Even though you can't really have a bad day without bad things happening to you, you can indeed have a sucky day, knowing of it even one year beforehand.
In my case, I've known it ever since this semester has started. This sucky day, double the suck, because of that it both sucks and sucks out your energy.
The day I am speaking about is Thursday.
Every Thursday we have the following Schedule:
08.00 - 11.15: Block
13.30 - 15.00: Pediatrics lecture
15.30 - 17.45: Patomorphology labs
18.00 - 19.30: Pharmacology lecture
So until 19.30, we have 3 hours free, but at a very uneven scale. They expect us to go to all the lectures and the labs. Like I've got the energy.
Today, Thursday will suck less. We won't have Patomorphology labs, which leads me to skip the suckiest lecture of them all: Pediatrics lecture.
It's just so boring and the lecture hall is so small, hot and oxygen-deprived.
We have obligatory presence during those lectures, and they expect that all 50 students in our class should show up in a lecture hall that only fits 36 students, going by the seats.
Fucking idiocy.
So, simply I'll only have Blocks in Cardiology and pharmacology labs today. Between those hours I'm going to be home, studying on some interesting things instead.
Other sucky days can be if you get noticed beforehand that some boring relative is going to visit and that you'll have to be home and talk to them and all that shit, even though you have nothing in common, or maybe a guest, a friend of your mothers, who is a total ass sometimes and doesn't even understand you speaking the same language because of some foreign words being thrown in (which she should know after 20 years in the foreign country with the foreign language).
Or when you have to go to a trip when you don't want to, as an example when the destination is the same, but the plans are changed to such an extent that you don't think it's going to be fun.
At least I'll always have beer in those moments to soothe the pain in my soul.
On another note, I have found myself going to sleep at 8pm and waking up at 4am. And I like it. Sweet.
I also checked wikileaks'(http://wikileaks.org/) transcripts with text messages from a time-span 5 hours before and 5 hours after the 9/11 attacks, and found that there could have been some filtering done, as only 20% of the text there was text messages.
And actually, when checking the messages, only the ones approximately 10-15 minutes after the attack showed that people had noticed the attack.
Then it cooled down around the evening and no more notions. Also, people were still writing texts of the type "I need a fax sent to corporate right away, Adam" during the attack, unknowing of the events.
But yeah...some filtering would have been nice.
Check it out at: http://911.wikileaks.org/
Bye to y'all. I may add another post soon.
onsdag 2 december 2009
tisdag 1 december 2009
The one with 2012
I am putting Clockwork Orange on a hiatus for the moment. I have watched the movie recently, but I have to read the book again to refresh my memory, something that I'll do around Christmas-time.
The movie that I'm going to review today is 2012, and yes, I know, there are probably alot of reviews out there. Just for you, I'm going to try to make a review better than "It was good".
First off, some information about the location where the movie was watched:
A big cinema, with large salons, newest technology regarding sound and picture. My seat was on the tenth row of 14 total. The view was perfect, with no neck pain or neck stiffness.
I have to stress that I had seen no trailers nor read any reviews prior to watching this movie. My thoughts were that just one or two lines were enough to ruin the movie for me. The only information I had was knowledge that I had collected prior in my life about this dreaded year "2012", about the Mayans ect.
Some info that I have found about the year 2012: December 21 – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, notably used by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization among others, completes a "great cycle" of thirteen b'ak'tuns (periods of 144,000 days each) since the mythical creation date of the calendar's current era. On this day the Long Count date at creation—written 13.0.0.0.0 in modern notation, equivalent to August 11, 3114 BC in the proleptic Gregorian calendar—is repeated for the first time in a span of a little over 5,125 solar years. The completion of this cycle and the repetition of the previous Creation's Long Count ending date have been central to the 2012 phenomenon. Academic researchers have not concluded that the ancient Maya themselves attached similar significance to this point in time. Source: Wikipedia.com
In fictional movies, the "apocalyptic" idea has been used, especially with the year 2012. The following movies that I'm going to mention are made in the 21st century, not very surprising as it was at this time the 2012 hype started to spread to the average Joe.
2012 Doomsday is a 2008 direct-to-DVD doomsday film produced by The Asylum. The film is an imagining of the events predicted to occur in 2012.
