I have experienced the majority of the Coen brothers films although I had seen several before realising they were by the Coens- the Hudsucker Proxy, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing and the Big Lebowski. I may have also seen Barton Fink and Fargo. The film which made me sit and look back was O Brother where art Though and where the best cinematic joke of all tine with its raining cats and dogs, The only one of their subsequent films I have not seen is Intolerable Cruelty with. The man who wasn't there enjoyable and Bo Country for Old was not. I was disappointed with the Lady Killers because he British version was outstanding.
This after noon despite a continuous line of cars from Shields to the cinemaplex at Bolden and the worst ever Friday after school half term break I went to see their humorous new film Burn after Reading with George Clooney, Brad Pitt John Malkovitch, Tida Swinton. It has some funny moments but its theme of showing the CIA as incompetent, immoral and un-American has been done to death before, Moreover there are some preposterous components such as George Clooney having and affair with Tida Swinton, let alone John Malkovitch having married her and then stayed married. By Hollywood and New York standards she is sexless. I did laugh once or twice and enjoyed the humour at other times as the Coen brothers looked for ways to demonstrate the absurdity of Americans taking themselves seriously as being superior or different from other human beings. Mind you I was irritated and upset by a couple of drunk fifty year olds who decided to rustle sweets or whatever stuff they had brought in to consume throughout the film and only stopped explaining trying to explain the film to each other after I told them to shut up, I thought they were trouble when they arrived late and an assistant came into the cinema shortly afterwards to see where they were sitting.
Had I gone to see High School Musical 3 which Dr Mark Kermode enjoyed and said he welled up at the end and sounded as if he was going to name it film of the week, having been told he had to see it by his primary school age daughter. I understand there is nothing in the film which parents might find difficult to explain to their children, which might not be the situation in the future as the government has announced it is going to make compulsory the basics of sex and relationships and the human body in primary schools. given that we have more teenage pregnancies abortions and sexually transmitted diseases than anywhere else in Europe and North America.
After the show I went to the Wall Mart which seems to get bigger on each visit and has gone in for new metal display shelving units which appears to hold greater quantities. I went fir DVD CD marker pens and Storage cases, some fruit (Grapes and Pears) and sweets so that now I have sufficient packets for Halloween callers.
On return I had an off an odd concoction, an end of bottle half glass of wine with two helpings of olives, a piece of see bass lightly sprinkled with Italian seasoning, without vegetables and then a pot noodle and then after a gap of an hour a can of rice pudding eaten cold from out of the tin.
I then decided to watch a pleasant inoffensive film with Michael Caine and Robert Duvall as a couple of men about my age who have retired to die in an a rusty old house in the middle of nowhere outside of town with no phone or TV and the cash from some robbery after spending forty years of their lives in Africa. This story of their former lives as told to the young son of a relative who is dumped on them one summer while mother goes off with her latest swine of a boyfriend. Michael Caine is the story teller of how they went for a grand tour of Europe as the Germans decided to invade and moved ahead of the fighting until being Shanghaied in Marseilles by the French Foreign Legion where they and lots of adventure and where Robert met the love of his life, a Princess whose father did all he could to prevent the relationship. The story is told as a boys own adventure and everyone including the boy doubts its veracity, although eh codgers are brilliant marksmen and Robert in particular is a master of unarmed combat when he takes on four young tearaways, taking them back to the homestead to feed them and persuade them to grow up and lead more useful lives, He is sent their by his mother to find where the money is hidden which he does but then refuses to reveal although beaten badly by the man friend who is then survives a mauling by the tame lion, bought originally to hunt and kill but who befriended by the boy. In some ways this was more Coen than Coen but primarily for young people and oldies like the uncles and me, there is a great ending, aspects predicable aspect which are not. The film is called Secondhand Lions, and was released in the US in 2003.
