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Eating Things
I went to see some friends at a place that was new to me! Look at me heading outside and doing something brand new! I was tricked into visiting a garden centre and I realise that isn’t my natural environment. However, it was the Kent Ceramics show or whatever it was called and I had a look around and found a thing I really liked. I haven’t used it yet but I will be soon and I am sure it will be my standard favourite.
Klara and the Sun
It was raining. Proper rain. For hours. It was lovely. The temperatures weren’t cold, the was wind and the rain was bloody gorgeous. There’s more rain coming soon and I’m looking forward to it. It could rain every day for the next month and I’d be happy. I guess the only surprise was a flood on a roundabout but I drove through it and considered it to be an under-chassis clean. I went to watch Klara and the Sun and afterwards I rated it on IMDb as 6/10. There’s a system to describe the scoring and it’s communicated in this communication. Oh, I have no idea what the tide was doing, it was dark and raining and the visibility wasn’t great.
I really enjoyed the film. It’s pacing was lovely. The colours were great. The story has me thinking. I’m still not really sure what happened at the end and what that means for the story before that. Maybe this film is the story of how humans ended up worshipping stupid things? I don’t know. It was perfectly enjoyable.
Verity
There was so much interesting sport on this weekend that I forced myself out the house to watch Verity at the cinema. On Saturday there was the four hour ELMS race at Portimao which I had on while doing some work. Then Sunday there was an NFL match in London which started at 1430 and was very good fun to watch followed by the New Orleans Saints playing at 1800. I did watch both of these but had to multitask for the London match as I also played some PlayStation that afternoon. So, on Saturday I went to see Verity at the Cineworld cinema in Rochester. I think the tide was about half way as I arrived, whether it was waxing or waning I don’t know. After watching this film I rated it on IMDb and I scored this one 6/10. Read this communication to understand how the scoring system works.
The star of this film is surely the house. It is a stunning house meant to be next to a Vermont lake. Absolutely gorgeous, but, oddly, no garage as far as we know. I don’t know if that’s an American thing or not. About halfway through this film I started to get bored. I was considering what IMDb score to give this film and it started to head to a 4/10. This means I was just waiting to see how the film ended but with no real buy-in. I was irritated that Verity’s life depended solely on the “man”. Everything she was doing was because of her obsession for the husband. This seemed so very usual and not interesting. I also wondered what it was about the husband that made him so needed.
This film redeemed itself and scored better than 4/10 because of the “twist”. I suppose it was a twist. A reveal that changes our opinion of what has happened in the film. If I am being honest I have spent time thinking about this film over the weekend and so I reckon it did a good job. I like how we just don’t know.
This is another of those stories where people write about what they know. Writers write stories about writer. Hollywood loves films about Hollywood. It’s amusing.
Had Me Fooled
I’ve spent a few days this week on a first aid course. It was in the Sunderland room at the Holiday Inn at Rochester Airport. I liked the room – there was a massive picture of Shorts Sunderlands on the wall and while I was there I learnt about the radar they carried. Other rooms were named for aircraft from the 1940s and also had massive pictures of that type in each room – I checked.
The Sunderland room had no windows. It was a square meeting room. I don’t think any of the rooms had windows. This is a shame as we were next to the airport and I’d have loved to see the aircraft movements, this would also mean I wouldn’t have spent much time listening so maybe it was good for me to have no views. Some of the lights in the ceiling had sky coloured panels and clouds and every time I caught them out of the corner of my eye I thought they were proper skylights showing the real world.
The lights appeared brighter then the photo suggests and you can see two standard lights and then the fake skies. My stupid brain was convinced they were looking outside. Such is the power of a lump of meat in my skull.
Hope
I forced myself to head to the cinema even though I was post-migraine and not fully recovered. I’d already had a nap during the day and I guess that helped with the symptoms quite a bit. It did mess up my plans for the day which went from getting lots of jobs done to none. I did have a great catch up chat with Jase though.