I am Legend is not really not related with the "2012-Mayan calendar-bye bye Earth" idea, but it's plot relates to a post-apocalyptic Earth year 2012. The movie is adapted from the novel I Am Legend, written by Richard Matheson. Altough the novel was written in 1954, I think that the movie adaptation's dates were influenced a bit by the 2012 hype.
Now to the movie!
We start with Adrian Helmsley, further in my review known as Adrian, a young geologist that during a visit to India gets to know that massive solar flares release neutrinos, acting like micro-waves who heat up the core of Earth, making the crust unstable. He somehow gets this information to the government, and starts to work with some of the highest scientists to discuss the matter and to reveal more information about whether these changes are going to affect the whole Earth and whether they are going to lead to mass-death among the Earth's population.
Almost at once, the government starts a huge project in China, building three arcs made to hold 400,000 people. Because of the project being expensive, rich people can buy tickets one billion Euros a piece.
The main character in this movie is Jackson Curtis, a writer. During a hike with his children, he meets Charlie, a crazy guy living in a trailer, broadcasting news about the 2012 doomsday, believing that it's an act of God. He has had a relationship with one of Jackson Curtis' friends who had sent him some information. Charlie reveals that people who knew about the project were all killed to prevent information to spread to the average Joe, and to prevent mass panic and riots.
Anywho, Jackson does not believe Charlie at first, but as he is a Limo driver, he drives two children of a businessman, Yuri Karpov, to the airport, the children reveal that they have tickets to a ship that will make them survive, leaving Jackson and other normal people to an inevitable death.
Jackson doesn't really believe that at first, but when a huge crack on the ground underneath him opens up, he rushes to pick up his children and ex-wife, along with her new husband Gordon.
Gordon is a really cool man, he is a plastic surgeon and a pilot. Sweet.
Anywho, Jackson picks up his family to take them to the airport to leave for meeting Charlie to get a map that reveals the position of the ships.
Here starts one of the most awesome scenes in cinematic history. As they ride in the limo, the Earth behind them starts to rise, and they have to step on the gas not to be crushed. The crust of the Earth have started to give up to the pressure.
As they are followed with the disastrous amount of ground, we see other people getting crushed like ants, and they barely get to the airport where Jackson had arranged to hire an airplane to take them to Charlie, but the pilot is dead.
Don't show any fear for the end that is near, Gordon is here!
Gordon takes them up in the air, even though he has a limited amount of lessons in the air, and swiftly flies them to Charlie.
They land near the Yellowstone park, and while they fuel up the plane, Jackson and his daugter search for Charlie. They find him on the top of a mountain, broadcasting live the happenings. They have to leave him there, because of that Charlie rather would witness the explosions and share them with people, that crazy bum.
Jackson takes the trailer and rushes back to the plane, all whilst the crust is giving up and a mountain erupts like a volcano. They get to the plane, but wait!
The map! Jackson rushes to the trailer, takes the map as Gordon starts the engines on the plane.
The whole scene is really tense, as Jackson falls into a crate with the van. The others start to fly away, filled with sorrow and despair, as Jackson climbs up, something that I actually expected.
He runs against the plane, and eventually gets on the plane.
They arrive to another airport, as they run out of fuel, where they meet Yuri and his posse. Both groups need a plane, one that they find (a huge one, Russian as Yuri proudly claims). But it needs two pilots, and Yuri has only one. What should they do?
Well, our gang has their own pilot aswell, and here comes Gordon again to save the day once again! What a no. 1 guy!
They take off just as all the other people on the airport die a horrible death.
They arrive Early to China, as the continental plates have shifted due to the changes in the crust of the Earth. Their engines give up and they have to crash land. Sasha (Yuri's pilot) tells everyone to sit in one car (the plane shipped luxury cars), and whilst the cargo lid opens, they ride away, leaving Sasha trying to save himself in the plane. What a hero.
Just as the plane stops at the end of a cliff, we think that Sasha is saved, but the cliff gives up, leading to a dead Sasha.
Damn, I hated that part. Sasha was almost as awesome as Gordon.
Anywho, Chinese troops arrive, and only Yuri and his kids get picked up due to their tickets, the others have to find another way in.
