The Girl Who Played With Fire (Movie review)

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Movie Synopsis:

The Girl Who Played with Fire(Flickan Som Lekte Med Elden)2009NR129 minutes

Tech expert Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) becomes the prime suspect when two journalists, including Dag Svensson (Hans Christian Thulin), die afterMillennium magazine publisher Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) launches an exposé of the Swedish sex trade. In Part 2 of the trilogy based on the action novels of Stieg Larsson, the vampiric Salander vanishes as Blomkvist digs deep into a possible conspiracy.




REVIEW: 5 of 5 stars

An amazing film, just as good as the 1st part, will watch 3rd part tomorrow. The character development in this satisfies those who complained of it lacking before, I can't wait now to watch part 3. The acting is so realistic, the dialogue & actions so credible, I felt like a voyeur. Lisbeth is much more likable and understandable after this one. I hope they end up together in the 3rd one, because it's clear they care about each other quite a bit. This one didn't leave many, if any, loose ends, though one should see part 1 before this, to understand where these characters are at & what is driving them forward. A bit more gore & blood, violence & cruelty in this 2nd part. There came a time that I thought Lisbeth was dead, but knowing a 3rd part was coming I also knew it wasn't possible, or hoped it wasn't anyway. Despite subtitles, they never slowed down my comprehension of this movie, & time flew by with 2+ hours seeming like 30 minutes. I highly recommend this!

Bag of Bones (Movie Review)

Bag of Bones is a Stephen King novel made into a better movie than most of his works have been. One thing you must know going in is that this movie, on netflix streaming anyway, is a TWO-PART two episode film, each roughly 85 minutes long. Called a mini-series, is misleading in that this is just a two part film, not a series. At 1st I was upset because I didn't know it was in 2 parts, then didn't know if 2nd part finished or another season was planned. So for those wondering, the 2nd part ends the story, everyone gets what they deserve except one, and most plot holes are sealed. There were some issues of credibility sprinkled throughout, but overall this was one of the better King screen adaptations. I didn't like the commercial break edits & wish they would just remove those before releasing a film this way. I'd read the book long enough ago that this was new to me again, I think other reviewers have read it more recently & so were disappointed, not I. This was well acted by all involved, an amazing cast who fit perfectly into their roles & balanced each other well. Definitely worth watching & better than most other King books made movies. However, skip the 1st 5 minutes of the 2nd episode, it is exactly the same as the 1st episode to the point I wasn't sure it was a new episode at all. Enjoy.

Things That Make Me Want to Buy a Beretta 9mm

The classic 92FS Beretta, the Centurion variant with 4 1/4 inch barrel and slide, down from the standard 5 inch Government size of the regular M9 type 92 

[fits and my hand perfectly]

[UPDATED 2-27-12]


Inspired by I Hate Children's blog about Things That Make Me Want To Down a 12-Pack, I decided to start working on a list that makes me consider becoming homicidal. I've always wanted a Beretta 9mm--it fits my hand perfectly of all the guns I've held, it feels made for me (and no I don't know if it was the Walther or not--another trip to the gun store is due perhaps?). However, there are just too many people, on a daily basis it seems, that would be too easy to put a cap in their brain case. Fear of prison and losing all natural law based morals keeps me from buying one because I know I would never just lock it away for protection, no I'd take it out, stroke and caress it while fantasizing about capping a few sons-a-bitches.


I came close to killing a few times, all damned pathetic really. Let's see if I can enumerate these occasions without looking like an idiot, probably not but maybe you'll get a laugh or two (or a nightmare or three):


* About 20 or so, I was in a bar in Dania Beach Hollywood FL, and drunk off my ass as was usual back then. I lived upstairs and my daily meal was the happy hour hot dog bar. Sipping a beer and playing 9-ball on the bar pool tables for free drinks (I was a pool shark and made a living at it, when I wasn't dancing or bartending that is), right before last call, had some drunk guy hanging all over me thinking he was getting invited upstairs to my room (Ha! I ain't telling!), it was around Xmas and I was depressed about my Dad being a prick. I asked the guy how much he would charge me to kill someone. He said, "You're drunk and crazy". Yep. I said, "I'll pay you $500 to kill my father for me". He laughed his ass off and decided he'd had enough beer for one night, and left. I was too drunk to realize that $500 would NOT have paid his round trip plane fare to where my Dad lived, never mind be worth the trouble and risk. Sigh...


