Likes: DVD's, Videogames, Movies, The female of the species, Silence, Good Music, Oreo McFlurry's, Sprite, Doritos, The Evil Dead Trilogy, Bruce Campbell, Sam Raimi, Kevin Smith, James Cameron, David Fincher, PTA, QT, Darren Aronofsky, Kirsten Dunst, Claire Forlani, Natalie Portman, Anyone named Jennifer, Anything with breasts.
Fucking hates:
DVD prices in Malaysia, Food prices in Malaysia, Malaysia, People who don't appreciate the art of watching movies, Bad music, Talking, Being cheated on, How i always go broke by the end of every month, Idiots who take what i say on this site too seriously, Psycho female stalkers, My psycho ex girlfriend, The worst movie of all time: The Ice Cream Man.
All the posts are chronologically ordered. The most recent posts appear at the very top of the page. So if you want to read the posts in any given day in the correct time order, just start reading from the bottom up and it'll all make sense.
Hey, how come the date's wrong? It's one day ahead sometimes!
Well, this'll usually happen if you live in the States or Canada or any other far off Western countries. Keep in mind that i live in Asia and there's a big time difference. For example, if you live in the States and check out this site on Monday night, it's already Tuesday morning where i am. I don't really know how this time zone thing really works but what i do know is that i live in the GMT +08:00 time zone right now. So yeah. Do the math.
Can i help you write posts for the site?
No. Unless you have breasts. Or if i let you.
Will you please link to my site?
I most probably will provided you link me back ON YOUR MAIN PAGE AND NOT SOME CRAPPY LINKS PAGE. I'll also have to think that your site is good too. If i don't like it, i won't link it. Any inactive sites will have their link taken off at my discretion.
Hey uh... you got any buttons that i can link to?
Yeah but they suck.
You're right. They do suck. But who made that second one though? I like that second one.
Yeah i made the first one. And yes it does suck. Thess made that second one for me. And just on that principle, it doesn't suck. Which is probably why you like it.
So you got any other non funky colored, non sucky buttons that i can use?
Of course. But i'm telling ya, they ain't exactly eye candy...
Hey, i requested a link from you but you never did link me!
First, i'll only link you if you link me! And second, if i just don't happen to like your site enough to link you, i'd be most happy to just plug you in one of my posts. It's the next best thing. Although i have no idea why you'd want me to link/plug your site seeing that it probably won't generate much traffic for you. After all, this is only a small 'underground' site.
You are an asshole.
I know.
So asshole. What are your main interests?
Two (2) things. Movies and videogames. I'm really a hardcore vidgamer. I own about 300+ Playstation games and about 95+ Dreamcast games. In addition to that, i also own an N64, Sega Saturn, Sega Genesis, Sega Megadrive, Sega Master System, Sega Genesis CDX, SNES, NES, Gameboy Pocket and the grandaddy of them all, an Atari 800. I pretty much like all kinds of movies. I am fucking nuts about DVD'S. My most favorite directors include Sam Raimi, James Cameron, Peter Jackson, David Fincher, Kevin Smith, The Wachowski Brothers, The Coen Brothers and Paul Thomas Anderson among others. So expect me to write about games and movies alot on this site.
And oh. I also like women with breasts the size of Australia.
I like you. You can come over to my house and fuck my sister.
Sometimes i get lazy. Sometimes i'll just post a reply to your e-mail in my posts. Sometimes i might even post up your whole e-mail on the site and give you a reply in that particular post. I don't post up e-mails all the time though. So if you're worried about me posting up your 'private' e-mails to me, well... don't. I do respect your privacy. Anyway, don't fret, just know that i do check my e-mail everyday and if i don't get back to you sooner... it'll most probably be later.
I read your site. You're so full of yourself.
A misconception a lot people may have. I admit, i may seem full of myself on this site. Or full of (sh)it as some people might say but you gotta realize that it's all an act. Call it my 'online personality' if you may. I'm very different in real life. Almost a complete 180 degree turn from how i am on my site. You'd be surprised.
Oh. And if you're wondering, no, i'm not fucking schizo.
Okay. So i'm not supposed to take it all seriously then right?
Exactly. But by all means, take whatever you feel to be serious seriously... but keep in mind that i like to write about stuff with tongue firmly planted in cheek (read: tongue in cheek). I draw a very thin line between seriousness and jokes. A lot of people fail to see that line. I really fucking hope you can differentiate what's to be taken seriously and what's to be taken as a joke.
Um. Just wondering but, what the hell is <3? I see you write that in your posts sometimes. Help me out and tell me wtf <3 is?
Tilt your head to the right and you'll see what vaguely resembles a heart. In effect, it means love. Like, for example, i <3 Thess. Got it?
Waitaminute... who exactly the fuck are you?
Oh yeah. My name's Justin. My online 'handle' is usually Psykotik.
Haha. You spelt Psychotic wrong!
I know you ass. I just like how i spelt it as 'P.s.y.k.o.t.i.k'. And besides, it looks cooler that way. And if i had a dollar for everytime someone says "Hey! Nice name Psykotik!" whenever i enter chat rooms...
Okay...uhm...psyckotic. Whatever.
It amuses me to great lengths at how other people can't ever seem to spell that name right at the top of their heads.
Hey. This is isn't really like one of those run of the mill, stereotypical faq sections is it? In fact, i don't even think that this should be called a 'faq section'!
