Hollywood news: Apple iPod and Sony PSP top the Hollywood Box office for weeks.

Washington Post: iPod/iPhone/PSP beat your Baby Mama, Harold,Kumar and Sarah Marshall.

New York Times: the touchscreen touches audience more than widescreen.

I’m a teenager, kind of high-tech-savvy as you may name. I think in the next ten years, fewer people would go to the cinema, not only because the high cost of the ticket, but because the iPod has also been used as a mobile theater lately. The amazing video on YouTube I came across a few days ago proves it well. Believe it or not,

Widescreen? Sure, as wide as the skylight. I guess most guys my age would rather bring the pals and parties outdoors, to enjoy the fun they could never imagine inside the stuffy cinema. I admit that it’s the iPod and any DVD to iPod converter that give us so much freedom. And the freedom seduces me to go far beyond the cinema, even if I ‘m a big fan of Jackie Chan and Jet Li, and the box-office of the Forbidden kingdom is overwhelming.But I want to see all top10 movies. Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Baby Mama. Harold and Kumar. It seems impossible for me to go to the cinema every other day.

By the way, how many of you are still turn to DVD rentals? I learn that according to a recent survey sponsored by the Pew Research Center, nearly a third of Internet users age 18 to 29 regularly download movies — five times that of users age 50 and over. See how old-maidish you are?

In addition to iPod, iPhone, PSP, together with other pocket-sized handheld devices are pushing the cinema to the corner. See the millions of links as “Download free PSP Movies” links on line？Though  most of links are just links, and would never lead you anywhere. HOWEVER, even it hooks, you can still have access to videos in avi format, which can be easily, as easily as you can imagine, to be ripped into iPod, iPhone, PSP playable format by a good DVD/video converter.

Wanna to see the new trailers? Just go to YouTube, and find all versions of trailers if you don’t like the official trailer. One or two click to download it to your hard drive or directly convert to your iPod, iPhone, or PSP with a guaranteed Youtube video downloader.

The experts always say young people’s viewing habits are difficult to track, due to the wider array of platforms they are using. I think it’s a bullshit if they also live and grow up in an age of digitization.

I don’t hate bling. In fact, I like jewelry when it’s tasteful - a necklace, bracelet, that’s perfectly fine. But people these days seem to have more money than they know what to do with, and this breeds something called “Stupid Bling”.

1. Hot Girls.

While tasteful necklaces, rings, and bracelets will improve appearance, there’s nothing that ruins a hot babes immaculate look swifter than a bad piece of bling.

Case in point: Kendra Wilkinson from the Girls Next Door.

This jewel incrusted set of chompers made by Johnny Dang not only made her look really ugly, it made Holly my new favorite.

2. Gadgets.

Laptops, iPods, Cellphones. These little gadgets many people can’t live without.

If you thought these gadgets were already obvious targets of petty thieves, there’s nothing that screams “Steal me, please!” more than a gold plated laptop or a 63-diamond MP3 player. What’s wrong with people?

3. Miscellaneous Objects.

As the world food crises rages on, people are still decorating random objects like cakes with $130,000 worth of platinum and gems, as well as the same treatment on things like cups.

Cups? WTF!?

4. Pets.

“Crafted with artisan precision and attention to detail, Amour Amour is the world’s most exquisite dog collar that only the one pampered pooch will have the privilege to wear.” This $1.8 million dollar dog collar shouldn’t even exist. I promse Rover can’t tell the difference between a real diamond and a fake diamond, so if you’re a logical sane individual the obvious choice is a fake diamond if you really MUST decorate your pet.

Colette Case, an animal behavioural psychologist working in London, said: “Dogs are increasingly becoming an expression of the status of their owners, who compete with each other to have the nicest collar and most expensive gear. If someone has £12,000 to spend on a pendant for their dog, I suspect it will be pretty well looked after.”

Sometimes I wonder how these people ever get this kind of money to blow in the first place.

via http://jewelry-steals.com/4-things-that-should-never-ever-get-bling/

Farewell to the Forbidden Kingdom and Forgetting Sarah Marshall , I walked again into the Imperial Cinema to see Baby Mama, and came out with a unfulfilled feeling. I suddenly realize that I don’t have to pay dollars for his widescreen experience. My black monster, the PSP, will lay the screen of not only Baby Mama, but also any video you could get from internet or your DVD rental. Right, I can make a home theater myself.Armed with these thoughts in mind, I started looking for DVD movies to PSP converters. After a long hunt, I decide to buy PQ DVD to PSP converter suite, a software highly thought of by many users. I don’t like the free trial, which freaks me out to see the restricted function and five-minute conversion limit in the converters I tried before.   

