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Watched the movie last night at The Cathay with throng of friends (Yasrof and his wife Dhea, Hendra Gani, Buddie, Hafiz, Pak Cik Adi and Bro Hamonangan).

Despite the disappointment of few of my colleagues who have watched the movie earlier, claiming that the movie is a really good lullaby material, I was really sure that the movie wouldn’t be a disappointing one. I mean, come on, the original story is so good. It would be really difficult to make the movie become bad.

In the end, I did enjoy the movie very much, thank you. So maybe in a way it follows that “Garbage in, Garbage out” postulate. If you already have a really good material, it would need a really major screw ups to make the output bad.

On our way out of the theatre, Hafiz shared to us his experience Harry Potter books. Bro Hamonangan also disclosed that he was discouraged by the thickness of the recent books. Then I am throwing my 2 cents, “Well.. I consider myself lazy. I would rather spent 2 hours to watch the movie than spending countless of hours reading the books.”

SPOILER ALERT
Lord Voldemort is actually Harry Potter’s alter ego!!!! Oh NO!!!

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You know that I am just kidding with you right?

Hardono Arifanto :: Jul.17.2007 :: Life, Movie :: No Comments »

Yes. I am talking about those pills offered by Morpheus to Neo in ‘The Matrix‘ movie. Isn’t a huge coincidence that Internet Explorer is ‘Blue’ and Firefox is ‘Red’?

Now, before you telling me ‘Dude, what the heck are you talking about?’. Imagine that we as Web Developers/Programmers become Neo. Then imagine that Natural laws such as gravity, electricity and magnetism are the W3C definition for HTML, CSS and XHTML.

OK, back to the movie. If Neo chooses the Red Pill, he will wake up from his ‘artificial life’ and life in the real world. He will suffer, but he will know the real world. But if Neo chooses the Blue Pill, he will carry on in his ‘artificial life’. He might never meet the hardship of the real world.

So the premise here are ‘Red Pill’ will bring you to real life. To get something, you must follow the natural laws (e.g. W3C’s HTML Definition). But ‘Blue Pill’ will make your life easier as you don’t need to always follow the natural laws (e.g. W3C’s HTML definition) yet you will still get the same thing.

For example, to get a tooltip for your images, Internet Explorer will only need the ALT attribute in your image. But Firefox will not display the tooltip if you use ALT attribute. Because according to the natural laws (i.e. W3C’s HTML Definition), ALT is to be displayed when the Image is not available. To have the tooltip, W3C’s rules stated that you must use the TITLE attribute in your images.

So throw away your ‘Blue Pill’ and take the ‘Red Pill’. As I said, you might suffer a little bit, but you will see the real world. =)

PS: This post was inspired by my inability to see the tooltips in my WP-Translate images. Apparently I’ve been consuming the Blue Pill without realizing it. >.<

Reference:
Firefox, ALT Tags, and Tooltips

Hardono Arifanto :: Jul.15.2007 :: Programming, Movie, Software :: 1 Comment »

I watched the movie last Friday two weeks ago (25/05/2007) together with Artha. We watched it at Golden Village, Jurong Point. The show started at 1 AM. There were around 20 people that watched the movie. I guess not many people in Jurong West area were willing to watch the movie after midnight. (T_T)

Generally, I think the movie is mediocre great. Captain Jack Sparrow is still partially drunk. Although now he starts to hallucinate. Elizabeth Swann might won Oscar for ‘Heroine with the biggest shotgun hidden in her pants‘. As for William Turner, a surprising end is waiting for him. Not going to be a spoiler post here (^_^)/

Favorite scenes:

1. Elizabeth Swann disarmed herself. That scene is hilarious
2. Jack Sparrow talked to Capt. Teageu ( Jack’s father, a cameo by Keith Richards).
3. Jack Sparrow talked to Giselle and Scarlett. Jack’s words basically sum up all the lies that most men ever committed to their partner. Classic!!!
4. The battle scene Between Black Pearl v.s. Flying Dutchman. I think this battle is the pinnacle of the movie.

A few days later, Artha mentioned that after the credits there is an easter-egg scene. And we missed it. That night I was somehow quite disappointed with the movie and rushed out of the theatre.

And last Wednesday (30/05/2007), Yoga asked me whether I have watched Pirates of Caribbean 3. I answered ‘No’ because I was thinking to repay him back his treat (He bought me the ticket for Pirates of Caribbean 2). Also, I just recently receive my first pay check from NTUC Income. So a small treat to a friend shouldn’t be a harm, right?

We watched the movie at The Cathay. To my surprise, I enjoy the movie better than the first time. No more conundrums after watching the movie. So if you think Pirates of Caribbean 3 is confusing, watch it again And make sure you are not watching the after midnight show time.

So what’s with the title of this post? Back at Square Zero? Well, only those who have watched the movie know what it means =P So go get your movie ticket! (^_^)

Hardono Arifanto :: Jun.03.2007 :: Movie :: 1 Comment »

Deus ex machina describes an unexpected, artificial, or improbable character, device, or event introduced suddenly in a work of fiction or drama to resolve a situation or untangle a plot (e.g. having the protagonist wake up and realize it was all a dream, or an angel suddenly appearing to solve problems).

So how did Deus ex Machina ruined Spider-Man 3? Well, the most obvious one is Bernard, the servant in Osborn’s penthouse. Why he finally informed Harry Osborn the story that make him forgive Peter Parker and helped Spidey to fight Venom and Sandman now? Why not in Spider-Man 2? Did you spot other deus ex machina in the movie?

The overall movie is quite a disappointment for me. The CGI offers nothing new, the plot is weaker than the first and the second instalment of the Trilogy. I am really sure Tobey Maguire will not win Oscar for his crying act (^_^)v. Pff.. enough with the disappointment, I’ll hyped up myself for Pirates of Caribbean 3. Hopefully dear old Jack will make a blast ending to the trilogy.

Heck, at least I’m not the only one thinking that Spider-Man 3 sucks.

Hardono Arifanto :: May.15.2007 :: Movie :: 8 Comments »