Watchmen

What do you know. Miracles can happen. I liked the Watchmen movie a lot. Worth seeing at least couple times to get the picture in case you have never read the graphic novel. Anyway, I liked the movie, yes, but did I love it? I will let you know when I will watch the...

"Watchmen" DVD in the fall — which will include what he dubbed a "Crazy Ultimate Freaky Edition" boasting such time-omitted extras as "Tales of the Black Freighter," Hollis Mason's death, more Manhattan moments on Mars and dialogue-heavy scenes with the newsstand-bonding Bernies.

Still, to me, the original graphic novel remains unfilmable. Sorry Hollywood. Perhaps next time. See you in 20 or so years ;)

One thing that surely surpasses the graphic novel, if you can say that, its the music! I loved the Watchmen Soundtrack.

The Doors

I against EEXI

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Thanks to Sith Lord Mpakiras for this tip!

Terminator: Salvation

As I have said in the past... This is going to kick ass. Epic!



Enjoy.

Love or hate him

You cannot ignore him. He is The Man.

Sylvester Stallone.

No man can watch a Sylvester Stallone film and come away unchanged. For three decades, Sly combined adrenaline, bafflingly illogical plots and a complete lack of normal human emotion to somehow create something greater than the sum of its parts. Something ... magical.
Below are what we consider the seven "Stalloneyest" moments in film history. WARNING: reading the following might cause you to grab the very next person you see and throw them through a plate glass window.

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And guess what? He has more GREAT things coming in the next years!

Funny People

Over the past few years, writer/director Judd Apatow ('The 40-Year-Old Virgin,' 'Knocked Up') has shown that nothing -- not even losing your virginity or the miracle of childbirth -- is sacred. About his third film behind the camera, he says, "I'm trying to make a very serious movie that is twice as funny as my other movies. Wish me luck!" Apatow directs Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Leslie Mann in 'Funny People,' the story of a famous comedian who has a near-death experience.

Adam Sandler, Eric Bana, Jason Schwartzman, RZA and newcomer Aubrey Plaza join a cast that reunites Judd Apatow with Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann and Jonah Hill in their third comedy together.

Brilliant masterpiece. Amazing casting. MUST see.

I cannot wait for this!

MacBook Pro 17"

Part media center, part workstation, the Apple MacBook Pro 17-inch has been revered over the years by a nation of professional photographers and film editors, not to mention average media folks who can't get enough of this thin-bodied cinematic wonder. When the Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch (Dual Graphics) and the MacBook 13-inch (Aluminum) launched with their "unibody" enclosures—in each case, a heavily promoted slab of aluminum that rids the frame of all detachable parts—a "uni-seventeen-incher" was clearly on the way. The Apple MacBook Pro 17-inch (Unibody) ($2,799 direct) is still the lightest and the prettiest media center laptop to house a maximum-resolution screen, and the changes are significant.

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What can I say other than DUH!?

Dude you are getting a Dull PC

What a failure Dell is nowadays... And this company still loves Micro$oft. They deserve this downfall. This is what you get when you sleep with the M$. Enjoy it Dull, eh, sorry, I mean Dell.

Dell reported fourth quarter earnings of $351 million, or 18 cents a share, on revenue of $13.4 billion, down 16 percent from a year ago. That earnings figure (statement) included a pretax charge of $277 million, or 11 cents a share, related to restructuring. Excluding that charge, Dell would have had earnings of 29 cents a share. Wall Street was expecting earnings of 28 cents a share. Dell reported earnings of $2.47 billion, or $1.25 a share, on revenue of $61.1 billion for fiscal 2009.

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Watchmen

The film Watchmen is almost here.

The majority of the reviews have already hit the web. And the results are worrying. Before I will let you know my personal opinion I would like to let you know this:

I didn't like Lord of the Rings Return of the King. The same with 300. As a matter of fact I hated them. Awful movies in my opinion. They took the original book and graphic novel which were awesome and created awful movies. Heck even destroying the comics in the process.

I guess the same will ring true for the Watchmen. The sickening slow motion editing of Watchmen seen in the trailers have me worrying about this movie, say 50% already.

Will I go and watch the Watchmen? Sure. Will I be able to sit and watch it up until the end which runs almost 3 hours? Maybe. Will I enjoy it? To be honest the trouble is that I already did. Tens of times already in its original graphic novel form. I think Watchmen will be another example of mine of how uber "comics" can turn into crap movies. Yep. Like 300 did before it.

I wish that I will be wrong about this and somehow I will enjoy this movie. But come on. Get real. The original graphic novel vs this hollywood blockbuster? No contest. Watchmen comic ftw.

Here is hoping that it will not end up being for me another 300 or Return of the King which I still hate to this day.

As stimulating as it was to see the superhero movie enter the realm of crime fiction in "The Dark Knight," "Watchmen" enters into a realm that is both nihilistic and campy. The two make odd companions. The film, directed by Zack Snyder ("300"), will test the limits of superhero movie fans. If you're not already invested in these characters because of the original graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, nothing this movie does is likely to change that predicament.

Read the rest of the Watchmen review here.

For more you can always go rotten.

Mark my words... This movie is going to be one of the following two things:
Epic success
or
Epic failure

1.5 million (yes million) year old human footprints found

Early humans had feet like ours and left lasting impressions in the form of 1.5 million-year-old footprints, some of which were made by feet that could wear a size 9 men's shoe.

The findings at a Northern Kenya site represent the oldest evidence of modern-human foot anatomy. They also help tell an ancestral story of humans who had fully transitioned from tree-dwellers to land walkers.

"In a sense, it's like putting flesh on the bones," said John Harris, an anthropologist with the Koobi Fora Field School of Rutgers University. "The prints are so well preserved ."

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Street Fighter IV

Its not the size of your joystick that matters but what you do with it!

Fighting games that remain popular today are mostly 3-D, like Soul Calibur and Virtua Fighter, but with Street Fighter IV, Capcom pulls off the ultimate straddle: The gameplay draws heavily from the classics, but the graphics are as advanced as anything else around — and neither gets in the other's way.
If you've spent time with a Street Fighter game before — and odds are excellent that you have — you'll know how to play Street Fighter IV, released this week on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. (The arcade version came out last year.)

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Hack the planet

IN A room in London late last year, a group of British politicians were grilling a selection of climate scientists on geoengineering - the notion that to save the planet from climate change, we must artificially tweak its thermostat by firing fine dust into the atmosphere to deflect the sun's rays, for instance, or perhaps even by launching clouds of mirrors into space.

Surely the scientists gave such a heretical idea short shrift. After all, messing with the climate is exactly what got us into such trouble in the first place. The politicians on the committee certainly seemed to believe so. "It is not sensible, is it? It is not a serious suggestion?"

Had the question been posed a few years ago, most climate scientists would have agreed. But the mood is changing. In the face of potentially catastrophic climate change, the politicians and scientists all agreed that since cuts to carbon emissions will likely fall short we need to be exploring "Plan B". Climatologists have hit a "social tipping point" says Tim Lenton of the University of East Anglia, UK.

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On an irrelevant note, hack the planet, is a quote from an old movie that I still love to watch A LOT.

Hackers ftw ;)