Useless fact of the day:

A group of geese on the ground is gaggle, a group of geese in the air is skein.

And on that subject, a group of Gnugs on the ground is a Gnuggle, and a group of Gnugs in the air is a Gnein. So there, now you know :)

Ok, anyways, I know the Blabs (tm) are coming off REALLY slow these days, and while I could point at www.annihilated.com and note that Magar isn't exactly livening up the place either, TA-wise anyway. Meaning, that while the TA community is slowing down more and more, so is my green-gooed Gnug-brain.

We're all boiling along in the #gnug channel as usual, and doing the regular stuff that we have always boiled with. Though in general, atleast speaking on my behalf, TA games are becoming farther and farther apart. Some competition is going on TEN, and some Gnugs are said to be in there somewhere, waiting to prey on unsuspecting non-Gnugs I assume :)

To Blab about just SOMEthing, I'll recommend a few movies I've been seeing, as the movie-freak Gnug that I am.

"The Rainmaker":
Actually a great "courtroom" movie by John Grisham. Matt Damon plays a newbie lawyer who winds up taking on some not-so-newbie lawyers representing a big insurance firm who cheat, lie & steal like all other insurance companies ofcourse :)
In-between all this, he befriends an old woman who he had to make a will for, and a young wife who gets beaten by her husband. Sheeesh, I dont get that bad earthly habbit of beating up your spouses, not generalizing here, but that it occurs at ALL is beyond my Gnug mind. Anyways, in this movie, the husband will get what he has coming. It's a great movie, and I was positively surprized by it, as it went on in it's slow and off-beat, but interesting all the way.

"Good Will Hunting":
Matt Dilllon on a roll apparently, here in a SUPERB movie. Together with his Grand performance in another fav movie of mine (Yes, this is actually a fav of mine now too), namely "Saving Private Ryan", I would say he's on the road to stardom. And deservedly... His performance in "Good Will Hunting" is grand. And another surprizingly Fabulous performance came from Robin Williams who CAN play serious roles too, and VERY well too.

The movie itself is about Will Hunting (Matt's character, playing with the movie Title there ofcourse), who is a young man with some incredible gifts, especially in reading and mathematics. But from his childhood with abusement has made him a restless, hostile and violent young man, and he winds up in prison. Instead of doing time, he gets an offer from a mathematics professor, who has seen the gifts in Will's posession, to work with him a few days a week, and see a therapist twice a week in a probational period. His shrewd, devious mind peels down one therapist after and other, until Robin Williams' character makes an entry as the 6th therapist in line. He's an old friend of the mathematics professor, and as it turns out, they have some internal indifferenses from the past, which reflects on their motives in what they want of Will.

Will's motives and goals are pretty aimless. All he really wants is to hang in bars and drive around in his friends care, drinking and smoking. Hostile at first but the relationships bewteen the Therapist and Will grows into a friendship, and they both get some huge knots loosened.

Not exactly mind-blasting action, but it's damn entertaining all the way through, and it's a very meaningfull movie. I guess I'm getting older here, my movie taste shifting to the more serious genre. But that's life for ya, and all I can do is to recommend this movie to you, it's a classic.

"Wag the Dog":
This one was also surprising. Now I missed the first few minutes of the movie, so I'm not sure exactly what Robert DeNiro's character is exactly, but my guess is he's some advisor close to the president.

The plot is rather simple; The president is involved in a sexual scandal with a minor, only a few weeks before the election, and things are looking grim in the polls for him. His advisor contacts a renowned hollywood producer, and together, they stage a fake war. Yes, you heard me, a fake war, played out artificially in the media. And the people actually buy it. And it's just hilarous with all the plotting and scheming along the way, and their quest to try and save the president in the polls.

Loads of advisors, assistants, CIA agents, soldiers, press represantant, Willie Nelson & other singer and a psycho are all involved in this, and ofcourse, lots of other people are included in the sherades. Incredibly entertaining, and one can't help but wonder if there's any of the stuff they pull off that has been done for real.

"Small Soldiers":
Toy Story on speed perhaps. Very entertaining movie from Dreaworks here, and Tommy Lee Jones is GREAT as the voce of Captain Chip Hazard, the commando doll toy gone Awol. His mission? To activate the rest of the commandoes, and ultimately destroy the friendly monsters called "Gorgonites". A small town boy and his father, the owner of a small toy store, get caught in the war between the 2 doll-races.

The toys accidentally had a state-of-the-art military chip (the X1000 microchip) installed in them, and the toys learn and adapt quickly to their surroundings, causing havoc along the way. The toy CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) is superbly done, and incredibly entertaining to watch, and the army one-liners are a blast. Great entertainment, big movie, small soldiers (Ok, getting corny, but that was slogan on the movie posters).

Arh, there, should keep you entertained in some 8 hours atleast. I sure was :)

Signing off, movie-reviewer-Gnug signing off for now :)