Here is the website of Japanese sewerage system. Most of the information at the site is useless for me, since I don’t read Japanese. I am not even sure it is in Japanese. And I am not even sure it is a website of a sewerage system. Non-the-less, pictures there are just magnificant. They are so surrealistic, like they are screenshots of some computer game or stopped frames of some sci-fi movie.
Amazing!
Watched “Top Secret!” finally from start to end on TV. It is pretty old – from 1984 it makes it 20 years old by now, but never managed to watch it in full until today.
This is a great parody on all sorts of Wolrd War II movies, spy movies, American rock-n-roll movies, westerns, dramatic romances, and the like. This film is packed with jokes. Some of them are on the foreground, but most of the fun is going on at behinds. One has to watch it closely. I was laughing practically non-stop and I would even more if my antenna wouldn’t behave like a young dog of Martin’s. :)
I’ll rate this movie as 8 out of 10 partially because I liked it so much, and partially to even out a low raint at IMDB. They don’t make comedies like this every day you know.
Watched “Elf” on DVD. This is a good Christmas movie for the family. Fairy tales don’t come out that often, so I was looking for one for some time now. You, on the other hand, can wait until the Christmas time to watch it. It is very atmospheric. Especially from the second half of the movie.
The story is interesting – an orphan child accidentally gets into Santa’s bag with presents and gets carried away to the North Pole. He gets brought up by elves. When he gets old enough he goes to New York city to find his father and see how humans actually live.
The film is filled with Christmas spirit, love, and fairy tale. Good for everyone. I’ll give it a 6.4 out of 10. Good quality.
Watched “The Ring” on DVD.
I have to say that I am not a fan of horror or mistery movies, although I have watched a few. “The Ring” does not stand out by any means. It is your typical average mystery movie with dark, dessaturated colors, tuned more to the blue, cyan, and green. People do behave strangely here as they do in any other average horror movie. The story is a typical one too – a girl was killed, but noone knew about it, so her ghost was pissed off and was killing people. Investigating the story was a young lady journalist who had a really weird young son. The boy was out of real, but noone pointed that out. Just one of his teachers noticed that “something” “might” be wrong with him. Yeah, right. He is a total psycho. That is what surely wrong with him.
Anyway, the movie was pretty average and so it gets a deserved 5 out of 10. If you think that I am unfair and that all horror and mistery movies are like this, than watch “The Blair Witch Project“. That was something. I use that film as a measurement.
This Slashdot post links to an excellent site about relics of the World War II – The Serpents Walls. One can see how many items are still out there – mines, rifles, shells, medals, bones, and whatever else is killled by 60 years in the soil.
It doesn’t come as a surprise to me as I am used to hearing similar stories from my grandfather (father’s father). He is from the Smolensk area and they also have war relics there. Mostly this is due to poor municipalities and difficult access to suburban areas with heavy forests, swamps, wolves, snakes, and mosquitos.
Anyway, check the site. It has lots of interesting pictures and broken English. :) It is written by the same author as those well-known Chernobyl notes I linked to before.