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Oh, Coooool....
A fine day yesterday.
The reason I like shopping at Kendalls is because it's a shop where you can take in a suit you bought six months ago, say it's a bit worn, and they give you a new one without batting an eyelid. The good thing aboutthis is that they gave me a refund on the old one, I added a bit more to the total, and walked out with a fine new Kenzo suit which will double as kit for Follower of Set (assuming he didn't die yesterday in the proxy scene..). So effectively I got a free Strellson suit for six months whilst I saved to buy the one I really wanted in the first place. Cool...
Then , post lunch , wench and I wandered past the cinema and noticed they were having preview showings of Spiderman, so in we went.
The cinema was *empty*, surprisingly, but I suppose nobody knew about the surprise showing. in truth, I can't honestly understand why it's breaking box-office records - I mean, it's okay but by no means great - the CG action scenes are decidedly ropey at times, and the SFX are largely nothign like as good as Attack of the Clones. Great characterisation, though. If you cut the characters from Spiderman into the SFX from AOTC, you'd have a winner and no mistake...
then, geeking likefury by now, we went to see The Time Machine, which was far better than I'd been lead to believe. Fun, funny (in parts), and a criminally underused Jeremy Irons as the baddie in the best 'nos elder' makeup and cossie I've seen (better than Blade 2 by a loooong shot). A bit let down by the ending, which implied that you can avoid aging by hiding behind a rock, but I enjoyed it more than I did Spidey - perhaps because I expected to be disappointed and wasn't...
Ended the day by watching Orlando, and drooling over the wonderful, wonderful costumes. I want more money, and I want it now so I can buy them. All of them. Except the frocks, perhaps.
The reason I like shopping at Kendalls is because it's a shop where you can take in a suit you bought six months ago, say it's a bit worn, and they give you a new one without batting an eyelid. The good thing aboutthis is that they gave me a refund on the old one, I added a bit more to the total, and walked out with a fine new Kenzo suit which will double as kit for Follower of Set (assuming he didn't die yesterday in the proxy scene..). So effectively I got a free Strellson suit for six months whilst I saved to buy the one I really wanted in the first place. Cool...
Then , post lunch , wench and I wandered past the cinema and noticed they were having preview showings of Spiderman, so in we went.
The cinema was *empty*, surprisingly, but I suppose nobody knew about the surprise showing. in truth, I can't honestly understand why it's breaking box-office records - I mean, it's okay but by no means great - the CG action scenes are decidedly ropey at times, and the SFX are largely nothign like as good as Attack of the Clones. Great characterisation, though. If you cut the characters from Spiderman into the SFX from AOTC, you'd have a winner and no mistake...
then, geeking likefury by now, we went to see The Time Machine, which was far better than I'd been lead to believe. Fun, funny (in parts), and a criminally underused Jeremy Irons as the baddie in the best 'nos elder' makeup and cossie I've seen (better than Blade 2 by a loooong shot). A bit let down by the ending, which implied that you can avoid aging by hiding behind a rock, but I enjoyed it more than I did Spidey - perhaps because I expected to be disappointed and wasn't...
Ended the day by watching Orlando, and drooling over the wonderful, wonderful costumes. I want more money, and I want it now so I can buy them. All of them. Except the frocks, perhaps.