I need another film catch up. In fact I need a general catch up with a house clean and tidy, a financial clean and tidy and a lifestyle clean and tidy. For the past three years I have undertaken mini trips on average once a month because of the £9 a night room offer by Travel Lodge. As his year progressed the arrangements for the offers changed and on the last occasion I failed to gain accommodation for an end of the year London trip.
Today I returned from an early morning swim, visit to Morrison’s and then Staples, returning via South Shields town centre to pick up a pocket diary at the pound shop only to switch on the computer, check the email and find that Travel Lodge were holding what is reported to be their last ever £9 sale with accommodation available for the whole year. This posed a dilemma because as reported in the last writing I need to reign in expenditure, but equally I did not want a situation where I am unable to make trips later because of having to pay the full price when the opportunity now arose. In the event there were few £9 rooms available for consecutive days and I had to settle to three trips of three nights with only two rooms at £9 and the rest at £19, although this also included a Saturday. I will have another look in a moment to see what is still on offer.
The first film update is Outlander which someone has described as cross between the Highlander series and Braveheart. The film cost nearly $50 million to make and is reported to have taken less than a seventh of this at the box office. I can understand why although given other offering of the same ilk it deserved better. The story is of a warrior soldier in an advanced planet in 709 AD, the time of he Viking domination of Northern and central Europe. The planet is attacked by a specie of fiery devilish flesh eating monsters. Alien and Monster, that seems to be the title for another film attack each other’s worlds and on returning to his home world the warrior soldier finds that his wife and child have been killed and he goes off seeking revenge only to crash on earth bring a stowaway family of monster with him. These set about terrorising the Viking community which captures the warrior after the space ship crashes into the sea. The Warrior gains the confidence of the local king played by John Hurt, the King’s adventuring daughter, his previously chief warrior and a young orphan lad who takes a shine for new arrival. There is an overlong and at times improbable doing battle with the monsters during which the King and his chief warrior are killed, the daughter is captured alive, the reason for this in inexplicable so there is not attempt to do so, and she is rescued. The monsters are slain as a result of creating a special sword from the metal of the space craft. The film ends as the visiting warrior turns off his distress beacon and settles down to become the king, marry the former King’s daughter with the adopted orphan and fires the lighted arrow to set of the sailing pyre carrying the bodies of the old king and his chief warrior.
The director of the film, Howard McCain wrote the original published story two decades before inspired by a rebuilt Viking ship on he cover of Archaeology Magazine and the teals of Beowulf and such remained his enthusiasm that he created a replica village and ship for the film set. The creature has two forms, a prehistoric beast which becomes a translucent fiery dragon. At two hours the film could have been shortened without altering is impact.
Today I returned from an early morning swim, visit to Morrison’s and then Staples, returning via South Shields town centre to pick up a pocket diary at the pound shop only to switch on the computer, check the email and find that Travel Lodge were holding what is reported to be their last ever £9 sale with accommodation available for the whole year. This posed a dilemma because as reported in the last writing I need to reign in expenditure, but equally I did not want a situation where I am unable to make trips later because of having to pay the full price when the opportunity now arose. In the event there were few £9 rooms available for consecutive days and I had to settle to three trips of three nights with only two rooms at £9 and the rest at £19, although this also included a Saturday. I will have another look in a moment to see what is still on offer.
The first film update is Outlander which someone has described as cross between the Highlander series and Braveheart. The film cost nearly $50 million to make and is reported to have taken less than a seventh of this at the box office. I can understand why although given other offering of the same ilk it deserved better. The story is of a warrior soldier in an advanced planet in 709 AD, the time of he Viking domination of Northern and central Europe. The planet is attacked by a specie of fiery devilish flesh eating monsters. Alien and Monster, that seems to be the title for another film attack each other’s worlds and on returning to his home world the warrior soldier finds that his wife and child have been killed and he goes off seeking revenge only to crash on earth bring a stowaway family of monster with him. These set about terrorising the Viking community which captures the warrior after the space ship crashes into the sea. The Warrior gains the confidence of the local king played by John Hurt, the King’s adventuring daughter, his previously chief warrior and a young orphan lad who takes a shine for new arrival. There is an overlong and at times improbable doing battle with the monsters during which the King and his chief warrior are killed, the daughter is captured alive, the reason for this in inexplicable so there is not attempt to do so, and she is rescued. The monsters are slain as a result of creating a special sword from the metal of the space craft. The film ends as the visiting warrior turns off his distress beacon and settles down to become the king, marry the former King’s daughter with the adopted orphan and fires the lighted arrow to set of the sailing pyre carrying the bodies of the old king and his chief warrior.
The director of the film, Howard McCain wrote the original published story two decades before inspired by a rebuilt Viking ship on he cover of Archaeology Magazine and the teals of Beowulf and such remained his enthusiasm that he created a replica village and ship for the film set. The creature has two forms, a prehistoric beast which becomes a translucent fiery dragon. At two hours the film could have been shortened without altering is impact.
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