My attempts to actually do proper blog posts (excluding Metal Mummy Movie Memes which appear to have dominated my blog since it launched) have been failing miserably of late. For this I do profusely apologise. I’m sure you all share the insane busyness that has been engulfing my life, and I know for a fact many of my friends do! In fact the only thing I’ve been doing recently is working and finding any moment I can to better myself at Starcraft 2, which isn’t going too well in all honesty. Never mind, this blog post is sponsored by my long awaited holiday which has suddenly freed up my time. Laptops are being left at home, and phones will be switched off – yes this will be an actual real life holiday!
We’re currently sat in Stoke on Trent (in Linda’s freezing cold house) sorting out the final bits and pieces of packing and shopping (hooray I have real flip flops now). Hannah is busy writing a couple of blog posts so that prompted me to do the same!
For those that don’t know, I’m taking a 7 day break from the stress of life, work and PHP and swanning off to Ölüdeniz in Turkey to enjoy some quality family time with Hannah, Freyja and the mother-in-law-to-be. I don’t have any specific plans for what to do, but I know that I’m going to do my best to chill to the max. I really am exhausted and really can’t wait to just unplug from everything. So… if my server goes down, or there’s an emergency at work, well you guys will just have to cope without me for a little while. It’s probably not such a bad thing if my server goes down for a while… less of my inane rubbish that spurts forth from my fingers into your eyes. And… with my low blogging frequency no-one will probably notice anyway!
So, here’s to me finally having a holiday, I can’t wait. So long and thanks for all the fish. Thanks for reading folks, that’s a wrap.
Hannah’s Metal Mummy Movie Meme is going from strength to strength and this week is the 10th week of running! Well done baby, keep it up! This week’s theme is Horror…Â I’m going for one that is a fantastic film which I love, and although it is a horror film, most of it doesn’t scare me apart from one particular scene that I find quite creepy…
The Orphanage
As I said, the film as a whole I didn’t find particularly scary. A great story and has parts in that would probably scare others, but as a generalisation I would say I’m not scared by this film. Apart from one particular scene towards the end of the film where they play a game called “Knock on the Wall”. It brings out creepy ghost children and there’s just something about that that just makes me want to hide under a cushion. It’s just creepy, those ghostly children creeping up on her like that. Argh! Probably going to have nightmares now Hannah brought up this topic… doh!
Anyway, head on over to Hannah’s amazing blog and check out all the other entries – NOW!!
My stonkingly gorgeous fiancée Hannah has today put up another Metal Mummy’s Movie Meme post, so I’m right back in there, like a buzzard. This week’s category is Favourite Actress, and I agree this is quite a hard one. I made a shortlist which includes Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, Milla Jovovich, but I finally settled on…
Dame Judi Dench
I think Judi Dench is fantastic – she makes a brilliant M. She’s got a huge film history and lots of stage acting experience, including directing. She’s been awarded a myriad of awards and recognised all over the place. With such a good career, you’d think I’d have more to talk about, but she is so well known it’s hard to find anything new to talk about her, so I’ll leave at that!
So hot on the heels of my horrendously late Week 7 post, here is my Week 8 post. This week’s topic is World Cinema and I have just the film in mind that I don’t think anyone else will write about! Huzzah!
Beowulf & Grendel
No, this is not the animated film starring Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins and Angelina Jolie, which although is alright, it’s not a patch on the live-action 2005 film starring Gerard Butler and Stellan SkarsgÃ¥rd (who, incidentally, is fantastic, and also stars as Bootstrap Bill Turner in Pirates of the Carribean, as well as Cerdic, a famous anglo-saxon king, in King Arthur). This proves that IMDB are wrong with their ratings on this one (6.5 for animated, 6.1 for live-action – it should be 7 for animated, 8 for live-action).
The film is an almost stylised version of the original poem, and it’s gritty and bloody. The film is Icelandic and I think really captures what I imagine that era to be like. Plenty of mead, raping, pillaging, blood and most importantly… troll rape. Yes you heard – this film has a slightly disturbing scene in which … well, I’ll leave it up to you to watch. I recommend this film – but take it with a pinch of salt. It’s just a great action film. With troll rape.
Bonus Points: Another foreign film I think is brilliant is City of God! So runner up to that…
Oh man, I’m so late with this Hannah is going to smack me around a bit… anyway, Metal Mummy is back with another Movie Meme and this week the topic is simply (hah!) the 80′s. Wow such a short theme title, yet covers a whole decade of films. There are no genre restrictions or anything – just the 80′s. I’m just going to go with the first awesome film I can think of because I’m so damn late with this post… sorry Hannah!
The Evil Dead
This is arguably one of the best horror films of all time. In it’s time it was groundbreaking, and now, it’s… well it’s just fantastic still. It’s timeless and never ceases to amuse me. Sam Raimi did himself proud with this film and used inventive filming techniques throughout. Shocking, yet noticeably tongue-in-cheek, this over-the-top horror/gore film really hits the spot with me. Never mind all these blockbusters and action films of the 80′s – this is where it’s at – low budget brilliance. Bruce Campbell is just fantastic and perfectly cast, and the sequels are almost on par, if yet many times more daft and ludicrous.
Dead by dawn!
