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Original DVD’s…..

October 9th, 2008 @ 22:33 by Willem
Band of Brothers

Band of Brothers

Why buy them? I bought a couple of movies in the last couple of weeks. Including the ‘Band of Brothers‘ DVD-box (probably the best TV-miniseries ever). Just to be reminded (again) that the original product (in general) is annoying as hell.

I started the DVD, and the first thing that I saw were some crappy trailers of crappy movies. The menu appeared only after I had FFWD’ed every single one of them.
After watching the first episode I wanted to quickly skip to the second…. No way of doing that besides stopping and starting the DVD from scratch. Which results in trailers etc. of the same (crappy) movies I have no interest in….. Every f*cking button, which might guide me to the menu, on my remote was unresponsive.

First thing on my list when I wake up tomorrow; rip the DVD’s, remove every piece of DRM crap and enjoy the remaining episodes my way.
Honest people are hijacked by the MPAA (and associates) by forcing all this DRM crap upon those who buy legitimate DVD’s. No wonder people are ripping and copying DRM protected content.

Every now-and-then you try to do the good thing, only to be reminded why you were ripping DVD’s in the first place……

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Movie Backlog

August 26th, 2007 @ 0:11 by Willem

The summer is playing up on me at this moment. The long days are killing my movies hours so to say. normally I could watch a couple of movies a week, but the last couple of month I’ve been neglecting myself (sort of).

There are over 15 movies which I have to see, but there are more and more movies released every day. Also the sitcoms aren’t helping. At this moment I’m going through the “That 70’s Show” like a maniac (3 seasons done, lots of them to go). That Donna chick keeps me going :P ….

And now the Traveler series is starting here in the Netherlands…. Even more to catch up to. When will it end??? (Hopefully never :wink: )

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Nokia E61 features in Die Hard 4.0

July 28th, 2007 @ 0:38 by Willem

Well it sort of features in the new Bruce Willis action movie. The phone is visible for a couple of seconds [50 minutes into the movie].

Nokia E61 in Live Free or Die Hard

This first picture shows the phone numbers on the businesscard. I guess he’s gonna make a call to the other characters cellphone ((202)-555 1313), but why enter ‘12′? A slip-up or is this just a typo since he’s under a lot of stress :-)

Nokia E61 in Live Free or Die Hard

B.t.w. mister Willis doesn’t have much to do (see calendar), and he obviously has some bluetooth device, otherwise one wouldn’t put the Bluetooth menu in the standby menu on the phone…. Other observations show that there is no cell reception and that his battery is almost empty. This does match up with the events (to come) in the movie. So they did mind the (very) small details.

 

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Robots in Disguise

July 3rd, 2007 @ 20:19 by Willem

Just a few more days, and Transformers (trailer) premieres here. For someone who grew up watching the DJ Cat Show (SkyChannel) this is a dream coming true. After reading this review, I can’t wait to see Optimus Prime kicking MegaTron’s ass

IS IT THURSDAY YET???

UPDATE: Just saw the movie, and it was awesome. The special effects were beyond awesome. There are lot’s of references to other blockbusters like Independence Day, Armageddon, and Men in Black

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