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I want to go and see the Departed but may have to persuade my girlfriend to come to
NO doubt this will involve summarising the plot several dozen times in the cinema and putting up with squemishness when folk get 'whacked' as I believe the parlance has it.0 -
Was that the 1st time you have watched it? I'd have given it 2/10 as well.
However, when I watched it again (and again and again....) it's got 9/10 stamped all over it
I can't watch films like that, I think I have no sense of humour. I can't think of a comedy film that I really like.
I am a miserable c**t.
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I went ot see CHildren of Men the other night, it was pretty decent. I thought it worked better as an action flick than the serious dystopian vision it thinks it is. Clive Owen was good in it.
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Blacky has left saints
He's up in Sneck training with his bro
Is Black Jnr any good? What position does he play/
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Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
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Watched Capote last night.
PSH deserved all the praise he got for the film, i thought he was brilliant. What a seriously fucked up person Truman Capote was. Great film.
9/10
Watched that today on FilmFlex, I was surprised as to how good a film it was, I had expected a w**ky 'Oscar' winner but it was excellent. You are right about Capote though.
Watched Lord of the Flies tonight.
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The Crying Game, last night on Film4.
Fantastic film 9.5/10
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However, out of my group of pals, you could be correct on two occasions!
Names, numbers, photographs please.
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I read Elizabeth Kostova's The Historia, a horror/thriller/historical novel about Dracula. Very good read, a real page-turner.
I am currently reading David Peace The Damned United, a fictional account of Brian Clough's 44 days in charge of Leeds Utd, told from the point of view of Cloughie. It's pretty good.
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Lil Chris - Checking It Out
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Repo Man, last night on FilmFour. Very much a culty, 80s film, very much of it's time but a very enjoyable couple of hours. Anything with Harry Dean Stanton in it can't be bad
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We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
One of the best books I've ever read.
It's a novel, but written as a series of letters from a mother to her estranged husband. Their son is in jail having committed a Columbine-style massacre at his school and the book explores the old nature verus nurture debate. It's poignant, shocking, heartbreaking and, also, funny - there are some great moments of black humour.
Although you know ultimately what happens, the author still manages the trick of increasing the tension up until the final pages. the fact it's written from the mother's perspective is interesting, too; it makes you wonder just how reliable her story is.
It's a book I would highly recommend to anyone
My girlfriend is reading that.
I have just read - The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. It's a modern vampire story, telling the search for Vlad Tepes, The Impaler/Dracula. There are three stories told at once through narrative and letters from the past - one tells of a 1930s scholar searching Romania for Dracula's tomb, the other of the narrators father and his future wife searching through Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria for the 30s scholar previous to them and the narrative int eh 1970s of the narator whose father has disappeared after revealing some secrets of his past to his daughter.
It was an excellent book, very well written. It could easily have been hokum, what with tales of Dracula and the undead but it is an excellent account. It brings in different themes, such as totalitarianism and the nature of history. I would recommend it.
I'm off to read William Golding, Pincher Martin.
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Some cheery Nick Cave
I live in a town called Millhaven
And it's small and it's mean and it's cold
But if you come around just as the sun goes down
You can watch the whole town turn to gold
It's around about then that I used to go a-roaming
Singing La la la la La la la lie
All God's children they all gotta die
My name is Loretta but I prefer Lottie
I'm closing in on my fifteenth year
And if you think you have seen a pair of eyes more green
Then you sure didn't see them around here
My hair is yellow and I'm always a-combing
La la la la La la la lie
Mama often told me we all got to die
You must have heard about The Curse Of Millhaven
How last Christmas Bill Blake's little boy didn't come home
They found him next week in One Mile Creek
His head bashed in and his pockets full of stones
Well, just imagine all the wailing and moaning
La la la la La la la lie
Even little Billy Blake's boy, he had to die
Then Professor O'Rye from Millhaven High
Found nailed to his door his prize-winning terrier
Then next day the old fool brought little Biko to school
And we all had to watch as he buried her
His eulogy to Biko had all the tears a-flowing
La la la la La la la lie
Even God's little creatures, they have to die
Our little town fell into a state of shock
A lot of people were saying things that made little sense
Then the next thing you know the head of Handyman Joe
Was found in the fountain of the Mayor's residence
Foul play can really get a small town going
La la la la La la la lie
Even God's children all have to die
Then, in a cruel twist of fate, old Mrs Colgate
Was stabbed but the job was not complete
The last thing she said before the cops pronounced her dead
Was, "My killer is Loretta and she lives across the
street!"
Twenty cops burst through my door without even phoning
La la la la La la la lie
The young ones, the old ones, they all gotta die
Yes, it is I, Lottie. The Curse Of Millhaven
I've struck horror in the heart of this town
Like my eyes ain't green and my hair ain't yellow
It's more like the other way around
I gotta pretty little mouth underneath all the foaming
La la la la La la la lie
Sooner or later we all gotta die
Since I was no bigger than a weavil they've been saying I was
evil
That if "bad" was a boot that I'd fit it
That I'm a wicked young lady, but I've been trying hard
lately
O f**k it! I'm a monster! I admit it!
