An alternate title to this post would be:

The shit of a movie that is Max Payne.

It is an extremely boring movie. I think we can classify boring movies as the worst type of movie ever.
Because, for a movie that is super shitty bad, there’s at least some entertainment value from laughing our asses off at the stupidity of the writer, director, actors, or whoever’s involved in the production. But for the incredibly boring movie, you have to sit through a dreaded 1 and a half hours. Even a time that short felt like 3 hours.

Why is Max Payne an extremely boring movie?

It revolves around a typical hero who’s faced a great injustice. In this case, his whole family got murdered. That made Payne a brooding detective bent on getting revenge on whoever’s responsible. Usually, when this happens, the protagonist becomes all superpowered (or at least supermotivated) and goes on a kick ass rampage. That would at least be decent enough for me.

But not for Max Payne… the movie is slow in trying to discover who the bad guy really is. Revelations aren’t at all dramatic. The effects, while cool, are totally spent unecessarily and at pointless occasions.

If I’d remember correctly, the Max Payne game is one of the pioneers of in-game bullet time.

But here in the movie, the only bullet time action we get is a cheap crappy shot of him doing some sort of back flip and shooting the bad guy in the most unrealistic way. Or that’s the only one I can remember from the super boring movie.

I’ve been warned not to waste my money on this movie. And I’ve read almost in every trusted website that the movie sucks. But I had to see it for myself, didn’t I? Oh well.

Olga Kurylenko and Milla Kunis. Two reasons that might list Max Payne as a watchable movie. But then again, it’s too boring to be watchable.

If it weren’t for the Natasha character, one might consider putting a gun to his head and blowing his brains off halfway through he dreaded movie. She’s the one from Hitman, and will appear again in James Bond’s new film. Pretty much the same character throughout these movies. Who knows what she’ll play in Quantum of Solace.

Then there’s her in-movie sister, played by Mila Kunis. I thought she looked familiar. I watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall quite recently, and it’s the same actress. And then I realised she was that irritating girl from 70s show. Also, she played Meg in family guy. Why did she suddenly get hot? The answer is plastic surgery. Yup.

Even so, the characters are so weak, and pointless. Including Payne’s own character. Poor Marky Mark, first the Happening. Now Max Pain.

Don’t watch it. Save your money for something else.

Think back to the old days when you have restricted bandwidth, restricted online time, super slow speeds… Sure, the material on the net isn’t as cool and dynamic as they are now. But didn’t you spend a great deal of time READING, rather than watching pointless videos, looking at pointless pictures, skipping whatever text that comes with it? Hell, you would even download the TEXT because you won’t want to spend the time online. You know that if you do that, you will slowly deplete your monthly online time limit.

Look at what unlimited bandwidth and online time has done to us. I’ll tell you what its done to me. I took everything for granted. When ‘mighty’ Starhub got complacent and started doing maintenance (which means downtime for the users) in the middle of the day, I found myself to be completely useless without the net. I can’t look for resources, tutorials, inspiration, all that. I realise that there seem to be very little I can do, offline.

When I scour the net, I didn’t really READ the content. I know they’re good content, which is why I bookmarked them. It’s become a habit. I have this folder tab on my Firefox bookmark toolbar, which I call Articles. Anything useful, interesting or beneficial I found on the net, (mostly through my RSS feeds), I drag and drop the tab into that folder, thinking that I’ll read them later.

In the case of resources and tutorials, I thought I’ll store them first so I can come back, download and then try them out. But no… the list piles up. It kept getting bigger and bigger. I see an interesting article,I bookmark it, and then I forget it.

See the scrollbar. This is only the list I’ve compiled since I bought this laptop. I exported the list I had on my computer before I formatted. That list still remained unvisited.

I think I should stop reading in the new feeds and learn from whatever sites I’ve already bookmarked. If I can just put in one good practice per day… Imagine how great it’d be after say, 30 days. And I definitely have more than 30 tips/resources pages.

I bookmark pages, or websites that are related to webdesign, graphic design, video, filming, freelance, client management, page rankings. Anything that I plan to incorporate into Suadref Studios. Hmmm… Damn my procrastinating brain.

Behold! A maiden post from the Unix computer. Notice I used the word Unix more than the name of the OS, which is Ubuntu. This is because Buntu means ‘brain dead’ in malay. Which makes Ubuntu meaning You are brain dead. Just note that when I say Unix, I generally mean Ubuntu. Coz that’s the only Unix distro I’m pretty familiar with.

Ok let’s start the list. Those of you who are of higher prowess over this OS may laugh at my lay-man’s interpretation of this quite misunderstood OS. So laugh on, I don’t care. This is MY review. And I don’t just mean the Bogaman. There are some Unix crazies in my class as well.

Number One: No restarts.

