Since we review anything here at Reviewing the World, I figured it was about time to review an event. Not just any event mind you, but the biggest convention/comic convention to happen every year. Also I'll have lots of pictures for all those who couldn't be there and see it for themselves!
The Good: Lots of stuff being giving away, tons of stuff to do, some good deals on things to buy, and some pretty booth girls and other women in costumes, Celebs of the comic and film world walking around.
The Bad: Not enough time to do everything, the comic book panels were filled mostly with jokes and no content, lines everywhere, I was a bathroom break away from getting into the Futurama panel where the entire cast was (I'm still sad about that one) To get some of the free stuff you had to wait around all day, lot of stink nerds and ugly people, and dumb people who didn't even know what a comic was getting signatures on crap that would be more worthless the minute it was signed.
Now I know it seems like a lot of bad, but those few goods out weigh the bad by a lot. Sure I would have liked to scene Futurama but I got to stand behind Jim Lee in line for cookies. Sure there were lines for some of the swag but I still got a lot of cool swag! Overall I think the organization of the event was the best I've ever been apart of, I just wish the day was longer or that they would start it sooner. The doors open at 10 and that's pretty much when everything starts, but after you park and wait to get in, it's 11 so you've already missed an hour of cool stuff. Also it was like the Warped Tour, you have to choose your favorite panels to see and miss other ones you still wanted to go to. My friend wanted to see Resident Evil 3 stuff but we also wanted to see the Mystery Science Theater 3000 guy's new project The Film Crew so that's where we went. I really can't complain too much I just wanted to be able to see more! We'll see how it goes next year since I already bought my ticket hopefully I get to see everything I want to :)
Here's a bunch of pics hopefully they all post without any problems! Also I don't know any of the people in the pics they're all part of my awkward picture collection where I take pictures of other people posing with the costumed freaks!
Monday, July 30, 2007
Comic Con 2007
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Burn Notice - This Baby's Hot!
Apparently someone was able to make a spy show work on television, I'm betting the secret is casting! When I first was flooded with commercials for the show I was interested not so much in the story but the people playing the characters, I saw Jeffery Donovan and was like, "Interesting" then I saw Bruce Campbell and I checked my local TV guide for listings! Bruce Campbell doing another TV series? Hell ya I'm watching, but that made me also say, "I hope it doesn't suck!" I'm very happy to report that it doesn't and it's picking up momentum, or at least that's what a bunch of sites are and news outlets are saying. So congrats cast... keep it up!
Now it may be coming off that I'm not a fan of the show but I am, it doesn't mean the shows perfect but it is keeping my attention. The first episode gets a free pass since almost every first episode in TV history is sketchy. There's a running plot to the show, Micheal (Donovan) is trying to figure out who kicked him out, or burned him, of the CIA or whatever government agency he works for. Then there's the individual plots the fuel each episode, I liked the first, second and fourth episode, but I didn't really care for the plot of the third episode.
Bruce Campbell does a great job playing a Beach Bum Ladies Man and has just enough screen time. I just wish they'd stop brin
ging up the fact that he's informing on Micheal to the Feds. Micheal's Mom is annoyingly great, she annoys you enough to want to she her more, while also reminding you of how your own Mother can sometimes be. As far as Gabrielle Anwar, I think she's a little out of place in the show. She's so skinny and muscular that at I can't find her attractive in the "Sexy Spy Girl" role that she's playing, and again I wish they would stop bringing up her and Micheal's relationship every time they share the screen together. And finally Donovan... Can I say that he has the best narrations on TV? Can I America? Damn right, his narrations are the best part of the show. The should call it Burn Notice: Tips on being a Spy. The writers do a great job of keeping the spy stuff basic and not falling for the same crap other shows have by making it too "Bond"ish, instead the make it more MacGyver and less Spy Kids 3D.
So check out the show on the USA network, Thursdays. But hey it's Cable, I got to watch most of these episodes back to back again last Saturday so even if you've missed out you can probably catch up. Score Card 8.0.
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Comic Reviews! - Ultimate Powers 6
So it's Comic Time and up today Marvel Comics! (I'm trying to get them to send me preview issues, wink, wink, and if they do I'll review them!) On with the review!