Uh... yeah... now that you mention it. It's not really a faq section per say... but what the hell, at least it still gives you a little insight about myself and the site. And besides, you're not even really asking me 'questions' yourself. This is, after all, supposed to where YOU are asking ME questions. But then again, 'you' aren't really real and i am just making this all up as i go along. Anyway, who the fuck cares if this isn't really a faq section. Most people just come here for the porn anyway! They're probably not even reading this!
You're right.
I always am.
Are you really like what your nick is?
Psykot... err... Psychotic? No. Only sometimes though. But even then, it's all usually just an act.
How would you describe yourself really?
Aloof.
What?
Go away.
Uh... okay. Anyway, everything on your site is true right?
Basically.
Are you lying?
Not really.
I don't like you.
To each his own i say. But seriously, yeah, everything on my site is basically true... coming from my point of view that is. It is my site after all. So yeah... basically it's true... basically...
Okay. You know... i think i do like you. You are cool.
Of course i am.
Awfully smug aren't you?
Yeah.
An act i presume?
Yeah.
Okay.
Okayyy.
Hmm mm mmm...
*clears throat*
*crickets chirping*
...
*howling wolf*
... *wonders what Kirsten Dunst looks like naked*
So anyway...
*perks up* Yeah..?
This faq section isn't funny
Sad isn't it?
Anything else you wanna say?
Go read the rest of the fucking site. And stop reading this faq section. This faq section sucks.
In other news, i found out where Kip lives and i'll be sending some of my cronies to snatch those precious View Askew DVD's off of him sometime in the near future.
I also found out where Zil's lives in England. But she's not in England right now and she doesn't have anything that i want. So yeah, lucky her.
And the hits just keep on comin - 5:09am July 24 2001
Farting roommate went to Singapore over the past weekend. He bought a coupla DVD for himself. He also bought me a coupla replacement DVD's for the DVD's that Stephanie borrowed off of me (which subsequently got stolen hence him having to replace them).
Long story. But to cut it short, i lent her 5 DVD's.
Men In Black Limited Edition
Cast Away
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Pulp Fiction
and um... some other DVD that escapes my mind at the moment
Anyway, she put em all in her little handbag thing on the day she was gonna return them and as luck would have it, her bag got stolen after she'd left it unattended next to some vending machine or something. I duno. Something like that anyway.
So yeah, 5 DVD's gone. That about RM$850+/- worth of DVD's right there. Which is ridiculous considering the fact that all of them combined would probably cost less that US$125 in the States.
So anyway, farting roommate replaced the first 3 movies. He could get the last two. And i can't even remember what the last one was supposed to be.
You'd probably expected me to be freaked about when i heard that Stephanie lost my DVD's but in all honesty, i wasn't even the slightest bit mad or anything. These things happen i guess. Well, he bought the replacement DVD's for about 50 Singapore bucks each. Which roughly equates to about US$25 anyway. So yeah, he saved himself quite a bit by getting em over there.
Anyway, he got himself 3 DVD's while he was there.
The Replacements (no pun intented)
Miss Congeniality
A Few Good Men: Special Edition
I didn't really care for the first two but i wouldn't mind owning for myself A Few Good Men. I'd actually never watched it before and i finally only got around to watching it 2 nights ago. Of course i'd seen trailers of it over the years and i'm very well aware of the famous Jack Nicholson "YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!" monologue but prior to watching it that night, i hadn't a single clue as to what the movie was about.
It's actually a pretty funny movie. I found myself amused quite a number of times throughout the whole thing. Tom Cruise is hilarious. Not to say that the movie's a comedy or anything, it's actually a courtroom drama (for those of you don't already know). But it does have it's funny laugh out loud moments.
I was actually surprised by that.
But anyway, it's a good movie and a fairly loaded DVD. Not as loaded as the Charlie's Angels or In The Line Of Fire (other Special Edition Columbia Tristar DVD's that i own) DVD's but still, it's a good movie to have in anybody's collection.
Monday, July 23, 2001
Book - 7:55pm July 23 2001
I seriously seriously SERIOUSLY WANTthis book.
Bad.
Saturday, July 21, 2001
BOOTLEGGED VCD'S/DVD'S - 4:46am July 21 2001
Somehow i knew i was gonna get e-mails asking me about those bootleg VCD screen caps that i posted up a coupla days ago:
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To: webmaster@psykotik.zzn.com
Subject: dvd goodness
From: Jason Kress jkress@arnoldcom.com
Date: Thu, Jul 19 2001 12:36:31 PM -0400
Hey man, I saw your site (don't ask me how I got to it) but anyways, I am getting into VCD making and saw that you have some knowledge of it. All I have to offer is maybe some of my DVD's to give once I know how to do it. I have roughly 650 divid's to trade or what not so hooks me up with some knowledge. Also, I hate asking this, but could ya give me some info on aquiring some bootlegs too. My girlfriend was in the fast and the furious (crowd shot) and I wanna make her a boot.
p.s. Check out the site, maybe we can get together and share ideas (you'll see the info on the site)
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To: webmaster@psykotik.zzn.com
Subject: Help
From: "Jose Castillo" chonie_1@msn.com
Date: Thu, Jul 19 2001 5:50:56 PM -0700
Hello, I know we don't even know each other but I was just on your site and really liked it. Like I was saying I know we don't know each other but I wanted to ask you a favor. I have been searching high and low on the internet for bootleg vcds, like the Jurrasic Park 3 you have. I currently buy them from a guy I work with but he charges twenty dollars a movie so it can get kind of pricey. He claims he gets them from a guy who works in a wherehouse that ships out the movies from the U.S. to Asia just before they are released in theaters. I know that these movies are traded and downloaded off of the web but for the life of me I can't find a legit site. So I was wondering if you could just point me in the right direction. I have asked others but everyone seems to not know anything about bootleg VCDs when asked, and I can totally understand where they are coming from. So if you could tell me where to go or at least point me in the right direction I would really appreciate it, if not thanks for taking the time to read my email.
