A Midsummer Night’s Dream seemed like a really boring play, at least when compared to the splendid Othello (Iago for teh win! ), so I decided to skip reading it, and just go to the showing of the 1999 movie that was arranged as part of this course I’m taking.
The movie didn’t exactly make [...]
Posts filed in Disappointment
Sometimes, I get so worked up over something I want to see, read or listen to, so that the actual thing is unable to live up to my expectations. And then I’m disappointed. Even worse are the cases where I don’t have any expectations at all, but still end up disappointed.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
X-Men: The Last Stand
I hadn’t watched this one since it was in theaters, so it was about bloody time I got around to it again. I guess I might have been postponing it for the last year or so because I wasn’t too impressed with the movie the first time I watched it. I thought they’d crammed too [...]
Gudenes Fall
Gudenes Fall, by Cornelius Jakhelln.
2007, 428 pages.
Now, this might be a little weird. Gudenes Fall (The Fall of the Gods) is a book that most likely never will be translated into English, and yet, I choose to review it in English. But hey, my English is still worse than my Norwegian.
In the year 1000 AD, [...]
Movies Galore: A Summary
It’s nearly two months since my last movie review — a review, I might add, where I was unreasonably hard on the reviewed movie, as the fact that I’m in a foul mood shouldn’t really count against it. Anyway, since then I’ve watched a lot of movies: excellent movies, great movies, good movies, mediocre movies, [...]
Van Helsing
For some insane reason (I believe it’s called “my sister” ), I’ve just watched “Van Helsing” for the third time or so.
And while it was a decent enough action flick the first time around, it’s not a movie you’d want to watch again. The thrill of that first viewing is no more, as you know [...]
A silent prayer of thanks to the patriarchate and all male chauvinists
Oh, patriarchal social structure!
Oh, male chauvinists of the past!
I praise thee!
While thy general wisdom might leave something to be desired, and while I dislike thee quite strongly, thee have done me — and in fact the whole nation — a great service!
And while thy rancid ignorance and silly prejudices have also done us all great [...]
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, #2
Watched this one again last night, and it was surprisingly much better than the first time. Mostly, this was because I focused on what was actually there rather than on what wasn’t, and it turned out that even though they could have spent another half hour for emphasis to a couple of scenes, and done [...]
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
I finally got my arse over to the nearest movie theatre to watch “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”.
As most of you probably know, the last instalment in the series saw the return of the Dark Lord Voldemort. Harry has spent his summer at his aunt and uncle’s, as usual, pining for news [...]
The obviousness of it
Low Key Lyesmith, a grifter from Minnesota with orange-blonde hair, and a morbid sense of humour involving a lot of gallows.
Come on! XD
Sunshine
Perhaps the only advantage of having to depend on a small town cinema during summers: I get the opportunity to watch movies I missed when they were screened in Trondheim. As was the case of “Sunshine“.
In 2050, the Sun is about to stop burning, and a crew of astronauts and scientists are sent out to [...]
“Gaid”
I’ve finally taken my language-related snobbishness out into the open, primarily because the local newspaper recently titled me as “gaid” — a horrendous norwegianification of the English word “guide”, and an unnecessary one too, as we have the perfectly servicable synonym “omviser”.
So, it might be that the Norwegian Council of Language has given the go-ahead [...]
That’s it, then.
There’s dust on your guitar, you fuck, and it’s all your fault…
In four days, I am supposed to hand in a 25 pages long project paper in the pol.sci. course I’m taking. However, being a lazy, useless slob, I haven’t even begun reading for it yet. I tried to start working on it today, but [...]
Solaris
Me and one of my flat mates also watched “Solaris” tonight. And we both kinda wish we hadn’t.
Because this was uninteresting and boring. I won’t even try to describe the plot, except that it took place on a space station in orbit around the planet Solaris, and that strange things had happened. George Clooney’s [...]
Alien
Watched “Alien” with two of my flat mates tonight.
As a commercial towing ship is on its way home to Earth, the computer detects a signal, and wakes its crew. They believe this to be some kind of distress signal, and decide to go check it out, in case theree’s something they can do to help. [...]
Seven Swords
Watched “Seven Swards” last night, a Chinese movie set sometime around the shift of power from the Ming to the Quing dynasties (or possibly the other way around), as the newly ascended dynasty outlaws the practice of martial arts. Bounties are paid for the heads of those who don’t conform to this edict, and several [...]
Daredevil
Okay, so I am a sucker for comic books adapted to film, but this is where I draw the line.
I don’t think there was one thing, really, which appealed to me in this movie, with the possible exceptions of the guy who played the Kingpin and the ending — i.e. how Daredevil decided to deal [...]
Phew.
WARNING! This post contains what most people would consider to be TMI. Consider yourself warned. The author will not take responsibility for disturbing imagery that might appear in your minds if you read on.
That’s gotta be one of the hardest papers I’ve ever written. Sure, the theory and the empirics was child’s play, eight pages [...]
Star Wars Episode II: The Attack of the Clone
A.k.a. Haydn Christensen. Whose horrible acting is the most prominent attribute of this movie. In fact, Håvard and myself spent much of the movie making fun of this helpless young fellow (I believe I at one point commented on the striking resemblance between his mouth and an anus), and bemoaning what a total jerk Anakin [...]
Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Substance
Luckily, when we’d watched “Thirteen Days”, my room mate with the cold decided to go lay down for a couple of hours, so I finally got around to cleaning. Which was an annoying task to preform, since I got the impression that the other guys haven’t done it good enough the last couple of weeks. [...]
And I thought the American Right consisted of a bunch of nutters…
… but then I actually learned some stuff about the American Left, and I started to wonderr: Maybe there’s a reason why the Right is as it is?
First some background: This last week, I’ve been reading “The Right Nation: Conservative Power In America”, written by a couple of British “Economist” journalists. This is a book [...]
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