Monthly Archives: May 2008

I don’t want Bendis to ever go away!

By terje | Published: May 25, 2008
So, I’ve been reading Ultimate Spider-Man lately (bye-bye, decent exam-period meals), and at first I thought it would be boring to read a superhero comic with only one superhero. I imagined it would be far less interesting than the more group-oriented superhero comics I’ve read before, like Astonishing and Ultimate X-Men and The Ultimates, as [...]
Posted in A Praise Chorus, Ambiguity, Annoyance, Awe, Comics, Goosebumps!, Impressions, Loki, Love, Opinions, Optimism, Revelations, Spider-Man, X-Men | 9 Comments

A Plague! A Plague on Our Houses!

By terje | Published: May 24, 2008
In my Last.fm shoutbox, I was recently asked by one of my readers to post more frequently in my blog, and seeing as your whim is my law, I bring you this: an essay of sorts about the last topic you’d expected me to write about! One of the things you might not know [...]
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Gone in 60 Seconds

By terje | Published: May 12, 2008
Gone in 60 Seconds is a silly movie. All my car-crazy (more or less former) friends love it, and I can understand why, but it is none the less silly. Flashy, showy, and to a certain extent even a little cool, but oh-so shallow and plump. The paper-thin plot of a bunch of car thieves [...]
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Amadeus

By terje | Published: May 12, 2008
Had quite the movie-athon yesterday. Here’s part two, Amadeus, with three and four coming as soon as I can find the time to read them. Amadeus is often portrayed as the lifestory of one of if not the best musical composer in the history of mankind. (Disagree? Go listen to his Requiem while you wait for [...]
Posted in A Moistening of the Eyes, A Praise Chorus, Art, Awe, Bliss, Goosebumps!, Love, Megalomania, Misery, Movies, Music, Opinions, Recommendations, Revelations, Review | 6 Comments

Assault on Precinct 13

By terje | Published: May 12, 2008
I watched the 2005 remake of John Carpenter’s 1976 cult classic Assault on Precinct 13 yesterday, but I’m not really sure why I bothered. I’d probably be much better off watching the original. It’s New Year’s Eve, and the 13th precinct in some American city or other (I never really got which one, but it seemed [...]
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Iron Man

By terje | Published: May 11, 2008
So. The second most anticipated movie of the year or something, Iron Man. I was a skeptic, I have to admit as much. Sure, I’d heard from both Loki and Kalle that it was a phenomenal movie, but they’re both something resembling Marvel fanboys. And me? I’d encountered Iron Man in some minor spots in [...]
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Wayne’s World

By terje | Published: May 11, 2008
Earlier this week it struck me that it’s been almost two years since I watched Waynes World, and so, naturally, I sought to rectify this. Amazingly, I still laugh out loud when I watch this movie. Which is incredible, really, when you tale into account that this is a spoof movie, an SNL movie, where a [...]
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Lord of War

By terje | Published: May 11, 2008
It’s been nearly two weeks since I watched Lord of War, so this’ll be a brief review, but better late than never, eh? First off, what struck me during this second watching of Lord of War was how similar, in many ways, it was to Charlie Wilson’s War. They both dealt with serious subjects, and they [...]
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Lamb, the Gospels According to Biff, Christs’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

By terje | Published: May 11, 2008
I’d originally spent three hours or so writing a two pages long review of this novel, but the more I wrote, the more clear it was to me that it was crap. The review, I mean, not the novel itself. Because the novel was okay. A bit too adolescent humor at times, and a kinda [...]
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The definition of preaching to the choir

By terje | Published: May 7, 2008
You need to have flashplayer enabled to view this YouTube video Seriously, I don’t know why these people bother. I mean, I agree with much of what the guy said, but jeez, does he honestly believe he is going to win many religious people over by antagonising them? Is this rational behaviour? And what’s up with the islamophobia of these prominent atheists? (On a concluding note, I’d like [...]
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