* Another time I got into a bar fight with some whore and over some low life guy to make it worse. I wanted to kick her ass real bad, but I figured she could whoop me, so I sat there fantasizing about the 9mm that I'd handled the day before at a friend's house, how good it felt in my hand, perfect weight and balance, as well as how her brains would look all over the jerk off guy's face. While I was day dreaming, at night, she was outside smashing my car's windshield with a baseball bat. When the cops later asked if I'd seen who did it, I said yes, HER! And she got arrested & had to pay restitution. I didn't see her do it, I just KNEW it was her (well I couldn't shoot her now could I? it's the least I could do, right? Besides it was HER, I just know it).


* I caught a guy screwing around on me, named Charlie, the one that "got away" (I didn't marry him, about the only one I didn't marry that I lived with, forget knowing how to date or anything like that). We often got into knock down drag out fights, trading punches, until the neighbors called the cops who came & tore us apart to calm us down. Never ended up arrested for it or anything. I was a drunk, so was he, and about the only time I felt brave enough to confront him about anything (I was a brown noser yes woman back then--I know how to say no & confront people these days, lest you think me easy sport based on this shit) was when we were wasted falling down drunk. So one night he was sitting in the passenger seat of my car, after I'd left him over the "other woman", but really just wanted him to come to his senses and come back to me. He wouldn't. So sitting in my 1977 Mercury Montego one night, me behind the wheel, him in passenger seat, me crying & begging him to stop seeing the woman, him saying no way, I reached under my seat where I'd started carrying a machete (just in case, right?) and pulled it out. Charlie laughed in my face, "You ain't going to do anything with that, just put it away before you hurt yourself" he says. In a fury of wanting him dead, yet NOT wanting him dead, I aimed for his heart, and instead stabbed the leather bucket seat of my car to the right of his heart about 15 times to the hilt (it was sticking out the back of the seat each time). He was a brave sumbitch, he kept laughing! I just cried and gave up. I could not hurt him, despite wanting him dead, I guess I just didn't have it in me to kill in cold blood, even though his laughing would have made a great defense in court, I am sure.


I've come closer to being killed, than I have to killing anyone else, but that doesn't mean I don't WANT to kill, it just means I'm a chicken shit or maybe that I'm smarter than I thought? Or prison and being someone's bitch REALLY scares me MORE than wanting them dead. I'll have to think on that one.


I'll be adding to this list, but for now the above serves as notice. You don't want to mess with the now grown up, smarter, mostly sober (or at least not drunk in a decade) near sighted me. I just might go and get that gun, you never know...people snap all the time over the littlest things, right?

 nifty pair of matched Beretta 9mm replica pistols 

(they’re cigarette lighters--safest kind for me)

THINGS THAT MAKE ME WANT TO BUY A 9MM BERETTA PISTOL:


+ Loud ass smokers & drunks who don't realize their voices carry for miles up here in the hicks, keeping me up all damned night til 3am with their stupid ass drunk bullshit right across the street from my bedroom window (& no I can't switch rooms, sure wish I could).

+ Snow plows that drive by at all hours of the day & night plowing when there's no damned snow! Yet when there IS snow, are nowhere to be found. Here's a video from 2-27-2012 to illustrate why I'm better off NOT buying that gun: 

+ People who lie when it's as easy to tell the truth, but especially men who lie when pursuing sex and claiming it's a relationship they want--just be fucking honest to start with, works better that way.


+ Anyone in a relationship with a musician or other performance artist who believe they have a right to change that person or make them give up their dream. Those people have destroyed so much that I could easily see myself...POW...POW...right between the eyes.


+ Anyone who harms children, animals and women, why not just get rid of their genes right from the get go & wipe them from the earth?


+ Telemarketers, Police Benevolent association bullshit, bill collectors calling me all the time for someone ELSE & not correcting the phone number because they think I'm that person, I want a shock treatment added to phones for those calls, just push a button and ZAP they go away.

+ Charities that collect money or especially donated goods that they then pocket for themselves (like the local domestic violence running under the name of a Catholic charity & not regulated by the NYS Attorney General, so they can't get in trouble for stealing from the one's who truly need the microwave or set of plates these people making a salary off the victims, take in their place). I can't name names, since they aren't regulated but my 1st amendment rights are & can get violated much easier.


