Raina and I went and saw Beowulf last night we had seen the previews and thought that it could either be very good or very bad. Turns out is was just very “Interesting”.
Neither of us realised before we went in that the movie was entirely CG every character in the movie was a CG character based on a actor. The story was good although a little drawn out and the CG was pretty amazing..but movies where they try to do every single character in CG don’t work for me. One thing that was super annoying was the fact that because they could they use weird and stupid angles that you wouldn’t touch ordinarily they did. Additionally because they can do anything they want and they can ignore reality they do..they ask you to suspend disbelief a little too much. Monsters, dragons, demons, heroes I can all get behind being in a movie..but some of what was in this movie was more than a little daft.
When we got home we looked the movie up in imdb to see who played what and had a laugh at the plot keywords. “Impalement / Stabbed In The Arm / Sliced In Two / Shield / Burning City” the list goes on it made us chuckle.
All in all I think i will give it a 2.5 thumbs up.
Here’s an update
It has been a while since my last update, some months in face. In that time I have watched numerous movies, tv shows and spent much time playing games, working and seeing friends.
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Well the past two weekends haven’t been super busy. I saw superman returns again and the second time I enjoyed it more I was too harsh last time on it. I screwed up my computer and was forced to reinstall the OS and my second drive is fucking up now so when the current download is finished I will have to format it and then run some checks and make sure its all happy. On the upside when reinstalling my OS and trying to find correct MB model I discovered I had 2 SATA plugs on my motherboard..score I can install sata drives. I also bought myself a Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 4 which is a vast improvement over on board sound.
This weekend I went to dinner with a friend and tried Venison, it was tasty except I spent the rest of the night picking bambi out of my teeth..not fun. I also hired some dvd’s reviews below.
Slither – This movie didn’t play here in coffs so I hired it when i realised it was out on dvd. Its a horror flick the story is a creature from space has landed and is possing people and consuming lots of MEAT! I found it really amusing because of the dialogue and the prostects were cool. Anyone who is a fan of 80’s style horror flicks should rent and watch this 4/5 thumbs up.
Tamara – I saw this and noticed it was by some of the same guys as Final Destination. The story on this one is a girl who is having a hard time at school and has an interest in witch craft casts a spell to try and make her life better the spell requires her blood to be spilt to take effect and she doesn’t spill it..her schoolmate pray a prank on her that results in her dying and her blood being spilt then she takes revenge on them for killing her. all in all it wasn’t very good 1/4 thumbs up
Night watch – I should watch it again and see if it makes more sense next time through but as it was It was a little confusing even for me. I wont rate it.
Blood rayne – I downloaded this rather than hire it, its Uwe Boll movie based on a game (big surprise) I expected it to suck badly and was glad it didn’t let me down. damn did it suck. but there was some nice gore and stuff so i’ll rate it above Tamara with a 1.2/5 thumbs up.
Well last week I got my P’s which is good because now I’m allowed to drive my car (had I mentioned I got a car?) around which is good for me. I also had a stereo installed in my car and last night I realised I can plug any audio playback device in and play it out the speakers which is cool.
I’ve seen some movies lately
Click – An Adam Sandler flick, he was angry as usual. The story is basically a man is given a “universal remote” which allows him to fast forward, rewind, pause, mute etc his life..the remote learns his patterns and this has some negative concequences for him. It was funny until about half way through then it went down holl I’ll give it 2/5 thumbs up.
Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead mans chest: The sequal to a good movie, Johnny Depp is back as the pirate Captain Jack Sparrow and he has to settle his debt to Davey Jones. This was an enjoyable movie it had some really cool CG and was funny as well as some nice action scenes. I’ll give it a 3.75/5 thumbs up
Umm thats about it.
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Last week I saw Mission Impossible 3 i expected it would suck and be all about tom and surprise surprise it wasn;t completely and didn’t entirely suck.It was a good action flick lots of big explosions, pretty stunts and special effects..sure some of the stuff was really super lame but its Mission Impossible what do you expect. Phillip Seymour Hoffman made an awesome bad dude and toms “crew” where also good although they could have been given a bit more screen time.Overall i would give this a 3/5 thumbs up.
DVD’s
Well I finished deep space 9, then i moved onto series 4 and 5 of angel and watched them in under a week I enjoyed all of those shows many hours sitting on my arse watching dvd’s yay!
Other
I’m on leave now, after haing been at my job for 3 years I started my leave the monday of the anniversery of 3 years and have been enjoying my time off…I watched some dvd’s (Kill Bill Vol 1 and Xmen 1.5), i did some driving (thanks Raina) and as a big surprise to me (and probably anyone who knows me) some reading so far its been a very relaxing break. On Friday i head down to Sydney and return on the 29th so that is a big chunk of my holidays down there…hope i can keep myself entertained without my computer/dvd’s…eep.
Umm that is all for now I think.
Well its been over a month since my last post soo..
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Firday night was spent watching tv shows I had downloaded, downloading more TV shows and watching DVD’s it was entertaining. Saturday I played games, watched tv shows until midday when I went to lunch with Raina, Went to Mangrove Jacks and had a nice schnapper thinger. After lunch we went and watched Xmen 2 at my place and then went and got some noodles and some more DVD’s. The rest of the night was spent watching DVD’s We watched Charlie and the Chocolate factory (good), Red Eye (Ok) and Hostage (Ok). After that I went home.
Sunday I played games watched some downloaded SG-1 and had a driving lesson, the first time I had driven in 2 years or so. Raina’s car is nice to drive. After that I went home and watched more SG-1 until Jason came over and picked me up and we went to the hole known as Grafton. Went over to Josh’s got some KFC, played about 6 games of pool played a few hours of play station and headed back to Coffs.
Got back to Coffs at 9:10 went to see Underworld: Evolution at 9:15. I enjoyed this movie it was a nice action flick. If you are looking for something that is challenging or an insight into the human condition skip this. This movie is an action flick with vampires. The movie would have been better without the sex scene (Kate in latex is enough she doesn’t need to get nekkid as well) and less blind shooting. Seline (Kate) has been arround for 600 years you would think she would realise after having shoot a hybrid 2 dozen times and it doesn’t have a scratch she should try something else..but no she keeps trying to shoot!. 3/5 thumbs up for underworld.
A pretty good weekend all in all.
Welp my break is over and I am back at work, how unfortunate.
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Well its bloody monday again unfortunately the weekend is over :(
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Another weekend has passed this one cosisted of dvd’s, movies and drinking although not in that order.
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