Last Week

So last week I started Semester 2 in my Bachelor of Arts course. I had selected four classes being: New Communication Technologies, Great Book A, Creative Writing I, and the compulsory Introduction to Social Enterprises. Despite any doubts I might have had at first, all of these classes look to be enjoyable and interesting.

So, aside from my contentness with uni, what did I get up to?

I gotogether with some of the coolest kids I know, Jon and Luke Harriss and we hit up some movies.

First up was The Hangover. I didn't have any real expectations for this film, I expected a typical sex romp, gross-out humour style movie. However, I had been hearing people say good things about this film, and I didn't know any of the actors which nowadays is a good thing. I enjoy watching something fresh.

Overall it was a pretty enjoyable film. It didn't even feel excessively stupid, of course, many situations involved were implausible, such as stealing Mike Tyson's tiger. However, the actors managed to deliver their dialogue with a lot of realism and this did the movie and lot of justice. All up, I liked the film, except one thing...

I have a habit of checking online before, or after seeing a film in order to see what others thought of it. My source is generall www.imdb.com and currently, The Hangover has a rating of 8.2/10 putting it at #181 in the Top 250 movies of all time.

Now, of course this list is very subjective as it is not an entirely universal opinion, nor is it necessarily made up of critics or intelligent individuals. I believe its time on the list will be temporal, but this does suprise me. It was a good film, and really, I can't say it was amazingly funny, just, that there were very few bits if any that were actually bad - so it does deserve that credit over similar movies.

The Hangover was on Wednesday, Thursday, like it did most weeks, came next. Truly, if there is one day at uni I dislike, it is this day. I must arrive at uni at 8:00 a.m. and stick around until 6:00 p.m. Fortunately, in the dreadful final hour I received a call from Jon and Luke. "We're seeing Public Enemies with Johnny Depp." I thought, anything to not have to catch a bus home.

So before I knew it we were at Aus Fair and ready to see this film. Except it didn't start for another 3 hours. We spent the time killing time. We even discovered one of those machines that asks you 20 questions and guesses what you're thinking of. This particular one was a The Simpsons model.

Unbelievably, asking the most stock questions, the device managed to guess 'Jebediah of Springfield's Silver Tongue' and 'The Inanimate Carbon Rod' two obscure Simpsons objects that have only ever been brought up once, now that was impressive.

Finally, the movie started and it was just too long 2 hours and 20 minutes of uncompelling story and a lack of characterisation or any form of romantic tension between Johnny and his gal. Despite some decent action scenes and cheesy one liners, this movie simply wasn't up to scratch. Unless you're one of Johnny Depp's groupies, in which case you've probably already seen this, DON'T!

I'm Craig Thompson and that was my Wednesday and Thursday last week.