Frank Booth

Strangely enough, I watched the original on DVD last night. Although a bit preachy in parts, it's intelligent and well written. The acting is somewhat secondary to the plot although Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal are pretty good and Bernard Hermann's score is as good as any he has done. 8/10

Me? FFS

Just as well I wasn't there...it would have gotten messy.

and "I have a rapist's wit".

Opinions are like arseholes... I said the special effects were excellent and I had no preconceived idea since I knew very little about the film. What I did say was that the documentary style at the start of the film could have been trimmed and Wikus's fate was all too predictable.

Having read it when it came out (almost 20 years ago and really only to ingratiate myself with my then fiancee/now wife), it doesn't get any better and the ending is really weak.

Although Orwell was out with the date, there are several aspects of the novel which have been frighteningly prophetic. Am currently reading "If nobody speaks of remarkable things" by Jon McGregor Am 50 odd pages in and aye, I understand the concept of an extended metaphor (having recently written a 1200 word short story in that very vein) but FFS, get on with it!

Inglourious Basterds - 2/10 Tarantino takes a plot you could have written on the back of a postcard and stretched it to a buttock numbing 2 and a half hours. Pitt's accent is ridiculous, there are plot holes everywhere and the cinema climax laughable.

District 9 - 6/10 I thought the documentary style at the beginning was way over-long and the fate of Wikus after being sprayed was oh-so-predictable. Great special effects though.

Tingle (hard boppingmix) - That Petrol Emotion On my wife's shitey earphones...she thinks these are fine...the bass on my Goldring's would give her head a right scudding

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The wages are abominable.

white dog shit?

Nah, make one of these...

about 4 inches of snow has fallen in Paisley in the last hour.

There's an obvious solution in there...

I reviewed it on this very thread a couple of months ago.

It's a Wonderful Life 9/10 Saw it at the GFT last night, the first night of a 2 week run and the place was about 75% full. I'd imagine it will easily sell out this weekend and all next week. It is, even after nearly 65 years, still an astonishing purveyor of the feel-good factor and, although a bit uneven in places, is superbly plotted, written and acted. Everyone should see it at least once in their lives.

Pounding - Doves

Light my fire - The Doors

Neat Neat Neat - The Damned

Out of Time - Blur

Rotterdam - The Beautiful South

Baba O'Reilly - The Who