One of the fascinating larger that usual life actors and director of film is Clint Eastwood, married twice but with five daughters and two sons by different women, I have also seen the majority of his films and like many others he first came to my attention with the Spaghetti western 1)A fistful of dollars, only I had seen him in the TV series Rawhide 1959-1966. This was followed by 2) For a Few Dollars more1965, and the 3)Good the Bad and the Ugly 1966, I also saw 4)Hang em High, 5)Coogan's Buff, 6)Where Eagles Dare, 7)Paint Your Wagon, 8)Two Mules for Sister Sara, seen again recently, along with 9)Kelly's Heroes and one of my favourites 10)Play Misty for me, then 11)Dirty Harry and 12)High Plains Drifter, 13)Magnum Force and an unusual film which he directed 14) Breezy, 15)The Eiger Sanction, 16)The Outlaw Joey Wales, 17) The Enforcer, 18) Every which way but lose, 19)Escape from Alcatraz, 20)Anyway which you can, 21)Firefox, 22)Sudden Impact, 23) Tightrope, 24) Pale Rider, 25)Heartbreak Ridge, 26)The Dead Pool, 27) Bird, 28) Pink Cadillac, 29) Unforgiven, 30)In the Line of Fire, 31)The Bridges of Madison County which is also one of my favourites 32)True Crime, 33)Space Cowboys, 34)Mystic River another favourite 35)Flags of out Fathers, and 36) Letter of Iowa Jima. Some of the others may also have been experienced but I have no visual memory registering I was looking for the one about the female boxer another favourite when I remembered what it is called, Million Dollar Baby. Which brings the total to at least 37.
I did some work putting photos to disk but then end of the week has come with lots of things planned to be done. At the supermarket I had a quick look about the front page of the independent which revealed that Tory Party Leader Cameron was flown out to see the Murdoch media Mogul on his Mediterranean yacht this summer while in the USA commentators are suggesting Senator Obama could have a landside win. Senator Palin has spent $150000 on her campaigning outfits as she tries to woo gullible electors that she really is Mrs hockey mums. There was yet another pizza delivery of a leaflet today which is new to my collection which now totals 24. This is from Pizza Corner in the Stanhope Road which I passed on the way to the pictures 01914554567. The couple in he supermarket checkout two places ahead paid £197 for their trolley fully of booze and other party goodies. Not for them the credit crunch or for most of the hundreds flocking in for the weekend shop. One harassed mum was taking her flock into the a screen with hot dogs, Pepsi, pop corn, and sweets.
This after noon despite a continuous line of cars from Shields to the cinemaplex at Bolden and the worst ever Friday after school half term break I went to see their humorous new film Burn after Reading with George Clooney, Brad Pitt John Malkovitch, Tida Swinton. It has some funny moments but its theme of showing the CIA as incompetent, immoral and un-American has been done to death before, Moreover there are some preposterous components such as George Clooney having and affair with Tida Swinton, let alone John Malkovitch having married her and then stayed married. By Hollywood and New York standards she is sexless. I did laugh once or twice and enjoyed the humour at other times as the Coen brothers looked for ways to demonstrate the absurdity of Americans taking themselves seriously as being superior or different from other human beings. Mind you I was irritated and upset by a couple of drunk fifty year olds who decided to rustle sweets or whatever stuff they had brought in to consume throughout the film and only stopped explaining trying to explain the film to each other after I told them to shut up, I thought they were trouble when they arrived late and an assistant came into the cinema shortly afterwards to see where they were sitting.
Had I gone to see High School Musical 3 which Dr Mark Kermode enjoyed and said he welled up at the end and sounded as if he was going to name it film of the week, having been told he had to see it by his primary school age daughter. I understand there is nothing in the film which parents might find difficult to explain to their children, which might not be the situation in the future as the government has announced it is going to make compulsory the basics of sex and relationships and the human body in primary schools. given that we have more teenage pregnancies abortions and sexually transmitted diseases than anywhere else in Europe and North America.
After the show I went to the Wall Mart which seems to get bigger on each visit and has gone in for new metal display shelving units which appears to hold greater quantities. I went fir DVD CD marker pens and Storage cases, some fruit (Grapes and Pears) and sweets so that now I have sufficient packets for Halloween callers.
