The Future Isn't Written In Stone

Its nearly the end of July, its one month closer to the end of the year and another step forwards towards the future. May it be looking bright, dull, frightening, happy, boring, exciting. That may matter now, but think the future isn't written in stone! The first time i heard that line, from the once hit TV show, which sadly burnt and turned to ash, Heroes. The end of the first season, Peter Petrelli is about to go nuclear and take the whole of New York with him. Everybody is watching, scared and useless as his hands begin to shine bright orange, Claire (That once hot cheerleader who became so irritating) holds a gun to Peters head. Peter tells her straight to shoot him, that it is the only way to stop him from exploding and to save the day, tears in her eyes, fall down her cheek as she begs for another way out of this horrible situation. Just as she prepares herself to pull he trigger, Nathan Petrelli comes flying in gives Claire the answer she needs, another way out. Nathan knew that something bad was about to go down but was persuded to accept it and let it happen. For a while, Nathan was happy to let it so but right in the last second, when all hope was loss, he made a stand and came to his brothers aid and also the whole of New Yorks. He stood there and said 'The future isn't written in stone.'

These six simple words have stuck with me since i first watched that episode, bare in mind it aired on 21st May 2007. Thats pretty much six years ago! Those words always come back to me, when i'm feeling down, feeling upset, feeling that life might just keep spiralling downwards instead of upwards i stop and take a minute to think. 'The future isn't written in stone.' Even when the days ahead seem tough and unbearable, you could goto sleep that day thinking things are just going to get worse and when you wake up, it could well be the best day in your life. Myself, i'm a worrier, i worry a bit to much then i should, but then hey i guess were only human. Last year i embarked on a journey to universty, a short lived experiance for me, i had horrible housemates, didn't enjoy my course as much as i hoped i would and just didn't really have one of the best experiaces there, so on my 20th birthday i made the big decsion, after making the big decision to goto uni, i chose to quit it. Just like that, i'm a dirty uni drop out... or have i got the wrong saying there..?

Quitting uni, i now work full time, not in what i want to be doing and for the past few months i have sturggled with wether or not i made the right decision quitting uni, i couldn't seem to write anything, do anything, i just seemed to be on auto-pilot for a lot of the time inbetween. In my head it just seemed to me that i had failed and would be stuck working a day job in a supermarket forever..!!! I remeeber thinknig to myself that day, if only. Thats when that quote popped into my head again. 'The future isn't written in stone.' After that thought hit me, life seemed a lot clearer, i stopped moping about and started planning for the the future, planning what i want to do, have a career creating movies! Because i bloody love films, i love the whole process behind it, i love writing storys. I guess the messege i'm trying to drill into your heads and into mine still is, stop, relax, observe, enjoy the little things in life, do what makes you happy even if it will take a while to get there. Yes you may have relationship problems, you may still fancy that girl/guy who you know you'll never be with, you may not see a light at the end of the tunnel but hey 'The future isn't written in stone.'

I'm beginning to bore myself with my blabber... maybe its not good to blog after 2am. Why do i always seem to blog after 2am! I'm going to drag myself of the laptop into the land of nod... but guys remeber one thing for me...

'The future isn't written in stone.'

Bring on the Summer

Well the first of July is officially over... Not saying that something important happened, well not for me anyways. Just another average day, however i did stay in bed till past 3pm... Don't worry i have the perfect reason why! Because as it being the first of July, you remember when you were in school?(Or you maybe still be in school) When you used to go round pinching the first friend you can find them punching them afterwards, yeah thats why i stayed in bed till past midday to avoid being pinched and punched! However that didn't work because when i finally got up and ventured out the house to meet my 'lovely' friends i still ended up getting punched because of that game called 'Punch YELLOW car no returns... or Punch 'Insert Colour' Mini no returns' Who actually created this game, because its not a fun game if your to slow to hit your mate! 

