The Artist

Well! Let me first say that I watched this on an aeroplane whilst the guy in front of me was watching District 9, and quite frankly District 9 was more entertaining on a six inch screen at a distance whilst being partially obscured by his shoulders and with no sound than this was, by a long long way. The Artist, more like the piss-artist how this got 5 Oscars I'll never know, is boring, dull, rubbish and did I say boring! Nobody makes silent films any more because they don't have to, and black and white was for a time when colour was not an option. Probably the cleverest part was when the star was having a nightmare with sound, other than those thirty seconds this was a complete waste of my time, and I was trapped on an aeroplane with no where else to go!  Complete and utter Oscar twaddle!

Film 302/365, Day 328/365 – Surrogates

Not completely unbelievable and very interesting.  What if like in games like Second Life and World of Warcraft where you can customise your avatar you could customise a robot and live your life through that?  You could appear however you wanted, it would quite literally change lives.  But is that really you?  Raise some very interesting ideas.

Synopsis:  In the future most of mankind no longer ventures outside of their homes, instead they use surrogates to go about their daily lives.  Surrogates are a customizable robot that they are able to control using only their minds.  But when two people and their surrogates are killed a cop must venture out into the world without his surrogate to get to the bottom of things.