Thanks, Jose Castillo
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Okay, first of all, for those of you who don't know, i'm currently living in Asia. Also known as the Bootleg Central of the world. Where it's REALLY REALLY EASY to get bootlegs of whatever movie that was just released. On either VCD or DVD. Like... REALLY EASY.
Like yesterday, i went to the mall and i actually saw Final Fantasy on DVD. Hell, i even saw Jurassic Park 3 on DVD. I personally own both JP3 and FF on VCD. But more on that later.
Anyway, i'm just gonna go all out right now and spill the beans about everything that i know concerning the world of bootleg VCD's/DVD's. I'm not really quite sure if i'll be answering youze guys' questions or not but hey, maybe you'll learn something you didn't know.
Like i said earlier, it's really easy to get bootlegged VCD's over here. You can get em practically anywhere. I usually just get mine off from these car boot sales where these guys literally sell them VCD's from out of the boot of their cars (illegally of course). They park em some place and set up a big folding table just next to their cars and put out all the movies that they have in 'stock' out on display on that said table. They also sell porno VCD's but that's another story The porno's are usually kept out of view black plastic bags. Ask for em and the guy'll show you what they've got. Regardless of your age.
You can also get bootlegged VCD's from certain stores in certain malls but for most of the part, the car boot sales are more popular. And cheaper too.
BOOTLEGGED VCD's usually cost around RM$6 - RM$10 (depending on where you get em). ORIGINAL VCD's would set you back around RM$16 - RM$30 (usually found in legit stores in malls).
BOOTLEGGED DVD's, however, cost around RM$18 - RM$20. ORIGINAL DVD's can cost anywhere from RM$59 - RM$250 (ridiculous but true).
You can pretty much get ALL the latest movies on VCD. Fast. Like JP3 for example. I bought that movie a full 3 days before it was even officially released in theaters (!). I usually prefer getting my bootlegs from car boot sales instead of malls. They're cheaper and the guys selling em usaully tend to cut you good deals. Normally, they'd charge you around RM$6 per movie. But if you were to buy more than one, they tend to charge you less.
For example, i bought JP3, FF, TFATF and Tomb Raider for RM$20 at 5 bucks a movie (which is roughly about a buck and a half in USD a piece). Generally, the more you buy the less they charge you. And if you're a regular customer, they might charge you even lesser by giving you 'special discounts'. Or whatever.
Porno VCD's cost RM$10. Porno DVD's cost RM$40. The one's on VCD are usually just VHS/DVD transfers. All pirated. I've never seen original porno's being sold here in Malaysia.
I'm not too sure what the USD to RM exchange rate is but i think it's somewhere around US$1 : RM$4.
So yeah, one VCD would roughly set you back about a buck and a half US currency.
The audio visual aspects of the bootlegged VCD's themselves (e.g. JP3, Tomb Raider) vary in quality. Some are very good (JP3, good sound/picture), some are just okay (Kiss Of The Dragon, sound and picture not so hot) and some are just unwatchable (bad picture, bad sound, audio not in sync with video etc etc).
I'm not exactly TOO sure how these bootleggers get the movies onto VCD so fast but this is my take on the whole thing. Some guy with a hidden video camera probably gets into a sneak preview showing of the movie and tapes the whole thing. The tape gets out they and send it to Asia where they dupe and mass produce them as VCD's. Complete with made up covers and everything.
Something like that.
Probably.
I dunno.
Original VCD's, for most of the part, are alright. No problems with the audio and video. They're basically the VCD equivalent of original VHS releases. Although they cost up to five times more than bootlegs.
But with the advent of DVD's, pirates have started duping DVD movies onto VCD's now. But don't be fooled though, the VCD duped DVD's don't have ANY extras. It's just the DVD movie with VCD quality audio and video.
The problem with bootlegged VCD's though is that most of them usually have Malay and/or Chinese subtitles on them. Take a look at the Final Fantasy VCD screenshot below (scroll down). Crummy subtitles. In fact, all the movies that i bought down there have subs. And you can't turn them off.
As for the VCD duped DVD's, they're usually duped and burned onto VCD with the subtitles ON. Again, there's no way you can turn them off.
I have no idea what it is with Asia and subtitles.
I personally don't mind subtitles OR subtitled movies but yeah, preferably, i like watching my movies WITHOUT subtitles.
For a bit more information about bootlegged VCD's you might wanna check out these olderposts. Just scroll down till you hit the screenshots. They're hard to miss.
Bootleg DVD's. They usually cost around RM$18 - RM$20. And the same rule applies. Buy more, pay less. Nowadays, you can get all the latest releases on DVD. I was at the mall yesterday and i saw JP3, Final Fantasy, Evolution, Tomb Raider, Pearl Harbor, Atlantis, Driven and some more other new movies... all on DVD.
