Heh, one of my flatmates and I just spent the last couple of hours taking cheap shots at Valentine, a rather silly slasher movie from 2001.
A bunch of snotty girls have picked on a nerd all through elementary school, until they in 9th grade get the kid sent away to a mental institution by claiming [...]
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Quintessential apathy and lack of interest. It’s also a dismissing sound. Yay, three potential areas of use for the same category! :D
Valentine
Concerning Documentaries
I just watched an Australian documentary about Mullah Krekar (whose real name is Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad), one of the founders of the militant, Kurdish, Islamist organization Ansar al Islam, and an asylum seeker in Norway. The guy whom the Americans tried to use to link Saddam Hussein to Osama bin Laden a couple of years [...]
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 [...]
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
I watched “Dead Man’s Chest” with my sister last Saturday, although I almost wished we hadn’t.
Because while it distracted us for two entertaining hours, it is so bleedingly obvious that “Dead Man’s Chest” is nothing but a money maker; a bridge to the concluding volume; a movie I felt was only made because trilogies seems [...]
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Another late review; “Pirates I” was watched and evaluated over two weeks ago.
And I ended up on a 7.5/10. It’s a very entertaining movie, with a lot of strong performances, usually splendid effects (excepting the full moon bit, and the missing skeletons), spectacular action, and all those things. Depp and Rush are particularly good.
But there’s [...]
Mellom Slagene
Grufullt lite foredrag jeg holdt på museet i kveld. Et språklig togkrasj, siden jeg skrev førsteutkastet på riksmål, før jeg plutselig innså at syntaksen min når jeg snakker er mer nynorsk, hvorpå et kaotisk og halvhjertet forsøk på å tilpasse stilen muntlig framføring oppsto.
Som sagt, språket er katastrofe, innholdet noe bedre. Poster foreløpig tekst, så [...]
“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 [...]
The Octagon
When Kalle, Håvard and myself was at the hospital yesterday, the two former ones found a cheap DVD box in the hospital’s kiosk, a box containing three of Chuck Norris’ most famous movies. And as both Kalle and Håvard think Chuck Norris jokes are hilarious, they couldn’t do anything but buy this abomination. And tonight, [...]
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. [...]
April 15 is coming up…
And with it the deadline for applying for admittance to higher education. Thus I, hopefully finishing my Bachelor in Social Studies (oooh, look at who’s learned the distinction between “studies” and “science” since last time! ), have had to come up with something I’d like to be doing next year. And seeing as said [...]
House of Flying Daggers
I’m currently trying to build a buffer of movies so that I won’t have any problems filling this year’s quota of 104 movies, and last night that resulted in me watching “House of Flying Daggers” — number 32 so far this year.
Which is, undoubtedly, a good movie. It’s aesthetically pleasing both visually and, umm, audibly, [...]
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 [...]
Seriously…
… does people really believe in stuff like this?
Dear Friend,
I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise as we have never met before.
My name is Mr.Ahmed Hassan. I am the bill and exchange manager in African Development Bank.
I hope that you will not expose or betray this trust and confidence [...]
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 [...]
I’m feeling optimistic
It is now, let’s see, a little more than 38 hours until my term paper in “Social Scientific Method” is due, and I feel I’m on course. Even though it’s only eight hours or so since I started working on it.
Because today I flipped through a couple of term papers in this course from the [...]
Barb Wire
Oh, yeah. I watched this abomination tonight. And it was absolutely horrible. The lines were stuffy and pompous, the score was laughable, the acting was a disgrace (with the honourable exception of a couple of supporting actors), the story was non existant, et cetera, et cetera, ad nauseum. But the opening scene, where Pam strips [...]
Concerning categories…
It just struck me, that the intended function of categories is to facilitate the manouverability of the blog; that if readers want to find a specific post, they only have to click the most fitting category, and search.
It also struck me that my overrzealous use of the categories might be undermining this function. Of course, [...]
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