July 2012
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At The Movies : The Amazing Spider-man
And as promised I’m back with a look at what happens when the studio hits the reset button on one of it’s biggest francises, how does Amazing Spider-man fare in comparison to Sam Raimi’s first effort released just over a decade ago? Read on and find out. Originitis The dictionary of things that aren’t really diseases defines Originitis as “Inflammation of the...
Jul 9th
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Movie Flashback: Spider-man 3 Live Commentary
I’ve tried a couple of times to sit through the entirety of Spider-man 3 since I first seen it in the cinemas but every time I have to either turn it off in frustration or fast forward through half the movie (usually any scene involving Mary Jane). With “Amazing Spider-man” out now and tickets booked to see it tomorrow I thought it would be a good idea to make myself sit through...
Jul 7th
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Reality TV
I refuse to watch any and all kinds of reality TV, why? Because as some of you may know it has long been my dream to be a writer and scripted television is dying recently thanks to good old low budget reality TV (So are game shows for that matter, I miss Noels House Party) after all why pay screenwriters directors actors fx budgets etc when you can just make one nice set and have a group of people...
Jul 3rd
More Facebook Ranting
Before I begin I would like to answer a question, why do I have a facebook when I despise so many of the people on it? I have a facebook, I use it every day as a means of communicating with my friends and spreading interesting news that I think may be of interest to them or funny pictures I think they may like as well as making conversation and plans with my friends. I have a special list entitled...
Jul 2nd
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Side Cleavage - The Newest Fashion Trend
         Is this meant to be sexy? Maybe to 14 year old me who used to freeze frame Terminator to get shots of Linda Hamiltons side boob it but 24 year old me just wonders who thought this was a good idea? Does it make a statement besides “Now you can see the side instead of the top”
Jul 2nd
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Spider-man 2
I can accept a man getting Spider Powers from a radioactive spider that wears red spandex. I can accept he can somehow generate infinite amounts of sticky webbing from his wrists and now through is backside like Spiders normally do even if it does violate comic continuity. I can accept a man can build 4 massive near in-destructible mechanical arms that he controls/control him. I can accept some...
Jul 1st
June 2012
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At The Movies: Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter
WARNING - CONTAINS SPOILERS (Not that there’s much worth spoiling by any means) I’m a simple man really, when I heard the title Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter I thought “Huzzah, a ridiculously over the top movie of Abraham Lincoln killing vampires and looking good doing it for 90 minutes.” I thought this would be the movie to make up for Timur Bekmambetov’s last...
Jun 29th
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Small Talk
In the Street You know the feeling, you’re walking down the street with a song in your head and a spring in your step, not a care in the world. You see someone you know and as you walk towards them you say hi or hello or some other form of salutation. They respond with a similar form of salutation before asking “how are you.” You quickly respond with some form of...
Jun 23rd
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Movie Flashback: X-Men The Last Stand
The X-men series has been a series of up and downs, the first movie is a solid 3/5 comic book movie that spends so much time setting the scene that it forgets to tell a overly satisfying story within the constraints of it’s running time. X-Men 2 is an unbelievable improvement, a movie I’d give 5/5 too and rank amongst the finest Superhero movies (For the record I don’t classify the absolute...
Jun 5th
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Courting on Facebook
These days when you meet someone you like rather then exchange numbers the first thing you do is say “Add me on facebook.” I can’t be the only one that thinks this is a really stupid way to go about courting someone can I? I can think of a number of issues. 1. If I’m trying to get to know someone whats better, over dinner, over small talk or reading every single thing about...
Jun 5th
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Facebook Birthday
In top right of my facebook today it tells me that it’s one of my friends birthday, if I click on their name it gives me an option to write a birthday greeting for them. Not only that but if I travel throughout the site occasionally I mean get a little box on the right hand side of the screen that actually suggests I go to their page and wish them a Happy Birthday. That’s right, Facebook is trying...
Jun 5th
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The Big Bang Theory (Round 1)
First a flashback to a much simpler time 5 years ago, I was a 2nd year University student studying Math’s and Physics living in a sitcom like situation, I get my monthly copy of Physics World and in it there’s an article about this new show called The Big Bang Theory, I can’t remember the exact specifics of the article and I didn’t deem Physics World to be worthy of the same treatment my 1000’s of...
Jun 2nd
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Facebook (Part 1)
I don’t care how “hot” “Horny” or “lucky” whatever some stupid random app says you are today. I don’t want to see some crappy word of the day or your randomized fortune for the day. I don’t want to feed your ego by playing some stupid number game. I will not like your status to see if there’s any chance of you considering dating me unless...
Jun 2nd
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LOL
The dictionary defines lol as “Laugh out loud” Firstly, the fact that this abomination managed to get such widespread use that it warranted admission into the dictionary is a complete disgrace. Here’s a little challenge to everyone, every time someone writes LOL imagine they’re actually laughing out loud. I tried this for a bit and I realised that it makes everyone sound...
Jun 2nd
May 2012
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Frustrated.COM
In recent years there seems to be a thing going where people take a word, usually an adjective, and place a website extension at the end of it. I have have a question about this practice…. Why? I mean I can only imagine this started because someone mentioned the website “bored.com” which is an actual website of, shock horror, stuff to do while you’re bored. Then some...
May 27th
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Star Wars XXX (Or the time I turned off a porn...
I enjoy Star Wars. I also enjoy porn occasionally being a single man stuck in a town with very few single girls that I can stand (if any). You’d think “Star Wars XXX” directed by Axel Braun, the guy behind “Batman XXX,” a movie I maintain was better when the cast had their clothes on, would be something I’d enjoy. I stick it on and it starts as expected the...
May 27th