Hello Again! It's Friday, the best day of the week. I watched Zatoichi and Offside today, great movies, both of them. Tomorrow I will be watching more movies than ever before, but there will be no blogpost tomorrow (since I'll then be watching more movies than ever before). So this post ends the weekly blogpost week at cyberDB and NG that I have been arranging today (and yesterday, and the day before that all the way down to Monday). And to be honest, daily writing really isn't anything for me, so now I know and can avoid any jobs as daily writer on the various newspapers I read, and I can avoid writing daily blogposts for a week as well. I prefer writing when I'm inspired, and only then. This means either when I'm in a great mood or when it's night and nice and quite. Anyhow...

Zatoichi (2004)

Was it 2004? If it wasn't, I apologize, and will not change the date above but will keep the right one in mind for the next Zatoichi-related post I make after you email me the correct year. Anyhow, this movie is fantastic. The main character is a blind massagist traveling around the country, but there are plenty of other main characters as well, including a fat guy in a Samurai suit, a gambling addict, a transvestite and his sister, a ronin and a gang boss. There's a lot of action, and though the blood may seem exaggerated at times, it's always realistic (at least it seems realistic) and stylish. The director puts the colors Red and Blue into focus, as he does in all his other movies, red standing for evil and blue standing for good. He also uses gray and brown.

The story about this clash of personalities taking place in olskool Edo, where early Yakuza, ronin and samurai roam the country is intense and fast-paced, with lots of variety. The scenery is varied, as are the swift sword moves, characters, events and different angles of filming. The story puts together both Drama, Action and Comedy. Great music as well. The whole thing is a work of art, a must see.

 rated 4/5: fo shizzle

Offside (2001)

This movie is Swedish, so all of you non-Swedish people, I don't recommend you watch this, even though there is a lot of English in it. The movie is a dramatical comedy. Swedish movies tend to contain more everyday dilemmas/relationship issues/etc that are typically left out in other countries (other countries being England, France and USA, the three countries I've seen most movies from). Swedish movies differ a lot from all the relationship dramas you'll probably watch in America. Mainly because, well, Swedish people are different, they prioritize different things, they act differently in different situations, they react differently.

Overall Swedish relationship movies are much heavier than the American ones. I watch a lot more American content than I do Swedish, and I like the American content much more, maybe because I'm used to it, but this is still a good and watchworthy movie. For Swedish people that is. It's not all about relationship, it's about soccer as well, and that aspect of it is exiting (as always). The comical values in it outweigh the other issues as well, so it's all good.

 rated 3/5: not bad

Ok then, see you soon.

Hello Again! I'm really not thirsty, and neither is the day, but trivial was used two days ago and tricky or troubled doesn't fit in, so there was no other option. It was either that or something else. :P I've only watched one (1) movie today, and one more yesterday after the post, and there's a movie on TV today that I've unfortunately already seen, so I'll write a little commentary for that one as well. Here goes:

Waitress (2007)

Romance and Drama, with a little Comedy mixed in. The main character is a girl who constantly thinks of nothing but pies. Her boyfriend is an asshole, she's getting a baby, her doctor isn't the same as before and her friends are having troubles of their own. It really isn't my kind of movie. As I see it I could just get a life instead of watching this, and it would be just the same thing. We watch movies to experience things we can't (or that we really shouldn't) do in real life. There was nothing extreme or amazing about this movie at all, I don't recommend it.

Read on...

Hello World! Since I started this week by posting a post specifically stating the week day in the title I thought I might as well make another news/blog post for today, though this one will be much shorter than it's prequel. I woke up late today, 10. Stayed up late last night watching a few more series than I had planned, they're addicting, heh, so it's not of any strangeness. Spent half of this short day walking, jogging and picking a bucket of nippon to make marmalade. The other half of it I watched the Bee movie ( 2007 ) and played a little Worms Armageddon - new reloaded edition with 25 more weapons from WWP, new levels, new missions, etc. Also worked a little on my website and discussed a few aftereffects of my recently seized site suspension with my webhosts support team. A few more movie reviews follow, two for the ones I watched the day before yesterday and one for a movie that's playing on TV right now that I've seen before. :P

The Bee Movie (2007)

If you've seen and liked Antz and a Bugs life, then you will probably like this. Take a trip into this parallel universe in which the figures all look a bit more animated than we do and where all animals can actually talk, their laws don't allow them to though, but as people often do nowadays, he decides to break the moral codex.

The world of Bees is busy, and everyone does what they have done for the past 25 million years and what they will probably do for the rest of their lifetime, work. One of these bees is different though, after graduating from his nine days of school he's not as thrilled as the others to take on the monotonous missions of factorywork that they have to chose from. Eventually his different perspective on things changes the whole world and the fate rests upon his shoulders. With all the genetic foods being grown today and the bees that in consequence disappear, it makes me wonder if the movie has a deeper moral meaning. Either way, it's a great movie! Fast paced and funny!

Trapped (2002)

It's a thriller with Kevin Bacon featuring the perfect kidnapping except that the kidnappers really aren't after the ransom but a much nobler cause and that the kidnapped baby is very asthmatic and can die any time if not treated right and woah if you can read this run on sentence without gasping for air then you have pretty good lung capacity! Definitely worth watching.

K-Pax (2001)

Yet another one of Clint Eastwoods great movies starring himself as the main character. This one isn't as great as the others though, and in my opinion he fits much better in the legendary western movies he made earlier. He's made for western, not action thrillers like this. His style of acting, the same "slow" and untouchable style just doesn't fit in modern Brooklyn, where this movie takes place. He plays the role of an old police officer hunting after a psychopath killing women, and does a good job at it as well. Lots of eyecandy in the movie ( especially if your a necrophile ), an intense plot, mild comedy and drama, everything a movie should have! Even if it's not one of his best ones it's definatly worth watching.

Blue Streak (1999)

Ever heard the story about the criminal who hid his valuable stolen diamond in a construction area just before being busted and leaves jail years later to find out that the place has become a police station? If you watch this you will have. The main character finds himself in a situation where he either has to enter the building in handcuffs or with a badge, and he choses the latter. Absolutely hilarious and watchworthy.

That ends the movie reviews for today... Oh, and I haven't posted anything about Fathers Day last Sunday (which for you confused non-Swedish people, is the day that it's celebrated here in Sweden). As always me and my sister baked a cake and gave a few items of importance to the family leader. I drew a card in Illustrator, accompanied by a poem (it's in Swedish) and here it is!

Goodnight now.

Happy Halloween! ^_^

Oh my, I've been banned again. 3rd time this month!
I'll be back at the BBS in a day or two.

UPD: Ported from NG

I had my great big Japanese test today! I wrote 8 pages, and it took me three hours. I really have no idea how good essays at university level are required to be though, since this is my first, but I hope this was good enough. I've been studying at least 8 hours per day all days this week, so it's a relief to get over with it.

Woo, the weight is off my shoulders now though, heh, time to get back to being active on NG and working on my mountain of websites. :P I went bowling last weekend btw. It's been 4 years since the last time I went bowling, it was fun. Turns out I'm a lot better than I thought I was too, or maybe just lucky, since I traveled up onto second place in the bowling alley highscores that day! Woo! I got 141 points, the #1 had 153. The place was crowded too, all 12 lanes were taken. Feels GREAT.

I'm off to watch stuff and play games now. Goodnight!