How does this tripe get 75% at rottentomatoes.com

It was obvious from the very beginning that this was going to be a very ordinary movie. The references to the actions of Guy Fawkes were over stylised.

Through out the movie I felt like I was being treated like an idiot. Natalie Portman’s character (Evie) is rescued, by a masked man, from the local police (line men) and she follows him onto a roof top! She was just about to be raped, some weirdo rescues her and she follows him! Nonsense.

The rest of the movie pretty much follows rather slowly in the same vein of shit. It was so boring I was constantly willing the end to come early.

I will not delve into the protagonist’s terrorist status because it is pretty much irrelevant. It adds nothing to the story. There have also been highly obvious injections of contemporary issues, which add nothing. It is just glaringly obvious.

Leaving the cinema I overheard a conversation, and this is the best part of the movie, someone was questioning the actions of governments. If it can spark healthy debate then at least there is one iota of value in the ticket price. But for those of us not living under rocks or walking around with our ears and eyes blocked and covered there is nothing new here, just inevitability.

There are more interesting films on similar topics, but I think one that sticks with me is Fahrenheit 451 A Much better movie.

They lied to us then.

They continue to lie to us now.

They did not even bother to plan.

They will continue to lie to us in the future.

I need say no more.

I must preface this with a statement: I do not profess to be an expert on the English language. I am, in fact, quite sure you will find errors in this piece and the many others that I have and will post on this site.

However it somewhat irks me that supposedly well educated people cannot adhere to even some of the most basic principles of the language. A quite ridiculous mistake I hear quite often around people who claim to have completed tertiary studies of some kind is the overuse of the word me. For example; me and you, this is so grotesquely wrong that I could barely bring myself to type it. In fact I had to come back to edit the sentence upon proof reading because I had written it correctly! The second person comes first (you), not only out of politeness but adherence to the grammatical constructs of English. It is a simple enough requirement so just go along with it! You and I. Or if you are addressing a particular person; Jennifer and I.

Another horrendous misuse of the language is to incorrectly describe the letter H even though it clearly guides you how to do so in any English dictionary. For those of you still wondering: ^a ch You may note the lack of an H at the beginning, so stop saying hay-ch when you mean H. You are incorrect and look really quite foolish.

Yous is a highly incorrect method of referring to a group of people. Need I say anymore?

Now you may be thinking to yourself one of two things:

1. What does an upstart Australian think he can teach me about English?
2. The English language was not made in a day and has slowly mutated to become the language we now know, so why should I care if these transgressions find their way into the language?

Question two is a valid point and I have thought about it before now. So in true hypocritical spirit I will answer it with another question! Why add something that is of no value? Why should the incorrect and highly rude manner of referring to oneself and those around them (illustrated above) be added to the language? It detracts from the language and for those lazy people (generally those who use such slack talk) out there it even adds an extra letter to the statement! So why do it?

The power supply unit in my Shuttle PC has died, which is really annoying as I need to be getting on with assignments. Ok so I can browse the web and check my email with the Linux box but the assignment is in VisualBasic .NET so I need Windows to run VisualStudio .NET. A really friggin annoying side to this is not being able download images from my camera.

Anyway my new PSU should arrive soon, which is the new and improved quiet 250W PSU that comes in the new Shuttles. Hopefully it will quieten down my irritating loud Shuttle. I hate PC noise! Oh yeah the old one died because it was full of dust. Shuttles should really come with filters as a matter of course as should any case produced since at least 1999.

PC40 PSU

Most people use it as their instant messaging program of choice and it is the most fully featured and frequently updated one out there at the moment, at least of all the main stream programs out there. Microsoft claim to receive 100 million unique connections through their messaging service per day, which is quite phenomenal. So with this in mind I began to wonder why exactly this application was such a piece of shit. To begin with it randomly drops out at various irritating intervals causing my chat windows to close! Perhaps you could ask me first? Making applications for the user does however seem beyond the grasp of Microsoft at this point; they are more concerned with releasing as much bloatware as possible.

If it were not for the fact that all my contacts are on MSN Messenger then I would be on the ever reliable Yahoo service right away for text instant messaging. Recently I had to delete all my contacts from the MSN contact list and re-add them, which was a very tedious task. All due to the fact that they cancelled my Hotmail account because I don’t use, but hey I was logging in with Messenger everyday! After re-instating the account all my MSN contacts returned, but half of them no longer came online. I stupidly assumed that they were busy, but looking on a friend’s machine I could see they were online. What a crock of shit! So I had to re-add all the contacts just to have them show up correctly.

And don’t come bitching to me about how its only freeware after all so what right do I have to complain! Every bloody right I am user of the software and as such my views are as valid as the next guy. Just because the application is free does not make it OK for the developer to neglect its users or receive criticism badly.

So if you can change away from MSN before you become trapped like me. It is highly likely you already are, I know your pain.