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Movie poster from Resident Evil: ApocalypseWell, I decided to watch ”Resident Evil: Apocalypse” and I don’t know what I expected but I honestly think this one was even worse than the first one. I said about the first one that the editing and the flow from scene to scene is so poor as to make it almost incomprehensible. This one is better in that respect but that makes it less car-crash fascinating.

And I am surprised by how bad the sound mixing is. Not in the way some people complain about a Christopher Nolan movie and the lack of speech intelligibility in those. This is more a lack of punch in everything. There’s this scene fairly early in ”Apocalypse” where Alice takes out some monsters with a motorbike. It’s clearly her first big hero scene in the movie. Parts of it looks cool but it sounds more like a wet fart than as a bad-ass action scene. Such a missed opportunity.

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I could go to bed now, a bit earlier than usual, and have a good nights sleep and be well rested tomorrow. Or, I could watch Resident Evil: Apocalypse.

There’s only one correct answer to this dilemma.

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Movie Poster for Resident Evil (2002) Yesterday I watched Paul W.S. Anderson’s ”Resident Evil (2002)”. I was not expecting a particularly good movie but what I got was bordering on an art film in its incomprehensibility. Scenes don’t flow naturally into each other. There are no actual characters, no real plot, no clearly established stakes. Nothing. It’s just noise, and not particularly loud or interesting noise either.

Several times during the watched I wonders if I’d gotten hold of an unfinished version or something because of the way certain parts of it are structured.

So why did I do this to myself? Well, it was Darren Mooney’s fault. Hopefully the true revelations of this will come as I movie on to the sequels.

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posted this on and tagged it with Movies Tenet

At the risk of coming off as a bit of an a**, why are there so many ”TENET explained” videos?

Yes, I get that the YouTube algorithm is showing them to me because after watching the movie last night, I watched two of Darren Mooney’s video essays about it. That’s not my question. The question is why they exist in the first place? This is not an ”unsolvable art film” or something like that. Pay attention as you’re watching, turn on subtitles if you need to, and actually use that thing inside your head. It’a quite straightforward.

Or, if you don’t want to actually pay attention to the media you are watching, stick to MCU movies.

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Ett meddelande från det förflutna. I oktober 2025 lovade Liberalerna att rösta nej till en regering 2026 där Sverigedemokraterna ingår. Samtidigt lovar Sverigedemokraterna att rösta nej till en borgerlig regering där de själva inte ingår. Det innebär en stor risk för att antingen L eller SD har visat sig vara lögnare (även i den här specifika frågan också) när det här publiceras. Den som lever när det publiceras får se.

Mohamsson (L): Kommer rösta rött till Kristersson om SD ingår i regeringen (Sveriges television)

Åkessons löfte: Då röstar vi nej till en M-regering (Expressen)

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I just watched ”Tenet” for the first time. Wow! Simply, wow.

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posted this article on and tagged it with Clear and Present Danger Mallorca 2026 Reading snapshots

Finally, it’s me, the Kindle, and Clear and Present Danger. I don’t think I’ve ever read a single book during so many years as this one.

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Following it up with a Vodka Sun. Seems to be a Vodka Sunrise with less effort put into the color-gradient, and a Vodka Sunrise is a Tequila Sunrise with vodka instead of tequila.

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First cocktail of the day, a Sex on the Beach. Probably the first time I try one of those. A bit too sweet and artificial for my taste. Probably the peach schnapps.

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I get so tired with the constant hoops that I need to jump through to easily post something to this blog from iOS.

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