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Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Aliens versus Predator 2

Just finished watching the movie at TGV in 1 Utama (it was very esy to get tickets at TGV these days -- we didn't even need to queue up whereas we would have to queue for almost an hour for tickets at GSC). The three of us (Jude, Wei Loong and myself) had no plans for Christmas eve, so we ended up watching the movie.

AvP2 takes place immediately after AvP1. 5 minutes into the movie, the predator ship crash lands back to Earth. How the spaceship crashes is a bit stupid... As with the earlier movie, the humans have 2 roles in this movie - as the incubator and then as body count. Like the Malay saying: Gajah berlawan, kancil mati di tengah.

This time around, I noticed the movie is a bit dumbed down. There's no brilliant plot. No new insight into the Alien or the Predator. It is purely a mindless action movie. But it's still nice to watch the two icons trash it out.

But seriously, I think the movie would have been better if it took place without humans. Common, its 'Aliens versus Predator' and not Aliens, Predators and Human: The Three Way War. If I had it my way, I would have preferred that the fight took place on the predator spaceship or maybe even on the Predator home planet. I guess they needed human for at least role #1: Incubator. I don't think the Aliends would last even 5 minutes of Predator's home planet.

Speaking of movies, a few months back, I mentioned about making a movie based on Robotech aka Macross. I was not too far off... It seems Toby Maguire (yes, Spiderman), is set to produce the Robotech movie. There's even a Voltron movie in the making! Robot movies are the IN thing now!

And speaking of robots... If you have noticed, prices of the Transformers toys have gone up since the movie was released. I have seen some toy collectors buying a few sets a year before the movie and making hundreds for each unit. Maybe I should stock up on Robotech toys now...

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Monday, December 17, 2007

3 times in 3 months at rm3k

That's how many times my car has been into the workshop and how much its cost me...
*sigh*

I'll never get another Proton unless they get sold to Volkswagen and all their cars have a VW logo after that.

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Saturday, December 08, 2007

Hulu

Recieved this email today:
Hello from the Hulu team!

We wanted to thank you for your interest in our private beta. Starting today, you can use the following temporary login and password to access http://www.hulu.com.
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About a week or two ago, I registered to be a Beta tester. Naturally, I was overjoyed to be given this opportunity. Oh wait... What is Hulu, you asked? From Wikipedia:
Hulu is an online video on demand service that is also expected to offer video sharing.[1] The service is a joint venture of NBC Universal and News Corp.
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The service offers full-length episodes of NBC and FOX television programs, including shows from the Bravo, Fuel TV, FX, Sci Fi, Style, Sundance, and Oxygen channels. Hulu also offers selected movies while also accepting user-submitted videos in direct competition with YouTube.

So I quickly went to the site, signed up with the temporary password, changed the password and then started to browse for the videos. My joy was shortlived. Everytime I clicked on a video, I got this message:
Unfortunately, this video is not currently available in your country or region. We apologize for the inconvenience.

WTF?!? Aiyah, I discovered later on that this service is only available to users from US. They never mentioned that during the Beta signup... So sad...

Wikipedia had this:
Hulu's slogan of "anywhere, anytime" has drawn criticism from users, because content on Hulu is currently only available to users in the United States. Users of the beta are shown the following message when accessing the site outside of the United States: "Unfortunately, this video is not currently available in your country or region. We apologize for the inconvenience".

Hulu claims on its FAQ page that it is working on making its content accessible worldwide. This requires clearing the rights for each show or film in each specific region, a lengthy process.

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