Thursday, December 27, 2012

Another new toy

It must be the time of year where I get a bit gadget happy, because I didn't stop at the Blu Ray player I wrote about in my last post; I also have a shiny new phone. But this isn't a product review – there's really no point, since what I've got isn't exactly new on the market; it's a Samsung Galaxy SII, which came out early last year.

Monday, December 17, 2012

Skyfall

It wasn't a given that I would go see Skyfall; while I was a big Bond fan when I was younger, watching pretty much all of the films, things had changed. I had, come the end of the Brosnan era – when I was old enough to know better – realised just how hackneyed they'd become; while I'd liked Goldeneye, both The World is not Enough and Die Another Day were poor, and Tomorrow Never Dies only tolerable.

When they announced the re-casting of Bond with Daniel Craig I was happy - I've liked him in pretty much everything I've seen him in, with his small but significant role in The Road to Perdition being the standout1 – and I was even happier they were hinting that it would also be a reboot of the style, since that was the biggest problem; they'd gone way overboard with the gadgets, the seductions and the double entendres.

Thursday, December 13, 2012

A new toy

Despite my love of film, I'm not actually all that into watching movies at home – I find it hard to sit through a whole one because of all the distractions; this, of course, is another reason why I do go to the cinema as much as I do: to overcome my problematic attention span.

But I'd like that to change, mostly because even though I get to see most of the films I want to see at the cinema, there are a few that I miss for different reasons, such as just not having the time, the dumbasses at the cinemas putting things on at inconvenient times, or the film distributors not bothering to release them in this country.