Mind you though, they're not exactly the official DVD releases of the said movies. Or even bootlegs of the official DVD releases. I mean, come on, those movies just came out. The official DVD releases are MONTHS away. In actual fact, they're just the clearest and best copies of the bootlegged VCD versions of the movies burned onto SINGLE LAYER DVD's (DVD-5).
Pirated copies of full legit DVD releases are also available and they cost the same.
The main problem with pirated DVD's is that a majority of them come on SINGLE LAYERED DVD's (DVD-5). Common knowledge states that almost ALL legit DVD's are printed on DUAL LAYERED DVD's (DVD-9). The problem being that most pirated DVD's are hugely inferior to the legit versions. They're way cheaper but the quailty of the DVD itself suffers A LOT. Since most pirated DVD's are printed on DVD-5's, the whole movie has to be compressed even more so that it'd fit onto a the smaller DVD-5 leading to very noticable pixelation/artifacts. The sound also takes a hit and you hear the audio dropping in and out occasionally. And worst of all, due to the limited space on a SINGLE LAYERED DVD-5, most of the extras are taken out! (No commentary! No featurettes!).
You'll usually get just a trailer and whatever other small crappy extras that they could cram onto the DVD-5.
DVD-5 = Single layer. Hold around 5 Gigs of space.
DVD-9 = Dual layer. Holds around 9 Gigs of space.
Not all pirated DVD's are like that though. There are pirated DVD's that're printed on DUAL LAYERED DVD-9's but they're pretty hard to come by. But if you look hard enough, you'll find them. These DUAL LAYERED bootlegs are generally A LOT better than the SINGLE LAYERED ones and they're basically exact dupes of the original Region 1 copies of the legit DVD's. With perfect audio (no dropping out) and perfect video (no visible pixelation/artifacts). Just like the legit versions really.
But even though they're duplicated onto a DVD-9, there's still no guarantee that ALL the extras are gonna make it on there. My farting roommate of mine bought a DUAL LAYER pirated copy of Scarface on DVD hoping that it'd come with all the extras intact only to find out that all the extra were missing. Not even so much as a trailer.
But for most of the part, DUAL LAYERED pirated copies are usually perfect dupes of the originals audio and video wise. Unlike the crap SINGLE LAYERED copies with bad sound/picture and missing extras. You can usually identify DUAL LAYERED bootlegs by a round sticker that say DUAL LAYER DVD-9 on the cover.
Over here anyway.
Getting back to those bootlegged copies of Final Fantasy, JP3 etc etc on DVD. Like i said earlier, they're basically just the bootlegged VCD version transferred onto DVD. And they come complete with fake mock up 'DVD covers'listing 'features' like 'subtitles', 'Dolby 5.1' and 'DTS' sound (All BS).
As a side note, pirated DVD's don't come with the inserts that you normally get with the legit versions.
Anyway, in the case of JP3, FF, Tomb Raider, Pearl Harbor etc etc DVD's... if you're wondering, no they don't come with any extras, commentary, menus or featurettes. You do get subtitles in Malay and/or Chinese though. And no, you can't turn off the subtitles either. Despite being on DVD.
Personally, i don't really like buying pirated DVD's. I prefer getting originals. Even though they can cost up to 10 times as much over here in fucking Malaysia.
Since it's pretty easy for me to get bootlegged VCD's and DVD's and all that stuff, i've never really had to resort to going online to download or order them or whatever. So yeah, i basically have no experience whatsoever with the online world of VCD trading, downloading, ordering etc etc. So if you were to ask me to point you in the right direction as to where you can get bootleg VCD's or download bootleg movies online, i'd have to say "I don't know".
Because i have honestly no clue as to how one would go about getting movies downloaded off the web. So i'm sorry if i can't be of too much help in this department.
But i do know one thing though. I'm not sure you guys have heard of this site (you probably have) but you can order VCD's from here: www.coolvcd.com.
They're tons of other online VCD ordering sites but yeah, this is the only one that i could think of right now.
And from what i've seen of the site, they seem to be selling only ORIGINAL VCD's. And yeah, if anybody's planning to order any VCD's from them, you can rest assured that they're not ripping you off by charging ORIGINAL prices for BOOTLEGGED VCD's.
And if anybody's interested, there's this Malaysian DVD site that has this forum that i usually check out from time to time. It's full of illiterate Malaysian people who can't speak English for shit but their discussions on pirated/bootlegged DVD's are pretty interesting.
If you can understand what the hell they're actually trying to say anyway.
As for a legit movie download site, i'm sorry to say that i can't be too much of help there either. Again, being where i am, i've never really had the need to download movies off the web because i can just get em off the street. So yeah, sorry guys, i have no idea where you can find a 'legit movie download' site.
If there even is such a thing.
Here's a webcam shot of me holding up my copy of FINAL FANTASY on VCD.
See the DVD logo in red at the bottom? It says 'DVD VERSION'. Which basically means that the VCD bootleg that i have was duped from the DVD bootleg of the movie.
Newly bootlegged movies (FF, JP3 etc etc) usually come out on VCD first. The bootlegged DVD version usually comes out a few days later. The later DVD versions are generally of better quality (as good as it can get anyway) than the VCD editions that comes out first. So after a while, the pirates start duping the DVD bootlegs onto VCD.
It's like a vicious cycle. Bootleggers bootlegging bootlegs.
