Attended World Premiere of John Carter

I do not usually blog about movies nowadays much because I hardly attended any. However, recently, I was somehow lucky enough to get hold of tickets to the World Premiere of John Carter, based on novels which was written say, yes exactly 1 century ago by Edgar Rice Burroughs. When I first viewed the trailer, I was amazed and I thought avatar kinda ripped it off this movie since it was created 100 years ago. However, I must say I was kind of disappointed when I saw the Disney label on it because basically it would say : "No blood, no  extreme violence and definitely no sex!" Well I can't say I was totally disappointed with the Pirates of the Caribbeans, so maybe I should give it a chance.

To be honest, this was not the first movie based on the first book "A Princess from Mars". In fact in 2009, there was a STV movie made with the same title, which obviously flopped, gaining a 3.2 / 10 on IMdb. I was fortunate enough not to have watched that. I had not read any of the books too, so this movie is a fresh start for me.

Firstly, I must say, I am impressed with the 3D. It had came so far and in this movie, its not just cosmetics. The 3D effects actually tries to put the user into the world by feeling it. The story line is kinda old, but what would you expect from a 100 years old tale. However, you can see how this old story could had brought about others like Narnia, Stars Wars and Avatar. The creature created are not anything we had not seen before, but there are believable and some more cute than others. But I guess in the end, the leads had put in good effort into their characters and it eventually plays out well in the whole.

I really enjoyed the show and look forward to a sequel soon.

Goodbye Bullguard, Hello Bitdefender

One of the main Internet Security Suite I had been using is Bullguard Internet Security ( www.bullguard.com ). It may not had been the BEST and most accurate detector in the market, but it certainly had done its job protecting me when I somehow miss a click and allowed something to run. Bullguard is backed with Outpost's firewall and Bitdefender's AV engine, which in my opinion is one of the BEST in the market. Bullguard had its glory, claiming VB100 awards (http://www.bullguard.com/news/latest-press-releases/press-release-archive/24-06-2011.aspx) and what is most important is that it is user friendly. There aren't millions of click allows like some other AV suite such as Kaspersky or Qihun 360 which basically made the product totally unusable since I will be spending most of my time clicking "Yes, Allow, Remember (PLEASE!)".

But sad to say, my subscription is coming to an end soon and I am in the process to reacquire another AV product for my mainstream machines. I do not mind going again with Bullguard, but since the Windows Home Server 2011 issue, it had basically crippled all my PC Backups.


After some research, I decided to go with Bitdefender for a while since it was the same engine. just directly from the original AV company now. Moreover, the 2011 version had gotten really lots of good review. However, since I will be using the latest version, I will be using the 2012. Well, I will be posting some review of my own soon.