Wednesday, 30. April 2008, 05:13:48
Movies, Me, Everyday life, reviews
The worst thing about being ill is that it's so damn boring. I generally don't watch much TV, but when I am ill I usually watch a lot of junk TV, and I hate it.
So this time I decided to do things differently. Reading makes my headache worse, so I have watched DVDs instead. Five of them until now to be precise.
First I saw "Blinkende Lygter" ("Flickering Lights"), a Danish movie about four small gangsters from Copenhagen who trick a gangster boss: They take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. It's a comedy; basically about the hope that can grow out of desperation. A very cool movie. If you can get your hands on it, you should watch it. And it comes with English subtitles as well. 
Then I saw "Blades of Glory".
It is about two rival Olympic ice skaters who were stripped of their gold medals and permanently banned from men's single competition. However they discover a loophole that will allow them to qualify as a pairs team.
A comedy, non-committal but entertaining.
"Hitch" was up next. A romantic comedy where Will Smith plays a "date-doctor", who knows what works with women and teaches the guys who do not do well with them some tricks of the trade. Then he finds a girl who he falls for and everything that he thinks he knows does not work out for himself. I like this movie - in fact I think Will Smith plays better in this one than in most of his action movies.
I have a DVD called "Pixar Short Films Collection, vol. 1", which I also watched yesterday.
Pixar has made so many cool short films. The latest ones are their best if you ask me, and the "For The Birds"-film from the photo here is my favourite.
(I just Googled it, and some of the small birds have actually got names: Bully, Chipper, Snob and Neurotic. It suits them very well! 
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The last one I saw yesterday was "The Green Mile". There are so many positive things I could write about this film, but basically it is a story about the lives of guards on death row leading up to the execution of a giant black man accused of child murder and rape, who has the power of faith healing. I absolutely love this film, as I loved the book. An extra bonus about seeing the movie instead of reading the book is actor David Morse. I love him in this movie! 
So... apart from sleeping and blogging, this is pretty much what I have been doing the last two days. 
Wednesday, 15. August 2007, 04:03:30
Everyday life, Denmark, News
Today is the first day where a new Danish law against smoking in public building takes effect.
Basically the law means that smoking is forbidden in all public buildings, all workplaces including the private ones, schools and institutions, sports centres and all public transportation. There are some exeptions to this law, for instance is it possible for the owner of a bar smaller than 40 m2 to allow smoking there.
There has been a lot of debate about this law. Basically I find it good when people debate things, but the problem with these discussions are that they tend to get too emotional. The law is made to protect the non-smokers against passive smoking, it is not made to annoy the smokers as much as possible. There has been demonstrations against the law (basically by the bar guests) and there has been collected signatures against it as well.
The latest argument against the law is that it will cause more violence. Yes, you read it right. There is going to be more violence when people can't smoke inside. How? Well - when people aren't allowed to smoke in the buildings, they will go outside to smoke, right? And most fights start outside, right? And the more people outside, the more there are to fight, right?
No. Try to look at it the other way around. The more people on the streets, the better. I believe that crowds actually prevents violence.
So come on. Try to accept the fact that he law is made to protect non-smokers against the smoke.
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