Morgan Freeman in one of the roles that he just *had* to play (we now just need to get him to play Kofi Annan). Don’t know how historically accurate the movie is, but its a great inspiring story none the less. I’ll admit that I wasn’t sure what it was going to be like with an American (Clint Eastwood) directing a movie about South African rugby, and some of the rugby scene weren’t totally convincing, but this wasn’t just a movie about rugby.
Meh. Plenty of action, explosions, destruction, minimal acting talent, m.i.a. plot. A movie Michael Bay would be proud of. So many parts felt like they were just cheap rip-offs of other movies, which would be fine if this were a Wayans brother’s comedy spoof… wait, Marlon is in this movie so does that qualify them? Gets tiny kudos for one twist I didn’t see coming (yes just one, the rest was very predictable).
I’ve grown tired of doing support via blog comments or emails, so it’s time for a change. Introducing HELP! my new BuddyPress powered support site. You can now get support for all my WordPress plugins and themes, plus Hahlo, nextga.me (once its finished.…) and other projects all in one spot.
I’ve grown tired of doing support via blog comments or emails, so it’s time for a change. Introducing HELP! my new BuddyPress powered support site. You can now get support for all my WordPress plugins and themes, plus Hahlo, nextga.me (once its finished.…) and other projects all in one spot.
In the past I’ve had trouble finding a “good” solution for support. I’ve tried various forum packages, with each being abandoned because they were either insufficient or superfluous to my needs… that and every forum I’ve run has been hit by low-life spammers selling v1agr4 or offering to transfer $99,000,000,000 to me from their Nigerian bank account.
Following these ‘failures’ I tried hosted solutions like GetSatisfaction and UserVoice, again they didn’t really meet my needs, and I found that I was still left fielding support questions in blog comments and via email. In the case of support for Hahlo I stuck pretty strongly to GetSatisfaction (even if I didn’t check it as often as I probably should have). Recently GetSatisfaction have announced changes to their pricing plans, which ultimately means the free account (which I’ve been using) would appear that its losing a bunch of the more useful features. I should clarify that this change isn’t the only reason I’m moving away from GetSatisfaction, the main reason is that I wanted something I had more control over, and that I could also use for supporting my WordPress Plugins and Themes etc.
I’m a big Bruce Willis fan, but I’d hoped for better. I’m not saying I hated it, but there was something that just wasn’t quite right about it. Maybe it was the bad haircut on Bruce’s ‘surrogate’, maybe it was the ‘convenience’ of some of the solutions to the problems they encountered, maybe it was the ending. I’m not sure. I didn’t mind the few twists that were thrown in but they didn’t entirely make up for the ‘gaps’. Almost seemed like a mash-up of “I, Robot”, “The Island” and “The Matrix”, but not necessarily of the good bits from them…
Yeah, so. There was plenty of promise and potential, but little substance in-between the exploding vampires. It gets one star for vampires, another one for making them explode, one star for vampire Sam Neill (who’s maybe taking the whole “red meat we’re meant to eat it” thing a bit far…), one star for being made in Australia, and two more stars for being about vampires that drink blood and don’t make mix-tapes and go on dinner dates (or whatever the fuck the vampires in twilight do). That’s six stars, which is pretty good. But. You then lose a couple of stars for letting Australians make it (in Australia, with Australian actors putting on accents — except when they forgot they were meant to be putting on an accent…), and another for the lame ending, and another half-star because I want to and it kind of deserved it.
I really enjoyed the ‘basterds’, and I found there was actually much more to the movie than I was expecting, and that was a nice surprise. I was just expecting a movie full of Brad Pitt collecting Nazi scalps (based on what I’d previously seen in trailers). It is a Tarantino movie so there was always going to be a good helping of blood and violence, it just wouldn’t be a Tarantino movie without these essential ingredients. Very enjoyable if a bit of gore, dark humour and Nazi-scalping is what you’re looking for.
I could write 2,000 words about why I hate Flash, why its bad, why people should stop using it etc, but instead I’ll tell you what its good for. It’s good for things like Shut up woman get on my horse, and the occasional video player. That’s all. And once Firefox allow for a format other than ‘ogg’ to be used for HTML5 video then Flash video can go off and die as well.
Yes I’m ignoring Microsoft, they probably can’t even spell HTML5 (or progress), think about it, they obviously didn’t like Flash so they made Silverlight which as far as I can tell is the same if not worse than Flash (not that I can say that with any experience because I refuse to install the SIlverlight plugin)