Gold Class

I had my second Village Cinemas Gold Class viewing experience over the weekend and it was a success, I knew what to expect and managed not to fall asleep!  I have come up with a little guideline to maximise your Gold Class experience and perhaps minimise the amount of spending when viewing Gold Class as the set menu prices are ridiculous and sometimes skimpy.

Gold Class Golden Rules:

• Only watch a film in a Gold Class Cinema if the tickets are free (the money you save on the ticket price will be spent on the food and bevs)
• Eat prior to the screening unless you want to scrape the white polish off the serving plate
• Either sleep beforehand or don't go to a late night session
• Order the wedges (especially the Mexican ones!!!) as they are a decent size and taste BLOODY GOOD!
• Book a couple days beforehand or even a week as the weekend sessions fill up fast.
• You will get ripped off with dessert proportions. Unless you wanna pay $17+ for an anorexic slice of cake that is practically lost on the plate it is served on.. even hidden amongst the tiny drizzle of chocolate sauce. (Gave into temptation the first time)
• Feel posh, dress up a tad but enough to be super comfy in your reclining chair. 
• In the boring parts of the movie be sure to move your partners chair up and down with the reclining button! (At least it adds a laugh!)
• Be prepared to spend on multiple meals if you want a decent meal serving.

I must say the staff were very friendly at the cinema we recently went to in Crown- Melbourne and it is worth coming a little bit earlier to sit in the lounge prior to the screening!

Enjoy the screening!

Chernobyl Diaries (2012)

As part of our final year of drama at high school we were given an activity which was to research and create a non-naturalistic performance around the Chernobyl disaster. If it was not for that drama class, I garrentee you that I would not have ANY idea, whatsoever about this radioactive disaster and had treated the plot of this film as more factual.

When holidaying in Europe a group of friends decided to embark on this extreme tour in the radioactive environment of a barron town. Dismissing the guards at the gates of Chernobyl, their tour guide gets them into the town though a secret passage. All they had for this tour was the van, their backpacks and a camera. A two hour tour extended to their fight for survival when a massive mutant bear chases them out of the abandoned construction that they were viewing. During their attempts to flee the town, one by one they start to get killed and injured from what appears to be mutants.

What starts off as a rather factual set up of the disaster, ends up as a dodgy collaboration of bad editing effects, death and monster-like chaos. Shot in a handheld manner, the 'diaries' style was able to be effectively captured for the audience not to attain a headache, however the plot had potential to kick off as interesting.. whereby they could of explored the impacts of the disaster in more of a realistic way such as for the affected to be prone to cancer, flashbacks, dramatic trauma and insanity, rather then using darkness as a shaky camera to easily shoot scenes which may have required more actors or more of a filming budget. An attempt of the horror genre was created but I think I was personally looking for a bit more of a drama element to this film, a little more story. Also whilst viewing this film, The Blair Witch Project came to mind as their are major similarities in themes and 'young adults in a foreign land' notion.

This film however does encapsulate the notion of a horror as gore, suspense, jumpy and STUPID, which is epitomised at the very conclusion of the film.

Hitchcock (2012)

Co-majoring in film and television and having seen a selection of the works of Alfred Hitchcock such as Psycho, The Birds and Rear Window, I felt that it would be interesting to watch a loosely autographical film based upon the master of voyeurism. (and also knowing that Toni Collette had a role in this film, made my desire to see this more- amazing Aussie Actress!!!) I must admit, I am unable to do a comparison between the fact and fiction represented in this motion picture as guiltily I have done no prior research to the characteristics of Hitchcock and his works beyond his remarkable voyeurism technique which epitomises the notion of being watched and the camera angle, pans and tilts to capture a scene to build suspense.

Based on the film, Hitch is painted as a cocky, determined, arrogant and at times a pig in the film industry but then again, isn't that the criteria of any successful director? Ooo and usually they smoke weed and take hallucinogens? Well, that wasn't evident in Hitchcock.. anyway moving on..

The plot is based around his struggle and shoot around Psycho and how he apparently bought every copy of the original novel so that no one knew the ending and how the movie concluded. Also exploring his ability to dodge the Hollywood Production Code of the time to incorporate a 'naked' shower scene. However  the film does present a final realisation that his wife, Alma was indeed the woman behind the man and that without her, Hitchcock is a fail. The film had numerous witty lines and humour embedded and it complimented the structure of the film. The intro and conclusion, was different to typical autobiographic based movies and added a theatric feel with the 'direct to audience addressing'. None the less, I enjoyed this movie, it was watchable, didn't drag out too much but if you are looking for suspense and drama- maybe stick to the works of Hitchcock rather than this movie.


I will leave you with my favourite lines:

Hitchcock: I will never find a Hitchcock blonde as beautiful as you. Alma: Oh, Hitch. I've waited thirty years to hear you say that. Hitchcock: That, my dear, is why they call me the Master of Suspense. 

and I do believe there was a one liner about 'holding the cock' 

As you do...

Pitch Perfect (2012)

I have the feeling this film will become the 'Mean Girls' of the decade! Witty, great cast, including Australia's very own Rebel Wilson, who has shamelessly presented her personality to Hollywood in a truely Australian way. Formerly known as Fat Mandy, Rebel has rolled her way down the Hollywood walk of fame as Fat Amy!

Basically the storyline is about an accapella girl band trying to make their way to the finals and establish themselves against other competitors. In true exaggerated style, this film effectively exaggerates the cliques by trying to form an acceptance of others who they would not normally associate with when they are in strife. We see the othering theory in effect as well as a general acceptance moulding from the formation of this new group. Featuring an accapella of songs including Ace of Base, this film appears to be very character based as they are well established and stereotypically cliched in the movie. Such as the tomboy, fat girl and the gay girl.

I highly recommend some quality viewing! It has been a while since Hollywood has tuned out some quality comedy viewing.  Go see it! Well worth the ticket, even worth purchasing the DVD. Though in typical Hollywood style, it is an extremely predictable plot and ending with the minor complications that get almost instantly resolved. Despite that, it is worth the cheesy puns and funniness go check it out! 

Rolling in Stitches

Just thought I should post up this hilarious video a friend made as this is her first YouTube video! Isn't it amazing for a first attempt?!?! Like, Subscribe, Favourite, Share, do your thang. More is definitely on the way!!!!!! She's rolling in the deep, but Rumour has It she can swim!

Check out Rebecca's video here!

Public Transport Log

Here is just SOME of the crazy stuff that has happened to me whilst catching public transport or waiting for it to arrive. This will be updated.

• Had a potential pedophile who liked to go to the Melbourne show to, 'watch the little kids' say that I looked like a catfish

• Got proposed to on a train in someones attempt to get a greencard

• Had a day where EVERY train I needed to catch was cancelled and I had to wait for the next one

• Had some classy Werribeeian ladies tell us how to pee like a man.

• Got off the train only soon to be greeted by a disabled man peeing.

• Had to walk past a mother encouraging her son to vomit in the walkway to a train station

• Sat across from a drug trade

• Found a lost shoe on a train

• Overheard (it really wasn't hard to overhear though..) This random guy encouraging these kids to have a s.inging career as they sing Weird Al parodies.

• Witnessed circus skills by a passenger awaiting the train.