Catch up

Hi all,

Well, my second year at uni is going well, and time is flying by. Probably because I have deadlines to keep up with lol. This is my first post, a bit delayed I admit, so it's time to play catch up. Right, here goes.

For last weeks Orange Wednesday deal I went to see Up with a few friends. I saw the 3D version and took a friend who is colour blind, so we weren't sure how that would work. We discovered that as the glasses are no longer the geeky blue and red ones, it worked fine =D

I keep hearing people say that Up is a really sad film, yes it has a few sad issues and bits, which I’m not going to say, I don't want to ruin it now do I =) But the films is overall happy and upbeat.

I loved it, I think 'Kevin' the bird was amazing, and the animation was sooo good. I wish I could say more about the film but I feel like I’d give the story away.

It’s definitely a film I want to own on DVD, It’d make a good addition to my ever growing collection of 150+ films. I did warn you I was a films fan, but there are so many more films I want to own and see!

I also watched Saw 5 last week, curled up on the sofa with my housemates and my dressing gown (you can tell it's creeping into winter, though I'm always cold). I never got a chance to see Saw 5 in the cinema so as the 6th one is out now I thought I should catch up so I could watch the
new Saw in cinema this week =)

As it happens I went to see Saw 6 last night, I know, I know, it wasn't Orange Wednesdays but beggars can't be choosers. I mean, most of my friends wouldn't even consider going to see a horror film, let alone the Saw so when my housemates suggested it, (the lads in my house anyway, Steph runs from any horror), I jumped at the chance.

I love the Saw films, at one time I didn't like horrors. I could watch 'real' horrors, about things that could happen in real life, like ones about killers. But horrors that had monsters in them, like Jeepers Creepers, freaked me out. A very technical description of the matter, don't you think.

At college I totally flipped though, I couldn't get enough of horrors, all types. I even got told while writing for my college magazine that I should do a piece on something other than horror films =P

The Saw films are so well thought out, they aren't just killing with the usual suspense and gore thrown into the mix. The story is so transfixing, you’re hooked and want to know more, about why and how.

The new Saw film was no different, and again we were dipped into flash backs of events that we weren't even aware of. Allowing us to piece together the jigsaw, of what happened and why, one piece at a time, no pun intended.

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