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Friday, May 7th, 2010
I saw a new chocolate drink (Q sjokolademelk) with the advertisement “Norways Best” written on the package in the store a couple of days ago, so I decided to do a blind test with that and 3 other brands of chocolate milk.
I tested the 4 brands at 4 tests, and rated them on a scale from 1 (worst) to 10 (best). Special thanks to Stacy for being the lab assistant, making sure everything was double blinded 
As the results show, the new “Best in Norway” chocolate milk tasted like crap, while the one I usually buy (Tine sjokomelk) was beaten by a small margin by Litago (also from “Tine”). At least my regular brand had a very low standard deviation . The winners were “Litago original sjokolademelk” and “Litago lettere sjokolademelk”, with the latter having a lower standard deviation (consistently yummy) and being crowned the winner of the test:
Tags: advertisement, blind test, blind tests, chocolate, chocolate drink, chocolate milk, double blinding, drink, food, Litago, litago lettere sjokolademelk, litago original sjokolademelk, movie review, q sjokolademelk, Science, sjokolademelk, sjokomelk, standard deviation, testing, Tine
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Saturday, February 13th, 2010
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
Tags: 3d, avatar, booring, cinema, james cameron, men who stare at goats, movie, movie review, piece of crap, revenge of the fallen, robots, Salvation, superman returns, terminator, terminator salvation, trailer, transformers 2, transformers movie, wolverine, x-men, zombie, zombie movie, zombieland
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009
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
Tags: 2012, bad physics, CGI, cinema, destruction, end of the world, movie, movie review, review
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Saturday, March 7th, 2009
Finally saw the Watchmen movie, It’s not quite as good as the comic book, but it’s still:
The endig was also better than the comic book, and I cant wait to get the extended version and the tale of the black freighter on Bluray
Rating: 9.5 / 10
Tags: black freighter, bluray, book, comic book, comics, movie, movie review, review, watchmen, watchmen movie
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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:
“Artist illustration”
rating: 2.5 / 10
Tags: braindead, comedy, dead snow, død snø, fail, horror, kill buljo, movie, movie review, nazi, norwegian, review, splatter, zombie
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
I saw the latest batman movie last night, and considering all the hype around it, I find myself somewhat disappointed.
The plot is pretty uninteresting for the most part, but not that bad either, it’s like an average action movie.
There where a few things that annoyed me:
- They could have killed the joker at 4-5 times at the movie, saving lots of people.
- Heath Ledger’s acting was OK, nothing more.. If he had not offed himself with a bad drugs combo nobody would give a shit or suggest him getting an oscar.
- Batmans voice sounds like Homer Simpson with a cold.. SERIOUSLY.. it’s off putting!
- Nobody notices 50-100 barrels of explosives being moved into a hospital or a ferry.
And finally.. “Dark knight”?
Batman is not Dark.. He is Emo.. There is a big difference.
Rorschach (Watchmen), V (V for Vendetta), Marv (Sin city), The punisher, Wolverine (X-men) are dark, and they get the job done.
Batman is a black teletubby who like superman is never going to solve the problem by killing his deadly enemy, but instead play a weird form of catch and release, which gets LOTS of people killed, but still batman is sooo guilty when the joker kills a few people demanding that he expose himself.
At least this movie was not as HORRIBLE as Batman Returns. Still.. Batman = Pussy
rating: 5 / 10
Tags: batman, comics, heath ledger, homer simpson, movie, movie review, review, Rorschach, sin city, super hero, teletubby, the dark knight, the joker
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Saturday, September 20th, 2008
I just saw Iron Man, and it is easily the best marvel based movie ever (except the X-men movies of course).
The ending was not so fresh, but the movie as a whole was pretty damned good. I really liked the main character and the humor in the film was great. Will definitely watch Iron Man 2 and Avengers when they come.
Rating: 8.8 / 10
Tags: iron man, marvel, movie, movie review, review, super hero, x-men
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
I saw a movie a couple of days back, The ruins.
It’s a horror movie about some people who goes to check out an ancient temple in southern America. This seems like a pretty cheesy story, but the movie is actually kinda neat and got a nice kind of charm over it, and it relies on psychology, tension and a form of creeping horror, instead of gore based or sudden scares.
The movie’s atmosphere kinda reminds me of the descent, but to be honest, the descent is much better. Either way, the movie is an OK watch
Rating: 6.8 / 10
Tags: horror, movie, movie review, review, temple, the descent, the ruins
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
I actually haven’t gotten around to watch Cloverfield until now.
Seeing that the last hand-held camera style movie I saw turned out to be crap (Diary of the dead), I had low expectations of this one. It did however manage to positively surprise me
unlike Diary of the dead, this movie actually have ok characters that people can somewhat identify with. And the story although pretty simple, is entertaining trough the whole movie.
Rating: 6 / 10
Tags: cloverfield, diary of the dead, horror, movie, movie review, review
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Saturday, July 26th, 2008
I saw a pretty good movie just now.
The Mist is a “horror movie” based on a novella by Stephen King. But unlike most films based on his stories, this movie does not suck.. It’s actually fairly good, a little bit slow in the middle, but nice ending.
The movie is about a small town that gets covered in a thick mist, leaving lots of people trapped in the local grocery store. If you’re a fan of Stephen King movies (the few good ones), you might want to check this out, as this is one of the good ones (like The Stand, Storm of the Century, Rose Red, Green Mile, Carrie, etc..).
I guess it’s also a good “casual horror” movie, nothing scary. Speaking of scary, I just realized there are no asian people in the movie.. weird.. Stacy is going away tomorrow, so maybe then I can get to watch the latest asian horror movie I bought (Ghost game).
Rating: 7.5 / 10
Tags: horror, movie, movie review, review, stacy, stephen king, the mist
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