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Hi All....... Went to see Revolutionary Road today, definetly not a mans film, I went on my own as OH wasn`t intrested in it......... Kate Winslet is very good in it, and thoroughly deserves all her oscars/awards Leonardo is also excellent {both greatly improved since Titanic} though the film itself is a bit of a slow burner. and a bit dark in places.... was speaking to someone this afternoon who was talking about American Beauty with Annette Bening and Kevin Spacey, as they described it, I said it sound pretty similar to Revolutionary Road....... turns out Sam Mendes {Kates husband} directed both.....!!! have any of you seen American Beauty??


Your Microsoft exams sound exhausting Ed!! IT man........., at least you`ll always have plenty of work.


Nicky

Hi Nicky,

Yes the exams are real eye-burners! Halfway through my fist pass at the first book; hoping to sit exam 1 at the end of March. Hope you're right about there always being plenty of work for IT staff - I will have to test the market soon thanks to a restructure! I was really brassed off about it a couple of weeks ago when I first found out, but I'm feeling quite upbeat now - I know what direction I want to go in and and will not miss being the poor sod who is called up every hour of the day/night/weekend because I'm the poor sap who lives nearest to work (I wouldn't mind but I don't get on-call).

OMG - got to face the Gooners doing a penalty shoot-out - think I need some nicotine!!

Ed

EDIT: Oh yes - the Gooners do it and are into the last eight! English clubs do it again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi folks, glad you enjoyed the film Nicky...just can't take to Kate Winslett though or Di Caprio.

Yes have seen American Beauty, really enjoyed it and as usual kevin Spacey was veryu good as was Anette Benning too. Think he bats for the pink team doesn't he? He loves London and living over here I believe and isn't he something to do with The Old Vic?

An Arsenal fan eh Ed? I'm not a Norwich city fan...the only club I have a passing interest in is Crystal Palace, it's the only team i've been to watch...many years ago now though.

Yes Ed 4 English teams in the last 8......., after Liverpools performance this week {and earlier today} I think my money would be on them if I was a betting woman, but think Man United will get the Premiership title , good result for your boys today as well!!

Yes Pam am sure Kevin Spacey is co-owner or something to do with the Old Vic, not one of my favourite actors..... Did anyone watch Comic Releif last night? James Corden "coaching" the England Squad was very funny, and the Royle Family raised a couple of laughs, but all in all, not a side splitting evening........ and had to wait up till gone 11.30 to see Robbie.... and then he was wearing a dress, and pretending to be 10!! ........not Robbie at his best!!

I see The Departed is on tommorow night Channel 4 9pm....highly recommended to those who hav`nt seen it before.


Nicky

Hi NIcky and Pam,

Yes Liverpool are alwalooking good at the moment - probably the best English contenders for the Champions League at the moment.

Managed to get "Flesh and Blood" on DVD on Friday - the one I mentioned a while back about the Germanic mercenaries in the 16th Century that stars Rutger Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh. I will probably put it on in a mo, as there's not much on I really fancy watching.

I didn't see much of Comic Relief last night - worn out after a week's work and studying in the evening, I went to bed at 9!! In work doing more upgrades tomorrow, so I should really go to bed reasonably early - but it's Saturday night so I won't!

Ed

EDIT: Alwalooking? WTF is alwalooking? Jeez my speling iz geting werse!

My favourite war film is Bridge at Remagen
A true story well acted with strong cast


What became of George Segal the film's star ?

Lol ED...alwalooking!! You seem in good spirits Ed !

Thought of you the other evening, that film that we spoke about with Tommy Lee Jones, The Eyes of Laura Marr's I think wasn't it? Well it was on the othewr night, bit too late for me though.

EDIT: There you are you've got me at now...otherwr...??? ☺

Yes David a very good film Bridge at Remagen, a good old winter's Sunday afternoon film.

Just Googled George Segal...he's 75!! apparantly he did something in 2005 entitled My Wife's a Retard!! Honest! ... Not very PC is it.

Hi Pam,

Yes, I'm feeling good at the mo - I think they call it "gallows humour".

I also like the Bridge at Remagen - wasn't Robert Vaughan the German Officer in charge of holding the bridge? Also, was it George Segal who played Mikey's father in "Look Who's Talking?"

