Who'd have thought that a movie about a website would turn out to be so bloody good?!
I tossed and turned in bed the night after I watched, incapable of getting to sleep, and the thing that carried on popping in my head was this film.
This is such a cult university movie that it reminds me of the times in Crewe sat around doing nothing at three o'clock in the morning except from drinking and talking - and, obviously, not coming up with the world's next bit internet sensation.
Some of the scenes were fantastic. The nightclub scene where Mark Zuckerman discusses business with Napster founder, Sean Parker is epic - maybe only because we could feel the bass through Chris's million-pound worth speaker system to go with the music on the screen. Eduardo Saverin's outburst at Zuckerman's betrayal as he grabs a laptop and smashes it in half on the ground is amazing. And the music, written by Nine Inch Nail's Trent Reznor, is also a little bit of a winner as well.
I was a little bit surprised that they could find so much in a story about one of the fastest growing website's in the 20th century. Then again, I suppose, no story is too small. Something that we do all the time without realising it... Something that, if our computers would choose it to save us time, would be all our homepages.
One of the most pleasant and rewarding surprises of this year.
:)
Oh, and contrary to popular belief, Jesse Eisenberg is actually a bit of a hottie.
They scrub up nice, don't they?
;)
I've been pretty impressed with myself actually. I can't remember when I started re-reading 'The Deathly Hallows', but I was up in bed last night till the early hours finishing it. And at the end of it, it was like the ending of an era all over again.
It suddenly occured to me that when I first started reading the books, I didn't read them in order. It wasn't as bad as you think. I started with 'Chamber of Secrets' and read through to 'Goblet of Fire'. I think the books were free with a newspaper and, being the bookworm that I was, my parents ordered for me to get my noses into.
No way did I expect greatness. I remember looking at them and thinking, They're only a another series of books that are going to do O.K, etc. etc. etc.
How wrong was I and, probably, a lot of other people on the planet.
I haven't read the books for a long time. The last time I did was for the release of 'Deathly Hallows' so, being the nerd that I am, needed to refresh my mind of all the goings on in the previous books. And, having been slightly disappointed about 'Half-Blood Prince', I wanted something bigger and better.
The main thing that reading this last book has done to me, has reminded me how much I've changed. I can't place the year when I first started reading them but now I've finished at the age of 22, reading the minds and goings-on of 17 year olds.
Their life, their world, is so much better than ours. In the heat of the moment, people scream all over the place, "Fuck this, I'm going to Hogwarts." Oh, if only this was true.
Cinemas across the country are prebooked weeks in advance for 'Deathly Hallows: Part 1' and, sadly, I'm not one of them. Everytime I watch the trailer, I go a little bit crazy inside and wish that I was seeing it right now.
Absolutely gutted, I haven't prebooked tickets. Me and my friends normally go together but everyone's all over the world AKA the UK, at the minute and it's very hard to keep in touch.
I think I'd probably go and see it alone if I had to.
:)
I'M FINALLY GETTING EXCITED ABOUT MY BIRTHDAY ON SATURDAY!
Went into Manc on Tuesday to have a nosey around for pretty stuff for the weekend. Spent £100...
:(
... of which, I don't have, £50 on a dress that didn't fit. I was determined to find a way of making it fit, but I just simply cannot wear a zip-up dress until I've lost a little bit of weight. There was no way that that zip was actually going to go all the way up my back.
But it wasn't a completely wasted trip. I picked up a new going-out bag, that I was in dire need of i.e. I was sick of wearing the Primark one that nearly every girl on the planet has. I got a pair of magic knickers and handed out my CV to Specsavers which I had the interview for today.
Today, I decided that I wasn't destined to wear a red dress for my 22nd after all and refused point blank to buy a black one. So I settled for this one, a damn sight cheaper than a lot of the others instore. It doesn't look much in the picture but on, it looks reeeeally nice.
:)
So, YES, I am starting to get ridiculously excited about Saturday night. Admittedly a lot of people have pulled out at the last minute, but that's life.
Whether I make it to the casino or not at the end of the night, I know that it's gonna be a corker.
Also, may end up going to see HARRY POTTER & THE DEATHLY HALLOWS on Sunday afternoon as well as the puuuuuuur-fect hangover cure... Let's just hope I don't fall asleep in it, I may cry with disappointment with myself.
EEEEEEEEEK!
Regardless of the fact of whether you're a Harry Potter geek or despise the JK Rowling franchise, it's come around again for its punultimate time.
