Update shizzle

I haven't posted for a while I hope to post regularly on here but I may not. Only time will tell. But what I wanted to say is as you may know on my YouTube channel I shall be doing a video every day for at least 4 weeks. So enjoy.

Interstellar

So a few days ago Nolan kindly gave us a teaser trailer for his new film. And I just need to say how much I am looking forward to this, even more after watching the teaser.

You may be asking what does the trailer tell us, not that much really. Just that it will be about some crowning human achievement to come that is in space. That is literally all we can get from it.

But come on its the next Nolan film so it will be awesome. No doubt about that, so roll in 2014 so we can it.

The British Comedy Awards 2013

So as I'm writing this the comedy awards are taking place. But I plead to anyone who may turn over to watch them or catch up on them, don't. I have just sat through 40 minutes of them and not a single funny joke was told, I would not even give any of them a 'lol' as young people say.

And why they got jonathan Ross to host I have no idea, it's like getting Professor Hawking to host the Olympics, you just don't do it. Get someone funny in to do it, get Graham Norton he is twice the chat show host Ross is and knows how to formulate a joke and a joke that will get laughs at that.

And the awards, who actually judges where they are going, as this person must never of seen any comedy before. Lets take the first award for an example, it was the clip show category. And the winner was a clip in which a man said Michael Gove twenty odd times, how on earth is that comedy. But hey why let something like not being funny get in the way of being a shit show.

So please I beg of you don't waste your time on that tripe, go to YouTube and watch some Monty Python or Morecambe and Wise or Fawlty Towers. If you want laughs watch actual comedy as this show is devoid of it.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Review

So earlier today I watched the new Hunger Games film. And I have to say it wasn't what is all it was made up to be, don't get me wrong I really liked it I just expected more. But on with the review and sadly I do have to warn that their WILL BE SPOILERS as I can't come up with a review without referring to the film sorry.

So where to start, oh yes the beginng. And it starts approx 1 year after the first film finished and we haven't really missed much other than political issues. So we see Katniss and that boy she loved from the first film, not Peta the other one, having some time together. And I'm thinking this could really lead to something considering in the public eye she and Peta are lovers. So there may be some affair or something, oh was I dumb as that would require common script writing sense to come up with. I'm not lying we literally see him once they kiss and say how much they love each other, 2 hours later they see each other again, minding between then Peta and her have apparently gotten married and have a child on the way, they show no signs of love and all he tells her that her home district is destroyed. I really hope that is ending wasn't supposed to be shocking as for the entire film they were leading towards his. Hell earlier they said about a district 13 having been destroyed, but I shall come onto that in a moment, due to revolution. So you tell us this and show revolt and crap discipline in that district and expect us to be shocked when we find out it is destroyed, learn to write. I don't know if this is directly from the book or adapted for screen but either way it is stupid.

So district 13, a major exposition point wouldn't you agree about an entire district being destroyed. But did we hear of this before, say in the first film when you tell us about the district system, the revolution and why you have the hungers games, when it would make sense to tell us. Nope and do they mention it again nope, as that would require them to know who to write. And this system has gone on for 75 years, so Kantiss is what 17 so that's 50 years for it to have been destroyed without her knowing about it. But if it was her mothers generation in which it is destroyed don't you think someone would of spoken of it, even if it was the generation before how have people forgotten about it. An entire district being destroyed and no one talks about it, really? Pompeii was destroyed how many thousands of gears ago and we still know and talk about that, so in a country that had 13 districts how can the destruction of one of those have no one remember it.

But carrying on the theme of being unable to write we come to the predictability of the film, as stated before district 12 being destroyed how obvious was that. And how about kantiss surviving these Hunger Games, but would they really kill the main character, no. But they still write in at least 6 times events in which could lead Kantiss to death, 1 or 2 times yea but 6 can you write, oh no you can't. Did you really think that we, the spectator, are dumb enough to think that you would kill the main character. And when they aren't trying to kill Kantiss, they are just piling up the exposition or just aimless action sequences. Learn to write.

But on the up side the film carried on brilliantly from the last film, the visuals were spectacular, a couple of the characters are explored very well. There are also some good special effects within the film but it isn't spectacle over substance, there is still a lot to this film its just easy to find negatives as they just forgot how to write.

So now your thinking should I really go and see this, but then if you haven't seen it you probably didn't read this due to the spoiler warning. But yes do go and see it, it is still an amazing film that is better than the first one by miles. And my rating is a solid 8/10 I really hoped I could give have given it more but it just didn't work out that way sadly.

United 93

Oh My God! This is the single greatest piece of  afilm documentary ever made. There are not enough words to describe the epic proportions of this film. It does everything that you expect of it and more, you feel like you are on that plane, that you are at the air traffic control. Where ever Greengrass points the camera is where you are, at one point I was even offering my decisions to the air traffic controller.

My words can't do this film justice though, it is a film that has to be seen to be believed. Forget Gravity, this is way more breath taking and edge of your seat. And you may think I know how it ends so it won't be that powerful of an ending, oh you couldn't be more wrong. I literally knew 90% of everything that happened in those events and I am still awestruck by it. And that ending is one of the greatest film endings ever, it even puts the ending of the soprano's to shame, even though they are technically identical.

So my verdict. It is to simply go out and buy this film and sit down and watch it. Make sure you have no distractions, turn off your phone, unplug your landline and disable your internet. A rating you ask, my only answer is that it would be arbitrary to give it a rating as there is nothing else on the market to compare it with.

My first post.

So here we are about 50 subscribers later, with many rants, reviews and high blood pressure later. A Blog, who'd believed I would have started a Blog of my own, I know I did some work on Curtis's Reviewling but that wasn't really a Blog of my own. But this one this, so what shall we include on this Blog, how about reviews. Not very original and their better on the channel but they shall be here none the less. How about rants, nah written rants are crap. Oh how about a short story or two, that'd be something stories by me and not the fondoodling type. But you may ask yourselves would short stories by me be any good, how about you read and find out.

