Rate 1 (FR#^&% MESS !) to 5 (how very tidy !). Only rate the latest picture, otherwise I can’t keep track of the average.
Total: 1337 out of 438 votes > Average is: 3.053
Not really my desk, but part of my floor. Hopefully this isn’t a mother spider who already laid her eggs before she died. It’s almost too big to fit the nozzle of my vacuum cleaner !
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It’s getting a bit old now, those animated “animal buddies against will” type of stories. Ever since Shrek, it’s been a Shrek/Donkey copying game. It might not have been so bad if only the story was up to par, or the jokes were inventive. But it wasn’t. Only go if you want your kids to have a good time. But be advised, you probably won’t be.5½.
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In the current landscape of solo singer/songwriter/performer (who by default earn more respect from me), it’s still takes time to find a new sparking one on a regular basis. The latest one to make a real dent seems to be James Morrison, going a similar way previous walked by the likes of Gavin DeGraw and Tyler Hilton, though having a coarser rougher voice.
Storming the charts is You Give Me Something, a wallowing sweet begging. Combined with a simple motif it still sounds nice, though it makes it a danger regarding its longevity. Luckily, there are a few stronger songs with more conviction, making a solid statement (Undiscovered, This Boy), but there are a lot of slow crooners and seemingly copies of other songs (Under the Influence, How Come) in there not to my liking. All in all, it’s a very mixed bag, and with only 3 songs picked out to inhabit my resident playlist, it didn’t reach the average grade.6½.
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Never liked the guy. The slow jamming make my drowsy, and the “ooeh hooehooe” (Clarity) makes me wanna choke him. But somehow, the first single of this new album (Waiting on the World to Change) grabbed me with its 70-ties throwback. The ingenius punchy flowing vibe doesn’t find its way to the other songs though. It’s more of the slow stuff, with a bit too much jazzy influences for my taste. Fans will probably like it, but this is really not for me.5½.
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It’s getting hard to distinguish all those animal 3D animated movies, but every studio wants to give it a try, and this one has a bear and a mule in it, and is from the Sony Pictures Animation division. I thought animal-tiredness would have set in by now (for instance, do non-descript titles like Barnyard and The Wild job your memory ?), but somehow this one ends up at the top spot with $23 million.
Second up is The Guardian, a Disney distribution featuring Ashton Kutcher and Kevin Costner, with $17.7 million.
Jackass Number Two will have to do with the third spot, with $14 million. At four a new comedy, School for Scoundrels starring Billy Bob Thornton and Jon Heder, opens with $9.1 million. Rounding out the top 5 is Jet Li’s Fearless, with $4.7 million (dropping a whopping 56% from last week).
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Via deze weg wilde ik mijn klacht bij u neerleggen. Nadruk op LEGGEN. Hierin is namelijk iets vreselijks verkeerd gegaan. En dan heb ik het over de genetisch gemanipuleerde dubbeldooier leggende kip.
Van nature ben ik een levensgenieter, en wat kan je ochtend beter maken dan een broodje ei met 1 dooier. JUIST ! Een broodje ei met 2 dooiers. Daarom kraakte ik tot voor kort elke dag gewoon 2 eieren open. Natuurlijk zegt dat iets over mijn cholesterol gehalte (door het dak heen!), en vandaar dacht ik slim te zijn door jullie dubbeldooier ei te kopen.
Economisch gezien, geniet ik dan dubbel, en zal ik minder cholesterol tot me nemen, en bespaar ik ook nog eens flink wat geld door dagelijks maar 1 ei tot me te nemen.
Moet u mijn schrik eens voorstellen toen ik gister mijn ochtenritueel begon, en ik even dacht dat ik het omgekeerde van dronken was (ipv dubbel zien, half zien). Gelijk maar een foto gemaakt, meer voor de grap.
Het zij zo, een kip met een humeur of zo. Dan maar terugvallen op mijn oude gewoonte en nog maar een ei gepakt.
Nu was het niet grappig meer. 1 is toeval, maar 2 maakt een serie. Oftewel, misschien heeft genetische manipulatie zijn grenzen bereikt en beginnen de ramp scenarios zich voor te doen (ik ben ook film liefhebber, en ik kan u verzekeren dat ik veel vreemde dingen over het scherm heb zien vliegen, wat nu veel minder vreemd begint te lijken).
Hierbij dan de code van het ei, 2-NL 4348801, hopelijk dat het helpt in uw onderzoek naar dit controversiele onderwerp. Tevens heb ik nog 3 eieren niet gebruikt, wat u terug kunt nemen als het de onderzoek of de productie naar een nieuwe lading goed-functionerende kippen bevorderd. Misschien een tip, probeer een kip te produceren die een ei met 3 dooiers kan leggen. Als het verkeerd gaat, kunnen ze nog altijd nog functioneren als de dubbeldooier leggende kip.
