T-2

Let’s see how New York Times reviews Transformer 2” by MANOHLA DARGIS. It is the most sarcastic and keenest reviews I‘ve read.

The creative people behind the cretinous “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” the second blockbuster inspired by the popular Hasbro toys, have segmented their demographic into four discrete categories:

1. Young teenage boys who still play with Transformer toys (or keep them under the bed).
2. Older teenage boys who identify with the professional doofus Shia LaBeouf.
3. Somewhat older teenage boys who would like to play with the professional hottie Megan Fox.
4. Boys of all ages who think it would be cool to go to war and run around the desert shooting guns.

But here I‘d like to add No.5:
The people who do not bring their brain with them into the cinema and just simply open their eyes without thinking in there will enjoy the show and have two and half hours eye-popping, ears –deafening, heart –throbbing, and nerve numbing but silly happy, exciting, frenetic time.

Michael Bay is not a complicate but a controversial filmmaker, who movies usually, not every time such as “the Island,” which I think one of his best, have big hits in the summer market but drag very bad reviews from movie critics, of course, no exception for his latest one, Transformers 2.

T-2 is absolutely a hodgepodge. Therefore, we are so familiar with many scenes which we might see before, for example, female robot killer from sci-fi Terminator 3 or Terminatress, Sam ‘s school like from teenager sex comedy American Pie 1,2, 3, war scenes from film “Blake Hawk Down, road chasing from Bad Boy 1& 2, nothing new but still exciting.

Mr. Bay’s films are too simple to bring out of the cinema. Critics always criticize his stories, storyline, and storytelling. However, he obviously understand what he want to do and who are his target audiences, teenagers, whose ages from 14-18, and who do not think as much as like their parents or critics and grows up with MV and PC games, so they don’t have to care a complete, plausible and touching story like the generation we grew.

Here I also would also like to condemn Peter Jackson, director of LOTR and King Kong, setting the new standard, 3 hour long from the first episode of LOTR, the Fellowship of Rings, which 0running over 180 min, of the length of block bluster movies. From that time, many of Hollywood summer big hits are overlong such as this one, Transformer 2.

There is no doubt Michael Bay is a blockbuster filmmaker, but not a record breaker and never a great one.

His films always drag too much adrenaline but too little true feeling and real consciousness. The viewers are easily dumbstruck by images which he created, but which hardly reach your heart. His films candy your eyes, deafen your ears, numb your nerve, shock your body but never touch your heart, once he tried to do in “ Pearl Harbor but failed, unlike James Cameron, who made classic and also hit the box office.

Just like all of our previous experiences, when we were out of the cinema, soon we found nothing left in our memory. That is always Michael Bay ‘s problem: it is hard to drag moviegoers into the cinema to his film again and again.

Frankly speaking, Michael Bay, I think, has much talent but no magic unlike Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, and James Cameron etc.
Movie business needs not just talent but more magic.

Are you a businessman or newsman?

“Are you a business man? Or a news man?” said Al Pacino, in “the Insider, 1999”, co-starring Russel Crowe.
In the class “media leadership,” I asked the same question to the professor, Charlie, VP of marketing of America online, who gave me a more complicated answer, “in media industry, we, sometimes, ask another question: are you a business newsman or a news businessman.”

What a great answer!

Here is the same situation: former Taipei deputy, President Ma’s best partner, Kim made a final decision of turning down media mogul’s invitation to join his group and establish a new TV station.

From the beginning, I don’t believe Mr. Kim and Mr. Li can work together at all. Not about money, but all about concept, ideas, and directions, business and news. As we know, media in here suck for a long time. Readers can’t tell Good from Bad. Our news is more like entertainment news in U.S., filled with too much political, business, voyeurism and paparazzi, which, perhaps, attracts consumers temporarily, but loses its fair stand. This is the worst problem we face today.

At least, one man insists on his idea. Good for him, Mr. Kim.

baseball fans get fat ? Citi-field & Yankees stadium menu !

Subway Series ,one of the most important events in NYC, is coming again. first let's check the ballpark menu first. they look extremely palatable! how can we resist them.however, do not forget to check the price before you order.

the following acticle excerpts from NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/dining/27ball.html?_r=1&hpWith

their new ballparks this season the Yankees and Mets got new kitchens, new menus and grander ideas about ballpark cuisine, reflecting a nationwide push toward better eating in settings where mere calories were once considered enough......

