Foiled!

This morning I walked into the Lecture Theatre where I work to find 5 pirates with swords, knives, guns and a woman tied to a train track they conveniently brought with them. They said "Hand over all your technical equipment or the girl gets it" one of them seem to have a loaded train in their hands threatening to put it on the tracks. Luckily, I'd had training in what to do in this situation (there was a course a couple of weeks ago which I now have certification for) and said the words "Parley". Unfortunately, they weren't pirates, they knew that that would throw me off my guard and thus charged me like people wanting to do harm. Lucky for me, my certificate had covered this eventuality and I splashed the henchmen with red paint. This made them shirts red and I was able to run around the room until the first commercial break where they promptly died. I then fought the leader to a standstill on the battlements, wounded him in the side and he jumped into the moat and swam away to fight again another day. I freed the girl and she married the train.
All in all, a good days work.

[note: This account is a rather stylish and fantastical account of how this morning I scared off an attempted robbery by coming to work early. I merely turned on the lights which scared the thief off. I then called for help and security and then stood at the opposite end hoping there was no one in the control room. Unfortunately I had lingering fears that John Ryder was waiting for me up there with two semi-trailers and I wanted someone to avenge me should that be the case. But which version would you want to hear, the truth? or the "truth"?]

Sean Bean: The man who lives?

Sean Bean has been in about 35 films and to date he has survived maybe 4 of them (give or take a few). So when I won free tickets to the remake of The Hitcher I was hoping for another point toward his "haha I lived" quota.

The movie itself was surprisingly good. I was expecting a gore film as the creators of this version were responsible for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Amityville Horror. However, what I got was a pretty good and tense horror film. I jumped at the right moments, said "don't do that" aloud in the cinema and held on to the edge of my seat.

I went with Rob, as Shan was too chicken, and he said it was pretty much like the original with some of the parts being verbatim dialogue. I think I still want to see the original as I'm a huge Rutger Hauer fan when he was getting the good roles like Lady Hawk, Blade Runner, Flesh & Blood and Salute of the Jugger (apparently called "The Blood of Heroes" in America).

All in all, I enjoyed it and felt I had successfully survived a horror film without any lingering thoughts of fear. Or so I thought....

James Bond in love

Last Sunday, Shan, Christine and I went to the cinema to see the new James Bond film. The film was one of the better James Bond films but for me read more of "heres the new James Bond" and not a full film on its own. That being said there were some very enjoyable parts of the movie. Daniel Craig was a pretty decent Bond, not the best, but definitely brought something new to the role and didn't just play the typical bond. There was a point in the film very early on, where the "baddie" turns up. Shannon leaned over to me and said "introducing the bad guy" and I lost it. Some may say that partaking of bud before a film is not the best idea, but I think I enjoyed it even more because of it. Either way I was in hysterics for a full 5 minutes before patrons gave me dirty looks.

Up next: Pan's Labyrinth. It looks Awesome!