Aliens vs Predator: Rejected

I had been waiting for this movie with no small amount of excitement, as those who know me will have noticed. I am a really big fan of both of the seperate series, and for all its very obviouss flaws I still thought that the last AvP movie was pretty fun. Surely, I thought, if an aliens and predator movie with as many things wrong with it as AvP can be enjoyable then they just cannot miss....

Oh how naive and wrong I was. AVPR is RUBBISH!

I was intending to write a review of it now, but I'm just not sure I can bring myself to. When I say its rubbish I don't mean in a 'worst film ever made' sense, as I always say anyone who says that about any big hollywood movie just hasn't seen enough of the truely god awful films that are out there. And even for these sort of movies there are worse. Its not for example as bad as Rise of the Silver Surfer, the most awful film I saw last year.

Ok I'm just avoiding the topic now, must try and say something about AVPR... well the title is rubbish for starters...

What I don't understand is how they can take two sets of such well established and interesting mythology and just make it so mind numbingly dull. I did not care at all about even one of the human characters, in fact I almost found myself wishing none of them had survived. The film isn't logical for too many reasons for me to even bother going into. The film makers seem to have decided to try and up the ante in terms of both gore and shock moments, but to the point where I could hear people around me in the cinema echoing my thoughts of 'surely not...' and they have done it in such a cynical way to appeal to a certain audience that I'm sure would rather go and watch Saw. Theres so many things wrong with this film that I'm just going to give up...

No not quite, what the hell were they thinking with that 'surprise' ending, to show something like that in a throwaway way at the end of such an awful movie, argh!

Ok I'm done *fumes quietly*

Don't go and see it, just don't

Don't watch it on TV

Just don't see it.... ever

Hello World

Hello again readers, if any of you exist :P

So its been a little while since my last post, I got totally bogged down there for a bit with work, but thankfully managed to get it all done in time. Just my luck though to get sick! I spent over a week in various stages of illness and had the majority of last week off work. I think I am finally approaching wellness again though, whatever that means for me hehe.

Still got plenty to catch up with for work, but I'm also trying to get back into the swing of making videos after a bit of a slow period part caused by lack of time, part lack of inspiration and part being bone idle >.> Filming a new music video at the moment. Thats going fairly well but slowly, I'm trying to make it a bit more polished and more like a normal music video than the last one. Also looking at experimenting with effects a bit more like I did in the 'Bunnies!' video. A couple of other projects I'm fiddling with too when I can be bothered, both still in pre production.

I suppose the other big bit of news is that I am working on a Uni application for September, to study film/tv production! Did most of the application about a week ago and since then been working on a personal statement, writing about myself is so hard. I think its nearly there though. So I'll be sending that in soon and keeping my fingers crossed.

Oh and Lego Star Wars rocks, of course =) Seems even more fun than the PC versions I had before, but its hard work playing with the motion controlled lightsaber, so for long sessions mostly using the buttons.

Good morning World, and in case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!

The Force Is With Me!

Yay, thanks to sweet Anne I finally got a copy of Lego Star Wars for my Wii!

These have been crazy hard to get, but now I have mine, and soon I shall be waving my wiimote like a Jedi/fool... well even more than normal ^^

Well I will be after I've made some progress through the piles of work I have to do >.< Anyway, thank you Anne!