Movies and TV

Yesterday evening I watched the film Final Destination 3. In the Final Destination films a group of teenagers narrowly escape certain death in an accident, due to one of the group having a premonition. Shortly afterwards they all start to die off in elaborate accidents. In this one they narrowly escape a rollercoaster crash, and also the main character (played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead) manages to find cryptic clues to what her friend's accidents will be in the photographs she takes just before the rollercoaster. The problem is that all three of the films are more or less the same, the film's main draw being the elaborate and gruesome death scenes.

I also saw part of a show called Lucas and Walliams' Perfect Night In which was basically about the ideal evening's viewing for comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams (who do a comedy show called Little Britain). In one part they were discussing the shows they weren't allowed to watch as kids, and I started thinking about the shows my parents wouldn't let me watch when I was young. I remember when I was about eleven or so I really wanted to watch the show Twin Peaks, but my mum would never let me watch it. Or when they'd show any of the Dennis Potter plays, which my mum loved, but they were very controversial because they were quite explicit, and there was no way my parents would let us watch them when we were kids.

After that I saw Stand By Me which was a really good film, based on a Stephen King novella, about a group of kids in an American small town in the 1950s who go out looking for a dead body. Despite being a Stephen King film it is definitely not a horror film. It is a great film though.

Today was quiet, and very dull at work. There was barely anyone in the office because it was a bank holiday.