What are you watching tonight?

[William the White]

Ta. And Did Those Feet has become inexplicably linked with Death of a Salesman for some unknown reason, but definitely due to this forum. Pfft.

How far in advance are things listed. I only get back in London end of September and most of those will be finished by the time ast be ready. Always wanted to go if, for nothing else, the experience of going to 'the globe', and would love to see Hamlet, which I have read, loved, but never seen.

Was supposed to be going watching Moliere's Hypochondriac in scousey land the other day with a girl friend, but finished work late. Anyone seen?

The Globe doesn't play in winter - you'll have to wait until next spring (and feck up your finals?)...

Meh, sure I'll be able to spare one day. Any ideas when programme will be announced? Yon Turkish place sounds good too.

Only ones there I'll be back for are 'As you like it', and 'Love's labours lost', neither of which I like. I demand Hamlet, or MaccyB.

Get yourself on the emailing list.

Love's Labours Lost is a revival - i saw the production last year and enjoyed it. I agree it's not a masterwork, but all Shakespeare is worth seeing. The production had humour and energy. It's difficult in The Globe to get the subtleties of an enclosed theatrical space, but most Globe productions make up for this with up tempo, broad brush performance, including a revival of the Elizabethan custom of a dance by the whole cast at the curtain call.

[William the White]

Oh - i'm the co-writer of And Did Those Feet, which was premiered at the octagon 2 years ago and will be revived next year 11 March-10 April. The season also offers you plays by Miller and Shakespeare. www.octagonbolton.co.uk

Just organised tickets for this as part of a season ticket at the Octagon. I missed it last time round and am very much looking forward to it now.

Season tickets are excellent value for money and they have a solid season lined up, as always.

Really hope you enjoy. Yeah - it's a great season at the Octagon this year, and the season ticket an absolute bargain, I reckon.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Said it before and will do so again - support the Octagon, not all towns are lucky enough to have a vibrant playhouse - and not all playhouses put on shows about the mighty BWFC (co-)written by T-W contributors!

[Prufrock]

I endured the last 20 mins of 'How to be Old with Nicholas Craig'. What a pompous pretentious self serving cnut. Yet more telly that makes me angry. So so so smug. Sat there blithering on about how the youth wouldn't 'get' his programme as it would be too 'literary' with his smug grin and wank acting. Not to mention making a programme against typecasting of older actors into a pathetic showcase of crap clips of crap old actors playing typecast old folk. Did his (justifiable) cause far more harm than good, whilst coming across as a smug git. Bell. End.

Isn't it a comedy, starring Nigel "Young Ones Neil" Planer?

Apparently so I know gather, though it wasn't announced as such at the time. Went over my head.

[TANGODANCER]

Debating Mercury Rising with Bruce Willis or The Patriot (apart from Mel Gibson riding about waving a flag a la Braveheart ans saving the world almost single-handedly, a very decent film with Heath Leger). Seen both but there isn't much else around as I don't have Sky.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Debating Mercury Rising with Bruce Willis or The Patriot (apart from Mel Gibson riding about waving a flag a la Braveheart ans saving the world almost single-handedly, a very decent film with Heath Leger). Seen both but there isn't much else around as I don't have Sky.

Frankly I found Gibson's Braveheart and The Patriot both to be historically inaccurate and odiously anti-English.

[TANGODANCER]

Debating Mercury Rising with Bruce Willis or The Patriot (apart from Mel Gibson riding about waving a flag a la Braveheart ans saving the world almost single-handedly, a very decent film with Heath Leger). Seen both but there isn't much else around as I don't have Sky.

Frankly I found Gibson's Braveheart and The Patriot both to be historically inaccurate and odiously anti-English.

Course, he's a Yank. What's accuracy got to do with it?

[Montreal Wanderer]

Debating Mercury Rising with Bruce Willis or The Patriot (apart from Mel Gibson riding about waving a flag a la Braveheart ans saving the world almost single-handedly, a very decent film with Heath Leger). Seen both but there isn't much else around as I don't have Sky.

