Square eyed fly-by...
Hello fiends, how are things? I hardly get time to post these days, but here is a v. quick square eyed fly-by...
I've watched two films this week.
The first was 500 Days of Summer, starring Zooey Kookface Deschanel. It was like sitting in the pub while a nice but unexciting friend tells you a 2-hour anecdote involving every single mundane conversation he's had in the last 6 months with his on/off girlfriend. Yawnarama. It gets an inexplicable imdb score of 7.9. I'd have given it a 5.7 myself. Why do people on imdb insist on revering these self-consciously kooky American films where nothing really happens but everyone seems to be under the impression that they're far more adorable and alternative than they really are? (Does having a character say "I love The Smiths!" guarantee you an extra 10 imdb points?)
The second was Headhunters - a Norwegian crime romp. Loads of Scandi fun! Total hokum in places but thoroughly entertaining all the way through. Def recommend. This one scores 7.5 on imdb... *mumble mumble*
In TV news, we've just finished season 2 of Breaking Bad (totally excellent) and have started Season 1 of Braquo. It makes the cops in Spiral look like morally upstanding paragons of the law. Total Gomorrah. (Has anyone ever made a French cop show that wasn't fundamentally rooted in corruption?)
Well that's all for now. Hope you're all having fun.