Trying to get the best quality bootleg onto VCD/DVD.
But remember, even though the movie is on DVD, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's DVD quality. Same goes for VCD duped DVD's.
Like the FF VCD that i have for example.
Look at the screenshots that i took from a coupla days ago. Pretty fuzzy eh? Again, like i said, bootlegs vary in audio and video quality. Look at my copy of JP3. Now that is what you can consider good quality. Not exactly crystal clear but definitely not as fuzzy as FF.
Anyway, Jason... Jose... i don't really think i've been much help and sorry if i didn't exactly answer any of your questions too well (i.e. where to go, what to do, how to get etc etc).
I guess the EASIEST way for you guys to get bootlegged movies is if you actually came down over to Asia. Not exactly what you wanna hear but that's the way it is.
Anyway, if anyone has any OTHER specific questions about bootlegs and whatnot, just... e-mail me i guess. And i'll at least TRY to answer you queries.
An e-mail and a recycled post. - 3:22am July 21 2001
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To: webmaster@psykotik.zzn.com
Subject: cool site
From: "Shawn Sokell" ssokell@home.com
Date: Thu, Jul 19 2001 8:35:38 PM -0700
Hey man,
It's rare to come across a personal site with so many good pics...keep up the good work.
Shawn
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Yes.
Anyway, i bought a coupla DVD's last night. Again. My Mallrats and Chasing Amy haven't arrived yet (sure is taking it's sweet time...) and it's been a long while since i've bought any DVD's lately (besides R+J and The Gift) so i picked up:
For Love Of The Game: Collector's Edition
The Insider
Dungeons & Dragons
Okay.
I know what you're thinking. DUNGEONS & DRAGONS??! ONE OF THE WORST MOVIES OF 2000?!
Yeah so i bought D&D. And it's no big secret how much i ABSOLUTELY HATED that movie. You can refer back the review that i posted up last year on the 12th of December. Actually no. I'm gonna reprint that post again right here. Just for the hell of it. Because unlike most of my recent posts, that post was actually good.
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Here's Dungeons & Dragons in a nutshell:
EXT. SOME COMPLETELY DIFFERENT LOCATION THAN THE LAST SCENE. DAY
Our heroes, FRESH-FACED PRETTY BOY (Justin Whalin), UPTIGHT LOVE INTEREST (Zoe McLellan), "DWARF" (some guy barely under six feet tall in a big fake beard), and JAR JAR BINKS (Marlon Wayans), are hiding behind something in an attempt to elude some evil guys.
PRETTY BOY: Boy, it's lucky we just escaped from that last situation which was severely endangering our lives because the bad guys wanted to kill us, isn't it? Let me duck my head as an arrow whizzes by, and then I shall continue my blatant exposition.
LOVE INTEREST: Yes, but now we're in this new situation, which is just as bad as, if not worse than, the last situation, and I can't believe you got me into this. In order to get out of this situation, there are first three things you must do, all of which I will outline in great detail as we try to evade capture.
"DWARF": Rarrrgh! I'm drunk!
PRETTY BOY: I could listen to your expository dialogue now, but why bother, since you'll explain it all over again in the next scene?
LOVE INTEREST: Oh, you are intolerable! Which is why I will fall in love with you eventually. But only after you've deciphered the Scroll of Scrollos, found the Jewel of Seville, and used it to locate the Rod of Dystocia, which will counter the evil wizard's Rod of Ravioli, but not for too long because if you use it for too long it'll turn you evil.
"DWARF": Rarrrgh! I'm gonna eat lots of food now! I wish I were having sex with a bearded lady! I'm funny!
JAR JAR: Meesa tinken weesa gonna dieeeeee! (screams like a little girl, hits head, and falls over).
PRETTY BOY: Now we must go on to the next scene, which will be somewhere else completely different with no explanation of how we got there.
Repeat the above scene over and over, occasionally splicing in the image of Jeremy Irons shouting pretty loudly (imagine Christopher Lloyd's Doc Brown character from Back to the Future trying to imitate a late night William Shatner commercial with an English accent, and multiply by 100) to his evil bald henchman Damodar (Bruce Payne) in inexplicably blue lipstick, and a scene or two of Thora Birch (as an Empress who resembles a Barbie doll) vainly struggling with inflection and an English accent while seemingly resembling a plank of wood with big breasts.
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Ladies and gentlemen, Dungeons & Dragons.
Anyway, i stick in the D&D DVD to check it out and spent 5 minutes just looking at the menus. I watched 3 deleted scenes and went back to the menu. I looked around some more. I watched about 10 seconds of the first of the two documentaries. And went back to the menu. I watched the first stage of the four SFX deconstruction featurettes. And went back to the menu. I listened to the first minute of the first of two commentaries. And went back to the menu.
I think i spent more time in the menu than i did actually did watching the stuff that i watched.
I don't think i'll be able to sit through ANY of it all. I have no idea why i even bought the DVD.
Anybody wanna take a barely watched Dungeons & Dragons DVD off of me? I sell it to you real cheap.
(Ha. I feel like Bence... like the time he tried selling me his Man In The Iron Mask DVD).
So anyway, after getting bored to death of D&D, i decided to watch For Love Of The Game. I'd actually not seen this movie despite it being directed from one of my most favorite directors EVER, Sam Raimi. I dunno, i think it was Kevin Costner who made me stay away from the movie. But anyway, it's a pretty good flick. Not exactly the best of Sam Raimi's mainstream movies but quite alright you know? Of all of Sam Raimi's 'serious' movies, i'd rank For Love Of The Game last under A Simple Plan and The Gift.