Ultimate Power #6 (of 9)
Straczynski
Land
Leisten
Ponsor
This is Stracynski's (Amazing Spider-Man, Thor) last issue on the Mini and Mark Millar will be taking over for the final three of the series. So the Power's team and Ultimates go head to head with each other and find that... guess what? There evenly matched! It's still pretty cool to see two speedsters go up against each other and actually fight! I know! They actually fought! Also it was cool because it showed the perspective of outside the speedsters fight and inside the fight as well. The story didn't really move to much except at the end. The Power's Team's Evil Doctor gases Reed making pretty much everyone hate him that much more; and Fury reveals even more so that he's an evil fuck. And Doom's back... again... he's the new Magneto of dying a thousands times and coming back. Although it was pretty cool that he's a threat to Hyperion and company. Otherwise it was a pretty good issue in the declining Ultimate Universe, hopefully Marvel will put some effort back into the line instead of leaving well enough alone. Here's some pages revealing Doom's big come back after the break! I give it a solid 9.0.
Friday, July 20, 2007
Forza Motorsport 2
Forza 2 Motorsport
Microsoft Game Studios
XBOX360
Here's someone having way more fun playing the game then I did.Read More......
D.E.B.S. - B Movie Review
D.E.B.S. (I'm sure this stands for something cute and witty)
Directed AND Written by: Angela Robinson
Starring: Sara Foster, Jordana Brewster, Devon Aoki and Micheal Clarke Duncan.
Once in a while a B Movie comes along that is so BAD that it's Good... This is not one of those movies. This movies was just bad. The attempt to use "Hot" schoolgirls and lesbians to sell the movie to the audience fails horribly since there's only one woman that's hot and she doesn't play a school girl. Sadly this movie is revered by the Gay and Lesbian community and appears on channels like LOGO. I don't know why they would set their standards so low, or why they would feel like this was a
positive movie for their community since it practically mocks them every chance it gets. Basically on of the recurited DEBS (Know I don't remember or care what it stands for) falls in love with Lucy Diamond (I only remember that because they say it ever minute like clock work). Lucy is a thief and... well that's it actually but that makes her feared and the most wanted criminal in the DEBS organization which looks like a house in Pasadena, CA. Also the organization is apparently super huge and has a crap load of woman working for it. None of them are apparently able to handle Lucy because she shows up at the end and even though shes out number by the hundreds the girls all flee like scared children.
So the Main DEB writes a paper on Lucy (The Bad Girl) and falls in love with her. Lucy breaks into the School aka House in Pasadena, bypassing their "state of the art" security system with 
like a Pen or something that can cut forcefields but she didn't cut enough for her whole body to go through (Yeah Graphics Guy or Girl I was paying attention to your laziness and continuity error!) then she jumps over some moving blue discs on the lawn, did I mention all the security is a cheap blue graphic? Long story short she kidnaps the main DEB they share a moment, blah, blah, blah the main DEB runs away with her after another encounter leaving the DEBS to think she's been kidnapped. Several Comedic scenes of the other DEBS ruffing up Bikers and Dock Workers in they're school girl uniforms follows. Also Devon Aoki's (Miho from Sin City) character has a French accent and is always smoking... I guess the French are always doing that... did I mention she's Asian American?
Well like all predictable movies the Main DEB goes back to the organization and the DEBS organization covers up where shes been. Lucy reforms and starts giving back everything she's stolen to win her Love back. You know what I'm bored thinking about how lame it is, they get back together at the end and frankly know one cares because it sucked so much getting there. There's some sub-love story between a Sub-DEB and a Sub-Bad Guy it sucks too because really they just showing them emailing each other and that's it. I think it also needs to be said that this is a remake of the the 2003 version with a new cast but same everything else... I don't know who gave it the green light a second time but way to go!
Graphics - 2
Acting - 1
Sound - 4
OVERALL - 2.25
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Minx Comics - Double Review!
The Re-Gifters
Mike Carey
Sonny Liew
Marc Hempel
Released: 06-13-07
Clubbing
Andi Watson
Josh Howard
Released: 7-11-07
I finally got around to reading the next two installments in DC's Minx line So let's get cracking!
