For Your Eyes Only
James Bond manages to be both impossibly cool and a bit of an arse at the same time. Every box is ticked: glamourous locations, beautiful women, improbable stunts, corny one-liners and evil henchmen.
Entertaining nonsense.
7/10
Seven Days in Entebbe
Dramatization of the hijacking of an airliner and the subsequent hostage crisis.
It was reasonably well acted and well made though it didn't teach me anything that I didn't already know. It tried to be arty with this really ropey subplot about a soldier's missus training to be a dancer, which added precisely f**k all to the film. Overall the hostage situation wasn't as menacing or claustrophobic as it could have been and the climax wasn't particularly exciting.
It held my attention but that's about it.
5/10
I really enjoyed journeys end and they are both really good in it.
It's one of the better ww1 films, though to be honest, that isn't difficult as there arn't that many good films about that conflict. I suppose the static nature of trench warfare doesn't lend itself to exciting film making.
Banksy is shite and his preachy, 6th form political stance is downright embarrassing.
The whole Banksy v Robbo thing a few years ago was just tedious pish...
Yeah. I'm pretty sure it was 2001. We beat Arbroath in the previous round. They beat us first but the match had to be replayed because the filthy cheating c***s fielded an ineligible player. The replay was a draw then Montrose won the second replay with a Mike McKenzie inspired performance at a freezing cold gayfield.
i had a pint at lunchtime today in forfar and had a great conversation with an older boy called colin who was ex forces. i ended up habing an extra pint as i was enjoying his concersation. afternoon drinking pisses all over evening drinking
I'm all for daytime drinking and have been doing it frequently since about 1992. I'm still always surprised by the sunlight when I leave the pub though.
I personally like the Friedrichshain area, even if it is hipster central. There's pubs galore around boxhagener platz, some pretty impressive street art and it is well connected to the rest of the city via S bahn and U bahn. To me it feels a bit more "Berlin" if you catch my drift. The same could be said for Kreuzberg. Other parts of the city could really be anywhere. But I suppose it depends on what you're interested in. I quite like counter culture but if that's not your thing then you may be better off around Hackesher Markt.
Rocky IV
Probably the cheesiest but also the most entertaining Rocky film. This has everything: a plucky underdog, evil foreigners, typically 80s music and montages along with lashings of patriotism and a half assed political stance.
Unmissable.
8/10
It wouldn't be my choice but it's a decent enough area. There's a few pubs in the arches under a railway bridge.
Alexanderplatz, the TV tower and the Brandenburg gate are not too far away.
Leningrad Cowboys Go America
Deadpan comedy about a Soviet rock band on an eventful tour of the USA. I remember this had a bit of a cult following among some of the stoner crowd in Montrose back in the early 90s. I hadn't seen it for 20 odd years but it has aged fairly well. I did enjoy it more as a stoned 17 year old though...
7/10
Journey's End
A young officer arrives in the trenches on the western front in 1918. Slow moving but tense with a rather uncomfortable sense of doom.
I can't think of many decent films set in ww1 but this was one of the betters ones that I've seen.
7/10