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Sony PlayStation 3 (60GB)
2007-07-20 18:13:01
I have a nice 46″ Sharp Aquos, but no player to play DVDs in 1080p. I’ve done quite a bit of research, looked at stand-alone players, different formats (HD-DVD and BD), and it appeared that the best value is buying not a player, but a game console: either XBox 360 with HD DVD player, or Sony PS3. I also have a lot of movies, photos and music on my PC and I wanted a unit that can act as media player. I already have D-Link DSM-520 which can play DivX on top of many other formats, but when I playback 1080i videos on it it stutters every 3-5 seconds. PS3 seemed like the best choice: for $600 I can get a box with 8 processors, a gigabit network adapter for streaming my media to it and a BD player. A stand-alone player costs just as much. So I ordered mine online at Circuit City and went to the shop to pick it up. The machine has beautiful black finish that matches my Sharp TV perfectly.  Installation did not take long. There was no HDMI cable in the box so I used one of my o
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Harry Potter and the Order Of Phoenix
2007-07-13 17:17:46
We saw it on Saturday. Highlights: Cho Chang (Elena calls her Chow Ming for some reason) was cute when she was 11 in the “H.P. and the Saucerer’s Stone” (intentionally misspelled), but now she’s just “third world ugly” (borrowed that phrase from Chris Tucker from “Rush Hour” - 3rd installment coming soon!). Hermione Granger was not that cute when she was 11-year old 1st-year student at Hogwarts, and now she looks like a tri-breasted mutant from “Total Recall”. Not at all attractive.Dolores Umbridge in her all-pink outfit and annoying giggles looks like Laura Bush.This book is much longer the other ones, and they tried to squeeze it into what already is a 2 hours 20 minutes movie, and a lot of spicy episodes from the book were dropped. Sirius Black’s head appears in the fireplace only once, and grumpy Kreacher only appears in two scenes. Most, if not all dialogs from the book were cut down to essential phrases. T
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Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
2007-07-08 17:19:32
Seen it on July 7th, 2007. It may be the worst of Die Hard movies, but ironically, what makes the movie entertaining is all the ways the filmmakers are trying to insult my intelligence. Well, that may be an overstatement. Let’s just say, “all the unbelievable ways they are trying to kill the Bruce Willis’s character”. I wanted to ad an adjective like “unimaginable”, but I can imagine quite a bit. Bruce, as in previous movies, emits his one-liners after he kills each of the bad guys. Reminded me of Austin Powers, only with shaved head and New York accent. It was funny in the beginning, but then I was wondering what’s his one-liner going to be when he kills next bad guy? I liked that it seemed like Bruce actually enjoyed making this movie. I constantly felt presence of the filming crew in every frame. The actors must have been tired of rehearsing the action scenes and keeping intense looks on their faces. They must have been having a laugh (an
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Transformers
2007-07-04 17:12:10
Saw ”Transformers ” on the 4th of July. My rating is A++. Would’ve been A++++, but I knocked out two stars for a) some robots still talk like in the 80s: “NUMBER FIVE - ALIVE - NO DISASSEMBLE” b) uhm.. ok, great movie. A+++.As always in Spielberg’s movies (”Poltergeist” being the only exception I can think of), kids under 5 years of age never get hurt by big monsters (”Mommy, there’s a dinasaur/robot/monkey in our swimming pool!”). Great CGIs, great humor, great story, great action. Great queues in the movie theatre too.Actually, it’s Michael Bay film. Mr. Spielberg is one of the producers. My favorite quotes: “The criminals are…hot”, “If something like that would have happened, our government would tell us. I mean, this is America!” I generally don’t like such an aggressive product placement, but in this case I will make an exception: both company’s (Hasbro and GM) p


Divorzio all’italiana (1961)
2007-07-23 13:06:34
aka “Divorce Italian Style” (USA). I saw this movie when I was a kid. Starring Marcello Matroianni (my mom is still in love with him) and Stefania Sandrelli. Enough had been said about this movie in the past 46 years. Just wanted to see again this beloved movie. And by the way, some movies look better in black and white.