Welcome the truly Master and Intellectual Paul Krugman to visit Taiwan!

the following information from New York time website: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/paulkrugman/index.htmlPaul

Krugman joined The New York Times in 1999 as a columnist on the Op-Ed Page and continues as professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Mr. Krugman received his B.A. from Yale University in 1974 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1977. He has taught at Yale, MIT and Stanford. At MIT he became the Ford International Professor of Economics.

Mr. Krugman is the author or editor of 20 books and more than 200 papers in professional journals and edited volumes. His professional reputation rests largely on work in international trade and finance; he is one of the founders of the "new trade theory," a major rethinking of the theory of international trade. In recognition of that work, in 1991 the American Economic Association awarded him its John Bates Clark medal, a prize given every two years to "that economist under forty who is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic knowledge." Mr. Krugman's current academic research is focused on economic and currency crises.

At the same time, Mr. Krugman has written extensively for a broader public audience. Some of his recent articles on economic issues, originally published in Foreign Affairs, Harvard Business Review, Scientific American and other journals, are reprinted in Pop Internationalism and The Accidental Theorist.

On October 13, 2008, it was announced that Mr. Krugman would receive the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Send an E-Mail to Paul Krugman

Star Trek is back!

"To boldly go where no man has gone before"

Once upon a time, when I was a kid, I saw “Star Treks,” and I was totally overwhelmed by this sci-fi series. At that time, I made a decision, some day, I would go abroad to see “how big the world it is!”

I always love sci-fi stories and films. However, neither started with “Star Wars”, George Lucas’s space classic, nor started with “Close encounters of the third kind” or “ET”, Steven Spielberg’s friendly alien-drama.


It began with James T. Kirk, captain of Starship “ USS Enterprise”, Spock, a Vulcan whose behavior always follows logic, Dr. Macoy, whose tongue is as tough as his expertise. I love these guys. Without them, how could I grow up so interesting and so fancy?

I always admired starship members who could use tele-communicator to talk to each other in the very long distance, and tele-transmitter to another place or planet. What an amazing idea! Who knows one day almost person in the world can use the similar hi –tech tool to communicate with each other anytime and anywhere.

So who say sci-fi writers are not great scientists?

The One

See! The One how to express his attitude to his teammates! Awesome !so complicated. and Santana explains each different handshock!

http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/blog/2009/04/santana_explains_the_handshake.html

Victory formula!

Santana + K-Rod = VICTORY !

The two consecutive season collopse won't happen this year! Guarantee!

The nightmare and darkness have gone! The dawn is coming! finally We Mets prepare for another title! Go!Go! Mets!

the axis of the evil : derivatives

someone is telling the truth: read how Warrent E. Buffett to say about the axis of the financial crisis.

In his letter, Mr. Buffett explained that the danger of derivatives was not merely the difficulty in assessing their value; rather, it was the “web of mutual dependence” they create among financial institutions. Derivatives contracts keep various parties entangled for years, which, as he vividly explained, can create real hazards once those assets start deteriorating.

Participants seeking to dodge troubles face the same problem as someone seeking to avoid venereal disease,” he wrote. “It’s not just whom you sleep with, but also whom they are sleeping with.”

Get off my lawn!(Dirty Harry is back!)

If I have a chance to snap with the well-known Hollywood moguls, who will be my NO.1 choice? George Lucas? Steven Spielberg or Clint Eastwood? Of course, I would like to pick Eastwood. The reason is simple：He is tough, cold, old school- actually I am not sure- he is definitely a legend.

Not only did I think so, but many of American movie goers even critics. See what they said: Roger Ebert: I would like to grow up to be like Clint Eastwood. Eastwood the director, Eastwood the actor, Eastwood the invincible, Eastwood the old man. What other figure in the history of the cinema has been an actor for 53 years, a director for 37, won two Oscars for direction, two more for best picture, plus the Thalberg Award, and at 78 can direct himself in his own film and look meaner than hell? None, that's how many.

(New York Times) MANOHLA DARGIS: Twice in the last decade, just as the holiday movie season has begun to sag under the weight of its own bloat, full of noise and nonsense signifying nothing, Clint Eastwood has slipped another film into theaters and shown everyone how it’s done. This year’s model is “Gran Torino,” a sleek, muscle car of a movie Made in the U.S.A., in that industrial graveyard called Detroit. I’m not sure how he does it, but I don’t want him to stop. Not because every film is great — though, damn, many are — but because even the misfires show an urgent engagement with the tougher, messier, bigger questions of American life.

No doubt. I am a die-hard fan for Mr. Eastwood. Not because he is always a tough hero on the screen, but because he have a sensitive and open heart and mind, especially covered under his stiff face.

