Just returned from the Odeon Cinema, Shaftsbury Avenue.....up the big City.....had two free tickets to the premier of the new Ben Hur film.....ok but I still prefer the old Charlton Heston version.
Don't know anything about this film Plymborn but 50 plus year's of special effects development have clearly been wasted! None of your namby pamby CGI back in 1959.
On general release soon on Sept 7th, Paramount Pictures and MGM Pictures Film. Not a regular cinema goer.....I don't recognize any of the main actors......Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston) His Girl Friend (her name escapes me) Nazanin Boniadi.....his adopted brother Messala (Toby Kebbell).....Jesus of Nazereth (Rodrigo Santoro).....and the African best known I think Morgan Freeman.......made with more of Christian theme than the 1959 film.
I think some of the special effects these days in films is way over the top. Some of it is so fast and confused that I miss half of what's supposed to be hapening. I believe in the original of Ben Hur they did a lot of the stunts themselves. I remember watching a silent movie on the tele a while back. Think it was Buster Keaton who was hanging from a clock face several hundred feet above a street. Apparently when the film was made he hung from a clock face several hundred feet above a street and there were no safety nets either. Thing is it was a comedy and everyone laughed at it. I can't think of anyone in films these days who would do anything remotely like that. The only films I seem to see nowadays are animated kids films. Mind you I do like them.....
I dont watch films and cant remember the last one.. As Sensible say's the kids films are better and that is all i watch.. with my son.. as long as they are colourful..
You obviously didn't read plym's previous post Joe. Don't think Jesus appeared in a Western although I think he should have. It was in Roman times and the most famous part of it was a chariot race. I'm quite an expert on kids films now. I have seen all of Despicable films. Ice Age 1 to however many. Frozen, the Smurfs, Dr Zeus, open season 1 and 2. Cloudy with meat balls. Madagascar times however many they've made. Rio. And many more. I quite like them. My job to take the kids when they are on.
Just been clearing out a draw.....and found some old christmas cracker jokes......having been subjected to them all over again....I don't see why you lot should not have to suffer them as well. Q.....What do you call just married spiders ? A.....Newly-webs ! Q.....What song did Cinderella sing as she waited four months for her photos to come back from the chemist ? A.....'Some day my prints will come !' Q.....What do you get if you cross a hen with a bedside clock ? A.....An alarm cluck ! Q.....What do you call a polar bear wearing ear muffs ? A.....Anything you want,he can't hear you ! Just over three and a half months to Christmas.......order the crackers for the table know please.
Found another one...... Q.....How do witches tell the time ? A.....With a witch-watch ! Sorry.....Sorry.....Sorry.....etc.
I'm getting seriously worried about you Plym. You are becoming far too cheerful for a start and giving grumpy old gits a bad name. Well just returned from a pleasant 5 days in Kent. The weather was bleddy hot. Got back into Devon late this afternoon and it was raining. Typical. Went over to Belgium for a day out and the French were about to bulldoze that camp in Calaise when we passed through on the way to Belgium. On the way back it was hard to see what they had actually done all day as the "City of the Imigrants" was still intact. I feel a bit sorry for the inhabitants of that place if I'm honest. If we didn't bomb the crap out of their homeland along with the Americans and destroy the then status quo then maybe they wouldn't have to be in Calaise now. I do sort of feel as if we owe them a bit. Spoke to a fair few people over the week as I'm a very sociable chap and will basically talk to anyone. There were people in the hotel from all over the place in the UK. Do you know that I did not find one person who had voted out of Europe. That isn't a lie or exageration either and I genuinely didn't find one and it was a topic of conversation. I almost have to ask who were these people who voted out? Is the result a lie? It's as good a conspiracy theory as a load of others I've heard of. You know the ones.....did they land on the Moon. Was Diana murdered?
Sensible.....that's an easy one.....Brexiteers don't go to France/Belgium they stay in this country.....remember they're trying to leave Europe and Federalism and the Army that the EU is now planning to replace NATO with.....they're a load of nutters.......welcome back......Kent is warmer than the West Country and no real rain for a long time.
They truely don't exist Plym except you. Honest nobody voted out. Kent might be warmer but not as green and pleasant.........(I could write a song about that).
