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mikekelly38
Teetotal non-smoker ( Oh my life is sooo boring ).
Interests:
Music: British folk, jazz, some classical ( I have to be in the mood ) and bits and pieces from other genres.
I play guitar, pennywhistle and alto sax ( all of them badly [biggrin] )
Books: Almost anything, but mostly sci-fi and fantasy ( especially Discworld )
Politics: UKIP.
Religion: Atheist. Religions are merely primitive and undemocratic forms of social control.
Hobbies: Conlangs and neographies, boardgame design and eating chocolate ( sometimes at the same time ). Playing Thief 2 FM's, and occasionally messing about with Dromed.
Dislikes: The EU and all of it's phruking stupid regulations ( see Politics, above ). Clowns ( coulrophobic ), spiders ( arachnophobic ) and people who say that chocolate isn't food ( phrukingmoronophobic ).
( Anyone know why the 'c' can't be attatched to the end of phrukingmoronophobic? No matter how many times I attempt to edit the word the 'c' remains detatched. Weird, huh? )
Hilarious vid:
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/137112/
There certainly are kindred spirits here, many of them in fact. Some of them have even managed to take boring to new heights, though not as many, by several orders of magnitude, as those who have taken ill informed nonsense to new depths.
Reviews
Revelation (2001)
The worst garbage I've seen in 42 years.
(Apologies in advance for the use of capitals). I've seen a lot of bad films in my life, but this takes the proverbial mick. I won't add to what the other detractors have said, as they have said it far more eloquently than I ever could, except for this, I watched the DVD once purely because Terence Stamp was in it, then THREW it into the bin in disgust, the only time I've EVER thrown a DVD away. This film is at the bottom of the heap of godawful 'Millennial' films made and released around the same period. Terence Stamp is a superlative actor whose career had spanned nearly forty years by the time this DROSS was released, so why the hell did he agree to appear in it? (if appear is the right word, blink, he's on, blink, he's gone).
Lewis: Reputation (2006)
The welcome return of a much missed character.
A welcome return for Morse's old sidekick, Robbie Lewis. Lewis, played by Kevin Whately, returns from an overseas secondment and steps straight into the case of a female student shot in a sleep investigation unit. The killer used the key-code of a mathematics student (Danny Griffon, played by Charlie Cox)to enter the unit so he rightly becomes the prime suspect. Unfortunately for Lewis and his temporary sergeant James 'God botherer' Hathaway (Laurence Fox), Danny appears to have a cast iron alibi, or does he? I'm not going to give anymore away, as there are many people, in the US and elsewhere who have not yet been privileged to see this subtle and highly polished production. Let's hope Kevin Whately agrees to do more episodes. It was well worth the wait.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Over hyped and muddled telling of a great story.
I wonder how many Tolkien fans have praised The Lord of the Rings to their friends whilst secretly bemoaning the many narrative gaps, chronological and character errors introduced by the film-makers in an effort to keep the audience's attention? I'm not saying that this is a bad film, far from it; as a piece of theatre it is excellent, well acted, filmed, directed and scored. The problem for me, and several friends I spoke to, was that most of the time watching the film was spent counting the differences between the book and the film. Of course, such a long book as this would have to be greatly cropped to produce a watchable movie, but I felt that some of the disregarded scenes, (such as the journey through the Old Forest and meeting Tom Bombadil, or the Barrow Downs), could have been incorporated without much difficulty.