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Film

Assault on Wall Street, why did I watch this?

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Currently on Netflix is another Uwe Boll film Assault on Wall Street. I didn’t realise it was a Uwe Boll film when I started watching it, as I generally stay away from his films as they are generally very poor and the guy is not a very good director. I understand why he makes films, because he is making money, a million here, a million there. Not the huge amounts like Hollywood, but he obviously gets by and makes more than enough to support his habit of producing these bad movies.

The film starts off in a sombre way as the main characters wife who works on Wall Street is not very well, the acting is not half bad, however she looks very well on the outside you would also think if she had a brain tumour, it would actually appear on the charts instead of what appears to be a very healthy scan! Then 15 minutes into the film the black guy tells his joke where you clearly see the burger complete on the left side of the plate, then when the camera returns in the same breath the burger is suddenly no longer looking like a burger but a clean cut sandwich on the right side of the plate.

Do you think anyone will notice my burger sandwich switch! Hey Uwe Boll did you see? Maybe he should of gone to spec-savers, wait a minute didn’t I have glasses?

Filmed in 2013, But set under the Bush Government which sets the film between 2001 to 2009 I kept wondering if the tech is right for the era. I couldn’t see any other faults with the film in tech terms, but I didn’t look hard enough. As it goes I thought this was one of Boll’s better films. Surprisingly the overture music was a nice accompaniment, however there is too much filler, lots of cut-scenes of New York, too much play on thinking.

Dominic Purcell who plays the main character Jim Baxford seems lost and doesn’t do anything until the last 20 minutes of the movie. You seem him go insane after his wife commits suicide, loosing all hope and then deciding to investigate the people who lost his money in his investments. I realised I failed to mention that a guy who is struggling to get by has investments on Wall Street.

Why he looks at his laptop and wonders where the fuck is his money? … Mr Boll, I am fucking bored with my investigation into Wall Street, can I go insane on your movie now?
I had this sniper rifle in my closet, is this a typical American thing or what!! Time for me to go insane!

When I thought we were going to get serious, he begins to do target practice, then he coldly murders a few people leading upto.

V for Vendetta inspired me! Or was that Mr Boll?

So he goes insane on Wall Street, wanting to take out the bad guys? But who are they, in fact he is mostly killing innocent people, making him the bad guy in the end. I really didn’t see any point about this film. I felt like I wasted my time watching it! And I leave you with one thought.

“Hey I am John Conner from Terminator 2, don’t you wish I could go back in time to terminate this shitty film before it even happens!”
TV

DareDevil Netflix review

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DareDevil on Netflix

The first two episodes I watched when DareDevil was first released didn’t seem to suck me in so well, so I left it alone until this weekend where I have just watched the rest of season one, which was only 13 episodes. Still that’s a lot of TV for me this weekend!

It wasn’t till after episode five when I was really sucked in by the characters, the Devil himself was portrayed by Charlie Cox who I felt was an excellent choice. His dark, grimey, slightly sick look played well into the character and he built the role up for a final showdown which wasn’t that offensive.

Offensive in a way in which Marvel’s Agents of Shield went all soppy, (you only need to ask me why I say that). But that show has gone down hill in my opinion.

However with DareDevil the show stayed on par to a high tempo and excellent character plots. The best being the bad guy, and generally the bad guy does do the best acting. Vincent D’Onofrio was perfect for Wilson Fisk (aka Kingpin), his big frame, on screen presence and some exceptional acting should surely earn him an award. It’s not often you feel for someone who is mentally ill in a disturbing way, but in understanding how Fisk came to be, was in essence the core for the whole of season one.

There are similarities with other shows such as DC’s Arrow. “This city is sick and needs saving!” to a very dark Gotham feel, where the city is drained of all hope. A dark ally, a fight scene, a chase, a save. There is a, been there, done that approach to DareDevil although it does hold it’s own. It’s just a feeling of copying what works. And it does work.

The approach and story throughout is gripping, so I shouldn’t say much more and spoil it for others. But I recommend the show for others.

TV

Has Scorpion stung it’self?

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I’ve been watching the TV show Scorpion in which a group of nerds save the world and so-forth! The show evolves around Walter O’Brian for which the show is based on and he is played by Elyes Gabel, who’s acting skills are dodgy at times. I don’t know how much O’Brian is involved with the show, the storylines and concepts but a lot of times the character seems big-headed and there is a big tone of self-promotion!

In one episode a character from NCIS: Los Angeles popped up putting it in the same universe as NCIS and Hawaii Five-O programs. But even those shows are better than this one and it didn’t help the cause.

There seems to be a multitude of sins created in every episode, the first being is the heavy use of Windows 8 by one of the best hackers on the planet? (I highly suspect this is to do with an advertising agreement with Microsoft Corp.) I haven’t seen any use of any Linux systems which are far more secure than Windows. Even their programming skills are brought into question. For those who even dabble in coding who have worked with C++ or Basic might be a bit lost in the hacker talk on the show. Did they even ask for help from any expects? And why would you send a hacker with no basic training into the field up against people holding AK47s? The answer is, you wouldn’t, the whole team of Scorpion should of received some form of training before going into the field.

