'The Invisible'[2007] Review

This is the story of Nick Powell(Justin Chatwin is also filming for Dragonball he will be Goku) a student raised only by his mother, a woman with a "perfect" life that never shows her feelings. Nick is a senior student who dreams at leaving USA and going to London to become a writer. The other character, important to this story is Annie Newton(Margarita Levieva) a child with a short temper who lives in a broken home. Nick and Annie both lost one of their parents at and early age.
Nick's dreams are shattered when he is betrayed by his best friend Pete(Chris Marquette) in order to save his skin and when beaten to death by Annie, who though that Nick turned her in to the police. Abandoned in the woods Nick shortly realizes that he's "invisible" the others. Trying to get the attention of those who are searching for him he is confident that he is dead. Only he finds out he's not dead he's near death, but how can he lead the cops to his body if nobody hears him. Nobody? No. There is only one person who can hear his voice, Annie, the same person that almost killed him.
His quest is now to persuade Annie to tell the cops where she left his body. Will he succeed? Will he find his body? It worth seeing for yourselves.

'The Invisible'[2007] Trailer:

'Harsh Times'[2005] Review

I've seen this movie a few months ago, it was made in 2005, but I haven't heard of it until 2007, lack of publicity. This movie is directed by David Ayer the creator of: Training Day(2001) and the one who made the screenplay for: S.W.A.T.(2003) and The Fast and the Furious(2001). Some people told me that Harsh Times is "Training Day 2", because of the style and those who enjoyed Training Day sure will like to see Christian Bale(ex-Ranger Jim Luther Davis), Freddy Rodríguez(Mike Alonzo) and Eva Longoria Parker(as Sylvia).

The story starts with ex-Ranger Jim Davis who mets his best friend Mike "Miguel" Alonzo in order to have a few beers and to cruise around Los Angeles. Jim is hopping to be recruited in the L.A. Police Department. Jim seems to lose his minds, not being able to make distinction between reality and his memories from war. He becomes mad when he finds out that he was rejected from Los Angeles Police Department due failure of psychological test. He starts acting violent, gets involved in a few fights, robs some gangsters and drug dealer. Good news come fast and Jim finds out that he will be recruited by the Department of Homeland Security for a job in Columbia against a drug lord.

Because of Jim, Mike gets into a fight with his girlfriend Sylvia and tries to get a job to prove that he's not "good-for-nothing". The line that I like the most is: "You're crazy and you're dangerous! And my biggest nightmare is you with a badge!" when Sylvia is having a fight with Jim. So basically Jim is begging to lose his mind when he tries to kill his girlfriend, the same woman he wants to marry, because she told him that she is pregnant.

This drama is one of the best movie in which Christian Bale performed since Equilibrium(2002).

Trailer 'Harsh Times'[2005]:

'The Nines'[2007] Review

A few days ago John told me about "The Nines" and made me curious, so today I've saw it. And for 3/4 of the movie I was like: "What the hell is this?" I was not getting anything from the movie, although John told me the plot. First I thought it was the wrong movie, it was not the one that John was referring to. But soon pieces came together and at the end I could say: "It was a good movie!".
The main character is interpreted by Ryan Reynolds and actually this character is in three different roles. The main idea of the movie is that there are beings more powerful that humans, from a scale from 1 to 10 humans are number 7. God is the supreme being so it will be 10, and below God there are the nines, beings with a lot of power and that can travel between dimensions, and Gary/Gavin/Gabriel(Ryan Reynolds) is one of them. Only G is a junkie, his drugs are humans, he likes to spend time between them to make sure that they are ok. But this drugs turns against him, when the other nines come to take him back, in order to remember what he was. So because he spent so much time with the humans he started to feel something for one of them. But in order to become what he has forgotten he decides to live the humans behind.

Trailer "The Nines":

Elodia, Pestilence and Perfect Crimes(top 10)

1.After being imprisoned, released, interviewed Elodia's husband is now in jail. Don't think it's because the cops found Elodia's body or the murder weapon. Nope. The police discovered that Cristian Cioaca logged onto Elodia's email, from her office. So they've decided to pick him up and bring him in order to asking him more questions. Also it is known that Elodia had an affair with and officer from SPP(Secret Service). So my guessing is that her husband was trying to find emails between Elodia and her lover in order to find out if she is alive or not. There is no perfect murder, without blood, without witnesses, without a dead body. And there is no murder without a body, Elodia is still missing, she's not dead. Elodia give us a sign if you're out there.

