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A series of short things:

1) Continued musings on the Left 4 Dead Survival mode

It's very good - I love the lighthouse level although, oddly, I prefer the normal levels, mainly because they're more open and therefore easier.

However, the most fun I've had with it was with a really good team - the three other people I was playing with were in a clan and it really fucking showed. They gelled perfectly and it was all I could do to keep up. We were in the No Mercy Hospital - the lift section. It was pretty fecking spectacular :D

This mode, more than anything else, has made me pine for the SDK. For the first time since I was at school, I was to try and make some levels. I want to make my flat, my old office, my parents house, Shunt... it'd be awesome :D


2) Let The Right One In

What a very, very strange film. I wouldn't recomend it to anyone unless you're quite sentimental... It's a very strange love story between two twelve year olds, one of which happens to be a vampire. It's sweet, fantastical, horrific and creepy in equal measure. It's basically Twighlight but with plot, characterisation, acting & depth. And there's no emo. Or 17 year olds scowling at the camera thinking they're cool because someone put a 20% grey filter on the lens.

It was quite long - that's not really a criticism though as it's a film very much in the Gosford Park mould where nothing really happens but you're enthralled anyway.


3) Crank 2

Very, very silly action film. I've been looking forward to this for a while as the original Crank is one of my favourite silly action films... My overall favourite is, of course, Shoot Em Up. This one wasn't quite as good as the first one. It's a masterpiece of hyper kinetic cinematography but it felt a little too surreal for its own good. Stuff like interrogating a gangster by lubing up a shotgun and inserting it into said gangsters anus is all fantastic but things devolve slightly at the end where you've got mock godzilla sequences and reanimated heads in jars.

Still very good fun though.


4) TSLRP

The Sith Lords Restoration Project bug count is still at 84.

Sigh.