The Hunted

The HuntedI went to see “The Hunted” with Tommy Lee Jones who played Agent K in “Men in Black” and Benicio Del Toro who is also known as Franky Four Fingers in “Snatch.“.

Overall the movies was not bad. Actually, I would even say that it was a good one. Two things did a little spoil on it though. First one was a break for coke and chips at the worst possible moment (when Aaron Hallam was cought and was talking about 6 million chicken dieing each year). And another one was closer to the end of the movie, when both Aaron and L.T.Bonham were making knives of stone and of metal. That was too much. On the other hand, considering that both were highly trained pro’s and that they could have used something else for the weapon, the audience would probably not understand anything (like you and this very long sentance).

Anyway. The whole movie was nice. It reminded me of “First Blood” (aka Rambo) sometimes. Knive fights were excellent. Especially the last one – fast, quiet, bloody, and to the point. The jungle/forest setup was nice too. Kind of miss proper forest being in this country…

The Matrix Reloaded

The Matrix ReloadedWe went to see “The Matrix Reloaded“. It was a huge disappointment. While there were few very nice scenes (highway chase, fight between Neo and Oracle’s bodyguard, etc), the film is weak on the overall. Fights and chases are mostly too long and pointless. No blood. Soundtrack sucks big time. Plot is strange to say the least. It doesn’t have the “drive” the first Matrix had. Boring and prolonged oftenly. Disappointment. :(

Discussions held with beer at Hazard’s place who came from Italy few minutes before the movie started…

Random bits

First of all, “Matrix Reloaded” starts today in all local cinemas. Since enjoying the movie is a more important factor then time difference between watching it and the release date, probably I am not going to watch it today. I expect all cinemas to get crowded, and that spoils it for me. But I’ll pass by just to make sure my expectations are correct.

Today I’ve had a fastest perl scripting session ever – we’ve got a new termometer for the server room with a bit of an ugly web(!) interface, which we needed to adopt to our Nagios/MRTG environment. Together with a small fix to convert F degrees to C degrees, it took me around 5 and a half minutes to script the whole thing.

Educating myself a bit on the topic of washing machines. Our old machine is almost dead – it takes roughly 50 hours to wash each load. First match was this review by some gadget freak. Then, this review by a repair man. The last for today, was this site with a long price list of different machines and other useful information.

Off for a beer with Lev, before the cinema hunt starts.

Tears of the Sun

Tears of the SunWent to see “Tears of the Sun” in the evening. It was roughly what I expected it to be. Not too bad, but not too good. Just another Bruce Willis movie. This time though, he is tired of saving USA and he moves down to Nigeria. And, finally, those American soldiers start to realize that rushing into the middle of battlefield to pick up your dead friends’ body, just to bring it back home, is very stupid to say the least. Not all of them realized it yet, but they are on the right track.