Day 158: I Give It A Year

A couple realise that married life isn’t the fairytale they were quite expecting but they agree to try and wait a year to see if that’s what they need.

If you’ve both realised that there’s a problem and you know you’re not right for each other then why wait a year? Just bloody end it now and you can stop making each other miserable. Nat (Rose Byrne) was getting annoyed at Josh (Rafe Spall) for always being in the house and not taking the bin out/putting the toilet seat down, but surely they lived together before they were married so she would’ve known all this before now? I mean, it was never said if they did live together or not beforehand but who gets married without living together first nowadays? I just don’t believe that they wouldn’t have been aware of their incompatibility long before now.

There were some laughs but overall, it was a bit boring. I didn’t really care what was happening and the ending seemed a bit implausible.

5/10

Day 122: A Fantastic Fear of Everything

While researching Victorian murderers for his new novel, Jack (Simon Pegg) becomes paranoid and spends his time obsessing about his eventual death at the hands of a murderer. After finally managing to make it outside in preparation for a meeting, everything goes a bit tits-up and his fears almost become a reality.

Yaaaawn. This film was really boring but I’m not sure why. I mean, after I read about murderers for a bit I end up getting all paranoid in much the same way. Although I’ve yet to start carrying a knife around with me and superglue my window shut. I think I was expecting it to be more interesting and that he would actually develop serious psychological problems rather than just be a bit paranoid for a while and then get better really quickly. I like my mental health issues to last a while, thank you.

4/10