Movie Reviews: Red & Unstoppable

Its about time to reviews some movies that I have seen.

The movies I have seen recently is Red and Unstoppable.

Now let's start with Red.

The story goes that couple of extreme, professional, old school ex-operatives. In which they get hunted down because of unknown reasons. It starts with the hardcore action hero Bruce Willis as the main character in the movie. As it progresses the movie introduces some pretty amazing actors, such as Morgan Freeman(Jack of all trades), Helen Mirren (Actress who played the Queen), John Malkovich(Also Jack of all trades) and the 'lady' of the movie is Mary-Louise Parker (quite hot I might add).

Some of you may know that the movie Red is based on a comic book. I think there are some areas that are quite dull, simply because there was an intense scene and then boom. The scene after dies down and makes the whole movie a rollcoaster, going up with excitement and action and goes down with some simple jokes and talk.



I always think that action movies should be old school style. As in Die Hard, Commando, Rambo. At start the hero either gets into trouble or realize someone they treasure gets in trouble. The middle you would realize the evil doers are planning a bigger plot than we thought they were doing. Then the big fight, where the hero goes all out trying to save the day. Throw in a couple of jokes that guarantee a chuckle throughout the movie and there you go, an hardcore, old school style action movie.

Essentially the style of old school style action movie does sort of gets mixed with this movie Red but I have to say there's been a couple of gaps that the audience may find a bit dull. Since before it was full of action and intensely, we as the audience lose all the commotion and excitement because of the gaps.

However, overall I think the movies is not bad. If you like Die Hard, Die Hard with Vengence, Die Hard 4.0 (Live Free or Die Hard). The movie does have quite an stylish lady holding an machine gun and constantly shooting at cars, that was pretty cool. Mixed in with some jokes here and there, the movie is actually pretty good (but not as good as the classic action movies).



In comparison Red and Unstoppable. I must say that unstoppable has more of a the movie speed style. The movie is quite simple, its just a series of chain events that causes a train to be unstoppable.

The intensely of the movie is actually quite good. However, I did realize that if you take away the background music of the movie, the excitement goes down. And as all movies that punches the intense into your gut that quick, the movie ends quite short. Either way in the end, I do recommend the movie to everyone to watch that wants a thrill ride with a movie.

Probably at the end of the movie, it is actually quite a simple movie, that just so happens to have a set of chain events causing the problem to become bigger and bigger.

Is Reverse Engineering a now a everyday routine?

Is it me or is devices nowadays is becoming really easy to hack, mod and re-create?

It has only been less than 2 weeks since the release of Xbox 360 Kinect, release 4th of November in the US. I already seen two or three videos or articles about a mod from the Kinect.





Just think about it. The world now revolves around technology. Every single new piece of hardware comes out. Someone would have tools on one and computer on the other. Electronic products are being reverse engineered as we know it. There would be copies or modified hardware to suit the modder or hacker's needs.

I think what I hate is that company are becoming very protective of their products. In the world today, people are going to hack and mod it there's no doubt about it. I think they should be happy that some group of people is spending time to look into their product trying to understand how it works. Not every product gets reverse engineered, only the popular or products that people believe it has potential.

Everyday thousands or even millions of electronic products comes out in to the market to do one thing earn some money. Companies become so obsessed with money that they forgot the whole point of producing the product in the first place. AND To make it worst nearly all the big companies (and I mean multi-billionaire companies) goes off complaining about people hacking their products. They earn so much money! I bet if they dont get any sales for couple of months, they would still survive with no employees fired.

WTH CoD:BO?!

Ok, it's 8:26AM on the 9th November, 2010.

I bought Call of Duty Black Ops last night at 7pm on the 8th of November 2010. It suppose to come out on the 9th November, 2010. So I was really happy to get it early, hoping to play the singleplayer mode last night.

HOWEVER, like many enthuastic people cannot play or EVEN INSTALL the bloody game until it is the 9th. Here is what happens, when you click to install, everyone I guess was expecting Windows installer system to show up. Sadly no. It first says preparing system components to install. After it jumps into steam, to install the game. When you click next to continue install, a little devil popup window shows up and says along the lines of you cannot install this game yet.

SO I waited until it was midnight until it was the 9th. THAT didn't work. I even changed changing Windows Time and Date settings or the GMT time zones to Australia (I heard their games work). I even set download region from Steam to Australia. I got zip, nothing, the space inside a vacuum.

As of right now, I'm suspecting it the bloody game DVD itself. The Game DVD is probably from the US and Steam thinks that I'm in US. DUDE just look at my IP Address accessing into your Steam, it obliviously SAYS HK!

I know this is stupid to be complaining about. "Its a game dude just wait til the 9th" NO this is actually about the integrity of Steam systems. Dude if Australia works, how come mine doesnt? I waited til 12, Steam should let me, Why hasn't it?

Ugh now I have to go to work, knowing that many people had already finish playing the singleplayer. Now playing multiplayer ranking up, having loads and loads of fun. I was playing MoH, it suxed.... I wanted a good FPS and CoD was a calling. Darn you Steam, Darn you installation restrictions and Darn you Call of Duty Black Ops publisher Actvision, developer Treyarch.