Wmm just found out that the singer Donna Summer died

Wmm just found out that the singer Donna Summer died and how she thought that she may have developed lung problems from the dust in the 9/11 incident. However Wmm will always think about the song "Someone left the cake out in the rain" which she had a hit with, because of the image of a soggy wet cake, maybe a gateau being destroyed by a rain shower and just remaining there on a table for a very long time. No, Wmm has never bought any of her albums but that doesn't matter, he can't remember any of her other songs at present either

Headhunters

This movie was a perfect antidote to the film now to be referred to as Battlesh** 

A solidly made stylish thriller with a lead actor who looked as if he were Christopher Walken's smaller younger brother.

During the film numerous people cringed with horror during the toilet scene.

And the scene showing the game that the security man was playing with the woman inside his house will probably be long remembered

Battlesh**

Forethoughts: The journey was made today to see Battleship at the cinema,  the fact that Rihanna was to be in the movie was forgotten but information came that morning about this fact through the internet. Maybe a recollection would come afterwards of where any of the film performers has been seen before. Of course the other big name in the movie is Taylor Kitsch, or perhaps he is not as big a name as that but he was lead actor of the movie John Carter of Mars that although it seemed like a marvelous spectacle, it didn't seem to do well in the box office , that film wasn't advertised very well and it appears as if its publicity had been deliberately sabotaged. A thought occurred that maybe half way through Battleship that Rihanna's presence would be forgotten even if she was in every other scene, perhaps she would have merged into the background.

Seeing the Movie: It felt like an enjoyable popcorn movie although this writer no longer eats popcorn and if you've play lots of videogames you might call it another videogame movie, but if you haven't you might not be totally familiar with the ways that lots of movies are becoming more and more like videogames. This film was almost a kind of nightmarish dream that you'd get if you had been eating cheese too late at night which might it a little like the third of Bay's Transformers movies which seemed very much a strange nightmare vision.

  

Before the main battle of the film, the movie threatened to become a cluelessly awful comedy but everything turned around before it could go too far that way. Quite honestly no clue came forth as to what was going to happen next, maybe too at the end it started to get sillier in the final part of the battle. Happiness came because they didn't focus too much on the alien monsters faces, they looked better with their helmets on, their faces looked too much like CGI representations of Carlos Huantes style ogres or like some strange entities from a copy of the 2000 AD comic book. One thing that seemed cheap was the scene where they boarded the exterior of the alien vessel and close up it looked like a structure made from fibreglass and the sound of the feet on the structure made it sound as if it could easily be fibreglass as well.

It certainly was the same Alien Invasion concept that that we have been introduced to multiple times in the last year or so as in Battle: Los Angeles, they had to stop them from transmitting back home to bring more aliens to Earth, but the big difference was that this one was at sea.  In a way it was likeable  so much that a sequel would be welcome.

The film's human element which it had running through it was a love story in which Taylor Kitsch's character had fallen in love with the daughter of an admiral played by Liam Neason and it's only through facing the ultimate test of manhood by taking command of a destroyer ship and fight against a fleet of alien spacecrafts that leap about the surface of the ocean, while also teaming up. It was as if Taylor Kitsch's character finding himself in the captain's seat had to suddenly transform into a Captain Kirk style hero.  Captain Nagata his initial enemy who is there for the purpose of performing as the enemy in a naval exercise, finds himself putting their differences aside and soon he reveals his own culture's battle tactics that helps them save the day and make it look as if they're playing the game of Battleship during the film.

Rihanna when she just played a background character worked well, but as soon as she was brought to the forefront, it looked as if she was a little bit on the wooden side , totally out of place and they didn't quite know what to do with her but she had to be in the scene whatever the costs, perhaps at such times she could have been replaced with an animatronics or CGI puppet but perhaps they managed to coax a good performance out of her a fair amount of the time, and in future movies film makers will find better ways to use her without without trying to stick her in as many scenes as possible to make her pop music fans feel as if they've seen her in the movie enough or a CGI and animatronics will develop a better replacement.