2.Michael Begon a known ecologist made a warning regarding the pestilence(the plague from 14th century called Black Death who made 75 million of victims) which is spreading in Africa right now. The plague kills each year between 100 and 200 people there and most of the time is spread be the rats. Also this plague is nothing much this days compared with car accidents and AIDS victims. So I guess it's easy to die in a robbery than by Black Death.

3.Recently in US they've put together Top 10 Perfect Crimes, the crimes that were never solved. Between them, at position 5 there is the death of Tupac Shakur(2Pac) and Charles Wallace(Notorius B.I.G.). 2Pac and B.I.G. were both gunned down in 1996(Tupac) and 1997(Charles). Even if both were shot in the street nobody was arrested. Both were shot in their cars and both received 4 bullets in their chests. It was thought that 2Pac was not dead, that he was still alive. Until now their deaths remains a mystery. R.I.P. I think this Top might come in handy as a guide on: "How to commit the perfect crime!" for those who are in the business.

Youtube, Politics and Conspirations

1.A college from Oslo was closed today after a video broadcast on Youtube.com in witch a massacre was announced. A 15 years old student from Kjenn School, who's identity was not yet revealed, admitted that he uploaded the movie clip on Youtube website. The video clip has 50 seconds, was uploaded on Saturday and removed from Youtube yesterday. In the movie clip appears the image of a school with music background and then the faces of six teachers, while a voice says: "This will happen someday, you will die!"
Yeah so that's kinda scary, knowing that you will die someday, but it's the truth. So the kid actually didn't threaten anyone. He just told them that they are going to die, thing that it's going to happen to all of us, someday, as the kid says. Yeah... got to be really scary to be intimidated by a 15 years kid. Kid's can be very scary.

2.Today, in Romania(country of all possibilities), ANES(National Agency for Chance Equality) announced that the refuse of Norica Nicolai as Minister of Justice by President Basescu could be a discrimination against women. This is very funny, because the president doesn't have a record of treating women badly, he supported some of them in their career in politics.
But because Norica Nicolai is from PNL(same political party as Ludovic Orban which by the was found to have no implication in the car accident) and PNL want to have their own man inside Ministry of Justice in order to harass those from PD and PLD, because soon the election from mayors will come. So when the president Traian Basescu refused Norica Nicolai, the prime-minister Calin-Popescu Tariceanu(PNL) began a campain against Basescu.
So it began all this scandal all trowing with mud at each other. But somewhere in the past when voting a law, Norica Nicolai sent her niece to vote in her place, because she was to busy. So maybe here niece will decide who gets prosecuted by the Justice Department, if she becomes Minister of Justice.

3.In the year 1976 occidentals were decided to stop the communism with the force. NATO was prepared to hit Italy if the Communist Party won the elections in 1976. "The Times" says that CIA was already infiltrated in Italy, being positive that the communists would win the election. So 30 something years ago NATO and CIA were fighting against the communist, big deal.
I guess that the Italians are now pissed off and think that the CIA had no right to get involved and all those paranoid stuff(maybe CIA is still there, maybe they want to do it again). So before thinking of that as a bad thing, think that you would have lived in communism for 30 years, and no democracy for you. How would have that been? Enjoyable? Think of all the country that gained democracy when the Iron Curtain felt, do you think that those people were happy on communism? Think again!

Lottery, Money and Cars

Here in Romania, only times when people win at Lottery are: on Christmas, at New Years Eve, on Easter Holiday and when there are elections. Well the pot was won on Christmas so now the prize has rise up to 10.5 millions EURO. I think the pot won't be claimed this week either. And sure it will be only one winner, this is happening to often here, nobody wins for 10 weeks and then will win only one person. So we'll need to have friends inside to Lottery to ask them: "Is there going to be a win this week? No? Well then there's no use to play!". I played the Lottery a few times and I won exactly: "nothing" just exp. to get level up. And you would say that people will stop playing seeing that they don't win, but the fact is that play even more when they lose, they don't know when to drop it. Maybe next time folks, keep playing, make the us the Lottery guys rich.

