Katie's birthday weekend, Film 19
Mar. 26th, 2010 01:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spooky_missWell I haven’t written in here for a while – I’ll just say that all the book reading has meant I haven’t had time, but I have had a really busy couple of weeks. It was my birthday and Katie’s birthday so we went out a few times for both of those, and then I’ve been trying to get my second OU essay done, now I finally have the feedback from the first one. I did well on the first one though, just one bit where I forgot to answer a bit of the question – forgot to say which bit of the essay I found easy – but that was really hard as I actually found it all quite easy! So maybe that’s why I missed it out. The second one I will send off today and then get on with the third one at the weekend. Although I can’t submit it until June or something, at least I will have it done. And then I can get on with the archaeology course, which should be good! From the sound of the course it sounds really sciencey, but as I found the psychology one so easy, and the archaeology one is of the same level, I don’t think it’ll be too much. I am ok at science, just not as good as most people I know, haha.
For Katie’s birthday I went up to see her on the Thursday before, and then her party was on the Friday. It was great! The theme was Tim Burton, and quite a few people dressed up. Katie was in a black and white stripy outfit, Ben was Jack Skellington, Hannah was the white queen, and others. I was the ladybird from James and the Giant Peach! :D as I handily had a ladybird costume from Katie’s last birthday party, and luckily Tim Burton produced the film. Probably no one knew who I was supposed to be though. We had a bit of a party, including cocktails, fish and chips, pass the parcel, and lots of black and white sweets, then went to Camel, which was the same as normal! Too much music which I used to listen to before I really go into alternative music (ska, in other words) and no good metal, they’re supposed to be an alternative night and I’ve never heard an Iron Maiden song there, which is just not right! Although they do play some good songs, like NIN, Manson, Rob Zombie etc. I think one of the DJs likes NIN, we requested NIN and he played Capital G, which was great, as its not one of the most popular songs, and it cleared the dance floor (apart from us of course!) but he still played it. And then a slightly obscure Manson song (can’t remember what it was now!) which kept the dance floor clear, but it was great there was someone who was willing to play songs which aren’t the most popular ones of a certain band. The back room was playing indie, and they actually played some good songs, Joy Division and some other goth things. We finished that evening with some nice food from Noodle Bar – that’s becoming one of my favourite Chineses I think, along with the Dragon Garden and the one in Leverstock Green.
The next day we went to Bradford, where we had booked to see Alice in Wonderland at the IMAX. It was really great, despite the fire alarm in the middle!
Film 19 – Alice in Wonderland (3D)
I was really looking forward to seeing this, having seen some of the adverts with Johnny Depp in, he looked great as the Mad Hatter! Although I haven’t read the books for years, I’d read that the film wasn’t exactly one or other of the books, more of a combination of some of the events of both books, and it worked really well. It was quite a Narnia type story, about one bad queen / authority figure (The Red Queen – Helena Bonham Carter) having taken over the land, over another good queen (The White Queen – Anne Hathaway). It started with Alice being at a prim and proper Victorian garden party (where her mother told her off for not wearing a corset, haha!) and she has been proposed to when she runs off and falls down the rabbit hole. This was brilliant in 3D, as she fell it made your eyes go funny as everything leapt out at you! I don’t really want to tell too much of the story (as a) it’ll be too long, and b) some people might not have seen it!) but she then meets a variety of characters – the caterpillar (who had a name but I can’t remember it!), the Cheshire Cat, Mad Hatter, Dormouse, White and Red Queens, and others, and the film ends with Alice having to fight the Jabberwocky, with the help of the Mad Hatter etc. The voices used for the characters were just brilliant – Alan Rickman as the caterpillar and Stephen Fry for the Cheshire Cat especially! Perfect choices! It also referenced other events in the books, which it said happened when Alice fell down the rabbit hole the first time (i.e. painting the roses red!) which was really good. The 3D aspect of it wasn’t as prominent as I thought it would be, which was good as it means that they spent more time on the story than on the 3D aspects. But there were still good bits, falling down the rabbit hole and a bit when leaves were falling from a tree were especially good. And I almost haven’t mentioned Johnny Depp! I had previously read reviews which said that his portrayal of the Mad Hatter was a bit too “Willy Wonka”, but to it seemed that, even though it was obvious he was drawing on what he’d done while playing Willy Wonka, it was more of a mixture of all his funny characters – there was one bit where he turned and walked away which was totally Jack Sparrow! It all came together and was great though. He is a really excellent actor. All his costume had little bits in it like thimbles and needles and thread as well, which was great. Overall, I give this film 9/10 (not 10 as Johnny Depp wasn’t in it enough, hehe! And the White Queen was a bit wishy washy and annoying!) and I definitely recommend it!
I will edit this later to add a great picture of everyone in their 3D glasses!