There are some pretty clear demographic splits in the Brexit voting, both age related and socio-economic. You're just mixing with the sensible group Sensible. I've only met 2 people who voted Out. One is my father-in-law, in his 80's, who hasn't thought through the likely consequences of sending all the Poles home on his son who's lived in Spain with his family for 10 years, whose living depends on looking after other British ex-pats' properties, on his niece who lives in Nice (I'm getting good rhymes here) and his nephew who lives in Ireland. The other is our handyman (who I can't afford to offend) who up until this summer has been looking to buy a house in France - not a second home, but to retire to. It's a mystery........ I saw that scruffy chav that runs Wetherspoons on TV yesterday. According to him, all the forecasters got it wrong, even though we haven't actually done anything so far and yet the pound has crashed, growth (particularly construction growth in the private sector as opposed to Govt infrastructure) is dropping, Nissan has stopped investment in their North East car plant, Ford is scaling back investment in its Bridgend engine plant, Ryanair will base no more aircraft here, the British aerospace sector, 2nd largest in the world, fears being frozen out of European contracts, particularly the Galileo project, the BoE is having to stimulate the economy instead of ******ing it and the Treasury has abandoned hope of achieving a balanced budget. Whistling in the dark across the nation.....
Well I'm not sure about that....isn't Kent called the 'Garden of England'....you need to get away from Folkestone sensible....the weald, the North Downs plus the Medway area and around Sevenoaks and Westerham true country and hamlets everwhere. I officially live in Greater London in Orpington but we are amongst beautiful woodlands such as High Elms....which used to be the home of the Lubbock family a leading Liberal family, since victorian times, one of whom shocked the Tories in the 1960's winning Orpington from a safe Tory majority and becoming known as 'Orpington Man'.
Since when has a government ever balanced the budget......every coin has two sides notDistant.....so much gloom around....talking yourself into depression.
It will come Plymborn - either that or we'll continue to have freedom of labour, which would suit me fine
I enjoyed the last night of the Proms last night.....It is good to remember what this Country used to stand for.....the planned hijacking of the event by remainers waving EU flags was hardly noticeable......flags from all over the world where evident and that is fine.....the odd sighting of the EU star spangled banner was hardly noticeable and certainly didn't seem appropriate on such an occasion.
Amongst other things, this country used to be wise enough to welcome economically useful migrants and humane enough to take in those in peril in their own countries. Unfortunately, we were stupid enough to give a vote to those who are neither wise nor humane. We are diminished by it and seem to be becoming what the Proms looks like without the gloss of our previous reputation - a lot of xenophobic, backward looking madmen.
Surely you can't be serious.....of course we welcome economically USEFUL migrants and humane enough to take in those in PERIL in their own countries.....so that's possibly 20% of those clammering to get into this country at present.....so why do we have to accept the Eastern Europeans who end up being organized street thieves in places like Oxford Street....plus all those that are taking over the selling of the 'Big Issue' magazine.....highly organized set ups that have no benefit to this country at all.....genuine migrants need to be recognized amongst the masses trying to jump on the band wagon....it becomes difficult but we need to be able to sort out the genuine ones .....Theresa May needs to get on top of it. I shall take your comments about......'a lot of xenophobic, backward looking madmen' with a pinch of salt..... there where many people from all over the world in that gathering....you could tell by the national flags they where waving....the odd EU Stars wavers where the ones who looked out of place.
Just one thing to add from me. What this Country stood for was conquering half the World and planting our flag on it. Then we built up our importance by taking anything that was worth anything and calling it ours. Thats the potted history bit. More recently we stood for poking our nose into somebody elses business along with America and trying to impose our will on them. We invaded another Country and left them after several years with no infrastructure or leadership worth a pinch of salt. What that achieved was for them to start killing themselves in the power struggle that followed. Totally destablised the area and created the factions that want to kill us now. Fantastic legacy. The European people that come here do so to work. Their life is better and their opportunities greater. But there is another lot who also want in. These are the ones sitting in a camp in Calaise. Ask yourself why they are there. If we hadn't bombed the **** out of their country in the first place and created the problems that now exist there perhaps they would be much happier to have stayed. Ask yourself what you would do if you were in their position. Would you stay in a wrecked country with little hope of any peace to get on with any sort of ordinary life with possible death as the end result. I think you may just want to live somewhere else. Who authorised the invation? Oh hang on it was a Labour PM. That's the ones you vote for and cannot possibly vote for the others. It was this Country that helped to create the camp in Calaise and now the people of this country don't want to take any responsibility for it or them.
