Fantastic Flop

My love for movies has taken me to cinemas to watch a marathon of ideas that I think sometimes do not not help my life goals. But time and time again, I am back in the same damn chair hoping the next movie I watch will make some sort of sense. For the first time in my life I was right about something... Fantastic 4 was a fantastic flop!!

So, there are a couple of things I will lay out just so you know where I am coming from and hope that you get my drift by the end of this blog!
1. I am in love with the idea that someone who is a major genius with a doctorate in whatever field, went to school and 'aced' at what ever they did.
2. Foster siblings never get along, neither do they support each other unless one has much more money than the other.
3. Friendship from birth is never a thing!!!
4. Just because I am angry doesn't mean I want to destroy the world!!!

So, Reed and Ben
1. are friends from early childhood. I think that the person who directed, had so much to put into the movie, he removed the more vital embarrassing parts about bonding as children to be that tight as friends till the end.
2. I would not be called up in the middle of the night to come check out my best friend's experiment! I would wait till morning.
3. In a place with so much high tech equipment, how does a drunk student get the guard to just let his friend into the building? I might be wrong, but I am sure not going to walk into a facility, let alone to change a simcard and the guard at the entrance doesn't give me BS.... yet again, what do I know about this 'science-y' stuff!!
4. For goodness sake, give Ben some pants! I see his butt crack and so, I am sure his front must have something swinging away! Or was it just that I have such a perverted mind?

The Storm Siblings
1. It is so far fetched, they had to be step siblings. I am not sure about this, but in the developing world, when one of your siblings is doing way much better than you academically, you never ever want to be associated with them however much your dad has the money to make that happen!
2. So, Sue not Susan gets to miraculously be affected by the landing of the make shift time travelling space craft. What about all the other people who worked in the lab?
3. Johnny is such a white man's name (I'm not being racist). If you doubt me, then try Google, yahoo, bing, whatever search site there is and I am sure you will have to come to the same conclusion!

Doom
1. Again, like the character of Reed, Doom should have also been a doctor of the sciences. If that makes sense. Not some failed man that just let his genius go to waste!!
2. He was just not angry enough! More like a hippy who hated the ways of the government, had a thing with Sue Storm and probably would have gone on to do great things with his life. Still shaking my head at the writer who just assassinated one of the best villains of all time!!

Well, so you think I didn't have a date for the movie and so i just had a bad movie experience. I would like to challenge you to rent the movie so that you can watch it over to make sure I was wrong rather than go to the cinema with a hot looking chick or great looking guy and you forget about why you went to the movie. I guess proving me wrong will be one boring solo date!!
but at the end of the movie, you will enjoy the poor acting, slow punch lines and when Reed says, "fantastic Four", you will realise the editing was also lucking when it comes to big time block busters that shouldn't even have a sequel!!

The best ways to make our culture a reading culture.

So, for those of you who don’t know me by now, I believe to be the best authority in matters best to me. However, because I have no time to prove theories beyond my nose, I think it is best to say that in my universe, I will be life time president and have no opposition. But since you choose to read this, I guess you are my loyal servants and I am your royal majesty, making everything know to you.

Now on to the subject for today! I have been thinking about how to get my daughter to read books, in a culture that is a non reading culture. For the past few weeks, I have had the privilege of fighting with her to get her homework done, read a book and keep off TV, and found that my efforts are futile. Thus my new resolution, to start her on these things that will make her probably the shadiest, but sharpest kid in the class.

1.       Make movies out of books.

When Harry porter came out, the price of the book doubled. Heck, I had to beg my lovely sister to get me the book, and I still could not get a copy. I went to the book store and bought the book for about 70k, which then was expensive. Last week, out of curiosity I went to peek at the price of the book and it had not only doubled, it was no longer in the store! So I thought to my self, If I can stand through such, I might as well advice people to make movies out of books. Thus all these Chinua Achebe books become something to watch. I wonder how the movie to the book, ‘Lord of the Flies’ would be like; it might be stacked up in the horror section. But thinking about all of that, please don’t go watch Pompeii if you read the book… you might have to ask for your money back unless you are in a cinema which is like in 5D!

2.       Make songs out of books

Who said I can’t sing a whole story about a book in one song? Ask Bugembe about this and he might side with me. Well, the song might be 8 minutes long, with each verse more shaddy than the next, but don’t we all sing to Kani or Ani and still wait for those parts where the lady sings along? So, I think it can be done. We just need less Beibers and more Bugembes in the industry and we shall have hits that will become infamous for their edutainment and thus a new culture shall be born!

3.       Don’t force it, beat it down their throats.

The idea of spare the road and spoil the child… always seems the right way to go. But I have never found someone actually doing that. So if you find me in prison, just know I was trying to spare the Kampala roads that have pot holes larger than the Kabaka’s lake.

When we were younger, my dad caught my sister eating newspapers. When she was asked why she was doing it, she said she was tired of reading and hoped that the information would go down her throat (true-ish story). I think that is how I am going to get my daughter to learn how to read a lot more. Clearly stuff the  information down her throat and hope that along the way, all those books she has swallowed will work for her. If that doesn't work out, I am pretty sure there is something that will be stuck in her throat long enough for her to pass her exams at all levels of education!

Well, I think this has been a testament according to the book of Twonjex, and thus here ends the reading. Go ye forth to spread my gospel and if no one believes you, remember to tell them, it is all in "his" universe and they should try joining it!!!