Now, this part of the movie and onwards dissappointed me. The movie seemed more like a regular action movie from now on.
They get to the ships, find a way in, cause an almost disastrous jam to the doors of one of the ships, leading to almost deadly results to the whole ship.
Did I mention that Gordon got crushed in the cog-wheels operating the doors? That sucked really much.
They get on the ship after all, and everyone is fine. We get a speech about the future and about how people should be kind, yadda yadda yadda.
I would say that the beginning of the movie was the best, and that I almost expected Jackson to return from fixing the jammed cog-wheels, as it would otherwise be a plagiarism of Poseidon, where the father dies in the end. Jup. I was having that thought during the movie.
Going by the special effects, they were awesome. Of course there were instances where you could tell that the effects were artificial, and that bothered me. An example is the crash landing in China, where the cars were crashing out of the plane.
The music was the generic action-movie kind, not much to say about it, but it was sufficient and well-placed.
The actors were good, and they did a great job, especially during those emotional scenes. I wasn't dissappointed with John Cusack's work, especially since he had shown his talent in "1408".
Wow, he has been in two movies whose titles were only consisting of numbers.
But you could almost expect the young black ambitious geologist hooks up with the President's daughter, who also was black.
Were I the only one that thought of the President as Barack Obama? I don't think so, and I think that it was intentional placing a black president in this movie.
Overall the movie was entertaining and gave me alot of goosebumps, even though I was dissappointed in the latter part of the movie about the change, leading to a depression of the "apocalyptic" feeling.
I would give it a 9/10, there was something missing after all.
The movie that I'm going to review today is 2012, and yes, I know, there are probably alot of reviews out there. Just for you, I'm going to try to make a review better than "It was good".
First off, some information about the location where the movie was watched:
A big cinema, with large salons, newest technology regarding sound and picture. My seat was on the tenth row of 14 total. The view was perfect, with no neck pain or neck stiffness.
I have to stress that I had seen no trailers nor read any reviews prior to watching this movie. My thoughts were that just one or two lines were enough to ruin the movie for me. The only information I had was knowledge that I had collected prior in my life about this dreaded year "2012", about the Mayans ect.
Some info that I have found about the year 2012: December 21 – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, notably used by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization among others, completes a "great cycle" of thirteen b'ak'tuns (periods of 144,000 days each) since the mythical creation date of the calendar's current era. On this day the Long Count date at creation—written 13.0.0.0.0 in modern notation, equivalent to August 11, 3114 BC in the proleptic Gregorian calendar—is repeated for the first time in a span of a little over 5,125 solar years. The completion of this cycle and the repetition of the previous Creation's Long Count ending date have been central to the 2012 phenomenon. Academic researchers have not concluded that the ancient Maya themselves attached similar significance to this point in time. Source: Wikipedia.com
In fictional movies, the "apocalyptic" idea has been used, especially with the year 2012. The following movies that I'm going to mention are made in the 21st century, not very surprising as it was at this time the 2012 hype started to spread to the average Joe.
2012 Doomsday is a 2008 direct-to-DVD doomsday film produced by The Asylum. The film is an imagining of the events predicted to occur in 2012.
I am Legend is not really not related with the "2012-Mayan calendar-bye bye Earth" idea, but it's plot relates to a post-apocalyptic Earth year 2012. The movie is adapted from the novel I Am Legend, written by Richard Matheson. Altough the novel was written in 1954, I think that the movie adaptation's dates were influenced a bit by the 2012 hype.
Now to the movie!
We start with Adrian Helmsley, further in my review known as Adrian, a young geologist that during a visit to India gets to know that massive solar flares release neutrinos, acting like micro-waves who heat up the core of Earth, making the crust unstable. He somehow gets this information to the government, and starts to work with some of the highest scientists to discuss the matter and to reveal more information about whether these changes are going to affect the whole Earth and whether they are going to lead to mass-death among the Earth's population.
Almost at once, the government starts a huge project in China, building three arcs made to hold 400,000 people. Because of the project being expensive, rich people can buy tickets one billion Euros a piece.
