Half term!

So it's half-term! This is a welcome (as always) week off college. A week so far spent relaxing and expanding my film experiences.

On Saturday night me and Dad went to see The Hobbit at the Attfield Theatre. I hadn't seen it before and quite regretted missing it at the cinema so did not pass up this chance! It was not as good as the Lord of the Rings films, but it was definitely worth a watch and was a good entertaining film.
Bangor were poor at the weekend again and only managed a draw while United progressed in the FA Cup with a 2-1 win over Reading.

Yesterday, I did what I so often do on Wednesdays and ventured to Wrexham. I went with Tom and planned to watch Wreck-It Ralph, but last minute spontaneity saw us watching the new Die Hard! I think it was a solid action film but was not at all a Die Hard - if it was just the new action film starring Bruce Willis I think it would have gone down a lot better. Again a good watch and I'm now halfway to a free cinema ticket with my Odeon points!
Also, Skyfall came out on DVD on Monday! I undoubtedly got it and watched it with the family last night, it was as good as I remembered it and fits in nicely with my DVDs!

This weekend I'm not really sure of what to do, I'll probably see some friends and watch the England rugby!

Thanks for reading!
-Andy.

Lucky number 13!

Today, has definitely been a good day:

First and perhaps strangest of all was the snowfall which was quite heavy and fell for hours - if only it had waited until tonight so the possibility of college being closed could be considered!
Also, Man United got a decent result against Real Madrid in what was a fascinating game - a 1-1 draw. During this' game on Twitter, the Die Hard Twitter account were running a competition - the best Die Hard referenced tweets about the match were rewarded, and for my efforts tweeting about the United goal, they have rewarded me with all 4 Die Hard films which they're sending in the post! (follow me @aandysmith)

Keeping on the subject of films, today I have watched two good films, Source Code which was quite good and Inception which raised the bar and blew the roof off. It is a film I had previously ignored it without giving it a chance but saw a trailer for it a day or two ago and realised how foolish this was! If you can grasp it, it truly is mindblowing stuff!

Most importantly though, I passed my driving theory test! Getting iut of the test room and receiving my results was more of a relief that I hadn't failed than anything else! I just about scraped it but that doesn't matter, the fact is I'm halfway to my full UK license!
On my 7th driving lesson this morning in deteriorating conditions I practised reversing and got another step closer to taking my test! Oh and passing this test meant my dinner was elevated fron vegetable soup up to a jalfreezi curry!

Because this day has been full of success and just overall a good day, perhaps the number 13 is to be a good omen for me? I certainly hope so!

This weekend Bangor City are live on S4C again so I will most probably watch that and hope they can avoid conceding a last minute equaliser like last week! On Saturday night I'm again venturing to the Attfield Theatre with my Dad to watch The Hobbit. I'm quite looking forward to it as I haven't yet seen The Hobbit and am interested to see what the experience of a full house is like there!

Finally, next week is half-term! This is welcome news as always and will probably be spent watching films!

Thanks for reading!
-Andy.

Fanatical!

This past weekend was the beginning of the six nations rugby union tournament, where I was and will be of course supporting England! With a group of friends in my back room, we witnessed England start the campaign with a cruising win over Scotland!
A few hours later the lot of us went off to the Attfield Theatre for the first time, to watch their screening of Seven Psychopaths! I was impressed overall, the film was entertaining and quite mad, the screen was a good size and the sound system was brilliant - the whole thing was a good independent cinema style experience.

United won while City could only draw and United are now 9 points clear! Bangor still can't get any good form together as they drew at home with Port Talbot.

On Wednesday, I had no driving lesson as my instructor was away in London so I had a lot of spare time! I did a bit of revising for my theory test which is next Wednesday(!!) and went with Connor to see Bullet to the Head at Odeon! We decided to try getting to Wrexham via train for a change and didn't have the best of experiences as both the going and the return trains were delayed. We got told off for having bought child tickets and missed the return train by about a minute so had to spend another hour waiting. However, the journeys were 20 minutes each way which is a lot faster than the bus!
So I quite liked the film, there's some good action, it's quite slick, Stallone is enjoyable to watch and it's well put together. It's not going to be a gamechanger or massive awards winner like Django but it certainly was worth a watch. Also, I signed up for an Odeon premiere club card and will eventually have enough points for a free ticket!
This week I have realised about myself that since the beginning of college (most probably due to film studies and media classes) my interest in films has absolutely shot up! For example, on Saturday night I went out and saw a film, on Sunday night I ordered two modern western remakes - True Grit and 3.10 to Yuma, on Wednesday I saw Bullet to the Head and bought Gran Torino, For a few Dollars More and Che (Part one and two). Right now, I'm thinking about my next cinema trip!

Later on and back to football, England claimed their first win against Brazil in about twenty years, which was very pleasing to watch! This weekend, I am planning on staying home and watching the Bangor game on TV with some friends - similarly to last weekend! England (rugby) and Man Utd play on Sunday so I'll be staying in then too!

Thanks for reading!
-Andy.