GREETINGS FROM AIRSHIP GLITZVILLE!
The splendiferous exciting adventures and inane ramblings of KT Glitz and his beautiful wife Toni Glitz. There will also be garbage talked about music, movies and Star Wars, a LOT of Star Wars!
If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning!
Never forget your dreams, they are the hopes of the future!
Today we had a visit from Jodie, Azalea and Zariah. We haven't seen them for ages and the girls are so big now.
Sam very kindly cracked out some games to entertain which was much appreciated by everyone. It was hilarious watching Azalea and Zariah playing both Downfall and Connect 4.
There was some playing in the garden too :)
That was quite enough activity for one day LOL. After lots of games we decided to go to Ziyafet for lunch.
After food we drove them back home as the girls were starting to get tired. Everyone had a lovely time and it was great to see them again.
Toni was at work today (as was Sam) and with very little to do in the house (that I wanted to do anyway) I decided to have a PS4 day. It's been a while since I had a good long gaming session so it was a great way to chill out for the day.
I started out with Blood Bowl 2, a digital take on the old Games Workshop game. I'm no fan of American Football and hated the Madden games but this was kind of fun. It was a little slow due to the strategy element of turn based play but I'm sure when I finally get the hang of things it will flow a lot better.
Next up was NHL 17 and some ice hockey action. I'd become pretty adept at these games over the years and the last one I had been playing was NHL 15. This one looks beautiful and there have been some nice tweaks to the gameplay and controls that left me needing to learn a few new tricks. I'm still tweaking the settings to everything running in a similar way to the 15 version as the default ones mean it's a bit too easy to win convincingly every time. Great fun though and I'll be commencing a season soon so it's nice to have up to date rosters again.
Last but not least was Assassin's Creed Black Flag. I'd played this a fair bit on the PS3 but got a cheap PS4 version so have started all over again this time with a view to completing everything possible for each location (something I wasn't great at on the PS3). Things have started well and most of my time was spent playing this. The improved PS4 graphics make it even more enjoyable than the other version I have played. It's going to take some time to work my way through it but it's going to be fun.
Having had a fair few visits to the cinema of late I thought it was time to do a quick round up of some of the trailers for things that are going to be released shortly.
Following on from my disappointment with the Wonder Woman film I have to say that I am still quite excited about the Justice League movie, The latest international trailer has just just dropped and it could be that DC might be able to redeem themselves.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe juggernaut is showing no sign of slowing up any time soon and I can't wait to see Spider-Man: Homecoming as we finally get a Sony and Marvel collaboration setting Spider-man properly in the same 'universe' as the rest of the Disney and Marvel films.
Although it is some way off yet I had to drop in this leaked trailer for the Captain Marvel film. Let's hope we see positive reviews for this in the same way we did for Wonder Woman due to the film having a female lead. I didn't agree with the reviews but they certainly did it no harm and I want to see similar treatment given to this one. There isn't much detail on this film yet but the leaked trailer from Comic Con but it has got me very interested!
On the Marvel front we also another TV trailer for upcoming show The Defenders. I'll even forgive the Nirvana soundtrack on this one! Iron Fist so far has been the weak link out of Daredevil, Jessica Jones and Luke Cage so I hope that he won't drag this one down.
The final trailer for Valerian has been released. The film looks beautiful, can't wait to see if the plot holds up to the visuals..... and oh, that soundtrack!
Tonight we hit Cineworld in Bexleyheath to go and see Wonder Woman. I've been waiting a while for this so expectations were high!
Sadly I left the cinema feeling somewhat underwhelmed. Wonder Woman was wide of the mark for an origin story. It was just a LONG build up for the end really. There were lots of characters that should have been expanded on and better used who were just basically pawns in a one woman show. Don't get me wrong, it's not a terrible movie but it could have given so much more but didn't.
I'm still trying to piece it all together where it all seemed to go wrong but I am gutted that it didn't meet my expectations. DC make fantastic TV shows but they are still very hit and miss when it comes to movies. I'll still be seeing Justice League but after this I won't set my expectations as high.
After a wonderful bank holiday weekend it was a real struggle going back into the office today. It's quite sad really as I was actually thinking I would rather be doing stuff in the garden rather than working LOL.
On the plus side I had a nice little run in with someone who thought he understand politics but appeared to only be able to recite garbage from the right wing press then claimed to not support either of the two main parties but was tired of all the Conservative bashing! Wait, what? This was on a thread where the Torygraph was bashing Labour (and Corbyn) and people were providing a few facts!
After work I did end up doing stuff in the garden as it was overdue for a mow so I rectified that situation! Looks great now and Toni was very happy.
Dinner was accompanied by the final episode of Lucifer season two and what a way to end things. That was a real cliffhanger if ever there was one! Can't wait for season three and the wait is going to seem like forever.
