No Blog weekend - Filming and stuff

Hey sorry guys  haven't really had time to sit down and put  a blog entry together for Saturday and Sunday as I've been busy filming this weekend for a short video i am making.

                     As well as filming I accidentally managed to clone myself

Hope you all have had a great weekend and I will have a new one up tomorrow hopefully, and also I'm hoping to get this video finished this week, so there will be a link to that also in the blog at some point.

The Saw 3D review

Game over? I really hope so

                              

I just watched this for the first time in mind blowing 2D i might add.  I wanted to watch it because well i have seen the other 6 and I might as well watch the final chapter of the saw films. I am going to try to review this without giving to much away, in case you know you feel like you need to watch it or not.

I feel like i could have watched this film without seeing any of the other saw films because the main plot of the film was just so random and i felt like the writers just thought hey well we don't need to really try with this film because oh my god its going to be in 3D! ( even though i didn't see it in 3D i feel that i didn't really miss out on much)

   Look its Chester Bennington from Linkin Park lol

So i guess i can tell you that Detective Hoffman goes on a trap rampage again, which i don't really think is much of a give away. The traps in this film really lack imagination, i feel like they have just completely ran out of ideas here. Also i heard a lot of people saying oh my god its so gory, i cant help feel we watched different films, because this was the least gory one out of the whole franchise, which i am now starting to think because the film did not really suck me into its usual intensity, i was like hmm i guess that looks painful.

The film a really lacked complete direction, i feel the suspense was completely taken away here,  not one scene did i feel like i was on the edge of my seat.

This being the last chapter of the franchise, i thought there was going to be some kind of big twist at the end to reveal something big.... no there was not, well there was one small thing where a character came back from a previous film (which i wont name) but it was like not a huge part in the actual film and was well pretty pointless.

This is really just another example of horror franchises cashing in, they could have actually stopped at the last one or really just the third and made it a trilogy. I actually really enjoyed watching the first 3 but after that i felt it started slowly going downhill until the final disaster, lets hope they don't suddenly decide to make an 8th one, maybe they will make it interactive... could be interesting and painful.

I will be reviewing another film on Tuesday, not decided which yet, but if there is particular film you think I should watch and review leave a comment on here or if you have twitter (spongeofthedead)

Angry Birds film and Technology going back in time

Angry Birds the film??

Well not yet anyway, there has been a lot of rumours flying around the internet about a possible future film release based on the hugely successful mobile phone app Angry Birds, this seems to have been sparked of by the recent collaboration with 20th Century Fox films with there new game Angry Birds Rio, which has been based on Fox's  upcoming 3D animation film Rio. 

There are several articles floating around the internet stating that Rovio have been approached by several people including movie studies about a possible future film, whether this is true or not i guess we will soon see.

Also you should check out this spoof trailer which has been created in light of these rumours - 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2matH4B9bTo&feature=player_embedded

Its now making me wonder what will come next, first movies from consoles games, then movies from mobile phone games, should we see movies coming from facebook apps such as cafeworld and farmworld next?

Technology going RETRO

 It seems today we are all set on going back in time, first we see retro clothes coming back in fashion, then there's the 80's themed nightclubs everywhere and now it seems we want to carry this on with technology. Well now you can get your own retro style typewriter for your ipad, not only does this make you amazingly cool but it also makes typing on the ipad more user friendly if you dont like touch screens i guess. It also connects up to any USB compatible PC or Mac so you dont have to have an Ipad to experience the retroness

Watch the demo here  -   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu3g4ZBt3o0

And if you thought it couldn't get any more retro, thinkgeek.com has released an Arcade cabinet for the ipad, which you can check out here -

 http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/retro-gaming/e762/

P.s I am now going to be reviewing 2 films a week just so its not just random news each day, i shall put them out on the days Tuesday and Friday, so expect one tomorrow and if you want me to watch and review a specific film, leave me a comment on here or Twitter (spongeofthedead)

Its Summer time and Big brother making a come back?

Well hello English summer (but for how long!)

Its time again for the unpredictable Summer weather of the UK, yes it was the first reasonably sunny day today, aside from the lovely wind. So the first thing i do when i see the sun is out and the temperature is above 20 Celsius (around 70 Fahrenheit for maybe Americans reading this) is put some summer music on. This for me usually involves punk/ska music and generally chilled out happy stuff. Does anyone else do this?  

