Doom! Doom! Chainsaw ... Motherboard ...

29 September - Saw Doom last night - bit disappointing, an obvious Aliens ripoff but nearly as good an 'elite soldiers battling super powerful beasts' film as Dog Soldiers, a copy that, to me, was even superior to Aliens. Dialogue was atrocious, the plot was no better than a computer game (one expects a bit more when it reaches the cinema) but the money scene with the first-person shooter massacre that was lifted straight out of the game was very entertaining, but one scene does not a movie make.
Came back to the hostel after negotiating Granville Street's Hallowed up ghouls and ghosts to find the students living it up on cheap wine (they'd found a saviour who was a bit less responsible than me it seems) and cheaper cigarettes - very noisy and they were breaking things in the room. Said my goodbyes, it's been very interesting meeting all of them and I will miss them (they are still some of the only people I know in this country) despite some of them being rather (very) irritating at times.