you have a friend request...

How did we know exactly how many friends we have before we had facebook?
If you'd told me maybe 10 years ago that there was going to be a web site made which will end up being everyone's primary source to communicate with each other, that lists everything about you and provides you with a much easier option of not being someone's friend anymore I wouldn't of believed you, before facebook if you decided you didn't like someone anymore you had to keep making excuses for a while as to why you couldn't meet up with them, you had to ignore their calls and their invites out, Now all you've got to do is a click a button to de-friend them. Simple.
Don't get me wrong I love facebook and I'm on it way too much but I do sometimes wonder what would happen to the world now if the internet went down for a day. I'm picturing an apocalyptic site of people in ripped clothing dragging themselves through the debris and rubble that was once an internet driven civilisation. God I sound like an old bastard sometimes.
It does make me laugh though when I get friend requests because I almost feel a sense of guilt if I reject them, like if I say no on this web site then there is absolutely no way we can be friends in the real world. I know if I went round deleting all my close friends I would no doubt get a few nasty texts/ phonecalls asking what they'd done wrong.
I don't get this whole facebook stalking thing either, I recently heard someone say that someone else is a facebook stalker because he looks at his friend's photos. Not being funny if you don't want people to see your photos either a) don't put them on the world's leading social network site or b) don't be friends with someone who you don't want to see your pictures.  Is facebook a blessing or a curse?, i'm still deciding.


Me and my housemate watched Paranormal Activity 2 last night, we did the whole turning off all he lights and stuff, the way I see it if your going to watch a scary film then watch it the way they were meant to be seen, not in broad daylight or a well lit room! The effectiveness of watching it in darkness worked because even before the film started I jumped when my screensaver for my laptop came on unexpectedly just as we were getting ready to watch it :)
It's good though, quite often sequels tend to try and better the first one by delivering much of the same elements as the first but making them bigger, in horror films that'll just mean trying to be more scary than the first, I wouldn't say it's more scary than the first one but it's about on par with it. I genuinely jumped a few times (not just at my screensaver). It is one of those films though that I can't imagine being scary if you don't watch it at night or in darkness, the overlong shots of the different areas of the house when your just waiting for something to happen, you begin scanning the whole frame just to see if you can guess what's going to move before it does, and then with your senses heightened the jump gets you, it's a great way to get a reaction from an audience. I hope it doesn't become an overlong franchise though that tries to carry on a storyline throughout multiple films to the point where you can't believe they're still trying to make sense of it (i'm looking at you Saw franchise!).

What's the best kind of scary film? comment below if you wish

until next time...

Religion/Pixar

This morning a couple of Jehovah's witnesses knocked on my door, now most of these people who come to your door to preach about whatever it is they're preaching out, they expect a little bit of rudeness, and as they got me at a time where I had only just woken up I was more than happy to oblige with this. I've never quite understood the whole Jehovah's witness thing, so they've seen a guy called Jehovah and now have to knock on my door to tell me that they have? I once saw a guy called Dave but you don't see me knocking on everyone's door to tell them I'm dave's witness!

Even though I don't follow any religion specifically, I'm still very open to the concept of it and I don't mock it, I know of people who live every day of their life around their religious beliefs and I respect it even if I choose not to believe in it, just don't come knocking on my door to tell me what I should and shouldn't believe, cos I will set the dog on you!

I decided to watch Finding Nemo the other night. It's a shame that in some circles there is still this element that animated films are just for children, because some of them really are quite good. Finding Nemo for me is one of the best, it's genuinely funny and consistently entertaining with the usual high standard of animation you would expect from Pixar, if you haven't already seen it then you've missed out. 

Personally I'm a big fan of all the Pixar films, Finding Nemo is my particular fave so far but what's yours? I've put a poll up where you can answer that? whichever film wins I'll put up a proper review of it

until next time...

My First blog

Captains Blog : stardate a load of random numbers that mean nothing to anyone....

soooo thought i'd start a blog, never know might come in handy, you never know when you might need one! I expect i'll mainly be posting random thoughts about various things and as i'm an aspiring film critic I may even post a few movie reviews on here, why not!

So i'm nearing the end of my first year at Anglia Ruskin University, can't believe our semester finishes on April 15th, giving us a grand total of 5 months off for summer, now when I was about 11 or 12 that would of been like all my christmases coming at once but at my age now that just seems like a waste of time as I could in theory be doing my degree in that time and finishing it sooner. I like my degree that I chose and I'm glad i'm doing it, but I do sometimes wish I can say I'm doing a degree in something fancy like Biochemical Engineering and Astro-mathematical-Physics, now that would impress the girls! but no when I say Drama it's usually "that's not a degree to which I have a ready-made intellectual retort ready for anyone who dares to challenge the validity of my chosen degree... "yeah well your mum!". I do film studies as well which I suppose is seen as a bit more academic but only just. But hey uni isn't all about studying...

Now for a film review, I went to see Battle : Los Angeles a few nights ago and here's my in-depth review : it's shit don't watch it.

I'm not sure how often i'll update this but knowing me probably a lot! I suppose a blog is a bit like having a diary or a journal... that everyone can read... which defeats the whole object of having a diary so not a lot like it actually.
Anyway this concludes my first blog, please check back soon :)