Movies

A reader with much better eyes than mine (think i should really visit my ophthalmologist) found an interesting reference to Solaris/SunOS in the new Tron Legacy Trailer:

It's at 1:12 in the trailer. SolarisOS 4.0.1 Generic_50203-0<somedirt>un4m i386 Unknown.Unknown The architecture is interesting: sun4m. That's something in the range of a SPARCstation 4 to SPARCstation 20, several Lunchbox systems had the same architecture and finally SPARCserver 630MP, 670MP and 690MP were sun4m, too. The production of those systems started in 1989.

Watching this movie:

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On Boxing Day i've used the opportunity to visit a cinema with a really good friend of mine in Oldenburg. Obviously the choice felt to Avatar. And i have to admit, that i'm really impressed. The following text may contain some spoilers, thus don't read the rest of this text if you plan to view this movie unspoilered.

Tron was one of my favorite movies in my youth. I assume i just looked Strange Days and the both movies of Ghost in the Shell that often. It looks like i´m knowing at least one movie i will look in 2010 or 2011. I just found the teaser trailer at Youtube.

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The new film of the Ice Age franchise was rendered on Sun. 480 X6250 blades in 10 6048 chassis: Ice Age - Rendered w/Sun Constellation System

A picture says more than thousand words, a film is worth thousand pictures, and some films are worth thousand other films. I stongly suggest invest the bandwidth of your internet access to view this movie. It´s HOME - a documentary made by Yann Arthus-Betrand. From a photographic view point this movie is nothing short from drop-dead gorgeous:



When you were really in doubt about the beauty of our Earth, how fast we destroy our Earth and how badly our home needs our help, you won´t have this doubts afterwards. A must-see. And at least in my case, it led to massive goosebumps ...

And now to something completely different: The actress Sophie Ward writes about the "joys" of filming sex scenes in "Love Scenes". Great article. So ... the next time you sit with your significant other in a cinema looking at such a ostensiblyromantic and amourous scene. It´s hard work and remember the words of Mrs Ward:

Love scenes, also known as sex scenes, are as inevitable for actors as death and taxes and held in roughly the same esteem.

It´s like christmas, the world just goes downhill when you don´t believe anymore that Santa Claus exits. Same with cinematographic love.

(via Anke Groener)

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Just viewed "A Quantum of Solace" with friends in a nearby cinema. Albeit the last Bond was a little bit better than the actual installment, it was an nice evening. I will not write more about it to prevent any spoiler ...

Ich komme gerade aus dem Kino. Ich habe es endlich geschafft, mir "The Dark Knight" anzugucken. Ich kann da momentan nur eins zu sagen: Wow!!


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Just a "Wow ... must see it ... can´t wait":

Es gibt mehr als 414 Folgen der Simpsons, doch Pro7 schafft es, immer wieder die selben Folgen zu senden ....

The supporting movie in front of Pixar movies is a good tradition. Presto is the one before Wall-E. Absolutly hilarious.

Zumindestens Rambo - First Blood war aus meiner Sicht immer ein sehr unterschaetzer Film. Ich glaube, das liegt auch daran, das man Sylvester Stallone erst nach Copland auch mal zugetraut hat in einem Film mitzuspielen, der nicht nur aus plumper Zurschaustellung von Gewalt bestand. Das man eben primär auf die physische Erscheinung von Herrn Stallone geguckt hat, als denn auf die Geschichte, die dort erzaehlt wird. Und ob man es glaubt oder nicht, zumindestens der erste Teil erzaehlt eine Geschichte.

Nichtidentisches hat nun mit dem aeusserst lesenswerten und gelungenen Text "Rambology - Mit John J. Rambo durch die Dialektik der Aufklärung" diese dumpfe Ahnung untermauert.

Wow, i think Pixar wants to know it with Wall-E ... Jonathan Ive (you know, the Apple Design Guy) helped with the design of Eve, the female robot in the movie, and a few minutes ago, i´ve read that Peter Gabriel worked on parts of soundtrack.. Stunning.