After the film we went to Frankie and Bennys and had dinner, which was really nice. I had a chicken carbonara calzone (I think that’s what it was called) – which was basically pasta carbonara with chicken in, in a folded pizza instead of with pasta! Yummy!
The next day was Katie’s birthday, and as she was going to see HIM in the evening in Manchester, we didn’t stay too long, but just travelled home. It was a really great weekend – just as great as the next weekend! :D which I think I should talk about in the next entry as this has gone on far too long so far…..
For Katie’s birthday I went up to see her on the Thursday before, and then her party was on the Friday. It was great! The theme was Tim Burton, and quite a few people dressed up. Katie was in a black and white stripy outfit, Ben was Jack Skellington, Hannah was the white queen, and others. I was the ladybird from James and the Giant Peach! :D as I handily had a ladybird costume from Katie’s last birthday party, and luckily Tim Burton produced the film. Probably no one knew who I was supposed to be though. We had a bit of a party, including cocktails, fish and chips, pass the parcel, and lots of black and white sweets, then went to Camel, which was the same as normal! Too much music which I used to listen to before I really go into alternative music (ska, in other words) and no good metal, they’re supposed to be an alternative night and I’ve never heard an Iron Maiden song there, which is just not right! Although they do play some good songs, like NIN, Manson, Rob Zombie etc. I think one of the DJs likes NIN, we requested NIN and he played Capital G, which was great, as its not one of the most popular songs, and it cleared the dance floor (apart from us of course!) but he still played it. And then a slightly obscure Manson song (can’t remember what it was now!) which kept the dance floor clear, but it was great there was someone who was willing to play songs which aren’t the most popular ones of a certain band. The back room was playing indie, and they actually played some good songs, Joy Division and some other goth things. We finished that evening with some nice food from Noodle Bar – that’s becoming one of my favourite Chineses I think, along with the Dragon Garden and the one in Leverstock Green.
The next day we went to Bradford, where we had booked to see Alice in Wonderland at the IMAX. It was really great, despite the fire alarm in the middle!
Film 19 – Alice in Wonderland (3D)
I was really looking forward to seeing this, having seen some of the adverts with Johnny Depp in, he looked great as the Mad Hatter! Although I haven’t read the books for years, I’d read that the film wasn’t exactly one or other of the books, more of a combination of some of the events of both books, and it worked really well. It was quite a Narnia type story, about one bad queen / authority figure (The Red Queen – Helena Bonham Carter) having taken over the land, over another good queen (The White Queen – Anne Hathaway). It started with Alice being at a prim and proper Victorian garden party (where her mother told her off for not wearing a corset, haha!) and she has been proposed to when she runs off and falls down the rabbit hole. This was brilliant in 3D, as she fell it made your eyes go funny as everything leapt out at you! I don’t really want to tell too much of the story (as a) it’ll be too long, and b) some people might not have seen it!) but she then meets a variety of characters – the caterpillar (who had a name but I can’t remember it!), the Cheshire Cat, Mad Hatter, Dormouse, White and Red Queens, and others, and the film ends with Alice having to fight the Jabberwocky, with the help of the Mad Hatter etc. The voices used for the characters were just brilliant – Alan Rickman as the caterpillar and Stephen Fry for the Cheshire Cat especially! Perfect choices! It also referenced other events in the books, which it said happened when Alice fell down the rabbit hole the first time (i.e. painting the roses red!) which was really good. The 3D aspect of it wasn’t as prominent as I thought it would be, which was good as it means that they spent more time on the story than on the 3D aspects. But there were still good bits, falling down the rabbit hole and a bit when leaves were falling from a tree were especially good. And I almost haven’t mentioned Johnny Depp! I had previously read reviews which said that his portrayal of the Mad Hatter was a bit too “Willy Wonka”, but to it seemed that, even though it was obvious he was drawing on what he’d done while playing Willy Wonka, it was more of a mixture of all his funny characters – there was one bit where he turned and walked away which was totally Jack Sparrow! It all came together and was great though. He is a really excellent actor. All his costume had little bits in it like thimbles and needles and thread as well, which was great. Overall, I give this film 9/10 (not 10 as Johnny Depp wasn’t in it enough, hehe! And the White Queen was a bit wishy washy and annoying!) and I definitely recommend it!
I will edit this later to add a great picture of everyone in their 3D glasses!
After the film we went to Frankie and Bennys and had dinner, which was really nice. I had a chicken carbonara calzone (I think that’s what it was called) – which was basically pasta carbonara with chicken in, in a folded pizza instead of with pasta! Yummy!
The next day was Katie’s birthday, and as she was going to see HIM in the evening in Manchester, we didn’t stay too long, but just travelled home. It was a really great weekend – just as great as the next weekend! :D which I think I should talk about in the next entry as this has gone on far too long so far…..
