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Quite a nice movie about old men working out a “robbery” of an art museum. Nicely watchable and enjoyable. I, who seldom appreciate movies of such genres, really liked this one, so, if you’re up for an Ocean’s Twelve style movie with sort-of-old men in the place of the badasses this movie’s for you. I recommend it quite strongly if you’re in the business for a nice relaxing and interesting film for the evening. 7/10

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I’m writing this while the credits with the end song of the movie are playing, great stuff, put it on play and then read -

This was great. Moving, great actor-play, scenario was maybe a bit lacking, yet fresh. This was one of the unfortunately very rare recent movies that moved me. The quality of late films is disappointing, yet this spectacle caught me from start ‘Till the end. The story is quite nice, not really copying anything else, yet maybe I’d like more stuff happening, but, since the movie is only the “mini” category (I judge 1:30 to be quite a short movie) I can understand this. I loved it. I’d even pay to go to the cinema or buy a DVD… It’s just that good (and I’m a pretty hardcore pirate of all stuff copyrighted, so that says something).

The only thing that could disappeal some hardcore movie watchers are the semi-bad special effects for blood, but it’s definately not a major accent of the movie and just a mild discomfort for those who like generously computer rendered stuff with an insane amount of reality.

Another thing which some viewers may despise is the amount of violence. It may seem just sick, but in some places of the world it reflects the actual stuff happening horribly accurately so this movie is like a mirror of the extremely low-class life and is not for people who are easily disturbed. The starting scene was perfectly done and quite disturbing, so beware.

9/10 Epic movie is epic.

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So there was this new game and I went ahead and checked it out.

Dang, it wasn’t nearly as nice as I thought it could be. I’ve played Mashed and because of that game I thought this would be pretty entertaining and playable although the video depicted the gameplay not really appealingly and I had some doubts. Oh well, to the point, the things I don’t like are the fact that the power-ups are power-ups and not permanent upgrades. I want the nitro to be there all the time, with recharges, not that every time I run out of it I have to drive back to the base and pick it up.

The view angle and overall camera handling is making me want to pull my hair out, because it really doesn’t want me to mow down zombies - it wants me to crash in walls and scenery and definately not even scratch the zombies while they throw levitating cans of garbage at my precious Veyron/Taxi/Limo/whatnot. If they adjusted the angle of the camera so that it was fixed and would be a bit like in normal racing games I’d play this.

And, the final point of my rant is the humongous repetitivness of the game - drive, crash therefore be slowed down by the hordes of onmarching zombies - splatter them all by slowly driving at them (How the hell does one explode a person by slowly prodding them with a car? Does the fender have a blender?) - drive - again get slowed down by the zombies, exterminate them by yet again slowly bumping them with the front fender - drive - crash into scenery and don’t lose any health - drive - bump into zombies - and so on. I understand one couldn’t really do much more with this, but it’s just too much of the same shit with not enough likable aspects.

Fix the camera and I’ll look into this game, otherwise, I’ll stay back.

The trailer of the game:

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*contains mild spoilers*

Mkay, so this was a pretty epic movie. Haven’t seen one this moving since ages. Epic special effects ‘n’ shit. I just love accents on aviation in the movie. The quotes from the Russian characters are just great.

To a child’s statement “Wow, that’s a big plane!” a “large” Russian guy answers with a very deep “It’s Russian, huh” the plane being an unexisting (as far as I know)  Antonov 500 loaded with sports cars. :]

My personally favourite guy - the Russian pilot had two nice quotes - “Come on baby, lift your big ass for Sasha!” - he was basically praying for the An-500 to not stall and gain the altitude required to escape certain doom from flying in debris.

I was pretty disappointed when the movie got rid of my favourite character, but I understand that such a badass guy surviving would’ve messed up most of the scenario.

Anyway, I’d like to rant the bastards for only Americans surviving (the two fatasses don’t count), what the hell, why did the Russian chick die?! Who benefits from that?! Jacksons wife could’ve easily died if it was for the emotional impact. Goddamnit, the Russians in this movie were much more appealing than the American fucktards (okay, the main guy was pretty appealing, but nonetheless).

So, to recap, I hated the “Americans are the best” motto of the movie and loved the special effects and subtle, yet pleasing bits of avio-awesomeness in the movie.

Overall an 7.5/10 would’ve been a nine if there were more awesome Russians surviving.

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