This tool didn’t let me down. It takes me less time than I find a movie download link. The output video compressed to a much smaller size, and the video quality is high enough. Of course, DVD is a better option for this fabulous ripper, though the size is large, you can choose the clip you wanna watch on your PSP. Sometimes, the full-length movie is just unnecessary.So, this is just the easier way of getting movies onto PSP. I know later that there are great movies to download sites that offer thousands of movies and even TV shows you can download. Then the whole process of watch movies on your PSP is much shortened.

If you would like to watch the new movie in the cinema, that’s ok. If not, this software really worth a try.

  Baby Mama” isn’t exactly laugh-out-loud funny. It’s more quiet-chuckle funny, which is fine, too. This latest addition to the pregnancy comedy trend, starring Tina Fey as an overachieving corporate vice president who hires a working-class party girl (Amy Poehler) to be a surrogate mother, ambles along with such low-key, easygoing humor that it’s almost a shock to the system: Where are the hamburger phones, the rat-a-tat pop culture references, the porn? All have been left behind in the service of what is a far more observant, if uneven, comedy of 21st-century manners.

   A surrogate-pregnancy broker, played by Sigourney Weaver with hilarious superciliousness, puts Kate (Fey) in touch with Angie (Poehler), a hard-edged, slightly ditzy dame who has decided to rent out her womb at the advice of her loser of a common-law husband, Carl (Dax Shepard). When she meets Kate, Angie primly explains that she met Carl “the summer after I discontinued high school,” and “Baby Mama” continues in this vein, almost but not quite burying its jokes in the subtle, revealing turn of the phrase.

Kate’s boss, Barry, is portrayed by Steve Martin, who, like everyone else in the production, makes the gratifying decision to underplay. Fey and Poehler could easily have become caricatures. Instead, each actress gives her character her dignity, grounding her as a recognizable human being. Even within the contrived confines of its genre, “Baby Mama,” which was written and directed by Michael McCullers, rings with a certain degree of truth.

An unforced warmth suffuses the film and makes it such a welcome alternative to the desperation and self-loathing of the Judd Apatow canon or the compulsive verbosity of “Juno.” (Which isn’t to say that “Baby Mama” doesn’t feature its share of raunch: There are plenty of jokes involving sex, childbirth and various lady parts.) For those who crave mannerisms and shtick and like their jokes set up and knocked out with plenty of arrows and quote marks, “Baby Mama” may fall flat. But audiences alive to the modest charms of its take on female friendship will be rewarded with at least a few quiet chuckles.

– Ann Hornaday (April 25, 2008)

via http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?node=cityguide/profile&id=1142935&categories=Movies&nm=1

Want to watch The Forbidden Kingdom and Forgetting Sarah Marshall on your iPod/PSP for free? It sounds like a dream. But the dream is one or two click away sometimes.

I once wondered why PSP or iPod become such a engaging obsession with young people When I have none, but when I got one, my curiosity comes to naught. Except games that you can play at any five-minute leisure, you can also make it a portable movie player. Not only that. I bet it. Several days before I came across a YouTube video about some guy use a projector to watch iPod movie outdoors with his parties. The scene is really fabulous. Why not watch The Forbidden Kingdom and Forgetting Sarah Marshall outdoors with your parties?Anyway, five minutes later, you’ll find you’re still playing it. Totally obsessed. The Forbidden Kingdom? Forgetting Sarah Marshall ？They all will come onto your iPod as long you can download the avi file or any other format from internet. Or if you are unable to find the download link, it maycost you dollars to buy a DVD, and then have it converted onto your iPod with PQ DVD TO iPod converter suite, an inexpensive and superfast software. Its straightforward file-open and record button save you a lot time too. If you never think of spending a penny on it, I may recommend you a free software and you may go back to YouTube to find your favorite movie clip first, and save it to your hard drive. PQ FLV Downloader is just the YouTube download tool that is designed to meet your needs. Just use the free trial of PQ FLV Downloader Pro, to save all YouTube videos you like, and then directly convert them onto your iPod. Totally free. If you really want to buy it and keep one forever in your hard drive, that’s ok.

1. Gender bridge

Jason Segel is such a girl. In the best way. In fact, he may just be the gender bridge we’ve been looking for. The soft side of Barack, the tough part of Hillary. Someone said Judd Apatow — whose company produced “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” “Knocked Up” and “Superbad” — makes chick flicks for guys.
Dick flicks, you might say, that do involve male genitalia in almost every scene but also dig deep into the male emotional core.