Re-Gifters: This is definitely a book you don't want to guess the moral lesson by the cover or title. In fact the title is mostly just cleaver and has little to do with the main character and the life lesson's shes going to learn throughout the course of the book. Some times I wonder if Mike Carey is just toying with comic book readers and is actually better than he's coming off as. This book was good, it was not great and it was no P.L.A.I.N. Janes but it was still rather enjoyable. It's about Dixie a Korean American who is basically competing in a Hapkido (Korean Martial Arts) 
Tournament and her journey to get there. She's dealing with emotions of love, anger and fear as she tries to find her Ki (Soul) and win the tournament. The art is good and actually works really well for the story, due to the inking some of the characters become unrecognizable if they don't make another appearance until some pages later. My main grip with this book is that yes I know it's for a young girl but that doesn't mean you write down to your audience. Look at Harry Potter, it's written for children but she never writes down to their intellect. I think the editors probably got a hold of the script and said no dumb it down they'll never get what you're talking about and so we got a mediocre story trying to teach way to many lessons and no surprises because they had to be hinted upon so heavily that literally they took up several pages. Worth a read and for 9.99 it's still worth the buy if you're looking for a quirky love story with martial arts at the center. Score 8.0
Clubbing: Being a fan of not only Andi Watson but also of Josh Howard I became very interested in how this book was going to turn out... until I read it. The team up was great, the art and story complimented each other perfectly and I would love to see what they could do on a creator owned project rather than this heavily editor interfered project. The beginning was useless and by the way it's the catalyst to get us where we were going. Also the title is mis-leading since it's referring to a golf "club" owned by Lottie's (The Main Character) Grandparents. At the start of the story Lottie gets rejected from a club for using a fake ID and for some reason this gets her picked up by the cops, it's not really explained because I'm sure the actual story was way to long for the format the books are in and so we get a half ass beginning, good middle and way to short end. Basically Lottie has to stay the summer working with her Grandparents and mystery ensues. Also I don't think mystery books for young girls is Andi's cup of tea (There's a pun there since the book takes place
in England) it really didn't take Nancy Drew to figure out this mystery since he practically tells you right off the bat. It was another prime example of writing down to the audience rather than just writing a good story that everyone could take something from. Some plus to the writing were the narration and dialog, and the Art was top notch Howard is really coming into his own and should be picked up by one of the big 2 or at least let loose over at Image. Overall I'd give this book a 6.9; it's in the parking lot, its just driving past a lot of good spaces.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Aveeno - Body Wash
Finally! A body wash review! I originally tried this product due to my Girlfriends sister sending it to me to try. I must say I like the product a lot and it's even Hypoallergenic for those of you with skin problems which is a growing phenomenon here in the the states. Not only does the soap not leave a smell on your body but I just feel really clean after washing. That's always been my problem with Body Wash, it still feels like it's on your skin even after rinsing it off multiple times. So no left over soap feeling, good lather, and no scent. Really the only negatives for this product is it's bottle. The top is nice and large so when you start to run out you can flip it over and actually have it balance on it's own, but the problem with that is the cap fills up with so much cold water that when your not paying close attention in the early hours of the morning you can dump a nice gulp of water on yourself. Frankly it wakes me right up because I'm like, "What the hell was that?" But who remembers this stuff when showering? Not I. So after many, "What the hell was that?" moments I stopped turning the bottle over which brought about another struggle.
When I was in college I had a class taught by a lawyer, hold on now this story is going some where so stay in your seats dammit! Any who, so he was great for stories since there's only so many ways to teach people how to protect their intellectual works of art and not get screwed out of a lot of money i.e. the guy who designed the Rolling Stones logo for free and has received jack all for it to this day. One story went like this, a Man made a meeting with Crest the makers of toothpaste and said, "Give me a million dollars and I'll increase your profits by 10%." they of course asked, "How" and he said, "Give me a million dollars and I'll tell you." Well they said no because giving a million up front with nothing proved is not really a smart business move. Well finally Colgate said yes and he asked them, "How much toothpaste does the average person use." the answer is about an inch of toothpaste. Long story short he told them to increase the diameter of the opening by whatever amount and people would naturally use more toothpaste thus needing more toothpaste and increasing profits. Well Aveeno has a large opening and it's impossible to get the right amount, I'm constantly pouring to much out or not enough which causes me to use more anyways.
