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Demon Days
Nov 3rd
Not very many goings on lately. Work is a complete slog. I’m really hating it these days. Mainly because of my incredibly incompetent boss, but I’m not going to go into that now.
October was a very busy month – had something going on almost every weekend, crezzy man, crezzy. First up, I hosted our very first Clan get together. Wooo! Almost 30 people packed in to my house. It was good fun, and great to finally meet the people behind the players. Next time though, I’m going to have a maximum of 10 (or less) people. Things will be a lot less hectic then I think (hope).
The weekend after that was our kids’ nursery school (creche / kindergarten?) concert. They both had to attend 3 performances (of which we (ie, mommy and daddy) only attended the second one), so there was a lot of fetching and carrying going on. Fortunately the venue wasn’t too far from our home.
The following weekend was extra busy, as it was our son’s “graduation” ceremony from creche (he’s attending primary school next year), and also my brother’s wedding. Unfortunately due to the timing of the events, we had to miss the wedding ceremony – although we were there for the reception. It sucked missing the ceremony – but at least I had the opportunity to attend the legal portion of the wedding a few days earlier (long story).
This coming weekend is our first completely “free” weekend. We have no obligations to go anywhere, see anyone etc. And since I managed to get my wife addicted to Battlefield 2142, I guess that’s what we’re going to be doing most of the weekend :p
Honestly, I would prefer to watch movies at the moment – especially if the weather stays overcast and miserable. Not very likely though, I can see the sun streaming in the window on the other side of my office.
I’m not kidding – I’m sitting with 35 movies in my DVD collection that I have not yet seen. Okay, some of them are movies that I have actually seen before (on big screen), but I haven’t necessarily seen the DVD. There’s a couple that I’m definitely NOT going to watch though – mainly the kids movies, but that’s still a very small fraction of the total. :p
Part of the problem is that a lot of the movies that I want to watch I have to keep till after the kids have gone to bed, and I can guarantee you that my wife won’t watch some of them either – like my Exorcist box set that I got recently. 
I can’t help myself. I love horror movies. :p
Movie Malady
Jun 9th
My favourite movie genre is the horror movie. Specifically movies relating to vampires. Don’t ask me why… perhaps I have an unconscious desire to be a blood sucking fiend. Oh well, whatever.
Werewolf movies are also up near the top of the list, while the gory splatter movie (ala Texas Chainsaw Massacre) finds itself at the very bottom of my list. I don’t particularly care for gratutious violence of that nature.
I see that IMDB now requires you to login to view the message boards. Fuckheads. Please remember BugMeNot!
When viewing the Texas Chainsaw Massacre page on IMDB, I saw a thread entitled “5 movies you wish you never seen” (remember to use BugMeNot if it asks you to login). Man, the people are really whiny little bitches with no taste. Sure, a couple of people had valid lists, but the majority of the whiners listed GREAT movies! Shame.
Movie Mistakes – Or things that really annoy the experts
May 24th
I can just imagine how, say, a mountain climber must laugh at the crap that a movie character pulls in a movie like Vertical Limit, or how a real crime scene investigator gets annoyed with liberties taken in something like CSI. — I’m not a crime scene investigator, so the kind of things that would annoy a real csi would simply make me say “Cool”.
Which brings me to my point: I have an HP Deskjet 5550 color printer, and I have never once heard it make any noises like a dot matrix printer. No surprise there, the technology is worlds apart — And it’s virtually silent too! Now what really gets my goat, is that in the CSI:Miami lab, they have exactly the same printer that I have, yet the fuckin’ thing always sounds like a dot matrix printer when it ejects a page! It drives me fucking nuts! I’d like to smack that foley artist right upside the head.
Hollywood “distorts” history
Sep 12th
Originally Posted: 03 August 2004 @ 07h43
>I refer to THIS story.
>Get a GRIP people! They’re just freakin’ stories, NOT based on reality. Fuck, they’ll probably go on about historical inaccuracies in Lord of the Rings soon.
–edit: Ahh well. The link no longer exists. I have no clue what I was on about, but you get the gist.
–edit #2:
This was really bugging me, but no amount of searching could find a trace of the article that originally incensed me. This Google Search is enough to go on about in any case.
Again, get a grip, damnit. If they were labelled and marketed as factual documentaries, then you would have something to say about it.
The Accidental Spy
Mar 1st
The Accidental Spy is an HK Jackie Chan film, meaning it is made in Hong Kong.
If you can get your mind around the dubbing, the movie is actually quite good, though some of the action scenes (the climactic action scene at the end of the movie particularly comes to mind) border on the ridiculous.
I can highly recommend this movie if you’re a Jackie Chan fan, however if you can’t handle dubbed movies, skip this one. I found the dubbing particularly distracting at first, but I got used to it after awhile, and since the movie is set in Istanbul for the most part, I kept having the refrain “Istanbul, it’s Constantinople” echoing through the recesses of my mind for the whole movie (Gah!).
An interesting bit: I looked up the movie entry in IMDB, and it says Jackie Chan’s character was called Buck Yeun, but I could swear he introduces himself to one of the characters as Jackie Chan. It was for that reason that I assumed his character in the movie was also named “Jackie Chan”, a bit unusual, but not impossible. Can someone confirm this?
In conclusion, there’s something to be said about Jackie Chan movies. They’re always worth watching, particulary for his trademark action sequences, and I especially love watching the outtakes in the end-credits.