The last episode I watched this morning was “Once Bitten, Twice Die” seemed to stupid to comprehend. How can someone with 197 IQ not make a simple phone call of “We need an antidote for this snake poison!” Gabel’s performance was suspect yet again and the only actor I can give any credit too has to be Katharine McPhee who plays Paige Dineen. I like her because she is very attractive, but also because she has very good on-screen chemistry.

Never-the-less, is this geek TV gone too far?

Football

Kane got his debut goal. (England 4 – 0 Lithuania)

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For those that don’t me, I am a Tottenham Hotspur supporter and was looking forward to seeing our top player Harry Kane start. However Roy Hodgson didn’t start with Kane but instead with Rooney and Welbeck up front. I was very disappointed at this, although England started brightly they seemed to peter out and let Lithuania play. In the second half it seemed mediocre although some nice plays and one very good save from the Lithuanian goalkeeper Arlauskis. Then on the 70th minute mark, Kane came on and scored in 80 seconds on his debut.

Now that’s not bad going, can’t wait to see if he starts against Italy now.

spam, Technology

Has Viber been comprimised?

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If you don’t know what Viber is, it is an application for mobile phones that lets you speak and communicate with your friends without the cost. There are a couple of other applications like this one being WhatsApp, which I do use. But what concerns me is the fact that Viber sent me two text messages today and phoned me twice asking me too activate my account.

I don’t even have an account with them! Why should I activate something I don’t have. I went online to read some of the information about Viber and what I found interesting is that they copy all your contacts information from your mobile straight to their website.

I found this post interesting: http://haydenjames.io/i-refuse-to-sign-up-for-viber-heres-why/

The second thing that came to mind is why, maybe one of my contacts has Viber or maybe their data has been comprimised. If you think that peoples contact information is being transferred to their servers and someone has hacked into the Viber servers thats a fair amount of information and could prove useful in the wrong hands.

There is something not right about Viber at the moment and it concerns me. Maybe it should concern other people too.

Malware, web

premier-league-lives.net is not a safe website to visit.

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Some websites have already said they have visited the website and it’s safe. Well I don’t agree, it’s probably very unsafe.

First thing first, read their disclaimer at the bottom and they tell you…

DISCLAIMER : None of the videos are hosted by this site. Streams hosted from sites like veetle,Mips,Veemi are embedded here. This site is not responsible for the legality of the content. For legal issues, please contact appropriate media file owners/hosters.

There for they are allowing content into their website which in turn is not being vetted and they are not taking responsibility. This allows anyone to embed anything they want. It you went there today and try to watch the Tottenham vs West Ham game. You will descover that the match playing, appearing live, but with ads on top the the screen shot. These ads are all malware.

Telling you your software is out of date and needs updating, these are all false. By all means you can listen to the commentry, but I sugest for a website which is going to allow these embedded videos I would move this domain into the blacklist.

Personal

The Fire and the old guy

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Last year the old boy upstairs fell asleep smoking a cigarette, not good! As the horse-hair chair he was sitting in went up in flames. His flat burned and was gutted by the fire. He isn’t directly above me thank god, but there was a girl above me who was pregnant at the time. She was in shock.

I was out in the street opposite my place looking at the flames appear in the window, I got out my phone and started to record the event.

There is talk on the news about cutting the services, that there isn’t enough police, fire fighters, ambulances. But in my road there was three fire engines and one more round the corner. Six police cars and two ambulances. There was even a helicopter that airlifted the old boy to the hospital.

What I didn’t really know about this guy, who’s name is Steve, is that people told me he isn’t a very nice person. He seemed okay to me when I first moved to the area, but here is the story.

He use to work for the church as an organist and from some reports I heard that he is gay. That he was interested in the young boys in the church. And he drank about a pint of gin a day. This guy is in his late 70s and he had boys over who were in their 20s!! One guy, who has been in and out of prison came over regularly to him.

What he did upstairs was his own business, but then I heard this one guy would constantly abuse the old man, beat him up, steal all his money and his pension money.

This led Steve down this dark path, only to loose his memory among other graces and now he sits in a care home not knowing who he is and he still gets visited by this kid. Who most likely has other motives than caring for him.

The couple who lived directly above me said he would leave the gas on, his place was filthy and there was bed bugs! I really wouldn’t want him back here so that never happens again.

This all happened in April last year, in December the young couple now have a baby girl and the guy told me in December they aren’t returning to their flat, soon as all the works are done by the insurance company they will sell the place.

I am sitting here now with one guy working on the front door, which the one of the fire fighters did a fair bit of damage too, even know none of the fire touch my place!

I just hope the old guy doesn’t return and the council use some common sense.