Frankly I found Gibson's Braveheart and The Patriot both to be historically inaccurate and odiously anti-English.

Course, he's a Yank. What's accuracy got to do with it?

Australian trained which makes it worse. Well, if you want to watch redcoats burning down churches full on innocent women and children - go ahead.

For fun I looked up some of the innacuracies (from an American):

As to inaccuracies in the "Patriot" (spit)

Good gosh! Where to start?

1. The most egregious pap was the blatant, grotesque overstatement of atrocities. The war WAS brutal and very ugly in the back country of the Carolinas. The Director could have had all the blood and gore he could have wanted and done a great piece of history, and action, with it. But there's not a single, solitary, even a HINT of regular troops or organized militia on EITHER side deliberately killing women or kids (other than in Indian actions - where all bets are off). Fairly
young men were hanged and hacked, to be sure, but not children. Women were turned out in their shifts while their homes were burned - but they were NOT raped or murdered. That church - burning scene was the worst of the whole flick.

2. POWs were not slaughtered wholesale as was shown at "Ben Martin's" home. It just didn't happen.

3. Cornwallis never lost a single battle in the field. Not one. Ever. He was indeed defeated in a siege by overwhelming forces on land and sea, but didn't lose a fight on the open field.

4. WHERE did they come up with the "battle of the Parthenon" where the objective was to take the LOW ground??

5. Of course, the real Green Dragoons wore green uniforms, but that's not that big a deal to me since the whole unit was fictitious anyway.

[TANGODANCER]

I'm watching Mercury Rising. Like I said, it's Mel Gibson so, an ego trip anyway. Never let truth..etc...

[Montreal Wanderer]

I'm watching Mercury Rising. Like I said, it's Mel Gibson so, an ego trip anyway. Never let truth..etc...

At least the Americans not the Brits are the bad guys in that! Better choice.

[Lord Kangana]

I've heard it said that the church burning scene was inspired by the SS' actions at Oradour-Sur-Glane. I haven't seenthe film, I care not for Gibson, but I know its not historically accurate, and a bit unedifying if the rumour is true.

[TANGODANCER]

End of day, it's film-making and done to entertain, whether it be laugh cry cheer, be afraid or shocked. Truth rarely comes into the frame and seldom claims to. Robin Hood didn't have a Yankee acent, but he didn't have an Eton one either. John Wayne was a great cowboy but a lousy Roman Centurion and Jesus certainly didn't have fair hair and bright blue eyes.

The title; The Patriot, should tell everybody what to expect. Life as seen through the eyes of Hollywood.

[KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab]

End of day, it's film-making and done to entertain, whether it be laugh cry cheer, be afraid or shocked. Truth rarely comes into the frame and seldom claims to. Robin Hood didn't have a Yankee acent, but he didn't have an Eton one either. John Wayne was a great cowboy but a lousy Roman Centurion and Jesus certainly didn't have fair hair and bright blue eyes.

The title; The Patriot, should tell everybody what to expect. Life as seen through the eyes of Hollywood.

Yeah, but it's not always the case. Just look at Kung Fu Panda.

[Bruno]

T'was the wifes turn to choose the film this week, went to see the new Harry Potter - Jesus Christ it was boring.

[Bruce Rioja]

Girl just persuaded me to go watch Sacha Baron Cohen's new film, Bruno. Image my surprise to be greeted by Heath Ledger and Christian Bale. haha I'm so funny.

In all seriousness, piss poor. Walked out after an hour. I'm no prude, but there is literally nothing to it other than full nudity and lame old gay jokes. No invention and no satire or wit. Do not see. Do not waste your hard earned cash on that shiite.

I'd have taken you at your word had you not revealed your ill founded opinion re; League Of Gentlemen.

[Prufrock]

Girl just persuaded me to go watch Sacha Baron Cohen's new film, Bruno. Image my surprise to be greeted by Heath Ledger and Christian Bale. haha I'm so funny.

In all seriousness, piss poor. Walked out after an hour. I'm no prude, but there is literally nothing to it other than full nudity and lame old gay jokes. No invention and no satire or wit. Do not see. Do not waste your hard earned cash on that shiite.

