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Alice in Wonderland

With Tim Burton directing and staring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and a music score by Danny Elfman you already know your in for the usual Tim Burton movie experience, and don’t get me wrong its great but is it getting a bit old……

Alvin and The Chipmunks 2: The Squeakquel

The name says it all really, I wanted to pull my eye balls out, tho one of the girl chipmunks was kind of hot……

Green Zone

Billed as better than The Bourne Identity series I was expecting big things from this, sadly all i got was a Hurt Locker rip off with camera shots so shaky i was nearly re producing my popcorn and fanta.  Still good for a watch if your a jarhead.

Hurt Locker

Excellent movie but i don’t know what sets it aside from all the other war movies and why it did so well in the Oscars, definitely one to see and pretty gritty in places.

Edge of Darkness

I honestly forgot what the movie title was and i had to IMDB it, yes it was that bad i had removed it from my mind!

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

Caught this just before it ended at the cinema and I’m glad we did!  Excellent movie quite a good cast and Steve Coogan is brilliant in it!

I’ve been really bad about posting on the blog, here’s a few quick reviews on some movies we’ve watched:

Moon

Didn’t even see this advertised in the cinema. Quite a good movie and well worth the watch, it was the directors first movie AFAIK and it is a little predictable in places but still a good movie.

Law Abiding Citizen

Very smart movie and not the killing fest I had originally thought it was going to be. Not to give too much away but Butler would kick Michael Scofield’s ass!!!

2012

yes another disaster movie, we’re all going to dieeeeeee. I went into this not expecting much, I was just surprised john cussack was still alive! Again worth a watch but after any other movies that are on your list. Woody Haralson played an excellent character which was one redeeming feature.

Michael Jackson- This is it

Shit, thank god that “this is it”!

Avatar 3D

Simply amazing, there were no slow/boring parts just constant blue fun!!  I don’t know if it was the 3D or the movie but id definitely want to see it again

Where the Wild Things Are

I don’t know, thought it was shit but maybe I didn’t get it?

The taking of Pelham 123

Run of the mill action/thriller nothing smart and no thinking required but good for a watch.

Aliens Vs Monsters

Typical kids animated movie, good fun for all!

So the 6th movie in the Harry Potter series, we’ve invested time in the first 5 movies we’re tied into the rest!

I wasn’t impressed with the Half Blood Prince it took ages to get started and once it did nothing really happened, nothing that made me go WOW!! I have a feeling the creators are saving all the action for the last 2 movies. The movie had a lot more comedy than the previous movies and there were quite a few LOL moments.

As with the previous movies it concluded at the end of term and no doubt the next will begin at the start of term. It seems the Dark Lord likes to take his summer holidays, maybe he’s off to Blackpool with the kids?

I’ve been using a full desktop as my home server/media centre which has it’s advantages when performing processor intensive tasks but it draws a hell of a lot of electric!!

I was set on getting the new Fit-pc 2 which is a small fanless answer to a media centre but it comes at a hefty price for what it is.

A colleague bought the Revo and it ticks all the boxes! It’s pretty much a GPU with smaller power CPU (intel atom). The advantages of the nvidia GPU is its specifically designed with the ability to play HD and blueray content in mind!

The Revo isn’t fanless but it is very quiet and has a vey low desktop footprint and can be mounted on the back of a monitor using a mount.

The first task was getting rid of the awful excuse of an OS and installing ubuntu with the latest Nvidia drivers, I still need to do some bench marking but glxgears showed quite a high FPS but the real test will be the full 1080p short movie ” Elephants dream” which was created using open source software.

I didn’t get a chance to fully test the device but I’ll be posting guides and notes as and when I encounter problems etc!

Some pictures:

(taken quickly with the 3GS mmmm macro mode)

Went to see the happening this week!

Mr Ritchie has a SMS reviews section on his blog Linky! basically he reviews movies that would fit within the char limit of a sms.  I’m going to give this a go and try and sum up the entire movie using 160 chars.

Here goes:

“Funking sh1t don’t watch”

Yep that pretty much sums it up!