Day: September 11, 2006

I almost forgot about my Saturday night! I spent the first part of the night going through some old recordings with Vero, but later on we hit up Sarah’s pad (just down the hall, boy do I love residence!) to play some Stock Ticker.

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/2680

From the onset, the game looked pretty lame, but then I got into it and it turned out to be cool that I will be keeping my eye open at garage sales for this gem.

Stock Ticker basically involves stocks. You all start out with $5K and are able to buy stocks. The players determine a time when the game will end (let’s say 2 hours from now) and then the dice start rolling. There are three dice – the name of the stock, the action of the stock (it can go up, down, or pay out dividends), and the number associated with the action (for example if you roll a 20 and it’s dividends, then you get 20% of whatever stock you own).

We set up two rounds of rolling and then you get the chance to buy or sell stock. So in this time of two rounds, the stock market has fluctuated due to the rolling of the dice. Stocks have either gone up or down so you have to think about either keeping your stock or selling it.

That’s it! It’s a really simple game but there is definitely strategy involved which I failed at miserably as I came out with $2700 which was a definite loss whereas all others were in the positive.

Two thumbs up for this great game. As soon as I find it, I’m calling a games night.

Before I start off this next review of the other film we watched on Friday night, I have to send out a salute to our good friend James who came up with the title Fast and the Curious as to what this movie’s title would be if it were a pornography film.

Anyhow, if you’ve seen the previous Fast and the Furious movies, you know you’re in for a treat full of high paced race sequences.

I was not disappointed. It was cool to see this film introduce the term drifting into my vocabulary as I had been oblivious that vehicles could glide across the pavement so easily (at least in Tokyo they can. I have not seen evidence that you can do this sort of thing in North America).

I liked the characters and the classic story of the young one who knows nothing but then learns everything and kicks some ass at the end of the film. You can’t go wrong with an underdog story! Recommend this film if you want to zone out and think of nothing else but a car chase.

On Friday night, Mike and Mel had a slew of people over for Movie Night (which was excellent by the way).

The men retired to the basement to avoid any lame women films and poppped in Nacho Libre – the newest work to star our favourite Jack Black.

Unfortunately, this is the first Jack Black movie which didn’t live up to the hype. Both Mike and I have been waiting a LONG time to watch this film and were disappointed. I had only got through an hour of it a few months ago so was glad to catch the ending of it this time around.

Overall, it had some funny parts. The wrestling was pretty funny. But the rest of the cast is lackluster and if people were expecting a Napolean Dynamite all over again are in for a disappointment.

This also falls into the dreaded ‘best parts are in the trailer’ scenario. Perhaps we shouldn’t watch trailers over, and over, and over again as Mike and I did.