Overall it's a good product but it's not cheap and you don't get as much for the price as you do with the other Body Washes and like I said you go through it pretty quick too. Unfortunately I haven't found anything else I like better so I will keep using it because to me it's worth the cost, but I can't say the same for everyone else. Product rating 7.5, try it you may be surprised.
Monday, July 16, 2007
Movie Review Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Directed by: David Yates
Screenplay: Micheal Goldenberg
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Glint, Emma Watson, Ralph Fiennes, Gary Oldman and Imelda Staunton.
So the fifth Harry Potter came out last Friday on the 13th, BOO! Yeah right whatever. So in my efforts to stop Transformers from making money I went a saw Potter. In retrospect I wish I hadn't gotten free passes to Die Hard so that it would have been that much closer to beating... trying to beat Transformers, but I got passes to Transformers too so I guess it didn't matter. Way off subject let's get to the movie at hand shall we?
Story: The story was, um, well it was okay. Personally I thought the last film was better and I have enjoyed each movie more than the last but I don't think this one topped any of the others. Something that was seriously lacking from the movie were the Scenes between Harry, Ron and Hermione talking and hanging out. There was literally one scene in the whole movie of them hanging out and it ended with everyone awkwardly laughing. Another complaint I have with the story/movie is that it felt like a sequel. The reason people like Star Wars and Spider-Man is because they feel like individual movies and that's what makes great series or trilogies is that each movie tells a story and has a clear beginning, middle and end. The movie in general just didn't seem to do much, it was like there was too much source material to work with and the writer didn't know what to take and leave.
Sound: Music was great, sound effects were awesome, I mean really how do you mess this up now a days? I did have one complaint where the music didn't drive home the emotions that it could have, it really fell flat at a crucial scene.
Look/Style: I may not care for what the director did with the movie but I loved the style, if they could take the director of the last movie and this one and put them together I think they could make a fantastic six film. The CG was top notch and I loved the smoke effect they did when the Wizards were fighting and Voldemort's look was cool especially in a three piece suit. So once again Potter comes through on the graphics.
Acting: It was good, I mean everyone has their roles down so it's pretty hard for them to screw
it up at this point. I would like to have seen more of Ron and Hermione, both had a major lack of screen time and were reduced to cheesey dialog to help build there hinted upon romance.
Overall it boils down to the story, we know the sound, look and acting are going to be good so really at this point were just checking out the story. And this one fell a little short, it had good parts heck it even had some heart but the emotions weren't there that the other movies had. (Spoiler Warning) When Sirius dies I felt nothing, I was like okay... and? When Harry kicks Voldemort out of his head and there showing all his happy moments and Harry's showing his great strength I was like wow this is very good, the music was just hanging out instead of driving the scene home and making it a traumatic and great scene. It was still good enough to see it in the theater and that's not just my stop Micheal Bay from being successful champaign talking.
Sound - 8
Style/Look - 9
Acting - 9.5
Overall - 8
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Tranformers: The Movie, The Review
Transformer: The Movie
Directed by: Micheal Bay
Written by: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Peter Cullen and a bunch of other people whose careers deserve to be punished.
Welcome Lee, from Under the Asian Influence!
So, I was recently asked to "guest" review the new live-action Transformers movie for my friends blog which specializes in reviewing everything you could possibly review. Having recently seen the movie, I thought it would be a good chance for me, a self-proclaimed old-school Transformers fan, to get a few things off his chest about this new adaptation of the franchise. I'm sure you've heard it all before, the good and the bad, but I think you'll find that my opinion is a little bit of both.
Most people going to see Transformers are probably interested in seeing it because they're fans of either the cartoon series, or fans of the animated movie. However, their is a large demographic of fans out there that refuse to see the Michael Bayified version due to his unforgivable changes to an already well-established and entertaining franchise. I was more than ready to join the boycotter's due to some of these said changes I had read about previously; Bumblebees is a Camaro, Optimus Prime has cholo flames painted on his truck, Megatron is now a Raptor jet, etc. That being said, my overall curiosity managed to get the best of me and I had to assess the damage first-hand.
