Relic Unveiled

The lack of any photographic merit is obvious. Even the old "let's stick the camera on an angle for some visual interest" trick doesn't work.

This is the stand for my monitor at work. Here has sat, for a very long time, a Relic.

Yesterday I realised that I couldn't stand it (or was it that I could stand it no longer? I've never been clear as to which is the most effective way to phrase that statement. I will leave you to choose for yourselves), so I took the relic into a camera shop to be developed.

Let's see what's on it. It may be nothing. So much for keeping myself in suspense.

A bit like the Harry Potter films. Such a great story! But the films are so rubbish! Their brilliance have gone downhill so steadily from the first adaptation. They have descended from the giddy heights to most assuredly below ground level. Visually stunning, no doubt. But what about the story, eh? There's a good story there, lads! How about not putting each book on the editors dissection table to cut, rip out and plump every possible visual extraviganza at the expense of a cohesive story? Not to mention some great acting potential and, God forbid, some good old-fashioned pathos?

I know visual extraviganza worked for Avatar, but come on. Avatar was a ripping good visual feast and had no pretentions elsewhere.

As a character in Stephen King's story "IT" once said, "Can't you guys just let a story, be a story?"

I may go and see it anyway and be pleasantly surprised. Or maybe not. Just as there may be no images on that old film, I find that I really don't care!