Showing posts with label Angles and Demons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Angles and Demons. Show all posts

Thursday, 14 May 2009

Issues in History is finally finished!

Whoot! :D

And just like that, a whole module for this year is over. I've now passed 1/6 of this course, only 5 more modules to do, that’s like hardly anything (NOT).

How embarrassing, I've resorted to what the Americans try to pass of as both humour and sarcasm. They wouldn't know what sarcasm was if it slapped them round the face; I've officially reached new lows.

I've been accused of using the words 'stress' and 'exams' far too much so those words won't be mentioned for the rest of this post (happy Jake?).

SO. Since I didn't get any sleep last night I went home around lunch time to have a nap then went to uni to meet Alex and Jake so we could go to dinner and see Angels and Demons.

Dinner was over-priced and mediocre and trying to pay the bill was one big maths fail. I should have done a Gordon Ramsey and sworn at the staff just for them to miraculously turn around and tell me how great I am and that I'm of course I'm right (I think maybe Gordon Ramsey brainwashes the people on his show to make them co-operate, would explain alot).

Angels and Demons was funny. I was facepalming at some parts due to bad science *shudder*. It wasn't even 'sonic screwdriver' type bad science because that’s a) from the future and b) unexplained in its working so that it wont piss people off too much with its ridiculousness. No, it was more along the lines of 'we've got a 85 million mega ton bomb we made using gravity but (despite all odds) won't blow you up if you're not in the same room when it goes off''. Like errr, WHUT?

However, I LOVE movies with people running around cities looking at old Catholic things, quoting long-forgotten pieces of dogma and using ultra sophisticated 300 year old mechanisms hidden in marble statues ect. Even though the whole idea of a) everything being in working condition, b) everything still being in the same place it was 300 years ago and c) the clues/secret passages/medieval lolcats not being found by torists or cleaners or renovators or maybe even a priest ages ago is ridiculous, once you accept those points then it becomes a fun movie to watch (pretty much like the National Treasure movies but with europeans and religion).

Then it was to mine for tea until Alex stepped outside claiming he 'may be some time' and never came back. Unfortunately this has already been done, with better style, by the famous British Explorer Robin Falcon Scott so marks have been deducted for originality.