Rihards Unplugged

So it has been another year, quite an eventful one at it as well. A lot of things have changed for the better for me in the last year, and I hope it’s the same for you all as well. And there are even more things for planned for the new year, including for Hela. From which I decided to take a break half way through today.

It’s just a bit nuts to work on a New Year’s Eve. In other words hopefully there will be more Hela related updated in the upcoming year. So happy new years to all, and don’t drink too much. Have a fun, and most importantly safe evening. And I’ll probably have to edit this update tomorrow as well, so enjoy it everybody, tomorrow is a new a year, filled with new opportunities.

Happy New Year.

Well after having slept half of today I woke up and decided to do some Hela work. I was also supplied with a new logo for it from Mark Dormand, so thanks to him. I figure that I’m at about 70% to 80% done on the features that I want to have done for the first semi-public release.

With some good luck I should be able to finish it this weekend, unless something gets in the way, but nothing is planned. The release of Hela will be announced here on this blog, on my personal site and on SGN forums. Not much left now.

As I already commented under the first guest post. I’m accepting guest posts, and I don’t mind if you plug your webpage or blog, or whatever else you want to shamelessly advertise in the post. The only criteria is that the post is on topic of this blog, which means movies, tv series, games, gadgets, or something along those lines, and of course it must have pretty pictures as well. I can help you with those though, so if you want to guest post on this blog email me, or use the contact form on my portfolio page.

Now to second part of this update, Hela. Hopefully I’ll feel better tomorrow(oddly enough very tired from this short week) and will be able to work some more on it. With some good luck, patience and hard work it might even be finished this weekend. So keep your eyes open for Hela related updates over the next few days.

Having now watched the DVD as well I think I’ll do a mini review sort of thing. Not the conventional type of review because I gather if you wanted one like that, you’d probably go to IMDB or Google Movie Reviews(yes, they have movie reviews as well!) or some other serious site and read a full length no thrills reviews. Instead of a typical review I’ll post just the things on my mind about the movie.

Dead Man’s Chest is the second movie in the Pirates of the Caribbean “series”. It is as with most sequels, that the first movie is better than the second one, and if we go by the track record of other movie trilogies or even series of movies, I fear for number four, which has been announced as well.

Here we see that there is even more fun to be had on a water wheel from a watermill. The movie is about a certain Jack Sparrow. Captain Jack Sparrow who has made a deal with Davy Jones to be the captain of the Black Pearl for thirteen years and then he would serve aboard the Flying Dutchman for 100 years, but of course Captain Sparrow has no intention of ever following through with the deal.

My favourite cast member in the movie of course is Keira Knightley. In this scene we see just how cunning her character has become. Tricking Jack Sparrow with a kiss so that she can handcuff him to the mast of Black Pearl while it’s under attack by the Kraken. She is evil, I tell you.

Aaaaaaaiiiieee! Here comes the Kraken. I must say that I really enjoyed the movie, both in cinema and on the DVD. The DVD itself could have had more extra features though, but I’m sure those will be on the “super extended” edition which will no doubt come out soon, and I’ll be hitting myself over the head for having the “normal” version.

Either way, two thumbs up for the movie, but only one thumb for the extras(would have been less, but I’m a sucker for bloopers).