I made two New year's resolutions this year. The first was to remove myself from facebook and myspace. Hurrah! I'm free from the terminal nosiness of looking to see who said what to whom and on which wall. Apologies to all those who I was in the middle of a scrabble game with. Easy escape for you though, eh? Seeing as I would have won. Ahem.
My other, somewhat more exciting, resolution was to go the cinema once a week. I realised I haven't been to the pictures much recently and have sort of fallen into a trap of only going to see films that I am absolutely sure will be good. As of New Year I will go to see any old crap that takes my fancy. And already I have seen some stinkers! First up I willfully ignored Philip French's comments about I Do: "Vaguely misogynistic, vaguely amusing, and wholly uninventive" and went to see it anyway. And a very enjoyable pile of nonsense it was too. I was sitting in the Tyneside cinema just feeling quite chuffed to be watching something so entirely fluffy and pointless. That was not so true of the astonishing cheese-fest that is I Am Legend. Does Will Smith get scripts delivered, read through them and say 'how about we add a bit where I sing along to Bob Marley in a daft voice, or maybe do a voiceover to Shrek?' Call me a traditionalist, but I don't think it was a good idea to combine rabid zombies and light-hearted comedy. Still, seeing absolute clangers is very much in the spirit of the resolution. And it's always good fun to see a film involving any element of tension with Sarah. She does some quite astonishing face hiding and body jerking in response to, well, a door opening, a dog barking, pretty much anything really.
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