Blog Entries tagged 'Watching'

Watching: Star Fleet

davids@r3uk.com — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0100

I never liked Thunderbirds. Nor did I like Captain Scarlet, Joe 90, Fireball XL5 or that silly submarine one with the awful theme tune and mute mermaid.

Take Thunderbirds for instance. For fifty minutes a bunch of all-American do-good God-boy virgins would put every effort into stopping the experimental plane crashing or the runaway nuclear reactor from exploding. As a ten year old kid I *want* to see the plane crash and the nuclear reactor explode – spectacularly! In T [...]

Watching: Charlie Wilson's War

davids@r3uk.com — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0100

The wife and I have a problem. We just don't like the same kind of films. I like a good Mafia film such as Casino and Goodfellas as they tend to be based on true events, have some brutal moments without being over the top on gore like in a horror, and they hold a level of suspense that keeps you on the edge of your seat while you wait to see who's next for getting plugged in the back of the head.

The wife however likes a chick-flick rom-com and cannot tolerate any level of suspense [...]