Sunday, 26 October 2014

Why I think Jim Carrey is a great actor and doing my coursework on him

I think the first Jim Carrey film I saw was Dumb and Dumber it made me laugh for ages and he brings out everyone's inner child. I think the reason I find him so funny is because I kind of have an uncle that looks like him and acts like him so Jim Carrey reminds me of that aha. His audience are literally used to him talking out of his ass (as he does in Ace Ventura) and if they see any different box office statistics tend to be lower. That's why my question for coursework is "Comparing Jim Carrey in his serious roles and comedic roles" films such as The Cable Guy and The Truman Show are not what his audience are used to and stupidly the producers estimated the popularity of these films way too high because both were quite a flop at the box office and some people just stubbornly believe that he is incapable of serious roles. I, however do not think this is true because I recently discovered Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind which I am using as one of my supporting films. Carrey is an actor who for some ungodly reason still hasn't won an Oscar and I tell you Eternal Sunshine should have won him in an Oscar. It is such a beautiful film that explores the metaphor of our memories making us who we are. The story follows Joel (Jim Carrey) and Clementine (Kate Winslet) who are dating but then Clementine decides to undergo this procedure that allows her to forget everything about Joel (this is the sci-fi aspect to the film). When Joel finds out that she has done this he angrily wants to do the same thing but when the process is happening and the machine is going through all his memories with her Joel doesn't want to let her go and he keeps losing memories so they run away to other memories without them two in but eventually all memories are erased... until they meet again by coincidence when Joel decides to skip work and take a train somewhere. The film is also based on a poem by the same title by Alexander Pope and that is why I think it is lovely. Other hilarious films of Jim Carrey include Me, Myself and Irene (I'm ashamed to admit this but the funniest scene in that film I think is when he is repeatedly shooting the cow on the road and at the end we find out its still alive aha) Bruce Almighty is quite good too as well as Liar Liar. I hope he keeps making generations laugh and I am definitely looking forward to Dumb and Dumber 2.



In The Forest Of The Night- Doctor Who

Doctor Who
In The Forest Of The Night
Episode 10/12
25/10/14

Before I give my review I would like to apologise for not posting in a few days its been a bit hectic. (By the way if there is anything anyone would want me to do a post on don't be afraid to let me know!) :)

Out of all of Series 8 so far this has probably been the one I disliked the most as I don't really like episodes that are full of kids as I find it cheesy, although there was one girl in the show, Ruby, who caught my attention I thought she was fabulous. *Spoilers alert* if you haven't watched it yet the story is about a forest that literally grows world wide over night. I think the trailer for this episode was quite misleading because admittedly I thought it was going to be a spin on Little Red Riding Hood as in the trailer all it really showed was a little girl in a red coat running from a wolf. Anyway the main protagonist is a little girl called Maebve who wanders away from Mr. Pink's group and she finds the Doctor but then she wanders away from The Doctor because her sister went missing last year and she hears voices in her head which are controlled by medication. Throughout the whole duration of Maebve running away it looks as if she is flicking away flies or something and Mr. Pink mistakes this for a nervous tick it turns out that they are voices and when The Doctor points his sonic screwdriver at them he can see them. Going back a bit as I've skipped an important part out, earlier on The Doctor finds the children's homework books in the T.A.R.D.I.S and Maebve drew a picture of the sun but with solar flares coming out of it and therefore leading to the end of the world (which is just normal every day in Doctor Who) so when everyone thinks the world is going to end The Doctor realises that this kind of thing has happened before all the way back in 1908 and some time after that too but the human race had forgotten about it. Anyway long story short when the solar flares come to destroy the earth the excess oxygen from the trees protects the earth and everyone survives, yaaay! overall though I would only rate this episode about a 6/10 because it wasn't that interesting, I don't like children based episodes and the trailer was misleading. I do however look forward to next weeks as it looks very action packed.

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Wednesday, 22 October 2014

Eulogy for my dad

So my dad passed away on the 11th October the funeral is on Friday... this man was the most precious thing in my life and I miss him so much. I'm not good with words but this is my attempt at my eulogy for him (just hope I have the balls to read it out) and I thought I'd share it with you lovelies, any comments (nice ones) would be greatly appreciated.

To the greatest dad who ever lived I miss you more every day but I know you're still with me just in a different way. You taught me how to ride a bike and swim, I
remember sitting in the kitchen with you on Saturday evenings and you'd make me a hot chocolate even though you weren't the greatest at it because somehow you'd make
a skin form on top but I didn't mind whilst in the kitchen we'd listen to your music I always thought your taste in music was the worst but you spent hours and whole
weekends trying to convert me and it finally worked a bit when I was about 15 your hot chocolates may not have been great but you knew how to make a good fish finger
sandwich. I remember when we used to go on fields and play football but I'd never be able to score a goal because you'd make me laugh too much and one of the goal
keepers Kasper Schmeichel name would always make me laugh too you weren't too bad at football, old man. Everyone could always tell I'm your daughter because we had
the same sense of humour and we could laugh for ages over something that in reality wasn't even that funny you used to do a funny voice of someone you used to know 
and I always thought it was the most hilarious impression ever. I remember in Year 9 because at the time in Science I was doing something about dinosaurs and you
convinced me that there was a dinosaur that went extinct because it bored it self to death and I asked my teacher about it and when I came home and told you about it
you were in absolute stitches I still hold you to that. I remember when we watched a documentary about Big-foot and there was a bit where quite evidently the so called
Big-foot was just a hairy man and he was walking through the woods and you said "its Big-foot walking home from the pub" I have no idea why I found that so funny but I
did. You was the one who introduced me to Doctor Who and at first I thought it was the worst idea for a show ever but now I love it and I love you for it too. You
were such a kind man with a big heart and a contagious laugh and in the words of The Clash go easy...step lightly...stay free.



