CinéMagique!

Yesterday, I watched a couple of new films and I have to say, both had their merits, but both had their pitfalls.

One of the films I watched was "9".  It was quite trippy.  It was about a group of sack cloth dolls in a post apocalyptic world where all humans had been destroyed by an army of machines, which they created.  Heavy morals; the humans created the machines which led to their destruction,they were reckless, and that, even someone with tons of brains can be easily corrupted by evil forces if they lack a soul.  Deep stuff.  Regardless of being trippy, it was good.  I don't want to give away too much about it, but it had a heartbreaking end, I'll say that.  It was also terribly scary for a cartoon, but what do you expect from a Tim Burton production?

The other film I watched, slightly less bogged down with morals, was "The Hangover".  Meh.  It was okay.  There was a few funny bits, but I thought it was somewhat reminiscent of "Dude, Where's My Car?" and it wasn't going to live up to that.  Overall, it was quite a good film, it exceeded my expectations, I'll give it that, but then again I wasn't expecting much, people find it funny, and other films that people like are rubbish.  It was fine, it had been hyped up too much though. 

Anyway, I think I am a bit critical sometimes, so don't take my word for these films actually being like I said; my taste in films differs a fair bit from other people's tastes.  For example, I hated "Twilight", "The Dark Knight" and both of the Daniel Craig as James Bond films.

Born again Optimist?

For someone who is in all honesty, somewhat pessimistic, I quite like the world.

Whether it is the autumn leaves blowing around and crunching under your feet, or the wind whistling through the trees, or even just the clouds moving across the sky above, it's actually quite nice.  I was walking home and I just couldn't help but smile, it was just so calm and peaceful.  The leaves have started falling from the trees and they were crunching as I walked. The clouds were white and fluffy, except for the heavy dark ones threatening to soak everybody and the wind, despite the chillyness, was nice blowing around me.

I think I'm going soft.

What an idiot!

I am simply awful.  Honestly, you can't take me anywhere.

Today in RMPS (or PSE, or whatever it was) we were watching the end of "The Mission" (fabulous linkage for 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon), and I got a little teary at the end.  It's one of those films you watch and think, 'Oh, this'll be a load of nonsense' and 'I don't want to watch this, it'll be rubbish'.  To be honest, I thought both of these things, yet at the end, SPOILERS!, when they all got killed, I started to tear up a little.  It may have been the quality of the less than realistic deaths that brought me to tears, but I think not.  As well as that, I was sitting a few minutes ago typing out my monologue for English and that got me a little teary too.  I really am rubbish.  Not to mention being 'inconsolable' after watching "Toy Story 3" at the cinema, and crying at "The Princess and The Frog" and "Up", and 5 out of 7 episodes at the end of Season 2 of "Supernatural".  Actually, I seem to cry at everything.

Quelle Horreur!

This will probably just be a very short post, but I felt it needed to be said.


'My Bloody Valentine' was on yesterday and it got me to thinking.  What would it be like to be in a horror film?  How would you die, and when?  Would you be the one to save the day, or would you be the one to get the chop first?  I think it would be really fun to be in a horror film.  You would find out more about the human psyche and how people function under very stressful circumstances.

I would love to have a go; I'm sure you'd get a good workout, running away from the killer.  Oh, I would absolutely love to act in a proper horror film, a slasher preferably; one with lots of death, lots of gore, and a lot of screaming.

Is it just me?  Do you want to be in a horror film?  If so, what kind?  Slasher, psychological horror, some kind of supernatural horror (e.g. Drag Me to Hell (pretty boring film, by the way)) with ghosts and spirits (e.g. Shutter (that was good) or The Haunting in Conneticut) etc?  What do you think?

Don't Say a Word

I thought we used to be friends. Ok, we used to have a pretty strained relationship, but doesn't everyone have a 'friend' they love to hate?

Recently, though, I discovered that you weren't the person I thought you were. I don't even think that you like me anymore, saying stuff about me behind my back. Like the fact that you said I thought I was better than everybody else, thanks for that. I didn't think that, on any level. You jumped to your own conclusion. Am I not allowed to just be happy, or in a good mood? Apparently not. Just to let you know, it was the combination of a cappuccino, the majority of a packet of Lucozade carbohydrate jelly beans, half a packet of Dextros sugar tablets and quite a major adrenaline rush.

I think that you've also managed to turn other people against me. They all knew what you said, so why didn't I? Why did nobody think of telling me what a spoiled, drama queen you are?

Anyway, I would be very grateful if you stayed away from me and didn't talk to me again.

Mind Boggling

I like that phrase. 'Mind Boggling'. I've been saying that about quite a lot of things recently.

I think it started with the documentary about aliens and all the historical proof that people have to say that they do exist (Ancient Aliens on the History Channel, you should check it out if you can). That was mind boggling. Apparently, according to that documentary, there is proof that Akhenaten (or Amenhotep IV) could have in fact been an alien. That's quite cool, but it also said that every single God from every civilization, especially ancient civilizations, could have also all been aliens. It was really mind boggling though, all the proof they had, just wow.

And then there was the program we watched in Geography. It was about the Earth's atmosphere. It was telling us all about the things that the atmosphere could do. It showed us some features created by the wind, it showed us the different layers of the atmosphere and it showed us all of the different things that take place in the atmosphere. It said that we are essentially living at the bottom of a giant ocean, like lobsters, and that the weight of the atmosphere pushing down against us is equal to the weight of about a bus (I think), but we don't get squished because the air (or the water) inside us equalises the pressure, just like lobsters! I thought that was somewhat mind boggling as well. I never would have known any of the things in that program in a hundred years if I hadn't watched it. I just thought, 'Wow', when we were watching it.

Last night was the clincher, however. That was the mind bogglingness to end all mind bogglingness. My mum wanted to show me a realy bright star, so I went outside. The moon looked really eerie, there were clouds around it, and the light was only shining through little breaks in the clouds, but you couldn't actually see the moon itself, only the light. It was the kind of sky you would expect to see in some kind of horror film, it was just really creepy. I sat down then and tried to see the really bright star my mum told me about. She sat down on the other seat and tried to point it out, but it went behind the clouds, I couldn't see it. She then saw a sattelite, I missed it, but she went in a short time after. I stayed outside and just sat looking up at the stars. It got me thinking; 'was there anybody sitting, doing the same as me somewhere else in the world?' And then I thought; 'Was there somebody sitting on that really bright star above my head, sitting, looking up at the stars, looking up at the earth, and thinking, 'Is there someone sitting looking up at me?'?'. All of those stars, surely there is someone else out there. I just felt so small and insignificant. I was tiny in the grand scheme of things, and I thought:

"Mind boggling..."