Quick rl update

Spent most of yesterday having a giant clean/sort-out of the flat. Recycled/shredded looooooooads of paper, and the flat is just generally very clean now, so I am happy.

This morning I found the necklace that I thought had been stolen \o/ At some point in the past I must have moved it. No idea why. so that's one less thing to do with the insurance company, anyway.

My skin still seems fine (no flare ups for over 2 weeks) and I am in the process of sorting out more tests, although at the moment the evidence is pretty stacked in favour of being ok as long as I stay out of the sun. I can live with that :).

Things what I have watched this weekend

I actually managed three films in one weekend! Gosh. Very impressed with myself, lol.

Saturday Crishna and I finally went to see Super 8, which I LOVED until the last five minutes, which were shit. Spoilery rambling below the cut, but in non-spoilery terms: Kyle Chandler <3, Alice yay, storyline yay, big action sequences KABOOM yay.

Oh, and the trailer for Colombiana looked awesome (LENNIE JAMES IS IN IT! As if I wasn’t interested enough already)

( Super 8 spoilers )

And then on Sunday I watched The Losers, which started off as a fun action movie and lost its way somewhere, becoming a collection of set pieces that really didn’t follow on from one another (the best comparison I can think of at the moment is Transporter 3 – yes, that bad). It was a graphic novel adaptation, and it showed. A couple of scenes (particularly near the end) probably looked good as big comic panels, but when you actually had to show how they got to that point, it looked ridiculous.

Some of it was funny, though, and Chris Evans and Zoe Saldana were particularly good. I did spend most of it wishing I had Rocknrolla/Luther Series 2/Takers to watch again (i.e. something where Idris Elba gets to use his actual accent)

Sunday evening I watched Glorious 39, which the BBC are including as part of their Original British Drama season. Confusingly enough, it’s a film that had a proper cinematic release, so I think that’s cheating a little (according to standards that…no-one has set).

I thought before it was on that it was a bit of a misfire to schedule it while The Hour was on, as i. both star Romola Garai, and ii. Both have a very similar plot at their core.

I think I am just a bit weird, but I don’t like similar things being scheduled against each other – it’s like last year when Luther and Sherlock both had episodes with murderous taxi drivers. Neither comes out looking particularly original or creative (and I know neither set of writers/producers would have known about the other), and the plotlines have less impact (case in point: I struggle to remember the details of the taxi driver killings in Luther, but I damn well remember Nicola Walker).

Having said all that, in the end, it didn’t really matter. It really is just one of my many, many quibbles with TV scheduling, and I’m glad they’ve shown it.

The film focuses on Ann, an adopted child of an MP who stumbles across a plot to stop the second world war by appeasing Hitler and paying him off, basically. It was great, not that most of Twitter agreed.

( Glorious 39 spoilers )