Stereo Mix was never a good website.
Ever.

When I shut down my first website (torn-wings. You know, it did quite well.) I had all these grand plans. I would make this brilliant website with loads of things for people to use, and I’d get loads of visitors and everyone would think I was awesome. But there were a few flaws with my plan.

The first was that I actually can’t make very good graphics. Which, is a flaw when making a resource website really.
The second flaw was the timing. I did it two years ago, when I started 6th form. Suddenly I had exams, coursework, revision…and World of Warcraft.

So the other day, when I was playing about in my cPanel and accidentally installed a CMS which wiped over some of my main folders, thus getting rid of some important parts of my so called “website”, I didn’t really care that much. I installed a few CMSs, then didn’t like them, so uninstalled them. Then I installed Wordpress, but it was too hard so I uninstalled Wordpress. Then I coded by hand again, but it wasn’t as nice as Wordpress, so I reinstalled Wordpress.

So now, here’s a fresh new start. I’ll get used to wordpress as I go along, so I’ll keep improving the look of the site and such like and it just might become the site I wanted two years ago (cue inpirational and heart warming music.)

But first, I want to give you all a warning in the form of this story.

On Saturday, in a fit of boredom I gathered a bunch of friends and strolled into town. We went for some food, then went for a wander. Then 3 of them left, leaving me, Thom, my sister Jenny and her boyfriend Hendo. It was still early and we didn’t want to go home, so we continued to wander to the Cinema in town. The only thing on at the time was Wolfman, and Jenny said the adverts looked pretty good, so we bought tickets, Thom bought food which he ate during the adverts and we waited for the show to start.

I promise you, I’d have rather carried on watching the adverts for other films. Wolfman was awful, filled with rushed scenes, poor cgi, hammy acting by Hopkins and really, a poor plot. Along with this, we had strange accents, an almost invisible romance sub-plot which may as well have been left out of the film, and very unbelievable circumstances.

Everything about it just seemed cheesey and completely outdated, especially the “special” effects. Take Lupin’s wolf in Harry Potter:

We all knew it was CGI, it wasn’t hugely convincing, but it was good and, most importantly, we took it seriously. Now, see this:

It looks ridiculous. And decades old. And laughable. And this just set the tone for the whole film. The location was a dark, spooky victorian countryside, all misty and sinister like some sort of mad Wuthering Heights. The acting by the two main characters (Del Toro and Blunt) was actually accaptable, but it really was hard to judge under the circumstances.

The film also seemed to throw in constant scenes of pointless gore. In one scene a man falls on railings. This was the only part of the film which envoked any sort of reaction from me, because I’ve never been comfortable with that. But there was constant mauling and scratching and bleeding and flesh ripping…which really just added to the outdated-ness of the film.

It was a shame, because somewhere, burried within the…the shitness of the rest of the film, was some potential. But only some.

While waiting for the fun to start though, I did happen to see previews for The Crazies and Shutter Island. I only hope they aren’t as awful as Wolfman, because sadly, I do believe there will be worse films made.

(For those of you who missed it, the warning was “Don’t go and see Wolfman, it’s a waste of money.”)

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