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Iesākumā atzīšos, ka nezinu, vai pareizi šo filmu būtu saukt par angļu vai amerikāņu produktu - it kā Holivuda, bet it kā - aktieri visi angļi, režisors anglis, autore - angliete. Tātad - saukšu par angļu filmu.

Bilijs Aidols ir sūds uz kociņa. Tas nu ir konstatēts fakts. Iespējams, viņš ir pat sūds bez kociņa, jo kociņš ir pārāk labs objekts, lai to minētu vienā teikumā ar Biliju Aidolu.

Good ol` Mr. Beck still doesn`t give it up and wants to keep up with time. While his guitar playing still is top-notch the actual pieces of music don`t leave a strong impression. First problem that comes to my mind is that there are no real songs on here. Sometimes there appears a bit of vocals from Apollo 440 or something of that kind but there is absolutely no singing and there is too much repetiveness on here. I can imagine this record as a good background music but concentration on it ruins the impression.

Could this actually be true? A relatively new German book has fallen in my hands, and it is written by one of the masters of modern German literature. Oh, joy, oh, happiness! The only problem with the book is that it isn`t interesting. There`s this guy Arne, about whom until the end of the book we don`t know what has happened to him, but Hans, his former roommate is collecting all Arnes stuff to put it into a big box. And this stuff brings up memories. Memories how Arne came into Hans`s family after his own family had died, how the boy (~13 years old) fell in love with Hanses sister, who didn`t care for him. How he lost his interest for school, tried to become friends with the gang of Hanses brother Lars, but failed at that. How he got very ill and how his granmother visited him. Lots of stuff about sea and sailors can be found here, since the action takes place in Hamburg and Hanses and Arnes fathers were ones mates on a ship. Anyway, sailor literature isn`t my forte, therefore I can not judge this book especially hard, but there`s nothing really to be remembered in here.

I`m getting a bit bored writing long reviews for things I have no interest in. This is a typical example - stories by a modern Latvian author, most of them have very little interest for a person that`s not a fan of Latvian literature. Of course, if you enjoy stories about the Latvian countryside or you are a major fan of descriptions about old women in a sauna and what advantages a big clitoris gives you, you won`t enjoy this very much. Probably this book isn`t about flat old breasts and sending SMS messages, but this still is pretty boring. There was a single one interesting story in this book - it`s entitled "The years of love" and it`s about a man who awaits a blue centaurus and by doing that misses his own wedding. But apart from that there ain`t very much to speak about.

As the series pass over the equator the speed of the watching increases. While on the first two days I found two episodes a suffiecient dose on the third day I watched a whole three of them. In terms of content we start with Master still talking to Bezdomny and coming to the conclusion of his quite unhappy life. After that we travel to Jerusalem and see the death of Jeshua and Mathew trying to save his masters body in order to bury it. The rest of the episode mostly deals with tricks performed by Begemoth and Koroviev - the singing office, the working suit, the changing money etc. Episode six brings Berliozes uncle into the cursed apartments, the owner of the bar at the Variete also arrives. We see quite a lot of topless Gella who apparantely doesn`t have a scar on her throat which is a fact that I don`t understand. Closer to the end of the episode Margaret meets Azazello, that`s a very professionally done scene in my opinion. And at the end of the episode she turns into a witch and by does that quite convincingly. Since the film isn`t designed for adults only certain parts of the image are blurred. What concerns the technological aspect I can`t say that everything is done flawlessly but on the other hand true art doesn`t lie in millions of dollars spent for it. Episode seven brings us Voland`s ball. The events before it are done quite in an amateurish manner but the ball itself is quite good. Once again the makers of the film went for decency and put Margaret into a weird clothing from metal so she wouldn`t be naked, the suit itself is quite funny but once again I try to separate technology from message. In short - I still like the film although there are some things that I would have preferred to be done differently.

Jā, mēs noskatījāmies skrīneri. Nu un? Varētu padomāt, ka Simpsonu filma būtu tāds produkts, kas skrīnerī ievērojami atšķirtos no īstās filmas. Kā nekā dzeltens ģīmis arī skrīnerī ir un paliek dzeltens ģīmis.

Nez kāpēc man vēl nesen šķita, ka šis ieraksts ir absolūti bezvērtīgs deviņdesmito gadu koledžroks, lai gan patiesībā tas ir gluži jaukām meldijām bagāts un brīžiem pat lielisks koledžroks. Vai runa būtu par populārakajām dziesmām - muļķīgi dorkisko "One Week" (kuru nesaprotu, kāpēc vajadzēja parodēt Weirdam Al Yankovicam) un dzeršanas himnai (protams, ar ironijas elementu) "Alcohol"; vai mazāk populārajām, bet nebūt ne mazāk lieliskajām "It`s All Been Done", "I`ll be that girl", "Never is Enough" un "When You Dream". Protams, viņi ir mazliet tādi kā komēdijrokeri un nav gluži ņemami tik ļoti par pilnu kā singers/songwriters, viņu melodiskie triki nav fenomenāli, bet viņus dziesmas ir vienkāršas un skaistas, apvienojot labāko no "Weezer" un "Fountains of Wayne" piedāvātā, neizliekoties esam nopietnāki nekā viņi patiesībā ir, reizēm uztrāpot uz kādas emocionālākas nots (it īpaši "When you dream", kas man pat atsauc prātā Pink Floyd "One of my turns), pārējo laiku vienkārši domājot par to, lai man kā klausītājam būtu labāks noskaņojums.

Finally the series comes to the logical ending. Episode 8 I found to be the best of the whole ten. But after that things got quite silly. I have absolutely no idea why the filmmakers needed to insert bits from old video chronics in the film, they appeared absolutely out of place and had no real purpose. The last episode was even worse (the biggest part of the chronics appeared in the 9th part) - it seemed that the director had to make 50 more minutes but had the need for only 10 minutes, so everything drags for way too long and goes absolutely nowhere.

Jaunākā Džima Kerija filma ir apliecinājums vairākām lietām. Pirmkārt, tam, ka Džims Kerijs nav tikai un vienīgi Ace Ventura atveidotājs, bet zināms eisventurisms viņa katrā lomā tomēr ir atrodams. Otrkārt, tā ir vēstījums par to, ka apsēstība ar numeroloģiju nav nekāda labā lieta. Treškārt, Džoels Šūmahers nav izcils režisors.