the possibly accurate nowSun, 28 May 2006
[07:16] X-Men: The Last Stand - Rating: 6/10
X-Men: The Last Stand is pretty much your standard blockbuster fare, very much a sit back, tune-in, turn-off kinda deal. Which is not to say it's a bad movie! The majority of the X-Men morality tale was taken as being dealt with in the previous two films and the stage was left clear for the special effects.
The special effects were well-implemented, the acting was mostly good, the plot was not mind-snappingly contradictory and I didn't have to sit there constantly thinking "must willingly suspend disbelief" so all in all - a successful movie! My only gripe was the glaringly obvious continuity errors (the daytime/night-time switch was the "best" of these).
Two things more to mention:
1) Don't forget the post-credits snippet; and
2) If this is the last X-Men movie then I'll consume some form of inedible headgear.
[Posted at: 28/05/2006 15:16]
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[06:12] The culture, the culture!
Another rockin' week of excitement and culture in London! Let's break it down:
Tuesday - Musical Culture
Another classical concert, this time it was the Philharmonia Orchestra (again) at the Royal Festival Hall (again) playing a selection of Mozart. The selection included:
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony No.36 (Linz)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Sinfonia concertante in E flat for violin & viola, K364
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony No.41 (Jupiter)
I think it's safe to say I'll not be attending any future performances of Mozart, not even the humorous antics of the viola player could help me keep my eyes open. It was also interesting to see just how many people didn't bother coming back from the interval! I was REALLY glad when they finally tinkled through to the end of Jupiter and we were allowed to leave.
Friday I - Horticulture
Friday saw us trundling off to the
Chelsea Flower Show. We had a ticket for 1730 through to 2000 on Friday (obviously) which was good as the awards had already been allocated so we got to see who got which medal. There are basically two lots of "stuff" to look at - things outside and things inside. The outside has all the show gardens, some pretty expensive sculptures, ride-on lawnmowers and some really swisho
hanging chairs. We saw all the show gardens (of which the
Australian garden won a gold medal) and collected a large cache of brochures so we've got lots of pretty pictures to look at still. Since we were in towards the end of the show (it only had one day to go) the various water features were really doing their best to escape their enclosures and become mud features so it was a fun and sloppy wander around. I also like the juxtaposition of people taking photos with their mobile phones standing next to the incredibly expensive camera folks.
On the inside were a large collection of bonsai, tomatoes, strawberries, fungi, orchards and carnvierous plants which I can't really do any kind of justice in a textual manner - as soon as the photos turn up I'll stick em in here.
Friday II - Modern Pop-Culture
After the elbow-fest that was the Flower Show we thought it might be nice to go and watch a lot of things blow up so we headed back up to Piccadilly Circus to check out
X-Men: The Last Stand. It was pretty good, we both enjoyed it but I'll give it its own entry shortly. Suffice to say for now, if you want to go out and relax your brain and watch sparkly things then this movie is for you!
And that's mostly the week in review. Amongst all the gratuitous fun I also found out on Friday morning that I've got an interview scheduled for the 12th of July for the other job I've been chasing so you all know when you need to be keeping your fingers crossed.
[Posted at: 28/05/2006 14:12]
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