my loot so far

- Giftvoucher for the shop I work in (doh ) for 15 euros
- CD Giftvoucher
- Alone in the Dark on Xbox360 from my brother (thanks bro! \m/)
- chocolate!
- A Donald Duck comic (say what you want, I like em!)

still need to get my stuff from my GF hehe

Wow, some people had some amazing hauls from loved ones. As far as my gifts, i had a very good year this year, as i dont often recieve as much as this around christmas time.

Collingwood AFL jersey + $70 - From my folks

Darkthrone shirt
Agathocles shirt
Graveland shirt
Lumberjack shirt
Graveland - Thousand Swords

-All from my girlfriend

14"china cymbal, loud and annoying as hell:perfect.
Dopesick, Melissa, and Tara on vinyl.
Resistence 2 and Littlebigplanet for ps3
The Hugest Pussy in the World (one of the nasty pornos my friends was wrapping up for us, i missed out on Massive Loads)
$25 bucks for guitar center.

Good haul this year.

I got

Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God (2-disc Special Edition)
A new Amon Amarth Shirt
Order Of Nine - A Means To Know End
Solar Fragment - Spark Of Deity
Metal: A Headbangers Journey (2-disc Special Edition)


Metal Forever!!!

Donald...Duck?! Haha. What makes him so appealing?

this is a good reason as any!

but I prefer his three nephews and have some of those comics as well

That was actually quite amusing "This means war".

Littlebigplannet rules!

I got a pretty damn good haul:

Type O Negative - Dead Again Vinyl Boxset
Toxic Holocaust - Overdose of Death
Enslaved - Vertebre
Bloodbath - Fathomless Mastery

Mariokart Wii
Castlevania OoE
Chrono Trigger
Ninja Town

Black Sabbath Chuck Taylor's
Pantera and Misfits patch
and a Wallet shaped like the NES controller.

A new watch
Amon Amarth - Versus The World
Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe
Miseration - Your Demons, Their Angels
Behemoth - Satanica
Behemoth - Zos Kia Cultus
Godless (Book about a preacher that became an Atheist)
Sound of The Beast (An in-depth book about the history of metal)
Metal: A Headbangers Journey (DVD)
Madden 09 (PS2)
Some clothes
Cash/Checks

I bought a Nintendo DS today with two games.

...there may have been more that I'm not remembering, I can't remember.

I've gotten a new laptop, a black jacket which I plan to cover in patches, Nintendo Wii, $20 In n Out and a $50 Buffollo Wild Wings.

Frostland Tapes
DVDs:
Wall-E
Juno
Hellboy
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

A money clip
Split an amp with my mom
Bought myself a new tuner

A concertina which fucking rules. That and my tin whistles are going to make some great folk metal.

Definitely one of the best and cutest movies of 2008! Loved it so much that I saw it 2 times in the theater... and I never did that with a movie


My haul:

$$$$$
iPod 160gb
Random limited art prints
1tb harddrive for my Mac because it's always full (mind you 50gb of my Mac is filled with music!)
Olympus flash unit detatchable to camera

I've seen plenty of computer animations with the kids, and that was the first one I actually thought was a good movie. None of the usual frantic pace and excessive number of pop culture references, but a nice story with little talking during the first half and pretty brilliant characters. I liked it a lot.

Yep, Wall-E sure was funny

How do you like OoE so far? I'm stuck on that fucking crab boss...

Just bought Fallout 3 with one of my gift cards. I'm also really enjoying Amorphis' Elegy.

Would you say it is better than The Incredibles? I liked The Incredibles but I haven't seen Wall-E yet.

I also liked how it had (finally) a relevant message on our society becoming more and more lazy, leaving technology to take care of everything for us. Not to mention there was a huge pro-green aspect of the movie which was good to show to the kids who saw this movie. A lot of monolithic messages in the movie; a Disney movie with a really big message other than that "they lived happily ever after" bullcrap.

Fool. Christmas is hardly a religious holiday anymore. Once America took over, it became a secular holiday. It's not like "good will towards men" is something that only Christians can believe in. I'm an athiest and I love the crap out of Christmas. Great time to give presents and enjoy lazy time with family.

Plus, I got a huge assload of DVD's this year. I wanted more video games, but oh well. We went all out on the comic-book films this year. Hellboy, Hellboy II, Hulk, Incredible Hulk, Ironman, all 5 Superman movies, and I think Pathfinder was based on a graphic novel.

Pretty much all of Pixar's films are the way you describe. Focus on characters and story, no lame-ass sing-along numbers, no pop-culture references, no use of actors just because they're "big name" assholes to sell tickets--they pick their actors to actually fit the roles. Craig T. Nelson as Mr. Incredible was a spot of pure genius, if you ask me. They didn't pick Will Smith or Mike Myers or Jim Carey just to use them. I still haven't seen Wall-E, but Finding Nemo and The Incredibles were both awesome. Ratatouille, I wasn't as big a fan of--but it's exactly like what you mentioned. It's very much not a "typical" animated film for kids. It's all focused on story and characters, with limited action. The damn movie is about cooking, of all things. Tell me that's typical animated Hollywood shlock.

