Welp, I’ll admit that I haven’t yet seen Swedish version, but Fincher’s The Girl With Dragon Tattoo didn’t disappoint after all this waiting. Brutal, stylishly beautiful. It didn’t disappoint so much in fact that I sat through entire closing credits, though that’s partially because I was waiting for Reznors cover of Is Your Love Strong Enough (which btw sounded fantastic). 

Also - this.

Be damned Battlefield 3! I’ve lost all will to game now. The time has finally come that my glorious overclocked q6600 finally shows its age and chokes on the awesomeness of BF3. What’s sad is that even my ATI 4870 seem to handle it fine on medium~high settings. I’m saying it based on how unusually quiet it is and also how nothing changes performance wise when dropping everything to low.

After seeing the amazing Caspian Border I’m fucking lost. I want it so bad, but 30 fps does not feel good. Not at all.

Time for full overhaul that means. Now if only I could find spare 800+ $…

At least on positive side of things I actually got to play some Caspian Border before its got closed down. And it was glorious.

I think ill proclaim September the month of Terrence Malick. Not only Tree of Life is hitting our local multiplex at the end of next month, but Days of Heaven are also being screened as a part Baltic Pearl playlist. Baltic Pearl being local film festival. Seeing both on big screen almost one after another <3

So, yeah, when it comes to summer blockbusters leave it to Michael Bay. After second viewing today, I can say that this were the best movie out of three (by that I mean the most bombastic). It was just… Im struggling to find a better word - bombastic. Pretty much everything that first movie teased bot-wise, except full blown this time. Even some of the Bay-jokes in the oh-so-long middle part felt somewhat funny.

And dat 3D. If there ever was a movie that justified the medium, this is it. And I’m by no means biggest fan of 3D usually.

The only thing I found distracting was Shias new retarded girlfriend. God, she sucked the life out of every scene she was in. She even spoiled U2’s “North Star” premiere opening her mouth. God, I may have not been the biggest fan of Megan Fox, but she was much better in any front.

Summer is near. And this has got to be one of the most intense years when it comes to movies it seems. So far its seems like almost every week there’s something big coming out.

So far there’s been Thor, Fast Five. This week its time to see Your Highness, and then its time for Pirates of the Caribbean 4, followed by Hangover 2 and X-Men First Class. Literally - every week. After that tho it starts to space out bit. In 2 weeks Super-8 and after 2 more Bays masterpiece Transformers 3. Wooo! And to finish it all of there’s the final HP chapter.

Sheesh. Lets just hope that what’s still to come will be as fun as Thor and Fast Five was.

So, hey! Did you hear the news? Internal beta of Crysis 2 leaked yesterday all over the place. And rather late beta version at that (signed 13th of January). Tho still with bugs, rather playable. As far as performance goes, well, saying “but can it run Crysis?” still stands strong.

But there’s one other thing that’s buggering me - everyone crying about how bad it is and how this only shows why PC gaming is dying. Well, you know what? Fuck you! Tho this is quite big and not everyday we get to see internal betas leaked, in the end of the day nothing is changed. It’s still quite far from finished product, so most you get it to sate your curiosity and confirm that no, your PC can’t handle Crysis. If anything it only helps the sales, as it gets more people talking about the game. Also, leak or no leak, I can guarantee you that it will be cracked and downloaded a million times first day it’s out. AND. May I point out that majority of pirates don’t buy their games anyway.

I’m not saying it’s ok, or whatever, but don’t act like this is the end of the world.

Fuck yeah! After some tinkering around firewall and Firefox Hulus geo-blocking is no more. And that’s without proxies or VPNs. Not that I couldn’t get stuff anyway, but still its nice to have it. All thanks to reddit.

In short it involves spoofing header so that Hulu thinks your from the great US. Basically how you do it is like this:

• Get this addon for Firefox.

• Set it up like this.

• Block outgoing UDP and TCP port 1935 in Windows firewall.

• Now block outgoing TCP port 80 for following ip addresses: 206.33.62.126, 198.78.201.126, 207.109.221.177 and 207.109.221.184. Also ping hulu.cust.footprint.net and block that ip as well, if it’s not one of those.

Lastly clear your cookies and you should be good to go.

Ok, so it’s on. Just 33 days till Oscars and nominations are now out. Nothing really surprising for the most part. So lets quickly go over my expectations from what I’ve seen last year.

The Social Network should and will most probably take home Oscar for best adapted screenplay, director, music and probably editing. As far as best movie goes, I’ll abstain myself from any predictions there. Most of the nominees have deserved it (tho I’m still doubting about Kids Are All Right after seeing it few days ago, but w/e).

My second favorite this year Black Swan will probably earn Oscar for Natalie Portman… and sadly thats about it. Tho I love it to bits, its more like heart and mind thing - your mind says it won’t be the one. But, oh, how I would like to see Daren Aronofsky going home with Oscar this year. He has never disappointed me.

The Kings Speech will most definitely get an Oscar for Colin Firths amazing performance as stuttering king George IV and also most probably one for Geoffrey Rush in supporting role. Those two made one of the best on screen duos this year. Tho I wouldn’t be to disappointed if Christian Bale won it for his role in The Fighter.

Another of my favorites, True Grit. Well, I see it earning Oscar for Hailee Steinfeld as best supporting actress, and possibly for best art direction and costume design. Tho both those nominations are rather… unimpressive.

Lastly onto special effects category, which leaves me bit lost. Only possible winner is see here is Inception. Other had either mediocre effects or… or… I don’t know. I mean, Alice In Wonderland and Iron Man… Yawn. Where’s Tron: Legacy and Scott Pilgrim? And, actually, where’s Scott Pilgrim in film editing category? But anyhow - when it comes to special effects it wouldn’t be the first time for some weird choices when it comes to academy. Remember the year Golden Compass won over Transformers?

There are some more categories, but this was what I mostly had to say about it all. Looking forward to another Oscar night on big screen this year.