The movie this time and author Scott Smith also wrote the screenplay. It's not half as "scary" as the novel, but it had its moments. The actors are doing an alright job except for the "hysterical" scenes which go a little overboard.

There's a couple of rewrites from the novel. My biggest issue is how character storylines have been swapped around. Pablo is called Dimitri, and he's only in the movie up until they reach the ruins, where in the novel he's around for a lot longer. Mathias is then shifted to take his role, Amy takes Erics role, etc etc.. Feels all weird.

The movie is ok. The novel is king. ;-]

I bought three shirts in a "Grab Bag" from TeeFury a while back. Grab Bag means that they're randomly picked and I have no idea what print I get until the shirts are delivered to me.

I wasn't expecting awesome tees; my brother has ordered at least two three-shirt Grab Bags in the past and the shirts have all more or less sucked. But they're pretty cheap, only $5 each, so who's complaining, right?

When I unwrapped the parcel I discovered these three shirts. I'm like, wow, they look like bollox. (Seriously, the first thought running through my mind was "what the fuck, man").. But then I took a closer look at the first shirt, and I noticed some numbers written on it; "4, 8, 15, 16... heeeyyyyy!" I noticed more and more of the detail as I realised the motif was that of Lost. A Lost shirt?? Fucking awesome! :D (I'm currently a few episodes into season 5 as I'm typing this).

The next shirt was of a DeLorean and two scruffy looking dudes. It's not awful, really. I mean, the DeLorean is an awesome Back to the Future reference in itself, which made it badass. But then (actually just earlier today, when I found out that TeeFury had updated their gallery and I went to take a look for links to the shirts) I read the description, and it's not only a reference to Back to the Future. The scruffy looking dudes are Desmond and Faraday from Lost!! *Japanese nosebleeding*

And so, the third shirt. It's not as awesome as the other two. In fact, it's not awesome in any way. It's an Avatar-shirt, which is pretty cool - Avatar was awesome - but it's a ripoff of an American football team's logo, which is pretty lame. It won't stop me from wearing the shirt, however. Cheap stuff is good wearin' and I am a bit of a tshirtoholic. ;)

The Grab Bags seems to happen every two months or so and I'll be sure to order three new shirts when the next one comes around. I'm also keeping an eye on the daily shirts they offer, some of the motives are pure awesome. For serious. :-)

Movies are great, right? I mean, when you get to watch the actual movie.. The graph isn't 100% accurate, but most movies follow this very pattern.

The most laughable part is the FBI-warnings. What. The. Fuck? I guess it's not enough that I paid for the movie? No sir, not at all, please spoonfeed me your propaganda.

And trailers and such crap? Sure, it's fine, I don't mind trailers, I've found several new movies to watch via trailers. That's what trailers are for, after all. But for the love of fuck, stick them with the extras, not as a fucking pre-movie must-see.

Fuck you, movie companies. Fuck you up your stupid asses.

The final episode of Lost aired some two weeks ago so I figured I may as well brush up on the show. I've seen parts of the first season when they first aired it but I don't really remember anything so I borrowed it of my brother and so far I've covered 18 episodes. Tomorrow I'm borrowing seasons 2, 3 (and maybe 4) from a friend. I'm really enjoying the show so far -- I think I've gotten a little...lost.. :]

Edit, June 12th: Yeah, lost indeed. I just got off watching episode 9 of the second season. I'm totally hooked! :]

My workday starts at 7am. On a good day I usually crawl out of bed around 6am, sometimes a little bit earlier, sometimes a little bit later (oops!). The last few weeks my days have started one hour later but I'm still trying to get up and get ready at about the same time as before.

To get me going I've started watching anime while preparing breakfast/lunch for work. I asked a friend for some suggestions on shows and he mentioned Kimi Ni Todoke and Eden of the East. Mornings are awesome again. :3

I'm not gonna lie. I've watched Fucking Åmål over 40 times since its release, back in 1998. I know - I'm a sad, sad individual. But hey, it's a really good movie. The last years as a teenager I (along with a friend of mine) had an obsessive, unhealthy, crush on Elin. We saw the movie at least once every day for a good while there. Drove my family nuts. :D

I watched it again yesterday, together with my brothers and a friend (different from the friend mentioned above). I came to the conclusion that I still absolutely love Fucking Åmål. Very much so. :3

My brothers, a friend and I went to see this hyped-up movie earlier tonight. We sat down with high hopes of getting scared after reading about the test audience fleeing the theater. It ended up not being half as scary as we thought, but I still enjoyed it for the most part.

(Read this first).

The DVD was released on tuesday and it dropped in my mail yesterday. So finally, I got to see the movie! It was pure awesome and both Oskar and Eli were as cute as I imagined when I read the book. Both Lina and Kåre did great jobs with their characters, even though the dialogue felt just a little stiff at times (not at all limited to these two, however).

What bugged me (apart from the -again!- far-too-few scenes with Oskar and Eli), was that they left so much out of the story. So much info about Håkan was lost. Information about Eli's past was lost, only hinting about the "I'm not a girl"-bit. Quality time with Oskars' dad was lost (although there was a kind of a montage [even Rocky had a montage!!1] that kind of covered that I suppose).

All in all though, a wonderful movie. I'd encourage you to read the book before watching the movie. And I'd encourage you to watch it before the Americans destroys it with their upcoming remake. :-]