Sunday, 28 September 2008
DOOMSDAY (2008)
This film could be for real in a few months time, so i thought i'd better check it out.
This is the bastard off-spring of '28 Weeks Later', 'Mad Max 2' and 'Escape From New York.'
Set in the near future, a rapidly spreading virus kills kills everyone in Glasgow. As such Scotland is sealed off (nod to 'Escape from New York') and everyone left within Scotland is left to fight the virus and rampaging riots etc and then die.
30 years later the virus has appeared in London..people are starting to die there and fast too.
Thing is, in Scotland, they have found survivors still sealed within the Hot Zone...and if they survived the first outbreak there must be a cure there.
Cue Rhona Mitra, as an ass kicking, sexy Special Forces specialist to go into Scotland and find the cure.
but she only has 48 hours to do it.
Glasgow is a bad ass place with gangs, beatings and killings, in the film its made to look even worse. Its refreshing to see a different location other than LA or New York for a change.
Presumably the location is due to the Scottish director and writer Neil Lambert shooting his biggest film to date.
Rhona Mitra is good in her role, but she could easily be mistaken for 'Underworld's' Kate Beckinsale.
The similarities are frightning, the character is near identical if you remove the vampire aspect.
They look the same and sound the same.
This is not a problem as Kate Beckinsale in Underworld kicks ass, so more of the same is good to me.
This also stars Bob Hoskins and Malcom MacDowell.
MacDowell plays his usual baddie role, pretty much as he did in Star Trek Generations
From then on we go into a post apocolyptic future, run by Punks with axes and blades (Mad Max) and Medieval Knights in armour.
Some great Mad Max style road chases and lots of blood and guts.
If you love Escape From New York / Mad Max and 28 Weeks Later, you will love this film.
Its not particularily original in content, but it takes the best aspects of some very good films and makes a bad ass tribute to them. Recommended
7/10
Monday, 22 September 2008
top 5 tunes listening to this week!
1. Motorhead - Buried Alive. from the new album Motorizer, this rocks hard. More like the earlier stuff, brilliant
2. Ladyhawke - Paris Is burning. Her best so far, Ladyhawke (pictured) from New Zealand
3. Ladyhawke - Dusk till Dawn. The current single and follow up to 'Paris..', the album due soon.
4. Soulwax - E-Talking. A bit old this but i love it, crosses many genres.
5. Killing Joke - Love Like Blood. One of the greatest songs ever. you need it in your life. The bassline is amazing. (r.i.p. raven)
Friday, 19 September 2008
Thursday, 18 September 2008
Monday, 15 September 2008
Another bank falls, the new great depression begins!
Yet another financial bombshell to hit the world markets.
Lehman Bros falls, causing a tidewave of job losses and billions of dollars lost.
Millions of peoples mortgages are now up in the air.
It isn't the first and it aint gonna be the last.
Apparently 'AIG' and airlines Air Berlin and Air Italia are due next.
Mass unemployment is coming.
In the U.K this is called the 'Credit Crunch', to me this sounds fairly tame.
To me it should be called something grander, like 'The Reckoning' or 'The Peak Oil Disaster'
I suspect bread will be £2 / $4 dollars a loaf tomorrow?
The banks are running out of money, the airlines can't fly because they can't afford the fuel, and Kevin Keegan has left Newcastle United.
What a sad state of affairs we are now in.
Its all about 'Peak Oil' people, and its kicking in and biting everyone on the ass.
Search my blog for my article on 'The End of the Oil Age.'
This is what is causing it all and you better be prepared, because the next couple of years will be a bumpy ride. Strap yourself in, and be prepared, because those who are not will be the first to fall.
Get out of whatever debts you have, and spend what money you have wisely, you may need every dollar you have soon!
Cover your arse, thats all I am saying.
Does it affect you, have you felt it yet?
Or will it all settle down soon, i'd like to know your comments?
Have we hit a peak of global consuption, or have we still got more Ipods and Plasma screens to buy?
Lehman Bros falls, causing a tidewave of job losses and billions of dollars lost.
Millions of peoples mortgages are now up in the air.
It isn't the first and it aint gonna be the last.
Apparently 'AIG' and airlines Air Berlin and Air Italia are due next.
Mass unemployment is coming.
In the U.K this is called the 'Credit Crunch', to me this sounds fairly tame.
To me it should be called something grander, like 'The Reckoning' or 'The Peak Oil Disaster'
I suspect bread will be £2 / $4 dollars a loaf tomorrow?
The banks are running out of money, the airlines can't fly because they can't afford the fuel, and Kevin Keegan has left Newcastle United.
What a sad state of affairs we are now in.
Its all about 'Peak Oil' people, and its kicking in and biting everyone on the ass.
Search my blog for my article on 'The End of the Oil Age.'
This is what is causing it all and you better be prepared, because the next couple of years will be a bumpy ride. Strap yourself in, and be prepared, because those who are not will be the first to fall.
Get out of whatever debts you have, and spend what money you have wisely, you may need every dollar you have soon!
Cover your arse, thats all I am saying.
Does it affect you, have you felt it yet?
Or will it all settle down soon, i'd like to know your comments?
Have we hit a peak of global consuption, or have we still got more Ipods and Plasma screens to buy?
Sunday, 14 September 2008
worst hangover ever?
Jesus Christ, i think i am dying.
i didnt even have that much to drink last night , but 24 hours later i am just staggering at death's door.
i can type, but thats about it.
my chest is wrecked - thanks Marlboro man,
my liver is goosed - cheers Stella and Strongbow,
and my arse has collasped! thanks ASDA/Walmart.
whats your worst hangover or drinking escapade?
i think my brain now performs my livers basic tasks.
i gonna have to go, i m gonna be sick................
Thursday, 11 September 2008
5 reasons why Nickleback suck!
Nickleback - are what is wrong with music today.
1. The name. surely a better name could be found.
makes me think of a fish or sticklebricks.
2. Chad Kroeger - The man, the beard and the mullet. The 80's never passed these guys by, they're still in them, circa 1987.
3. Rockstar - to be fair this is there best song, and i even found myself liking it at first, but i couldn't accept that i could like anything by Nickleback and promptly got it out of my system. Unfortunatly DFS furniture store now use this for their daily adverts on TV, and now i just feel like bricking the telly every time i hear it.
4. Nickleback are the soundtrack to 'Second Life', not officially, but wherever i go on second life, all i hear streaming is Nickleback. Yes it is sad to be on Second Life, but its even sadder to be there with these bastards.
5. They are shit.
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