Ken Park

Watched “Ken Park” on DVD. There was a question on DVD cover that asked if this film was a pornography or erotic art. Well, it was neither.

It is not exactly a movie, since you there are a bunch of people wondering around having “tough” life during the whole film. Most of these people are teenagers. And than these teenagers spend a considerable amount of time exploring sexual niche. They have sex, they masturbate, the watch pornographic magazines, etc.

It is not exactly a pornography either. It has way too much of a story attempt and too many dialogs in there. Maybe this is just this kind of pornography, with dark sides, and sexual scenes every 10 minutes instead of every 10 seconds. Maybe I am just getting old.

Anyway, if you are thinking to rent this for it pornographic value, then I have to warn you. There are scenes of

  • old, ugly, drunk male peeing
  • young, ugly, sober male masturbating while strangling himself and watching tennis video
  • incest, where old, ugly, male (yup, the one from the first point) is trying to give oral pleasure to his son (no, not the one from the second point) while that dude is sleeping. The scene is pretty short though.
  • horny, dirty, teenage girl attempting to have sex with teenage girl. That one is interrupted by girl’s father coming in and kicking boy’s butt a lot
  • a few scenes of two teenage boys having sex with one teenage girl (yeah, sounds pornish, but they are all depressed and talking too much about life)
  • few more of the like

If I were you, I would decide what do you want to rent: a movie or some porn. With either choice there are better options in ANY rental. This piece sucked. Maxed out at 4 out of 10.

DopeWars game gathers momentum

There were a lot of developments in the DopeWars game since yesterday.

First of all, my cartel is growing larger now. It has 6 people currently. Here are the members:

  • Leonid Mamchenkov (me, TVSET)
  • Olga Mamchenkova (ironic)
  • Alexander Mamchenkov (AlexM)
  • Lev Shuvalov (lev)
  • Nicos Christodoulou (nichri)
  • Andrey Shvachko (Jerry Thrillah)

Total worth of cartel at the moment of this writing is a bit over $2,000,000 (exactly: $2,331,138 ). All members of the cartel got themselves familiar with the game interface and strategies. There are few useful discussions in the cartel forum (via game interface).

Secondly, we do succed in coming up the food chain. Cartel “greekdruglords” has been pushed far down by mostly me and Olga. And there is a major cartel war coming up with “Young Bloodz”. They are pretty scattered across the ranking table and mostly have members above us. But we will use them as our practice material, to polish our teamwork and strategic skills.

Anyway, if you are interested, please do join – we have plenty of vacancies. The earlier you will come in, the easier our path to victory will be. DopeWars website, game A8, cartel “Crazy Cypriots” (#49). See you there…

The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest

I watched “The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest” on DVD. It is a nice comedy about computer geeks at the time of dotcom bubble.

There is a part in this film, when one of the guys says something along the lines of “It is not tomorrow’s computer, it is yesterday’s prototype.”. Meanwhile a group of geeks was fighting to produce something genius AND usable by regular people. Well, this movie is not a movie, it is a prototype. It has a good idea and a number of good scenes and jokes. But it has a number of rough edges too. I would really love to see this movie redone, fixed, and polished. It will have a chance to become my favourite computer humour movie.

I really liked how computer guys were shown, how Silicon Valley was shown (although I never was in Silicon Valley and I am not planning to, but this kind of what I imagine it to be), how corporations tricked startups and non-business people, and a few other things. Relationships were a little bit underdeveloped and … naive. Acting was a bit sucky too.

Anyways, film had enough pace and jokes to keep me entertained and for that I give it 6 out of 10. It has much more potential than that though.