Mandela and de Klerk (1997)
2007-07-23 13:00:57
In 1964, Nelson Mandela , along with several other members of his party and political detainees, were convicted for treason (technically they were charged with capital crimes of sabotage, which Mandela admitted - the charges were easier for the government to prove then treason) against South Africa, and sentenced to life in prison. They were to be held on Robben island. Mandela’s closing statement at the trial was this: “During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to the struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die”. Their imprisonment had become the symbol of violent struggle between white minority government and black majority against the policy


Knocked Up (2006)
2007-07-23 10:52:51
This is the only movie in the past 10 years that I came back to the theater to watch again a week after the first viewing. And both times I laughted so hard my face hurt. Best movie of the summer! The plot is simple: Ben, an unemployed pot-head who lives on money he was awarded after he was run over by a car in his child years, watches movies every day with his friends to write articles for their website (reminds you of anyone?) knockes up a girl, Alison, he met at the club. She was just promoted to E! channel anchor position and was at the same club. She shows up at his doorstep 8 weeks after that one-night stand and tells him she’s pregnant. Even thought they are two completely different people, they try to work on a meaningful relationship for the baby’s sake. Their relationship grows through Alison’s hormone storms and background differences, and Ben finally grows up - just in time for their daughter’s birth. There is a parallel story - Alison’s


Epic Movie (2007)
2007-07-22 22:13:28
In spring there weren’t that many good movies, and I was nagging for several weeks to go to see this movie in the local movie theater, and, boy, am I glad I didn’t! What a turd! I started to watch it on DVD and it was clear the movie was lame from the first two minutes of the footage, at which point Elena asked with impatience in her voice, “do we have other DVDs to watch?”. I asked her to bear with it for another 5 minutes - maybe just the opening sequence was lame, but 5 or 10 minutes later it was just more of the same projectile vomiting. The jokes were lame, they were times badly. I think actors hated this movie as much as we did and thought it’s a freak show. A failed attempt to capitalize on relative success of the “Scary Movie” series. There aren’t enough adjectives in English language to describe how bad this movie is. If you really want to see it, demand to be paid for it.
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Bridge To Terabithia (2007)
2007-07-25 01:31:51
Warning: this is Disney. This is a good sweet movie, but it’s a fairy tale for kids. The plot: a 10-year old boy Jess from a poor family wants to be the fastest runner in his class, but he is outran by a new girl, Leslie, in Jess’ school, although the race was called a “boys only” race by their classmates. Not a good way to start a friendship. But they both have a lot of things in common: he is into drawing and she is very good at writing; both are tormented by bullies from the 8th grade. Together they venture into the near-by forest where they discover a swing-rope over a small river and an abandoned tree-house. There they create an imaginary world they can escape to from hard reality, where all the creatures they have to face are based on their tormentors in school. They also find a clever way to get back at bullies, but they find out that it only brought a short-lived satisfaction. They realize they are becoming bullies themselves. But eventually reality
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Divorzio all’italiana (1961)
2007-07-23 13:06:34
aka “Divorce Italian Style” (USA). I saw this movie when I was a kid. Starring Marcello Matroianni (my mom is still in love with him) and Stefania Sandrelli. Enough had been said about this movie in the past 46 years. Just wanted to see again this beloved movie. And by the way, some movies look better in black and white.