As far as animated films go these days, no one is better than Pixar. Dreamworks--you have a 50-50 chance of the movie actually being worthwhile, and pretty much everybody else--including Disney's regular non-Pixar studios--well, the less said about them, the better. A major red flag is any animated film with a big-ass mention of the actors involved in it. You don't find that with Pixar. The stars of their films are the characters and stories. Not Cameron Diaz or John Travolta. *shudder*

Resident_Hazard, I meant that it indeed was the first computer animation I might call a good movie. Sure, I enjoyed Incredibles a lot, the Ice Ages, for example, are worth seeing once (not twice), and Pixar films rarely suck too much for a single viewing, but the first half of Wall-E is the best stuff they've ever made on a computer. No talk, the screen tells the story, no rushing around and hitting everybody's heads on various corners, but actually some decent storytelling with emotion and slowly enough.

It may be that we have a little bit of difference in our tastes when it comes to movies, but I'm sure you'll like it when you see it. Go see it in a theather.

And yeah, I've sadly missed the original voice actors, I need to see the dubbed versions for the kids' sake. There have been some damn good choices by the local folks so far, though, with the exception of the Madagascars.

I never saw Wall-E because I saw it as more of a drama/sad movie than a comedy, which is a genre I usually shy away from, but this description is very good. I do praise the movie for trying something different.


You speak such good English here that I forget it has to be dubbed for non-English speaking countries. Does that happen for every movie that goes to Finnish cinema? Sorry if it's an ignorant question.

No, only for the kids' movies. There would be a violent uprising if they ever tried that on any other movies. I'd be there, in those confused CNN shots, torching the movie import company's headquarters.

So only kids movies are dubbed? That seems a little strange to me, to be honest. How would an adult enjoy The Dark Knight if (s)he can't speak English?

Subtitles, silly.

Have you ever seen a movie dubbed from some other language? It's simply horrible, and I honestly pity the German speaking countries for their dubs. It's awful. I want to hear the sound as it was originally intended to be, and if I need help with the dialogue, the subtitles are there. They are really easy to get used to, believe me.

A friend of mine went to Germany for a month once, and was delighted to notice Babylon 5 on the telly in the hotel on the first night. His enthusiasm was killed immediately when captain (or whatever) Sheridan spoke German with the dull voice of Helmut Holzpöckel.

Almost all DVD's released in the US have some sort of languages option(dubbing). What pisses me off is that the majority of them offer French in this mode than Spanish which is pretty ridiculous considering how many Spanish speakers there are in the United States. Universal Studios is most guilty of this.

Ah, now I understand completely. We have a TV station dedicated to foreign shows/movies, and they're all subtitled. Having them dubbed would sound absolutely shit, as I have heard such atrocities before.

Yeah, subtitles are very easy to get used to, and I'd much rather that then the awful dubbing.

My mother (and I to a lesser extent) learned English by watching TV with subtitles on in English. I'm still pretty reliant on them, especially with English-speaking characters who have accents that are unfamiliar to me or too thick to understand. I agree with Napero on the dubbing--I remember the first time I watched some films in English after being forced to listen to bad dubbings and how much better everything sounded.


And everyone on this board is spoiled rotten! Whenever I have gotten gifts for New Year's, I was lucky to get one thing and maybe a few smaller things like chocolate or candy. That said, I got the most expensive gift to date, a lovely monitor to avoid squinting at a 12" laptop screen and a few minor gifts, including a figurine of an old 1965 BMW motorcycle from my mother so I'd quit nagging her to buy me one.

That's one of the ways I am trying to butter up on my Español. Not as much of a problem with regional variants and accents though since that language doesn't have quite as many as English.

I agree with Napero. I always prefer to watch movies that keep the original audio track, with subtitles. Der Untergang, House of Flying Daggers, all of them really.

Here's hoping Valkyrie gets good dubbed treatment when it is released to DVD in a few months.

I have a box set of Seinfeld, and in the bonus features is a dubbed version of an episode in Spanish, I think. It was AWFUL. Incredibly poor dubbing, even for poor dubbing standards.

OneRodeToAsaBay: I wasn't exactly spoiled rotten, but I did get some neat gifts, like a Terrorizer subscription and a new cell phone (mobile phones, as they're called in Australia). A monitor is a very nice gift! It improves the computer a hell of a lot more than you'd think.

I've only just discovered that they are called mobiles elsewhere outside of the United States because a friend told me that too. We call them mobiles here also but moreso they are called cells. But rarely called cellphones anywhere else.

Especially that one. Excellent Hitler in that movie. Wouldn't be the same with dubbing, no sir!

merry christmas all of you i got 300 euros cash an amon amarth picture lp of the versus the world copy 417/500 a book several cds(i bought them for myself xD) a knife/lighter and a pair of gloves as well as a hooded longsleeve

my loot:
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thundergod (2 disc version)
Mic stand
$$$
Cathedral Shirt
Guitar tuner
gift cards

My mom and cousin gave me a bunch of late Christmas Presents!!

New Xbox 360 wireless control
Call Of Duty 5
Gears Of War 1
Guitar Hero Pajamas (Damn Straight!!)
A sweater vest (haha)
300
Family Guy Season 3
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Cryonic Temple - In Thy Power
Stratovarius - Intermisson

And I got $60 from people in Christmas Cards!

my brother got those also

Neither I nor anyone else has ever paid for a new phone for me, I've always gotten them for free with my plan! And I pay for my own magazine subscriptions. So there, you are spoiled rotten! Ha!

And believe me, I've been thoroughly enjoying my new monitor.