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A team-up movie headed by Sean Connery can be promising, not ? Well, these days, you never know. The story is too simple, and can be guessed by a five-year old. The characters are scraped together and there’s nothing holding them together. They’re not that special, and they are as hollow as they can come. The correct title would have been The League of Very Ordinary and Cliche Gentlemen, because there’s nothing interesting to tell. Furthermore, the movies is just a bunch of fast edited scenes with special effects added that are too obvious special effects. I won’t start with the matter of unbelievability of various aspects of the movie, as they’re too baffling to be discussed.6-.

Rate 1 (sucks) to 5 (cool). Only rate the latest pictures, otherwise I can’t keep track of the average.

Total: 374 out of 118 votes > Average is: 3.169

Don’t bother calling the Child Abuse Hotline, the intern is older than 18 already.

Well, after almost a whole day offline (my ISP’s ADSL backbone service didn’t work out as they’d wish, I guess), let’s see what kind of disruption it caused to my dear visitors. For all the statistics geeks, this link will take you to my web log statistics of the past few weeks, with all the interesting details like visitors, referrals, browsers and much more ! (Of course, since I myself am the most frequent visitor, I filtered myself out. So, Albi you’re tha best !)

Yesterday, Google had its 5th anniversary. From a garage with roughly 10.000 hits a day, to a growing enterprise with 200 million queries a day. Quite a feat, you might say, but my analysis is somewhat simpler:
Speed and accuracy – in a time where all the big search engines took tens of seconds to return some shaky results, Google was fast and reliable.
Marketing – A very useful toolbar came standard with the earliest version of Opera. A toolbar for Internet Explorer was easy to download and use as well. Big sites (like CNN) feature a “powered by Google” search button.
And last but not least, the name – “Can you altavista this and that for me ?” doesn’t sound quite as catchy, does it ?

(also, use the statistics link above this article to see google is really the best)

Rate 1 (FR#^&% MESS !) to 5 (how very tidy !). Only rate the latest picture, otherwise I can’t keep track of the average.

Total: 858 out of 239 votes > Average is: 3.590

A very very quiet week at the box office as the stupidly named low budget laffer Dicky Roberts: Former Child Star (opens here 29 Jan) opened with a meagre $7 million. 2nd place was last weeks winner Jeepers Creepers 2 with a well deserved 66% drop to $6.7 million. Third was Pirates, still sailing well with $5.5 million, and beating The Matrix Reloaded (totalling $280 million) for 2nd place this year with $282 million.
Opening on nr. 6, is Heath Ledger starring in a horror flick called The Order (opens here 23 Oct), bringing in only $4.3 million. This proves looks will get you anywhere, but not for long. Time to start auditioning a lot dude !

Ever wished smug-faced illusionist David Blaine dead ? Now couldn’t be a better time, as he is about to step in to a small plastic box to be hanged above the London Thames for 44 days. Having a contract with UK’s TV channels Sky One and Channel 4, he’ll try to do absolutely nothing (you can’t move in the small box) in those 6 weeks, except to drink from some trickling doped up water stream, and some urinating through a tube. What a dynamic show that will be ! His chance for survival aren’t that slim though, as there are records of people who’ve survived worse.
Also, the Guinness Book of Records will not allow any of Blaine’s crazy stunts (3 days in a block of ice and being buried alive) for obvious reasons. Guess just the money will do then.
10 million Euros would do for me. How much would you ask for those 44 days ?

A very adequate movie suiting almost everybody’s taste. It had nice action, a tiny bit of a story, a bit humor, and the pace keeps the whole movie running. As usual, Charlize Theron and Mark Wahlberg team up nicely (The Yards) and the rest of the cast are okay too. Norton does the creepy bad guy stuff very well.7½.

Rate 1 (FR#^&% MESS !) to 5 (how very tidy !). Only rate the latest picture, otherwise I can’t keep track of the average.

Total: 852 out of 237 votes > Average is: 3.595

Scary stuff goin’ on, coz Jeepers Creepers 2 opened with an amazing $18.5 million (opens here …uhmm… I don’t care), after the abomination that was Jeepers Creepers. Must be the Labor Day craze goin’ on. Second was the family laugher Freaky Friday with $11.7 million. Third was S.W.A.T. with $10.5 million. Fourth, was Pirates in its 8th week run ! With another $10.2 million, Bruckheimer’d better build another big sailing ship to carry his current total of a whopping $274 million golden dollars.