Monday, 20 October 2014

Reasons A-Level Media is the bane of my existence

The Many Reasons Media is the bane of my existence and as a result destroys me emotionally.

Firstly lets backtrack all the way to Year 11 when I was applying for colleges and the subjects I wanted to do. A naive 15/16 year old Amy thought taking Media as one of my A Levels would be a walk in the park because in all fairness I'm not the most academic person but by no means does that mean I appreciate name calling and having my subjects slated because "Miss I do all the science and maths subjects" thinks what I do aren't "real" subjects but when I ask her definition of a "real" subject she fails to give one. Although not being the most academic of people at GCSE I passed 9 out of 11 exams and 3 of them I achieved a B at which I am quite proud of (I failed Maths because I have Dyscalculia) and I got C's in all my AS's. Anyway onto the topic of Media, at the open days I went to the media department offered me things I hadn't yet experienced as I could see myself really enjoying the subject and getting involved because it involved case studies like Doctor Who which I got told we would be doing in the first year but turns out we're not doing it until Christmas and if I had of known I would have probably left college now. The coursework also seemed really interesting as I was really looking forward to making our own music video but when we actually got to do the coursework it was me who had to do be in the music video because everyone else refused. The song we did was "Walk Of Shame" by P!nk and now I can never listen to that song again as we overplayed it far too many times and every time I think of the song all I can think of is a scene in the music video where I'm stood beside a phone box and a poster of a burger from Burger King is on the window and my friend told me to pretend to take a bite out of it *shudders at the thought of remembering that* as if I wasn't body concious enough doing that made me feel even fatter. The first couple of weeks at sixth form were great and I did initially enjoy media because the teacher seemed really nice but then after October half term I don't know what happened she just turned into some kind of Devil that would hate you forever if you got a question wrong and would judge you for it. Not forgetting the time when she threatened to shred our coursework because she thinks we're all retards. I just don't know how to describe my media teacher she's just very narcissistic and patronising and last week was literally the happiest week of my life as she was off because she's been recovering from the flu so media was cancelled every day. Today however she freaked me out by reading out a piece of my work because she thought it was exemplary (and she never thinks any of my work is to her standard) and she was overly nice to me and called me 'love' it might just be me who thinks that's weird but oh well.  

Sunday, 19 October 2014

Who I am, what I'm about and other general things you might need to know :)

So, haii ladies and gentlemen (or possible aliens) :3 I'm Amy but my fellow Doctor Who nerds call me Amy Pond or Amelia or you can just call me whatever floats your boat! I get called this because I'm ginger and the actress who played Amy Pond is also ginger. If you don't know who Karen Gillan is I shall enlighten you with some of her photos and you will fall in love with her.



I am also in love with David Tennant and as you are probably bored of my fangirling now I will only put up one photo of him and then I'll move on.
I'm 17 my birthday is the 29th January ( date for your calender there) ;) to be honest I've only set up this blog because I spend too much time being bored out of my head but hey ho. I don't expect many people to read my blog because I'm not even that interesting but I promise I'll try to put some relatively cool stuff up on here and seen as my surname is McCool sometimes it can be hard living up to a name that fabulous so please bare with me ;P. I intend on putting a variety of stuff on here so there will be some reviews, some posts will be like diary entries, there will probably be some rants but I will also try to give some advice and stuff if needed  so at the end I'll give some links to other sites I'm on if you ever want to check them out :). At the moment I am going through a tough time which I will discuss in a post at a later point so I like to think no problem will be too big for me to help with or even if you just want someone to listen to that's cool too. Even if only one person reads my posts and likes them I will be chuffed to bits and I will feel accomplished but anyone lovelies I think I've talked for a while now so I'm going to love you and leave
Toodlepip, Amelia xo
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Doctor Who- Flatline Review

Doctor Who- Flatline
Episode 9/12
18/10/14
I think this is one of best episodes in the series so far I haven't enjoyed as many as much as I thought I would and believe me when I say that was hard for me to type as I am known for being a hardcore Whovian. If you watch the show but missed it last night *SPOILERS* warning. The storyline followed a species of monster that were two dimensional and got their prey by living in the walls and making anyone who touched the walls completely flat. The T.A.R.D.I.S's dimensions get muddles up and it shrinks to the point where The Doctor is trapped inside so Clara has to take the role of The Doctor through the use of an ear piece that allows the real Doctor to hack into Clara's optic nerve so he can see everything she see's and can talk to her. Although because of Clara being The Doctor (she calls herself Doctor Oswald) it meant another episode that kind of only focused on her again and normally this would annoy me but there was something about this episode that made me take a bit more of a liking to her (I'm still grieving the loss of Amy and Rory). My favourite part of the episode is a scene where Clara makes reference to Thing from The Addams 
Family and tells The Doctor to move the T.A.R.D.I.S off the train tracks with his hand. Overall I would rate this episode a 9/10 simply because I liked the idea and I always enjoy seeing new monsters.