Big Brother making a come back on channel 5

So when you see Big Brother on your TV 24/7 you know that its summer time, well until it got axed in 2009, due to ratings going down as well as director of television Kevin Lygo going well i think we should stop now. So as well the best channel on TV gets the contract (note the sarcasm), Davina McCall will not be hosting it, i think we should place bets on how long Big Brother lasts on channel 5 and to me it really got old after the first 2 years.

This is what channel 5 said about how they are going make it big again "We aim to bring Channel 5's energy, optimism and vibrancy to the series.".... well ok then channel 5.

Summer films to look forward to

Ok so things to look forward this summer, film wise it seems 2011 there is going to be good films coming out in the next few months, some of them im excited about seeing are Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Thor and X-Men: First class

Also coming out this summer is the Hangover part 2, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Green Lattern. Do you think any of them will top the big films that came out in 2010, such as Inception, the social network and The Kings Speech?

I also want to comment on the wtf sequels that are coming out this year, Scream 4? gets released 10 years after 2000's scream 3, final destination 5, seriously how many more of these can they make until it reaches its final destination and Hatchet 2, well the first one was so bad they decided they needed to get it right with this second one obviously.

Splice up your day with films?

A bit of a film based topic today, which works for me as i am a bit of a film nerd  and i generally love talking about films, but anyway two things came to my attention today the film Splice and films for life season on film 4

I'm going to start with Splice (2009) since I just finished watching this very bizarre film. This is not really a review but just my general thoughts on what i just watched.

I first saw the trailer for this a while back and i remember not really feeling the need to watch it from this, so recently a friend made a comment about it which intrigued me to give it a chance. The main story kind of makes sense in the what they are trying to achieve with there scientific experiments etc, and as the film goes it makes you connect with the experiment they call "Dren" and generally feel sorry for her but towards the end it really is just like wow what is going on and its a  little strange. The ending wasn't amazingly surprising if you think back to the events that happened during the film ( which i wont talk about, so i don't give it away for anyone who has not watched it) Its a little predictable but for some reason the film kept my attention throughout to continue watching, its worth a watch but not something that would withstand the test of time which is what I'm going to talk about next.

Films 4 life season on film 4 

A season of films that film 4 feel that withstand the test of time and i guess that you could watch over and over again, some of these include The Italian Job, Edward Scissorhands and This is England.

This just got me really thinking about what films stood the test of time with me, what films i could watch and never get bored of them and i guess there is probably quite a few and it would be boring for me to list all of them, so here are 4 of my favourite :)

So if you have not seen any of those 4 films i recommend that you do so and also have a think about some of the top maybe 5 films that withstand the test of time and if you cant do 5 because you watch to many films like me then do a top 10. 

If you want to let me know your top films, leave a comment or send me a tweet on twitter, which there is a link to in the left hand side bar.

Also here is a link to film 4's films 4 life season starts April 9th you should check it out 

http://www.film4.com/videos/article/film4-films-for-life-extended-trailer

Hello World

Hey welcome to The Daily sponge, so before i post i thought id make a quick introduction and a quick first blog, this is not just going be a personal blog about my life but more about things i've seen and think are interesting and updates on things ive been doing etc. I also might  start doing some vlogs to go along side this but i haven't decided on that yet. My aim is to make a short blog each day on random happenings i come across daily.

Enjoy :)

 So i started playing left for dead 2 again over the last few days and yet again it has managed to sneak into my dreams, i really dont know what it is about this game but it makes me want to dream about it and once again i was running around trying to fight of the tank, but in my dreams i always seem to think that if i run into a room and close the door i will be safe (i must add this is not how my game play goes in real life) i think i might be inspired to make a video of me fighting the tank at some point for the pure lols, once i get a green screen sorted, but for now here is a quick  PhotoShop of sponge Vs Tank.

 by the way for anyone who has an xbox or games on there PC, you must play this game, it always makes me laugh every time and also if anyone else has dreams about being in a video game they play please make a comment about it as I'm hoping that I'm not the only one lol.

More Randomness  coming tomorrow :)

P.s  Left 4 dead anyone?