Okay, I'm back. I hate summer holidays, cos my life pretty much devolves into nothing but posting on websites. This and Facebook is pretty much my only social life at the moment. Which just sucks out loud.
It's a beautifully sunny day and I'm in a randomly cheery mood. Jobseekers went okay, but I broke my headphones. Not really bothered though cos they were shit anyway.
Okay, so Devour. This will involve spoilers so you have been warned. It was a good film although at times it seemed a bit disjointed. One of the things I liked most about it was that it wasn't a gorified horror film. What I mean is that it wasn't jam packed with stupid amounts of blood and guts and trying to make it look as real as possible. And for some reason I've just gone totally blank on how to spell possible.
It was a cult horror which was nice because I haven't actually seen that many cult horrors. It had an interesting plot as well. Basically this guy called Jake (played by Jensen Ackles), his best friend Conrad introduces him to this game called The Pathway, which takes your details and then gives you weird things to do.
They soon find out that The Pathway is seriously fucked up and Conrad and Dakota end up dead because of the game after committing some kind of crime. (Though admittedly the people they commited the crimes against were arseholes).
Anyways, after meeting this beautiful girl and realising after his uncle is killed that the game has something to do with Satan, Jake goes in search of answers and finds out that the people who he thought were his parents aren't and they actually stole him from Satan herself, his true mother. So, he freaks but goes after her and she's killed his fake parents and then reveals that she was the beautiful girl he was falling for (which is really fucked up when you think that he had made out with her and everything).
She tries to convince him to come back to her and do the whole prince of hell thing but he refuses so she makes it look like he killed his parents and he's arrested.
The great thing about the ending is that when he's getting arrested, Jake's doing a voice over and says something like 'Maybe they're right, maybe there is no Pathway and I made it all up for all the terrible things I had done'. So it kind of leaves it to you to decide whether he really was the son of Satan or whether he was just a psycho who imagined it all.
I like the way they portrayed Satan as well, when she's in her 'true' form, she's like this dark beast that looks like a cross between a faun and H R Gieger's Alien.
And I love the fact that they made Satan a woman. Jake said that she seduced people with the game. It makes so much more sense for Satan to be a woman when you think that Satan is trying to get people to commit sin. What better way than seduction? After all, if you go from the bible, when the serpent tricked Eve into eating the apple from the tree of knowledge, she then tried to get Adam to eat too.
And if you're dead, who are you gonna follow? A nice guy, or an amazing hot woman?
Men would follow the woman because...she's a woman. Women would follow her because women feel safer with other women.
That's horrendously generalising but still true.
I also liked the fact that the two sex scenes weren't very hardcore. One of them, they didn't even get naked and the other one they both got shot midway so... :P
One of the sex scenes was between Dakota and Jake and I got the feeling that Jensen wasn't very comfortable doing it. He seemed tense.
One bit really made me giggle. Conrad, Dakota and Jake are celebrating Jake's birthday and they're asking each other questions, like you do, and Dakota says "What was your weirdist family holiday".
The film opens with Jake having what he calls a 'waking nightmare' because what he sees is too awful to call daydreams, and he keeps getting these visions throughout the film.
So he's telling them about this one time at Thanksgiving when he was building his mum a ramp (cos she's in a wheelchair), and the Father's round and smiling at him and he has a hammer in his hand and he says all he could think about was bashing the Father's head in, and then his parent's heads, and then half the people he knew. And then he says "I thought wow, what else would I like to do, and all this crazy shit went through my head" and Dakota says "Then what happened?" and bearing in mind that all this has been said with all serious gravity and everything, Jake just goes "I went inside and we all ate turkey."
It's one of those things that's funnier when you see it yourself. It's just how everything was so serious and you're thinking oh my god, where is this leading to, what did he do? and then he just says that.
Anyways, so yeah, that was Devour. I'm not saying it was like one of those "Oh my god such a fantastic film" movies, but it was good enough to be added to my DVD collection.
I said I'd update about Uni courses as well. I was telling mum about the Acting and Stage Combat course and she said that it didn't sound like the right course for me and I was thinking..I think she might be right.
I mean I do really, really wanna act but I wanna know what I'm doing as a director as well. I mean, loads of people have done acting without doing a degree in acting. I was thinking I could take a degree in something like Film Production and take acting classes on the side.
There's still the BA in Film Production at the Arts University College of Bournemouth to think about.
I mean I guess as long as I take something to do with film then it's all good.
There were some awesome things on that acting course that I'd love to do, like horse riding and Aikido and Archery, but if I'm going to do a degree, I should do one that's really gonna be productive and you know...a step towards my career and everything, and I think because of the different aspects of film making I wanna do, a degree in Film Production is the best way to go because it involves a little of everything.
But it doesn't really matter quite yet. I don't need to worry about Uni until I'm applying and that's not for another three years so...All I need to focus on right now is getting through these last GCSE's and finding a job.
I already know what most of my money's gonna be going on. My DSLR. I really, really, really wanna get one. I've wanted one for ages and I'm not gonna put it backseat anymore. I'm gonna put as much aside as I can and only get what I really need while I save up. I'm gonna get a Canon. There's a nice bundle for just under £400 in Argos at the moment which is fantastic for starting up, it includes a Canon 1000D with an 18-22mm (I think) lens, a camera bag and a 4G memory card.
Perfect for beginners.
So anyways, I've talked about everything I wanted to talk about, I have chores to do for mummy so I'll catch y'all later...which is hilarious to write considering there's no one actually reading this blog as far as I'm aware.
But hey...it's just like a technological way of talking to myself XD
Laters Self xXx
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