The main character in this movie is Jackson Curtis, a writer. During a hike with his children, he meets Charlie, a crazy guy living in a trailer, broadcasting news about the 2012 doomsday, believing that it's an act of God. He has had a relationship with one of Jackson Curtis' friends who had sent him some information. Charlie reveals that people who knew about the project were all killed to prevent information to spread to the average Joe, and to prevent mass panic and riots.
Anywho, Jackson does not believe Charlie at first, but as he is a Limo driver, he drives two children of a businessman, Yuri Karpov, to the airport, the children reveal that they have tickets to a ship that will make them survive, leaving Jackson and other normal people to an inevitable death.
Jackson doesn't really believe that at first, but when a huge crack on the ground underneath him opens up, he rushes to pick up his children and ex-wife, along with her new husband Gordon.
Gordon is a really cool man, he is a plastic surgeon and a pilot. Sweet.
Anywho, Jackson picks up his family to take them to the airport to leave for meeting Charlie to get a map that reveals the position of the ships.
Here starts one of the most awesome scenes in cinematic history. As they ride in the limo, the Earth behind them starts to rise, and they have to step on the gas not to be crushed. The crust of the Earth have started to give up to the pressure.
As they are followed with the disastrous amount of ground, we see other people getting crushed like ants, and they barely get to the airport where Jackson had arranged to hire an airplane to take them to Charlie, but the pilot is dead.
Don't show any fear for the end that is near, Gordon is here!
Gordon takes them up in the air, even though he has a limited amount of lessons in the air, and swiftly flies them to Charlie.
They land near the Yellowstone park, and while they fuel up the plane, Jackson and his daugter search for Charlie. They find him on the top of a mountain, broadcasting live the happenings. They have to leave him there, because of that Charlie rather would witness the explosions and share them with people, that crazy bum.
Jackson takes the trailer and rushes back to the plane, all whilst the crust is giving up and a mountain erupts like a volcano. They get to the plane, but wait!
The map! Jackson rushes to the trailer, takes the map as Gordon starts the engines on the plane.
The whole scene is really tense, as Jackson falls into a crate with the van. The others start to fly away, filled with sorrow and despair, as Jackson climbs up, something that I actually expected.
He runs against the plane, and eventually gets on the plane.
They arrive to another airport, as they run out of fuel, where they meet Yuri and his posse. Both groups need a plane, one that they find (a huge one, Russian as Yuri proudly claims). But it needs two pilots, and Yuri has only one. What should they do?
Well, our gang has their own pilot aswell, and here comes Gordon again to save the day once again! What a no. 1 guy!
They take off just as all the other people on the airport die a horrible death.
They arrive Early to China, as the continental plates have shifted due to the changes in the crust of the Earth. Their engines give up and they have to crash land. Sasha (Yuri's pilot) tells everyone to sit in one car (the plane shipped luxury cars), and whilst the cargo lid opens, they ride away, leaving Sasha trying to save himself in the plane. What a hero.
Just as the plane stops at the end of a cliff, we think that Sasha is saved, but the cliff gives up, leading to a dead Sasha.
Damn, I hated that part. Sasha was almost as awesome as Gordon.
Anywho, Chinese troops arrive, and only Yuri and his kids get picked up due to their tickets, the others have to find another way in.
Now, this part of the movie and onwards dissappointed me. The movie seemed more like a regular action movie from now on.
They get to the ships, find a way in, cause an almost disastrous jam to the doors of one of the ships, leading to almost deadly results to the whole ship.
Did I mention that Gordon got crushed in the cog-wheels operating the doors? That sucked really much.
They get on the ship after all, and everyone is fine. We get a speech about the future and about how people should be kind, yadda yadda yadda.
I would say that the beginning of the movie was the best, and that I almost expected Jackson to return from fixing the jammed cog-wheels, as it would otherwise be a plagiarism of Poseidon, where the father dies in the end. Jup. I was having that thought during the movie.
Going by the special effects, they were awesome. Of course there were instances where you could tell that the effects were artificial, and that bothered me. An example is the crash landing in China, where the cars were crashing out of the plane.
The music was the generic action-movie kind, not much to say about it, but it was sufficient and well-placed.
The actors were good, and they did a great job, especially during those emotional scenes. I wasn't dissappointed with John Cusack's work, especially since he had shown his talent in "1408".
