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Put in on yesterday as more background noise and movement for a sketching session.  The sketching never happened and I watched the film instead.  One of the best animations of recent years that I have seen with an interesting style and dark backdrop it reminded me of the more grim animations I saw when growing up (although perhaps never attaining those depths of grimness).  I really enjoy this film and it's nice that it's different in tone to Pixar and Dreamworks.

Just finished watching An Adventure in Space and Time on iPlayer.  It was OK, pretty standard for this type of dramatisation.  I will agree that Matt Smith's was jarring.  I'd go so far to say as extremely misplaced and totally unnecessary.  I will also agree that Reece Shearsmith does not make a convincing Patrick Troughton.

I saw there was a documentary on BBC2 tonight on something to do with Doctor Who.  Might check it out... I prefer docs for finding out about history of things, although docs can be very hit or miss.  I saw an excellent BBC4 doc about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop - I think it may have been called The Alchemists of Sound.  Relevant because it's the department the iconic Doctor Who sound effects emerged from, most notably the theme tune.

Gamer is an interesting companion piece to Surrogates if you think about it. The main difference is what the puppet is made out of...

I agree, when I first saw these two films in was in close succession of one another.  I certainly felt they were complimentary of one another.  Exploring similar concepts in different ways.

People smoked an awful lot in the 60s didn't they?

It was a golden age [insert nicotine stain joke here]

*sigh*

Will I get stoned for admitting that I enjoy The End of Time.

When the last series of DW was drawing to a close I started rewatching the new Who and when I got to the four specials (which I was not looking forward to) I was actually surprised by The End of Time.  It wasn't anywhere near as bad as I remembered.  It was pretty good.

I didn't actually finish rewatching all the episodes.  When I got to the last series some of the episodes were just too unbearable to watch, I gave up. 

[Gamer]

Gamer

This is probably a guilty pleasure but I find this film to be fun.  I like the visual contrast between 'Slayers' and 'Society' and it's probably the visuals that sell this film to me.  The concept is an interesting one, the story is pretty concise if unoriginal (reminded me a lot of the Death Race remake in places).  The sense of humour in the film can be grim at times as well.  It was a great film to have on whilst I did my sketches.

I have the first four The Cure albums in my playlist currently.

[The Crush]

The Crush



My third (and last) entry.  A story following one of the other squads on Moab in The Ballad of Halo Jones.  The pictured character is the soldier [spoiler]who informs Halo of her promotion after her first mission in the crush.[/spoiler]

I have been noodling around with this for the last three hours, so I need to stop and say it's finished.

I'm now listening to The Cinematic Orchestra.

1. Mrs Joyce's Boys
2. Burger Queen
3. The Freefall Tyger

Just finished listening to my Regina Spektor albums and I have now moved onto Sly & The Family Stone.

How many of you are now counting down the hours? 

[Surrogates]

I have seen the Hobbit once and I didn't mind it.  It wasn't like when Fellowship came out, but that was something special and of the time.  I didn't mind it, I knew they were going to add, combine, change and remove things from the story because they did it with LofT.  It was pretty cool seeing Doctor Who make an appearance.

Moving on:

Surrogates

Nearly everyone is living their lives through surrogate androids and Bruce Willis has to solve a murder whilst dealing with problems at home.  A nice sci-fi concept that is probably a criticism of things like Second Life.  Who knows, it doesn't seem to be getting intellectual with it's sci-fi.  A simple film that doesn't achieve great heights but doesn't sink to great depths.  It was a good choice to have it on whilst I was doing my evening sketches.

Is this some sort of record for number of entries? 

My count so far is 21 and I know there are more to come!

I meant gamble in regards to the potential quality rather than drawing in a crowd or revenue.  Plus the chances of rolling a six twice are slimmer than rolling it once.