I had booked the 1920 showing of this film and it’s been quite a while since I went to the cinema in the actual evening! I think the last one I saw this late was probably Akira with Smith. The sun was definitely setting as I drove to the theatre, I couldn’t easily tell what the tide was doing but I think it was low. After watching this film I rated it on IMDb and I scored it 8/10. There’s a whole scoring system so read this communication if you get upset at my ratings. I was torn between a score of 6 and 8. I think I’d watch this again, if anything I’d like to laugh out loud more at certain aspects that I didn’t in the cinema.
I enjoyed this film. It’s a great mix between live action and CGI, it works really well. The suspense built up at the beginning is pretty cool and when we finally see the creatures they fit well with the rest of the story. There is clear distinction between two halves of this movie. There’s the town chase, then it settles down for some exposition and then a reveal along with the final chase scenes. Maybe, just maybe the chase scenes are slightly too long and improbable but given the ending I think you can do anything in this film.
I wonder if they are going to make a sequel? The film kinda sets this up or even a movie from the point of view of the creatures. There’s a whole back story created that would be really interesting to explore even in a game. I enjoyed this film and I’m happy with the lore it created. This is another Korean hit that just works.
Sunrise Views
Morning coffee and some flight simulation is a lovely way to start the day. Using a fictional Keswick Airport also allows instant Lake District views. Check out this look while flying over Cockermouth.
The lighting in this is just gorgeous. And I’m running at around 30FPS. Now, 30FPS to gamers might seem poor performance but let me tell you that for a flight simulator in full widescreen massive mode it is pretty impressive. Yes, my electricity bill might be a lot but I do love how this looks.
Part of the same flight and a contrast in colours to the first screenshot but this one shows the reflections of the water and the low level cloud still over the Lake District.
Bad Apples
The second part of this two-film weekend was an early afternoon trip to watch Bad Apples. I’d decided that Sunday would be a gym rest day after some shoulder pain Saturday. That mean there was time to fit in a film and then the NFL matches later on. I guess there’s some other things that need doing as well but I can’t remember what they are, except for messing around in Minecraft rebuilding my world – which I deleted! I genuinely can’t remember what the tide was doing as I drove to the cinema, I wasn’t looking, I think I was more amazed that I had followed the car in front of me since my village and I didn’t want them to noticed / feel strange. I rated this film on IMDb as a 6/10 stars, there’s a communication in the past that covers the rules for the rating system. I liked this film but I wouldn’t watch it again.
This was a good film. It was very dark. It was even relatable to me. It covers my profession. It shows aspects of that which hit a little close to home. It’s the sort of thing we’d all like to do, but realise that it’s immoral and we have to cope like everyone else. The film was fun, funny and probably not one I should rave about in the staff room tomorrow. I did like their leather sofas in the staffroom – I want those, I will say that we do have a pool table so that didn’t seem too unlikely in the film.
Runner
It’s been a double film weekend! The first film was on Saturday and I don’t think I knew anything about this before I entered the theatre. The poster and booking images made it look like an action film. The tide was pretty high as I entered the cinema, only a few feet of mud viewable. I went to the cinema at Rochester. One day I might go to the one at Ashford, just for the shock value! I rated this film on IMDB, there’s a communication covering the rating system here, make sure you search for Runner and not The Runner both are films out this year – this particular film gained six stars from me.
I quite enjoyed this film. It was a stupid action movie with some characterisation. The pairing of Owen Wilson and Reacher made sense and worked well. You kinda end up thinking they are like that in real life. The story was pretty bullshit, but then it always is isn’t it? It was nice to see the scenery around Brisbane – I enjoyed that. I will warn you that the last fifteen minutes of the film seemed a bit of a gore fest with blood and injury everywhere. I guess that’s what you want from your macho actors. Oh, and for some reason I didn’t care for the little girl because of her angel story – that can get in the sea.
Had To Screenshot
I was doing a thing in X-Plane when the beauty of it struck me. Look at the water, look at the reflections in the glass, and look at the countryside. Just beautiful.
The text boxes in the air just off the nose are other aircraft inputted to the simulator by an add-in I use. It makes flying around less lonely.