Jan Ole Peek

BF2: Mine and Mine 2

Even if you don’t play Battlefield 2 you’ll still enjoy these movies. Created entirely in the game and using some hilarious sound tracks and voice overs from such comedies as Monty Python, these are truly entertaining. The first one is quite a bit funnier than the second one, so I actually suggest you watch Mine 2 first and leave the best for last.

Real Life Simpsons Intro

This is really funny. It’s a video remake of the Simpsons intro clip. That’s right; real people acting out the actions that happen in the cartoon. It’s quite well done even though the actors could have looked a little more like the Simpsons, but I suspect that this was a rather low budget project.

Cranky Geeks

John C. Dvorak has a new talkshow on Digital Life TV entitled “Cranky Geeks”.

The format should be familiar — John’s the host, and with three additional cranky guests, they debate the technology issues of the day.

Check out the pilot episode here.

Obeying the Speed Limit

The story is this. A group of college students got together and decided to hold I-285 traffic to the posted speed limit (55). (I-285 makes a complete circle around Atlanta.) The Atlanta Journal quotes a spokesman for the DOT as saying that if the students weren’t blocking emergency vehicles and were going the speed limit, “they didn’t do a thing wrong.� He added, “In Atlanta… we expect the people going 75 to move over so the people going 95 can have the right of way.�

Definitely take the time to watch this video.

Superbowl Commercials

Many of us here in Canada, who were not lucky enough to have some sort of access to satellite TV, missed out on all the cool superbowl commercials aired on the American TV stations. However, iFilm was nice enough to post them all right here. Make sure you have time for at least half an hour because there is a shit ton of them. I’ve posted a few of my favourites below.

Lord of War

I just finished watching the moviesmovie Lord of War. I must say, I quite enjoyed it. Nicholas Cage portraits an arms dealer and the story is told from his perspective, recounting past events. It’s entertaining and has a morale to the story. The credits show the top 5 arms dealers in the world, which incidentally happen to be the 5 permanent members of the UN security council. Hmmm.

This film charts the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa, selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s, where he forms a business partnership with an African warlord and his psychotic son. The film also charts his relationship through the years with his younger brother, his marriage to a famous model, his relentless pursuit by a determined federal agent and his inner demons that sway between his drive for success and the immorality of what he does.

I highly recommend watching this movie, it’s worth the $5 of rental, or maybe even the price of the DVD.

[rate 4.5]