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Who's Who to You?
In secondary school I had something of a reputation as a huge Doctor Who fan, and to be fair I spent most of my time there with three or four Target novelisations in my pockets. As a result when the McGann mini movie was announced everyone expected me to be over the moon, but I wasn't. Not to say I expected it to be bad, the idea just didn't fill ( Read more... ) -
Riddick you louse!
Another film which is largely derided but I am quite a fan of is Chronicles of Riddick. If anything the biggest problem with it is the fact that it's a Riddick film instead of an independent vehicle. The link with the religious man from Pitch Black I can buy, but the re-writing of his origin is just so awkward. Better not to have bothered! It was ( Read more... ) -
Immersion Inversion
When it comes to films, I love being swept up in a fully realised world. This is why David Lynch's Dune has such a special place in my heart. The first time I saw it, having never read the books or heard anything about it, I was just transported. All these strange terms didn't faze me in the slightest, they just added to the impression of something ( Read more... ) -
Fail to scale
It seems unlikely that I'll run out of things to complain about Man of Steel, but there's this one itch I could never quite reach. It's taken a while to get there, but I think I've got to the nub of it. It's not that in the huge set piece battles Superman completely ignores the inevitable number of civilian casualties (although that is a problem), ( Read more... ) -
Good Nintentions
Given the ridiculous amount of time I buried in Animal Crossing: Wild World I was actually intending to avoid New Leaf, but the fates (and a generous friend) had other ideas. With even more to see, do and collect it should prove to be even more of a time vampire, but for one critical factor it shares with a lot of 3DS games. It's a nagger ( Read more... ) -
Come on, let it out!
Hah, don't you love it when you go to post a journal entry for the first time in forever and it asks you if you want to restore from draft? What hidden gems await? In this instance an old rant about the bashing Lego got for their Friends range, which I might as well leave here. I only came to post something stupid that needed to be said, but saying ( Read more... ) -
Time to Lego!
I've just finished making the big Monster Fighters set (9468) and it was an absolute blast. It has been a long time since I've enjoyed and been impressed by a build so much ( Read more... ) -
No sale.
In order to make this festive season easier on the sanity of retail staff, please bear the following in mind ( Read more... ) -
It's so hard to say goodbye...
Stuff is my Achilles heel. It's so easy to acquire and yet so hard to relinquish. Even things I don't use often, or ever; even things I never wanted in the first place! The real kicker is when they were gifts. It just feels so ungrateful to be casting them aside, somehow disrespectful to the original act of giving ( Read more... )