I am the former. I have read all the Harry Potter books, believe that my trivia surpasses most (despite the details on the last book being a little hazy) and am an avid admirer of the films. I'm re-reading 'Deathly Hallows' as we speak and am working my way through the films (I watched 'Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets' the other morning and cried LIKE A BABY at the end)...
Everytime I watch the trailer for Part 1, I actually get all excited in my gut and emit an annoying little squeal of excitement that only dogs can hear. I am revelling in all of the TV coverage that is broadcasting morning, noon and night. I even asked my Dad to pick up a copy of last week's Sunday Times, that was positively POTTERIFIC. There was a Harry Potter magazine devoted entirely to the final film and free poster... Though, alas, I recieved Daniel Radcliffe all sweaty and moody, instead of Mr Rupert Grint, all moody and sweaty.
:(
But regardless, I still haven't read through that magazine completely and share daily texts with a friend who is equally as obsessed with HP as I am.
Words of the World Premiere that happened last night - everyone looked absolutely fantastic. Helena Bonham-Carter never ceases to amaze me! Her hair was aaaaawesome! Geraldine Sommerville AKA Luna Lovegood is brunette! And the X Factor contestants hogged faaaaar too much of the limelight! Emphasis should have been on the stars!
Nevertheless, I'm a little bit gutted that Emma Watson wore a similar dress to what I have and regrettably, carried it off a lot better than me (seeing as she has obviously been recently tanned and regularly keeps that pot-belly off).
:/
It's out the day before my birthday and I would LOOOOOOVE for a birthday treat for me and my friends to go and see it! But I am faaaar too disorganised for this and know that I will have to wait a couple of weeks to go with my fellow Harry Potter fan and our quacky friends.
Ah well. Guess I'll just have to curl up with 'Prisoner of Azkaban' tonight instead.
P.S. How WEIRD do James and Oliver Phelps look without ginger hair!?!?
One of the most wonderful phonecalls that I've ever recieved in my life was from a gentleman at the Disney Store in the White Rose Centre, asking me if I could attend an interview.
There is a God in the world.
So I toodled over yesterday and after the disastrous group interview that was Aldi the other week (I was in a group where we were all chatty cows but I was the unlucky bugger who couldn't get a word in edgeways), I vowed that I would make myself stand out amongst the others in that Disney-fied canteen.
First things first, we were interviewed by two girls and for sure, one of them, at least, was looking at me the most whenever she was talking.
We talked about moments that inspired us the most in the last year, why we're currently looking for work and why we handed our CV into the Disney Store in the first place.
But, by far, the best question to finish the day was "Who is your favourite Disney character and why?"
Now, up until a year ago, I wouldn't have been able to pick, because I watch so many of them. But one boring night of uni, me and my housemate opened a bottle of wine, was watching 'The Little Mermaid' when my said friend, lightweight to the core and already slurring a little, said, "Oh my god, Laurie, you are sooooo Sebastian." Now, it's not everyday that you get compared to a small Jamaican lobster of a man who's a suck up, snitch and a bit of an all-round arse. But from that moment, now I can't think about the little crustacean without laughing my socks off.
So, I stunned them with my nerdiness about the Disney store, I smiled a lot and gave a quirky and original favourite character (all the other girls said ones from Winnie The Pooh!).
I hope they ring me back.
:)
... To fall in love with.
There's a distinct lack of love in my life at the moment. And no one of mild excitement has rung or text me for a long time - aside from a friend who brags about her full-time job to me (lucky cow) and my mum asking me when I'll be making my way home.
So, yes, I could very much do with a bodyguard in my life right now. Even though I don't need one... It's not like redecorating, dicking about on The Sims 3, planning a couple of novels and occasionally popping into town are potentially dangerous activities.
But, anyway...
I'd even settle for Kevin Costner as well, I think.
;)
O.K., so I think John Lasseter and the team at Disney Pixar have officially changed my life forever.
Of course, this film got a lot of hype months before it was even released. I remember watching the trailer in December last year and enthusing with my crazy Danish aunt on when and where we were going to see it.
So the moment finally arrived last night in glorious 3D of course (no way in hell would I have seen this film in 2D, even if someone would have paid me...)
Two words can only describe my feelings towards the final installment:
FREAKIN' AMAZING!
Yes, I cried ridiculously hard for the last half hour of the film, but that didn't matter. Indeed the parents enjoyed the film a hell of a lot more than the kids. And I'm going to be sooooooo upset that I'm not going to see anymore adventures of the Space Cadet and Cowboy in the years to come.
I can only sit very impatiently and wait for the three films to be released on DVD boxset in the near future so I can have a Toy Story marathon and cry myself to sleep.
I'm going to miss you, Woody and Buzz.
:)
