off_world_beings wrote:
> --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> TurquoiseB wrote:
>>
>>> --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> off_world_beings wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@>
>>>>>
> wrote:
>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> "Children of Men" opened this last weekend in theaters across
>>>>>>
> the
>
>>>>>> country. This is a movie that Barry saw last fall in Dublin
>>>>>>
> and
>
>>>>>> reported here. I plan to see it this week.>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Barry must have been drunk when he saw it. Its not very good.
>>>>> They compared it to Blade Runner. No way. More like something
>>>>> that should have been made for a BBC TV series. Pretty bad.
>>>>> Some ok acting though.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Great film! I just returned from seeing it. Well worth
>>>>
> seeing.
>
>>>> What were you drinking?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> When I saw it? I was in Dublin, so Guinness, of course. :-)
>>>
>>> It was a pretty interesting film, especially seen there,
>>> where one could really *feel* the power of its vision of
>>> one possible future for Great Britain, in which immigrants
>>> were rounded up, put into detention camps, and sent "home."
>>>
>>> Glad to see it's getting noticed by critics and audiences
>>> now that it's finally out on a larger scale. It's a ballsy
>>> film.
>>>
>> Plus I liked the potshots made at the "dumbass war" which was
>>
> still
>
>> going on in the future as the Orwellian crew wants it to be. Must
>>
> not
>
>> have been enough robots and spaceships for some people. >>>
>>
>
>
> But you must have liked all the endless violence and black guys with
> english accents.
>
> I thought the part with the soldiers all standing dumbfounded and
> silent when the baby emerged from the building with mother, then
> they went on fighting and paying no attention or trying to help the
> miracle baby was really dumb and more like BBC bad TV. Plus all that
> stuff about a post-distaster Britain and old cars and people living
> out in obscure farms while the cities smolder has been done a dozen
> times on BBC TV in the past. It is just because it seems exotic to
> you. It is a crap movie, but with some good acting and A LOT of
> VIOLENCE.
>
> OffWorld
I'll be happy when the cable company starts carrying BBC shows in HD
(now that BBC is going to do HD). And I wish we would get the other
BBC channel which I hear has better shows. In fact I would like to see
a lot more foreign television as US networks and stuffed shirts make
their shows rather constrained. Can't upset the people in Iowa.
