I Feel The Need, The Need For Speed

My name is Steven. Although depending on the friends I am with at the time I could also be called 'Perry' but explaining that one would involve a rather boring story so I shan't bother.

I graduated from the fine educational establishment that is the University of Salford with a degree in Leisure Management. Not sure why I chose that particular degree but a degree is a degree and if anything at least it pads out the CV a bit.

I currently work for a transport company ensuring that people get their beer deliveries, so I am an addition to that statistic of graduates doing jobs that have nothing to do with their degrees whatsoever, although I could argue that drinking is a part of leisure and I manage people getting their 'leisure', but that would be pompous of me so I won't.

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Feb 22

The Lovely Bones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikUWKi0W5_g

Went to see ‘The Lovely Bones’ yesterday. Have to say that it is a pretty strange film for Peter Jackson to be doing coming on the back of King Kong and prepping work for ‘The Hobbit’ but I’m not against directors doing personal projects in between the big ‘Hollywood’ films so went along to give it a go.

Have never read the book so didnt really know too much about the story other than the fact that it was about a girl who was murdered and spent her time in the ‘In-Between’ between life and heaven and tried helping her family realise who the killer was.

Now on this basis I was intrigued to see exactly how she would be helping her family find the killer and have to say I was quite disapointed with what they came up with as surely the man who brought the Lord of the Rings to life could have used a bit more imagination, even if it meant deviating from the book.

The ‘In-Between’ scenes were quite well done though and the effects were pretty good, if quite bizarre. The killer was menacing and strange enough to be realistic although if someone like that lived near someone who had been murdered recently then I would like to think he would be more of a suspect than just being labelled as slightly strange.

All in all I didnt find the film to be the 4 star film that Emprie labelled it but it wasn’t the 2 star film Total Film said it was either. For my first review on here I’m gonna be playing it safe and giving it 3 stars. Not a great film but not exactly a terrible film either and worth watching, although if you’d read the book I would imagine it’s probably not going to be to your liking if a lot of the reviews are to go by.