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Most of you will have already seen this. But it's just too cool not to have seen. Kudos to the man who came up with this idea.

One of my photos was featured on the Bokehh.com in their post about Notre Dame in Paris. Just scrolling through all the great photos on this page, I'm amazed that they wanted mine up there too (mines the one marked AltecApollyon) It was a secret favourite of mine, since I felt that Notre Dame is always photographed in the same way, and wanted to do something different and felt that I had. I guess someone else thought so as well. It's not nearly on par with the others...so anyways: I'm flattered.

Bokehh.com is a photography page trying to make a contribution to artists by highlighting their talents and introducing their works, its also meant as a platform for inspiration for others.

Unfortunately, so much time has passed that most people have watched these movies or watched them pass. So I am going to make this as quick as I possibly can.

First of all, Terminator Salvation (because its the one I saw first). I wouldn't have actually left my house to see this, but I was invited by a couple friends and it seemed like a fun night out (regardless of which movie we were going to see). The trailer for 'Salvation' made the film look gritty, and very Fallout 3 like (ie. end of the world, everything is rumble and destroyed...desolate) And I was liking that - but I knew there was something foul about it.

So to quickly recap why this movie completely and utterly SUCKS: this terminator film has NO time travel - something which is a key element to the other terminator films, and its what sets the terminator films apart from other sci-fi robot films (but I'll get to that in a sec). Also, aparently its not so desolate afterall, as there are hundreds of humans being rounded up - heck they are popping up everywhere in every scene! So much for nuclear holocaust. There's also these NEW terminators, that are pretty much Transformers, they are so big and even have little Terminators that spin out of them that look like motorcycles. (WHAT THE HECK?!)

The useless and boring story finally brings the characters to Skynet HQ - which looks a lot like Mordor (big tower with a light on top and all!) there's big talk about how dangerous it is, and how they aren't going to get it. But then they simply walk right on in (even typing 'DISENGAGE' to a door to open it) and don't get any resistance! Then theres a completely useless scene where Sam Worthington talks to the über-computer, but denies his programming (that was super lame, because that's where he should have become the terminator) but instead we get a weightlifter with Arnie's face digitally grafted on to it (why?!) although that last scene running from the slow digi-Arnie is about as close as we get to a Terminator movie. *sigh* what crap. Why Christian Bale ever agreed to do this movie, is far far far far beyond me.

Secondly we have Transformers : The Revenge of the Fallen. Now, to be fair, Michael Bay was complaining up and down that Terminator Salvation was stealing ideas adding practically Transformers into their movie and he's probably right - but boy did he get them back, with the introduction of a humanlike transformer that tries to seduce Sam Witwicky in his dorm room. hmmm, Terminator 3 anyone? Geez, cry me a river Bay - who do you think you are? Oh, you're the guy who spent $200 million making this movie? Oh. Apart from the not-so-hidden racism and over the top American patriotism theres still so much gunk in this movie its embarrassing!

Think about the first scene with Megan Fox, lying on the motorcycle, (there are so many more of these shots of her in this film its like watching Michael Bay's voyeur video collection. She's painting the motorcycle upside-down. What the?!?! I'm not going to list all the scenes, but also at the end, when shes running around in the sand all dressed in white, I wanted to just get up and leave. But I didnt, because I had paid 18 british pounds to see this steaming stink pile in the IMAX (which was so shaking and hard to watch it made some seriously motion sick.

The worst still has to be the 20min at the end of military garbage that we had to sit through- full of military-jargon and crap just so Mr.Bay could show off once again how tight he is with the American Army...I can't believe that Steven Spielburg put his name anywhere near this movie.

The only thing good about these movies was the computer graphics, good job ILM.