The medium salary on Romania, was in November 2007 1.121RON(one thousand one hundred twenty-one) with 34RON(3.4%) bigger than the salary from October 2007. So people earned more on November, well counting November and December as the months that people spend the most money I would say that the biggest salaries were those from sales. So Romanians didn't worked harder in November, they spent more.

As some of you know Romania is under snow so this morning there were over 40 car crashes on highway A1 and A2. On highway A1(Bucharest-Pitesti) at kilometer 14 two trucks skidded and hit other cars, about twenty cars were involved in this accident. At kilometer 54 on highway A1, that links Bucharest with Pitesti, 14 other cars were involved in a chain accident. Accident caused by the high speed and the bad weather. On the highway A2(Sun's Highway), the one that links Bucharest with Constanta, at kilometer 30 eight cars were involved in an accident similar with those from highway A1. Five people with light wounds and one person who needed to be transported to the hospital because of the injuries.
Drive safe! It's still winter and speed kills!

'Day Break'(2006) TV-Show Review

What if you will live your worst nightmare and what if you'll get trapped in that nightmare? Detective Brett Hopper(Taye Diggs) from Narcotics Division of Los Angeles Police Department, is accused for killing of state attorney Alberto Garza, being captured by the police he tries to explain that he's being framed. Next day when he wakes up he realizes that it's the same day over and over again. Brett discovers that the events that day change only if his actions change. In order to save his friends from getting killed and searching for evidence to prove his innocence Brett figures that he wasn't a good brother/partner/friend for those around him. Each day he knows it will be the same, but he doesn't know if he will wake to live tomorrow or it will live today forever. Each 'today' Brett discovers more dark secrets about people around him and in his run from the police, he receives help from his partner Detective Andrea Battle(Victoria Pratt), from Damien Ortiz(Ramon Rodriguez) his informant and from other people close to him.

'Day Break' it's a nice TV-Show, each episode will bring something new into Brett Hopper's life, in each episode Brett will try to fight against those who are framing him and who proved to be people without any hold-backs and very resourceful.

Day Break - Every Day Is Exactly The Same(music by Nine Inch Nails)



- more info about 'Day Break' on imdb.com
- more info about 'Day Break' on tv.com

New Category, 'On Demand'

Today I've decided I will add a new category to this website, it will be called: "On Demand" and it will contain reviews demanded by you, the ones reading this right now. Want to know someone else's opinion about anything(movie, tv-show, music, computer parts, cars, books...) ask me. I'll tell you my opinion about it. Soon... we will review the world together!

'The Pretender'(1996) TV-Show

"There are pretenders among us. Geniuses with the ability to be become anyone they want to be. In 1963, a corporation known as the Centre isolated a young pretender named Jarod and exploited his genius for their research. Then, one day, their pretender ran away..."
This is how the story begins, with Jarod(Michael T. Weiss), a genius-boy abducted by 'The Centre' in order to perform simulations, that 'The Centre' sold to the ones with enough money to buy them, in order to kill/steal/destroy.
When Jarod finds out about the purpose of his simulations, he decides to run away from 'The Centre' and help others. His primary objective is finding his lost family, that he thought dead. Trying to run away from the tracking team conduced by Miss Parker(Andrea Parker) and the one that once was his mentor, Sydney(Patrick Bauchau), Jarod reveals the most hidden secrets of 'The Centre'.
Finding bits of information about his past, and members of his family, then losing them one by one Jarod is constantly on the run. Punishing the ones that deserve it, Jarod is more like a modern action hero, always with a step before everybody else he proves that he really is a genius. Story becomes complicated with each episode and for about 4 seasons Jarod is fighting the evil and 'The Centre' helping he will get reunited someday with his family. Although at the end of those 4 seasons things are unsure about what happened with Jarod, there are four more episodes from the miniseries "The Island of the Haunted" who try to reveal the secrets left unsolved in those 4 seasons of Jarod.
-more informations about 'The Pretender' TV-Show on tv.com
The way one of the seasons end:

Blogs got credibility

One of most accessed news websites from Romania, I'm talking about 9am.ro changed their design. I was not impressed by the new design, nor have I looked too close on the website until today. Today on a closer look, I've noticed that 9am.ro has a new section called: "News From Blogs". This is the next step for the bloggers community, here I am talking about the blogs that contain something else than clips from youtube, or pictures received in emails. So I'm counting as a blog only those who have some text on their posts, text that can offer some information to those reading the blog.