I'd have taken you at your word had you not revealed your ill founded opinion re; League Of Gentlemen.

Stayed at mate's last night, and was forced to sit through it. It's OK in parts but it's so overrated. As for Bruno, if you don't believe me, then I implore you to go see it Brucey, just don't say I didn't warn you

[Bruce Rioja]

Girl just persuaded me to go watch Sacha Baron Cohen's new film, Bruno. Image my surprise to be greeted by Heath Ledger and Christian Bale. haha I'm so funny.

In all seriousness, piss poor. Walked out after an hour. I'm no prude, but there is literally nothing to it other than full nudity and lame old gay jokes. No invention and no satire or wit. Do not see. Do not waste your hard earned cash on that shiite.

I'd have taken you at your word had you not revealed your ill founded opinion re; League Of Gentlemen.

Stayed at mate's last night, and was forced to sit through it. It's OK in parts but it's so overrated. As for Bruno, if you don't believe me, then I implore you to go see it Brucey, just don't say I didn't warn you

Oh, don't get me wrong, Pru. Personally I have the greater part of Monty Python down as being the biggest pile of witless wank that the world has ever seen, so I understand why people might say the same about LoG. The difference being, I'd say, is that there's a start point with LoG and it follows on from there. As such, it's not something that's easy to bowl into at any random point. Likewise Green Wing and so on. Whereas for me Monty Python has no start nor end points, just witless wank.

[TANGODANCER]

Just watched the old Chinese legend, Hero, again. Amazing effects. Next week is about some Chinese road builders all passing away in a dojo. It's called House of the Dying Flaggers....I think.

[Prufrock]

Girl just persuaded me to go watch Sacha Baron Cohen's new film, Bruno. Image my surprise to be greeted by Heath Ledger and Christian Bale. haha I'm so funny.

In all seriousness, piss poor. Walked out after an hour. I'm no prude, but there is literally nothing to it other than full nudity and lame old gay jokes. No invention and no satire or wit. Do not see. Do not waste your hard earned cash on that shiite.

I'd have taken you at your word had you not revealed your ill founded opinion re; League Of Gentlemen.

Stayed at mate's last night, and was forced to sit through it. It's OK in parts but it's so overrated. As for Bruno, if you don't believe me, then I implore you to go see it Brucey, just don't say I didn't warn you

Oh, don't get me wrong, Pru. Personally I have the greater part of Monty Python down as being the biggest pile of witless wank that the world has ever seen, so I understand why people might say the same about LoG. The difference being, I'd say, is that there's a start point with LoG and it follows on from there. As such, it's not something that's easy to bowl into at any random point. Likewise Green Wing and so on. Whereas for me Monty Python has no start nor end points, just witless wank.

Like most old things, Monty Python is fantastic....when you are on a show saying it's fantastic, and get to pick out the funny bits. My problem with LoG, and even more with Psychoville is, despite them clearly being funny guys, I mean, bits of both have had me laughing, they try too hard to be deliberately weird. It tries to market subversiveness to a mass market which makes it look like the knob end banker going out on his brand new 30k racing bike in matching corporate leathers and calling himself a 'biker', it's all wrong. Psychoville was billed as a comedy thriller, and it's neither. LoG has good bits, but it has too many bits of almost slapstick bad writing with people in shite prosthetics and suddenly everyone loves it because it's the underground 'I saw it first comedy'. S'allright but certainly nowt else.

[Prufrock]

As for what I actually watched; came in from the pub, had a microwave pizza and watched the 'itunes festival live'. A festival in the roundhouse. Quoi? They billed it to sound massive as "60 bands over 31 nights'. Thats not a festival. That's a month. When a gig venue has some gigs. Anyway, as part of the footage they played Paulo Nutini. Now...image Scotland, now image it more scottish, now multiply that by the biggest number you can count to, now give it an italian name. That folks, is Mr Nutini. Then, to make it better, they had La Roux, play live. We all know that song, squeaky high 'going in for the kill', guess what, that's her ACTUAL voice. Like herpes personified, in a good way.