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Author: Gary Smith

Gary is Owner and Editor-in-Chief of Titanquisitor.com. He's usually posting articles and reviews and doing all the back-end stuff. He likes to play video games, gardening, woodworking, reading, walking and watching college sports (Roll Tide Roll).
Wedding Crashers
Entertainment

Wedding Crashers Review

Gary Smith1 Comment

Wedding Crashers is the story of John (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy (Vince Vaughn), who are two divorce mediators who go to weddings during wedding season (Spring) to pick up chicks and get some free food/alcoholic beverages. The film starts with the duo being shown in action at various weddings, weaving all sorts of lies to fit whatever persona's they use at each individual wedding. As the wedding season comes to a close, Jeremy talks John into crashing one last wedding, a wedding that Jeremy refers…

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Saving Private Ryan Review
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Saving Private Ryan Review

Gary Smith2 Comments

Saving Private Ryan is the kind of film you can watch dozens of times and still find something new. Here is a full review of Spielberg's masterpiece ahead of Memorial Day.

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Inversion
Game Reviews

Inversion Review

Gary Smith5 Comments

Greetings everyone and welcome one more time to The Backlog. I'm a little passed my goal of getting this posted a week after the release, but it's been a busy week. On top of that, I'm not exactly overcome with excitement to talk about Inversion, which, as you probably already noticed from the title, is the game we'll be reviewing today. So, without further adieu, let's get this thing over with. The game starts with a cut scene, as Davis (you) tied up and weary from what was probably a severe…

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Future Soldier
Game Reviews

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Review

Gary Smith2 Comments

Hello all and welcome once again to The Backlog. Today we'll be taking a look at the latest Tom Clancy offering from Ubisoft, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. I have not played a Tom Clancy game for several years. The last one I played was HAWX, and Advanced Warfighter before that. Both of those games were fun to play and fairly easy to pick up, and Future Soldier is no different. The fifth installment of the Ghost Recon series picks up in the middle of a Central American country riding…

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Atelier Meruru
Game Reviews

Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland Review

Gary Smith1 Comment

I suspect there are many male (and female) gamers in America, a majority even, who are completely like I was prior to receiving Atelier Meruru; totally oblivious to the Atelier franchise of JRPG alchemy games. And I suspect many would see the cute characters and the animation, and the fact that you play as a girl and immediately write the franchise off. Personally, that's how I was. I've never been big into Japanese games, particularly because I don't like turn-based games all that much. My only…

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Game of Thrones
Game Reviews

Game of Thrones Review

Gary Smith3 Comments

Hello all and welcome to another edition of The Backlog. For the first time since we talked about Mass Effect what feels like ages ago, we will be venturing into the RPG world and discussing Game of Thrones. For those unfamiliar with Game of Thrones, here is a quick summary: A Game of Thrones is the first book in George R. R. Martin's successful series of fantasy books, A Song of Ice and Fire. The made for television adaptation, Game of Thrones premiered on HBO on April 17, 2011 and has been…

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Max Payne 3
Game Reviews

Max Payne 3 Review

Gary Smith8 Comments

It's been over a decade since the first Max Payne game hit the market, and if you played it way back then odds are you still remember it. Not because it was some utterly amazing game, although it was great, but rather because Max Payne was rather unique and memorable with its dark story, noir narrative, comic cut-scenes, and of course the ability to enter bullet time. The game received a sequel about two years later in 2003, but Max Payne fans have been left waiting for more Max ever since. Six…

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Predator Nation
Book Reviews

Predator Nation Review

Gary Smith2 Comments

You may know Charles Ferguson as the director and writer of the 2010 Academy Award winning documentary Inside Job, which examined the financial crisis from 2007-2010.  If you watched that documentary and liked it and agreed with it, then this book is for you. Predator Nation is essentially a book follow-up/extension to Inside Job. It's also a book the left will love and eat up as gospel, so if you're a liberal then you should buy this book as you'll definitely enjoy it. There are a few ways I…

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Starhawk
Game Reviews

Starhawk Review

Gary Smith4 Comments

When Starhawk was first announced and the details starting coming out, it immediately grabbed my attention in part because it was a space-western but also because it seemed like an ambitious and unique concept. As the spiritual-successor to a popular online only game, Starhawk has some pretty big shoes to fill. Now I'm not familiar with Warhawk to try and compare the two, but then there really isn't that much to compare. Starhawk took the combination of third person shooter and vehicular combat…

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Shooter
Entertainment

Shooter Review

Gary Smith

A former marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger (Wahlberg) was living more of a solitary mountain life until he is visited by Colonel Isaac Johnson(Glover) who had received a threat on the President’s life. Reluctantly pressed back into service for his country, Swagger must figure out the assassin’s plan for attack and in which city it will occur. Trouble for Swagger is, he’s the fall guy for a coup to kill a visiting dignitary and he must now uncover who is behind the elaborate plot. Chaos and action…

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K-Pax
Entertainment

K-PAX Review

Gary Smith

Kevin Spacey shows why he is the man in this adaptation of the 1995 book by Charles Brewer. Spacey stars in this drama as Prot, a mental institution patient who claims to be a visitor from the planet K-Pax. Prot falls under the care of Dr. Mark Powell (Jeff Bridges), who immediately dismisses “Prot” as delusional. Throughout the course of the movie, several “miracles” happen around the mental hospital, as Prot’s presence seems to calm everyone. Dr. Powell becomes intrigued by his latest patient…

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Black Hawk Down Review

Gary Smith1 Comment

Black Hawk Down might be the most realistic war film ever made. Ridley Scott's account of the Battle of Mogadishu puts you in the streets and never lets you breathe. Full review.

