Movie: Riding The Bullet (2004)

IMDB Link: HERE
Personal Rating: 9.0

Excellent movie, based on Stephen King's novella bearing the same name. Checked the IMDB recently. The rating is far below which this movie actually deserves.

Scary moments:

-more than 10.

WTF moments:

1)The highway scene with the rabbit, the wolf and the crow.
2)Imaginary hospital-visiting scenes.
3)When Alan is trying to slit his wrist in the bath tub.
4)Some scenes in the car with George.
5)The scene in the hospital with the 'meowing' mother... just creepy.

8 things I've learned from this movie:

1)If you failed in riding a rollercoaster as a child, you'll feel sorry for it all your life.
2)Some drivers are not what they seem, so careful when hitch-hiking. I should be careful with this, since I commute to work every day.
3)Anything trying to have a snack on the highway WILL become roadkill.
4)Convince your mother to tell you the truth about how daddy died.
5)DEATH TRAVELS FAST. Literally.
6)Smoking kills... sooner or later.
7)Love doesn't last. Only the love of a mother.
8)NOBODY LIVES FOREVER, BUT WE ALL SHINE ON.

Thumbs-up:

1)Excellent acting.
2)Excellent dark humour.
3)The 'dual choice scenes' were something I really felt comfortable with. Scary as hell, though...
4)The casting for the actors must have been a pretty lengthy process. They all rocked.
5)The plot was anything but predictable.
6)It was a clear and to-the-point movie. No use for extra scenes in the movie.

Thumbs-down:

1)We never get to know what happens to Alan's two buddies.

Movie: Lake Placid 2 (2007)

IMDB Link: HERE
Personal rating: 3.0

This is nothing compared to the first part. Awful CGI, lame characters, even lamer lines and not to mention the acting which fell almost below any of my expectations.

Scary moments:

-about 2. (Too damn predictable of a movie!)

WTF moments:

-The horrible CGI.

7 things I've learned from this movie:

1)Crocs can be found anywhere!
2)Crocs can pop out of nowhere!
3)When on an island, don't even think about hangin' from a tree. It's obvious why...
4)Crocs like giving head. Or is it 'getting head'? Hmmm...
5)Even though crocs chomp heads off, heads are still found later in the movie.
6)Crocodile-keeping is legacy. Heritage even. Passed down from sister to sister. Raising crocs is part of the Bickerman family traditions.
7)Crocs avoid eating blondes... 'you are what you eat'?

Thumbs-up:

None I can think of...

Thumbs-down:

1)Horrible CGI...
2)Crocs change sizes throughout the movie.
3)Horrible acting.
4)This movie is a disgrace to crocodiles.
5)Do NOT watch this movie unless you're a diehard fan of Lake Placid 1!

Movie: Lake Placid (1999)

IMDB Link: HERE
Personal rating: 6.5

This horror flick isn't as bad as I thought it'd be. I remember getting a version dubbed in Hungarian in about 2002, but never watched it. Tonight I felt kind of bored and decided to give a horror movie that doesn't involve too much philosophy a shot. It was worth my while.

Scary moments:

-about 4 or 5.

WTF moments:

-The croc attacking the bear.
-The second crocodile's appearance.

10 things I've learned from this movie:

1)Bears make weird sounds when chewed on by crocs.
2)Cows can be blindfolded and fed to the crocs.
3)Husbands can 'accidentally' be fed to the crocs as well.
4)Crocs do not eat heads.
5)Crocs tip over boats for no particular reason.
6)When you decide to take a walk in the forest, do not step on larger branches.
7)Helicopters have large amounts of fuel.
9)You can live on a farm and have a 30-foot pet crocodile.
10)When you find a huge tooth in a lake, the creature it belongs to can no way in hell be a crocodile!

5 thumbs-up:

1)The attempt of mixing the horror and comedy into something watchable.
2)Some of the dialogue is hilarious!
3)Oliver Platt and Brendan Gleeson's acting. Bill Pullman's acting is also nice.
4)Clear and to-the-point movie. Could have been longer, though...
5)'Law enforcement is very dangerous work, isn't it? And you have such big wonderful boobs! =)))

5 thumbs-down:

1)The uselessness of the dramatic music when Cyr flies in.
2)The old lady had the most swear-worded lines in the movie.
3)Bridget Fonda's constant nagging. Plus she falls off the boat two times and gets tripped by the croc's tail... for a main character she sure is clumsy as hell.
4)Some lines are thrown in there in order for something just to happen.
5)Sometimes people can't make up their minds whether to film in 16:9 or larger...

A Midwinter Night's Dream

Wed, Jan 21 2009.
[21:01]

Firstly, I don't even know what language I should write this in. Secondly, I found out that I for one don't have the slightest idea about dreams and reveries. Nor do I know why the hell I am blogging this thing.