He starred many different characters in diverse genres: romance “The Bridges of Madison County,1995 " ；violent cop “Dirty Harry "；countless lonely western cowboys；from different angles ,both American and Japanese, about the same battle , Iwo Jima – Flags of our fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima ,2006；cold, dire and gloomy “ Mystic River.2003"；touching and heartbreaking baby, "Million Baby,2004"；not to mention, anti –hero classic “ Unforgiven, 1992.”；Oh, gush, he also sang in the movie “Paint Your Wagon (1969)”

God damn it ！This guy is incredible!I almost have seen his every movie since 1990s. No doubt, Gran Torino is one of his best films, another classic. Come on! Who cares the damn Oscar winner! Mr. Eastwood has already won twice for "best director". He is the best living director in the U.S..

Gran Torino talks about “races ", minority VS. Majority. Racial problem in the U.S. is much tougher and more complicated than in Taiwan. It is hard for Taiwanese to imagine the problems if you never lived in the U.S..

Mr. Eastwood, once again, starred a tough, quirky, isolated white old man, even for his sons and grandchildren hard to be with. God damn it! You see The Dirty Harry phantom on the screen again. What a pity, local people have no memory or background about this legendary icon. However, the character he played, I don’t think, is a racist.

See how a American viewer said：
Was it Clint, or my dad??-- by wasntmedude (movies profile) Jan 7, 2009 --how many of us white guys have dads or uncles who are the inspiration for this film? Not truly racist, but mad at the changing world, and all the different looking people invading their way of life. This film will hit home for all of you who had dads that would warn you once, and then smack your butt instead of telling you twice.

Today is 62nd 228 anniversaries. Compared with the U.S., the racial problem here is minor. For me. The truth is definitely needed to reveal even though, the murderers and victims died long ago. This is the only way to let people mitigate their long- time trauma and pain.

In my point of view, I always say, 228 and the following white horror is not the problem about races but about the relentless rulers and the innocent people.

228 has passed for 62 years；however, without an open mind facing the issue like Mr. Eastwood, the pain and sadness will keep going forever. That is really sad.

Solute to you! Mr. Eastwood!

Hugh Jackman is awesome!

did you see him singing, dancing and expressing enchanting humor and characteristic

....

yes, he is charming, he is smart, and, the worst or the best, he is handsome. to good to be true ? no! here is a exception. he is Huge Jackman.

for most of Taiwanese have no idea how good he is. i , fortunately, saw his performance, a couple years ago, when he hosted Tony Award. that was awesome. did you see his vibrating butt during the Tony 's show?? yes, awesome,too.

no problem! if you missed once. here is your second chance to his extraordinary performance. this year Oscar show !

THE BEST DRESS I PICK !

from the world top fashion school,NSU, here is my NO.1 pick for best dress in Oscar . of course, i always like the mermaid design and Ms Tomei.

how bad and which real?

Allen Greenspan, former chairman of FED, said this financial crisis is a unprecedented storm, a one- hundred-year-unseen disaster.

Paul Krugman, Nobel economics prize winner 2008, said,” if we do not do something drastically, the situation will continue to 2010."

This time the crisis impact all markets, industries and nations, unlike 911,SAS, 2001 Internet bubble, which only impact one city, one region or one industry.

As a result, if someone still is optimistic, I would say he's insane.However, there are many different predictions about our future. Some may be true. Some may be exaggerating. Some may be disappointing.

However, some are definitely insidious such as CLSA.Actually, if we did not easily erase your memory, the main reason causing this unprecedented crisis comes from those investment banking. Those financial criminals made a big mistake, created a blak hole in global economy, stole people money and national wealth. This is why now the majority governments keep adding bailout on diverse industries, in particular to these financial giant criminals.

Thus, can we trust their forecast that Taiwan's GDP will be going down to minus 11 percent. Of course not, although the situation is tough, severe and rigid, never, never trust those vampires because they are attempting to do something absolutely malicious again. Damn it.

can government be trusted?

Without a doubt, Keynes theory is back, because the market system failed to deal with the crisis. In fact, until now, no effective treatments have been cured for it. Therefore, when the private sector lost its vitality, such as GM, Citi, Merri Lynch etc., it is the time that government should go in.

Am I afraid of authority? Absolutely. However, there is no other hope we can expect. So the reason we believe is that we don't have options. Here is another question, which always bewildered economists so much: are governments reliable? Of course not. If they do, how could they let it happen?

A dialogue happening in Paul Krugman column is very interesting: a fed official said in a seminar, “how could we see it coming earlier?”

Krugman replied, “what do you mean “we”, white man?” that is cool. That is the damn cool.