Choose life.
Choose a job.
Choose a career.
Choose a family.
Choose a fucking big television,
Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers.
Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance.
Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments.
Choose a starter home.
Choose your friends.
Choose leisure wear and matching luggage.
Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics.
Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning.
Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth.
Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself.
Choose your future.
Choose life . . .

But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got heroin?

58/250

Haven’t we seen this before?

57/250

The fourth film of the day, and my twelfth of the year. I wonder if I can average a film per day over the course of the year?

I’ve seen Children of Men before, not long after it came out on DVD, and felt slightly indifferent towards it, maybe it’ll improve on a second viewing?

56/250

Having just finished a run-through the Harry Potter films, I’ll see if I can polish of this lengthy trilogy over the remainder of Christmas and New Year.

Update: I slept through most of it.

55/250

An early start gives us enough time for the full 200+ minutes of the Redux version. A superb film with a superb soundtrack.

54/250

Fortunately my copy doesn’t suffer the all too common problem of only playing the first half of the film.

53/250

Freshly restored and on Blu-ray, this is by far the best version I’ve seen, and is very good for a film which is older than I am. This probably means I should watch parts 2 and 3 tomorrow and Saturday.

52/250

Another day, another film. I might actually have finished the list by the time I retire at this rate.

51/250

Don’t call me Scarface, my name is CaponeTony Montana

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Two for the price of one tonight, and the 50th film off the list since we started.

50/250

The first film off the list for quite a while, mainly thanks to the early arrival of Ben next door at the start of November. Another Frank Darabont film of a Stephen King story, and a good film though somewhat overshadowed by #2 – The Shawshank Redemption which has returned to it’s rightful spot at #1 since we started our list.

49/250