Staring down Eeeeternityyyyy
Odeon Training
So I had my training day at the Odeon on Thursday, which was fun but very, very long. There are only five trainees including myself and while aaaall of the paperwork was a drag (pretty well re-writing our CVs... much more that Toys R Us) we did get to see the Projection room. Oooo I thought. I kinda wanted to stay up there longer; all of the *massive* film reels and strings of film stretching precariously around the place. The other thing was all the "teaser trailer" little film rolls sitting around... desperately wanted to rummage.
We were shown around the rest of the place, all sounded quite simple and the places is (excluding the theatres) much smaller than Toys R Us.
Film
Lovefilm back in full swing I have loooots of films to review at the end of April (won't that be fun!) and they do what they always do and give me two films from the same genre. Serial killers this time, sigh. But special note is Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. Which certain people reading this review will remember from the laughable trailer with Silent Hill. (I think) But I thought, it can't be that bad... it has some good reviews.
But as reviews have suggested this is based off a book deemed "unfilmable" for a reason. This film is preposterous. Not just the fact there is a lot of sniffing going on throughout... but how it is based in Paris, yet everyone is played by English actors speaking English. That is the first warning sign.
Asides from having no real development and being incredibly slow in places, the plot isn't "thrilling"... I was laughing. Kill twelve young women, cover them in animal fat, scrape that off, distill it into perfume, mix them together... and you have god-like powers to cause cities to fall into uncontrollable mass orgies?
Niiiiiiice.
Weekend
Good weekend =D Apart from completing Mass Effect for the second time (as well as its downloadable content) and getting a ton load of achievements, it was my first official day of work on the Saturday. I'll need to work out my food arrangements with the crazy cinema hours, plus it was iinnncredibly warm. Much cleaning of theatres and not thinking how much money people actually waste by not drinking/eating everything o.o
So I was doing that and checking tickets. The atmosphere is soooo much more relaxed than TRU; makes the toy shop seem like boot camp :P Mainly... no competition between workers.. and while everyone is a little bizarre, they are all perfectly nice lol
Moreover Lynee was here =D which made the tension of a first day at work less tense. Though I think also TRU was a trial by fire and has broke me into working environments a lot better than I thought. We found the awesome ice cream shop in the Overgate. Like awesome ice cream shop! Reminded me of Florence. Hmmm, definitely going back there! =D
Oh yes, another thing about Odeon, I am risking seeing the ends of films before I've seen them o.O; I was actually allowed to avoid seeing the end of State of Play though. Going to buy one of the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen posters too at some point =)
The Bahrain Formula 1 was actually a dry race for once! =O (true... the middle of a desert has that effect) and luckily it wasn't boring either, hehe. Plenty of overtaking, more use of KERS. Sure it was more a standard race with less nonsense, but I was glad to see less overtaking-via-pitstop and more... you know.. wheel-to-wheel action. In fact the start was pretty intense. Ferrari finally getting 3 constructors points, lol, still dire though.
Oh, and I had my PC download the CS4 suite over several days... haven't installed it all yet :P
So I had my training day at the Odeon on Thursday, which was fun but very, very long. There are only five trainees including myself and while aaaall of the paperwork was a drag (pretty well re-writing our CVs... much more that Toys R Us) we did get to see the Projection room. Oooo I thought. I kinda wanted to stay up there longer; all of the *massive* film reels and strings of film stretching precariously around the place. The other thing was all the "teaser trailer" little film rolls sitting around... desperately wanted to rummage.
We were shown around the rest of the place, all sounded quite simple and the places is (excluding the theatres) much smaller than Toys R Us.
Film
Lovefilm back in full swing I have loooots of films to review at the end of April (won't that be fun!) and they do what they always do and give me two films from the same genre. Serial killers this time, sigh. But special note is Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. Which certain people reading this review will remember from the laughable trailer with Silent Hill. (I think) But I thought, it can't be that bad... it has some good reviews.
But as reviews have suggested this is based off a book deemed "unfilmable" for a reason. This film is preposterous. Not just the fact there is a lot of sniffing going on throughout... but how it is based in Paris, yet everyone is played by English actors speaking English. That is the first warning sign.
Asides from having no real development and being incredibly slow in places, the plot isn't "thrilling"... I was laughing. Kill twelve young women, cover them in animal fat, scrape that off, distill it into perfume, mix them together... and you have god-like powers to cause cities to fall into uncontrollable mass orgies?
Niiiiiiice.
Weekend
Good weekend =D Apart from completing Mass Effect for the second time (as well as its downloadable content) and getting a ton load of achievements, it was my first official day of work on the Saturday. I'll need to work out my food arrangements with the crazy cinema hours, plus it was iinnncredibly warm. Much cleaning of theatres and not thinking how much money people actually waste by not drinking/eating everything o.o
So I was doing that and checking tickets. The atmosphere is soooo much more relaxed than TRU; makes the toy shop seem like boot camp :P Mainly... no competition between workers.. and while everyone is a little bizarre, they are all perfectly nice lol
Moreover Lynee was here =D which made the tension of a first day at work less tense. Though I think also TRU was a trial by fire and has broke me into working environments a lot better than I thought. We found the awesome ice cream shop in the Overgate. Like awesome ice cream shop! Reminded me of Florence. Hmmm, definitely going back there! =D
Oh yes, another thing about Odeon, I am risking seeing the ends of films before I've seen them o.O; I was actually allowed to avoid seeing the end of State of Play though. Going to buy one of the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen posters too at some point =)
The Bahrain Formula 1 was actually a dry race for once! =O (true... the middle of a desert has that effect) and luckily it wasn't boring either, hehe. Plenty of overtaking, more use of KERS. Sure it was more a standard race with less nonsense, but I was glad to see less overtaking-via-pitstop and more... you know.. wheel-to-wheel action. In fact the start was pretty intense. Ferrari finally getting 3 constructors points, lol, still dire though.
Oh, and I had my PC download the CS4 suite over several days... haven't installed it all yet :P