Of course, NOTHING can beat the Evil Dead Trilogy. NOTHING.
Darkman was pretty good. I loved that movie. I hated the sequel though and never even bothered to watch the third.
The Quick And The Dead was fucking awesome. I fucking LOVED that movie.
The FLOFG DVD's quite good. I spent the better part of the night just going through everything the disc had to offer. There's no commentary though. And no Bruce Campbell cameo either. Although Ted Raimi does get a tiny part in the movie. But it's all good anyway. Plus, Kelly Preston is hot. Will, if you're reading this, there's your new assignment. A Kelly Preston pic.
Preferably with no clothes on.
So is anybody excited about the Spiderman movie that's coming out? Spiderman is just gonna kick SO much ass. And not only that, it's practically a DREAM COME TRUE for me. I mean come on, a SAM RAIMI directed SPIDERMAN movie that has KIRSTEN DUNST in it and a cameo by BRUCE CAMPBELL?
I'm a REALLY big fan of all those names in CAPS up there.
Getting off topic: Maybe it's just me but don't you think Zoe McLellan (chick from D&D) kinda looks like Claire Danes?
Anyway, on a more personal note, i must say that while i AM happy that the site's getting 800+ hits a day, i'm not entirely too happy with the way it's been getting em. And with what the site's sort of become. Gone are the days where i actually talk about my non existent life. Nowadays all i can ever talk about is movies and girls. They're amongst some of my most favorite things in life. Especially movies. I can talk about movies ALL day EVERY day. The same goes for girls too. But not as much. The thing is... i'm just not entirely too happy with how i've been treating the opposite sex on this site. You know, with all the naked celebs and the posting up of pictures of college girls without their consent and all.
Kinda feels like i'm exploiting them somehow. Or objectifying them or whatever. Now i probably have the utmost respect for women in general. Just ask my girlfriend. It's just that i don't wanna come off seeming like some sexually deprived 'male' by posting up all that shit.
I dunno. Am i just doing it for the hits? Is it just something that my 'online personality' does for the site? It's a proven fact of (website) life that chicks = hits.
I mean, if you're a girl, you'd automatically get twice as many hits as you would than if you were guy. Maybe even more. And if you're an attractive girl with a webcam who's willing to put out a show in front of your webcam, hell, you don't even need to write posts. People would just come to your site just to look at you everyday. Multiple times.
Posting up porn can get you hits too. Just look at how successful Stile's site is.
Guys running websites generally have a harder time trying to get hits. I'm actually pretty lucky enough to get as many as i do now. They may not be much compared to the other more bigger guy sites out there but they're good enough for a 'small' site such as mine. Granted, most of the hits that i get are just clickthroughs from people searching for pictures of Katie Holmes nude and probably only 20% of the people that visit this site actually read the posts but hey, that's the price i gotta pay fot the hits i guys.
But for all intents and purposes, i don't think i've ever really posted up any nude pics right up on the site. I usually just link to them. So yeah, to my credit, even though i do have 'bad' stuff on the site, i also do give you the choice of choosing to see, or not to see, all that so called 'bad' stuff.
That's not all that's bothering me though.
Those of you who actually read my posts probably know by now about how i always have something to say about some chick being 'hot' and all that. Not just with celebrities but with the girls that i go to school with and all. What some of you might not know is that i actually do have a girlfriend. A real life three dimensional one. Hard to believe, i know, but it's true. And you know how girls can get sometimes. Sophie reads my site. I know she probably gets a bit jealous reading some of the stuff that's on here sometimes. In fact, she actually admitted to getting jealous about me <3ing Thess once. Ha.
And don't get me started about my ex girlfriend. Boy, now she ABSOLUTELY HATED this site and everything it stood for. She just could not 'get it'. No matter how many times i explained it to her. And everytime the site was brought up in a conversation, she'd just totally lose it and we'd get into arguments. Later i learnt never to mention anything pertaining to my site in front of her EVER. Heh.
So yeah, it kinda irks me somewhat having to watch what i say on the site in the interest of not hurting my girlfriend's feelings. I've told her before that most of the stuff that i say on the site is just me being 'in character' but somehow i just get the feeling that she still does get a bit jealous sometimes. She may deny it but i mean, come on, how many times can your girlfriend hear you say "Oh i think that girl is HOT" on your site before it finally gets to her?
And not only that, my MOTHER actually reads this site. It's true. MY MOM READS THIS SITE. Which in itself is a fucking scary thought. What with all the dodgy things that get posted on this site... swearing, naked women, obsessive DVD buying etc etc. For the record, she's never even once acknowledged the fact that she knows about the site much less that she read it, but I know she knows and I know she's read it. Maybe not everyday but she does stop by occasionally at least.
Frankly speaking, this site isn't exactly what a mother would be proud for a son to have. But she hasn't yet said anything about it so yeah. I guess i'm generally in the clear.
Anyway, i noticed the site being down for a coupla hours last night. Bummer. That's surely gonna affect my hit count somewhat. Oh well...
My ploy to get over 1000 hits by the end of the week by posting up 'PICTURES OF HOT ASIAN COLLEGE GIRLS' have been fruitless so far. And if 'PICTURES OF HOT ASIAN COLLEGE GIRLS' don't work, i don't know what will. Am i losing my touch?
