Last week, I decided to go to the cinemas to watch one of the highly-anticipated movie of the year, The Dark Knight. The cinema; GSC at Midvalley Megamall. The ticket cost RM12, pretty expensive to my liking, but hey, it's TDK. So off I go.
The advertisements went on and on for about 30 minutes. Damn, that took a while. No trailers in sight, so what the hell? I was expecting to see at least some trailers; all my previous experience had at least a couple of trailers and probably only 10 minutes of crappy ads. Do these companies pay top dollar for a slot with TDK?
Right, so the movie started. Hmm... Doesn't look that clear. Is it the particular scene? I hope so. But after some time, it's still blur. What the hell is going on? Something wrong with the reels? Fine. Give it some time.
An hour into the movie and it's still blur. 2 hours into the movie and it's blur! Bloody hell, I paid RM12 for this crap? I've seen better pirated copies online! Oh great, the movie's over. FINALLY.
Wait a tick, it doesn't end there. Why is the sound so compressed? Why are the explosions at the same level as the speech? Seriously, was the movie really made this bad? Soft visuals and highly-compressed audio?
After the movie ended, I left the theater having this empty feeling. What the fuck happened in there? Did I miss something? Was TDK really that bad? I certainly did not enjoy the movie.
Off I go, back to my house. I decided, no, this can't be true. The Dark Knight, this horrible, no way. So I went online and looked for a pirated copy. Wonderful, a very-badly recorded camera version is out. Let's see how it looks like. Lo and behold, it's ALMOST IDENTICAL! How can this be?
Not satisfied, I looked further. I found a 720p HD version of a documentary titled "Batman Unmasked: The Psychology Of The Dark Knight" by the History Channel. Downloaded it, and played it. Oh my god, the visuals are BEAUTIFUL! The audio were crispy clear and clearly distinguishable! Nowhere NEAR as tragic as my experience in GSC!
So I've come to a conclusion. GSC probably only bought a couple of master reels from the studios, and then made too many copies of the reels, thus resulting in ultra-soft, degraded, multi-generational copies, and worst yet, this is what they're showing to the masses. This is GSC trying to save a few bucks while at the same time SCREWING the Malaysian public, who unfortunately, couldn't tell the difference between a REAL cinematic experience from a butchered one.
I for one will NEVER pay the local cinemas anymore. They have conned me out of my RM12 one time too many. I would rather GIVE the money to the pirates, at least I KNOW the quality they provide, or lack thereof. Why pay so much for crap when you can get the same crap cheaper? So Malaysians, take a stand and stop giving to the cinemas and get your movies elsewhere; DVD, Bluray, or even that half-past-six low-quality broadcaster everyone's raving about.
So fuck you GSC, you have totally ruined The Dark Knight for me. You owe me RM12 and 3 hours of my life I'd never get back. I wish a Joker wannabe will come along soon and blow up your theaters. I'd pay RM12 to see that.
P.S. Wall-E must be blind. Pirated copies look better.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Friday, April 04, 2008
So I'm bored...
My Porno Name is Bonder Barney.
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Thursday, April 03, 2008
Monday, March 31, 2008
Attention Coke Haters of Malaysia
I received another chain letter crap in BM stating that Coke is not sold in Israel due to the fact that it contains some kind of chemicals that makes women lose their fertility or some shit like that.
Well what's on this page then, dumbass?
http://www.buyinisrael.com/Coca-Cola.htm
I'm not speaking on behalf of Coke, but come on people, do some research first, please! Don't be a lemming!
Well what's on this page then, dumbass?
http://www.buyinisrael.com/Coca-Cola.htm
I'm not speaking on behalf of Coke, but come on people, do some research first, please! Don't be a lemming!
Thursday, March 06, 2008
3 Easy Steps To Learn Tagalog
1. Sign up as a dubbing engineer for a tagalog-to-bm series.
2. Work with an incompetent translator.
3. Force-read tagalog hands-on to get the job done on schedule.
Might even work for other languages too.
2. Work with an incompetent translator.
3. Force-read tagalog hands-on to get the job done on schedule.
Might even work for other languages too.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Government Vet (in)Efficiency
This morning I took one of my cats, Choccy, to the government vet in Cheras. She was feeling a little under the weather; sniffing, sneezing, the works. Anyway, we got there around 9:30am, and there were hardly any patients + owners around, so on to the registration counter.
Before that, let me describe the environment a little. It looks pretty well-maintained, clean, spacious, BUT, the air is so full of germs you can fall sick in minutes. I did. After about 30 minutes of exposure, my eyes start to water and my nose started running a full tap. I'm beginning to wonder whether the animals are brought there to be cured or killed.
Anyhoo, back to the story. The tudung makcik at the counter was on the phone, talking to her family (it was obvious) and not even paying attention to us. My mom kept trying to get her attention, but she still blabbers on and on over the phone. My mom handed over our reg card, she took a look at it and put it down and continued blabbering. This took about 5 minutes before she finally decided to hang up and serve us.
