Cape Town VI - Part 1

The Airbus A380 is the world's largest airliner and carries approximately 525 passengers depending on configuration. There were at least 525 people on our flight from Heathrow to Dubai - a lot of them were chavvy Brit tourists wearing their obligatory threequarter length trousers. Our flight was delayed by an hour but easily made up time so as when we arrived in Dubai we were only half an hour behind schedule. The plane was noticeably more quiet than previous aircraft we have flown on and we were seated two rows from the front on the lower deck alongside the front staircase, which disappointingly you were not allowed to ascend and have a nosey at the passengers on the upper deck.

I managed to watch two films on this first leg of our journey:

1) Tron: Legacy - I was rather disappointed with this film. For all it's high tech production the acting was pretty limp and the CGI Jeff Bridges though very cleverly rendered still looked fake. I liked the Daft Punk soundtrack and I noticed they made a cameo appearance during the bar scene which was marred by some really sh*t acting by Michael Sheen. The hero whose real name escaped me (Sam Flynn was the character's name) was as charismatic as my left foot and to be honest by the end of the film I really couldn't give a toss. Pretty poor. Rating: 5/10.

2) Splice - A trifle better than Tron: Legacy... actually a lot better than Tron: Legacy. Splice is about two doctors, a bloke and a woman who genetically create a human/creature hybrid who the woman names Dren. The creature has an accelerated lifespan which is rather convenient for the plot as it means you see the creature grow from CGI freak to freaky looking woman with weird eyes and birdlike legs. The film involves the two doctors hiding their creation from the company they work for and their growing emotional attachment to it. Ultimately the male doctor ends up shagging the creature which p*sses off the woman doctor. Dren evolves and changes sex to male, turns nasty and rapes the woman doctor. And of course the epilogue reveals that the woman doctor is pregnant. Rather predictable... but not bad. Rating: 7/10.

At last we arrived in Dubai and had a little over an hour to make the 10 mile walk (it seemed like 10 miles) to the departure gate for our connecting flight to Cape Town.

To be continued...