Whatever the case may be

Today I saw the new release 'Terminator Salvation' at the cinema. I'd been looking forward to the flick for a while, being a big fan of the first two Terminator movies, and to a lesser extent the television series. Despite this though I went in with fairly low expectations, but strangely quite high hopes.

Was I disappointed?
Well no. But not completely thrilled either.
The film, as an action film and a war film was quite good. The story was feasible and fit in with the Terminator mythology and I was reasonably entertained. Christian Bale was pretty good as John Connor but at the end of the day wasn't much different from his portrayal of Bruce Wayne/Batman (which isn't too much of a bad thing). He barked orders and fought machines with impressiveness and did his job well. More impressive though in my eyes was Sam Worthington, the cyborg whose body was taken by Cyberdyne Systems after his execution in 2003 and made into what he is in 2018. His performance was intense and fun to watch, although was marred by the odd cheesy cry and moan of pain. The kid who played Kyle Reese was a good watch also and I hope he gets even more character development leading up to his time traveling in future installments.
McG has done an ok job, he's no Cameron but nobody could argue the end-product and the film itself don't look great. Visually the film looks impressive and seems to keep moving.
It was also nice to see the little nods to the previous installments such as the T-800 CG Arnold look-a-like.

At the end of the day I was entertained by this movie. It was enjoyable to see this war that was talked about for all these years in the previous movies and the rough style in which it was filmed, but I was slightly put off by the other types of machines that were more transformer-ish and looked like they existed only to be made into toys.

If I were to make this film into formulaic terms it would be:

Terminator Salvation = (Terminator/Saving Private Ryan + The Phantom Menace + Transformers)

On another visual note, this movie introduced me to the hot looking Moon Bloodgood who I'm going to be actively seeking more of in the future....
(although after looking her up on IMDB I've just realised she was an excellent character in a favourite show of mine 'Journeyman')

Because you left

Well it's been a while since I've blogged and I look forward to trying to get back in the habit. To kick start it off again I'm going to be using the title for a 'Lost' episode for each new entry, hopefully being as relevant as possible.
In the grand canyon size gap since my last post my life has changed somewhat. I've moved out of the family home and into a house with my girlfriend that we are now renting together. This of course has brought all new kinds of joy as well as the karmic balance of new trials and tribulations.
The house is still approximately 60 miles from work so nothing gained there, but I think the decision to stay in Chesterfield for now was a good one as I still feel my family need me occasionally, and I know from time to time I'm going to need them too.
Money of course has been an issue whilst moving in, stuff to be bought, new bills to become acclimatised to but I think we'll get on our feet, just for now I'm trying to be as tight as a...well...
The house is great, a nice sized living room with a great couch for ormeging (a word a friend coined to explain a nicely lazy state), a nice kitchen, a big dining table, a fancy bathroom and two bedrooms, I've never felt more at home to be honest.
Work is still going well, I'm getting a lot of praise from on high (for some reason), and as happy as I am I can't see me doing it forever. I do like the job and most of the people I work with but sometimes I regret going into computing. I'm at the stage now where I feel like I'm a little pot committed and because I'm used to the money I haven't got any wiggle room to look for something different.
But I've resolved just to take life as it comes for now, I'm still young, still eager and still have some creativity and fire in me yet.
Watch this space.

A Sign the Great Depression Isn't on Us Yet

Listened to the radio lately? Watched TV? Read a newspaper? Then you'll know that we're in a recession and that Britain is doomed and the world is going to crash by the weight of it's own greed.

Except it isn't is it?

The media, as they always do, have blown the situation out of all proportion to scare the masses and confuse the public.
Just today I was listening to the news on Radio 1 and a piece was on about the soaring levels of unemployment in the country, fair enough I thought, it is on the rise. Then it went on to speak to a household of twenty-somethings explaining that they could not get a job, again fair enough I thought, jobs aren't always easy to secure. But then it went on to point out the extent of their poverty, apparently most nights they have to go the lengths of eating pasta, flavoured with "Jack Daniels". Hang on?! Jack Daniels?! Is this this what poverty means now-a-days, cooking with name brand Whiskey. Call me skeptical but I couldn't help thinking times weren't maybe as hard on these people as the piece was trying to make out.

Another pudding in which the proof sits that we aren't as hard up as a country as we're said to be is comic relief. This year once again the brilliant boys and girls who make up red nose day did another fantastic job and raised more money that ever. Showing once again that money can still flow from the back pocket of us decent folk and that ultimately, as a country, we can afford it.

If you did watch comic relief this year, you will no doubt have seen what real poverty and pain is and that it is all over the world, in England, Africa, everywhere. It always has been and it always will be. But don't worry the world isn't going to end quite yet. Nothing has changed drastically, as history shows, the rich get richer and the poor as a majority get by.

Until next time, stay classy world.

The beginning....of the end?

Hello World.... nope that's programming. Howdy....that's being a cowboy. How does one enter the world of blogging? Well...
Hello. I don't think there are many 23 year old Computer Science graduates who haven't at least dabbled in blogging, but until today I was one of them, and so this is the beginning for me.
So my life at the moment. I live with my wonderful girlfriend...but we live with the rest of my family too, a bit of a drama most of the time but we cope. I work as a computer operator for a big clothes retailing company, which pretty much means I work 12 hour shifts 3-4 times a week monitoring all there systems, its over an hour commute in the car but at least it gives me time to think. They money is good too, so at least I can justify being a zombie by the end of my third shift.

As my name suggests I am a geek, I have my large DVD collection in alphabetical order, I download the latest TV shows and movies as quickly as I can, I read Empire magazine, I play video games, I like my computers and I have a collection of action figures stood on the top of my TV unit.

At some point I intend to write a screenplay, I really will get round to it at some point, really, just as soon as that thing is done, and I've tided up a bit, and oh is my music collection really in that state?! But seriously I really want to do this soon, I've decided it doesn't even matter if its a worst read than Lindsey Lohan's autobiography (I really hope that doesn't exist), I've just got to write one.

Anyway that is my introduction to myself and my blog. I'm sure that at some stage I will write something that somebody may want to read.

Until next time, you stay classy world.