Sunday, July 02, 2006
The Wind That Shakes The Barley
MONDAY 240606
I borrowed X-Men 3, Mission Impossible 3, XM3 is utter rubbish and MI3, total tosh! Seriously don't bother.As Dyson says, "I wouldn't with yours and there's nothing wrong with mine". He must mean eyes when looking.
TUESDAY 250606
I watched Flight 93 which I also borrowed, it's for those who don't know is about the aeroplane that didn't hit it's target on '9/11'. It's a frustrating film due to the situation that the innocent people caught in the crossfire find themsleves in. The calls made from the plane are transcribed from actual calls, but not overloaded with 'Hollywood moments' - the passengers eventually take action from which they don't survive, but are covered with glory when they face up to their likely fate. The film treads carefully and as such isn't making any political statements, just statements about the human spirit.
WEDNESDAY 260606
BLUE TOWN RATS
Our final pool match was against the Blue Town Rats, we'd watched bit of their games in previous weeks and knew they were very competant. I wasn't fully healed but good enough to play, I told people as I got my excuse in early. They scored first quite quickly but we hit back with two tries where I gave the scoring pass (No tries for me this week I'm afraid - my first blank). They scored again and early in the second half we led 4-2, we shoudl have sat on the lead but looked to finish them off but they were far too capable and fitter and we didn't score again as they late on opened up a 7-4 lead to win. A dissapointment but they were a good team. We've qualified for he next round as eigth seeds from eight so are likely to play the number one seeded side in the quarters. Yikes!
THURSDAY 290606
THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY
I rushed around straight from work, the shops twice & over to the thursday social touch ( which I don't play anymore due to wooley rule enforcement) for a quick chat with Toby. I wasn't expecting to have time for anything else and had written off my chances of making it to the flicks but it turned out that I woudl have time and I legged it to town to watch 'The Wind That Shakes The Barley'.
The film won the Palm D'Or at cannes but was rubbished by the English media for being Anti-British. That's bollocks, for starters hoe do you defend the 'Black and Tans'? Besides any colonial power is there by force which is a sin, and as a proviso - you can only sin if you're in a position (having the power) to be able to. All without sin are potential sinners, given appropriate, and probably not particually testing, circumstances. There are sinners on both sides in this film, as the Irish also fight amongst themsleves, culuminating in sibling rift and execution.
Blast Back - Photo from a previous works do - I not sure What Jane Bilsland is on about but I've added a caption, that made me smile at least!
I borrowed X-Men 3, Mission Impossible 3, XM3 is utter rubbish and MI3, total tosh! Seriously don't bother.As Dyson says, "I wouldn't with yours and there's nothing wrong with mine". He must mean eyes when looking.
TUESDAY 250606
I watched Flight 93 which I also borrowed, it's for those who don't know is about the aeroplane that didn't hit it's target on '9/11'. It's a frustrating film due to the situation that the innocent people caught in the crossfire find themsleves in. The calls made from the plane are transcribed from actual calls, but not overloaded with 'Hollywood moments' - the passengers eventually take action from which they don't survive, but are covered with glory when they face up to their likely fate. The film treads carefully and as such isn't making any political statements, just statements about the human spirit.
WEDNESDAY 260606
BLUE TOWN RATS
Our final pool match was against the Blue Town Rats, we'd watched bit of their games in previous weeks and knew they were very competant. I wasn't fully healed but good enough to play, I told people as I got my excuse in early. They scored first quite quickly but we hit back with two tries where I gave the scoring pass (No tries for me this week I'm afraid - my first blank). They scored again and early in the second half we led 4-2, we shoudl have sat on the lead but looked to finish them off but they were far too capable and fitter and we didn't score again as they late on opened up a 7-4 lead to win. A dissapointment but they were a good team. We've qualified for he next round as eigth seeds from eight so are likely to play the number one seeded side in the quarters. Yikes!
THURSDAY 290606
THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY
I rushed around straight from work, the shops twice & over to the thursday social touch ( which I don't play anymore due to wooley rule enforcement) for a quick chat with Toby. I wasn't expecting to have time for anything else and had written off my chances of making it to the flicks but it turned out that I woudl have time and I legged it to town to watch 'The Wind That Shakes The Barley'.
The film won the Palm D'Or at cannes but was rubbished by the English media for being Anti-British. That's bollocks, for starters hoe do you defend the 'Black and Tans'? Besides any colonial power is there by force which is a sin, and as a proviso - you can only sin if you're in a position (having the power) to be able to. All without sin are potential sinners, given appropriate, and probably not particually testing, circumstances. There are sinners on both sides in this film, as the Irish also fight amongst themsleves, culuminating in sibling rift and execution.
Blast Back - Photo from a previous works do - I not sure What Jane Bilsland is on about but I've added a caption, that made me smile at least!