 2. Sad-happy-bridge

Horny, but also vulnerable. Or as one hotel employee puts in this film, “sad tissues” and “happy tissues.”All I know is I had a smile on my face through almost every scene of “Sarah Marshall” and laughed out loud more times than I can count. I still have the Hawaiian version of “Nothing Compares 2 U” in my head and I hope it never leaves.

The most blatant of those elements is, naturally, the edgy humor, which is often - but not always - sexual in nature. There are at least a dozen really huge laughs in the film, and a couple dozen more big ones. The nude breakup is certain funny (in a weird kind of way), as is a sex scene toward the end, which has to rank as one of the most hilarious copulation scenes ever. (It involves two couples in adjoining rooms.) The movie also finds humor in Peter’s burgeoning awareness that life with Sarah wasn’t all roses. In spite of the fact that he pines for her, each island encounter with Sarah reminds him of something that wasn’t quite right in their relationship. During a very witty flashback scene, we see him acting as a lackey to his glamorous girlfriend instead of being an equal. I laughed at lot at the picture, and what’s best is that the humor springs from relatable situations and the genuine emotions of the characters.

 3.Obsession-awakening-bridge

That’s the set-up; the rest of Forgetting Sarah Marshall follows what happens as Peter struggles to get back on his feet as he keeps running into the woman who dumped him. The point is that it’s hard to “forget” someone you cared about. Even after you break up, you tend to carry them around for a while, like a heavy piece of luggage. Peter grows jealous thinking about Sarah with another man. The jealousy turns to depression, which eventually gives way to anger. He discusses the situation with other people he encounters on the island, including a stoner surfing instructor (Paul Rudd), a sexually frustrated newlywed (”30 Rock” star Jack McBrayer), and, most significantly, the resort’s front desk clerk, Rachel (Mila Kunis). Rachel has been through the breakup wringer too, and she empathizes with Peter’s plight, often trying to help him rediscover his strength. But everytime he starts to feel strong again, there’s Sarah, and even the most awkward interaction with her threatens to send him crashing again.

4.  Adult degeneration-mental growth-bridge

And that is the less-blatant, but most impressive, element of the Apatow formula. Forgetting Sarah Marshall may have an abundance of adult humor, but that’s only because it’s dealing with adult issues. Segal’s screenplay is uncommonly wise about break-ups. As both a writer and a performer, he knows that break-ups are frightening and sad, yet also occasions for self-growth. Over the course of the movie, we see Peter Bretter go from complete devastation and misery to a kind of inner peace. He initially thinks the split with Sarah will kill him, but slowly realizes that quite the opposite is true. The movie suggests that only in hindsight do we see our failed relationships for what they really were, and from there we can evolve.

5. Realism-surrealism-bridge

It’s real. Talking about what you fixate on when you miss someone, what seems important when your life suddenly loses a big piece, it’s all true. Just like John Cusack and his photo hangers, Forgetting Sarah Marshall points a finger at reality with a surreal wink.

Also a romance. The film loses a big of momentum when Bretter starts putting his life back together. Then it’s just a standard romance. There are a few funny tangents, but all the stunty set pieces are just mediocre. The uncomfortable moments between Bretter and Marshall falls by the wayside for a long time, and that’s the heart of the story.

Mostly Qtd. http://www.geocities.com/gamut_mag/forgetsm.htm

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/forgetting_sarah_marshall/

1. Lame plot.

The ordinary teenager from the real world who gets transported to a fantasy kingdom (which he then must save before returning home). Any narrative that employs this lame plot is digging itself a huge hole right at the start, and will have to be exceedingly brilliant to make up for it. There are lots of good reasons to avoid this plot, and especially the implementation in Forbidden Kingdom:

         2. Lazy writing.

This plot is a way to avoid a couple of the challenges of writing in a heroic fantasy setting: the need to explain the special rules of the fantasy world to the audience, and the lack of a character the audience can relate to in a cast populated by legendary heroes. Dragging in a character from the real world is an easy solution to these problems that saves the writer from having to do anything sophisticated (such as a show-don’t-tell approach to presenting the setting, or writing complex heroic characters with realistic flaws and motivations).

       3. Insulting the audience. 

It’s really not that hard to stick a relatable character in a heroic setting—even young children recognize that the farmboy or the hobbit is supposed to be the audience stand-in. The “ordinary teenager from our world” is the most literal interpretation of the relatable character (short of a Choose Your Own Adventure story told in the second person) and suggests that the writers didn’t think the audience could handle anything more subtle.