Wow, he has been in two movies whose titles were only consisting of numbers.
But you could almost expect the young black ambitious geologist hooks up with the President's daughter, who also was black.
Were I the only one that thought of the President as Barack Obama? I don't think so, and I think that it was intentional placing a black president in this movie.
Overall the movie was entertaining and gave me alot of goosebumps, even though I was dissappointed in the latter part of the movie about the change, leading to a depression of the "apocalyptic" feeling.
I would give it a 9/10, there was something missing after all.
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Picture source: http://www.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2012.jpg
lördag 28 november 2009
The one with Monkeybone
I have to admit that I am a fan of Brendan Fraiser. He is a good actor with one of the greatest sarcasm-deliveries that I have seen up to this day. He has starred in several genres of movies, and I have yet to be dissapointed about his performance.
The latest of his movies that I saw was Inkheart, but it's too early for me to dissect that movie for now. I'll leave that for later. I can just add shortly that it was a great movie, and that I recommend it for fantasy fans. I wish I had a Silver Tounge too.
The movie that I want to write about here is Monkeybone, also starring Brendan Fraiser.
It's a rather bizarre movie with dark humor, which adds to me liking it more.
We have the main character, Stu Miley, who is a cartoonist. He has created a character, a monkey named Monkeybone. In Monkeybone's cartoons, Monkeybone gets into mischief due to his inappropriate actions.
The cartoon has lead to Stu's success as a cartoonist, and he has became famous. When leaving a preview of one of the newest Monkeybone features, rather angry because of the uncomfort of being famous, Stu crashes with his car and falls into a coma.
Although the "main protaginist falls into a coma" plot has been exploited alot in movies during the start of cinema, but I think that it was well executed in this movie. But as many great movies, they are based of books, in Monkeybone's case it's Dark Town, written by Kaja Blackley.
After Stu falls into coma, we get to the really interesting part of the story.
He finds himself in the "coma-world", a bizarre place where all people that are in the state of coma stay while they wait for getting a ticket back out. Some people get out in time, others not at all.
The world is black, with monsters resembling those of the greek mythology.
Stu had before his accident suffered from serious nighmares, which are popular in the coma-world as entertainment. We find out that while Stu drew with his right hand, all he could draw was all the nightmares that he have had. When he switched to his left hand, he drew Monkeybone, his ticket to success.
The coma-world is a great part of this movie and it's well-explored. The designs of the place and monsters mix in well together, and give a great boost to Brendan Fraiser's acting, where he shows confusion, despair and fear of the place where he has woken up into.
Anyhow, to proceed the review into a continous flow, rather than a stagnant, I'll describe the events following Stu's introduction into the coma-world.
Stu had been shown earlier having a fiancée. They switch to her coupling with Stu's coma, and finding out that he was to ask her to marry him with his grandmother's wedding ring.
When time goes, she has to deal with Stu's sister, who claims that she and Stu had a pact to never stay at life support like a vegetable, so she decides that it will be taken off.
Stu's fiancée breaks into a lab, stealing a drug that induces nightmares, hoping that the psychological stress will wake him up. She gives him a huge dose, without results.
Meanwhile in the coma-world, Stu has met with his creation, Monkeybone, a really annoying primate that acts just as he does in his cartoons.
We find out that Stu's fiancées drug actually worked, as Stu gets his ticket (he manages to steal it from Death herself, played by Whoopi Goldberg), but meanwhile the doctor in the hospital is about to pull the plug on the life support.
Just as Stu is to go to the lift that will take him out, Monkeybone jumps into the lift, taking his place. Stu wakes up, acting like Monkeybone.
A series of events will follow, with Stu's fiancée starting to doubt that it's the real Stu before her, when Monkeybone-Stu acts quite the opposite of Stu.
Meanwhile we see Stu, who just wants a chance to tell his fiancée that he loves her, trying to get out from the coma-world once again. We find out that a series of famous people also got their ticket stolen from their creations, a rather funny and comedical scene in my mind.
Stu speaks with death, apologizes for the theft, and gets his ticket when he clarifies that he is in love and that the only thing he wants is to tell his fiancée that he loves her.
