PG's Ramblings

Welcome to my personal hobby blog where I ramble about books, movies, computers, gadgets and anything else that I felt like rambling about.

Please note that this is just a hobby for me and these are my personal opinions about various subjects. I do not aspire to be a professional reviewer so if you do not like my opinions that’s too bad but there are surely other blogs out there for you in that case.

And below you find the latest ramblings in chronological order…

  • Resident Evil on Blu-ray

    Yesterday we watched Resident Evil on Blu-ray. A quite nice zombie flick. A fair amount of gore without being totally excessive like some B-movies on the theme. Naturally the plot of these kind of movies are a bit contrived but it still hung together reasonably. The film was also a success at the box office,… Read more

  • Watched Disney’s Fantasia on Blu-ray

    Before dinner today the kids wanted to watch the Blu-ray with Disney’s Fantasia that we bought recently. I remember that when I watched it for the first time, as a kid, I never really liked it. I was expecting a more “traditional” Disney film. Somewhat to my surprise, Cassandra seemed to really like it. Timothy… Read more

  • Watched Salt last evening

    No we did not watch a can of Sodium Chloride last evening, it’s the 2010 action flick with Angelina Jolie that I’m talking about. It’s a very good action movie. Yes, the stunts are sometimes a wee bit unrealistic but that’s part of the fun. I generally do like Angelina Jolie in these kind of… Read more

  • Marmaduke–The Film

    I was never really a super fan of the Marmaduke cartoons. Sometimes they where quite fun but sometimes they where, well, not so fun. Anyway, a big stupid and clumsy dog sounded like a sure bet for a kids movie so when Marmaduke came out as a film we got it on Blu-ray and just… Read more

  • ASUS Eee Slate EP121 looks good

    When HP announced that they would come out with their HP Slate I was thrilled. A real PC with a real operating system (Windows 7) in a slate form factor was just right for me. Unfortunately HP screwed up. It was delayed for a long time. It was even rumored that production was cancelled. When… Read more

  • Quentin Tarantino presents: Hell Ride

    I had my doubts about Hell Ride but Quentin Tarantino had his fingers in it so that, of course, meant that I had to have it when I found it in the shop. It’s not Tarantino that produced or directed it but Larry Bishop. Apparently Tarantino both inspired and supported it though. Well, it fulfills… Read more

  • The Hangover

    No I did not have a hangover :-). It’s the original title of  a comedy film that we watched last night. For some reason the French importer decided to rename it to A Very Bad Trip. I could have understood it if they renamed it to something French but another English title? As usual, those… Read more

  • Filmtajm again, this time: Surrogates

    This time of the year, especially the days between Christmas and New Year is an ideal time for movie watching. Especially since there’s not that much on TV. Actually, there quite a lot of nice films on TV but most of it is older films that we have already seen and usually also have already… Read more

  • Joheunnom Nabbeunnom Isanghannom

    If you do not understand the title, you’re forgiven. It’s the original language title of a South Korean film that we picked up on Blu-ray at MediaMarkt in Meyrin and watched last night. I generally want to watch films in VO (Version Original) but for this one, I forgot about that and we put it… Read more

  • The Expendables

    We just watched The Expendables on Blu-ray. Now this is a great movie. It’s exactly how an action/fighting/shoot-them-up movie should be done. No unnecessary bullshit, no trying to make the hero “human” or some shit like that, just pure action with the good guys on one side and the bad ones on the other. Really… Read more

  • The Last Airbender

    Got The Last AirBender on Blu-ray earlier this week. After having done the traditional pre-Christmas-eve-sampling of the Christmas buffet yesterday evening we sat down and watched it. If you bear in mind that it’s really a kids movie, it was okay. The special effects was quite good but the entire story was a bit superficial… Read more

  • Last working day, watched The Sorcerers Apprentice

    Yesterday evening I finished my last working day for this year. On Tuesday, CERN closes for Christmas and opens again on the 5th of January. Since the kids finished school yesterday I took the two last days off as well so now work is done for this year. After dinner last night we watched the… Read more

  • Inception

    Last weekend we watched Inception on Blu-ray. Very good movie indeed. For once a reasonably new and innovative story that didn’t give you a “been there, done that” feeling. The special effects where generally excellent without being overdone. The picture (1080p/VC-1 encode with 2.40:1 aspect ratio) as well as sound (DTS-HD Master Audio) was truly… Read more

  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

    Last Tuesday evening we watched the 1st Blu-ray in the Millenium series: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, or Män Som Hatar Kvinnor as it’s called in the original Swedish language. Felt quite funny to watch something where everyone spoke Swedish. Haven’t done that in a long while. The film was quite okay although it… Read more

  • Watched Knight And Day last weekend

    No I did not misspell the title. The original title is Knight & Day, that is Knight and not Night. The Knight in the title refers to the family name of the character played by Tom Cruise. However, some total moron obviously didn’t do his homework so on the French-speaking markets they screwed up the title and… Read more

  • Fiber Optics Network at CERN

    This week the CERN Bulletin had an interesting article about the fiber optic network at CERN. Fiber optics have been deployed at CERN for the last 32 years. When first installed for the SPS accelerator between the Meyrin and the Prevessin site it was the longest optical fiber in Europe. Currently CERN have 35 000 kilometer… Read more

  • Nightmare On Elm Street

    Watched Nightmare On Elm Street on Blu-ray last night. This is another one of those movies that the so called critics wrote down drastically when it came out. Well that’s why I generally do not care too much about the critics which are mostly self appointed besserwissers out of touch with the real audience for the movies… Read more

  • Movie Season

    It’s the time of the year when a lot of new movies are coming out, both in theaters and on Blu-ray. There’s a whole bunch of movies coming out that I have been looking forward to for some time so…I placed some orders for Blu-rays on Amazon. Here’s the pick… Knight & Day Predators Inception… Read more

  • Installed a PowerLine Network Today

    Today I installed a set of PowerLine network adapters from NetGear creating a local area network using my existing electrical wiring. During the kitchen renovation we moved the bench where I have my ADSL modem, router and NAS drive around the corner and we do not really plan to move it back. We didn’t move… Read more

  • A-Team–The Movie

    A-Team the Movie on Blu-ray was in the mail from Amazon yesterday and since there was nothing worth watching on the telly, we sat down and watched it in the evening. I must say that it was quite good. I was worried that, as a fan of the original TV-series when I was a kid,… Read more

  • HP Slate finally released in the states

    It appears that the HP slate have, finally, been released in the states. I’m still quite interested in this device. Unlike the iPad toy which is essentially just an overgrown portable phone, this is a real computer in a slate form factor with a real operating system (Windows 7). It would be ideal as a… Read more

  • Watched Universal Soldier: Regeneration last night

    I was happy to see Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren back in action again and there was indeed some decent fighting scenes  and some good old meaningless violence but… The rest of the movie was rather dull, both in terms of settings, acting and plot. Mostly in Russia, crappy looking equipment, the place hardly… Read more

  • Expanded the film collection a bit today

    My film collection got expanded today. Universal Soldier and Universal Solider – Regeneration was in the mail from Amazon. I bought Universal Soldier a while ago, or so I thought. It turned out that it was Universal Soldier – The Return, the second film (if you do not count the two crappy TV-movies that where… Read more

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