Movies anyone?
Ok, on a slightly less serious note now...
Mez and I arrived in Nottingham in March 06 knowing almost no-one. Actually there wasn't an almost about it, we didn't know anyone at all. So we decided to go see a movie on one of our first nights here... managed to find a central cty cinema complex and balked at the price (about 5-6 quid each), but then noticed you could get unlimited cards - for 11 quid a month, which then gave you unlimited access to movies for the month. Being movie likers, we signed ourselves up and have been regulars at the cinema for just over a year now... I've been judiciously saving the wee tag things to write a blog when we cancelled the cards (which we are about to do due to our impending arrival - cant take a newborn to the movies really).
Overall it has been a positive experience, we've seen loads of good movies, but having unlimited access means we've sometimes seen things we wouldn't have paid to see (and regretted the couple of hours of wasted life spent in the cinema)... anyway, below is our tally for the year:
(not necessarily in order of when we saw them, though the later ones are)...
V is for Vendetta
Eight Below
Inside Man
Ige Age 2
Tristan + Isolde
Junebug
Failure to Launch
Mission Impossible (II or III - whichever was last released!)
Take the Lead
She's The Man
X-Men - the last stand
Fanaa - Destroyed in Love
Secuestro Express
Poseidon
The Wild
Thank you for smoking
An Unfinished Life
My Super Ex-Girlfriend
The Fast and The Furious (Tokyo Drift)
An Inconvenient Truth
Fearless
The Break Up
Pirates of The Carribean - Dead Man's Chest
The Lakehouse
Over The Hedge
Prime
Volver
Cars
Miami Vice
The Da Vinci Code
The Devil Wears Prada
You, Me & Dupree
The Guardian
Children Of Men
Little Miss Sunshine
The Departed
Click
The History Boys
The Last King Of Scotland
Casino Royale
The Holiday
Happy Feet
De Ja Vu
The Last Kiss
Flags Of My Fathers
Letters From Iwo Jima
Apocalypto
It's a Boy Girl thing
Rocky Balboa
Bobby
Blood Diamond
Epic movie
Because I Said So
Curse of the Golden Flower
Amazing Grace
Fracture
The Painted Veil
Zodiac
Pirates Of The Carribean - At Worlds End
Weding Daze
Oceans 13
Grand total of 61 movies - would have cost us 366 pounds each, rather than the 154 each we've actually paid, so I consider that a win for us.
So The Meznmo Film awards for the past 12 months are as follows:
Best Comedy: probably Prime. Cos it had Uma in it. I like Uma.
Best Action Film: A tough category between Casino Royale, Blood Diamond and the Departed... I'd go for Casino Royale though.
Best Fighting Film: Rocky Balboa (The Asian Ones had no story line)
Coolest idea: V is for Vendetta
Best Chick Flick: Failure to Launch
Biggest Impact: An Inconvenient Truth (I think loads of people other than us were impacted by this film)
Best Kids Film: tough one again, between Happy Feet, Ice Age 2 and Cars, will have to go with Happy Feet though
Worst Film: Children Of Men (a Definate waste of a couple of hours of my life)
Biggest Let Down: The Da Vinci Code (what was all the fuss about?)
Most Depressing: The Last King Of Scotland (man Idi Amin aka the butcher of Uganda, was an Arse - the worst side of human nature painfully displayed)
Loads of great entertainment though. We might take a rest from the movies for a while though - fair enough I reckon having averaged more than one a week for the last year!
Stay Cool whatever you're up to,
Ryan
Mez and I arrived in Nottingham in March 06 knowing almost no-one. Actually there wasn't an almost about it, we didn't know anyone at all. So we decided to go see a movie on one of our first nights here... managed to find a central cty cinema complex and balked at the price (about 5-6 quid each), but then noticed you could get unlimited cards - for 11 quid a month, which then gave you unlimited access to movies for the month. Being movie likers, we signed ourselves up and have been regulars at the cinema for just over a year now... I've been judiciously saving the wee tag things to write a blog when we cancelled the cards (which we are about to do due to our impending arrival - cant take a newborn to the movies really).
Overall it has been a positive experience, we've seen loads of good movies, but having unlimited access means we've sometimes seen things we wouldn't have paid to see (and regretted the couple of hours of wasted life spent in the cinema)... anyway, below is our tally for the year:
(not necessarily in order of when we saw them, though the later ones are)...
V is for Vendetta
Eight Below
Inside Man
Ige Age 2
Tristan + Isolde
Junebug
Failure to Launch
Mission Impossible (II or III - whichever was last released!)
Take the Lead
She's The Man
X-Men - the last stand
Fanaa - Destroyed in Love
Secuestro Express
Poseidon
The Wild
Thank you for smoking
An Unfinished Life
My Super Ex-Girlfriend
The Fast and The Furious (Tokyo Drift)
An Inconvenient Truth
Fearless
The Break Up
Pirates of The Carribean - Dead Man's Chest
The Lakehouse
Over The Hedge
Prime
Volver
Cars
Miami Vice
The Da Vinci Code
The Devil Wears Prada
You, Me & Dupree
The Guardian
Children Of Men
Little Miss Sunshine
The Departed
Click
The History Boys
The Last King Of Scotland
Casino Royale
The Holiday
Happy Feet
De Ja Vu
The Last Kiss
Flags Of My Fathers
Letters From Iwo Jima
Apocalypto
It's a Boy Girl thing
Rocky Balboa
Bobby
Blood Diamond
Epic movie
Because I Said So
Curse of the Golden Flower
Amazing Grace
Fracture
The Painted Veil
Zodiac
Pirates Of The Carribean - At Worlds End
Weding Daze
Oceans 13
Grand total of 61 movies - would have cost us 366 pounds each, rather than the 154 each we've actually paid, so I consider that a win for us.
So The Meznmo Film awards for the past 12 months are as follows:
Best Comedy: probably Prime. Cos it had Uma in it. I like Uma.
Best Action Film: A tough category between Casino Royale, Blood Diamond and the Departed... I'd go for Casino Royale though.
Best Fighting Film: Rocky Balboa (The Asian Ones had no story line)
Coolest idea: V is for Vendetta
Best Chick Flick: Failure to Launch
Biggest Impact: An Inconvenient Truth (I think loads of people other than us were impacted by this film)
Best Kids Film: tough one again, between Happy Feet, Ice Age 2 and Cars, will have to go with Happy Feet though
Worst Film: Children Of Men (a Definate waste of a couple of hours of my life)
Biggest Let Down: The Da Vinci Code (what was all the fuss about?)
Most Depressing: The Last King Of Scotland (man Idi Amin aka the butcher of Uganda, was an Arse - the worst side of human nature painfully displayed)
Loads of great entertainment though. We might take a rest from the movies for a while though - fair enough I reckon having averaged more than one a week for the last year!
Stay Cool whatever you're up to,
Ryan
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