He gets assigned a new body, and the only one avalible is the one of an athlete that was killed by getting run over by a bus. He wakes up just at the surgeons are to take out his organs, describing which organ is to become a new yacht or house for themselves. It's a rather funny scene.
Apparently Stu's new body doesn't need it's internal organs, and he escapes the hospital with several surgeons chasing him.
He takes himself to a fund raising event, where Monkeybone-Stu is holding some kind of show. He starts to chase him, and they both end up in a balloon, ending with them both falling down and the end is...death?
We find out during the movie that the cause of Monkeybone taking Stu's body is that he had a scheme with the Devil (I think he was the Devil at least) to go out into the living world, and to produce a nightmare-inducing spray to be spread to people via Monkeybone toys (more precisely farting Monkeybone dolls). With increased nightmares would come increased profits and entertainment in the coma-world.
Overall the movie has a great plot, with different desires intervening with eachother. The ideas are kind of original, and I have yet to see another movie to fascinate me, and left me thinking as much as this one has. Believe me or not, it's a comedy with depth. When have that happened before, ever?
We have great actors, especially, if I have to say it again, Brendan Fraiser.
Regarding the design of the coma-world, it's rather perfectly executed. Some requisita may seem rather artificial, but that won't bother much as it's an artificial world from our eyes after all.
I would recommend this movie to everyone, but it's not a mainstream comedy, mind that. Now buy the movie, don't download it, please. Support good movies, so that we will have more ones!
Next up is a review of the movie version Clockwork Orange, with some analysis between it and the novel with the same name.
Peace out.
ps. Monkeybone sounds like an alternative name for erection. I think that I'll use that.
The latest of his movies that I saw was Inkheart, but it's too early for me to dissect that movie for now. I'll leave that for later. I can just add shortly that it was a great movie, and that I recommend it for fantasy fans. I wish I had a Silver Tounge too.
The movie that I want to write about here is Monkeybone, also starring Brendan Fraiser.
It's a rather bizarre movie with dark humor, which adds to me liking it more.
We have the main character, Stu Miley, who is a cartoonist. He has created a character, a monkey named Monkeybone. In Monkeybone's cartoons, Monkeybone gets into mischief due to his inappropriate actions.
The cartoon has lead to Stu's success as a cartoonist, and he has became famous. When leaving a preview of one of the newest Monkeybone features, rather angry because of the uncomfort of being famous, Stu crashes with his car and falls into a coma.
Although the "main protaginist falls into a coma" plot has been exploited alot in movies during the start of cinema, but I think that it was well executed in this movie. But as many great movies, they are based of books, in Monkeybone's case it's Dark Town, written by Kaja Blackley.
After Stu falls into coma, we get to the really interesting part of the story.
He finds himself in the "coma-world", a bizarre place where all people that are in the state of coma stay while they wait for getting a ticket back out. Some people get out in time, others not at all.
The world is black, with monsters resembling those of the greek mythology.
Stu had before his accident suffered from serious nighmares, which are popular in the coma-world as entertainment. We find out that while Stu drew with his right hand, all he could draw was all the nightmares that he have had. When he switched to his left hand, he drew Monkeybone, his ticket to success.
The coma-world is a great part of this movie and it's well-explored. The designs of the place and monsters mix in well together, and give a great boost to Brendan Fraiser's acting, where he shows confusion, despair and fear of the place where he has woken up into.
Anyhow, to proceed the review into a continous flow, rather than a stagnant, I'll describe the events following Stu's introduction into the coma-world.
Stu had been shown earlier having a fiancée. They switch to her coupling with Stu's coma, and finding out that he was to ask her to marry him with his grandmother's wedding ring.
When time goes, she has to deal with Stu's sister, who claims that she and Stu had a pact to never stay at life support like a vegetable, so she decides that it will be taken off.
Stu's fiancée breaks into a lab, stealing a drug that induces nightmares, hoping that the psychological stress will wake him up. She gives him a huge dose, without results.
Meanwhile in the coma-world, Stu has met with his creation, Monkeybone, a really annoying primate that acts just as he does in his cartoons.
We find out that Stu's fiancées drug actually worked, as Stu gets his ticket (he manages to steal it from Death herself, played by Whoopi Goldberg), but meanwhile the doctor in the hospital is about to pull the plug on the life support.
