloody great chunk out of my OS (XP). My PC is better now - I've spent the last 2 days nursing it back to health after booting it from the disk (re-installing drivers ect.) Has this ever happend to anyone else? I hear I'm not the only one. Should I try to reinstall Norton or ask for a refund? - I'm just pissed that a programme I paid £50 caused so much stress.

You misunderstand. The plot wasn't too complicated for us. The plot was too complicated for Doom. It was also rubbish, and quite frankly just wasted everybody's time. Cut all the shit about the guys dead family and all the chromosone rubbish, and the film would be a good half-hour shorter at least. Say this out loud - "In the Doom movie, there is a subplot about someones family dying in a freak mining accident." See what I mean? EDIT - Also, I would like to add that I was very dissapointed at the amount of gore. There was a few blood spats and a few organs here and there, but not nearly enough. If I was the director, I would have fish guts on tap.

Heres what the plot should have been - Some scientists on a research facility on Mars have opened up a portal to hell. After losing contact with the facility, a group of marines are sent to investigate. They quickly decide to blow the entire installation. Que an hour and 27mins of blood, guts, gore and crazy mecha-demons. Would that have been so hard?