Mandela and de Klerk (1997)
2007-07-23 13:00:57
In 1964, Nelson Mandela , along with several other members of his party and political detainees, were convicted for treason (technically they were charged with capital crimes of sabotage, which Mandela admitted - the charges were easier for the government to prove then treason) against South Africa, and sentenced to life in prison. They were to be held on Robben island. Mandela’s closing statement at the trial was this: “During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to the struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die”. Their imprisonment had become the symbol of violent struggle between white minority government and black majority against the policy


Knocked Up (2006)
2007-07-23 10:52:51
This is the only movie in the past 10 years that I came back to the theater to watch again a week after the first viewing. And both times I laughted so hard my face hurt. Best movie of the summer! The plot is simple: Ben, an unemployed pot-head who lives on money he was awarded after he was run over by a car in his child years, watches movies every day with his friends to write articles for their website (reminds you of anyone?) knockes up a girl, Alison, he met at the club. She was just promoted to E! channel anchor position and was at the same club. She shows up at his doorstep 8 weeks after that one-night stand and tells him she’s pregnant. Even thought they are two completely different people, they try to work on a meaningful relationship for the baby’s sake. Their relationship grows through Alison’s hormone storms and background differences, and Ben finally grows up - just in time for their daughter’s birth. There is a parallel story - Alison’s


Epic Movie (2007)
2007-07-22 22:13:28
In spring there weren’t that many good movies, and I was nagging for several weeks to go to see this movie in the local movie theater, and, boy, am I glad I didn’t! What a turd! I started to watch it on DVD and it was clear the movie was lame from the first two minutes of the footage, at which point Elena asked with impatience in her voice, “do we have other DVDs to watch?”. I asked her to bear with it for another 5 minutes - maybe just the opening sequence was lame, but 5 or 10 minutes later it was just more of the same projectile vomiting. The jokes were lame, they were times badly. I think actors hated this movie as much as we did and thought it’s a freak show. A failed attempt to capitalize on relative success of the “Scary Movie” series. There aren’t enough adjectives in English language to describe how bad this movie is. If you really want to see it, demand to be paid for it. To me watching it was a torture. Like pulling teeth.
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Sony PlayStation 3 (60GB)
2007-07-20 18:13:01
I have a nice 46″ Sharp Aquos, but no player to play DVDs in 1080p. I’ve done quite a bit of research, looked at stand-alone players, different formats (HD-DVD and BD), and it appeared that the best value is buying not a player, but a game console: either XBox 360 with HD DVD player, or Sony PS3. I also have a lot of movies, photos and music on my PC and I wanted a unit that can act as media player. I already have D-Link DSM-520 which can play DivX on top of many other formats, but when I playback 1080i videos on it it stutters every 3-5 seconds. PS3 seemed like the best choice: for $600 I can get a box with 8 processors, a gigabit network adapter for streaming my media to it and a BD player. A stand-alone player costs just as much. So I ordered mine online at Circuit City and went to the shop to pick it up. The machine has beautiful black finish that matches my Sharp AQUOS TV perfectly. Installation did not take long. There was no HDMI cable in the box so I used one of
Read more: PlayStation , Sony PlayStation

Harry Potter and the Order Of Phoenix (2007)
2007-07-13 17:17:46
We saw it on Saturday. Highlights: Cho Chang (Elena calls her Chow Ming for some reason) was cute when she was 11 in the “H.P. and the Saucerer’s Stone” (intentionally misspelled), but now she’s just “third world ugly” (borrowed that phrase from Chris Tucker from “Rush Hour” - 3rd installment coming soon!). Hermione Granger was not that cute when she was 11-year old 1st-year student at Hogwarts, and now she looks like a tri-breasted mutant from “Total Recall”. Not at all attractive.Dolores Umbridge in her all-pink outfit and annoying giggles looks like Laura Bush.This book is much longer the other ones, and they tried to squeeze it into what already is a 2 hours 20 minutes movie, and a lot of spicy episodes from the book were dropped. Sirius Black’s head appears in the fireplace only once, and grumpy Kreacher only appears in two scenes. Most, if not all dialogs from the book were cut down to essential phrases. T
Read more: Harry , Potter , Order , Phoenix

Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
2007-07-08 17:19:32
Seen it on July 7th, 2007. It may be the worst of Die Hard movies, but ironically, what makes the movie entertaining is all the ways the filmmakers are trying to insult my intelligence. Well, that may be an overstatement. Let’s just say, “all the unbelievable ways they are trying to kill the Bruce Willis’s character”. I wanted to ad an adjective like “unimaginable”, but I can imagine quite a bit. The special effects in F25 scene, for example, were way overdone. Bruce, as in previous movies, emits his one-liners after he kills each of the bad guys (”Psychopathic Ninja bitch!” etc.). Reminded me of Austin Powers, only with shaved head and New York accent. It was funny in the beginning, but then I was wondering what’s his one-liner going to be when he kills next bad guy? “Warlock’s Command Center”? He he. I liked that it seemed like Bruce actually enjoyed making this movie. I constantly felt presence of the filming
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Transformers (2007)
2007-07-04 17:12:10
Saw ”Transformers ” on the 4th of July. My rating is A++. Would’ve been A++++, but I knocked out two stars for a) some robots still talk like in the 80s: “NUMBER FIVE - ALIVE - NO DISASSEMBLE” b) uhm.. ok, great movie. A+++.As always in Spielberg’s movies (”Poltergeist” being the only exception I can think of), kids under 5 years of age never get hurt by big monsters (”Mommy, there’s a dinasaur/robot/monkey in our swimming pool!”). Great CGIs, great humor, great story, great action. Great queues in the movie theatre too.Actually, it’s Michael Bay film. Mr. Spielberg is one of the producers.My favorite quotes: “The criminals are…hot”, “If something like that would have happened, our government would tell us. I mean, this is America!”I generally don’t like such an aggressive product placement, but in this case I will make an exception: both company’s (Hasbro and GM) produ


Battleship Potemkin (1925/2005)
2007-07-25 17:55:49
I got the latest (or one of the most recent ones) Pet Shop Boys album, “Battleship Potemkin”. I was interested because I am a big fan of the movie. Sergei Eisenstein directed this silent movie in 1925 - just a few months after Stalin came to power. Since he was a Jew he didn’t get to make any more movies. But this one is a world renowned masterpiece. It was inspired by events in 1905 which were basically the first signs of the tsarist regime collapsing and revolutionary movement sparking all over Russian empire. An incident began with an uprising of sailors against the officers because of meet contaminated with maggots begin fed to them, who in Russian army were always aristocrats. Aristocrats were by definition landlords, and after Stolypin’s failed land reform which, instead of liberating surfs by offering them to buy out their land, made surfs even poorer because few could afford to buy the land out and had to go into debt or sell their families to buy the


Superbad (2007)
2007-08-20 11:33:06
No matter how bad or filthy the jokes is, the key to its delivery is perfect timing. And this movie is super bad! It’s full of sexual humor, the F word was said hundreds of times, and even the closing credits have cartoons with cocks as the main characters - very crude but funny nevertheless [...]


Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2005)
2007-08-19 14:13:19
A struggling actor/comedian Albert Brooks, played by a comedian Albert Brooks (The Simpsons Movie, The in-laws, Doctor Dolittle, Taxi Driver, Real Life, Lost in America etc.), receives a letter from the State Department. First he thinks he’s going to jail for checking out Al Quaeda website on the Internet (same fears people in USSR had [...]
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Silent Hill (2006)
2007-08-19 02:48:31
Based on video game, which I haven’t played. Since I’ve seen other game-to-movie adaptation I didn’t expect much. “Doom”, for example, was a really bad movie. It’s about a woman, Rose, has a sick daughter, Sharon, who has seizures and nightmarish dreams about a city of Silent Hill, and who’s also sleep-walking. To help her, Rose takes her to this [...]
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Black Dog (1998)
2007-08-23 02:14:00
I must have seen this movie a 100 times already, but I can watch it more. It’s one of my favorite movies along with Rush Hour (1), The Police Academy (1) and Lethal Weapon (1). And probably the best movie the dirty dancer Patrick Swayze was ever in. It’s just as cheesy as Die Hard movies and the plot is paper-thin, but the truck driving action directed by Kevin Hooks is unmatched. Patrick Swayze plays Jack Crews (catchy name, eh? “…cruising behind the Crews…”) - an ex-con who used to be a damn good truck driver, but killed some people with his truck after he fell asleep behind the wheel. He’s on parole and got a low-wage job as a mechanic. The movie starts with a cliché: foreclosure notice. $9,000 are overdue for the mortgage, which implies that his family is in desperate situation. Now he has to take any job he’ll be offered. His assignment: drive across the country to smuggle truck load of guns. Besides the illegal load that c
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Full Lunar Eclipse (August 28, 2007)
2007-08-28 06:14:00
Yours truly stayed up all night to watch and make pictures of the Lunar eclipse. It was gorgeous! I took my 15×60 binoculars, Canon 20D camera with tripod and 300mm zoom image-stabilizing lens, and went out to the warm summer night. The eclipse began a little later then predicted. At 12:52am there was nothing but a dark blur over the upper-left side. So I went indoors for another 30 minutes. Good idea since sprinklers came on. I came back out with all the gear at around 1:30am and began to shoot pictures. You can see the entire album here: http://public.fotki.com/MaxiMovieBlog/lunar-eclipse/ including bad ones. I thought I’d include them too in case you want to learn from my mistakes. Feel free to leave your comments, but be nice! I was playing with the camera trying different settings and trying with or without ND filter and circular polarizer. In the beginning of the eclipse the moon was still very bright, and all pictures were not coming out well: the moon was a bright
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War (2007)
2007-08-31 09:52:46
The plot: Jack Crawford (Jason Statham) is an FBI agent from Asian crime division seeking revenge for the murder of his partner (John Lone) and his family. Although his 3 year-long quest for vengeance cost him his marriage, he doesn’t stop looking for a mysterious and illusive assassin called “Rogue” (Jet Li), who has his own score to settle, setting up Japanese mobs, the Triads and Yakuza, against each other. When Jack catches up to Rouge and meets him face to face, the truth about their past will be revealed. The good: action scenes were very well choreographed. Jet Li is martial arts.. well.. artist, and Jason Statham has proven to be very effective at action sequences as we know from the Transporter and mindless, but entertaining Crank. His cynicism and sarcasm is a great match for the character of Jack Crawford. I actually think that if Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” hadn’t come out earlier, this could have been a new Japanese-sword-wielding-ga


Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
2007-08-30 00:31:03
Mexican director Guillermo Del Torro, who is familiar to American audience for directing Hellboy and Blade II, has written and directed “El laberinto del fauno”, which in 2007 has been nominated for Oscar in six categories and won in three: Best Achievement in Art Direction, Best Achievement in Cinematography and Best Achievement in Makeup. *** The rest of the review may contain spoilers *** The movie is set in Northern part of Franko’s Spain in 1944. In the opening sequence we see a girl, obviously shot, dying on the ground. Then we are transferred back in some time. Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) is a very young girl who is traveling with her pregnant mother Carmen (Ariadna Gil) to her new step-father Capitán Vidal, who’s a Spanish army officer (Sergi López, whom an American viewer might remember for his role in “Dirty Pretty Things” with Audrey Tautou). The army is still fighting the Resistance in the North. Right from the start, Ofelia creates an i
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Fracture (2007) R 1:40
2007-09-22 19:04:45
One of my most favorite actors, and maybe the best actor of the 20th century, Sir Antony Hopkins is starring in this thriller - the primary reason why I wanted to see it. Hopkins plays an NTSB consultant, quite wealthy judging by his ride and his LA house with huge pool and garden, who finds out that his much younger wife is cheating on him, confronts her and then shoots her (there’s a nice shot of his face reflecting in her blood on the floor). When police arrives, he says he shot her in the head. But the detective who comes to the call is the man she’s been cheating with. His wife is alive though and she’s taken to hospital and stays there in a coma. Ted, Hopkins’s character, is arrested. Then we are introduced to Ryan Gosling’s character, a very “productive” prosecutor William Beachum, who is assigned to procure this attempted homicide. To his surprise, Ted not only gives a full confession while entering not-guilty plea, but declines to b