Just as Stu is to go to the lift that will take him out, Monkeybone jumps into the lift, taking his place. Stu wakes up, acting like Monkeybone.
A series of events will follow, with Stu's fiancée starting to doubt that it's the real Stu before her, when Monkeybone-Stu acts quite the opposite of Stu.
Meanwhile we see Stu, who just wants a chance to tell his fiancée that he loves her, trying to get out from the coma-world once again. We find out that a series of famous people also got their ticket stolen from their creations, a rather funny and comedical scene in my mind.
Stu speaks with death, apologizes for the theft, and gets his ticket when he clarifies that he is in love and that the only thing he wants is to tell his fiancée that he loves her.
He gets assigned a new body, and the only one avalible is the one of an athlete that was killed by getting run over by a bus. He wakes up just at the surgeons are to take out his organs, describing which organ is to become a new yacht or house for themselves. It's a rather funny scene.
Apparently Stu's new body doesn't need it's internal organs, and he escapes the hospital with several surgeons chasing him.
He takes himself to a fund raising event, where Monkeybone-Stu is holding some kind of show. He starts to chase him, and they both end up in a balloon, ending with them both falling down and the end is...death?
We find out during the movie that the cause of Monkeybone taking Stu's body is that he had a scheme with the Devil (I think he was the Devil at least) to go out into the living world, and to produce a nightmare-inducing spray to be spread to people via Monkeybone toys (more precisely farting Monkeybone dolls). With increased nightmares would come increased profits and entertainment in the coma-world.
Overall the movie has a great plot, with different desires intervening with eachother. The ideas are kind of original, and I have yet to see another movie to fascinate me, and left me thinking as much as this one has. Believe me or not, it's a comedy with depth. When have that happened before, ever?
We have great actors, especially, if I have to say it again, Brendan Fraiser.
Regarding the design of the coma-world, it's rather perfectly executed. Some requisita may seem rather artificial, but that won't bother much as it's an artificial world from our eyes after all.
I would recommend this movie to everyone, but it's not a mainstream comedy, mind that. Now buy the movie, don't download it, please. Support good movies, so that we will have more ones!
Next up is a review of the movie version Clockwork Orange, with some analysis between it and the novel with the same name.
Peace out.
ps. Monkeybone sounds like an alternative name for erection. I think that I'll use that.
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Picture source: http://gallery.sendbad.net/data/media/62/monkey%20bone.jpg
fredag 27 november 2009
The one with the results
Yesterday I wrote three tests, one labtest and two credits. I passed them all, boo-yah!
Who is the man? I AM!
When I came home, after not sleeping all night, I was exhausted. I was out from my house from 7.15 until 17.00, barely sitting much during that time. It was horrible.
I barely ate due to time-strain, and when I finally ate at 16.00, and then I crashed.
So long story short, I was to take a nap, and woke up 05.00. That was around 12 hours of non-disturbed sleep.
Life is good.
Today, I am going to meet a good friend, go to McDonalds for lunch and then later I will see my girlfriend and hang out. But first I am craving for a breakfast, so I'm going to my girlfriend's soon.
I just started to watch the Office US, man, that is some entertainment! The idea is genious and perfectrly executed. To use one set (the office) to extensively and still being interesting and funny.Now I know that you are thinking: "Well, DUH, look at Scrubs!" but that's not a correct statement. Hospitals can be interesting and also give rise to variations in the plot.
But an office can be really boring, so in the Office, they build up the characters in it instead and use them for the comedy.¨
Speaking about entertainment, I was thinking the other day about how bad movies can be, especially plot-wise. As an example, let me bring up the plot of the movie Mr. Accident, that I and my brother and a friend rented a Saturday many, many years ago.
The plot was the following: We have the main character, Ruger Crumpkin, who was brought up in a family that repair scraps from a junk-yard. But he was the black sheep, he broke them down. Something about junk.In any case, he get's a girlfriend, and has a job in an egg factory. He and his girlfriend find out that Roger's boss has an evil scheme to put nicotine into eggs, making all kinds of people addicted to them. Oh, so evil!
So Roger has to stop his boss, and during the movie, he manages to become addicted to the eggs, too.
