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2012

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

2012

I went to the cinema last night and saw 2012, and it was pretty awesome.

The movie itself and the plot was ok, except for some bad physics at moments, but then again I didn’t go to the cinema for a great story.

I just like seeing things being smashed, torn, destroyed, burned, exploded, destroyed and utterly demolished :)

This movie got very nice CGI destruction, albeit comically exaggerated at times, and it’s worth watching this one in the cinema just for the awesome destruction :)

rating: 8 / 10

Does Stargate Universe suck?

Monday, October 12th, 2009

So, 3 episodes out what’s the initial impression?

Pretty much nothing.. Unlike SG-1 and Atlantis who started out with great episodes, the beginning of SG-U has been pretty slow and uninteresting.

Now I have no problems with shows starting off slow (TNG, DS9), but the biggest problem the series have is that there are no great characters, SG-1 and Atlantis had extremely lovable and funny characters. Universe have none.. I’ve also not seen any of the great Stargate humor..

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I’m still going to watch the rest of the episodes, maybe it will get better. So far this show does not seem like Stargate at all :(

Update December 6th 2009
http://www.erlendaakre.com/2009/794/stargate-universe-does-suck.html

Virtuality

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

A couple of days ago a pilot for a proposed tv series called ‘Virtuality’ was aired. The guy behind it is no other than Ronald D. More best known for his work on Star Trek and being the genius behind the new Battlestar Galactica series.

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The show is about mankinds first voyage outside the solar system to search for life on a distant planet (a 10 year trip). The ship called the phaeton is equipped with a complex virtual reality system, which should prevent the crew from going insane by being stuck 10 years in a metal tube :)

The pilot was very good, and I would LOVE to watch more, unfortunately Fox has not ordered any more episodes, but perhaps if enough people get interested, that will change.

If you live in the US you can watch the pilot at Hulu:
http://www.hulu.com/virtuality

otherwise you might want to check out:
http://www.btjunkie.org

fan support page:
http://virtuality-tv.info/Renewal/

facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Virtuality/79071714541

J.J Lucas

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Sometimes boredom can only be fought with photoshop..

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George Lucas and J.J. Abrams conspiring to make bad movies

My favorite TNG episodes

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Here are the very best episodes of Star Trek The Next Generations:

1×18 Home Soil
1×21 The Arsenal of Freedom
1×22 Symbiosis
1×26 The Neutral Zone

2×09 The Measure of a Man
2×13 Time Squared
2×16 Q WHo
2×21 Peak Performance

3×04 Who watches the watchers
3×10 The defector
3×13 Deja Q
3×14 A matter of perspective
3×18 Allegiance
3×26 The best of both worlds (part 1)

4×01 The best of both worlds (part 2)
4×03 Brothers
4×11 Data’s Day
4×14 Clues
4×15 First Contact
4×19 The Nth Degree
4×21 The Drumhead
4×22 Half a Life

5×07 Unification (part 1)
5×08 Unification (part 2)
5×18 Cause and effect
5×23 I Borg
5×24 The Next Phase
5×25 The Inner Light

6×04 Relics
6×09 The quality of Life
6×10 Chain Of command (part 1)
6×11 Chain Of command (part 2)
6×15 Tapestry
6×25 Timescape

7×04 Gambit (part 1)
7×05 Gambit (part 2)
7×11 Parallels
7×12 The Pegasus
7×19 Genesis
7×25 All Good Things

Star Trek movies rating

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

A list of all the Star Trek movies, sorted by quality ranging from 10 (best) to 1 (horrible)

  1. Star Trek 6 – The Undiscovered Country – 10 / 10
  2. Star Trek 2 – The Wrath of Khan – 9.8 / 10
  3. Star Trek 8 – First Contact – 9.3 / 10
  4. Star Trek 1 – The Motion Picture – 8 / 10
  5. Star Trek 7 – Generations – 7.8 / 10
  6. Star Trek 4 – The Voyage Home – 7.6 / 10
  7. Star Trek 9 – Insurrection – 7 / 10
  8. Star Trek 3 – The Search for Spock – 3.5 / 10
  9. Star Trek 5 – The Final Frontier – 1.8 / 10
  10. Star Trek 10 – Nemesis – 1.6 / 10
  11. Star Trek 11 – 1.4 / 10

Star Trek (2009) Review – 32 reasons why it sucks

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

Last night I saw the new Star Trek movie, I’ve seen all the episodes of all the shows between 2-7 times each, so of course I need to watch this movie to..

