This film promised a lot from the trailer. Lots of action, great special effect and a novel story line. In reality the film is very confusing, with too many sub-plots within sub plots. You could almost call it a recursive film.
Having said that there were a few great scenes in particular one where DeCaprio and the girl are sat outside a cafe and things were exploding around them.
I five one star the the film and an additional star because of the special effects.
I sometimes do a search for my name on the common search engines to see how near the top I am. I have slowly been creeping up as I post more regularly. Today I notice that someone has taken out google advertising that means that you get an add which suggests that I am for sale!
This is a French film with Daniel Auteuil and Danny Boon. Auteuil plays an antiques dealer who appears to have lots of friends, and is always out on social engagements. At a meal to celebrate his birthday his “friends” tell him some home truths, and his business partner challenges him to introduce to everyone his best friend in the next 10 days. Turns out he struggles to come up with a best friend. That is until he meets a taxi driver played by Boon.
A great film with some funny and sad moments.
My walk to and from work takes me along a strecth of the Aylesbury arm of the Grand Union. The farmers have been recently cutting the grass to make hay and I noticed this morning that this means that the hares have no where to hide, and so it makes them easy to spot. In one filed I saw around 6 or 7 all sat together in a group, in a field next to the A41 Aston Clinton bypass.
Whilst I was walking along the canal tow path I noticed ahead on me a hare, which I assumed was running away from me because he had spotted me first. On close inspection it turns out he was running towards me, so I stepped back towards the hedgerow and stood still. Eventually he came to within two metres of me, but seems only slightly phased by may presence. He kept on eye on me whilst he sat there wondering whether he should gamble on past or turn back. He turned round, wandered off and eventually disappeared in to the hedge.
Story about a you boy the son of a senior SS officer, who befriends a boy in a concentration camp. Slowly he discovers what is really happening to the jews and what his father role in it all is.
This is a comedy with Bill Nighy playing a ageing assassin who takes a shine to a woman he contracted to kill. The film film plot twists and turns and you never know where it is going, but you always realise it is the obvious way to go. Some funny repartee, but the film somehow does not completely hang together.
Stuck at Belfast City I thought I would have one last go at this. As you can tell by this post I was successful.
From this page here are the important bits.
1. Pair your blackberry to your windows machine, via bluetooth.
2. Set up an Internet APN.
Click Start > Settings > Control Panel
Double-click Phone and Modem Options
In the Phone and Modem Options window, click the Modems tab
Select Standard Modem and click Properties
Click Change Settings
In the Standard Modem Properties window, click the Advanced tab
In the Extra initialization commands field, type the following under CODE:
at+cgdcont=1,”IP”,”internet”
Click OK.
In the Phone and Modem Options window, click OK.
3. To configure dial-up networking, complete the procedure that is appropriate to the operating system you are using:
Click Start
Select Connect To
Click Setup a connection or network
Click Setup a dialup connection
In the Dial-up phone number field type *99#
Type the user name web and password web
In the Connection Name field type BlackBerry
Click Dialing Rules
Make sure the profile created in Task 2 has been selected, and then clickOK
Select Connect to establish an internet connection.
A film about an unlikely, desperate and uneasy alliance between two women (one white one native indian) on the US and Canadian border. They have both fallen on hard times and have issues. They end up smuggling illegal immigrants across the border to make money.
The film is not the happiest film I have seen but I understand why it got the awards it did Sundance festival winner and academy award nomination for best actress.
The duck at work is still on the nest, I am getting a bit worried that it might be too long perhaps thee is going to be no hatching at all. According to a website I found it takes 28 days so actually that is imminent.
We also have another nest at work it turns out. We had a couple of days of the phones going out momentarily and also the data connection. After some investigation by BT it turns out there is a tree in the way of the microwave link. They said no problem we will lop a bit off the top and you will be fine until you can shop the tree down. I thought that is that problem solved. It turns out there is an active Woodpecker nest in the trunk of the tree, and the law states you cannot disturb a nesting bird. So BT are going to put in a temporary mast to tide us over until the birds fledge and we can chop the tree down.
Another film about Robin Hood, but it takes a bit a of different view of history. Russel Crowe is Robin and does a good job. The film was quite long but I did not find myself looking at my watch. Some great battle scenes and plenty of suspense to keep you on the edge of your seats.