If you think I've missed your birthday, you need to go back a post earlier :P

Lists compiled from my recent visits to the Doctor Who Forum:

Most Recent Movies Watched:

The Dark Knight 8/10
I enjoyed this one overall and was gripped throughout. There were some surprises that I wasn't expecting. I was a bit underwhelmed by the finale(s) though and probably prefer Batman Begins overall.
The Hottie & The Nottie 6/10 (10/10 for Paris Hilton of course)
An average romantic comedy but one designed to make me very very happy.
Blade Runner 10/10
One of those movies that is pretty soothing for the soul when I'm depressed. What is it to be human?
Girl Interrupted 10/10
Another movie that soothes me when I'm depressed. By turns poignant and hilarious. This was my first proper encounter with Angelina Jolie and I've been a fan ever since for her powerhouse performance.
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End 6/10
Not bad horror sequel that goes more for action and gore than the atmosphere and cranking up the tension of the original. The girl from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake seems to be doing a very good Ali Larter impersonation (and one girl made me think she was Blair from Gossip Girl for a moment). Henry Rollins is definitely channelling Hawk from The Simple Life Goes To Camp, lol!
Once Upon A Time In The West 10/10
One of the greatest movies ever and a true epic that I never get tired of. It's perfect, full of fantastic scenes that are mini-masterpieces of cinema in their own right and the theme of civilisation driving out the ancient race of gunslingers resonates with my own out of time and place feelings.

Favourite Movies Of The 90s (in no particular order)

Cry Baby
Ed Wood
Joan Of Arc: The Messenger
Girl Interrupted
Bram Stoker's Dracula
The Quick And The Dead
Desperado
From Dusk Till Dawn
Panther
The Crow
The Doors
Starship Troopers
Basic Instinct
Silence Of The Lambs
Copland
Last Of The Mohicans
Braveheart
Serial Mom
The Limey
Mars Attacks!

Crushes Of The 70s, 80s & 90s

The girl who played Hayley in Metal Mickey (apparently I'm showing my age with that one *g*)
Ornella Muti (Flash Gordon)
Catherine Bach (The Dukes Of Hazard)
Caroline Munro (The Spy Who Loved Me, etc)
Jane Badler (V)
Samantha Fox (page 3)
Maria Whitaker (page 3)
Heather Langenkamp (A Nightmare On Elm Street)
Sarah Patterson (The Company Of Wolves - bearing in mind I was a teenager at the time myself)
Anneka Rice (always being on TV and in TV magazines)
Barbara Carrera (Never Say Never Again)
The teenage daughter in A.L.F.
Tracy-Louise Ward (C.A.T.S. Eyes)
Kim Cattrall (Police Academy, Big Trouble In Little China, etc)
Sherilyn Fenn (Twin Peaks)
Deborah Harry (started listening to her music and fancying her in the 90s in a both then and now way for years to come)

Poll #2006
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Who Do You Like Better?

Good news of the week of course, is that a near complete print of Metropolis has finally been found (never been seen since the Berlin premiere from what I recall). Supposedly all that's missing is one cathedral sequence which there is supposedly also a lead on. Fritz Lang once responded to someone's gushing about Metropolis by asking "Why are you talking about a film that doesn't exist?". Well finally after all this time, it looks like just might well exist in the form he intended after all. I love the restoration (with the music originally written for the film and performed on it's premiere) done a few years back and chances were that that was as complete as the film was ever likely to get (with almost 25 minutes of footage missing). I look forward to the newly recovered footage being available on DVD. Metropolis is the greatest sci-fi movie of all time in my opinion, bar none (and one of my all time favourite movies). Amazing isn't quite the word for it's spectacle.

As to my life, well I'm often too tired or don't have enough time to really bother with the internet or anything else, much less update about it, during the week. I could rant here about a certain bloody woman at the Scottish Training Foundation and all her faults and crimes against humanity, but why bother at the weekend when I'm trying to enjoy my temporary respite! I could mention the waste of time it was, getting prepared and dressed for a potential job interview that instead turned out to be a mere placement with the chance of a lowly paying job at the end that probably wouldn't cover my travel and prescription expenses if I were to survive the placement period and take it. I could also talk about some of the silly rules they have at this meat for the grinder placement. But *meh*

So how was the Doctor Who series four finale then? Well, I'm still trying to sort out my mixed feelings about it *g* I think I enjoyed it and may even come to love it in the future. But there are plenty of criticisms that could be levelled at it, and at the moment I could certainly be at the very least sympathetic to many of them. I think I liked it though (certainly didn't leave me with any desire to never see it again or anything) and I already know I liked it better than the worst episodes of the revived series so far *cough*Voyage Of The Damned*cough* Nice to have a trailer for the Paris-mas Special at the end. Already knew some of the reports about the plot, but it was good to see it confirmed.

For more detailed thoughts and SPOILERS then read on....

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Don't get much time to watch stuff during the week, but I've been making up for lost time over the weekend:

DVDs:

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