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Merry Chrimbo

December 17, 2005 on 8:09 pm | In Uncategorized | No Comments

Having not got round to buying any Christmas cards and with the last week of work looking busy to say the least it looks like I’m not going to get round to saying Merry Christmas any other way.

So for everyone that reads this.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

I’ll hopefully see everyone many times in 2006. Have a good Christmas

Moulin Rouge / James Bond

December 17, 2005 on 8:00 pm | In Film | No Comments

I appreciate that this is a little late on both counts and I’m sure most of you have seen these films but I’ve just rented them out so….

Well, Moulin Rouge. I heard it was meant to be good. If I was the bloke that produced all the sequences and effects I’d be quite proud of myself. As the writer or director I’d be a bit more uncertain. Can anyone tell me what, exactly, they were on when they wrote that script. Oh, and who thought that including Beatles lyrics in every other line of a film supposedly set in 1900s Paris was a good idea. I was so intrigued to find out what they were thinking that I listened to a bit of the directors commentary. At one point the director (who’s also the writer) talks about ‘entering into a contract’ and the suspension of disbelief (i.e. getting involved in the story). I stopped listening at that point, if he wanted me to get involved in the story he should have a) written a decent story rather than rehashing quite a common one and b) no turned the film into Spot-the-WetWetWet-song. Anyhow in summary, it’s a great film to watch - just don’t pay any attention to the words.

And finally - James Bond. It turns out I have seen all the Pierce Brosnan Bond films. Having spent around 10 minutes in Blockbuster attempting to work out which film was which I rented out Golden Eye.
The problem is that the blurb on the back of the boxes goes something along the lines of….

Bond tries to defeat evil Dr Something-or-others plan to hold the UN to ransom with big mega-death satalites in space

The problem with this being that the plot of every Bond film is the same - that’s half the point isn’t it? What they really want to do is what Friends do; something along the lines of this….

The one with Hale Berry, the invisible car and the Ice palace

(Die Another Day)

or

The one with all the Space shuttles, the nerve agent factory in vencie and the lines ‘See that some harm comes to him’

(Moonraker)