I was recently lucky enough to attend the European film premier of ‘Valentine’s Day’ in Leicester Square, London. I say lucky, but it will probably be the last film premier I attend, as although it was a great experience, it doesn’t half make you feel insignificant.
My girlfriend got the tickets from a contact that couldn’t make it, and it sounded very exciting when she broke the news to me that we would be hitting the red carpet with all the celebs. It was unfortunate that the film was Valentine’s Day, but I’m not one to look a gift horse in the mouth.

The evening started off quite stressfully actually. The tube at London Victoria was closed, the queue at the taxi rank was a good 30 people long, and we had about 20 minutes to get to the Odeon in Leicester square. We eventually got a taxi, but had to grind to a halt when driving down The Mall to let Prince Charles and his police escort out of Clarence House where he lives. I promise I am not making this up; it seems Charles had somehow wangled some tickets to the premier as well, and no one in London was going to stop him getting there. With the traffic at a halt we had to run the rest of The Mall, through Trafalgar Square and arrived at the cinema in our finest attire with bright red faces and panting like huskies.

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I was just reading a blog post titled “Top 15 Cover Songs of all Times” so I thought I would do a top 10 of my own, so after thinking about which I could do, music, places etc I finally came up my Top 10 Favourite Movies.

Now I know there are going to people out there that don’t agree with some of these, but these are movies I have in my collection and the ones which I have watched and enjoyed the most.

1. Blade Runner (The Final Cut)
2. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
3. Sin City
4. The Crow
5. Clerks
6. Once Upon The Time in the West
7. Lord Of The Rings
8. Duellists
9. Akira
10. Appleseed

So there you go, my top 10 favourite movies, from my DVD collection

Yet again it’s time for this weeks Saturday Six and this week topic was chosen by myself and there is only one question with six answers..

1. There seems to be a lot of buzz over the new Twilight movie New Moon, but what are your six favourite vampire movies and why?
   

There we go, one question with six answers for you to have fun with…

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So after last weeks fiasco of the couple before us getting the last tickets, I finally got to go and see “The Final Destination 3D” last night, so, was it worth the wait?

The film which is the fourth in the series and oddly enough the second 3D film, though the 3rd film used those awful blue and red 3D glasses!

This time we are given the full 3D treatment with the new cinema system of Real-3D and it’s really good, everything that should be coming out at you does, from the massive car pile up at the beginning to blood spatters and more…

Though some parts of the film are a bit over the top and gory, but it wouldn’t be a Final Destination movie then would it

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Now I’m not really against games been made in to movies, well some of them I am! But, there comes a time when we must say to Hollywood “NO!” and this is one of those times.

Shadow of the Colossus is a truly visual PlayStation 2 game, ok so maybe there is not too much to it, the idea is to ride your horse around the mythical land, find the different Colossi and kill them, which is no easy task as the creature are huge and I mean huge.

But honestly how can you turn this game into a film, there is one character killing the creatures, would you sit through a film for 90 mins. to 2 hours with a guy firing arrows at giants, climbing up them and then killing them?

Supposedly the script will make some major changes to make the film more action packed and interesting, but surely if this is done then it takes away the spirit of the games haunting feel with it’s melancholy music and peaceful landscapes.

I personally thought this was a wind up from one of my friends until they pointed me in the direction of The Hollywood Reporter’s Risky Biz Blog with info on the film.  So what next a movie version of The Sims, or even Pacman (or have they done that already ) I mean it’s bad enough that Hollywood has ran out of ideas in making movies and has to re-imagine/re-make some of the classic movies, but to keep making video game movies, I suppose one good thing of this Shadow of the Colossus movie is, so far the name Uwe Boll hasn’t spung up