Went to see Casino Royale last night, as expected it was stupidly busy though so couldn't get in the showing we wanted and ended up going for a pint - I know terrible sacrifice, but what else could we do! :)

I'm still don't think i've really decided if I liked it or not. It was a good film, but i don't think it really felt like James Bond.. I liked the way it explained a lot of the things about how he turns out and all the little character traits etc. That was quite cool, but I think it was just a bit too serious for bond. It was very dark and personally I missed the tongue-in-cheek one liners and stuff that make bond films, there was some, but very little of that. And of course the gadgets! - Ok maybe Die Another Day over did that a lot, but this went to the other extreme.

And as Mike said.... It's just a crime against humanity to destroy that Aston DBS without even barely using it!

Wow, that was actually a really good weekend, wasn't bored for once! Although don't think I could afford to do all that every week unfortunately!

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.... I got an Xbox 360 :-D :-D

I have no idea how either! Just walked into Curry's on friday and thought I might as well ask and they had one in the warehouse!??! The crazy thing is, this has happened to two of us this christmas now. Tom did the same thing with PC World on boxing day!

Only annoying thing is I can't get a sodding hard drive, they really don't have any anywhere. But at least I have an Xbox :-)

We had a few games of PGR3 and Perfect Dark Zero on new years eve of course and then proceeded to get very drunk and play poker as planned. Was a good night, although scarily even though we got through a shitload of alcohol, none of us had much of a hangover the next day.

Quite an early finish for us, poker-wise, stopped about half four in the end. Must be getting old :-|

What else has happened. Oh yeah, me and Mike walked out of The Producers last night it was that shit, please god, no-one go and see it. I have never walked out of a film before, it takes a lot for me to waste £6! I could rant on all day about how crap it was, but i'll stop now....

Right, back to the Xbox before I get too depressed about going back to work tomorrow

Labels: Films, Things i've bought

Went to see King Kong with Stu last night and it was really really good. Might have been three hours long but it didn't seem that long, or drag at all.... unlike certain other films (lotr).

Pretty amazing special effects as well as a good story, quite cool it being set in the thirties too, you don't get many modern films set in that era and it worked really well, I can see why the budget was so big though! Certainly was a million times better than the last film I saw with Stu, War Of The Worlds...

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Well, I take back what I said yesterday, this was one of the worst films i've seen this year! I really did expect it to be a good film, particularly with Spielberg directing etc.

But it was shocking! I can't really remember the original film so I've got nothing to compare it against, but me and Stu both said the same, it had absolutely no story! I've never seen a film with such a lack of depth or detail. Nothing was explained, e.g. what the red weeds were - They just appeared and nothing was said either way about them. I won't say much more incase anyone's not seen (although i'd say don't bother!) Everything in the film was just left hanging or ended all of a sudden like it had been cut short. They didn't even bloody explain how the son miraculously survived! It was only just over an hour and a half long and it seemed to us like half the film was missing. If that was quite stictly based on the book, as I thought I heard it was, then i've lost all respect for H G Wells!

I'm just annoyed. I wanted that to be a class film and I wish I hadn't wasted 4 quid on it now.

Labels: Films, Nights out / Nights in, Random rants

It's certainly nice round here for bike riding, i'll give it that!

After sorting my bike out, which hasn't been used for 4 years(!) I went out on a quick ride, which ended up turning into a ten mile killer... And it nearly did kill me lol. Not having ridden in 4 years and being generally unfit at the moment didn't help, neither did all the hills...

Was fun though and it was certainly better than sitting inside on a day like this! Probably won't get used for another 4 years now though, especially if I move into the city!

Right, BBQ time - The first of many here I hope, need to get everyone down here from sheff to have one in a few weeks!

Off to see War of the Worlds later, looking forward to that, from what i've seen it looks like it's gonna be a good film and with Steven Spielberg directing, let's face it, it's not going to be a bad film.

Work tomorrow :(

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