      4.It strains suspension of disbelief.

A self-contained fantasy world is easier to accept than one in which people from the modern world are randomly popping in and out. Furthermore, it wrecks the sense of otherworldliness to have someone walking around wearing jeans and spouting American slang. There’s less immersion with a constant reminder of the real world in the center of the frame; a good fantasy should make the audience temporarily forget where they are.

      5. It contains disturbing racial overtones. 

This plot device would have been bad enough if the teenager had been from Shanghai. But the use of the Boston setting and Michael Angarano suggests that the filmmakers decided that, in a film set in Fantasy China, a Chinese lead wouldn’t have been white enough or American enough for American audiences. Now, it may be true that the film will make more money with an American lead (although it’s interesting that he doesn’t appear on the posters). Nevertheless, such shameless pandering is ugly. And equally disturbing is the imperialist notion that powerful warriors like Jackie Chan and Jet Li couldn’t save China until the American (with no special skills or talents) showed up.

Mostly via  http://moviehatersloveu.blogspot.com

The disappointing iPhone sales in Europe appear to have undermined the economic model that Apple has sought to impose. It was based on two points, 1) no subsidy from the operator on the purchase of phone, Apple has always refused to sell its products, and 2) Apple gets a percentage of subscriptions, the operators have found it difficult to digest.
Since then, this model was undermined, first by T-Mobile in Germany, which has subsidized the phone, then by O2 which did the same thing.
If Orange denies wanting to do the same thing, it seems they are preparing something and renegotiating the percentage of the subscription returned to Apple in order to decrease the price.
There is a rumour in Italy where that the phone will be sold much the same as other phones: with a subsidy and much less strict rules about sim unlocking.
Is this the end of the iPhone as we know it? Certainly not, it is most likely a second wind to take its place in the wider mobile market and escape its current niche market.
It must be said that Apple has found another way to earn money for the iPhone from the AppStore. Well managed, and widely supported by developers, it could create an economic model much more viable than the trickle from subscriptions while allowing Apple to keep the iPhone exceptional, the only product compatible with thousands of pieces of software that will create a mobile platform unparalleled in its class. But to prevail and become financially viable, this model requires that you have a very broad base of devices in circulation, requiring a change in Apple’s current marketing startegy.

Can you believe it! I’m watching The Forbidden kingdom on my iPod now! This movie just made its worldwide premiere, and I rushed into the theater the day before yesterday, as if fighting for a ticket to beat Jet lee and Jackie Chan. Then you may guess that after seeing it in widescreen, I was still left feeling unfulfilled. So the DVD of the The forbidden kingdom soon adds into my DVD collection. the fight between these two super kungfu star fascinate me, and I begin to think of ripping this funny and exciting clip onto my ipod, to make sure I can enjoy it whenever I can on the go.

After trying on about five dvd to ipod rippers I free-downloaded, I finally found an easy and inexpensive way to settle this dear DVD movie.That’s a fabulous DVD movies to iPod conversion tool,PQ DVD to iPod Converter Suite. It’s a superb software, and allows me to set the start time and end time, producing the exact clip I want. Meanwhile, the speed is really as fast as you can imagine.

Of course, I have something to say about the film itself.It’s said that all characters in the movie refer to lots of other Chinese movies or legends, and I believe the movie will seem much funnier to us if we know more about the China and its people. On the other hand, it’s really a harmless outlets for the impulses repressed in the hearts of about 13-year-old boys whose parents won’t let them rent Once Upon a Time in China or the Kill Bill movies.

Anyway, Such a easy access to watch The forbidden kingdom on makes me overjoyed.If you wanna see The Forbidden kingdom on your iPod or psp or pocket pc, or watch Sex and Death, Deception, etc. on these handheld devices, this PQ software is really a good choice.

Wanna to make your iPod a outdoor movie theater like this？Sound like a miracle. With PQ DVD to iPod converter,miracle happens whenever and wherever you like.

First, you need one or two clicks to convert your DVD or video to your iPod.

PQ DVD to iPod converter is just the one-click all-in-one solution.
A powerful converter, it enables you to convert any DVD or video to ipod with a superfast speed and high quality.
Its advanced features and all-around settings allow you to turn your ipod into a perfect portable movie player.
Its user-friendly function and pleasing interface give you a different lifestyle to experience.
It seems a must-have for iPod users.

Secondly, A Projector is just ok.

Go outdoors.
Bring your friends and parties.
Choose your screen in nature.
Then enjoy STAR WAR or any movie on this miraculous movie theater!!!