You're likely to be sitting there in your cinema seat in a state of shell shock getting hit by the experience of one explosion after another and one scene of wreckage or mass destruction after another, the dialogue wasn't so tedious as a film such as Battle Los: Angeles where
continuous prayers went out for more background sound to blot out nearly everything that was uttered. Here the dialogue flowed mostly well, the film director seemed much more geared towards making Michael Bay style movies .  Probably the special effects showed that the producers of Transformers had a big hand in it but at the same time a good many fresh faces there amongst the cast.

After Thoughts: It's not as if anyone was supposed to take the film seriously, was anyone really ever hoping that they were going to make a movie about the Battleship game, there have been some fine naval battle movies in the past, maybe no one exactly asked for a new one, so the director may as well go ahead and make a science fiction movie out of this title. Perhaps the film maker ought to have made the enemy beings into time travellers or life forms from a parallel universe rather than more extra-terrestrials. But this writer quite liked it, he's drawn to these alien invasion movies, it was quite a thrilling ride, there were some great scenes some good design,, maybe the DVD will be buyable this writer doubts that he could expect any of his friends to want to go and see it, some members of the audience in the auditorium where he saw it thought it was rubbish. but he gives it six out of ten.

Misreading of the day

Wmm misread the BBC news headline "Syria 'failing to abide by truce'" as "You should go sailing with Robert the Bruce"

Thoughts while waiting on a bus during a road crash

On the way back, Wmm's bus was delayed for about an hour because of a car and bike crash on the road. The long wait in the bus obviously led to Wmm imagining that the crashed bike and the rider were now inseparable and co existed as a synthesis of man and machine and it would take a team of bike-mechanic-heart-surgeons on the site to work out what was metal and what was flesh under a microscope and other medical scanning instruments in order to separate them while keeping both the human rider and the bike functioning, great care was taken to extract the machine part that served as the bike's oil pump that lay within the man's ribcage while the functions of his own heart were given to some fleshy component somewhere within the motorbike's engine. Wmm also imagined the woman in the bus next to the bus he was in exposing a breast and pressing it against the window

Poetry: "Cherry Red on a Cloudy Grey"

(A poem that's been evolving since 1990)

    Cherry Red On a Cloudy Grey

    Two Colours intermix and just fade away

    If I only knew, how to find the two,

    Then perhaps someday you'll understand

   

    Two clouds kiss, they burst with tears

    I hid beneath the coloured dome

    But what am I to find

    In those emotions stored down deep inside

    Whatever you may do don't shut the door

    Cause if you wish it so

    Then Jesus says he's sorry you were born

    Though that's not what your life is all about

    If life was always just drinking pink champagne,

    With dreams to make you feel you’re in another world

    Where every day is fine,

    The real world will just be left behind

    What am I to find within the clouds today

    Two frozen hearts drift within The rain

    Still the colours that are red on grey

    That came to intermix and just fade away

    Falling through the colours of this prose

    Fragmented visions of petals of a rose

    A dream to tell you what was on your mind

    Though you might not care much any more

  

    The blanket's torn, the sky comes through  

    There’s a shining ray of Light

    To lead you to an ordinary world,

    Like that which you've always loved before

    Wherever it’s Dawning from

    Real as the sunlight cast upon

    The honey coloured moon that shines

    A trail to somewhere you’ve been dreaming of

    Don't trust me, I'm from a different world

    With claims to make your dreams last for another day

    Maybe you want me to give the game away

    And Leave us with nothing ever more

    And if I told you that I saw a UFO

    Maybe it was a bonfire through a kaleidoscope

    But when this dreams revealed

    I then too will also understand

Misreading of the day

Wmm misread the BBC headline "Living alone 'are more depressed' " as "Give more loaves of bread as presents"