I bought the new Star Trek movie on DVD and watched it today. My expectations have been quite low and I though this is going to be like Muppets Babies and Muppets – the original characters but just younger. From what I have seen in the trailers the movie looked like a mixture of Star [...]
Donnie Darko
Yesterday I watched Donnie Darko for the first time and this movie stuck me! It’s the perfect Halloween movie IMHO. Really scary but not “splatter cheap”… just like “The Ring”. Somehow I can’t stop thinking about this Donnie Darko story – even today – one day after watching it. It doesn’t happen very often to [...]
Inglourious Basterds
Quentin Tarantino tends to make brutal movies. Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill are kind of splatter funny but Inglourious Basterds shocked me a little bit in some scenes, especially the one at the end (no worries – I don’t tell what’s in it). In general I liked it very much but I didn’t get rid [...]
Hardkor 44
A very promising animated movie is Tomek Baginski’s Hardkor 44. A Sci-Fi version of Warsaw Uprising. The concept art looks great! It’s a very controversial scenery that might be misunderstood by many people. The real Warsaw uprising from 1944 gets moved into a Sci-Fi Manga style environment. The Nazi-Cyborgs look a little bit like from [...]
2012
Pretty scary! So what is this all about with “the world will end in 2012″ chatter? I think it’s a large scale Search Engine Optimization (SEO: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization ) viral marketing campaign based on some apocalyptic theory that existed before in deed. Just watch the trailer… what’s there at the end? GOOGLE [...]
