Day 294 - Friday, October 21st, 2011

It's always nice to have an alcohol-free Friday evening, now and then, and today fulfilled this category, aided by a duet of cinematic offerings at Cineworld. First up was the utterly dire Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark (3 out of 10) with paper-thin continuity, hammy acting and a nonsense plot. Unbelievable that Guy Pearce would allow himself to be involved in such muck, and the child actor deserves repeated slapping, regardless of whether she was acting or not.

Thankfully cinematic redemption was close at hand with the opening-night viewing of Contagion (7.5 out of 10), an excellently-constructed disaster/epidemic movie about a flu virus that kills millions. The all-star cast, including Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow and Laurence Fishburne, were all excellent, with the exception of Jude Law, who wasn't quite believable in his role as a world-renowned blogger / excrement-stirrer. Although made by people who seem to believe that anywhere outside of the USA must be completely backward (especially China), the ability to create a believable scene of total chaos and disaster was very impressive.

Dinner afterwards of Big Mac & fries for €3.80 was utterly lush!


Poor Gwynny, under the weather

Contentment :  13.5 / 25
Excitement :     1.5 / 10
Memorability :  2.5 / 15

Overall Score : 35% (183rd out of 294)