Queen Matty reviews: The Oxford Murders.

A few days ago I was browsing through a Icelandic torrent website, when I found a movie called ‘‘The Oxford Murders‘‘ having never heard of this film, and I had run out of things to watch and it looked interesting I decided to download it and watch it when I had the time.

In a nutshell ‘‘The Oxford Murders‘‘ is about an American called Martin. (Elijah Wood) who moves to Oxford to study, he moves in with this nice old lady whom was married to a man that Martin admired. It starts out normal, introducing characters (somewhat badly, but introducing nonetheless) In the beginning they concentrate on Martin wanting a professor by the name of Arthur Seldom (John Hurt) as his thesis director, that failed, later on they accidentally meet at the place where Martin is staying, they both discover that the land-lady has been murdered and Seldom starts talking about a note he got which he claims is a first of a series. The rest of the movie is a twist of events and random murders, ending in a plot twist.

This movie has a certain 23/Butterfly effect/Law and order feel to it. This movie is actually based off a book. I’ll admit, I like the general story behind it, but honestly the script was poorly-written, it felt forced. The story-line moved way too fast for the type of movie it is, These types of movies are usually ease into the rush of things. Not throw everything at you at once, it didn’t have any form of build up, the characters themselves didn’t act like normal people.
The characters were generally not as well rounded as I like in my movies, they were bland, had no personalities, and were in general just forgettable. They also made the mistake of making everyone in the movie suspicious or batshit-insane, so after while you just gave up trying to guess who the murderer is.
There are a few good points about this film or at least it had potential. The plot could’ve been amazing, the setting couldn’t have been better, and if they had given to writers more time or hired better writers that are more used to making books into movies it would’ve been amazing. Unfortunately this movie is a B-Movie desperately trying to be an A movie.
All in all I don’t recommend this movie if you’re looking for something good and exciting to watch, but if you’re bored and are ready for completely random plot-twists then this is the movie for you.

This is one of the first actual reviews I have written, I’m mainly doing this to approve my English, which seems to be getting worse by the day since I moved to a non-English speaking country.
Constructive criticism will be much appreciated.

A long time since last update.

It's been a while.
Summer is finished and the air is getting colder. I've been dreading winter since summer. The hustle and bustle of school, driving to school freezing, car sliding all over the place.
I guess Summer was okay, spent some of it working at the post-office, spent a few days working on a ferry, spent the rest with a friend in Reykjavík.
Quit my job at the post-office. I hated it there. Don't regret it, even if a second income would be nice. Hjölli is still working out at sea, so most of my days are spent at home alone.
Trying to write reviews, realized that it might take a while for me to regain the english I have lost.
I'm not in the mood for writing more.
Update maybe tomorrow.
Noone reads this crap anyway.

Break-Up season.

Have you ever noticed that when one couple breaks up everyone seems to start doing it? It's one of those weird things that seems to come with the weather/season/time of year etc, but it seems to be completely random when it happens. I've noticed it before but I noticed it again today. I feel highly philosophical.
I tend to blog when when I feel this way because me talking about my everyday life seems pointless. Plus I am lazy blogger and I have no time on my hands.
Actually right now I should be doing something other than sitting here. Like studying or buying milk.
I don't know.
Most of the snow has cleared up and work was easy yesterday, we weren't so busy so I was finished two hours early.
I started playing god of war II the other day, and now I'm dying to play other game because I'm to lazy to finish my epic battle with Zeus. (Not so much of spoiler, so fuck you)
There's always Oblivion.
Yes.
Oblivion

Lovely weather outside.

I haven''t written much for a while. I guess I could use the excuse that I was busy, but I haven't been busy. More lazy than busy.
I decided to start writing again after reading the first 14 pages of ''John dies at the end'' which I must say is quite an interesting book. Apparently you go mad trying to read it, but I don't believe that.
I decided to watch Jericho for the first time, Hjölli has my laptop and all my shows and this is all that´s on his computer. I have to admit, things involving the end of the world interests me. I had insomnia the other day and read World War Z (Finished it actually) I like reading how everyone reacts, then again I've always had a morbid fascination for natural and unnatural disasters.
I start school on Monday again. I'm not sure weither I dread it or not. I mean schools fine, but I really enjoy lasying around doing nothing. I actually achieved nothing during these holidays, except made some major progress in Guitar Hero. Started on easy at the beginning of the holidays. Now I'm on expert.
I've been having the urge to write or paint just wanting to do something productive. But somehow that whole idea kinda failed hence the reason why I am blogging.
Hjölli and I (More Hjölli than me) bought a house it's a do-er upper, Not so much. Needs painting in one of the rooms, during the summer I'm going to clean up the yard and plant some plants. It's pointless doing it over the winter.
Then again there's a lot of things I want to do.
I want to watch Jericho.

Yesterday I had my driving test (finally). Barely passed, but I passed. It was interesting. I tried to get the guy that was testing me in a good mood.

I had a final exam today in Sociology, dispite the fact it‘s a Saturday, that‘s why I love my school. It hads tests on Saturdays. What kind of Satanism is that anyway?

I spent a lot of time yesterday driving and part of today. I still drive like a maniac, but for me it‘s fine, if someone else is in the car they might not feel the same but me. At least I can stop fast.

It‘s World Aids day today, and I‘m watching Rent. I have a craving for Ice Cream, but I have no money until Monday because the banks here are just open during weekdays here, and of course I just had to loose my credit card.

Well Hjölli went out to sea this afternoon. He left at about 3, I‘m not expecting him back until Friday, but he might come home early if the weather is to horrible for the boats to be allowed out at sea.

Hung out with some of his friends, watched them play football. It was enjoyable. Drove around with Svenni for a little bit then went home.

I have a math exam on Monday. I‘m going to start studying for it tomorrow. I hope I‘m not going to fail any of my courses. I still have a chance to pass it. The final exams usually are about 50% of your final grade, whereas how much of a suck up you are is 10% of your final grade.

Finals.

It's 10.50 am on a Friday morning. I'm sitting in an almost empty classroom. My teacher let everyone leave early. But I decided to stay here until the next class.
It's the last day of school, technically. Then tomorrow the final exams start.
I never got this school and it's need to have exams on Saturdays, but I can't really change it.
It's going to be a busy day, and a busy weekend. I have a test tomorrow, that I have to study for. I have a test today which will decided weither this weekend is is going to suck or not, and my boyfriend is going out to sea most likely tonight.
The weather is bad. It's better than it was yesterday. It better be better by noon. I'm not driving in this weather (Not like I have a choice) and I hate the cold.
I miss the summer.
They still show advertisement from the summertime on t.v he, and I miss it. I really do. I miss the warmth, the working, hanging out with friends, going out for long walks, and not having to wear 23 layers of clothing when you want to go outside.
I hate winter.
It's cold, there's almost always bad weather, and you're much poorer in the winter than in the summer.