Anyway, it was a normal day at work, 6 classes in a row, no sweat. I met up with Moldo and went to buy something down at Real. We separated after having done the shopping and I came home, turned on the computer, had a few insignificant chat lines on YM. At about 5 o'clock I felt the need to get some shuteye. This of course turned to a quarte past 6. Then I somehow fell asleep. 'I'll wake up in about two hours and do what needs to be done, then I can still spend some time pondering about my open class tomorrow.'
And the funny thing is what I had least expected was a dream!
Picture the whole thing as something similar to a perfect dream or even THE perfect dream. All I ever wanted in life was there: friends, snow, harmony, dreams and even HER. That's what made all this so special.
I believe in dreams, but this seemed more like a doing of the great Oversoul which in its infinite power, decided to gift a human with a mere spark of blue dream powder, yet still enough dosage in order to overwhelm the dreamer with a certain sense of completion. How much of what I've been dreaming about made me determine it's THE perfect dream? Could there have been an even 'perfecter' dream? For the moment I don't care.

[20:35]: Dream-break
I just set the alarm at this exact time. I had no trouble at all getting up as I usually do. I quickly jumped off the bed, didn't give a damn about the cool air hovering in the room, reached under the bed for my slippers and like an arrow, I quickly got into my room, where I grew warmer. I was only trying to avoid what happened to poor St. Coleridge while he was trying to write Kubla Khan. Shook the mouse in order to make the monitor pop out of standby, opened a notepad and started writing everything down by sequence until about six or seven very consistent lines printed themselves on the monitor. All this was done very carefully, so no music or chatting while I tried to jot down a picture-perfect description of the dream. I saved about four copies of the document, yet I still feel like this is one of those dreams one isn't too likely to forget. Or at least willingly or very soon.

Yes I keep a dreamlog, some of us do. Dreams are those little things that can make our short, insignificant lives worthwhile.
In the last few days I haven't quite been sleeping regularly or efficiently for that matter. So to speak, four hours/a day seemed quite enough. Maybe the hours of gathered unsleep were the reason for my chance of having dreamt. Or was the listening of this song the trigger for my rocket into dreamworld?



What to do now? Should I text the people from my dream and tell them how glad I am that I am in their lives? That would sound kind of stupid in the world we live in nowadays... I'll find a way. I swear it. :)

Asa-mi vine cateodata... mai Dutule

Azi am fost cu agentul cu nume de cod 'Moldo' pana la Real in vederea achizitionarii unor ofrande care servesc la desavarsirea ritualului sacru al onomasticii materne. Am parasit premisele cu doua plase, respectiv un ghiozdan ticsit de capturi unele mai ramarcabile decat celelalte. In cadrul acestui proces indelungat de pseudo-lamentatie, caracterizat in mod paradoxal prin auto-afirmare abuziva si excesiva, cele doua parti s-au angajat in conversatie. Un aparent moment de reflexie asupra a ceea ce pentru unii ar parea ca fiind rupt din perioada Schopenhaueriana a scos la iveala mai multe filozofii de viata si vorbe de duh, dupa cum urmeaza:

1)
Peti: Si daca nu ii place lu' taica-tau cadoul?
Paul: Pai daca nu-i place, il bea Paul... ce are?

2)
Paul: Ma, tu stii de ce nu avem noi prietene?
Peti: Hm?
Paul: Pentru ca toate fetele sunt c*rve!

3)
Paul (uitandu-se la o cana cu un pinguin pe ea): Uite ce fain ii!
Peti: Asta-i ca si cum i-ai zice mamei tale ca e pinguin... =))

4)
Paul: Na mai, cauta acolo o punga pentru bautura!
Peti: Eu zic ca aici nu gasim, hai la casa, poate au acolo.
Paul: Uite, ia aia de-acolo.
Peti: Aia cu Winnie the Pooh?
Paul: Da, mai.
Peti: Baaaaaaaaaaa...
Paul: Ce-i mai?
Peti: Pai aia e verde mai si are flori... ti se pare ca acum e primavara?
Paul: Tiai mai...
Peti: Ia-i si tu ceva mai de sezon, uite aia de acolo...
Paul: Aia nu!
Peti: Eu cred ca s-ar bucura mai mult pentru punga asta cu Mickey.
Paul: Michi o cazut in copca?
Pati & Paul: =)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Peti: Uite punga de aici e buna. Are si brazi si chestii de Craciun.
Paul: Pentru maica-mea da, dar pentru taica-meu?
Peti: Hmmmm... Winnie the Pooh?
Paul: Winnie The Pooh.

5)
[Si Vlad statea langa Julia]
Peti: ... :|
Paul: ... :|
Peti: De pe telefonul tau se pot descarca poze?
Paul: Nu.
Peti: De ce nu mi-am adus camera? :|

6)
Paul: Hai sa luam niste ciocolata.
Peti: Dar ai zis ca la maica-ta nu ii place ciocolata... :|
Paul: Pe banii mei sa nu faca figuri!
Peti: =))