On that evening occurred the final act in this great betrayal. The evening was young but because of a fierce snow blizzard it was as dark as the depths of the ocean. Due to the snow Alex had no choice but to walk home, he was wrapped up in his make-shift artic gear and steel capped walking boots. As he walked through the blizzard he could barely see 2 feet in front of him and all he could hear was the crunch of the snow beneath his feet. The only illumination that he had was the dimly lit street lights; these provided barely enough light to help his visibility.

As he carried on walking on his long trek home, the crunch of the snow became louder; he presumed that the snow was simply getting deeper. As he carried on walking he felt that one of his boots had become lose; he bent down to re-tie the lace on it but whilst he did that he fell upon something that was a mystery to him. He was standing still but the crunching of the snow continued, he turned around to see if someone was behind him but there wasn’t. As he turned back around to continue on his way home he could see a black silhouette heading towards him from the corner of his eye, this stopped him in his tracks.

 As the dark figure carried on coming towards him Alex could start to see more of his features, but still couldn’t make out who the figure was until he was right in front of him. Stood inches in front of him was the last person Alex wanted to see, James. As they faced each other mere minutes passed but for them it was an eternity, during this time they said nothing to each other only gazed into each other’s eyes.

Alex was the first to break the deadlock stare they kept at each other. Yet he only looked at his watch, knowing it was a futile effort to read the time from it as it was covered in a thin layer of snow. But as he looked back up he did not meet with an unrelenting glare, that he had expected to see, but a right hook from James. Even with the sub-zero temperatures and the small covering of ice on James’s hand, it still felt as hot as the depths of hell to Alex’s cheeks.

James had swung his fist with all of the force he could gather, yet Alex still felt no pain once it had connected with his cheek. Although he had felt no pain, the punch had still caused him considerable damage. He had bitten the side of his cheek open, and it was now a reservoir of blood that was flooding into his mouth. As well as this one tooth had been knocked out of the gum, with several others severely chipped. As rivers of blood began to fill Alex’s mouth, he found it considerably harder to breathe without choking. So as he looked back into the face of a hysterical James, he spat out the blood into James’s face followed by a stare of anguish.

James wiped the blood front his face and broke the silence that had separated them. “Six months ago, you gutted my career; and destroyed everything I stood for. After that I had nothing left, my job, gone! My wife, my fucking wife, left me because of that. And to add insult to injury she aborted our baby. For that Alex I can never forgive you, and even revenge would be bitter sweet knowing that I lost a child over this. So as you stabbed my back, I’ll stab yours, literally!” James plunged his hand into his pocket and almost immediately reproduced a 7inch long knife. 

Before Alex could even react James had plunged the knife into his back, and as it entered James twisted it to cause maximum damage. But it had gone in-between 2 of the discs in Alex’s back, so as he twisted the discs started to separate, and one by one the nerve cords broke like strings on an over-tuned guitar. After he had twisted the knife 180 degrees James removed the knife and let Alex collapse to the floor. For James this all happened within a minute, but for Alex time stood still as daggers of pain assaulted his body with no resentment. As he fell to the snow laden ground, the cold winter air flowed into the wound, as it did waves of agony and torture resounded up and down Alex’s body until finally he fell into a void of darkness as his body finally fell unconscious to the pain.   

As Alex’s body lay in the snow, the blood slowly gushing out of his wound and dying he nearby snow red; James knelt down beside him and whispered in his ear. “I forgive you now”. And with that he disappeared into the blizzard. But he was barely fifty meters away when his phone started to ring, as he stared down to see the caller id, a moment of satisfaction washed over him.   

The caller id identified the caller as Ben; even though he thought it a bad choice James answered the call. “Look Ben, I don’t want to talk right now and there is nothing you can say to change my mind.”

“If you don’t want to talk, you can listen then. I’ve spoken to Amber, and she has reconsidered her actions and realised the harm she has caused you. But said she could never abort little Hannah. But most importantly she said that Alex showed her how much she over-reacted, and managed her to agree to talk to you again; she should be phoning you later this week.”

“Ben, are you sure she said Alex?” asked James, with a regretful tone appearing in his voice.

“Yep, as sure as the sky is blue.”

“I’ve got to go. I’ve made a terrible mistake!” James remarked, immediately hanging up on Ben. “My god, what have I done?”

James turned round and began to run back to where he had left Alex. He was only mere meters away and covered it with seconds, yet it would have made no difference to him had it been a mile as it still took an eternity to get there. In the blizzard flakes of snow struck his eye’s like needle’s, as the inches of snow on the ground felt like quicksand which he was constantly sinking and falling into, with extreme difficulty to get back up. Once he reached Alex he knelt beside him, and looked him straight in the eye’s; he was so fixated in them he didn’t even notice a small smirk that appeared on Alex’s face.

“Alex, look at me, stay with me! I’m not going to let this happen again.” He said with panic in his voice, whilst slapping Alex’s cheek to keep him conscious. James reached for his mobile and hastily dialled 999, “come on answer, come on.”

Finally, to his satisfaction there was an answer to his call, and before the operator even had a chance to speak he started to shout for an ambulance. “I need an ambulance now; a man has been stabbed and has lost a lot of blood.”

“Where are you and do you know the name of the man who has been stabbed” asked the operator.

“I’m on Taylor Lane and he has no id on him.”

“Thank you sir, an ambulance has been diverted to your location and will be there in a couple of minutes. May I take your name?”

“Yes, tell him Ben Jones saved his life.” And with that James hung up the phone and gave Alex a reassuring nod and walked off into the blizzard.