It’s time for the obligatory Christmas post in which I say that I had a quiet Christmas with the family, ate and drank a little bit too much and got lightly mauled by the family bear dog.

And it was great. Except for the mauling, that wasn’t so great.

I’m fairly sure that a Christmas like this is the best sort of Christmas, I love big parties, festivals and spontaneous urban happenings, but nothing quite beats sloe gin and rubbish seasonal telly.

Happy seasonal celebration everyone, I’m going for a curry.

~Theo

A little while back I saw Law Abiding Citizen and I think it’s about time I wrote a bit about it.

I think the delay is mostly due to my rampant ambivalence towards it, it’s not brilliant, but it’s not particularly bad either. As I ineloquently summed it up at the time:

‘s’alright, I s’pose’.

The story follows Gerard Butler, who plays someone called Clyde. His family is brutally murdered in front of him, and the law lets him down by letting one of the baddies go free in exchange for dobbing in his accomplice. Gerard decides everything is wrong with the world and swears revenge before systematically killing lots of people. Conveniently, Clyde is some sort of ex-superspy and is very good at doing this in unfeasible and theatrical ways, and then it goes a bit wrong for him, the end.

That’s it. I summed the film up in four whole sentences.

Now, I would suggest that revenge films are quite hard to get wrong, admittedly, not all of them can explore the use of claw hammers in modern dentistry or comedy rhyming potential of names like ‘Buck’*, but this one manages it. Clyde, our anti-hero, is a bit of a non-character. As a man bent on revenge, he could have taken on any slightly loopy archetype you like, from Hannibal Lecter to Ed Norton’s character in Se7en (I think he was called John Doe). He was none of these, and I just kept thinking about how he looks like a bit like a melted version of Russell Crowe.

Sadly, the whole film is spun around this rather weak, undecided character, so when Clyde embarks on a bit of Eli Roth style torture-porn, followed by the use of some Jackal-esque robo-guns, you are left wondering about the integrity of the whole conception, what exactly does this film want to be? All I want is a bit of consistency.

In conclusion, I wouldn’t bother with it.

~Theo

*If you missed either of these references, consider yourself ill educated and come to see me after class.

I'm so glad I don't give two shits about wolfrp these days, I come on to hang with my pack then RP on furcadia and whoever else wants to RP on IRC. Really, lol.

Anyway, I've been busy so I haven't had alot of time to update. Oh well *shrug* I've been going through emotional stress and whatever else, dealing with people backstabbing me at every which way (course, none on irc, but some have there too) so I'm just huddling in my corner. If you really want my attention, feel free to bug me on msn or e-mail me. Otherwise, I see no reason for me to pester people if they don't want me around.


Also, I work xmas and xmas eve.

Last weekend was an absolute blast, and it is now time to blog it.

Spending the best part of 36 hours in varying degrees of drunkenness was great fun, but sobering up and my subsequent recovery from my self-inflicted poisoning was less than enjoyable.

I owe my predicament, to the delightful, charming and lots of other nice adjectives, agrajag_fur who threw an absolutely fantastic party on Saturday night to celebrate turning 27*. Sir, you are a gentleman, thank you very much.

~Theo

*This is according to red_russell whom I have no reason to doubt.