Today we were back at the cinema, this time at Cineworld in The O2. The Beauty And The Beast remake was our viewing choice as we wanted to catch one of the final showings before it ended.
Toni and Sam really wanted to see this but I was highly sceptical. I was concerned that something brilliant would be thoroughly ruined by taking it live action.
Boy was I wrong! The whole thing was brilliant. Any fears I'd had were totally misplaced and what we were treated to was a visual treat with all the songs that we've all come to know and love. The CGI of the characters was amazing and was totally believable. All of the actors were tremendous and the cartoon and story was really brought to life (full pun intended). Even though I knew the story the acid test for this being successful was that for the last ten-fifteen minutes I went all mushy and had a fair few tears.
If you didn't manage to catch this one at the cinema then definitely get it on DVD/Bluray or catch on your fav routine streaming app. Highly highly recommended.
We did have plans for today but they were suspended in favour of a Bones marathon.
Bones is an American TV series. The show is based on forensic anthropology and forensic archaeology, with each episode focusing on an FBI case file concerning the mystery behind human remains brought by FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth to forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan and the personal lives of the characters.
We've been hooked for a while now and have conquered five seasons. Today our plans were pushed to one side while we watched 11 episodes of the sixth season LOL.
If you liked the X-Files style and the will they/won't they relationship then you may well enjoy Bones.
It was cinema day for us today as we headed for Cineworld in Bexleyheath for a double viewing.
First on the menu was King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword. I didn't hold out much hope for this as some of the reviews had been quite brutal. My fears were unnecessary though. I thought the film was brilliant. It was classic Guy Ritchie, a blend of Sherlock Holmes and God Of War. This is definitely how to make a fantasy film. There were some nice twists on the myth and plenty of bits of humour. The whole film looked wonderful and had a great soundtrack and it makes you wonder whether the critics actually watched the whole film at all. For me this is one where the critics completely got it wrong and probably missed lots of things that actually make the film great. I'd recommend it most highly.
Here's the trailer for those of you that haven't seen it:
Next up was Pirates Of The Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge (renamed form Dead Men Tell No Tales). Here we had another film where the critics had not been kind and we wondered what they had watched. This was a much needed return to form for the Pirates franchise with lots of hooks back into the things that made it great in the first place. The story was solid and the sets, costumes and effects were stunning. Johnny Depp once again nails it as Captain Jack Sparrow. Stick around for the clip at the end of the credits, it's worth it!
Trailer time:
Two fantastic films that I would recommend to anyone.
After work tonight I jumped on a train at Fenchurch Street and headed out to East Tilbury ready for a night of fun (yes, fun can be had in East Tilbury LOL). I was picked up by Toni and Helen at the train station and then it was back to Helen's to grab something to eat before the evening of fun began.
The clothes party was a low key affair with a few people and a good range of things to look at. Toni and I did end buying a couple of pieces each :)
After the party Toni, Helen, Keith and I sat down to play Cards Against Humanity. It turned out to be a bit of a marathon session with us playing for around 3.5 hours. It was suck a laugh, we had a brilliant time and had to force ourselves to go home.
Well it is almost release time and we've just had the final Wonder Woman trailer appear and it is EPIC.
The trailers and TV spots have looked wonderful so I have very high hopes that this is one movie that DC won't screw up! It will provide a good foundation as we head to the release of Justice League.
I like me a bit of Spider-Man. I've enjoyed all the films that we have had so far and I am really looking forward to the latest reboot Spider-Man Homecoming (this is the first with a tie-in with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. A new segment of clips has just been released which fills me with great joy.
Marvel have just release a teaser trailer for their new Cloak & Dagger series. I've been looking forward to this for a while now and the trailer has sparked a warm feeling in me.
It was with great sadness that today it was revealed that my birthplace had caught fire and took many hours for the fire brigade to get under control and need to tap the local lake to get more water. This is the third fire in recent years at the now unused RAF Hospital Wegberg in Germany. Police have said that they suspect it was arson (again).
Here's some more photos that I have managed to find of events :(
I'd always wanted to go back and visit before it was completely demolished although now it is looking like there is little point.
Season 3 of Star Wars Rebels has only just ended and now we have just had the Season 4 trailer dropped on us from Star Wars Celebration.
Rebels was a show that matured well with each season with Season 3 being the best so far. I'm going to guess that this might be the last one as they tie up all the loose ends and slot the characters in to their respective parts of Star Wars history.
Now that Star Wars Celebration is underway we are starting to see lots of awesome goodies coming out from Disney/Lucasfilm.
So far we've had the poster for The Last Jedi:
We've also had the first teaser trailer:
Now the excitement starts to build up ready for the next Star Wars instalment. I can't wait!
The trailer for the new Star Wars Battlefront II game has been leaked online. If this footage is anything to go by then things are looking very good for the winter 2017 release.
The game producers have already confirmed that there will be a solo campaign in Star Wars Battlefront II, something that the first game was sorely lacking.