She got up and went looking for our file. About a minute later, she came back, with a file, but it didn't belong to us. Although the number on our card and on the file match, it's definitely not ours. Another employee (young Indian man) came by to help out. So off we send her to look for our folder based on another card that we have (yes, we have two, blame them for giving us TWO DIFFERENT REGISTRATION NUMBERS) and came back with another file. Again, it didn't belong to us, and the number didn't even match. Apparently, they can't differentiate between 0237 and 0236.
My mom made a fuss about how often we've come by (roughly 3-4 times a year) and yet they can still misplace/lose our file! A third employee (seems like the supervisor) came over to see what happened, and asked my mom for her IC. She handed it over, they keyed in the number in the computer, and voila, NO RECORDS.
At this point, I'm already pissed, my mom's pissed, and there are a few people waiting behind us to register. To keep it simple, they decided to issue a new file with the number we have been using. 0237. Lo and behold, the Indian man WROTE THE NUMBERS WRONG. He wrote 023A(A) instead of 0237(A). Fortunately, my mom and the supervisor noticed this and told him to rewrite a new one. He was grinning like a cheshire cat.
They say they will locate the original file and it's going to take a few days. I say bullshit. There were 3 employees there, not counting the supervisor, and all they did was sit around like lazy asses. Is it THAT difficult to locate a file with a name spelled in BIG CAPITAL LETTERS? They don't have records the size of the national archives, mind you. Only 4 cabinets. I could do it in an hour!
Registration = 30 minutes.
Waiting for turn = 10 minutes.
Checkup = 5 minutes.
See the problem?
So my advice is, if you can afford it, don't go to this vet. You'll be wasting precious time and hair dealing with these inefficient idiots, although the vets themselves are very efficient. To the government, FIRE THESE PEOPLE OR TRAIN THEM PROPERLY. I've seen monkeys do better work.
PROS: Cheap (cost us RM31 for checkup, meds and vaccination), hardly anyone goes there around 9-10am, efficient vets.
CONS: Inefficient employees, unhygienic environment, no proper procedure.
P.S. I got home with a flu. Go figure.
Before that, let me describe the environment a little. It looks pretty well-maintained, clean, spacious, BUT, the air is so full of germs you can fall sick in minutes. I did. After about 30 minutes of exposure, my eyes start to water and my nose started running a full tap. I'm beginning to wonder whether the animals are brought there to be cured or killed.
Anyhoo, back to the story. The tudung makcik at the counter was on the phone, talking to her family (it was obvious) and not even paying attention to us. My mom kept trying to get her attention, but she still blabbers on and on over the phone. My mom handed over our reg card, she took a look at it and put it down and continued blabbering. This took about 5 minutes before she finally decided to hang up and serve us.
She got up and went looking for our file. About a minute later, she came back, with a file, but it didn't belong to us. Although the number on our card and on the file match, it's definitely not ours. Another employee (young Indian man) came by to help out. So off we send her to look for our folder based on another card that we have (yes, we have two, blame them for giving us TWO DIFFERENT REGISTRATION NUMBERS) and came back with another file. Again, it didn't belong to us, and the number didn't even match. Apparently, they can't differentiate between 0237 and 0236.
My mom made a fuss about how often we've come by (roughly 3-4 times a year) and yet they can still misplace/lose our file! A third employee (seems like the supervisor) came over to see what happened, and asked my mom for her IC. She handed it over, they keyed in the number in the computer, and voila, NO RECORDS.
At this point, I'm already pissed, my mom's pissed, and there are a few people waiting behind us to register. To keep it simple, they decided to issue a new file with the number we have been using. 0237. Lo and behold, the Indian man WROTE THE NUMBERS WRONG. He wrote 023A(A) instead of 0237(A). Fortunately, my mom and the supervisor noticed this and told him to rewrite a new one. He was grinning like a cheshire cat.
They say they will locate the original file and it's going to take a few days. I say bullshit. There were 3 employees there, not counting the supervisor, and all they did was sit around like lazy asses. Is it THAT difficult to locate a file with a name spelled in BIG CAPITAL LETTERS? They don't have records the size of the national archives, mind you. Only 4 cabinets. I could do it in an hour!
Registration = 30 minutes.
Waiting for turn = 10 minutes.
Checkup = 5 minutes.
See the problem?
So my advice is, if you can afford it, don't go to this vet. You'll be wasting precious time and hair dealing with these inefficient idiots, although the vets themselves are very efficient. To the government, FIRE THESE PEOPLE OR TRAIN THEM PROPERLY. I've seen monkeys do better work.
PROS: Cheap (cost us RM31 for checkup, meds and vaccination), hardly anyone goes there around 9-10am, efficient vets.
CONS: Inefficient employees, unhygienic environment, no proper procedure.
P.S. I got home with a flu. Go figure.
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Sound Designer or Sound Engineer?
1. Designer, noun, person who devises or executes designs, especially one who creates forms, structures, and patterns.
2. Engineer, noun, a person trained and skilled in the design, construction, and use of engines or machines, or in any of various branches of engineering.
Maybe I should label my self as the "Sound Design Engineer"? lol
2. Engineer, noun, a person trained and skilled in the design, construction, and use of engines or machines, or in any of various branches of engineering.
Maybe I should label my self as the "Sound Design Engineer"? lol
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