It makes me so mad my blood really starts a-going
La la la la La la la lie
Mama always told me that we all gotta die
Yeah, I drowned the Blakey kid, stabbed Mrs. Colgate, I
admit
Did the handyman with his circular saw in his garden shed
But I never crucified little Biko, that was two junior high
school psychos
Stinky Bohoon and his friend with the pumpkin-sized head
I'll sing to the lot, now you got me going
La la la la La la la lie
All God's children have all gotta die
There were all the others, all our sisters and brothers
You assumed were accidents, best forgotten
Recall the children who broke through the ice on Lake
Tahoo?
Everyone assumed the "Warning" signs had followed them to the
bottom
Well, they're underneath the house where I do quite a bit of
stowing
La la la la La la la lie
Even twenty little children, they had to die
And the fire of '91 that razed the Bella Vista slum
There was the biggest shit-fight this country's ever seen
Insurance companies ruined, land lords getting sued
All cause of wee girl with a can of gasoline
Those flames really roared when the wind started blowing
La la la la La la la lie
Rich man, poor man, all got to die
Well I confessed to all these crimes and they put me on
trial
I was laughing when they took me away
Off to the asylum in an old black Mariah
It ain't home, but you know, it's fucking better than jail
It ain't such bad old place to have a home in
La la la la La la la lie
All God's children they all gotta die
Now I got shrinks that will not rest with their endless
Rorschach tests
I keep telling them they're out to get me
They ask me if I feel remorse and I answer, "Why of course!
There is so much more I could have done if they'd let me!"
So it's Rorschach and Prozac and everything is groovy
Singing La la la la La la la lie
All God's children they all have to die
La la la la La la la lie
I'm happy as a lark and everything is fine
Singing La la la la La la la lie
Yeah, everything is groovy and everything is fine
Singing La la la la La la la lie
All God's children they gotta die
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Finally got round to watching the Da Vinci Code... absolute garbage. Ohh, that bloke in the painting looks like a woman. Not enough to be remotely interesting.
QUICK! TO THE LIBRARY!
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Its shot in a kind of documentary styke, and it tries to convey the depths and complexity of a proper intricate drug bust. However its shit. Very little dialogue, and they try to be far too clever. Coming from the person that delivered a film as amazing as Heat, its utter dribble. Colin Farrell can not act. Not at any time you don't giev a flying f**k if either Crockett or Tubbs gets wasted. In fact you hope they do, for sitting through that boring shite.
However if you like fast cars, and explosions you`ll probably love it.
I concur. The conveluted plot was just ridiculous and implausible - I thought the main point of the whole operation was to catch the 'mole'. Did they ever find out who the fucking mole was? I think they did but I missed it laughing at the 'romance' between Colin Farrell and that Chinese burd. Oh and the Aryan Brotherhood - they show up at the start and the end, where do they go for the rest of the film? As Carlos says, you don't care about the main characters because there is no characterisaiton, unless you count them knocking off a couple of burds in the showers as charatercisation. The speedboat to Cuba bit is hilarious
Absolute shit, although the gun battles are well filmed.
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I watched Lord of War last night, it was alright. I thought it was quite funny
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New Order - Perfect Kiss
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And his clothes are whiter than most thanks to the new advanced Persil washing tablets that he uses
What a shite thing for a sportsman to advertise
Actually, Tim Henman made allhis £10,000,000 smuggling cocaine and heroin aroundthe tour, using his 'Tiger Tim' nice-guy image to cover up the Pablo Escobar-esque truth.
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Yip, he might have the personality of a German accountant but he's not done too badly for himself. Hasn't he won something like $10 million in prize money alone?????
It was all from Persil
Tim Henman is obviously a very successful sportsman.
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Good post.
Andy did well, he's undoubtedly talented and will learn from every mistake he makes.
True, he is a young guy and in the infancy of his professional career. Most young sportmen suffer from inconsistency, they need to learn to perform consistently and how to prepare mentally and physically to ensure they produce their best, or near their best, all the time.
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One person battered the disabled England fan, a total scumbag no doubt but just one person.
Well your adopting the "just one person" attitude so why don't we?
Absolutely.
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Did anyone read the Daily Record today? People are posting comments mocking the Dunblane tragedy on his website because he wouldn't support England in the World Cup.
thats sick and they wonder why we dont support them at sport.
ps he won first set on tiebreak
One person posted about Dunblane, a total scumbag no doubt but just one person.
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I have put the Who, Ultimate COllection on my MP3 player and was listening to 'Baba O'Riley' on the way to work today
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NO doubt this will involve summarising the plot several dozen times in the cinema and putting up with squemishness when folk get 'whacked' as I believe the parlance has it.
N H L Returns: Official Ice hockey thread
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I don't know much about ice hockey but whenever I've watched it I've quite enjoyed it.
I quite like the Pittsburgh Penguins, simply because of their name
They have signed this Russian guy Malkin who is apparently top notch but has dislocated his shoulder and will be missing for a while.