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Layer Cake is on tonight at 9pm. Flim Four if you haven't seen it. Daniel Craig's breakthrough before James Bond, but seen it before

 

Just watching the last 10 minutes of "Tranmere Rovers and Braintree Town in the FA Cup" on one of those awful ITV channels.

 

Far too early for the FA cup damn it, even though lower sides play their games in the Autumn. The awful fucking Adrian Chiles is doing analysis at half time, so the moment the whistle goes for the interval, the screen will go off.

 

Tranmere lead 1 - 0 with five minutes in change.

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Yes, it is a good movie, but I always get a little animated during a watch or it's tough viewing sometimes. I don't think it's Craig's best work, something more like Casino Royale, Flashbacks of a Fool, or The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo were better.

 

Craig of course is a big fanatic of Liverpool Football Club, so there's a certain part of the man I can't really abide, but still a decent actor.

 

Going to see Skyfall again tomorrow night before it's taken off theater screens. DVD comes out on Blu-Ray in March apparently. I remember having to wait anything up to eighteen months after a Bond movie for it to come out for a home viewing in the not too distant past.

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Really enjoyed Skyfall thought it was the best Bond yet, Javier Bardem was class as the camp killer. Trailers for Django Unchained looked mint and Jack Reacher looked good aswell.

Jack Reacher is going to be a brilliant film! Although, as a reader of the books it's going to be tough seeing Cruise as Reacher because he is absolutely nothing like how Reacher is described.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saHUpk4IvBw

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Watch the originals, they're much better

 

Saw Skyfall again last night for a third time. Just wanted to take everything in, so demands another viewing, and by god, I thought the fucking commercials before the film started would never end. Got seriously irritated, but most others just sat their with their popcorn and other purchases staring at the screen as though mesmerized. I don't think they were even aware of what was being advertised, it was like being in a fucking trance or something. I wanted to see a James Bond film, not sit through 30 minutes of boring, trivial, nauseating commercials.

 

Not going back for a fourth time, but think it's one of the best Bond films yet, even though it's just action, and bangs and crashes and "let's have the latest technologies". And having a kid play Q ? and a colored Moneypenny ? It's just not done, they're making a mess of the franchise now. The ending at the mansion in Scotland was well done, if a bit over the top, and even the F word was snuck in a couple of times some may have noticed. (what are they doing to the series)

 

But still a very good film. Welcome to 21st Century Bond

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It's actually the first Bond film where the word "fuck" has been used.

 

I think that Moneypenny should have been someone older too? You know what, I think I could enjoy a Bond film without the Bond girls.

 

No problem with Ben Whishaw playing Q. I enjoyed his performance.

 

I might go and see the Hobbit tomorrow :)

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Yes and watched it again last night (Skyfall), in that it was the third time. Won't be going again as there's really no need, although some people have seen it as many as 19 or 20 times ?! Just can't quite understand that thinking..

 

Craig's Bond is ridiculous, he gets shot off a moving train, falls off a waterfall, hangs on to an elevator to the top of a high rise building in Shanghai, falls through ice into freezing water for a long time, and still moves about as though none the worse for it, it's like watching Superman at times, not James Bond damn it, and don't get me started on that ridiculous free running sequence in Madagascar in Casino Royale.

 

Bond simply isn't quite human sometimes. Damn I miss the days of sensible Bond with Connery, but what can you do.

 

He's at least an improvement on Brosnan though. I'll give him that

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Fight club is amazing!!! more times you watch it you wonder how you didnt get on to it ha ha. Just watched Avengers Assemble, bit wishy washy at the start i though but last hour was really good. Not my favourite type of film but i enjoyed it

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Not for the first time, The story of England's endeavors at the World Cup in Italy 1990 on one of those awful ITV channels. (4)

 

If you hurry you may just catch it.

 

You all know the story, English scrape past Egypt, Belgium and narrowly avoid elimination against Cameroon, before finding themselves in a semi-final with West Germany, and all the garbage of previous games goes by the wayside and everything focuses on a drawn game and so near, so far etc with a night of hard work and decent effort.

 

Too easy to criticize, but there's really no sense in lying.

 

The obligatory hooligans and rioting fans have their screen time as you'd expect.

 

Shame to see Gascoigne at a time when he had the world at his feet and fucked it all away in the end. It's a real shame in retrospect

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