WILLKUER

WTF?

“Ihre Finger sind zu fett für diesen briefmarkengroßen Touchscreen. Pressen sie bitte mit dem Daumen auf das gesamte Display, um Hilfe zu erhalten.”

Fail, dear Steve, Fail.

This is a movie where the name is the game. And it may take pride in doing so. The Expendables is a spectacle, a celebration of the good old 80ies action flicks.

Summoning a cast that is this writers explosive wet dream come true, Silvester Stallone delivers a rollercoaster ride full of muzzle flash, endless automatic gun fire and the obligatory screen shaking ‘things go boom’ with a grain of bloody close combat brutality. That is all. And that’s where it’s at. There’s no mind boggling plot twist, no fancy multi-layered story, no deeper meaning within. Good guys and villains are clearly drawn right from the start and when the shit hits the fan expect the lead characters to drop a wise cracking one-liner.

If at all, it is a story about men growing old and trying to find meaning in their lives commiting to some noble deed. Likely, it’s audience will leave the theater with a tear of joy and memories of their teen age, when to them Sly, Bruce, Arnie, Mickey and Dolph blowing stuff to smitherines was the coolest thing to ever grace the screens.

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Combining drug-selling hobo Banksy with Prince Charles creates a clear “WTF? FTW!”-situation.

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A neat little game I found today. It’s very simple, only requiring you to use your mouse. Follow the UFO and catch it on tape with your camcorder for as long as you can.
Great idea and visually believable. And what’s best: It’s free!
Now go get yourself some alien footage. The truth is out there!

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It doesn’t take much to bring childhood memories back to life. A quote or a picture is usually enough. In the most recent case all it took was a link to a little gif of a screen I’ve seen hundreds of times when being a kid.

Zelda 2 – Adventure of Link was a large part of my childhood, hours spent in front of the tv, just me and my NES, which is still in my possesion and functioning. Not for any money in the world, I’d sell it (spoken figuratively of course). And now I’m back, revisiting Hyrule in its 8 Bit glory.

I have to admit shamefully, that I never finished the game. Not once did I beat, or even reach Ganon, despite all the effort me and my sister put into this game, even using handdrawn maps of the different dungeons and palaces.

The last thing I always saw in this game, was this…

But now is the time to finally change this shameful memory, and return to Hyrule to save the princess. Once and for all.

(c) Simen Johan

On September 28th 2010 the Court of Appeal hearings in the Pirate Bay trial are about to begin. To create enough media attention, the swedish director Simon Klose is filming a documentary covering the trial and supporting Pirate Bays cause.

Browse the blog to get more information and watch the trailer!

After this and the facebook movie, whats next? A Michael Bay action-thriller about reddit? Who knows…

Vor einigen Tagen bin ich durch dieses Comic auf folgenden Artikel gestoßen:

Wesley Snipes war für die Rolle des Geordi LaForge in Star Trek the Next Generation im Gespräch, was meiner Meinung nach furchtbare Folgen für das Raum-Zeit-Kontinuum gehabt hätte.

Sieht man von der kleinen Chance ab, dass Snipes der Rolle des Chefingenieurs der Enterprise ein bisschen Bad Boy-Charme mitgegeben hätte, und so den Charakter zumindest halbwegs interessant gemacht hätte, bleibt nur die Möglichkeit, dass dies die Auslöschung des Welsey Snipes gewesen wäre, den wir kennen und lieben.

Festgefahren im Saubermann Image des Star Trek-Franchise, dazu verdammt auf jeder kleinen Comic- und SciFi-Messe mit dem Tricorder zu wedeln, wäre seine Karriere damit schon vorbei gewesen, bevor sie überhaupt richtig angefangen hat. Oder weiß irgendjemand noch, wie der andere Schauspieler hieß, oder ob der noch irgendetwas interessantes gespielt hat?

Mit diesem Image hätte er niemals die Rollen in White Men Can’t Jump, Demolition Man oder Blade bekommen, und die Welt wäre um ein paar Klassiker ärmer. Verdammt, in solchen Momenten weiß man sogar Too Wong Foo wieder zu schätzen.

Als Mitglied der Enterprise-Crew hätte er das Verbal Morality Statute wahrscheinlich selbst mitverfasst, anstatt immer wieder dagegen zu verstoßen.

Gott sei dank hat er die Rolle nicht gekriegt, denn um es mit den Worten Sly Stallones zu sagen:
“You’re gonna regret this the rest of your life… both seconds of it. ”

…oder “Die Stadtwache – Kleine Fäuste, dicke Nacken”

So sieht sie also aus, die neue Stadtwache unserer Landeshauptstadt. Alles freundliche Gesichter, und bei einigen freue ich mich schon besonders darauf, ihre Bekanntschaft machen zu dürfen…

For everytime I wished life had a Control-Z function, another person probably been struck by the same thought – so was Robert Kirbyson when he wrote his winning short “Ctrl Z”

I’d certainly undo that late dinner yesterday, if you know what I’m saying.
What would you undo?