Category Archives: Pop Culture

Movies - The Dark Knight

Wow. Best superhero movie EVER, hands-down.

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The Folly of Optical Media

I find myself staring at stacks of old CD-Rs in my room that are just there taking up space. As far as I know, they contain copies of old TV series/anime I used to watch and backups of my old hard drives from time long past. (I’m pretty sure I still have backups of my [...]

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Movies - June 2008

This has been a good month for movies. I saw the following in cinemas:
Kung Fu Panda - complete AWESOMENESS. I drank the Kool-Aid all the way on this one.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - classic Indy goodness.
Incredible Hulk - Edward Norton is cast brilliantly here, a choice on the same level [...]

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Kung Fu Panda

Watch it, and be blinded by awesomeness.
For added effect, imagine it’s really Jack Black doing everything the Panda does.

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Indiana Jones: “Raiders” vs “Crystal Skull”

So I swa Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull last Friday. Two days later I also watched for the first time Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. Instead of doing a lame movie review, here’s a double header feature!
(Warning: Spoilers for both movies follow)

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Pinoy Comic Strips: Beerkada

I’m not sure how popular or well-known Beerkada is among the non-UP crowd, but right now I consider the slice-of-University-life comic (that has now graduated into slice-of-adult-life stories) probably the second best local comic strip. First place being of course the seminal Pugad Baboy, which has been running what, almost twenty years now?
I digress. If [...]

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Ender’s Game Series

My reading lately has comprised of Orson Scott Card’s excellent Ender’s Game series. I got a copy of six of the books from an officemate a couple of months back, and I’ve just finished the seventh book today. I don’t usually go through books that quickly, so it’s a sign that I’ve really enjoyed this [...]

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Transformers

As a big Transformers fan back in the day, I have to say: the movie is okay. Action-packed and a fun popcorn flick. The story’s nothing to win an oscar over, but everything looks SO COOL!
Some questionable things though:

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Not Very Mainstream

Based on my last.fm profile, at least, I am only around 13.94% mainstream

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Spider-man 3

Pretty good movie, as expected. The story is what you’d expect from a comic-book movie, but the mid-air fight scenes are really great.
The whole Sandman thing is basically fluff, the movie could have been done without him. He was like a cheap pop to make the whole “dark side” thing easier to start off, [...]

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