So my most excellent wife and I went to see the midwife today, and all the results from previous tests are fine and everything seems great. Then we got to hear the baby’s heartbeat through a device that looked like it was designed for detecting pipes in walls. It was very exciting!
What I didn’t expect, was that inside my wife is an actual game of Pac-man. I imagined the heartbeat noise would be sort of badumbadumbadumbadum, but in reality it was WAKAWAKAWAKAWAKA. Amazing!
At Pop on the Wii, on advanced mode. However, my time of 84 minutes is somewhat longer than the top score of around a minute and a half. Clearly some cheating going on.
Thankfully, I was busy and didn’t notice my always-on-silent mobile buzzing like a bee. Today’s assailant was 0845 4122700, and once again, here’s the WhoCallsMe? link.
My work PC desktop, at least. I’m a well proud dad-to-be, see.
I seem to recall that round the time of release, Bulletproof Monk got some good press and pretty decent reviews. So imagine my surprise when not only was the film not really what I was expecting in terms of content (I think I mixed it up with Equilibrium), but also it wasn’t as good as I thought it was supposed to be either.
I’ve never been a fan of “mis-matched partners” films. Here, Tibetan monk Chow-Yun Fat and New York street thief Seann William Scott team up to protect an ancient scroll. Lots of martial arts fighting (and, as Scott is in it, “funny lines”) ensue.
The problem is, it’s all either obvious, or badly done. The scene where Kar (Scott) squares up against “Mr Funktastic” (played by quite possibly the worst actor ever) and his goons just made me cringe it was so cheesy. In fact, it reminded me a lot of a scene in the absolutely dire - but funny for that reason - Exterminator 2. The addition of the daughter of a Russian mobster, the English Mr Funktastic, and a Japanese owner of a Chinese cinema, all just seemed to add unnecessary nationalities to the story for no apparent reason.
There was also a slight twist at the end that I didn’t see coming, although it made me feel sick in that way over-exposed mush often does.
Thankfully, the fighting was mainly well done. It didn’t quite fit, as it felt a bit like Crouching Tiger in New York, but I’ll allow it that. John Woo fans will be pleased to know there’s a John Woo Signature Gunfight half-way through the film too.
Overall, it was watchable (if not completely enjoyable), but felt very much like a kid’s martial arts film with added swearing and Nazis. Perhaps if it moved closer to one end of the spectrum rather than sitting awkwardly in the middle, it may have faired better.
Verdict: 2/5
I got yet another call from one of those scamming companies trying to sell me a mobile phone contract. Would you all just leave me alone now? I’ve no interest in taking out a contract with any company who feels the need to ring me at 3am or 11pm. Or any time, in fact.
This post was brought to you by the number 01254 277069, and the letters F and U.
Oh, and here’s the Who Calls Me? page for this number.
Well, sort of. The LG Secret can withstand fire and knocks and stabbing and all sorts of other abuse, as this video demonstrates…
Click the images at the bottom for other videos. One of them is Uptown Girl. Hurrah!
Yeah, it’s another one of those numbers again. Got a call in the wee hours this morning, but didn’t answer. From the look of Who Calls Me, it’s another (or possibly the same) scamming company trying to swindle me by selling me a phone contract.
I’ve suddenly had a big influx of visitors, due to the Orange Balloon Race thing currently going on. That’s what the floating raccoon thing was for in the bottom right corner of my site.
So hello to all those passing through!
I’m in the race myself, as you can see:
Sometimes there are things that just need to escape my head.
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