With it finally hitting July i'm at last starting to feel the summer vibe! I have never been so excited for summer before! Because the sun is shining, you have that smell of BBQ and apparently its ment to be great weather till August. Living in England however i'm not sure how true that last statement was. With the heat cranking itself up and the dreadful rain beginning to disappear it appears me might actually have a pretty lovely summer, i can picture it now, sitting outside the pub having a cold pint of fosters to keep me chilled, a defiant visit to the beach since every summer i plan to go however i never actually get round to it and what i'm looking forward to most of all... PAINT BALLING! Well i'm lying there actually thats probably number two, number one however is making films! 

Thats my plan with this lovely summer is to grab a camera, write a few shorts and go out and shoot some stuff. Because i have big plans starting from today, big plans i need to stick to! You see i have big dreams, because its good to dream big. Cause if you don't dream big then whats the point of dreaming and if your not scared of your dreams then your dreams just aren't big enough yet. Yes i can be all whats that word, nostalgic? No, i literally just had it on the tip of my fingers! Anyway back to the point. I'm a dreamer, i love to dream big, i dream about so much everyday and today it finally hit me, stop sitting in bed and take a chance on your dreams. So thats what i plan to do with Been Found Films. The name of this blog actually, is to start bringing it out of the dreams within my head and into reality. We have finally even got a logo! Its such a playful logo and i love it to pieces. A big thanks to the design to Jay Boulton, for without you we would never have a cartoony morph picture and to Jake Robinson for actually taking that and slapping some words next to it to make the logo i'm in love with, i hope you guys love it to!

Now i seem to be rambling on, i seem to do this a lot when its hit past midnight! So i think its time to goto the land of nod.. On the words of Been Found Films, if your a facebook user why not like are page by clicking here! Enough advertising from me. I really am going to bed now before i start talking utter nonsense... Wait to late. I'll end this blog with some wise words...

Its time to dream big and take those dreams forward to reality.

Getting to hyped for Man of Steel

Tomorrow brings to us a friday and for me that entails sitting in bed resting my foot... Well for most the day anyway. Tomorrow is also the 14th June 2013. A day i have been looking forward to for a while now, because tomorrow is the day that Man of Steel is released in good ol' Britain...  

Wait i mean tomorrow is my best friends birthday! Happy Birthday Jake, the big nineteen getting old now my friend!

Right now back to the point! MAN OF STEEL!!!! MAN OF STEEL!!! If you couldn't tell by the caps i am bloody excited for this film! My love superman was caught by the hit and frankly amazing story of Clark Kent, the days before he donned the tight blue suit, the story of a boy to a superman! I feel bad because i haven't yet to watch the old days of superman, the tv show and the films. However i did buy that naff film from 2006 'Superman Returns' A film i still to this day hate, it just wasn't my cup of tea really or maybe i'm still hiding my hate for Brandon Routh for his time is a chuck as a villain...

Step forward seven years to this very day with just under one hour to go until the clock strikes midnight and the highly anticipated reboot of the superman franchise directed by Zack Synder(300, Watchmen) written by David S. Goyer (The Dark Knight Trilogy) Produced by the Christopher Nolan, the man behind the epic Batman Trilogy. 

What can we expect from this new look of the Man of Steel, a darker tone for one is a defiant. A whole lot of meaty action with a blend of emotional battles following the boy sent away from Krypton to the alien planet earth. Showing how he becomes the Man of Steel, if you look at the cast behind the film then you should be getting chills down your spine, from the trailers i am already starting to see Henry Cavill as our Clark Kent/Superman. He certainly looks the part, and the shots of him preparing to fly were for me breathtaking! We have Lois Lane played by the glorious Amy Adams, who i'm sure will be just amazing in this role. We also have Russell Crow starring as Jor-El, Kal-El's father who in the last moments of his life sent his sun away. To torment our Man of Steel we have well known General Zod played by Michael Shannon, he so far is the only one i'm unsure about but only time will tell. There is however one person i hope to get a glimpse or mention off at some point during this film and that is Lex Luthor (Hopefully not as Kevin Spacey) 

Its times like these i wish i had a time machine so i could skip the sleep that i need and don't want so i can be hopping to the cinema to feast my eyes on what should hopefully be a glorious new start for Superman for the 21st centurary! Check back this weekend to find out if the Man of Steel is a right first step into the future for Superman and the DC Universe or if its a failure like the last Superman film 'Superman Returns' But for now i leave you the final trailer for Man of Steel, if your not as hyped as i am right now you will hopefully be afterwards. I just hope my t-shirt comes in time!