Voorlopig met een ochtendhumeur,
KaNam Ung
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If you expect nothing more than a campy popcorn flick, this is the real deal. If you are a Samuel L. Jackson fan, you’re in for quite a flight too. Sure, it was a bit overhyped during its conception, preproduction, production and post-production (even including re-filming the end sequence after a test audience screening, which didn’t lead to a massive box office income), but as a brainless entertaining object, it’s still solid. There’s enough action and there’s enough humor and gore to fill a nice hundred minutes. For what’s it intended to do, it’s delivers.7½.
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The topic clear and hence controversial, so Oliver Stone had to endure quite a few accusations of all kinds. But unlike the cold approach of United 93, this is a simple drama based on true facts (though many survivors complained over a few factual inaccuracies). Nothing more, nothing less. Script isn’t overly dramatised to jerk the tearducts (and if it is, it didn’t have too much of an effect). There’s also no trace of alternative (like conspiracy theories) story lines focusing on anything else than the obvious helplessness, hope and heroism. So, all this points a straight line to the most average grade available.7.
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Half stolen, half cliche, which actually means it bombs as a whole. Well, okay, it’s not that bad, Uma Thurman and Anna Faris are keen to the eye, and even the less successful brother of Owen Wilson is still a funny dude.
Still, it is kinda sad that you don’t need super-powers to see the whole plot laid out before the first ten minutes are over. So just give in, and enjoy every chuckle you can muster.6-.
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Rate 1 (sucks) to 5 (cool). Only rate the latest pictures, otherwise I can’t keep track of the average.
Total: 804 out of 247 votes > Average is: 3.255
Actually, I’m on location, so I can’t control how neat it is here. I just wanted to show you this server room, with 4 doors exiting to the VERY SAME hallway. There are also 4 smoke/fire alarms in this room, so it’s a pretty safe working environment, if you ask me.
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Stupid stunt-show Jackass Number Two stumbles to the top spot, painfully grabbing no less than $28 million along the way. With a non-existent budget (even the most simple and mind numbing stunts will get the target demographic crowd cheering), this is pretty clean money flowing in.
Chopping his way into the second spot is Jet Li with Fearless, his supposedly last martial arts flick, with $10.5 million. Dropping 2 places is Gridiron Gang, last week’s number one grabs another $9.7 million.
A risky project of passion for producer Dean Devlin (Stargate, Independence Day), Flyboys drops a $6 million cargo package. Not much for a $60 million budget, but it could be expected, leaving his sci-fi roots for a real World War I fighter pilot story.
Rounding out the top 5 is animated movie Everyone’s Hero with $4.8 million.
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With their single Through Glass easily entering the easy rock and pop charts for the first time, one might think it’s a new band with a new sound. But everything is far from it. First of all, they’re pretty old. As a pre-Slipknot band they didn’t have succes. Now reformed, they’re giving it another go.
Second, their sound is pretty hard rock/metal. Most songs on this album don’t comes even close to the vocal based Through Glass (only one piano based ballad pairs up nicely), with screeching booming guitars damaging your speakers if set too loud.
For the misleading part, it should get a failing grade, but the two easy listening songs saves it by a hair.5½.
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Rate 1 (FR#^&% MESS !) to 5 (how very tidy !).
Unlike last issue, Bern’s car was uninvitingly nicotine-stuffed. This one is slightly better, with snacks to be found on the right as well as the left side. Hmm, how will you judge ?
Total: 9 out of 2 votes > Average is: 4.5
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Football dramas still seem like the winning formula, as Gridiron Gang opens at number 1 (starring Dwayne The Rock Johnson), while Invincible is still hanging around the top 6. Like Invincible, this movie is also inspired by a true story, and leads with $15 million.
At number two, while nabbing a Golden Lion nomination at the Venice Film Festival, but still not convincing the lot of critics, is The Black Dahlia with $10.4 million.
At three, animated movie Everyone’s Hero opens with $6.2 million. Christopher Reeve was still working on it during his untimely demise, and is solely credited for it, even though two other directors finished the picture.
At four The Last Kiss (starring Zach Braff) opens with $4.7 million, while rounding out the top 5 is left-over The Covenant with the same amount of money.
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Brick: Pretentious youthful film noir (but filmed in color), with no real story or excitement to back it up.4.
Friends with Money: A frank unpretentious view on a group of friends, while ultimately not about the story, delivers through candid dialogue.7-.
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