Remembering how much Nemesis sucked, I was determined to have no expectations to the movie, just in case it turned out to be crap. But around 1 week ago I got to see like 25 minutes of the movie while at Fedcon, and then I got pretty exited, it looked really good and funny.

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Unfortunately those 25 minutes contained everything that was good in the movie, and the rest 1.5 hours SUCKED.

I really hate the new Star Trek movie, it is by far the worst Star Trek movie (that includes such travesties as Star Trek 3, 5 and Nemesis).

The movie has NO Star Trek feeling over it what so ever.. The Movie is BORING and the plot is semi-retarded.

The movie is a Bland Cookie cutter action movie dressed up like Trek.

Note (I’m not a grumpy old guy who only likes TOS, and says there can be NO action in Star Trek).. I really LOVE TNG/DS9/VOY/ENT and First contact, Battlestar, Stargate, and those have lots of action (but not mindless action with poor plots)

Why the movie is a piece of shit

  1. The score/theme song is by far the worst ever, and I felt embarrassed every time it played.
  2. All the aliens have human personalities, the Vulcans, the Romulans, none of these act any different from humans.
  3. Bad guys with tribal tattoos on their face is not cool.. Just ask Mike Tyson.
  4. Even though being packed with action, it still manages to be boring as hell
  5. Boring CGI, for example the ice planet monster was crappy, but the ships were OK (exterior)
  6. The pitiful attempt to copy Battlestar Galacticas shaky camera for ship shots was really badly implemented
  7. Most of the humor did not really seem at home in the movie
  8. It is not Star Trek, it is just a mindless Hollywood action movie.
  9. A simple and boring ending
  10. The actors did NOT do a good job portraying the characters (Except for Mccoy which was excellent, and to some degree Kirk).
  11. Bad guy with a grudge trying to kill the hero (Does ST:II or Nemesis ring a bell?)
  12. Going back in time to destroy the federation? *cough* First Contact *cough*
  13. Why would Nero destroy the federation? He wants the future Romulans to get wiped out by the Borg, the Dominion, Species 8472 or the Sphere builders?
  14. A supernova that threatens the galaxy? That is like having a exploding car in London threatening people in New York..
  15. Being that close to a black hole would tear the atoms the ships were made of apart.. Not sending them back trough time in one piece.
  16. Spock setting Kirk out to probably die on a frozen moon, nice job portraying Spock and the enterprise crew.
  17. Scotty killing admiral Archers dog? WTF?!
  18. Scotty working with a Oompa-Loompa in a Ent costume?
  19. Making Spock and Uhura make out just for no reason what so ever except pleasing the 16 year olds in the audience.
  20. Why did the Federation suddenly loose sensor technology? They have great sensors in Enterprise/TOS.. In this movie they cant even see a second ahead while at warp (gigantic overpowered Romulan mining ships, allied Starfleet ships, debris or weapons fire)
  21. Vulcan children making fun of each other and fighting..
  22. Magical supernova that travels faster than light
  23. Using a black hole to collapse a supernova makes no sense
  24. Why is Nero so upset at Spock, it’s not like Spock caused that magical supernova, he just failed to help.
  25. And since when was it the Federations job to safeguard the Romulan Star Empire from natural disasters anyhow?
  26. When he got back in time, why not do something worth doing, like save those Romulans from being pwned by the supernova?
  27. That scene with Simon Pegg in the water tubes was like something out of Spy Kids, totally lame.
  28. The movie exists in a parallel reality to the established Star Trek universe.. So why would anyone give a rats ass about what happens in it? We all know Spocks mother was not killed, and that Vulcan is doing fine.
  29. Starfleet ships are ships of exploration.. The new ones are ridiculously over armed compared to all other series.
  30. Detonating warp cores between the ship would not move the ship since the matter antimatter explosion would produce only energy, no moving mass that could propel the ship.. The best they could hope for was to be fried with EM radiation. The ship also went to warp after ejecting it’s warp cores (Federation ships only have one).
  31. Building a Starship the size of the Enterprise on Earth’s surface in gravity is just silly.
  32. Even if you DID build Enterprise on the surface, a constitution class starship can not operate in a class-m planets lower atmosphere. So there would be no way to get the ship into space

PS
There are lots of other good reasons why the movie sucks in the comments to this post. I especially liked Ben’s comparison of the movie to The Wrath Of Khan :)

I hate The Simpsons

Monday, January 26th, 2009

I haven’t watched the Simpsons for a long while, because watching The Simpsons after having seen Family Guy is like sticking a big spoonful of dog shit in your mouth after eating cake..

