Not sure where my earlier post disappeared to :S
Red day today (nearly caved- really wanted pasta!! Not sure I can manage another tomorrow
we'll see...)
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B: Yoghurt with an apple grated into it, banana chopped into it and strawberries and raspberries- yum!
L: BBQ chicken (+3) from yesterday's shoot (saved it and brought it home since was on a Green day- was so yummy!) then had a salad with spinach, grated carrot, two small grated apples (mum's idea- was nice!) chopped up bacon (grilled without fat on) and balsamic drizzle (2) with some honey (1) to dress it.
D: Subway salad with chicken and sweet onion sauce (34 cal for a serving but asked for extra- was at least double so will call that 4 syns)
Snacks: HexB Chewy D! HexB Matzo with HexA light cheese slice and pickle (1), banana, a whole portion of grapes from the market (£1 and so sweet!) will probably have a yoghurt soon and HexA2 oatly choc milk
Syns total: 11
Syns saved: 5
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WI tomorrow and am PRAYING for something decent after this lame couple of weeks! We'll see... Didn't have a big dinner and had two salads today so there shouldn't be a huge amount sitting in my stomach like there was after Monday's WI!
Cinema Critique: The Host 4/10
Wasn't for me- couldn't take the voice over! The film is about a future Earth that has been inhabited by aliens that have taken over the body of most humans, and follows the situation of a human who has been on the run but is caught- but isn't totally blocked out by the alien like usual. She pushes through in the most annoying voice over ever in the history of film- seriously- I LOVE Saorise Ronan in other films but in this her voice acting was appalling! She had to play the part of the human (as voice) and the alien (as the physical occupant of the body) and the alien was played pretty OK, but the voiceover was really, really bad.
The film picked up towards the end but there was about a 40 minute middle chunk that was really snore fest and I ended up playing sudoku on my phone (lol) but it did get more interesting later on. It was a cool concept but pretty typical Steph Meyer relationships- i.e. "I love you even though we've spoken like once! It's so important that we be together! *sad moping*"
but yeah- the alieny stuff was interesting and I liked how it panned out in the end (they tried to make it like some tragic scenario was destined even though there were so many obvious ways around it, which was annoying, but they eventually worked out the most obvious way around it)
Anyway- not for me! Nor for my Sci-fi loving bf who really wanted to see it, but some interesting alieny concepts in there!
Cinema Critique: Jack the Giant Slayer 5/10
Not amazing, but watchable. Not very deep/interesting or comical (I feel like films need to be at least one of those things to really grip me! Excluding horrors maybe) and I did nearly crack out the Sudoku app... But it wasn't as bad as I expected following some terrible reviews from friends.
You guys probably think I'm a total film snob who hates all modern cinema or something
not the case! I just am not very easily entertained
But yeah- interesting spin on the original fairytale- of course they throw in a romance to keep the girls happy, and some crude killings to keep the boys happy. It was OK throughout, but no bits were really like "Woah!" and the characters weren't very deep/interesting. Also (slight spoiler in the grey ahead!!)
the villain was killed off too early in my eyes, and they seemed to complete the adventures/giant situations a bit too easily.
Pretty cast though. I love Ewan McG and do enjoy Nick Hoult's face too ;D wish the script had been more comical is all- would have been more fun if it were more like Hansel & Gretel: Witch hunters which was fab.
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