Well, minimum, at least. Most installation goes through without the need of a restart. It’s quite refreshing. Seeing how windows ALWAYS ask you to restart, after messing with your registry and all that. I don’t fully comprehend the Unix way of installation. But I know that it’s mostly unzipping and involves a small set up. Then you’re good to go.

Two: Full Customisability

One person’s Unix will look very much different from another person’s, assuming they both know how to customise. Otherwise, it’ll be that slightly off orange themed desktop. I’m not talking about customising graphics only (although that’s the only thing I know how to do now), but I’m talking customising how every single thing works in your computer.

Three: GRAPHICS!

And a big number three this is. Graphics, yes… when you just installed this OS, it’ll be a simple orange themed desktop. But damn can you turn it into anything you can ever imagine! It may even look like something out of the movies. This is because it’ll fully utilise your graphics card. No matter how weak it is. Windows will use your graphics card only when you’re using graphic heavy software or games. Otherwise, the card sits there rather quietly.

Suadref Studios, Linuxified

Four: Quite stable.

Unix, the one I have installed and customised, seem to be performing exceptionally well. It hasn’t crashed a single time since I had it on, and I’ve played around on it quite mercilessly, to the best of my ruthlessness. Hmm. By that I mean running the OS with so many windows open spanning several desktops… I had so many windows open running so many shits that I lost track of them. It’s also partly because I’m not too familiar yet with the navigation and managing windows back then. But a few days on the OS quickly fixed that. Well, so far, so good.

Five: Desktop… no, DESKTOPS

You’re not restricted to one desktop, or workspace, to say it more accurately. And then you can switch around them with style.

Six: Free Applications

Many many free applications. They’re all rather useful, or at least interesting. I haven’t got much yet, but Buoh is a nice comic reader. Especially good old newspaper comics. However, I still prefer to go to the webcomic page to read webcomics. Buoh is still good to read favourites like Sherman’s Lagoon, Garfield or Wizard of Id.

And you can actually browse through what applications you want to download, like an e-shop, except its free.

Overall Review:

Ok, after saying all those cool stuff about Unix, here’s what I generally think about this OS. (at this point of time, anyways)

It’s a great OS for the average computer user. If you’re using the computer to surf net, use web apps, and use Mircrosoft Office, you can quickly get comfortable with Unix. Or if you’re just using the computer to watch movies, listen to music or any other multimedia, Unix has no problems doing all that stuff.

Which is why I’m putting this comp in the other room for everyone else to use. At the same time, they’ll all be impressed with all that graphic customisations made.

I use it also of course, when I’m just surfing or watching stuff.

But when it comes to work, or my line of work, I’m still more comfortable to work in Windows, even though it irritates me (especially VISTA) with its random crashes.

I know there’s Wine. It’s an application to help run Windows’ applications fully on Unix. But I’m just lazy to explore that alternative. I’ve reached a new comfort level with Unix now, and I’d like to stay here for a while before exploring some more.

So in conclusion, you should all give Unix a try, only if you know how to customise the shits outta Unix. It’ll be cool.

Ok, it’s finally done. Welcome to Suadref Studios, White Edition. I’ve been planning a revamp since God knows when. Now, I STILL HAVEN’T DONE IT! But! I’ve changed the colour scheme for this website. I’m pretty sick of black now. Dark designs… broody look… supposed elegance… Sick of all that.

So now here’s something simple, white, bright and hopefully cheerful enough. It’s not too flashy, so maybe cheerful isn’t the word. But anyways, most of the stuff remains the same, just a different container to hold it in.

I’m currently also embarking on a band website, which will hopefully play a vital role in their marketing, and at the same time, put this little venture up on a bigger dish for all to see. Details will be revealed as the site, and the band, gets more content.

Lastly, below are some Header Images I’ve used over the years. I don’t wanna delete them, brings back some memories, ya know. Thought I’ll just put em here…

School’s out, but I’ve been quite occupied with web design projects. I really wanted to do a revamp of suadref studios, especially since the code I used in this site is written when I’m still learning CSS & XHTML. When I look at the code, I couldn’t remember which part is for what.

I hate coding, but markup codings I can handle, a bit. So, I tweaked around the design a bit, and check out the alternative suadref studios home page. White actually looks good eh?

However, this won’t be the revamped look. I still haven’t figured out how to re-make this site to be more umm.. modern.

White Concept, in consideration.

Current Dark Concept

Also, I’ve finally installed Ubuntu. And with a GREAT deal of help from Ram, I’ve managed to pimp it up to such a high level, I blow myself away every time i boot up the system!

My desktop, halfway thru pimping. It looks a hell lot sweeter now.

This post is written to remind me to elaborate on these two topics. My update frequency has been really going down. Well, stay tuned for the pimped up Unix details and my web endeavours!