I'm not going to spoil, but I liked The Matrix reloaded. It was good, yay! Not as good as the first one, seemed less actiony, but hey that got better every time I watched it, maybe this will too. It's a shame that some of the coolest scenes were in the trailer, but that's what happens. The film answered some questions that came up after the first one, so that's cool. It makes it make a lot more sense, they had thought stuff through that we weren't giving them credit for. After the film someone I was with said it was silly, but since it was 12:30 and everyone dispersed for bed I don't really know what she meant, I'll ask her later. Might discuss the film in more depth later and hide spoilers by changing font colour or something, right now I'm going to get up properly, I really shouldn't go online before I've even got dressed.

Saw The Matrix again last night. It gets better every time I watch it. It's moved its way up into my top 10 now and tonight I get to see The Matrix Reloaded. I just realised that today's blog entry is too similar to Helen's from yesterday, sorry. Anyway, I am really trying to convince myself that the new film will be bad, but it's not working. There is a reason behind me trying to do this, I'm not mad, well, okay maybe I am mad, but that doesn't mean that my logic is always flawed and there is a semi-sensible reason for deciding the film will be bad. See, if I go and see a film expecting it to be great then it often doesn't meet my expectations and so I am disappointed. I think that the disappointment even makes me think the film is worse than it is. If I expect a film to be bad and it is good then I am so pleasantly surprised that I often like that film more than I might have otherwise. I can't actually prove this theory and maybe it's not true, but examples where it does seem to have worked are:

Fight Club Went in expecting awful film, really didn't want to see it, think it's fantastic, one of my fave films.
Princess Bride Come on, Columbo reading to the boy out of the wonder years? How can that be any good, again, one of my fave films.
Mystery Men Was told it was awful, expected it to be rubbish, love it.
Shrek Kids film, green troll thing, won't be good. Love it.
Unbreakable By guy who did Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan) expected great things, disappointed with predictability.
Memento Expected it to be fantastic, didn't really enjoy it.
The Full Monty So much hype, expected great things, found it boring.

Films this didn't work for: Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers told was awful, nothing like the book, watched it and agreed.

Okay, haven't blogged for over a week, sorry. Haven't done anything particularly exciting. I went to visit my family at the weekend, down in Torbay. That wasn't very exciting, just kind of hung around there, took the dog for quite a long walk, got very wet as I didn't take a coat. Went to my old church, which was cool, 'cos I got to see people that I haven't seen for a long time (I don't get back down that way very often). Plus the preach was really cool, Clive did a powerpoint presentation on "Pressing on" which was their fifth and final module on the series "Living in Freedom" that they've been doing and there were these fantastic thick A4 booklets that they'd made up with all the powerpoint slides, space for notes and a bible study at the back. The talk was really long, but I didn't get bored, 'cos it was all spot on, yay. Plus, the best thing is that I was due to do the Word yesterday night at homegroup (as Helen said in her blog, we refer to it as cell group which is scary and prisonlike, technically it's actually called "Church in the Home" but no one ever calls it that, probably because that's a stupid and longwinded name *grin* it's always cell or homegroup) and for that I was meant to do a bible study on what was preached at the weekend, so I had resources, excellent!

Only other productive thing I've done lately is to do with church as well, I've done a lot of planning, website designing and renaming for Kids Clubs (well, not a lot of renaming, just the one renaming and then having to change the logo on everything), they're now called Hullabaloo! Credit for the name goes to Helen, it's a good name, thank you Helen, you're great :-)