Anyhow, I thought I might give it a go again, and watched the latest episode.
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Trough the last half of the episode I kept hoping a blood vessel in my brain would rupture and kill me. I had to watch 2 Family guy episodes to regain my will to live, and after that I still feel dirty! :(

Død snø (dead snow) sucks – Ein Zwei Fail

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Against my better judgment I went with some friends and saw the Norwegian made “nazi-zombie” movie Død Snø (Dead Snow).

The movie is made by talentless writer/director Tommy Wirkola, who just 2 years ago embarrassed the country with a horrible Kill Bill parody (“Kill Buljo”). By looking at the trailer for Død Snø, it actually doesn’t seem so bad, and if the movie was as good as the trailer I would not be bitching and complaining right now.. But the movie itself fails at so many things it’s almost embarrassing.

Story – FAIL
Now I would be the first to acknowledge that a movie with nazi zombies does not need much of a plot. However there at least have to be SOMETHING, even if the plot is so simple as “zombies around, locked up in shopping mall / mountain cabin, try to escape” there still have to be events that pushes the story forward towards something. Watching Død Snø feels like going nowhere really slow, nothing really happens and there is nothing leading up to anything, no sense of progression, no nothing.

Characters – FAIL
The only properly developed character is killed early in the movie. The rest of the characters are uninteresting and with NO back story. The dialogs throughout the movie are lame and if you are going to have someone talk with the ugliest Norwegian dialect ever conceived (Stavanger) for the love of gods, ADD SUBTITLES!

Genre – 3x FAIL
The movie tries at three genres and misses all of them by a furlong.
Horror/zombie
, the movie is not scary at all, it has no atmosphere what so ever and there is none of that tight, claustrophobic eerie zombie feeling. Just a few attempts on sudden/cheap scares which FAIL.
Comedy, the only good thing this movie has to show for are a couple of OK jokes. but sadly most of the movie is about as funny as watching Adam Sandler making dinner.
Splatter, this movie does not qualify as a splatter, there are only a few splatter scenes, most of which are pretty dull and unoriginal. Both the quality and quantity of the effects does not stand up well to other splatters.

Quality – FAIL
The sound sucks donkey balls.
The music sucks elephant balls.
The effects are mediocre at their best.
The zombie makeup is almost passable.
60% of the movie is shot in the dark.. by someone who can’t shoot in the dark.

Conclusion
This half ass movie reaches movies like Bad Taste, Braindead, Shaun of the dead, *real zombie movies* up to their ankles. I would rather have watched Braindead once again. No sound, no color, Portuguese subtitles, as a poor VHS rip on a broken LCD monitor, and with one eye shut.. It would still be roughly 3 times better than Død Snø:
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“Artist illustration”

rating: 2.5 / 10

Chuck

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

I started watching a new TV series after christmas, figuring I should watch at least ONE tv series that isn’t science fiction.

Chuck is a action comedy (more comedy than action) series about a computer nerd who gets a big database of government secrets uploaded into his brain. He works at Nerd Herd (the support department) of a local electronics retailer who has lots of interesting and weird characters.

After getting the database put in his head, he invoulentarily becomes a “spy” working with two operatives from the NSA and CIA.

The series is filled with humor, interesting situations and is really fun to watch. The series started in 2007, and season 2 just finished. Have only watched the first season yet.

I love all of the nerd humor in the show

  • Chuck speaks klingon
  • Chuck has a sandworm costume (from Dune)
  • A ninja tries to steal Chuck’s computer
  • Chuck needs bandages after playing to much Call of Duty
  • Chuck installs Linux :)
  • etc..

And I cant wait for the episode called “Chuck Versus the Delorean” :D