Saturday

A Freilekhn Gebortstog Mel Brooks!

I've seen Young Frankenstein so many times... The voice of Bigweld.. Producers..

You're the god of comedy, Mel Brooks!

Happy birthday and let there be many others!

Friday

My Bunny


Her name is Bud.

Tuesday

Rest In Peace, Stan Winston

It's a shame that basically no one noticed the news on Stan Winston's death.

Hey, Stan Winston, people! You've been watching his work for decades now!

How about a short reminder Make-up, special effects in, creature designs: Constantine, Terminator(s), Iron Man, Artificial Intelligence, Aliens, Predator...

Rest In Peace, Stan Winston. The world will miss your imagination.

Monday

Some Good, Some Bad and Some Shiteous

Let's start with the Good.

Indiana Jones:

I hadn't read a single review and tried to keep myself from getting any information on the film. As soon as I saw the scull I knew that H.R. Giger got himself copied. The sculls anyone? Well, of course the movie was behind Lucasarts and Stan Winston, but the scull was SO close to the alien one, I couldn't help myself but enjoy the rest of the movie too.

Iron Man: Good enough. I had low expectations, so it surprised me in the positive way..

The Happening:

Shyamalan rocks. I mean seriously rocks. Yesterday when I walked out of the theater, the strong wind gave me the chills. So far his movies (the ones I've seen) have made me:

See dead people in my dreams
Break my toe
Like Joaquin Phoenix
Cry
Scared
Wait for the plants' revenge.

+learn how to look for the little things in the movies

But hey, what the hell was the microphone thing in The Happening?

Well done, Mr. Shyamalan. Night-san!

Kung Fu Panda

The chopstick fight was the best ever!

And The Not Bad, but not good:

Dark Floors

The second Finnish movie in English (that I've seen) and the only bad thing was the Lordi members. The rest of it: Ten points for Finland. Ten poäng Finland. Seriously, I didn't even know Marcus Selin can DO things like that. You can also see the annoying captain from "Aliens" in this little piece of Finnish movie history.

The Shiteous:

Whisper

Again one of the movies that have made me want to destroy all the children.

And some others just on DVD and blu-ray

Wednesday

Go David!

One of my favorite hymns, composed by the great Sibelius of Finland, has lyrics in English, which I never knew. I heard it sung by a great young singer, David Archuleta. Finlandia is very beautiful sung (in Finnish) by a Finnish choir Cantores Minores as well, but I must say it has never brought tears to my eyes before though I have always felt it.

I know many hymns are borrowed from other languages, but I didn't have an idea a Finnish composer actually is that famous. I'm sure Finland has at least one artist to be proud of.

The original video was removed from YouTube, but I suppose you could try finding it by searching david +archuleta +be +still +my +soul