Chatroulette

If you haven't seen chatroulette.com, then well...

This is how I feel about it





But there are a few moments worth sharing, like this classy guy

or these

Technology: The New and the Old

From the highest grossing film of all time, here's a video of James Cameron talking about his inspiration for making Avatar




If you've never checked out www.ted.com , you're missing out. If you enjoyed documentaries like An Inconvenient Truth, or ever considered going to see speakers like William Clinton or Warren Buffet speak, it is highly recommended!


And now for the old, I stumbled upon this site and had a laugh. I remember getting this excited to record on a disk as well!

OMG!!!!

Could a Predator sequel actually be good!!!!




Trailer is coming out later in the week, but so far so good!!!!!

Finally!

It feels like I haven't written about movies in ages, and for no better reason than pure laziness of writing more than a sentence and attaching a youtube clip!

So, finally, here's a few of the films I've seen lately:

Shutter Island
I was hesitant to go see this film after seeing the trailers and thinking it was going to be a horror movie and that's just not my thing.  Well, I'm glad I went because it was great.  I don't want to ruin anything for anyone, but know this: a) Despite it's trailer, it is NOT a horror movie.  Scorsese does a great job of creating suspense and tension with the music and editing, but there are no boogie men, and no one is jumping out of the closet and killing everyone, and b) It's Martin Scorsese. If there are any directors out there that deserve some credit and your confidence that he will make a great film, it's him

Although, he should fire whoever ran his marketing campaign




Alice in Wonderland
I generally love the work of Tim Burton, so it hurts me to say that I was underwhelmed by this movie.  While much of the special effects are amazing (the Queen of Hearts was priceless), much of the CGI was awkward, and took me out of the movie.  I kept wondering how hard it would have been to digitally remove a gap from Johnny Depps teeth instead of putting some black putty on them, or why Krispen Glover (as the Jack of Hearts) looked so fake while he was riding his horse when they could have simply shot really horse riders... I still could have overlooked it's visual flaws, as there were definitely more good than bad, but it was the forced used of Depp in too many parts (WHAT IS UP WITH THAT DANCE SCENE?!?!?!  When/ If you see the movie, you'll know what I'm talking about) and the typical Hollywood movie battle of the 3rd act that is unforgivable.  Anyway, I don't want to bash it too much, it was... good... but just not as great as it should have been.  And definitely not what I was hoping for




-k

I'll get back to movies tomorrow

I meant to write a review or 2 today, but I saw this video and thought you may enjoy it...




When I see that, I actually like all those products, and can appreciate what they're trying (and mostly successful) at doing.

They're much better than apple because at least everything they do is free, and they don't come out with crapy first (and usually 2nd) versions of everything to make you buy  more...

Who's really evil?



-k

An Oscar Winning short that's worth watching

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Check out Logorama, this years animated short Oscar winner



and part 2





And if you don't have the 15 minutes to spare on those, spend 2 watching the new trailer for TRON 2!!!!




-k

ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz........

Wow, now that was BORING!!!

Not even a swan dress or a dress held on by stickers!

It's funny, when I watched The Hurt Locker ages ago, I didn't think it was a great movie. Although, any film that kills of Bill Paxton deserves some recognition (as apposed to Bill Pullman... Can you tell them apart?!)

The best part was when it ended (an hour too late), and Jimmy Kimmel came on