What are you watching tonight?

[thebish]

last nigyht was family movie night - we watched Solomon Kane - which is utter, unadulterated garbage!

anyway - after about 20mins or so a couple of these appeared in a sacked and ravaged village



the missus and I said the clergy equivalent of WTF???

and both our resident children said (as if it was the most obvious thing in the world that everyone should know) - Plague Doctors...

Plague doctors often were not professionally trained experienced physicians or surgeons, but medical interns or second rate doctors. The beak they had was a filter for what they believed to be bad, infected air.

well... I never knew that!

[Lofthouse Lower]

How could you not!

Plague doctors are the one thing I remember from school history - we got to make those masks....Clockwork Orange style

[General Mannerheim]

Lass at work has a massive beak, she is known behind her back as 'the plague doctor'

[thebish]

Lass at work has a massive beak, she is known behind her back as 'the plague doctor'

I must have not listened at skool...

[Prufrock]

They're in Assassins' Creed. Duh.

[thebish]

They're in Assassins' Creed. Duh.

in what??? you young'uns!

[General Mannerheim]

Never let me go. wasn't the chick flick I was expecting. Decent fodder.

[Latham8wfc]

Watched 'Inside Job' last night - it won the Oscar for best documentary film.

Its about the economic crisis, its split in 5 parts; Part I How We Got Here (Beginning from the Reagan era up to the Bush presidency, initial part on Iceland), Part II the Bubble (2000-2007), Part III The Crisis (2008), Part IV Accountability (the men responsible for the crisis were left unpunished and wealthy; they continue to teach economics at prestigious schools shaping economics to their convenience), and Part V Where Are We Now (things have stayed pretty much the same since the same advisors in today's government are the same people who built the economic structure that led to the downfall).

Good film and very interesting tbh.....but if you are one of those people who shouts at the TV when they are annoyed its best if you avoid this film because I found myself doing it a few times. Overall 8/10

[Lofthouse Lower]

Have you seen 'Smartest Guys in the Room' about Enron? That's along similar lines and is better than 'Inside Job' IMO

[Latham8wfc]

Have you seen 'Smartest Guys in the Room' about Enron? That's along similar lines and is better than 'Inside Job' IMO

No, but thanks might see if I can get ahold of it someplace. Cheers LL.
Seen all the Michael Moore films, they are ok, but he does annoy me after a while.

[William the White]

Watched Howl at the Cornerhouse and really enjoyed it. It's had some kind reviews and some really poor ones, but I liked three quarters of it. the story of one of the most famous poems of the last century, and the prosecution, for obscenity, of its publisher. The film cuts between several strands - the court room where 'expert' witnesses for and against the poem give testimony to its literary merits (or absence thereof), the first reading of the poem, in a tiny place in New York (brilliantly done), the animation of parts of the poem as a journey through an urban nightmare of drugs, faithless, casual sex and madness (liked this strand the best) and the reconstruction of an interview with Ginsberg (didn't like this, too static, too superficial, didn't care)...

What is clear is what a great monster of poem it is... Ginsberg reading it...

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Then home and watched Like Water for Chocolate (Mexican, subtitles). Liked very much, made me laugh. a mixture of love never quite achieved, maternal tyranny and cooking. Plenty of sex. Lots of nudey Mexican ladies - thebish's kind of movie...

[TANGODANCER]

Looks like I'll be watching Departed on Freeview 14 at 9-0'clock.

[General Mannerheim]

good film, apart from Raymond.

[General Mannerheim]

absolutely loving 'How to make it in America' on Atlantic - ace!!

[William the White]

Taxi Driver. Classic.

[General Mannerheim]

Taxi Driver. Classic.

just watched Raging Bull!

[William the White]

Taxi Driver. Classic.

just watched Raging Bull!

Yep, sometimes you just need to be back in touch with brilliance...

[TANGODANCER]

good film, apart from Raymond.

Raymond was just being Raymond. It's the West Ham accent that does it.

[General Mannerheim]

Taxi Driver. Classic.

just watched Raging Bull!

Yep, sometimes you just need to be back in touch with brilliance...

sure do.

in contrast, later on I watched 'Paul' the latest Pegg & Frost effort. loved it! good few genuine LOL moments, especially from the girl (played by the deceptively fit Kristen Wiig!) good harmless light hearted fun.

well worth a watch and a chuckle.

[clapton is god]

I watched 'Paul' the latest Pegg & Frost effort. loved it! good few genuine LOL moments, especially from the girl (played by the deceptively fit Kristen Wiig!) good harmless light hearted fun.

well worth a watch and a chuckle.

T'was our 5th anniversary yesterday and we ended up at the cinema on Deansgate watching Paul. We both loved it too. Not many laugh out loud moments but good gentle humour all the way through it.

Strolled over the road to Dimitris after for chicken & lamb kebabs and a bottle of their house red which isn't half bad!