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Perihal: Ajakan Dialog Terbuka Mengenai Perkembangan dan Isu Blogger Indonesia.

Mengingat

Banyaknya aspirasi para blogger yang tertuang dalam blognya masing-masing mengenai ketidaksetujuan atas komentar-komentar Sdr. Roy Suryo di media massa yang cenderung selalu memojokkan blogger.

Menimbang

Perlunya tindakan untuk meluruskan informasi-informasi yang diberikan Sdr. Roy Suryo kepada media massa, khususnya mengenai pandangan negatif Sdr. Roy Suryo kepada blogger.

Memutuskan & Menetapkan

Perlu dilakukannya dialog terbuka dengan Sdr. Roy Suryo mengenai isu-isu yang berkembang saat ini, khususnya isu-isu yang selalu menyudutkan blogger serta informasi-informasi lain yang secara umum cenderung membodohi masyarakat.

Saya mengajak kepada Sdr. Roy Suryo, untuk melakukan dialog terbuka dengan semangat sportifitas untuk saling menerima masukan guna kemajuan perkembangan teknologi informasi Indonesia khususnya perkembangan blogger di Indonesia.

Saya yakin Sdr. Roy Suryo sebagai orang yang sudah diakui pakar dalam bidang Teknologi Informasi bisa meluangkan waktu dan tempat untuk menerima ajakan dialog terbuka ini.

Catatan:

Saya yakin Sdr. Roy Suryo tidak akan mengatakan “tidak tahu” mengenai adanya ajakan dialog terbuka ini. Ajakan dialog terbuka saya posting melalui blog dan insya Allah akan tersebar dengan baik melalui search engine maupun dengan bantuan dari teman-teman melalui blog, milis dan media lainnya. Dengan demikian, saya yang tidak tahu cara menghubungi Anda bisa berharap Anda bisa mendapatkan informasi ini dengan mudah dan cepat. Bukankah ini salah satu keahlian Anda? Mencari informasi mengenai diri Anda atau informasi lainnya di internet.

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* Copy-paste posting ini pada blog masing-masing dengan menyertakan sumbernya.
* Menyalin link dari posting ini untuk disebarkan melalui blog masing-masing atau email.
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Hi all,

For those 10 people reading my blog, I know this the first post for 2008 and I know it’s already March. With the new job and World of Warcraft, I’ve been busy.

Nevertheless, will try and find time for ranting again. But so far, Spiderwick and Horton Hear’s a Who is a definite 8.5 and I totally recommend both movies.

I leave you with a picture of the wallows of the lich king.

Previously, I had a bad experience with a Tora Sudiro film called “Petualangan Maladewa”. The movie was so badly written, badly directed and badly scripted that I walked out after the first hour. I really like him in Extravaganza (A local SNL like show) and I really wished Quickie will be the comedy movie of the year. Again, after the first hour I was ready to walk out.

The first half hour was funny, seriously, I liked it. Quickie presented several gems of social (”Multi level marketing? Mendingan gua jadi gigolo!”) and political satires (”…adalah: Politikus!”). And the character converse with dialect of normal Jakartans although, like many Indonesian movies, has problem maintaining the dialect in a normal conversation through out the movie and creating an incoherent environs. But, it was a first that showed the anals of the city’s dialect and I respect that.

The first half hour was interesting but after that, I did not find anything else worth noting about this movie but the bad ones. Character in this movie has a major problem on several aspects like; tangibility, character background and most all, dialog. The three main character of the movie (Jojo, Marley and Piktor) has no background and characteristics that has no significance with the plot. Like Jojo’s character has a pretty ambiguous background (What’s with the mullet?) and you can only guess about his ethnicity. There are several ethnic specific jokes in this movie but they didn’t specify the main character’s ethnicity?

Amink’s Marley is a ‘Rasta’ character and as far as the character goes, it’s not going anywhere. The significance of his character as a ‘Rasta’ was not elaborated and at the end, the only thing that shows in the movie is his ‘maaaaaan’ suffixes. Piktor is a lot more tangible, but his lisp was like Marley’s Rasta, a gimmick that wasn’t going anywhere. All three also became friends in, literally, matter of seconds in this movie; no prior backdrop, no interaction, just BOOM, they met and became friends. At the end, all three character has an ambiguous background that made their characters intangible. It may work in Extravaganza, but this IS a movie.

Another big problem is that after the initial half hour, the movie suddenly loose its smart satires and wittiness and wage more on physical slapsticks. There is a fine line between stupid jokes and funny ones. And this movie traversed the former very often. Especially the scene during Jan Pieter’s revelation (Sandra Dewi’s character’s father. She’s pretty btw :D) is soooo stupid, made me want to stab my own face with a spoon.

The dialog didn’t help either because either it was badly scripted or it was none existent at all. After the first half hour, the writer seems to rummage through anything that comes to mind but didn’t take the time to make the dialog more plausible. The problem with character’s background didn’t stop with the three main characters. Characters like Tante Mona pops up with no prior interlude. And the worst of all, some major scenes like when (SPOILER ALERT) Jojo dumping Sandra Dewi’s character was only partnered with a soothing flute and no dialog at all.

And do they really need to make Tio Pakusadewo look like Jules Winnfield? I mean, look at the man. He’s bad ass as it is. The swearing was funny at first, but there were too many of ‘em and it just wasn’t funny at the end.

I really, really tried to like Quickie Express, but I have problems with the movie that made me cringe. Why? Because we’ve made better movies before. If only they spent more times on developing the characters and not half baked the whole thing, it would be interesting.

Rating :

4.5

Watched it where?
Blitz Megaplex Pacific Place (Awesome place btw)

Any snag(s) while watching?
None is it me or the chair isn’t really comfortable?