DVD's and stuff - 4:45pm July 20 2001
Went out to the mall yesterday. Bought myself The Gift and Romeo + Juliet on DVD. And because i had ntohing else better to do, i decided to take some screen caps of Katie Holmes sans clothing (i.e. KATIE HOLMES NUDE NO CLOTHES NAKED PICS FROM THE GIFT) to amuse myself.
The DVD's themselves are pretty bare bones. R+J only has one measly trailer. The Gift has a music video, one trailer and a 10 minute featurette.
Crap DVD's, good movies.
I still haven't gotten Chasing Amy OR Mallrats yet. They still haven't arrived.
If you live in England and you see this man, please do not hesistate to rob him of the 4 DVD's that he holds in his hands. Beat him up a little and then send me an e-mail telling me that you have a) beaten him up and b) have those 4 DVD's in your possession. I will reply and give you my mailing address so that you can send those 4 DVD's to me. I will reward you with RM$1,000,000 in small, unmarked bills.
Thank you.
Thursday, July 19, 2001
WMU/Sunway College girls - 3:39am July 19 2001
Screen caps of some girls that i 'accidently' caught on video while i was out and about on campus:
The quality of the screen caps are pretty crap. But you're just gonna have to live with it i guess. These pictures don't really do any of these girls any justice. They look inifintely better in real life. In 3-D. In motion. Not in still pictures. Especially Lynn, Shu Xin and Sue.
Fucking beautiful. More so in real life.
Updated @ 6:03pm:
I was just surfing the web and for some odd reason... (no really), i tried entering Shu Xin's name into Google.com and i got directed to this page.
Wow. Looks like we have a 'celebrity' on our hands here.
Have i ever mentioned the fact that i think she's hot?
I think she's hot. HOT.
I am a lying fucking asshole - 3:02am July 19 2001
Actually no i'm not.
Not really anyway.
But let's just take a look at that sentence for a while. Literally.
Okay. First of all, assholes cannot fuck. So i cannot be a fucking asshole. And asshole can't lie either. It's not like assholes can speak or anything. So again, i cannot be a lying asshole. Much less a lying fucking asshole. Because it's just not possible for assholes to fuck and lie.
Don't mind me. I'm just bored. It's 3am in the morning and i've got nothing else better to do. So i thought i'd just amuse myself.
It's amazing how easily amused i can be sometimes.
Wednesday, July 18, 2001
It's official... - 9:33pm July 18 2001
... i like Jurassic Park 3.
So here ya go. Some pointless screen grabs for ya. I couldn't wait till tomorrow.
Spinosaurus. With the T-rex at it's feet.
Insert witty caption here.
"Hey TÈa. Nice breasts"
Funnily enough.... - 8:50pm July 18 2001
Jurassic Park 3 actually opens in theaters TODAY. July 18th.
And i've had the whole movie on VCD a full 3 days before it even hit the theaters.
That's actually kinda cool.
I'm gonna take some screen grabs from the VCD and post them up on the site tomorrow. Just for the hell of it.
On second thought... - 8:20pm July 18 2001
You know, now that i think about it... Jurassic park 3 really is quite a good movie. It's a lot better than most of the other recent summer blockbusters. It's solid, fast paced, a real thrill ride, it's got a script that's full of smart low brow dark humor, it pretends that the second movie never existed, and it's actually fun to sit through.
With Tomb Raider, i was just waiting for everything to come to and end.
But with JP3, i didn't want the movie to end. Unfortunately it did. At just over 80 minutes, JP3 is SHORT.
But nevertheless, if you liked Jumanji, then you'll really like JP3. After all, they're both from the same director. Plus, you have GOT to see that Spinosaurus vs. T-rex fight scene. Can you say 'money shot'?
It's a good scene. The Spinosaurus makes the T-rex look like a Compy in comparison.
*sigh* - 7:50pm July 18 2001
My hits have kinda dropped since i started slacking off again. I was getting around 1000+ to 1300+ hits a day around 2 weeks ago. Now it's usually just about 800+/- to 900+ a day.
Anyway, i will make it a point to try to get at least 1000 hits for at least one day before the end of this week.
Shouldn't be too hard. Not with the promise of posting up those screen grabs of the girls that i 'accidently' caught on camera yesterday.
Actually... i haven't even taken the screen grabs yet. And i don't know how many good ones i'll be able to salvage from the footage i took. But you can be sure there'll be at least 3 girls that'll be up on the site. In the next few days.
I can't guarantee that all of 'em will be as HOT as some of you are expecting them to be but i personally think they're HOT.
So yeah, i guess you'll just have to wait and see.
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"As I got out of the shower, however, someone called. A guy called Joe? I donít know anyone called Joe. Turns out he was another one of those guys that get your number, somehow, call you, and say "donít you remember me? From that party?" God they piss me off."
"Two nights ago, someone named Adi called and expected me to remember him, because he called me 4 months ago. Idiot. I just told him to stop calling me. Then he said "So, does that mean you still want to meet up with me?" I mean, how stupid do some people get? What part of ëNOí doesnít he understand?"
"As I arrived there, so did a group of about 15 guys, who took up about 3 tables, including mine. A couple of them tried feeble attempts to communicate with me, but I wasnít co-operating and remained unresponsive, so eventually they gave up. They were asking stupid questions like "Where do you live?" "Can I have your number?" Hah, I donít think so."
