Kitty's Corner

This is the other movie I saw the day that all movies were half price here.

Abby (Katherine Heigl) is a producer of a local morning show in California. She lives with her cat in a beautiful apartment complex where she longs to meet Mr. Right. She has a checklist of things that Mr. Right is supposed to live up to, and I tell you - it's not easy for any man to live up to her standards.

To increase the number of viewers to their show, Abby's boss decides to hire Mike (Gerard Butler from "PS. I love you") who has been cultivating a following on cable access with his insight into the truth about relationships. His callous nature and unwavering ability to say exactly what is on his mind breathes life back into Abby's show despite the fear of lowering herself to the kind of television she has always disliked. She can be swayed, however, once he agrees to helping her hook up with her hunk of a neighbour, Colin (Eric Winter). I am not going to spoil the surprise by telling you how that ends.

This is a chick flick for both guys and girls. A cute little romantic comedy. I liked it, even though it was a bit predictable. If you liked "When Harry met Sally", you'll also like this movie.

out of 6.

Some of the big movies are making so much money, that it's tempting for others to try to get hands on some of them. But how do you steal movie customers?
It's easy, really. Just make a cheap film with the same theme as one of the big movies, make a DVD cover that looks pretty much the same and call your movie something similar.

I don't know if it actually works. But I know that they're at least trying. Let me give you some examples:

"The Day the Earth stopped" (The Day the Earth stood still) :

"The Little Cars" (Cars):

"The Prodigy - Kung Fu Fun" (Kung Fu Panda):

"Ratatoing" (Ratatouille):

"Snakes on a Train" (Snakes on a plane):

"Transmorphers" (Transformers):

"What's UP" (Up):

"Alien vs. Hunter" (Alien vs. Predator):

My regular readers know that I love movies. Every time I go to the cinema and watch a movie, I put a review up here on my blog.

I also watch movies on DVD though, lots of them, but I don't usually make reviews of them. Mostly because it isn't new movies, but also because that would make a hell lot of posts.

The other day I rented three movies. "Confessions of a shop-a-holic", which is just a chick flick, "The boat that rocked", which is a movie about piracy radios in the 60s. An okay movie, with lots of good and bouncy music in it. And then there was "The boy in the striped pyjamas", which was really good.

Set during World War II, a story seen through the eyes of Bruno, an eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence. The boys have a great friendship talking every day, enjoying the company. But when the father gives Bruno a Nazi propaganda loving tutor, Bruno becomes confused, is his father an evil man or is his friend the evil one? Love his country and do his duty or don't judge and just stay true to his friend? Bruno must decide all this with some scary consequences ahead of him.

It's a while ago I saw a movie that took me so much by the heart like this one. The story is told in a way that is so realistic and scary, that it frightens me that things like this has happened in the history of man! *shudders*

out of 6.
Go see it!

As some of you might know, I got a new job last year. I've had it for 9 months now, so it's kind of wrong to keep calling it a "new job"! Anyway, when I started there, I had myself a new laptop, a huge motherf*cker of a computer! They call it a multimedia centre - it plays music, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Ray. It has a built in TV-tuner - so I can watch TV on it also - which I don't.

Anyway - I hardly ever turn on my TV, not even for watching DVDs. I watch them on my "lap"top instead.

So - I went to the DVD store to buy a few movies. I found a couple of interesting ones, and then I suddenly stood by the Blu-Ray shelf, just to check what they had. I've been curious if the format is as good as they claim.

The first one I laid eyes on was "PS. I love you", a romantic movie, that is also on my top 5 list of Movies that made me cry (click link to read the list)...

The difference in price on the DVD and the Blu-Ray was DKK 100 (13.4Eur) - but since I already knew that I absolutely love this movie, I decided to buy it and check out if Blu-Ray is really worth the extra money.

So, that evening I turned on the computer, made sure that there were cold Pepsis in the fridge, and lots of Kleenex nearby. I inserted the BluRay and leaned back - only to find out that the HP QuickPlay needed an update to play the disc.
After what seemed like forever I had the update downloaded and installed. I leaned back one more time, turned up the volume, and let the movie begin.

Okay, let me say right away - the quality is better. Much much better! There's nothing blurry or not sharp at all when you're watching a movie in Blu-Ray format.

The other things I've read should be better with this format is the sound quality. In order to judge that, I'll have to compare directly - which I couldn't because I don't have this movie on DVD. But I doubt it's so evident that I'll be willing to pay extra for it. Remember that I watch it on a computer, there's nothing fancy like surround sound or something like that available for me.

The last thing that should be better, is the access to menus while watching the movie, but I couldn't see any difference in that. Whether it's the HP QuickPlayer's fault or the disc's - I do not know. But fact is that it looked exactly like when I am playing a DVD.

There was one thing, that weighed heavily on the negative side of the scale. It wasn't possible to "speed up" the movie. I could only jump from chapter to chapter, I couldn't press the "fast forward"-button. And that's a huge minus in my book!

So - all in all - I'll keep buying my movies on DVD while it's still an option. That means I can buy more for the same amount of money. :yay: