Yes- managed 15 mins @ 10kph.
Also went to the theatre on Thursday – saw Up on the Roof – and am going to the cinema tonight to see My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
This is a really fun play/musical about 6 college friends who form an impromtu barber-shop type vocal group on the roof of their student digs. There is a plot, of sorts, about their relationships and life choices, but the main appeal is the songs.
Heavily based on Motown numbers, and just fantastic singing (but I’m a fan of acapella anyway) – a really good night out, and well worth the effort.
Gym update.
Another morning to the gym – 15 mins @ 9.5 kph.
Followed it up with some messing around with the multi-gym, but nothing serious.
Gym update.
Went last Tuesday and this morning. Last week I did the treadmill – changed speed a bit, but probably averaged out to about 15 minutes at 8.5 kph.
This morning did the ergo – 3k in 14.05 minutes, followed by 3 minutes on the treadmill @ 9 kph, before it hurt to much to continue! :)#
A great action film about a super secret agent who forgets his identity and has to try and work it out, while being tracked down by the very agency which created him.
Seen at Ster Century, Leeds
I have to say I was a little disappointed by this film. I’d seen all the best bits in the trailers, and I felt like Will Smith was struggling to hold the film on his own.
Tommy Lee Jones is once again the man – his comic timing is faultless, and he plays off the other characters so well. The baddie was also just great this time.
… but it was just lacking something. The freshness of the original film wasn’t there, and although many of the old characters were back, somehow the magic wasn’t.
Another Jack Ryan number – just as good, just as worth seeing!
Manages to keep up the tension and excitement throughout, and it’s nice to see the familiar characters doing their piece again.
Seen at Ster Century, Leeds
This is a fantastic film – raises lots of interesting questions about human rights and free-will, but is ultimately an action movie, with a heavy dose of intrigue/thrill.
I enjoyed it hugely – the Speilberg/Cruise partnership has paid dividends. Seen at Ster Century, Leeds.
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells’ classic story of a man thrown into the future, where the human race has split in two.
I have to say that this is actually a fairly good adaptation. The suspension of disblief is very easy – aided considerably by some of the best special effects I’ve seen for a while – but yet it manages to keep hold of it’s B-rate sci-fi origins (and I mean that as a complement!)
The whole moon destruction thing was a work of genius, as is the holographic librarian – very nice plot devices to explain the storyline, and to help our hero make sense of it all!
I did end up seeing it twice, and it certainly survives two viewings (it was actually on the second viewing that I figured out that the time machine is storing up time, and when it explodes at the end a billion year bubble of time passage is released in an instant). Worth catching on video.
Seen at Ster Century, Leeds
Awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, AWESOME, awesome. 🙂
Probably the best film of the year for me – was instantly hooked and
drawn along – I laughed, I cried, I marvelled at the cinematographer,
I sat on the edge of my seat.
I’m a huge fan of the Spiderman animation on TV, and I felt like this
film captured that perfectly. Whoever cast Tobey Maguire is a
genius,
what a wonderful Spidey/PP! I was slightly less enamoured with Kirsten
Dunst as MJ. Her acting was acceptable, but the character just seemed a
little shallow and ditzy somewhere, which is a shame because I’m very
taken with the comic’s MJ.
But the story is dealt with beautifully, the special effects are
but perfect (best use of bullet-time post-Matrix), casting spot on
(except perhaps MJ) – simply breathtaking.
Best of all, I watched the credits going “Noooo – you can’t stop now”!!
Possibly Spiderman II is now my most eagerly awaited forthcoming film
(although it’s a close run thing with all the sequels that are on the way)
Seen at Ster Century, Leeds