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One of the most famous Ingmar Bergman movies. A 78 years old professor is on a roadtrip to collect an award for lifetime achievement. He sees lots of dreams and visions about his past and the way he turned into a living corpse that isn`t loved by anyone and that can not break the boundaries between itself and the other people. The film is quite sad but it`s not as depressive as say "The Seventh Seal". I really liked it but I guess that there are no Ingmar Bergman movies that I wouldn`t like. A powerful film it may be but "Det Sjunde Inseglet" still remains on the top of my list while this one finds itself above "Persona" and next to "Through a glass darkly".

Do you like movies with lots of nudity? I bet you do, who doesn`t. Do you like movies with lots of male nudity? If there are enough naked women, I guess you have nothing against it. Do you like movies with lots of gay nudity? I bet you don`t unless you`re female. And this film falls in to the latter category. Pedro Almadovar has created a partly autobiograpical story about a guy who`s been sexually abused by a teacher in a catholic school in the Franco days. Ignacio has later become a writer. He wants to make a movie after his novel about his childhood, and his former lover Enrique helps him at that. But it turns out that Ignacio isn`t really himself but his brother who killed Ignacio with drugs. Anyway, it`s hard to explain, and it doesn`t make much sense either. What is good about such a film is that it shows to us, heteros, a completely different world from ours. What is bad about this film is that there`s nothing particulary spectacular about it. Well, of course, a film about Spain is never too grey or something like that but it still is nothing I would remember about in 10 years (except for one guy sitting up and down on another ones erected penis while that guy is asleep, and that`s not the best thing to remember from a movie).

It`s been years since I had last seen this film - at least 8 of them by my reconings. But I somehow was still able to remember almost perfectly what would happen at any moment of this film. Although this ain`t clearly no Shakespeare this film boasts an impressive cast and an all-star director in the person of Robert Zemeckis. The leading roles are taken by Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep - is that good enough for ya? So, Ernest Menville is a successful plastic surgeon (yeah, everybody speaks how good he is but to me that`s one REAALY important job for sure) and he`s engaged to Helen (Hawn) but when he sees and hears Madelaine (Streep) perform, he falls in love with her in an instant and marries her instead. After 14 years both Helen and Madelaine take up a potion that keeps you young forever (and makes you immortal at that) but some side-effects this thing does have. It`s then when Ernest decides to leave both these women that don`t do nothing good for him (and as far as I got he didn`t return to re-shaping tits). This is what people call a black comedy, not a particulary funny though, but it`s surely memorable - at least for me, if nothing more.

Dear Johnny Depp, I am writing you this letter to tell you just how much I love you and how I want to spend my life with you. I`ve seen all your movies and I loved every single one. I consider you to be the best actor since Moses and the best looking man since Jesus. I want to hold you tight and I want to be your lollypop. Ok, maybe not.

Rakstīt par filmu, kurā piedalās Lara Krofta, bez zināma smīna sejā laikam gan nav iespējams. Tu nezini, kas ir Lara Krofta? Paskaties šito!

Fanot par Goo Goo Dolls, cik es nojaušu, nav labs stils. Tāpēc es arī nefanoju. Vai arī es nefanoju par šo grupu neatkarīgi no tā, labs vai slikts stils tas būtu.

I`ve been a fan of quest games since I don`t know. Probably since I first played "Kings Quest 5", a very fine game for sure but it may seem a bit dated in the modern cyber-crazy world. And so after a long starvation with no quests at all I decided to give a try to a relatively new Russian quest. Although Russia may be far from the most progressive country in the world no one can deny that it has lots of potential in the area of programming and in the past I`ve enjoyed some of their quests - games like "Bratya Piloti", "Shtirlic", "Petjka" and other stand up proudly even in the presence of "LucasArts" or "Sierra Games". Sadly "The Revolutionary Quest" fails to deliver much joy into my life. First, the graphics are a bit plain and fail to convince me that 3D quests are bettern than those in 2D. But I`m not the kind of fellow to dislike a quest because of the graphics. It may be a perfectly logical decision by the makers of the game - an artistic trick so to say. What I want from a good quest is an interesting story. Although "The Revolutionary Quest" promised to have one it delivered very little of its potential. A modern student Vanya is sucked into the year 1917 while preparing to an exam on the October revolution. What he has to do is saving Vladimir Lenin from his enemies and help the Revolution to start. This would in theory provide a background for a perfectly funny partly historical game (similar to that of "Shtirlic" or "Day of the Tentacle"). But it doesn`t turn out to be that. There`s very little possibility for the player to decide for Vanya what he hero can do - there`s never a big number of screens where to go, you can`t pick up an object earlier than you`ve used the previous one - therefore the games becomes too simple for a quester like myself. Humour is present in the game but it isn`t particulary funny. So all we have is a simple game with plain graphics.

Šī albūma pirmā dziesma bija tā, kas mani iepazīstināja ar AC/DC. Tālajā 95-ajā vai 96-ajā gadā es uzskatīju, ka AC/DC un Guns`n`Roses ir divas pasaulē lielākās un labākās metāla grupas, tādas, kuras klausās visi tie krutie ādās tērptie veči, kas braukā ar motocikliem un krustcelēs pusnaktī nogalina melnus kaķus.

Uzskatījis par MSP cienītāju sevi nekad neesmu, kādreiz par šo grupu fanoja Ziņģis, bet vai viņš ir tās cienītājs vēl joprojām, es absolūti nezinu.

I don`t remember when I last watched a real quality detective movie. And this one is one in deed. Gosford Park amazingly got quite a lot of Oscar nominations in 2002 (although it won just a single one), which is weird for a film not having big stars in it and not being particulary groundbreaking. The story is a simple on indeed - a company of guests and servants has gathered in a huge house in the country for hunting but at night the master of the house, Sir William, is murdered. And almost everybody had some reason to want his death. The detective story isn`t the central moment though - it`s more about the relationships between masters and servants (the film is set in the 1930s), masters and masters, and servants and servants. Maggie Smith and Michael Gambon (both of whom play teachers in "Harry Potter"). What are the things that distinguish from a Agatha Christie piece (which it at times ressembles) - first, there`s no marriage in the end, the only possible pair parts never to see each other again (not that they put it like that). Then, the murderer doesn`t go to prison because the cop is less intelligent than Mrs.Christie could have probably written one, and the person that solves the crime is the probable-lover of one of the killers. This film certainly has very well-developed characters, but I have seen better films than this one.