Well, it’s been a while, hasn’t it?
I’m sorry for not updating this more often. Typical blogitis, obviously, with the wide and unforgiving plains of the web littered with the ruins of abandoned settlements, never even getting close to lost-civilisation status. In this case, my own tendency towards nasty hyperrealism (“This isn’t worth my – or anybody’s – time”, “No one’s going to read this”, “I NEED TO FIND A JOB”) torpedoed any plans of writing a bit more about films or other things.
It’s not that I didn’t watch anything worthwhile – rather the opposite. There were quite a few cinema visits, long-delayed DVD tips and finally finished video games that made an impact, in some way or another. I also noticed that my opinion on each of them has become so irrevocably analytical, tainted by the plague called academia, that I started to think about them in Ebert-like bon mots, trying to encapsulate my experience in a few pro/con bullet points and referencing as many other works as possible. That would have been perfect food for my poor neglected cinematic canine here. Continue reading →