Quote of the Week – #022
“They can have any color they want, as long as it’s black.” – Henry Ford, on the Model-T.
Edge of Darkness
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1226273/
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvRdGKxsmD8
Plot
Thomas Craven, is a detective who has spent years working the streets of Boston. When his own daughter is killed near the door of his home, Craven realizes that her death is only one piece of an intriguing puzzle filled with corruption and conspiracy, and it falls to him to discover who is behind the crime.
Review
Sometimes getting free tickets to movies is usually used to promote something that might be crap. I saw the trailer for Edge of Darkness on the Apple trailers last week, a website which I visit regularly on my iPhone. From watching the movie trailer Edge of Darkness looked good and I was putting it on my list of movies to go see.
Edge of Darkness focuses on Detective Thomas Craven played by Mel Gibson, his daughter comes home who is quickly killed on his front door step, after becoming violently ill, to give a good opening to the movie and set the story.
Craven soon starts to follow the trail leading from her daughter being ill to track down the killer. I don’t want to give away too much as I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. But I definitely recommend going to see this at the movies, it’s worth paying for. There is a solid and interesting plot.
Rating
5/5
Bruno
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0889583/
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtfhD70eaS4
Plot
Brüno is a gay Austrian fashion guru. He has his own fashion based television show, Funkyzeit, the most popular German-language show of its kind outside of Germany. After he disgraces himself in front of his Funkyzeit fan base, he is ruined in German speaking Europe. He decides that in his quest for worldwide fame, he will move to Los Angeles and reinvent himself. Accompanying him to the US is Lutz, his former assistant’s assistant. Lutz is the only person left in his circle that still believes in Brüno’s greatness. Brüno goes through one reinvention of himself after another, ultimately straying to areas far removed from his own self. Perhaps when Brüno finds an activity that he truly does love, he will also find that über-fame he so desperately desires
Review
I was a bit late doing this review, but it’s been on my to do list.
I was always a fan of Sasha Baron Cohen, especially in his days of “Ali G”, I remember on that show when he had a small segment with “Borat”. When I got around to watching Borat, I got half way into the movie and switched it off. I didn’t find it that funny, which is kind of where I was at with Bruno.
Some parts of the movie were funny, but some were over the top and were there to shock people. Which is probably what it was intended to do, but really are extremes the only way he can get any attention in a movie?
I really haven’t reviewed this movie much, but what can I say? It wasn’t a movie, it was just an hour and a half of crap that was supposed to be funny. Sure I laughed at some of it, but most of it I didn’t.
Review
1.5/5
Michael Atkinson, get your shit together
I haven’t been following the whole Michael Atkinson thing closely, because I’m not really into politics. But basically from what I can see, this asshat doesn’t like video games. Especially not violent ones or ones involving sex.
I think he really does miss the point, if kids are getting games that they shouldn’t be playing. Then there are 2 parties at fault, 1. The parents for buying the thing. 2. The shops for selling games to kids under the recommended age. Maybe there is a good place to start looking as to why these kids are getting these video games. Giving Australia an R18+ classification is a GOOD thing to do, at the moment any kid can walk into a game store and pick up a copy of Playboy Mansion for XBOX Classic, and take them all of 15 minutes to have a Playboy Bunny on a bed, digital breasts in the kids face getting her brains shagged out. I know this, because it took me all of 15 minutes to do it.
But that game really doesn’t interest me, ironically. I think Prototype is a hell of a lot more entertaining.
I do wonder if Michael Atkinson has kids, do they play games? Do they go to Westminster School and realise that the person supporting their kids in the I.T. Department likes to play war games? Bet he wouldn’t like that would he! That would be ironic 
Accusing Gamers4Croydon of dirty tricks and what not, well that just gives me a reason to vote for them because Michael Atkinson sounds like a right blind knob.
I’m considering writing a letter to him, not every gamer is into dirty tricks.
Robin Williams plays games, he’s a funny man. He plays Day of Defeat.
Dave Chappelle plays games, he’s a funny man. He plays World of Warcraft.
Megan Fox plays games, she’s hot! She plays console games like Mortal Kombat.
Ben Affleck, Vin Diesel, Cameron Diaz, Hulk Hogan… All World of Warcraft players. Tom Cruise, Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt all fans of getting on Wii Fit.
See, not everyones into dirty tricks Mr. Atkinson.
Quote of the Week – #021
“Nobody can teach me who I am.” – Unknown.
Google Chrome
Of late I’ve been a bit unimpressed with Firefox and Internet Explorer, mainly because they’ve become large resource hogs on system memory. So I jumped back onto Google Chrome to give it a shot and see if it had improved since I first tried it when it came out, and it definitely has. When I first tried it, it just didn’t “feel right”.
Firefox is still my main choice of browser, but it’s just being really slow. But I’ll keep going with Chrome and see how it is, it’s definitely growing on me.
Quote of the Week – #020
“Man must rise above the Earth – to the top of the atmosphere and beyond – for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.” – Socrates
Dear Vodafone
This means war.
