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Last Updated on Saturday, 29 May 2010 05:06
Written by minch
Saturday, 29 May 2010 05:05
SMEx has finally gone International! Thirteen of us took a trip to London to watch Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time at the giant IMAX screen, listed as the biggest screen in the United Kingdom. It was big, and the cinema is designed to get you even closer to the screen. Watching a movie on this screen made Colosseum look like a postage stamp 
Obviously the trip wasn’t just a flight in and out to see the movie (unless you were Dutch), but most people took the time to have an extended break. Most of us met up on Friday afternoon at the hotel and promptly all left for a walk thought Hyde Park since the weather was so nice. It was mid 20s and sunny. We ended up at the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain, in which luckily enough for the big kids (Jeremy and myself), you are allowed to walk, so we cooled off in the fountain itself. After some more walking and thinking we weren’t going to find anywhere we ended up at a nice restaurant for dinner and then moved onto a pub later.
Day 2 was the day of the movie. In the morning people we doing various things but we all met up at the London Eye at 12.30pm. Not all of us made it to this meet point due to transport delays though. From here we headed to The Borough Market near London Bridge station, on the advice of Andy, and this market didn’t disappoint. Many different types of food to try for lunch! From here we all took a walk along the Thames to the IMAX cinema. At this point we were only missing two people who were were hoping to meet at the cinema. Due to delays with the London underground Lissy and Tommy didn’t make it to the cinema, and thought they would be stuck with tickets to a movie they couldn’t see, but due to some quick talking, and luck we managed to scalp their two tickets to a nice couple who enjoyed the great seats at the discount group rate! After the movie we headed out to watch some soccer match a couple of people thought was important, but I don’t remember what that was, then on out to a couple more places… day 2 over
The next couple of days was a mixture of shopping, sightseeing and eating. Highlights were: Rodizio Rico, which is an all you can eat Brazilian BBQ restaurant, and wow that was a lot of good food. Maharani which is an Indian restaurant in Soho where the food was just amazing and plentiful. Madame Tussauds, Tower of London, Tower Bridge, London Eye, British Museum, Imperial War Museum, Science Museum, Natural History Museum, Oxford Street shopping, Buckingham Palace where a lucky few even got to see The Queen, and the list goes on and on! All in all it was a great trip with great friends with just fantastic weather. It could not have gone better if we had planned it! I’m looking forward to the next trip already!
Check out some of the pictures here
Tags: Action, disney, International, London, Persia | Posted under News | 2 Comments
Last Updated on Monday, 31 August 2009 09:46
Written by Jeremy
Wednesday, 26 August 2009 02:13
On yet another not so sunny Sunday afternoon we met at Cafe Barbera for what promised to be an exciting SMEx. Our numbers were decimated by Illness and indifference towards Quentin Tarantino, meaning a turnout of nowhere near as many people as I expected.
I was a little apprehensive when going into this movie, I had known for a while it was going to be a difficult one for me. Being filmed with mostly German and French, I was going to have to use my limited knowledge of the Norwegian language to read subtitles to follow the plot. This was probably the thing which surprised me the most, the fact I could follow the plot!
The movie itself was not very surprising. I had been looking forward to seeing Inglourious Basterds for a while, with Tarantino apparently taking more than a decade to write the script I had high expectations. It turned out to be a very typical Tarantino movie, there was a very welcome dose of humor, gratuitous violence and some very stylish scenes and artistic shots.
The story follows the Basterds in their quest to rid France of the Nazi’s and all the way through to their attempt to end WWII. Inglourious Basterds shares a lot of the same satirical undertones with an old Kubrick classic and this film has some of the most original and funny characters i’ve seen in a war film since Full Metal Jacket. With Christoph Waltz‘s portrayal of the Jew hunter stealing the show for me personally, but with Brad Pitt and the other Basterds giving excellent performances too.
If I have to fault Tarantino, it feels like he has fallen into a rut and is maybe too stuck on the past. This film had the overuse of old style chaptering and sectioning like we saw in Kill Bill, along with the old fashioned techniques which could be found in Grindhouse (Death Proof)… and of course his trademark of dramatic music pieces out of place during the middle of a scene made a comeback. While I know he is always paying homage to filming techniques which he used to love as a child, it would be nice to have him shake up his style and produce something completely different. Maybe his talent is making arty films which get accepted by the mainstream but it would be nice to see him try something else, just to see if he could.
Don’t get me wrong though, its a very small blemish on what is otherwise a excellent movie. I’ve already watched it again with English subtitles to pick up on what I missed the first time round and I still thoroughly enjoyed it. With this probably being one of the last major releases of the Norwegian summer schedule, I have to look back and say that we’ve done really well, with a string of high quality movies with only a few piles of turd in between!
Tags: Action, beer, comedy, Quentin Tarantino, WWII | Posted under Reviews | 4 Comments
Last Updated on Monday, 29 June 2009 12:52
Written by minch
Monday, 29 June 2009 12:52
This was one movie a lot of people had been waiting for, and because of that they just couldn’t wait until Sunday. Therefore we had an unusually low turn out for a blockbuster movie of only seven people. Still the weather is nice and warm in Oslo here which is great, when you’re outside, but Norwegian buildings don’t handle the heat too well, and I was a little worried it was going to be a sweat box inside the cinema. Luckily I had chosen to goto Colosseum which has a high dome roof, which I’m sure helped keep the heat away from us. I had heard horror stories of how hot it was inside the brand new Ringen cinema, oh well it’s only a few weeks of heat here in Norway so I can’t complain.
So down to the movie. After watching it I was shocked at the split between the attendees, some hated it, some loved it. I of course loved it as I grew up with the original Transformers cartoon. If I was to say something negative about the movie it was that unlike the first Transformers movie it didn’t have any references to the original cartoon that I could see. These throw backs were part of the charm of the original movie.
So what was this movie about:
- Transforming robots
- Transforming robots fighting
- Transforming robots transforming while fighting
- Feeling like a kid again watching your toys fighting up on the big screen
- Megan Fox’s lack of clothes and pouty lips
I mean I don’t know what the people who didn’t like this movie were thinking. Plot? Why is that important in this type of movie? I mean seriously, it a movie based on toys! And since when did the imagination of a child playing with transforming robots on his lounge room floor ever make sense? It’s all about the toys themselves people! Watching them go at it on the screen made me smile like a little kid again. Now I just got to go out and get me one of these!
Did I mention the fight scenes yet? Well the fight scenes were just awesome, with some new settings that I didn’t expect, that just enhanced the movie.
There seems to be Australians popping up everywhere now days and in this movie it was Isabel Lucas’ turn. A former Home and Away “actress”, and well she used all of her Home and Away acting skills in this role, but luckily not many were needed so she managed to pull it off, but then I’m sure almost anyone could have
Another important fact is we have the first photos published on the site since March 1st. Sorry all I had was my phone camera in a dark room but it’s better than nothing. I’ve heard rumor that the missing photos have made it from Espen’s camera to his hard drive, now he just has to upload them, get uploading Espen!
On a final note it was Jason’s last SMEx as he’s back off home to Canada shortly. Cheers and good luck!
To summarise, if you want to be a big kid, love transforming robots and want see Megan Fox in some skimpy clothes this is the movie for you.
Hoff says: “I wish my beach Toyota Hilux would have transformed too!”
Tags: Action, autobots, decepticons, kid, robots, transforming | Posted under Reviews | 5 Comments