If you don't know the story of the animated series, then never fear, because it's been changed completely and you won't have to have followed the cartoon in order to understand any of the movie. Now, the Autobots (good-guy robots led by Optimus Prime) are in a race against time against the Decepticons (bad-guy robots led by Megatron) to find the Allspark cube, which is basically responsible for creating the Transformers. Anything the cube touches, instantly becomes a Transformers. Megatron (voiced by Hugo Weaving) plans to use the cube to control all of Earth's technology and of course use it to take over the planet. The problem that the Autobots and Decepticons have is trying to locate the Allspark. That's where Sam Witwicky (Shia Labeouf) comes in. Sam is an almost typical, socially-awkward, neurotic geek that happens to have a very important Arctic-exploring Grandfather, Archibald Witwicky (William Morgan Sheppard), who actually discovered Megatron frozen under a lake of ice. After a mishap of activating Megatron's navigational system, the coordinates to the Allspark cube are imprinted onto Archibald's glasses. This is never really explained in detail, so you gotta just shrug your shoulders and say, "whatever". The Autobots locate Sam by finding his profile on eBay in which he's trying to sell some of his Grandfathers old things, the glasses included, and Optimus Prime (voiced by Peter Cullen) explains Sam's role in this intergalactic battle. Sam's dad promised him that if he got two A's in school and saved $2000, then he would get a car for him. Less than impressed with the overall selection of used cars, Sam decides to purchase an older yellow Camaro for $4000 that just seems to feel just right. Little does he know, the yellow Camaro is really his Autobot guardian Bumblebee. Sam uses his new ride as a means of impressing the hot, popular chick at his school Mikaela (Megan Fox) who never even knew Sam existed before he gives her a lift home. Sam seems to really understand where Mikaela is coming from, and they share a moment together. Whether they like it or not, they'll be spending a whole lot more time together with the Autobots and their battle with the Decepticons over the Allspark cube. There are some other, less-relevant, additions to the storyline revolving around some young brains Maggie (Rachael Taylor) and Glenn (Anthony Anderson) assisting Defense Secretary John Keller (Jon Voight) in finding out what the cause behind the electronic disturbances are. They don't realize to the near-end of the movie that it's the Decepticons hacking into their computers in order to find out everything about Archibald Witwicky and Sam in order to locate the glasses. Also, we follow around some soldiers that were attacked on base by Decepticons and only a handful survived the assault. The survivors consist of Sergeant Epps (Tyrese Gibson) and Captain Lennox (Josh Duhamel) among others. They need to get back home and help defend the country against these giant robots, of course after learning what they are and why they're here. Also, the FBI and a special government division, Sector 7, seems to know everything about the cube and these robots from another planet. Therefore, the FBI, led by Agent Simmons (John Turturro) is after Sam and Mikaela to keep them from interfering with official business.
I think it would be best to just get all the things that I disliked about the movie out of the way, in order to end the review on a note that talks about some of the more positive aspects. I knew a thing or two about the live-action Transformers before I even watched it, and the problems I had with it were already beginning to pile up. I was bothered by the fact that they didn't use more of the well-known robots from the series in the movie, instead opting to use newly created ones such as Ratchet on the Autobots, and countless more for the Decepticons (Bonecrusher, Barricade, and Blackout for example). I also wasn't a big fan of the decision to change a lot of these robots into things they didn't transform into originally. Bumblebee being a Camaro being the biggest offender and Megatron being a Raptor jet came in close second. I was willing to forgive these choices in film making in hope that they wouldn't compromise the movie too severely. In the end, I got past it and just let it go. However, I still hate the fact that Michael Bay decided to give these robots moving lips when they speak. Sure, it may make sense from a "realistic" standpoint that they'd need them to annunciate words, but who cares about realism when we're talking about 20-30 foot robots here! It just looked stupid! I thought John Turturro was a terrible choice for the hard-talking, strictly-business FBI Agent Simmons. He was more of a parody of this kind of character, making me wonder who in their right mind would take him seriously? I didn't like the slapstick humor they did with the Autobots, such as the scene where the Autobots follow Sam back to his house in order to get the glasses. They hide around the outside of the house from Sam's parents and even trip over a power line. It sucked and I would've rather the Autobots been taken more seriously. Last, but certainly not least, I hated the fact that the Allspark cube seemed to transform everything it touched into a Transformer, more specifically a Decepticon! I saw my beloved X-Box 360 attack some jerk on the street in the last act of the movie, and instead of thinking it was cool, I just thought, "F@#$ing STUPID!".