7)
Paul: Si asa-mi vine cateodata...
Peti: Si asa-mi vine cateodata...
Paul: Sa dau cu cutitu-n piatra...
Peti: Sa dau cu cutitu-n piatra...
Paul: Mai Dorule...
Peti: Mai Dutzule...
Peti: Unora le-a dat cu carul...
Paul: Unora le-a dat cu parul...
Peti & Paul: =))))))))))))))))
Paul: Iara mie cu paharul...
Peti: Iara mie cu paharul...
Paul: Mai Dorule...
Peti: Mai Dutzule...
Paul: Mai stii cand am dus cadou de ziua Adrianei si pe punga jos scria ceva de Dutu?
Peti: 'La Multi Ani Dutzu' sau ceva de genul?
Paul: Da. =))
Peti: =))
Paul & Peti: =)))))
Peti: Nici acela n-a fost plin...
Paul: Nici acela n-a fost plin...
Peti: Jumatate-o fost venin...
Paul: Jumatate-o fost venin...
Peti & Paul: Mai Doruuuuuuule...
Peti: Nici acela n-a fost tras...
Paul: Nici acela n-a fost tras...
Peti: Jumatate-o fost nacaz...
Paul: Jumatate-o fost nacaz...
Peti & Paul: Mai Doruuuuuuule...
[trece o femeie pe langa noi]
Paul: Daca se uita asta la noi, zi ca avem alcoolice in punga.
Peti: =)))

8)
Paul: Uite Petre ce e aici! Astea-s bauturi pentru tine!
Peti: Pina colada?
Paul: Si sa vezi ca poate dintr-o sticla iese Gunther...
Peti: =))
Paul: Uite ma, slibovita!
Peti: Fuck the cola, fuck the pizza, all we need is slibovita.
Paul: =))
Peti: Uite aici! saniuta fuge, nimeni n-o ajunge...
Paul: =)))))))))))
Peti: De ziua ta, mamico, in dar ti-am adus palinca...
Paul & Peti: =)))))))))

9)
Baiat la casa: Va rog sa mergeti pana la domnisoara aceea, ati castigat un vin si un cozonac.
Peti: Huh?
Baiat la casa: Ati castigat un vin si un cozonac, mergeti la domnisoara.
Peti: [...] bine. Paul, socate banii.
Baiat la casa: 115 lei si 50 de bani.
Peti: Paul, scoate baniiiiiiiiii!
Paul: Hm?
Domnisoara cu promotia: Dati-mi numele, va rog.
Peti: O secunda sa imi dea asta banii!
Domnisoara: Bine... :|
Peti: Pauleeeeeeeee... scoate banii!

10)
Peti: Baaaaaaaaaah, ce faci? Aia nu-mi trebuie ca e mucegaita!
Paul: Daca le alegeai una cate una, mergea mai repede treaba...
[vreo doua minute mai tarziu]
Paul: Mai ce urat s-a uitat la tine femeia cand i-ai pus castanele pe masa!
Peti: [cenzurat]

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It's Too Bad She Won't Live, But Then Again Who Does?

If I were to choose the lines that stand out as representatives for my second favourite movie, the one in the title would be one of these.

The movie is called Blade Runner and was first released in 1982. Since then, it suffered a lot of fixes and refixes, thus more versions of the movie are available. I've seen the following (and I guess that's roughly all of them) versions:

-Original Theatrical Version
-Original Theatrical Cut
-Director's Cut (1992)
-Final Cut (2007)
-Fan Edit (ADigitalMan) (2008)
-Original Workprint (I've recently gotten hold of this)

I remember watching the movie when I was younger, but lacking the necessary knowledge needed to properly interpret or even dare to comment upon this movie, I always considered it only an action movie. But I later found it is way more tahn that.
Blade Runner is a movie that gives very much importance to details. If a certain scene is cut in a certain version of the movie, it is simply because it tends to supress or stress certain ideas in that specific version. Thus we can conclude that each version, even though containing the same scenes up to a point, if enriched with the adding of a deleted scene tends to slightly alter or completely change the main idea about the main character(s) or Ridley Scott's (the director) vision of a cyberpunk future. What is amazing is that everytime I watch this movie, newer and newer questions start to arise within me and with a little pondering or some not-so-obvious references in the movie being present, I can find the answer to these.

I've recently checked the IMDB for Blade Runner and it ranked place #103 on the list of the top 250 movies. Good thing we have people around who are still able to escape everyday routine and think a bit about their existence, as this movie focuses more on existentialism. I'd personally give it a 10/10. Let's get serious: the movie was way ahead of its time in 1982, as I saw some guy post this on some board on the internet and is still way ahead of its time now.
Those who consider this piece of art seriously overrated should watch it about 2-3 times more, simply because watching the movie only one time may not really provide you with a decent overview of a picture-perfect Future Noir envisaged by Ridley Scott.

The trailer of the Final Cut:

Qui A Moins Peur De Late Night Gaming?

Well, I'm over it. Playing the game in broad daylight is much more comfortable. I've resumed playing it with my precious gamepad. Still not the real feeling, but I'm a get on it a bit later. In fact, right about now would sound perfect... ;)

Tonight I hung out a bit with Ceci, Radu and Mary. Went to L'Olive Bleue, had some Red Orange tea with honey and discussed on the following topics: Obama, olympics, games, education, accidents, and kids showing off about how they caught their parents doin' it... oh yeah, we also told jokes. :D