Next on my line today, first wedding between bloggers is announced. VisUrat proposed Denisuca and she said "YES" their godfather will be no one else but Arhi. I was expecting that the first wedding it would be between Piticu and his girlfriend Anca, and I've found out that Piticu proposed Anca in 2006, but now it remains to see who will get married first? VisUrat with Denisuca or Piticu with Anca, maybe it will be a double wedding between the happy couples.

Comming up next: "The Pretender(2002) TV-Show Review".

Romania is under snow, lot of snow...

Romania is under snow, since Tuesday. When most of us got down from our beds and looked on the window what we could say was: "Woow! That's a lot of snow!". But the snow wasn't the problem, the problem was the wind, so ADP's cars and their plows were useless. After the cars that supposed to clean the streets, you could see how the wind was pushing the snow back in the streets. So yesterday the snow melted(some of it) and in the night froze. On the streets, if you need to go somewhere with your car, it's like hell, like a frozen hell. And let's admit it, most of people could go to work with the public transportation, and most of them are still on holiday until 7 of January. But no most of them decide to go with their car, to park in the street blocking one lane, so the ambulance has to stay 30 minutes to pass an intersection, how are they supposed to save lives in this way. Because there were cars parked in the street, that's the main problem here in Romania, parking lots, the streets were not cleaned from side to side, so guess what, garbage trucks are unable to pick the garbage from front of the stores or from garbage bins. And it's a lovely view, in the big white sea of snow you can see from place to place, little piles of garbage. Luckily that it froze so it won't smell. Oh and most of the stores are empty, cause people feared that the end of days is coming with this snow.

'Dexter'(TV-Show) Review

His name is Dexter Morgan(Michael C. Hall) and his is the "hero" of the TV-Show 'Dexter'. I have to warn you, this is a movie with lot of blood. Dexter is a forensics expert with the specialty blood's pattern. As the first sight Dexter seems to be a normal person, too normal, spending time with his girlfriend Rita(Julie Benz), his co-workers and his sister Debra Morgan(Jennifer Carpenter), a young police officer recently transfered to Homicide Department. With so many people around him you could say that Dexter doesn't have time for anything else. But Dexter has a secret, when the night falls he brings justice to those who escaped justice. His own justice. Following 'Harry's Code' Dexter avoids random kills, and he only kills when he is convinced of the guilt of his victim. Dexter thinks that his thirst for blood comes when his childhood, when he witnessed the killing of his mother. Following the 'Code' and faking his feelings Dexter manages to stay invisible to the rest of the people, except for Sergeant James Doakes(Erik King) who believes that Dexter is hiding something. On each episode for two seasons Dexter discovers more about himself, about his pass. Some thinks that Dexter is a 'monster'(including himself) while other see him as a hero, doing the justice that the police couldn't do, killing the criminals. At the first I was skeptical, but after watching two episodes I was convinced, watching Dexter was a priority among TV-Shows from my list.

For more informations about the TV-Show I recommend:
-tv.com(episode list, trailers);
-Dexter's page on Showtime site;

'Dexter: Morning Routine'

Butch, one of my favorite artist

First time I've heard Butch's name was in 2005 at a concert, launch of Rapace album(a band from Hades Records Romania). He was working as a bartender in Griffins Club, place of the concert. We never talked face to face, someday maybe.
After 2005 I began hearing songs of known rappers featuring Butch and I liked his style. Calm with a nice flow and smart lyrics now I can say that Butch became fast my favorite Romanian MC. I haven't seen too much Hip-Hop concerts with Butch and I feel ashamed, due lack o time, but I promise I will try to repent for my sins and go to more Hip-Hop concerts, for Butch, for the move.

From what I've heard Butch's first album will come out on September 2008, the name of the album will be "Fiul Risipitor"(as in LUKE 15:11-32 the saying of the spending son). I just can't wait for the next concert where Butch will perform. I'll be there.

Here is a song from Butch, it's called "Noiembrie 64":

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If you want to listen to more songs, go to Butch's profile on Myspace, or go and see his performance on stage at the concerts and remember: "Respect the work! Sustain the Hip-Hop move! Buy the albums! See the concerts!"