New job, less money, more time to relax/doss

I am so shit at updating my blog. No-one reads it anyway, so who cares.

Finally changed jobs from hospital medicine which i liked to GP which i am tentative about. Looks a doss and i’ll be bored easily. Hopefully get some time to go away on holiday though and enjoy the summer AND hopefully get a job somewhere.

I’ll try and update this soon, to give you an idea of the preceding 2 months of nothingness in this blog.

time for bed!

Double Film Review- "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest" and "Superman Returns"

Once again, I’ve been lazy with writing my reviews. Guess that will change when i start work again in less than 2 weeks, and thus i won’t have time to think or blog, or tirelessly watch dvd’s in marathon sessions like this week so far!

Anyway, last week I watched Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and this week I saw Superman Returns.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Premise: The sequel to the original which was quite cool and enjoyable pirate flick. The story involves Davy Jones and the further adventures of Jack Sparrow, Keira and Orlando and the human versions of R2D2 and C3PO.

Verdict: It was quite enjoyable, but i might have to see it again to be sure.

Nowadays, my expectations for films are so high, i never like a film the 1st time around, or it could be that i had seen the hype for the film before it came out.

To be honest the film is too long— at least a half hour could have been chopped out and it would have been much better. There were some cool stuff, such as the 3 way fight scene and all the comedy stuff with the R2D2/C3PO clones. Davy Jones was quite cool too, i thought he looked like Bill Nighy, though my sister didn’t think so, though she thought the film was better than the 1st. I’m not sure, yet. The 3rd film, probably called “POTC: At World’s End” will be out next next Summer. I’ll re-evaluate the 2nd film after watching the 3rd one.

Rating: 7/10 (let’s just wait and see what the next film is like!)

Superman Returns

Premise: Superman has been away for 5 years looking for Krypton and has returned back to Earth. That’s it!

Verdict: It was OK, but not brilliant.

The film uses Superman 1 & 2 as a foundation, and ignores 3 & 4. But I reckon Bryan Singer should have done what Batman Begins did, and restart the franchise all over again with a new origin story. The makers of this film assume the youth of today can be arsed to watch Superman 1 & 2 on dvd and then watch this film—i don’t reckon they would!

Moving on. There are some cool action scenes— a cool ‘plane about to crash, Hollywood is not thinking 9/11 anymore’ scene and some other stuff. There are many bits that hark back to the old films, such as using John Williams classic score and some scenes that also resemble the old films, especially the ending itself.

Rating: 7/10 (OK, not amazing, not shit)