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Giving Blood and Superman Returns

Wednesday, July 19, 2006 at 9:11 PM

It always amazes me how much I worry whilst sitting on the donor room seats awaiting my name to be called to give blood.

I get worried about how much it's going to hurt and how much it'll ache afterwards.

The bit that hurts? Well, it lasts about 5 seconds, just as the needle's put in - usually during which I babble to the nurse about the fact that I spend too much time worrying about a bit that only hurts for 5 seconds.

Aside from that, it's a welcome lie down for 15 minutes. Oh and also some free biccies. Dunno why I worry!

The after-aching? Not really a problem unless you're trying to do something requiring any exursion in your arm... which tends to feel rather weak! A great excuse to lie about a bit and relax in the evening :-)

This provided an issue in the car, however. The handbrake, specifically. Some "leaning-over-the-handbrake and attempting to lower it with my right hand action" was required... which is a lot harder than you might think!

Aside from that I had ample opportunity to sit on my ass tonight - along with having lots of fluid in the shape of a huge cup of Pepsi Max. Hooray for the cinema!

That brings me onto the second part of this entry: Superman Returns:

What a film! What a film! It's great. Go see it.

Brandon Routh is perfect for it - in many cases a spitting image of the legend that is Mr Reeve but yet plays it differently enough to make it his own.

Kevin "You know, him from American Beauty? What? He's in OTHER stuff? He's the real who? Oh, he's [CENSORED BY THE UNIVERSE]" Spacey is brilliant as Lex Luthor.

The special effects really are stunning, too, and the story's not bad either really - the 154 minutes largely flies by, which is always a good sign.

Kate Bosworth is ~~fit~~ great as Lois Lane too.

I just can't believe they all die in the end. And that Kevin Spacey is the real [CENSORED BY THE UNIVERSE].

1 Comments:

Mr Soze said...: Does the CENSORED bit have to do with Spacey's character in KPAX?

No? Well, I DON'T GET IT THEN!; 8:25 PM