There are lots of slapstick humor, but that's maybe the most interesting thing about the movie. I remember sitting and thinking of just watching another movie instead.
My memory is vague, but not the memory about how lousy this movie was.
So about the plot: Drugged eggs? Really? To add the hens were feeded nicotine and that was how the eggs got polluted.
Anywho, I wish you a great Saturday and I'm going to chill the hell out of this day.
Peace out.
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Pictures:
The Office US source: http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2009/03/THE%20OFFICE%20ARTICLE.jpg
Mr Accident Source: http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/coverv/44/168744.jpg
torsdag 26 november 2009
The one that is the 1st one
One post has to be the 1st.
It knows of it's existence and it's fate to be the least read post in the whole blog.
It doesn't like it, but it has got a sense of honor and takes it's place which was given to it when it was created, with the first letter being typed down.
On a more serious note, as much as I bless anonymity I bet that you want to know who I am. Forget me telling my name, there are too many psychos out there.
Here is some basic info:
Ethicity: Enough to give rise to a Southern "We don't take kindly to your kind around here" comment when entering a shabby bar at noon.
Looks: Chubby, as most of the unhappy souls that spend their time blogging instead of doing those hundred push-ups a day. But I'm working on it. I swear.
Interests: Video editing, movies (Oh, I am so unique)
Profession: The worst and least appreciated of them all: a Med Student. In Poland. EASTERN POLAND. It get's worse: Near the White Russian Border. I suspect an invasion now as the Swine Flu is conquering the Earth.
I should be studying right now, so I'll have to go. I have a Patophysiology Credit tomorrow, and I haven't started studying yet. Wish me luck. Please.
Good night to you all.
Ps. Two people have "Koskesh" and "Kharsavar" as a part of their Blogger adress. They mean "Pussyfucker" and "Donkey Rider" respectively, in Persian. Some people, right?
The only post in the "Koskesh" blog says:
"Dostane aziz,
khosh amadid.
omidvaram ke bezodi ba chand nafar ke dost dashte bashan harf-e koso kir bezaneem, ashena basham.
be omide un rooz.
kose shirin agar dareed, dar khedmat gozari hazeram."
The translation is (rather funny in my opinion):
"Welcome my dear friends.
I hope that soon I'll get to know some people that like to speak about pussy and cock.
In hope of one day.
If you have a sweet pussy, I am ready for your service."
That is some funny shit.
Ok, I really have to go now. Peace.
It knows of it's existence and it's fate to be the least read post in the whole blog.
It doesn't like it, but it has got a sense of honor and takes it's place which was given to it when it was created, with the first letter being typed down.
On a more serious note, as much as I bless anonymity I bet that you want to know who I am. Forget me telling my name, there are too many psychos out there.
Here is some basic info:
Ethicity: Enough to give rise to a Southern "We don't take kindly to your kind around here" comment when entering a shabby bar at noon.
Looks: Chubby, as most of the unhappy souls that spend their time blogging instead of doing those hundred push-ups a day. But I'm working on it. I swear.
Interests: Video editing, movies (Oh, I am so unique)
Profession: The worst and least appreciated of them all: a Med Student. In Poland. EASTERN POLAND. It get's worse: Near the White Russian Border. I suspect an invasion now as the Swine Flu is conquering the Earth.
I should be studying right now, so I'll have to go. I have a Patophysiology Credit tomorrow, and I haven't started studying yet. Wish me luck. Please.
Good night to you all.
Ps. Two people have "Koskesh" and "Kharsavar" as a part of their Blogger adress. They mean "Pussyfucker" and "Donkey Rider" respectively, in Persian. Some people, right?
The only post in the "Koskesh" blog says:
"Dostane aziz,
khosh amadid.
omidvaram ke bezodi ba chand nafar ke dost dashte bashan harf-e koso kir bezaneem, ashena basham.
be omide un rooz.
kose shirin agar dareed, dar khedmat gozari hazeram."
The translation is (rather funny in my opinion):
"Welcome my dear friends.
I hope that soon I'll get to know some people that like to speak about pussy and cock.
In hope of one day.
If you have a sweet pussy, I am ready for your service."
That is some funny shit.
Ok, I really have to go now. Peace.
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