I know I’ll probably be eaten alive by all Nirvana fans for saying this, but “The Man Who Sold The World” is in the top of my list of best things Nirvana did. Also, since I don’t want to angry two fan groups in a single post, I’ll mention that this song was originally written by David Bowie, and not Nirvana. Nirvana just popularized it quite a bit in alternative rock crowd.
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Just watched “The Matador“, which turned out to be an entertaining movie. It’s one of those few films which switches back and forward all the time. The moment you think that this is going to be a spy movie, the spy atmosphere disappears. Then you assume it’ll have some action, and all action is gone. Then you start seeing drama in it, and the moment you realize that, the drama changes into comedy. But the second you smile wide for a joke, the jokes are gone and the film goes into something else. The story twists, the genre changes, the tempo swings back and side. And that all makes it interesting to watch.
Technically, it’s done nicely. There are only a few characters and they are played well. Directing is nice. Camera is nice. Sound score is nice. There is nothing there which is exceptional or amazing, but whatever is there is of a good quality and fits nicely with the rest of the parts.
Overall rating, 4 stars. Solid good.
Since most of the preparations in the new blog have been finished, it’s time to move the worthy content from the old site and into this database. As I mentioned before, I don’t want to just copy things over, but edit, update, and fix them a bit. Because of that, I won’t be moving 4,000+ posts in one go, but rather in large chunks of a few dozens or hundreds at a time. Posts that will be moved to the new database will be deleted (as in “permanently removed”) from the old site. I hope my redirections will handle it all properly.
Anyway, I am totally ready to do the first chunk of the posts. These will be my movie reviews. And I am thinking of moving them during the end of this week (think Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday).
There are two side effects to these batch moves.
Firstly, the RSS feed will get quite polluted. So if you can’t handle many posts at once or hate seeing content that you have been through before, then you might want to temporarily unsubscribe from the RSS feed of this site.
Secondly, there is no sane way for me to distribute these posts over dates, so I’ll probably publish them all under the same date or so.
Once the content is moved and re-organized I will have more control over it and will be able to place it better. If that will be needed or not at all is remained to be seen.
With that I apologize for all inconvenience caused and ask you to bare with me during this bumpy ride.
There are some songs which never get old, even if “never” is for one generation. I think System of a Down – Chop Suey is one of such songs for my generation.
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If you are not that much into heavy music, here is a “light” version for you by Richard Cheese.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb6W-h5j3jM]
And if you can only handle cute babies on video, then switch off your sound and watch this little fellow:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nojrb4sBH20]
I just watched “Rob Roy” a truly classic film, which I somehow missed when it came out back in 1995. This is something! I can’t remember the film which would have been so packed with moral, and which would be as engaging to watch. Really.
The film has it all – honour, love, friendship, and more. It shows how hard simple things can be sometimes. And how place, time, age, gender and social status have nothing to do with who you really are, how much of a human being you are. It also touches upon marriage, and the places of both husband and wife in the family. Compared to this film, most of the other modern film seem to be quite empty. Yes, there is plenty of action and special effects these days, but so little of what people are made of and how they are supposed to be. I think that we need more films like this, and this film in particular should be a part of formal education and character development. If it influence me so much, I suspect it’ll have a quite an effect (and a positive one at that) on the teenagers’ understanding of the world. However, it’s been a while since I was a teenager, so I might be wrong there…
There is plenty of good in this film beside moral. The story itself is quite interesting, even if not new. There is lots of good acting by talented cast. The directing and the visuals are also nice. I also remember positively noticing the music score a few times during the film.
One thing I wanted to mention separately are the sword fights. There are a few and they are awesome. The final fight deserves a film on its own. It’s original, dynamic, and powerful. One of the best ones I’ve seen ever.
Overall rating – 5 stars. Highly recommended.