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The plot: Lester has a mid-life crisis, jacks in his job and begins to turn his life around, destroying the lives of those around him in the process.

The good: Fantastic story, Kevin Spacey, great camera shots, Sam Mendes did a great job directing it.

The bad: I would say long and emo so not for action fans. But I don’t want to put you off, because it isn’t. I can’t say bad about this film. Everyone loves it.

Conclusion: If for some reason you haven’t seen this movie yet, finish this sentence, go to Amazon and buy the DVD!

Rating

Reviewed by Greg. I gave this movie a 9.3 out of 10.

The plot: Aeon is a resistance fighter fighting against the Goodchild Dynasty – a totalitarian state which seems to provide harmony for its people in the last remaining human city on Earth, but of course all is not that rosy.

The good: Charlize Theron, the plot isn’t totally predictable.

The bad: While the plot isn’t predictable it is very, very generic.

Conclusion: Enjoyable movie, don’t go expecting to see anything new but go expecting to see something entertaining.

Rating

Reviewed by Greg. I gave this movie a 6.9 out of 10.

The plot: When B fails to get into college he comes up with a scheme to invent a fake college and tell his parents he got in there. But soon the secret gets out and the college is flooded with potential students who thought they good accepted.

The good: There are some good jokes in there, it certainly has it’s moments.

The bad: It’s so amazingly unbelievable.

Conclusion: Once you look past the fact the story line is so stupid it’s actually quite a good laugh.

Rating

Reviewed by Greg. I gave this movie a 5.8 out of 10.

It’s been another long day. Did taekwondo 5-7 which was pretty good, we did some practice kicks, I almost new what I was doing for a lot of it so it’s all good. After that I headed off home for a family deal as it’s my uncles 50th birthday. Just got back from there as it happens.

Unfortunately this means I won’t get to bed until 2am at the earliest and I have a day shift, 12-8 tomorrow due to the fact I booked off the evening for Wendy House so I’m only going to get like 9 hours sleep in at most. I know that sounds like plenty but Saturday morning is my ONE day a week when I let myself have a nice sleep in. Every other day I’m working on less sleep than I would like, and i really, really love sleep so Saturday mornings are the one time of the week I look forward to more than anything else.

On the plus side it means that Wendy is tomorrow night. Though lots of people are bailing on it. Michelle, Sarann, Maths Chris, Izzy to name a few. I’m used to it now though, you lot are well rubbish. The hardcore members, namely myself, Sophie and Verity are all putting in appearances as usual. Sophie has promised not to get quite so drunk this time :D.

So yeah it’s going to be another mental weekend as normal. Working tomorrow, then rushing back to uni for Wendy then rushing back home next day to get the car back, then going to work, working all night and then getting up at some unpleasent time on Monday to get back to uni to begin my even more mental weekday schedule.

Dan had the chance to come out for the night tonight which is a most rare occasion since a child fell out of his girlfriend. So we hit The Old Bar along with Si, Izzy and Michelle for a night of laid back drinking. It was a good night, we managed to keep the topic off computing for most of the night which is impressive for our circle and indeed it stayed off World of Warcraft as well.

I started Defragging my old laptop earlier and it’s a mission. It spent well over an hour on 1% before stopping for no apparent reason. It didn’t lock it just stopped as if it had completed. Yet when I ran the analysis again it told me I needed to defrag. So I’m now on the second iteration. It’s done 28% though it’s been there for ages.

Today (by now technically yesterday) was the day of singles-bashing known as Valentine’s Day. So names after Sir Markus Valentine ripped out the heart of a lion with his bare hands and presented it to his fiance to show her there is nothing he would not do for her (hence all the hearts used in connection with the holiday).

Sadly she didn’t appreciate it but that part of the story is forgotten. Anyway, I made it to my IS23 lecture after much debate as to whether I should sleep through it or not. I then grabbed some lunch, went to a meeting in the union about our society bank accounts, went to the Llama, went to film making society, went back to the Llama, went for dinner, went back to the Llama again and then went home.

Film making society was a failure of an event, we were holding auditions but only one person turned up. It’s such a shame that there is so much talent out at Bretton Hall but because it’s so hard to get the word out, so few people actually show up.

After leaving the Llama for the final time (because they once again closed before 11, how rubbish is that?) myself, Si and Izzy headed back to mine and watched a little Futurama. Speaking of Si and Izzy, what’s going on between them? :p. They were together when I arrived at the Llama, alone after Izzy had explained over the phone she was naked, they’ve been chatting on MSN constantly apparently, they were together until the early hours of tonight and disappeared off together. A story for SoC gossip me thinks.

The Humanist Society of West Yorkshire was holding a talk entitled “In the Wake of Darwin” last night so me and a few follow society members went down to the talk. It was really enjoyable, Judith Hart who was giving the door talked us through his life during the Voyage of the Beagle when he did the key work that got him thinking about this whole creationism thing.

Afterwards the few of us that were left headed down to Joseph’s Well for a few drinks. It seemed like an alright place though the live bands aren’t great when you’re not there to listen to them.

I logged on to Savastore.com, the online branch of Watford Electronics which is one of the best online computer parts retailers around to find it had closed down. This sucks, Watford was ace; way better than Dabs, eBuyer or CCL for most stuff and I used it more than any other online retailer for buying computer related stuff.

It’s apparently only closed temporarily while their new owner, Globally Ltd takes over and has done a “full review of both business and technological processes.” There is a letter about it here.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The letter has been removed, so I have removed the link.

Monday’s can only mean one thing. It’s Monday. However as usual we also headed down to The Old Bar for a drinking session. There was only a few of us (namely me, Michelle, Norm, Kieran and Si) which was nice as it’s about the optimum level between holding a good conversation and still being able to include everyone. Having taken my laptop I also got in some coding too so it’s all good.

We ended up staying until kicking out time (with the exception of Si) and then headed to mine via the takeaway. What followed was some even more in-depth debates on subjects such as people who like to role-play rape, my impending marriage to Laurie Anne, depression, phyological disorders, the adult industry and a range of other topics. Good old fashioned post-pub conversation.