Advantages: Good storyline Disadvantages: Quite standard characters
Unknown is a thriller that opens in an abandoned warehouse in the American desert. At the start of the film we find that securely locked inside the warehouse are five unconscious men some with injuries ranging from quite small ones to the more serious. One unconscious man has a gun wound and is handcuffed to a railing; another man is tied to a chair. The remaining three men are sprawled unconsciously across the floor. As the film progresses one by one each man awakes but none of them can remember who they are, or what has happened.
When one member of the group reads a discarded page from a newspaper, they get a vital clue that two of them from the group have been kidnapped and the reminder of the group are part of the gang of would be kidnappers. Naturally this sparks a lot of suspicion and tension among the group as each man tries ...
Merced 28.12.2007
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Advantages: Original, inspiring Disadvantages: None that I can think of
Joy Division's first album, "Unknown Pleasures" was criminally ignored at the time (As far as I can recall, the Guiness Book of Albums mentions that it peaked at number 98 in the album charts). But this is a masterpiece of an album, a bleak, turgid soundscape that (to me) brings to mind a harrowing, post-industrial futuristic wasteland populated by dead-eyed, shellshocked people wandering and hopelessly lost in a quagmire of fear, resentment and despair. It is no coincidence that this album came out when Britain was financially and politically on its knees.
Ian Curtis' sonorous growl paints an unremittingly bleak picture over a canvas of dense rolling bass, stabs of coldly distant keyboards and mtuilated guitar. From the ominous "Day of the Lords" right to the very end and "I Remember Nothing" (which somehow chills to the core) this ...
Nikon 16-85mm lens is the digital answer to Nikon's highly popular 24-120mm lens in the film era. This lens has a great range, pretty accurate focussing and reasonable to excellent sharpness throughout its aperture range. My experience is based entirely on field tests since I don't believe in test charts.
At 3.5, the lens is reasonably sharp wide open but sharpness suffers a bit as you zoom to 85mm ( at 3.5, that is). If you stop down to 5.6 and beyond, I find it excellent at all focal lengths. Colors are excellent and chromatic aberration is reasonably well controlled. The lens is pretty sharp even if you crop 50%( based on my experience with my 10MP D200).
The thing I love most about this lens is the bokeh it renders at 85mm at 5.6. Of course, it cannot be compared with the bokeh of my old Pentax 135mm prime, but then it was ...
