The story of a bored individual...

I went to see 'Slither' on thursday evening, so I figured I'd write a little bit about it. 



Before I begin the official review, I have to tell you in what setting I saw this film. First of all I headed to the cinema alone, because none of the people I had asked wanted to go, or were busy with various school work. I'm not a big fan of watching scary movies at the cinema on my own, but figured this is part comedy and I managed 'The Sixth Sense ' on my own, so I'd be okay. It was also the last day it was showing at an ok time of the day (19:10), so I headed down to the cinema. I arrived a little after 19:10 and the guy at the counter thought I wanted a ticket to the next screening, but I got a ticket for this one. Now this made me think that there would be loads of people already in the theatre. What do I discover when I get there? It's empty, I am the only one there! This throws me a bit, but I remembered I was alone at the beginning of 'Hooligans', so other people would surely be coming. I find a seat, and surely a guy comes in during the trailers, but he leaves when they're over.
Yup, that's right folks, I was going to watch this all by myself!
Now, this is something that would usually make me very happy, not that it's ever happened before, but this was after all a scary movie. I'm not a whimp really, and I know this was a comedy as well, but come on! So yeah, for about the first ten minutes of the film I was a bit tense, but then I relaxed and figured I'd enjoy myself as I had the freedom to scream and cringe as much as I wanted without looking a fool. So that's what I did. ;)

( SERENITY Red carpet )

 

 

 

 ( SERENITY review )

 

In short, everybody must go and see this movie, and make up their own mind. I’m going again soon, and will then hopefully be able to write a better review.

 

Go HERE for great interviews with the cast! :D (spoiler free)

Since it seems like the rich text mode isn't working here at LJ at the moment, I'll have to give the good old coding a try. ;)

Anyways, on to the post I promised..
On Firday I had quite the day. I was finally going to find Forbidden Planet, a store full of fandom goodies. I got on the bus and headed in to Picadilly circus, had a look around there as well, had kind of expected to see signs of 'Serenity' coming this week, but sadly there were none.

So I started looking for Forbidden Planet, all I knew was that it was on Shaftsbury Avenue, and I'd managed to get a hold of the 'house-number' so I started walking, thinking it couldn't be too far. Turned out it was a few blocks, but I finally found it. :D It's a great store, and if I were rich I'd go totally crazy in there.

Met up with trav28 and his wife, Linda, which was very nice. We talked a bit and had a look around the store before they left to have some lunch. I wanted to check out the rest of the store, and then I had to get back to do some homework. I'd picked up a LOTR calendar for 2006 that I was definetly going to buy, and thought I would just have a peek
downstairs to know what was there without actually buying anything. That didn't happen, I got down there and there were so many things I wanted... they're selling 'Buffy' and 'Angel'
seasons for £19.99!! I am going to go back and buy, but I let it be for now, instead I bought the Serenity book and some collector cards, have not opened any of them yet as I am trying to stay
away from spoilers.

As I'm paying for this a guy comes over to me and asks if I wouldn't mind being interviewed for TV. They're kind of testing people to see if they're geeks or
not, I say yes, and he tells me that it's going to be on "Richard & Judy" which is a rather popular mid-day chat show here in the UK.
I have to admit I'm not a big fan of it, bacuse I think Richard is a horrible host. I get over to where the crew is and am introduced to the guy who'll be interviewing me. They start by asking me to show what I've bought, so
I do, then he starts asking me questions like 'who's your favourite dr.who?', 'have you ever been to a convention?', 'have you ever ordered pizza to your home?', then he showed me some pictures and asked me if I knew who these people were. So we finish and he says that I am a semi-geek, but since I'm a girl in a store like Forbidden Planet he'll upgrade me to geek, and then he asks me how I feel about that. I was rather amused by the whole thing so I just said something like; 'I'm proud to be a geek and everybody should embrace their inner geekiness.' They thank me and I sign a release form and am on my merry way. It'll be on sometime this week, but there's no guarantee they'll show me. The guy who asked me if I wanted to be interviewed said my english sounded good, but I'm guessing it'll depend on the editors, and how many other people they interviewed.

On my way back it of course started raining, so by the time I got to the bus I was drenched. When I got back to the house I kind of collapsed on my bed, but did get around to doing my school work, so that should be settled. :D