Now, lets talk about some of the better aspects of Transformers. I did think the robots looked pretty cool, and the animation behind the transformations looked really good with incredible attention to detail. The best part of the movie for me, was the fact that Peter Cullen re-prised his role as the voice of Optimus Prime. The man was responsible for giving Optimus life in the series and the animated movie and so it only seems a necessity that he continue doing the voice for him. The final action scene, which was pretty long I might add, was visually entertaining and overall I had a good time watching the robots throw down. I enjoyed Shia Labeouf's performance as Sam. Seems people either hate this kid or just love him, and I'm more inclined to join the "love" side, but I thought he was funny and really pulled the reigns on dragging the rest of the movie out of the crap storyline. Overall, I'd have to say Transformers wasn't as big of a pile of garbage as I was expecting, but the same word kept popping into my head, over-and-over: disappointing. You have to know that a sequel is in the works, because not only did the ending warrant one, but it's a cash-cow at the box-office. I'm hoping they work out a story that doesn't revolve around finding a pair of glasses in order to save the planet. (Lee)
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Live Free or Die Hard aka Die Hard 4
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Directed by: Len Wiseman
Written by: Mark Bomback
Starring: Bruce Willis, Timothy Olyphant, Maggie Q, Justin Long and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
So I had a very nice vacation and now I have a whole slue of things that need to be reviewed and shared with the public! I've chosen the latest installment in the Die Hard Franchise, and no I'm not going to once again type the entire title again because you should have already read it twice before getting to this point! The difficulty of this review is choosing how to review it. Do you review it as a Die Hard movie and how it fits with the series? Or just as a movie that you hoped would keep people from watching Transformers and preventing Micheal Bay and company from making a sequel and give Bay his second flop, his first being the Island. That's off subject a bit but still relevant to Die Hard 4.0 as some call it. So let's do both, first as a Die Hard movie then just as a summer movie.
I think everyone can agree that this movie doesn't really feel like a Die Hard movie, it's PG-13 rating pretty much saw to that also the fact that it had no involvement from anyone on the first three movies and the fact that it's been twelve years since Die Hard with Vengeance which made Samuel L. Jackson an even bigger star (before everyone was tired of him) So really as a Die Hard film this movie fails. The plot is bigger than the person, the danger never enough to kill our hero, and most of the comedy done by supporting characters rather than Willis himself. I'm sure there's a thousand other reviews just bashing this movie because of this so I will not dwell on it.
As a movie I have to say I really liked it. The explosions were nice and I could see what was being blown up (unlike Micheal Bay) The comedy made me laugh and actually not hate Justin Long for once. Really they could have made this just another Bruce Willis movie and I think people would have gone and seen it. Timothy Olyphant (Upcoming Hitman) did a great job as the villain. He just has that look for the perfect Bad Guy which will probably keep him type casted which is too bad since he's a really good actor. Cyril Raffaelli (District B13) was also badass in the movie and they were able to film his "Parkour" style to look amazing. He was like a superhero bouncing everywhere and never using wires. Kevin Smith makes a cameo more than likely due to him working with Timothy in "Catch and Release." and tries to pull off a Baltimore Accent. He fails at the accent but at least he has a few chuckles that make the awkwardness of the scene worth it. It's also worth mentioning that Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who plays Willis' daughter, actually has some acting chops on her and is easy on the eyes. She was also in Death Proof and has another movie in Pre-Production so hopefully we'll see more of her... not like that you perverts!
So overall I would say this movie is good, but not great. I'm not going to bore you with the plot since it doesn't really matter you came here to see if it was any good not to find out the plot, everyone knows the plot. Stop the bad guy save the US... from Transformers. I'd give this movie a solid 8.0 in fact if the R rated version is released on DVD they'll get my money again, and once last thing he does say Yippee-ki-yay Mother Fucker but this a gun shot at the same time as the 'F' Word, but at least it made it in there in some form.
Sound/Music - 7.0
Look/Style - 8.5
Acting - 9.0
Overall - 8.0