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Eastern Promises
Entertainment

Eastern Promises Review

Gary Smith

After a mysterious girl dies giving birth in a London hospital, Anna Khitrova (Watts) discovers the girl’s diary and tries to use it to find the newborn baby’s relatives. Naturally, it is written in Russian so Anna cannot understand it, but her uncle can, and despite his warnings to stay away, she goes off to seek answers at the Trans-Siberian restaurant that is the front of a violet crime family headed by a man named Semyon (Mueller-Stahl). Semyon’s driver Nikolai (Mortensen) takes a liking to…

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UFC Undisputed 3
Game Reviews

UFC Undisputed 3 Review

Gary Smith1 Comment

Good evening all and welcome back to the eighth edition of The Backlog. Tonight we will look into THQ and Yuke's third offering of mixed martial arts excellence, UFC Undisputed 3. There were great strides made from the first offering to the second in this series, and this year's edition was also noticeably improved. One would usually hope and expect that a sports franchise would improve from year to year, but as many gamers have noticed, several franchises seem have either hit plateaus on what…

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King Arthur
Entertainment

King Arthur Review

Gary Smith

Bob Longino of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution referred to this film as “…a really, really cheap knockoff of Gladiator.” I’m not usually one to agree with professional critics, but this is one of the exceptions to that rule, as this movie did have me thinking, “Damn, this is almost like Gladiator, only not as good.” The story centers around Arthur, who spends a whole five minutes (if that) in this movie as King Arthur, and his Knights of the Round Table, stationed in the British Isles. Arthur…

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Astral City A Spiritual Journey
Entertainment

Astral City: A Spiritual Journey Review

Gary Smith

  Astral City: A Spiritual Journey is a Brazilian film from director Wagner de Assis that is based on the book Nosso Lar (Our Home) by Brazilian medium Chico Xavier as dictated through psychography by the spirit of Dr. André Luiz. Since this is a Brazilian film, the language spoken is Portuguese meaning this is a film you will have to read the subtitles for, which will unfortunately automatically disqualify it for many viewers. The film, and book, tells the supposedly true story of Dr…

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The Pinball Arcade
Game Reviews

The Pinball Arcade Review

Gary Smith4 Comments

  While classic arcades have been slowly dying out in most places, pinball has been experiencing a bit of a resurgence on home consoles. FarSight Studios has brought over The Pinball Arcade to XBLA and PSN (and PS Vita) and it's a game pinball enthusiast have been waiting for. The Pinball Arcade isn't just another pinball game for home consoles (and mobile devices), it's actually four real pinball tables brought to life on the platform of your choice. The tables are Theater Magic (1995…

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MLB 12 The Show
Game Reviews

MLB 12: The Show Review

Gary Smith5 Comments

Sony's MLB: The Show series is widely regarded as the best sports game on the market, something Sony obviously takes to heart since right on the cover you'll see “#1 Rated Sports Game, 4 Years in a Row!” With opening day of a new season of baseball less than a month away, The Show is back for the 2012 season and faces the same question all yearly sports titles are faced: is it worth spending another $60 on. Fortunately for Sony, the best has gotten better and for most fans they'll want to…

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Total War Rome
Game Reviews

Total War: Rome Review

Gary Smith

Hello all and welcome back to The Backlog. It's been quite a while since I've written one of these, so bear with me while I attempt to shake off the rust of the past few months. As my welcome back gift to you, I present Rome: Total War. Rome: Total War is a real-time, turn-based strategy game in which you can select from a few different Roman factions and enter a campaign to eventually, hopefully, take control of all of Rome. You can choose from the Julii, Bruti, or Scipii. There may be one or…

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Donkey Kong Jr
Game Reviews

Donkey Kong Jr. Review

Gary Smith2 Comments

This is the NES version of Donkey Kong Jr. played on the Wii Virtual Console, it has a few differences between the arcade version. Donkey Kong Jr. is of course the sequel to the hugely popular (in the 80s) Donkey Kong arcade game. The roles are reversed this time though. You don't play as Mario trying to rescue the Princess from Donkey Kong. Instead, you play as Donkey Kong Jr. trying to rescue pops from Mario. Whereas the original Donkey Kong had three stages (the VC NES release, not the arcade…

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