Good weather, weekends and Dinosaurs

Well, I'm really beginning to enjoy my weekends. Work may not be thrilling but I've done a bit more sight seeing and taken plenty of photos.
Recently I've been to Invalides (Napolean's tomb, a hospital for war injured, war museum,...) Notre Dame (up the towers, I'd already been inside), the Louvre and a Country house but that turned out to be closed.
I've put photos up on my flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/aross and I've also bought a subscription so I can upload more.

The view from Notre Dame towers is excellent. I've even got a photo of an anti-CPE protest as it went past. The weather has been excellent most weekends (although it's bucketed it down this afternoon).

I've also been to the cinema a few times. I went to see "Firewall" with a friend from work a couple of weeks ago. It was quite good but I was amazed at how old Harrison Ford looks. But then I guess we tend to immortalize actors in the characters they play so when I think of Harrison Ford I expect to see Indiana Jones.
I'm not just watching American films though. I've seen more French films here than American ones. The latest film I've seen is called Jean-Philippe. It's about a man (Fabrice) who is a massive fan of Johnny Hallyday (French rock superstar). One night he is walking home drunk from a bar and starts singing Johnny Hallyday songs. He wakes someone up who shouts at Fabrice from his window and tells him to shut up. When he doesn't stop singing, the man comes outside and knocks him out. Fabrice then wakes up in hospital. Things all seem normal until he gets home and goes to the room in his house in which he had his collection of Johnny Hallyday memorabilia and finds.....it is full of a collection of beer memorabilia. It turns out that Fabrice has woken up in a different reality - one in which Johnny Hallyday never became a superstar. Fabrice then sets out to find Jean-Philippe Smet (Johnny Hallyday's real name) and turn him into a superstar.
It was quite a good film. A bit cheesy at times but the dinosaur moment didn't come until late into the film and they weren't too big.

Ah, yes, I should probably explain what I mean by "the dinosaur moment". After I'd seen "Combien tu m'aimes?" and "Angel-A" i noticed that towards the end of French films they tend to go a bit strange. There's a moment when things turn and become a bit odd. In Angel-A for example it was when the lead female character (I've forgotten her name) grew Angel wings and flew off towards heaven with the lead male clinging onto her legs. Since then I've always asked myself at what moment the dinosaurs will arrive in the film. The dinosaur moment is therefore the moment when things go a bit strange. I have a theory as to why this happens - it all comes down to money. Obviously all films have a budget, however I reckon with french films the producers are quite conservative with it at the start of the film. As they near the end they suddenly realise "Wow, look at all this money we've got left. Ok, I've got a great idea. I know this is a romantic comedy but how about we have some 50ft tall robots rampage through the city?!?" and they end up spending the leftover budget on stupid effects or twists in the story.

I'm going to see another film tonight called "La Doublure" - Hopefully there won't be too many dinosaurs!