On return I had an off an odd concoction, an end of bottle half glass of wine with two helpings of olives, a piece of see bass lightly sprinkled with Italian seasoning, without vegetables and then a pot noodle and then after a gap of an hour a can of rice pudding eaten cold from out of the tin.
I then decided to watch a pleasant inoffensive film with Michael Caine and Robert Duvall as a couple of men about my age who have retired to die in an a rusty old house in the middle of nowhere outside of town with no phone or TV and the cash from some robbery after spending forty years of their lives in Africa. This story of their former lives as told to the young son of a relative who is dumped on them one summer while mother goes off with her latest swine of a boyfriend. Michael Caine is the story teller of how they went for a grand tour of Europe as the Germans decided to invade and moved ahead of the fighting until being Shanghaied in Marseilles by the French Foreign Legion where they and lots of adventure and where Robert met the love of his life, a Princess whose father did all he could to prevent the relationship. The story is told as a boys own adventure and everyone including the boy doubts its veracity, although eh codgers are brilliant marksmen and Robert in particular is a master of unarmed combat when he takes on four young tearaways, taking them back to the homestead to feed them and persuade them to grow up and lead more useful lives, He is sent their by his mother to find where the money is hidden which he does but then refuses to reveal although beaten badly by the man friend who is then survives a mauling by the tame lion, bought originally to hunt and kill but who befriended by the boy. In some ways this was more Coen than Coen but primarily for young people and oldies like the uncles and me, there is a great ending, aspects predicable aspect which are not. The film is called Secondhand Lions, and was released in the US in 2003.
One of the fascinating larger that usual life actors and director of film is Clint Eastwood, married twice but with five daughters and two sons by different women, I have also seen the majority of his films and like many others he first came to my attention with the Spaghetti western 1)A fistful of dollars, only I had seen him in the TV series Rawhide 1959-1966. This was followed by 2) For a Few Dollars more1965, and the 3)Good the Bad and the Ugly 1966, I also saw 4)Hang em High, 5)Coogan's Buff, 6)Where Eagles Dare, 7)Paint Your Wagon, 8)Two Mules for Sister Sara, seen again recently, along with 9)Kelly's Heroes and one of my favourites 10)Play Misty for me, then 11)Dirty Harry and 12)High Plains Drifter, 13)Magnum Force and an unusual film which he directed 14) Breezy, 15)The Eiger Sanction, 16)The Outlaw Joey Wales, 17) The Enforcer, 18) Every which way but lose, 19)Escape from Alcatraz, 20)Anyway which you can, 21)Firefox, 22)Sudden Impact, 23) Tightrope, 24) Pale Rider, 25)Heartbreak Ridge, 26)The Dead Pool, 27) Bird, 28) Pink Cadillac, 29) Unforgiven, 30)In the Line of Fire, 31)The Bridges of Madison County which is also one of my favourites 32)True Crime, 33)Space Cowboys, 34)Mystic River another favourite 35)Flags of out Fathers, and 36) Letter of Iowa Jima. Some of the others may also have been experienced but I have no visual memory registering I was looking for the one about the female boxer another favourite when I remembered what it is called, Million Dollar Baby. Which brings the total to at least 37.
I did some work putting photos to disk but then end of the week has come with lots of things planned to be done. At the supermarket I had a quick look about the front page of the independent which revealed that Tory Party Leader Cameron was flown out to see the Murdoch media Mogul on his Mediterranean yacht this summer while in the USA commentators are suggesting Senator Obama could have a landside win. Senator Palin has spent $150000 on her campaigning outfits as she tries to woo gullible electors that she really is Mrs hockey mums. There was yet another pizza delivery of a leaflet today which is new to my collection which now totals 24. This is from Pizza Corner in the Stanhope Road which I passed on the way to the pictures 01914554567. The couple in he supermarket checkout two places ahead paid £197 for their trolley fully of booze and other party goodies. Not for them the credit crunch or for most of the hundreds flocking in for the weekend shop. One harassed mum was taking her flock into the a screen with hot dogs, Pepsi, pop corn, and sweets.
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