ROONEY'S A DISGRACE

What is it with this country? Why do we feel the need to reward the idiots and to treat our real heroes with no respect?

I mean, while most of the country is suffering huge cuts- unemployment is up and parents are now getting no child support, the absolute LOSER that is Wayne Rooney receives an £8 million pay rise- yes 8 FRICIN' MILLION.

It's a joke, quite frankly.

This now means Rooney is the highest-earning player in the world- earning £250,000 a week.

It's absolute idiocy, I mean, this is the guy that invited a prortitute back to his wife's bed when she was PREGNANT, slept with a grandma called 'Auld Slapper' and has been seen acting drunk and disorderly on numerous ocasions.

Furthermore he treated Alex Ferguson, who's probably the best footballl manager Britain has seen, with the littlest respect ever this week- messing him around until he finally signed the 5-year renewal contract.

AND... he hasn't even been playing well! I mean, just take the world cup, he was, quite frankly, shit. I was forever screaming at the screen to 'get him off' as he just played awful and was definitely bringing the side down.

So, taking this all into consideration, why the fuck is he being paid so much? And why are the fans happy to see him back? If I was a Man U supporter, I'd have been pleased that I was finally getting rid of the cheating, lying, scumbag once and for all.

THE U.S. SKINS SEEMS A BIT CRINGE...

The trailer for MTV's American version of channel 4 show 'Skins' has been released today, and I must say, it's all a bit cringeworthy!

I don't know if it's the U.S. accents or whether they've just got the whole setup wrong or what, but it just seems really false and forced to me.

The whole beauty about the original 'Skins' is that it wasn't overdone and was just trying to represent normal lives, but if it isn't like that in America, I don't know why they're trying to make it out like it is...

Anyway CLICK HERE to see the trailer so you can judge for yourselves...!

'SOCIAL NETWORK': REVIEW

Okay, so a film about Facebook didn't seem the most riveting of ideas to me when I first heard about it- I mean, how much can you say about some guys creating a website??

But... once I saw the trailer for 'Social Network' I started to change my mind. First of all it starred Jesse Eisenberg in the lead role- and I just LOVED him in 'Adventureland', then I started to realise that I really was interested in the back-story of what is the most-used social networking site in the world.

I mean, we always seem to just accept things that are there and never really question how they came about. We don't realise that the simple things we use everyday, without taking a blind bit of notice, is the basis of someone elses life and that they've worked tirelessly to create it.

So basically, I just did a massive U-turn and thought it'd be good.

And was it??

Yes, it was. On the whole...

It was interesting and clever- a lot different from most films these days. I mean, it was just refreshing to watch a film where it's not just boy meets girl, they don't like each other, then they get married.

The plot, which sees Harvard University loser Mark Zuckerberg creating a website because he gets ditched by his girlfriend is good because it's relevent.

I mean, there is nothing more people think about more these days than what they're going to have as there Facebook status- so it seems sensible to educate the masses on how their social-life service came about.

Eisenberg is also brilliant in the lead role- playing the part of straight-talking Mark to perfection with his witty one-liners and brilliant, dead-pan comebacks.

Justin Timberlake also plays a good part as 'baddie' Sean Parker- however I really don't know why he's reverted back to his N-Sync poodle hair-do.

The only thing that annoyed me- and it really did annoy me- is the way women are portrayed in the film.

Don't get me wrong, I really am no feminist, but by watching the film, you'd just think every American girl is a jealous, slutty coke-head. The only glimmer of light is Zuckerber's original girlfriend Erica Albright who tells it to Mark straight at the start of the film saying:

"You're gonna go through life thinking girls don't like you becuase you're a nerd. Well you're wrong... it's because you're an arsehole."

Good words. But she's literally only in it for like a second. I know it's not a MAJOR thing, and obviously it isn't essential to the film, but I can't help but feel the director, David Fincher, is just saying that most girls 'go along for the ride' instead of actually creating their success themselves.

Anyway, is only a little qualm- apart from that, this film is deffo a winner, and I'm sure you'll be 'liking' it on Facebook the minute you get home!

4/5