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Kike Like Me (2007)
From interest to awe
OK, I didn't saw this doc from the beginning, and neither did I know what it was about. So how did I tune in. I saw a person who claimed to be a Jew, but said he was not, presenting himself to other people about the subject of "being a Jew". Aha, I thought.., another "Louis Theroux"-reporter, trying to go to the bone of things. But how further the documentary evolved, the lesser I respected the reporter. He seemed to be completely biased about the subject, and acted like he knew it all. He was totally disrespectful about the tradition of having Jewish monuments after the IInd WWar. Maybe he picked up some hate-feelings of those football-hooligan Amsterdam-Joden, Which aren't Jews at all.
For me, Mr. Kastner, you act, like I would think any narrow minded Jew would do. Please insert into every next product or docu you make, you are a narrow minded Jew, so we don't waist any time in watching your product.
Blade of Darkness (2001)
Medieval and horrific beautiful
This games leaves me flabbergasted throughout the complete play-through.
I've played this game out several times. As the Knight, as the Barbarian and as the Amazon. I didn't completely played it out as the Dwarf yet, but maybe in the future.
This can be only described as a hack em-up game. Swords, axes, war-hammers, are the most used weapons. The only shooting weapon is a bow, which is needed to solve some of the puzzles.
Throughout the game you earn experience by fighting, and reaching a certain level of points gives you the ability to use a weapon in a more distinctive and destructive way. This also means that the controls for a certain fighting-technique with a certain weapon can be hard to master, but once you master it, the reward is very satisfying.
The place has many weapons and sceneries. From simple swords to a blood-sword, a simple Axe to a poisoned Axe etc.. According the character some weapons are better suited to you. Swords and shields for the Knight, double handed swords for the Barbarian, axes for the Dwarf, and spears for the Amazon. Sceneries vary from dungeons, castles, snowy landscapes, to desert hills. Incredible breathtaking landscapes, even for a game of this age. The CGI for the characters is quite good and in a whole they are quite intelligent. They work together to defeat you, and will take cover for your attacks. There are plenty characters here, from the simple orc to the intelligent end-bosses, who can be quite difficult to beat.
When you have almost killed one of your adversaries, the last hit and where it is will decide what limb will come off, being it, the head, the legs, the arm or his whole rump. The blood will squirt out in a realistic way. Skeletons or zombies will more or less fall in to dust. The realism of the kills is exaggerating good. There are also some puzzles to solve. Not extremely difficult, but nonetheless you have to solve them to be able to get the sword for finishing the game.
The music is fantastically good, and is made to make the scenes more tensioned. When the music swells or changes pace, you just know something is going to happen. All in all, this is a great game, which leaves you with the taste to play it over again after you have finished it. I would give this game 11 points if it was possible, that's how good I think it is.
War of the Worlds (2005)
War of the Worlds
I've seen this movie twice now, so I believe I have formed an opinion about it. Fortunately and unfortunately the director is Steven Spielberg. Why am I saying this? Fortunately, because he can raise a big budget, so the special effects will be of excellent quality. Unfortunately, because he doesn't seem to get over his ET-period, except when it involves Jews as victims. The movie starts at a good pace with a little insight in the family, the subsequent scenes with the alien machine rising from the ground is also good, but could have been more horrifying. Still, it gives an in look in things to come. People seem to want to be killed by the machine because they start running only, when it's too late. Maybe this is the normal reaction of the average American under a Bush-government. I however would have run away at the sign of the earthquake, which starts when the machine wants to crawl out of the ground. Then eventually, starts the runaway with the only working car???. Just change the starter and it will work,.. yeah right like this is a car from the pre-electronic age. Let me explain what disturbed me in the movie. The son. He acts like a real asshole and moron, and seeing him alive at the end of the movie seems to be very contradicting with his actions, like.. wanting to see how the army fights the aliens, while it was a massive fire-sea he went into. How the hell did he escape from that and get before the main character and his daughter to Boston at his mother family-home. If I was his father I would kicked his moron butt. The daughter: She really started to an annoy me from the start. She seems to be intelligent, but on the other hand acts like a scream-queen. another contradicting element. I really hoped she would be killed bloodily by the aliens when she was stupid enough to leave the house. But there's no blood in this movie.., except the one used as fertilizer for the alien's favorite plant, which is also red. Tsk, tsk Spielberg, when a plant is red, it doesn't mean you have to spray it with blood, water will do just fine. Hell, spraying it with human-blood will probably kill the plant. Ah, now I get it. the aliens where out of fertilizer, that's why they planted the machines ages ago, to wait until there where enough humans to use them as fertilizer. And in all those years nobody seems to have digged deep enough to uncover one of these machines. Even HG. Wells would have found this a stupid idea. One of the end-scenes with the unshielded alien machine who eventually gets shot down but the military looks forced and at this point I completely lost interest in the movie. Having seen the original movie with the hand falling out the machine, I'm quite disappointed. I'm not going to speak more about the last scene, that was a real turnoff. Typically ET-Spielberg. The book for this film was probably quite acceptable for the movies from the 50's, but having the same plot again, that a super-intelligent race gets beaten by bacteria can't cut it in the 21th century. It would be like an astronaut going in space with his T-shirt on. Totally unacceptable for a plot. I would at least suspect Spielberg would have changed this in another more intelligent defeat of the aliens. Although on second thought, based on his other SF-movies, that's just what I expected Spielberg to do. So, I gather, this is a movie for the masses an not for the intelligent viewer. I didn't expect much more from Spielberg. He'd better stick with holocaust movies in the future.
10.5 (2004)
Worst camera-work I've seen in a long time
These must have been the directions for the cameraman. Whenever there's a dialog between 2 people, at first show their head completely, then zoom in quickly. If you have the head a little out of the center, then jerk the camera as quickly as possible to get it centered again. If they move their head when they speak try to keep a certain feature of the face in the center by following around with the camera. After a few seconds zoom out again and repeat the whole process. When you have a group of people do something similar, zoom in left of the group, zoom out, zoom right, zoom out, jerk the camera from left to right and vice versa. Repeat the process. Also, if there are allot of people, let every few seconds somebody walk before the camera, What is the purpose of zooming in so closely to the subjects. Maybe the director wanted to create a feeling of claustrophobia, it doesn't work. It gives me the feeling I'm missing a big piece of the scene. It never get the change to see how the place looks like because of all that zooming. What is the purpose of the jerking. To create the feeling of a continuous earthquake. It doesn't work. It makes me feel like an amateur was filming this. Even the Blair Witch Project, where they want to make you believe it was filmed by student film makers is better done. What is the purpose of all the people walking continuous around in the crisis-center, to give an impression of a place of hard work. This is not E.R. If they where all working hard the should be at their desks
To make a good disaster-film you also need a good plot. A buildup to a certain climax, while developing certain key-characters in the film. This doesn't happen here. The disaster starts from the beginning and from then the film turns into a disaster itself.
I see the director is making a follow-up of this film. He surely must have a long arm after this piece of crap.