Last night, had dinner with Pete and Ryan at Yellow Bird. Then it rained and rained. So rather than going to Belgian Beer Garden as planned, we ended up drinking beers at the Coq. Left kinda early to make my tram. I'm tired of being tired, so it was probably a good move.
On Thursday, went to 'Screen Worlds' a free exhibition at ACMI. Went for uni. It's pretty cool. Check it out, a whole bunch of TV, film, video game, art installation stuff. I also played Quake for about an hour against Rhys, Lachlan and Eleonora. Lots of fun. Saw a few movies this week too.

'Saw VI' (2009) directed by Kevin Greutert

I'm a big fan of this franchise but now it's getting kinda old. The acting in this is pretty bad throughout and there are parts that don't make sense in the context of the previous films. There is this constant re-writing process going on in the 'Saw' films, as each new film draws on the previous ones, altering the storyline. I actually thought this was pretty cool in the previous ones, but in this one it's a bit stupid and there are parts which just seem like lazy writing. There are some pretty glaring errors in this film which don't logically make sense and are just there to provide some pretty horrific death scenes. I got the vibe that the writers were hoping the audience had paid just enough attention to the previous films to know what was going on, but not enough attention to notice mistakes. Tobin Bell, who was such a great bad guy in the early films, is relegated to bit part player and the film really suffers for it. Having said that, there is a great twist at the end of the film.

'Michael Jackson's This is It' (2009) directed by Kenny Ortega

I really enjoyed this film, although I wouldn't really call myself a fan of Michael Jackson or anything. It's a documentary of sorts, basically a whole bunch of rehearsal footage and some brief interviews. There are complete performances from Michael Jackson, performed to virtually no one, just some of the crew. The thing I took away from this film was just how profoundly talented this guy was. His singing and dancing is unbelievably good and his attention to detail in getting everything right is fascinating. The parts where you see Michael interacting with the band, pointing things out to improve, just trying to get it spot on. Interesting stuff and very entertaining.