Watched The Girl on the Train. 6.8/10 boring for the first hour and then it gets a bit better. Nothing great here. Enjoying The OA though, watched ep 3 last night.
I actually liked it. Gets better the 2nd time you watch it imo. I reckon it will one day be considered a cult classic. The second film looks interesting but I get the feeling he's sold out his original concept bcos Prometheus got panned by the critics and largely bcos they were expecting an 'Alien' film.
Started OA. Not bad. Some of the acting is lamentable (I notice that in a lot of first few episodes of series, not sure if actors just get better in roles or I learn to ignore it). The plot has started off intriguing has a lot of promise. Something different, which is good.
Best ep of GT so far. This is what I thought they'd be doing for the entire series, rather than just Top Gear with a different name. They do need to get rid of a few things for next series, the Brain Crash thing where they kill some random Celeb is getting old extremely fast, The fat American test driver is awful and the test track doesn't seem to lend it self to proper filming. Other than that, its good (not great).
I thought the Finnish one for Christmas was old school top gear and funny. They tooled about then with naff gear they bought as presents etc. This one was imo showing off two things 1. The money.... blowing up stuff. The build a bug out car thing, humor but all classic gags they do, the Mercedes 4x4 was OK bit, decent but not exactly great and then James may bit was..... forgettable 2. You are right on the ****ing yank. He is total **** and tbh the track is pish. They should go to Silverstone and use the budget to film all cars for series in a weekend. I actually preferred the episode 7 and 8 shows.
Based on a true story, makes a change for Gibson, here is the guy's citation The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Private First Class Desmond Thomas Doss, United States Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action above and beyond the call of duty from April 29 – 21 May 1945, while serving with the Medical Detachment, 307th Infantry Regiment, 77th Infantry Division, in action at Urasoe Mura, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands. Private First Class Doss was a company aid man when the 1st Battalion assaulted a jagged escarpment 400 feet high. As our troops gained the summit, a heavy concentration of artillery, mortar and machine gun fire crashed into them, inflicting approximately 75 casualties and driving the others back. Pfc. Doss refused to seek cover and remained in the fire-swept area with the many stricken, carrying all 75 casualties one-by-one to the edge of the escarpment and there lowering them on a rope-supported litter down the face of a cliff to friendly hands. On May 2, he exposed himself to heavy rifle and mortar fire in rescuing a wounded man 200 yards forward of the lines on the same escarpment; and 2 days later he treated 4 men who had been cut down while assaulting a strongly defended cave, advancing through a shower of grenades to within eight yards of enemy forces in a cave's mouth, where he dressed his comrades' wounds before making 4 separate trips under fire to evacuate them to safety. On May 5, he unhesitatingly braved enemy shelling and small arms fire to assist an artillery officer. He applied bandages, moved his patient to a spot that offered protection from small arms fire and, while artillery and mortar shells fell close by, painstakingly administered plasma. Later that day, when an American was severely wounded by fire from a cave, Pfc. Doss crawled to him where he had fallen 25 feet from the enemy position, rendered aid, and carried him 100 yards to safety while continually exposed to enemy fire. On May 21, in a night attack on high ground near Shuri, he remained in exposed territory while the rest of his company took cover, fearlessly risking the chance that he would be mistaken for an infiltrating Japanese and giving aid to the injured until he was himself seriously wounded in the legs by the explosion of a grenade. Rather than call another aid man from cover, he cared for his own injuries and waited 5 hours before litter bearers reached him and started carrying him to cover. The trio was caught in an enemy tank attack and Pfc. Doss, seeing a more critically wounded man nearby, crawled off the litter; and directed the bearers to give their first attention to the other man. Awaiting the litter bearers' return, he was again struck, by a sniper bullet while being carried off the field by a comrade, this time suffering a compound fracture of one arm. With magnificent fortitude he bound a rifle stock to his shattered arm as a splint and then crawled 300 yards over rough terrain to the aid station. Through his outstanding bravery and unflinching determination in the face of desperately dangerous conditions, Pfc. Doss saved the lives of many soldiers. His name became a symbol throughout the 77th Infantry Division for outstanding gallantry far above and beyond the call of duty.
**** me that is some story. I hope that the guy had a decent life after.... and not ending up scraping by forgotten til now.
Some of the things the WW2 generation did are beyond comprehension in our relatively safe society. The article below was in the Daily Fail today http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rtime-exploits-enemy-lines-dying-dementia.htm
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I just watched the eiger sanction. Now that is one classic film. Clint Eastwood, lots for sluts, and I have to say a mountaineering section to the film which easily rivals everest. Released in 1975, it is truely spectacular... plus the Indian girls tits and ass are truly awesome. Super film even if it's patently obvious who he's meant to kill.
Watched Fury for the second time the other night. Was able to enjoy how good the acting in it is. Also very good tense film. 8.3/10