+ Bush--every second he breathed as leader of the so-called free world, whew it's a damn good thing I didn't ever get that gun, nor know how to stalk & track down such a skank. I feel similar about Obama now that he lied to us, but I know he will be out of that white house sooner than I could learn to shoot a gun accurately, lucky man, lol. Did I mention I hate liars? Good. Felt the same way about Howard Dean getting all of us suckers to donate our last dollars in many cases, promising he would not quit, then quitting after of course spending all OUR money.


+ The state of Maine Portland city DA's office for letting a 3+ time felony loser, rapist & multiple assaulter of women (me being one of them), go with house arrest when the law said he was due maximum repeat offender felony time. Worse, she was a woman & I told her to her face I hoped her daughter was next on his list, but then again, that would be incest, right? (See how pissed I still am?)

+ That Pizza Hut made their awesome Buffalo Chicken Wings too hot for me to eat & don't offer a mild version. Same goes for Red Lobster's appetizer Lobster Rolls, and the fact that there is no pizza, chinese, italian or any other kind of food delivery service within 15 miles of where I moved to last summer (bum fuck Upstate NY).


+ Hmm, went from serious stuff to what one might consider frivolous, but you go without dinner delivery when you don't feel like cooking, every night for 8 months & we'll see how you fare, alright? ;-)


+ More to come as a new asshole is born every second...and as long as I write about them here, that keeps them safe from me ever buying a Beretta since then there would be evidence, and I'm hopefully not that stupid, but one never knows, that's why I DON'T buy a gun. I could always buy the bullets though...


[Took me a week to come up with that list, luckily I don't get drunk any more so rarely fantasize about doing such stupid shit...rarely though, no one is perfect]

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer movie review

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Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
You rated this movie: 3 of 5 stars

For it's day, this was ground breaking, now it's just creepy scary, not horror gore filled fest we've become used to. In fact, the characters drive the story more than the action does which is why some considered it "boring", but it's anything BUT boring especially for those whose brains work well. What makes this horrid is how little emotion Henry has, and how little empathy Otis & Henry have for human beings at all. As for the gore, well most of the dead bodies were obviously still alive with blinking eyelashes, pulsing throat veins & breathing while playing dead, so that ruined quite a bit of it for me. The most grisly scene & sounds were the worst part of it, was Henry chopping Otis up in the tub. Also the end shocked me although where else did I think this could go? Certainly not to a horse farm to live happily ever after. Don't get the cult following status of this movie really, but to each his own. Not worth buying, not renting either, wait for a rainy snowy day & catch on cable.

Review: Death Metal: A Documentary

Death Metal: A Documentary

You rated this movie: 3

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Audio quality was poor, video decent, however the editing a 5th grader could do better. About 6 full length music video performances, though a few were chopped about 2/3 in, the interviews were chopped in middle of answering too often, the last 20 minutes was 1st an ad for Dirt Bags (with worst acting ever seen) then 10 minutes of Grimoire Girls modeling. I'd rather have seen some of band members near nude, than the women, where's out eye candy? I had hoped to find answers to define the grunting of death metal, but less than 2 minutes spent on that so the one thing that truly sets death metal apart wasn't really addressed at all. Most of the musicians stated how technical & difficult death metal is to perform, but why didn't they focus on the vocal part which is at least half the equation? I enjoyed the man interviewees answers & perspectives, love the metal music itself but am not a fan of the grunting & had hoped to understand that aspect after 98 minutes.

Review of There Will Be Blood

There Will Be Blood

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I found this movie through a recommend by Aaron Bruno of awolnation (band) who said it was life changing, inspiring & one of the best in recent years, he was half right--it's one of the best, not life changing or musically inspiring (to me anyway). I'm glad I rented this one, well worth the money & time, will definitely recommend this to others. Extremely haunting, very weird ending I hated nearly ruined it for me---no I won't ruin it for you, it's still worth watching. Cinematography is incredible, the score I'd love to buy on CD, the story so real, you can almost smell the oil & smoke. Violent, greedy, cunning, not at all sexual nor language issues, so mature teens could see it, some blood & cringe worthy death scenes, characterizations spot on, just a fantastic film I may have to watch again, it's THAT good, enough to buy it as a keeper.