Seagulls sing your hearts away
Cause while the sinners sin, the children play ..
I finished my essays!
And just for the sake of convenience, the university printer network has decided to go on the fritz the morning of the hand in day. Some among you would call this karma, that is, churning out essays in zero hour instead of spending meticulous time and care and then being unable to print it. What a pedantic little twat karma is.
I was talking to Dan earlier about upcoming films this year. I have a lot of confidence in 2012 as far as films go, but it still feels kinda weird that it's actually 2012 in that respect; I've watched so many trailers and read so much stuff about films that are gonna be released at some point this year, which at the time felt like ages away but now its actually here. Its a good feeling.
In no particular order:
- The Dark Knight Rises
- War Horse
- The Avengers
- The Hobbit
- Halo: Faith
- The Amazing Spider-Man
- Brave
- The Expendables 2
- The Dictator
What I will warn against, oddly, is watching too many trailers. A surprisingly retarded amount of major plot details are leaked, far more so I reckon than used to be. Even saying stuff like "and the surprise ending will really take you by surprise!" is stupid. If you tell me the ending is gonna be a surprise, I'm gonna spend the whole film trying to predict it, like in The Sixth Sense. "The kid is the only living one! No, wait .. everyone's dead! No, wrong again! Bruce Willis is dead! And that woman is actually a guy!"
The other annoying thing is biased critic reviews. Noit biased in the sense that they loved a film whereas I thought it was shit, rather the kind of semi-corrupt media ownership aspect. People like Roger Ebert, who got special favours like a one-on-one interview with George Lucas after Phantom Menace came out. I think he still gets paid off by Disney as well. See if you can find a negative review of a Disney film from Roger Ebert. His review of Up was basically just him wanking onto a balloon.
