I just did Eternity Vault (one of the two raids) in Star Wars The Old Republic for the first time with only guild members.
Used Fraps to record it and ended up with this movie which is pretty funny
The guild is <Orange Pixel> at the Scepter of Ragnos server (EU – PVP)
Really enjoying endgame in SWTOR so far (hardmode raids), can’t wait for the third raid to come next month.
I love zombie movies.. And as all zombie aficionados I have respect for the guy who practically invented the genre, George A. Romero. Well, at least I used to..
What started out great in 1968 with Night of the Living Dead has gradually taken a turn for the worse, measuring the IMDB ratings for his movies (where he was writer, and often director) .
Now as this graph clearly shows, since he started with a high rating (8/10) his movies gradually declined until falling off a steep cliff in 2005 when he started making zombie movies again, and they are just horrible (not in a good way) all of them.
The graph deceptively makes it looks like the last movie was a step in the right direction, but that last movie was “Survival of the dead“, the very movie that inspired this blog post. It is beyond retarded, it’s so moronic you actually have to watch it do be able to wrap your head around it. It has without a doubt one of the stupidest plots, worst bunch of actors and poor/idiotic effects I’ve ever seen.
I can’t for the life of me begin to understand how it got a IMDB rating of 5.1/10 Even the 4.4/10 rating at Metacritic or 4.8/10 at rotten tomatoes are WAY to generous.
And to top it all off, he has the nerve to criticize Zack Snyders 2004 Remake of Dawn of the dead, which was totally awesome:
“It was better than I expected. … The first 15, 20 minutes were terrific, but it sort of lost its reason for being” — Romero
“Lost it’s reason for being”?! reading that in context of Survival of the dead is just fucking hysterical. Romero hasn’t written anything that good for 32 fucking years!
Fuck you Romero!
Now, for a post dedicated to two of my favorite things… Angel and Statistics:
I’ve got all my DVDs registered on my computer, and each time I watch a movie or an episode I give it my personal rating on a scale from 1 to 10 (10 being best).
So without further ado I give you the statistics for Joss Whedon’s Angel:
First, the average rating for each season. And as you can see Season 2 and 4 is awesome =)
Below is a chart of all episodes, click to enlarge:
I just saw Scott Pilgrim VS The World, and to sum it up in a one word review: Awesometastic!
Now one thing that really delightfully surprised me before the movie even started was the lack of those moronic anti piracy ads they put in front of nearly every DVD.
You know the one.. “You wouldn’t steal a handbag, etc…” The one that makes your gut wrench and just fills you with anger and contempt in the 0.2 seconds it takes you to recognize the music.
That awful thing they put on DVD’s to tell the people who bought it not to steal it. The big slap in the face for people who are actually BUYING DVD’s. The tiny video clip (file) which pirates never even rip from the DVD’s when making an illegal copy. The biggest (by far) factor that just pisses me off before the film, and actually makes me want to buy LESS DVD’s.
Well, enough about that.. Just writing about it makes me all pissed and misanthropic.
The DVD Scott Pilgrim from Universal Studios / Universal Pictures however has an interesting twist.
Instead of reminding the nice customer not to steal, they actually “Thank You” for supporting the movie industry by buying it..
That just totally made my day.. Thank YOU Universal 
I love google analytics*, it’s great and awesome in all sorts of ways that I won’t go into right now, instead allow me to present some funny search queries that have all somehow led people to this blog.
*For those of you who didn’t know, Google Analytics is a way to know how many people visit your website, what they search for, or where they come from, etc…
variations of “stargate universe sucks” - 1100 hits
variations of “new star trek movie sucks” – 1800 hits
So far so good, at least there are a few people out there with good taste, but it is when you get down to the more unique searches, those with only a few hits that you find the weird stuff.. Apparently even tough Stargate Universe sucks, somebody on the show has huge (or big) tits 
Stargate universe big tits - 13
stargate universe girl with big tits - 6
“stargate universe” “big tits” - 2
big tits on sgu - 2
big tits stargate universe -3
girl with big tits on stargate universe - 1
actress with the huge tits on stargate universe - 1
who is the girl with the big tits on stargate universe? - 1
biggest tits on stargate universe - 1
chick with huge tits on stargate universe - 1
sgu stargate universe big tits - 1
star gate universe big tits - 1
stargate universe huge tits - 1
sgu kills off big tits?- 1
stargate universe chick with huge tits- 1
stargate universe chick with big tits- 5
I can only assume they are looking for pictures of Julia Benson:
Hmmm. I just realized that due to it’s questionable content, this post will undoubtedly attract more hits from people with nothing better to do than googling for Julia Bensons boobs..
So I might just as well throw in another picture, I’d hate for people to leave here empty handed.
why do the shields on the enterprise suck?
– I have no idea, the real question is why would somebody write that phrase in a search engine?
mexican knick knacks
– I bet this guy was especially disappointed with my blog 
why are everyone in stargate universe morons?
- I… Don’t… Know…
all video editing software sucks and makes no sense at all
- You should stick to pictures, they are simpler to wrap your head around
best brand donkey balls chocolates
- I’m afraid to even comment on this one
fedcon convention swine flu
- Hah! I see I was not the only one worried about swine flu duing fedcon 2009. Not so much worried about catching it, as guests not showing up
feed trondheim
- I’m definitely going to be keeping an eye out for starving children
jello shot launcher
- Let me know if you find one!
ms paint police
- These guys should have a SWAT unit!
It’s been way to long since I did any movie reviews, so I’ll have to do a short update on Movies I’ve seen lately.
Men Who Stare At Goats
The trailer portrayed this one as pretty funny and interesting, but the trailer contains about 80% of the comedy in the movie and the rest is pretty booring.
