grumpy captain mission has a few days snoozing away catching up on sleep, drained of energy and depleted i lounged around watching some tv shows, i made a paella and baked a batch of healthy savoury muffins. i saw a couple of movies, 'life' and 'ghost in the shell.'

life- i was expecting the usual fare, space station picks up some alien thing and it kills them one by one and that's pretty much what you get. the only difference is the characters and acting are exceptional. i really was on the edge of my seat as the players all were convincing. but what makes this film so much better than the usual is it's ending. 

ghost in the shell - i'm a huge fan of the two anime films so i was interested to know how it would transfer into the film medium. these days you can do anything with special effects and this film proves it, it's beautiful in most parts and scarlett johansen plays the major very well, in fact all the characters are well cast, i didn't have a problem with johansen not being japanese. what made the excellent premise of the movie fail was the last 20 mins which i felt lacked all the intelligence of the previous. it was a classic hollywood ending, predictable, pointless. underwhelming in the lack of imagination. it's a shame as this inconsistency plays a huge impact in the over all reach of the idea, i wish they had not used focus groups and stayed true to some sort of imaginative and intelligent conclusion, i'm pretty certain a japanese director would have done this.