"This guy, who was standing next to me, continued to ask me what my name was, and where I lived and why I wasnít talking to him. Then he started touching my arm and running his foot up my leg, so I had no choice but to yell at him. "Fuck off and donít you dare even think about fucking touching me again, OK?"
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Those were excerpts of posts written by Sophie (my girlfriend) taken from the site that she posts on.
She gets hit on A LOT. Random guys just staring at her, making passes, wolf whistling, calling her up at home etc etc. I seriously have no idea how she puts up with it all.
We all love screen grabs don't we? - 6:45pm July 18 2001
I apologize for the ridiculously 11th grade English that i've been using in my recent posts. I just really can't be bothered writing properly you know? I'm dead tired, i've been busy as hell, and i just couldn't be fucked.
Anyway, in other news, there was this WMU Bronco Bash thing at school yesterday. Lots of people, lots of hot chicks too. Funnily enough, i had a video camera with me. So i took some footage of the whole thing. And funnily enough, i 'accidently' managed to take shoot some pretty good shots of some of the hotter girls here at WMU Malaysia.
In other words, i'll have some screen grabs of them hotter girls on the site in the next few days.
For those of you who're interested.
JP3 - 6:17pm July 18 2001
Finally got around to watching Jurassic Park 3. I was expecting the worst but i must say, i quite enjoyed it. It sure was a whole lot better that Tomb Raider. Goddamn that movie was bad. I gotta give it to Simon West though. He sure can direct action scenes. They were good. But really... overall, Tomb Raider was so bad. Not quite as bad as Double Dragon or Mario Bros. but still... it was bad.
Two things that i liked about Tomb Raider: The really cool 'bungee jumping' action scene and Angelina Jolie's sports bra.
That is one good sports bra.
Anyway, JP3. I like it better than the The Lost World. I liked the fact that they made a LOT of referances to the first two movies. And slightly poking fun at the second one too (because it was bad). They recycled a lot of the orginal music from the first one. I don't remember if they did the same thing with The Lost World but yeah, i noticed it a lot this time around.
Actually i don't really remember a lot about the second movie. I remember it being bad and forgettable though. That's about it.
Things i liked about JP3: Fast paced, endless set pieces, flying dinos, the number of funny comedic scenes, TÈa Leoni.
Things i didn't like about JP3: 'Talking' raptors?, slighty hokier dino fx, too short, ending too abrupt, JP4?, lots of plot holes and very implausible at times (much like Tomb Raider), wasn't directed Spielberg.
But yeah, i enjoyed JP3. Not as good as the first but definitely better than the second.
The movie i edited - 5:30pm July 18 2001
Well, the premiere of the first of the two movies that i'm edited went pretty well yesterday. It was met by roaring laughter throughout the entire thing. And of course, applause, after the whole thing ended. Since it was the best of the 4 short movies that were shown. Thanks in no small part to the editing that i did.
God, those other 3 movies REALLY SUCKED. If it wasn't the editing, it was the acting. TERRIBLE. Not to say that our movie wasn't bad... because it was. But thanks to ME, i made it better than anybody else could have. And in the end, it turned out to be the best of all the bad movies shown.
What's the movie like? Picture this: An M. Night Shyamalan directed chinese Hong Kong gangster action comedy.
Yeah that's right. That's essentially what our movie was. A Chinese movie directed by an Indian. With subtitles.
Believe it or not, he actually wanted it to be a serious action movie but God... you should have seen the acting. It was so bad, we had to change the whole thing into a comedy. And it worked pretty well too. The subtitle didn't match the onscreen dialogue (like most subtitled Hong Kong movies)
Example of badly simplified subtitled dialogue that probably wasn't even what was said:
Fat dumb henchman: "Remember when Nicholas killed that Indian dog? (Indina dog = the director of the movie (actually a cool guy)... who had a small cameo role) "Well, i just saw the witness outside with his pretty girlfriend!"
Boss: "Are you nuts?! Why didn't you chase after him?"
Fat dumb henchman: "I would have but he was with his pretty girlfriend... and i can't fight both of them!"
Boss: "Nevermind, nevermind. You don't have to fight them. Just kidnap the pretty girlfriend. And let HIM come to us."
Fat dumb henchman: "Brilliant idea boss! You are so smart!"
I can't believe that i was the one who came up with the improvised dialogue.
There was a whole running joke about how the girlfriend was ALWAYS referred to as 'the pretty girlfriend' throughout the whole movie. And that fight scene at the end was great. Everybody who saw the movie were laughing their asses off. Comedy fight scenes are always great. Ala Jackie Chan.
The movie was called Sidekicks. I strongly debated the use of that lame title but hey, who was i to say what it should be called. I'm only the editor.
It's a bad movie. But bad in a good way (pun intended). The whole concept was funny enough as it was. An Indian director who understood no Chinese making a Hong Kong 'Young and Dangerous' inspired Chinese gangster action comedy movie that had shades of Bruce Lee flicks, Saturday Night Fever, The Sixth Sense and Rocky all rolled up into one really cheesy 15 student film.
Now that is what i call a fucked up movie.
You know, it's pretty pointless for me to talk about all of this considering none of you reading will ever actually get to see it. But oh well. It's not my loss.
Maybe i'll get some screen caps from the movie and put em on the site.