Rating: 2.5 / 10
Avatar
I must say I was rather skeptical as the last big hit movies that everyone is raving about turned out to be crap. But I gave it a chance, if it sucked at least there would be nice graphics and 3D. But I must say even though the plot is a bit simple and neat, this movie is kick ass. The plot is nice and tidy, characters are great and the 3 hours go by quickly because the movie never ceases to be interesting and/or exciting. I will definitively go back to the cinema and watch it one more time in 3D before they stop showing it.
Rating: 9.4 / 10
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
My expectations were very low for this one, but it was actually pretty good of showing the origins of Wolverine, can’t wait for Magneto
Rating: 6 / 10
Terminator Salvation
This is by far the worst Terminator film made, boring and does not really feel like a Terminator film.. It does have some nice effects though, and is mildly entertaining at periods.
Rating: 3 / 10
Transformers 2 (Revenge of the Fallen)
Wow.. Even though my expectations were pretty much as low as they go (the previous Transformers movie was a piece of crap with an idiotic plot, boring as hell and with lame ass characters), this movie is actually so bad and retarded that it actually put me to sleep even though I was not tired (must have been the brains natural defense mechanism).
Now why would I watch Transformers 2 when I hated the first one you might ask? I’ll tell you.. It was a gift, and I was hoping to see some cool effects, after all who doesn’t love robots? But even in that department the movie is a huge disappointment, the first one actually have cooler and more interesting effects.
Rating: 0.8 / 10
UP
I feel ripped off! The trailer portrays this as a funny movie filled with humor.. The humor is there but it’s miles apart, and completely drowned out by the sadness of the movie, which came like a shock when expecting a comedy
Rating: 4 / 10
Zombieland
Veeeery skeptical, with the horrible “Dead Snow” still fresh in memory I did not really want to even see a comedy zombie movie. But it quickly became apparent that this movie was quite good, not exactly Shaun of the dead, but still very enjoyable with lovely characters.
Rating: 7.5 / 10
I enjoy the occasional editing and creation of videos. Recently I’ve been making a cinema commercial for the WSPA organization here in Trondheim (“Dyrebeskyttelsen”), but choosing the right video editing software is not trivial. For me it needed to have good tools for panning, zooming, cropping, masking and support lots of video tracks. Also the ability to work with HD, color correction, text effects, exporting to a sensible video format is a must. I tried out 4 different video editing software products and wrote a small review of them:
Sony Vegas
I really like Sony Vegas, but it’s limit of 4 video tracks is extremely annoying! I could get an unlimited number of tracks if I could afford 700$ for the Professional edition, however as my video editing is mostly on a hobby basis that’s not an option.
I think the 4 track limit is moronic, you just need to have 2 videos + some text and a picture and you’re maxed out.. There are ways around this by rendering your 4 tracks into a movie, then importing that movie in a new project but then it’s a nightmare to change stuff which you do all the time while editing. Great software, but way to expensive for 4+ tracks.
Pinnacle Studio Ultimate
So I decided to try another piece of software, Pinnacle studio ultimate, a hefty 1.9 gig download for the trial version. This proved to be the biggest disappointment since Star Trek 11. First of all the software is overly simplistic and lacks lots of features found in Vegas, it is cumbersome (does not allow for fast cross-fading video/audio and other neat functions like Vegas does). But the worst part.. It’s limited to 3 (THREE) video tracks? WTF? I could not uninstall it fast enough, and now my computer feels kinda dirty..
Adobe Premiere / Premiere Elements
Wow, it’s even more expensive than Sony Vegas Professional, 800$ And the fact that their webpage is a mess and I have to register for a trial means I won’t even bother testing it. However! at the time of writing this I see there is also a “Premiere Elements” that according to Wikipedia allows for unlimited tracks for 100$ so I had to give it a try.
1.2 gb download, but it went very fast, installing took a while and required a reboot.. The program itself was not very intuitive and the trial made a HUGE ugly watermark on all the videos AND all images in that video. It was also horribly slow, background rendering running for like a minute with just a background image in one track and a moving image on the other track. The program also locked up twice in the hour I was testing it.. Not impressed.
Cyberlink PowerDirector 8
Another more reasonably priced piece of software (70-100$) which is supposed to be able to handle 16 tracks, and I honestly can’t see myself having more than 16 objects visible at the same time any time soon, so I guess I’ll have to try this one as well. The trial version was on a slow server so took a long time to download the software despite it’s small 235 MB size.
I did however not get to try this software for reasons stated below.
Magix Movie Edit Pro
Unlike the other 3 products mentioned, I hadn’t heard of this one until recently. The trial version was only around 200 MB compared to Premiere and Pinnacle which were 1,2 and 1,9 GB. But the websites promise of unlimited tracks and a fairly low price of 90$ made me check this one out. Like powerDirector it was on a slow server, and took a while to download.
Fast simple install, and user interface is nice and simple. Using keyframes to do changes/motion/scaling, etc.. was very nicely done and easy to use, and the program was a pleasure to work with. My only complaint is that the preview of the video has very bad framerate (maybe it’s just because of my semi transparent video over an image), do detecting subtle changes in the video while editing could be extremely hard.
Conclusion
After being forced to abandon Sony Vegas I found that the best program for me (behaved most like Vegas, lots of functions and lots of tracks) was without a doubt Magix Movie Edit Pro, it’s a very nice piece of software which I will be buying before the trial is up. It’s stupid that when you buy the downloaded version you miss out on getting Vasco De Gama bundled with it, but that I can live without.
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
Sometimes boredom can only be fought with photoshop..
George Lucas and J.J. Abrams conspiring to make bad movies
A list of all the Star Trek movies, sorted by quality ranging from 10 (best) to 1 (horrible)