Live long and Prosper!
My father believed that if the world found who i really was, they would reject me. He was convinced that the world wasn't ready.What do you think?

Trapped by four walls, thank god for Arrested Development

As I scratch a thin line into the wall next to me, I realise it is day six of my captivity in this hellhole. These four walls surrounding me, draining the life from me, sucking the soul out of me! I don't think I can take much more, when will these dark days end. You know what they say, if you can't do the crime don't do the time. Because kids, prison isn't fun!

Mum gets a sneaky photo of me in a
rather terrible wheelchair!

Well I’ve heard its not fun, I haven't personally been there myself (Hope to keep it that way to) Then if I’m not in prison why the depressing opening and title? Well frankly I’m bloody bored. The crime I committed isn't much of a crime but a stupid act on my part... Picking a fight with a wall is not fun guys. It bloody hurts. Yes I picked a fight with a wall, now I do my time, sitting in bed with my foot higher then my heart in a rather scraggy bandage now. The good news is that its not broken, well that took two trips to the hospital to finally find that out but however it’s bloody sprained! I've gone all my life with only ever spraining my wrist and now I sprain my foot, which means I can't do much but laze about in bed moaning about how bored I am!

The only plus is that i get crutches  for some reason a childhood dream of mine! Please don't ask me why because five year old Dan can't remember.

You may be thinking, dude! Seriously why are you complaining its great to laze about in bed all day! I agree but doing in daily really does drive me crazy, how do the people who do this everyday live with themselves? I'm bored out of my skull; if I had any marbles left I would have lost them probably on about day two. However it does have its benefits I have watched back to back episodes of arrested development and finally got round to watching the series I’ve been waiting to see for so many years now, series 4!

Why thank you Netflix for bringing it back! Didn't even have to wait for a week to see each episode unlike the normal airing of tv. Arrested Development returns to us for the first time on our instant streaming screens after being rudely cancelled many years ago (If they can bring this back why not FIREFLY!!!)

However with its return, it comes up with a new way to tell us the story of the Bluths in a series of thirteen episodes, with each episode focusing on the life of one of the family members showing us whats happened in there life since the 

With it's return its changed the formula of the show greatly, instead of following what’s going on with everybody episode by episode it takes a new turn this series to focus on a single character each episode. Showing what they have been up to since the series three finale and how they’re coping now. Of course though they have it in a fractured timeline, literally you have to wait episodes to find out the conclusion to something that occurs in episode 3 and wraps up the storyline in episode 8! While it was a brave shot it almost backfired on them, I’m not to sure if I like this new formula they are using, I preferred how it used to be but I guess if they do another series like this (IF THEY DO ANOTHER SERIES?) it could grow on me...

The one thing that I personally hated was the fact that they only had one focus episode for some of the best characters in the show and it literally had characters disappearing for several episodes before returning. I'm torn; I think that they should stop reminding us about how they were cancelled... It’s mentioned every episode I swear! You got another shot at returning! Shows would kill for that... (Shows like FIREFLY OR CHUCK!) Stop moping about the fact you got cancelled and focus on the future, which could well be another series on Netflix or possibly the film they have been hinting about since there cancellation. Overall it wasn't the strongest return for the show, allowing every episode to be watched back to back leaves you tired and confused because of the constant fractured storyline. Maybe return to the old formula and possibly put a week or a few days between each episode airing. The acting was top notch as always, it felt like they had never left hopefully there’s more to come in the future! (Fingers crossed)