Ed

Hi Ed, if you like Lee Evans you'd love the film The Martins with him and Cathy Burke in it, it's very funny. Ray Winstone has a small part in it too...and as usual he's a right git! Maybe you've seen it, think I've mentioned it before on here.

Did anyone notice in the film The Desert Fox the the senior officer who persuaded Rommell to join the plot to kill Hitler was the actor who played Waverly in the hit TV series Man From Uncle

You've a keen eye David!

I''m like that when I see an actor in a film and i don't know his name i ramble on and on saying "Oh he was in that film starring thingamebob and it was called wotsit and he played a character named ...oh what's his name!" and generally get on everyone's wick!!

Edit: Saw the final twenty minutes or so of The Wicker Man last week, oh what an awful ending...poor Edward Woodward.

Snap Pam... I`m exactly the same, see someone in something, and spend till the end of the programme/film wonderingwhat else they`ve been in, if you can catch their name in the credits it sometimes helps...... must be a Gemini thing!!

Saw Wicker Man many years ago, isn`t that the ritual/tribal/chanting one? a bit creepy as i remember

Have any of you been following the Billy Connely series Voyage to the end of the world on ITV? It finished last Thursday, he went from Nova Scotia up through the North West Passage on the Arctic circle and down to Vancouver Island, it was really intresting, Canada looks an amazing
Country, with breathtaking scenery.....

Nicky

Hi Nicky, yes we are a bit unique us Geminis!! We're wired up a bit differently so my husband says, but who want's to be the same as everyone else eh?!

No haven't seen the Billy Conolly programme, think my hubby watches a car programme on sky telly or a war programme at about that time.

Actually i've not been watching much telly lately, I've rekindled an old passion of mine which I've not done for years (sounds dodgey!) it's actually painting. I prefere oils to water colour and also acrylics. I have to say they aren't bad...as my hubby says "You've still got it Pam". I think he means the painting!

Hi all,

Edward Woodward - The WIcker Man - excellent film portraying a well-known Celtic ritual sacrifice.

I (vaguely) remember Edward Woodward as "Callan" on TV. Another excellent series of the 60s/70s. Who was the actor who played "Lonely"? (one to get you going!)

Also, have you ever seen the film with Edward Woodward called Breaker Morant? It's set in the Boer War and is another court-room drama.

I haven't been watching too many films or TV lately either - still studying furiously for my Microsoft exams! (I'm slowly turning into a PC - spend all day at work in front of one, then spend a good deal of the evening studying in front of one, then late at night relaxing in front of one ... I really must get a life!)

Hi All....... Yes i remember Callan vaguely like you Ed, but never watched it, I remember him better in the 80s in The Equalizer..... he was a sort of Private eye/do gooder who ended most episodes telling the people he had helped they didn`t have to pay him................. may have been a good actor, but certainly was no businessman lol....

Pam , Your very lucky to have such a gift if you can paint, Iv`e always wished I could draw or paint........ but i`m just not artisitic.

Ed..........Sounds like you need a break....know the end result will be worth it, but sounds such a long hard slog at the moment.


Nicky

Evening all,

I just had to google Callan to find out who played "Lonely" - 'twas Russell Hunter.

Really enjoyed "Flesh and Blood" last Saturday - well worth the £8! I don't remember there being quite so much brazen debauchery when I first saw it though.

I think they should make more films set in what I would call "unpopular" periods of history- there was a lot of good yarns in history during the late 15th/early 16th centuries - I'd love to see someone make a film about the old Zurich War, especially the battle of St Jakob an der Birs where 1500 Swiss pikemen fought a French army of over 20000. Needless to say the Swiss lost - they fought to the last man (very rare in those days), but they caused so many French casualties that the French withdrew.

RIght bunch of nutters the Swiss were - when facing the enemy, the first man to panic would be hung by his comrades!

And Edward Woodward was a talented singer

Anyone remember an early TV detective series called No Hiding Place ?

Was it Raymond Francis played Chief Inspector Lockheart ?

Michael Caine has made many films but to me he always seems to be Michael Caine not the character in the film, if you understand me.

But in Get Carter he excelled

Evening folks, yes an exellent film Get Carter.


Watched Kind Hearts and Coronets on telly this week, think we've mentioned it before on this thread. alec Guinness is so good in that film.

Didn't really waych Callen on telly, think I was out gallavanting as my dad used to say...going out with my friends and chatting to boys !!

Very sad about the beautiful Natasha Richardson.