Many people didn’t like the first movie because it is not ‘Oscar quality’. Well, the same can be said about its sequel and people really should start to realize that a fun movie is still a good movie.

I can only assume that the purpose of the movie is to attract interest on American history with its audience. That would pretty much explain why it is a Disney movie and, like the first movie, they marry it with several popular theory on Lincoln’s death to make it more enticing.

This time the main character’s adventure on finding the treasure took him to places and made him do things that would make the first movie looked like a cake walk. Nicolas Cage portrays Ben Gates with his usual suave and aloofness and Diane Kruger is uberly hot in this movie.

It is pretty much a good action adventure movie and I think it is better than the first in the action part. If you are a fan of the first movie, the second one will definitely not disappoint you.

Rating:

7.5

A friend of mine was playing a sound track from Azumanga Daioh and I thought it would make an interesting ring tone. I thought I’d share it with everyone.

I use this one for my default ring tone. The song’s title is Shin Gakki 3 (New kid in Japanese?) in the OST. The song is light hearted but, like the characters in the anime, the melody have this ‘empty headed’ persona in it. But it is still a catchy-happy melody and makes a great ring tone.

I’ve up’ed the volume and the file is a 128 kbit, 44100 hz sample MP3 file. You can get it here. Shin Gakki 3

And for the SMS ring tone, the anime’s bumper was wonderful. Short and catchy.

The file is a 16 bit PCM with 44100 hz sample. You can get the file here. Azumanga Daioh’s Bumper

Watched it where?
Taman Anggrek XXI

Any snag(s) while watching?
The subtitle is incoherent

It has been a while since I throughly enjoyed a Chinese movie. After Hong Kong’s return to PRC, most Chinese movies are either sappy love stories or mediocre, high on CG kung fu movies. Sometimes the movie were so convoluted, it looks like a Confusiunistic gibberish. But movies like Fearless (By far, Jet Li’s best IMO) and The Banquet changed all that. And now, we have The Warlords as a sign of Eastern cinema’s return.

The story revolves around three people pledging a blood pact to become brothers and this movie show case their rise and fall. Their relationship and each character’s demeanor somehow mimics the main characters in Kentaro Miura’s Berserk. Like Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro’s character is a partial of Guts’s and Jet Li’s character is unmistakably portrays Griffith’s coldness and unbridled lust for power. In fact Xu Jinglei’s character can be compared to Caska’s character only less butchy and more ‘easy’ (slutty).

The first hour and a half, you will be treated with what could or probably is the most powerful visuals of war in the eastern cinema history. The director’s choice to use minimalist color and using a considerably realistic fight scenes, made the battles gruesome and fantastic at the same time. And through out the movie, the character’s faces weren’t polished and they show their crevices and it created a sense of dreariness and tangible reality on the screens. And the three actor’s portrayal on screen is top notch.

To a lot of people, the ending might seem like another Confusiunistic squabble but I think, considering the other movies, the ending wasn’t overly symbolic and I understood the moral epic of the whole movie. From the start to the end, the movie was a joy to watch.

A superb and I’m sure will be remembered as one of the greatest post ‘97 Chinese speaking movie.

Rating:

9.0

I have been wrong before and I accepts it as part of my path of becoming a more mature man. I often pride my self with several successful conjecture and I learned from many misses. But when I made a prediction at the beginning of this year on my past post about our internet connection, I really didn’t think that I was going to be so grossly wrong.

Yet I can not be so happier to be so exorbitantly wrong. I am in euphoria!

So it was your usual Friday Night and it was no different like no other. I went to bed around midnight and woke up at 2AM Saturday the 1st of September. I couldn’t sleep for some reason, so I thought I would watch something on my computer. When I turned on the monitor, my Torrent client was on and for some strange reason, my 256 kbps internet (around 30 KB/s) connection was doing 100 KB/s. I was so dumbstruck, I wiped my eyes several times and it was still doing 100 KB/s.

Then it hit me. Read the rest of this entry »

Watched it where?
Taman Anggrek XXI

Any snag(s) while watching?
None

This year has been an interesting year for me. My life took a great turn, Internet gotten better and I got a great job. But there are also things that were a disappointment for me. One of them is this movie.

How I knew about this movie was pretty much like how I knew 300. The novel has an interesting plot so I would assume it would make a great movie. Then again, the novel had a pretty nihilistic ending and I don’t think it would fare well with contemporary viewers. So I already knew that the ending, or even the entire movie won’t be true to the novel. At the very least I hoped it would be an interesting survival movie.

The story revolves around Robert Neville’s daily life with his dog, Sam. It has been 3 years since he last saw a human being and so his noggin isn’t working like it use to. At first, it was interesting till it started to drag. There were action and suspense here and there, but I don’t think it was enough to call it a thriller movie.

Maybe it was a rush job because in I Am Legend there were so many scenes that seemed illogical (Ok, who set up that trap?). I waited through out the movie till something interesting happened, and when it did, the movie ends abruptly.

I mean seriously.

The movie was so flat, at the end credit I shouted “That’s it?” and then check my watch in disbelief. I waited something to move me and it never came. The novel was titled I Am Legend because the main character kick major ass! For this movie, it was for a very boring reason.

Wanna have a fun scary movie? Watch 30 Days of Nights instead.

Ratings:

6.5

The Kingdom Review

Watched it where?
Taman Anggrek XXI

Any snag(s) while watching?
None

With the advent of globalization, how people interact with other culture has become the norm. But for a movie that shows both culture and the story shows the character in a tolerance and mutual respect between two intermingling culture is not a norm. So far, there has been only two movies: The first one is The Last Samurai and the second one is this movie.

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