Look out, here comes the Spiderman!

Caught Spiderman 1 (TV) and 2 (DVD) this past week and i never realised how much Tobey Maguire has gone up the fat road of fame. With every sequel he has put on a few pounds and then some. Anyway i put my 1 day off to 'good' use as I've more or less beaten Spiderman 3 this morning on my Xbox 360. I'm probably gonna chase after another last 60 AP (to make it 850) before i call time on this game.

Played Test Drive: Unlimited in the afternoon and i have to say this is one of the more immersive car games i've ever played. It's like GTA (you can houses, clothes, cars, bikes etc) without the violence and swearing and with online support. And i thought it was pretty cool today when i put a car up for sale online and someone bought it. I'm definitely going to spend alot more time on this game (AP for driving 5000 miles..)
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Was thinking of ordering Little Britain season 2 and 3 online but i read on wiki that my favourite idiot of a character Ray McCooney doesn't appear in the next 2 seasons. Reason cited was because the set of Ye Olde Hotele was too expensive. It's hard to describe what exactly i find so hilarious about him but i really like this description on Wiki: "It appears he wants to be seen as an eccentric, mysterious, even sinister figure, but only causes annoyance."

I didn't find Little Britain too funny at first (typical witless British humour) but some of the characters really grow on you after awhile. Some are still rubbishly unfunny and irritating though. Anyway there are quite a few new sketches on the later season. Maybe i'll look around a while for a local release of the DVDs before thinking of ordering.
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Drama: Nodame Cantabile (1-11 END)



2 things made this drama drop out of my 'good' drama books, 1) Besides the 2 main characters, everyone else is so damn uninteresting or irritating and 2) i can't appreciate classical music for nuts. The whole show trys too hard to feel like an anime, so you get all these weird effects that have no place being in a live drama. If you are a classical music fan or you just like querky actions/characters this might be the show for you. I preferred the anime version of this title (incidentally it's nearly entirely similar in content). The best part of the series is watching Chiaki (Tamaki Hiroshii) knock Nodame (Juri Ueno) senseless everytime she does or say something stupid, which happens alot.
Perhaps this would have been better if they had reunited Tamaki and Miyazaki Aoi (Heavenly Forest castings) but then again, Aoi doesn't do low-grade shows.