La Chèvre (1981)
2007-09-19 02:31:11
“Knock on Wood” is the American title of this excellent French classic - a comedy directed by Msr. Francis Veber and starring great comedian Pierre Richard and famous Gérard Depardieu. I have not seen it since the 80s when it was in theatres and also on TV (we had black&white TV back then) and loved it. Watching it again 25 years later is a lot of fun. It was a big hit in Russia/USSR when it came out under title “Nevezuchiye” (literally, “Unlucky ones”) in late 80s, and I shall add this information to IMDb: they only list release data in France, USA and Mexico. It was also remade by Veber in US in 1991 starring Martin Short and Denny Glover under title “Pure Luck”, and I thought the latter just wasn’t as good - it was more like “National Lampoons” - a goofy movie. But the original was excellent and sweet. The chemistry between the two actors, Richard and Depardieu is amazing. Although it’s not the best Ri


Peter Jackson’s “King Kong” (2005) PG-13 181min
2007-09-18 02:01:36
It was so bloody long! And extended version is 20 minutes longer! It seems Peter Jackson is still in his &ldquo ;Lord of the Rings&rdquo ; mode with huge budgets, enormous landscapes and mountains so tall one cal almost reach the Moon from them. My most favorite King Kong is still one from the 1976: when I was a little kid my world was smaller too, and animatronics felt so real… The human heroes were a lot more likeable too. This version is set in Depression era. A struggling (who wasn’t?), but very ambitious film director Carl Denham (Jack Black) is making an epic picture, and he’s prepared to tell any lie to his cast and crew to make them go to a recently discovered Skull Island to shoot to movie on location. He even manages to practically kidnap the play-writer Jack Driscoll (Adrien Brody) to write the script he needs and picks up an unemployed actress Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) for a supporting female role. He feeds his crew, his cast and even the Captain Engelhorn


Gridirion Gang (2006) PG-13 120min
2007-09-17 02:04:43
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson plays a juvenile detention camp officer decides that in order to rehabilitate the inmates and turn them from violent gang members into team players he can organize them into a football team. His superiors don’t believe into the idea at first, but with help of fellow detention officer (rapper Xzibit) he may prove them wrong. Honestly, I did not want to watch this movie till the end just so I can blog ab out it. I thought it was a different movie when I slid DVD into the player. Well, I hate sport movies: the “good shepherd” of a coach, the slow-motion sport action, track of the ball through the air, handshakes with dramatic music and drumbeats and screams like “Yeah!” and “The Team!” and “Bring it on!” and “We are going to win because winning is great and loosing sucks” (the best one is probably “you don’t have to be the best player, just have to believe you are going t


Shoot ‘Em Up (2007) 86min R
2007-09-16 01:41:58
Saw it just 30 minutes ago. The plot: Mr. Smith (Clive Owen) is sitting at the bus stop, minding his business and chewing on his carrot (well, everybody has a habit, and this guy loves carrots, which he grows in his apartment) sees a pregnant woman on the run from a bunch of thugs and helps her with the delivery of the baby, while using her gun to keep the thugs away. “I am a British nanny, and I’m dangerous”, he says. But the thugs weren’t after just the woman - they were after her baby too. Mr. Smith has to protect the baby and figure out who needs to kill little newborn boy and why. He is chased by Mr. Hertz (Paul Giamatti) and never-ending army of his goons, and gets help with the baby from a lactating prostitute DQ (Monica Belucci). Predictably, Mr. Smith uncovers the evil plot involving a Democratic presidential hopeful with anti-gun control agenda and shoots everybody behind it in the most shamelessly outrageous and funny action flick I’ve see
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