Cinematic diversions and fizzy pop
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spam_robot77 and I went to the pictures to see Brokeback Mountain at the Holloway Odeon. We brought our own cans of pop as it is so expensive there but we bought some popcorn.
I enjoyed the film. It contained some lovely scenery of grey-blue skies and rocky hills, and quite a high cute animal count. It was often sad and moving but also had an expected amount of humorous moments. For instance, when the two heroes have to separate their own vast flock of sheep from another flock, which involves them having to pull one wayward animal away by its hindlegs, like a sort of backward wheelbarrow race.
The acting was good, although I felt that Heath Ledger mumbled his lines a bit, creating a comic element which was probably unintended. Jake Gyllenhall was very good as Jack Twist, although he grows a regrettable moustache as the story marches on into the 70's.
I also liked Jack Twist's lovely wife, who cuts a hard bargain in the world of agricultural machinery and whose hair grows more blonde and fluffy as time goes by. There was a lot of attention paid to period detail. I was very amused by the scene in which the hero Ennis visits his ex-wife and her new husband demonstrates his superiority by cutting the meat with an ELECTRIC carving knife.
The film also contains the hilarious post-coital exchange between the two loved-up cowboys - Ennis: "I ain't queer." Jack: "Neither am I". So that's all right then.
The next day we enjoyed the delicacies I had bought at my local Waitrose :) These included gooseberry crumble and an exciting new Pepsi Max variety! It is called Cino and is coffee-flavoured! The spam robot said it was her second favourite of all the cola varieties.
Then we watched camp Austrian Helmut Berger playing the part of a camp German in Tinto Brass' SS romantic drama Salon Kitty. The film was quite diverting, if also rather cheesy at times. It is about some SS men who decide to create their own brothel, and make the prostitutes spy on their clients to discover military secrets. Helmut Berger gives an overblown and fairly ridiculous performance, parading around in a number of extravagant glam-nazi outfits and shouting a lot.
It snowed in London today! The weather is so unpredictable nowadays. I didn't go out.
spam_robot77 and I went to the pictures to see Brokeback Mountain at the Holloway Odeon. We brought our own cans of pop as it is so expensive there but we bought some popcorn. I enjoyed the film. It contained some lovely scenery of grey-blue skies and rocky hills, and quite a high cute animal count. It was often sad and moving but also had an expected amount of humorous moments. For instance, when the two heroes have to separate their own vast flock of sheep from another flock, which involves them having to pull one wayward animal away by its hindlegs, like a sort of backward wheelbarrow race.
The acting was good, although I felt that Heath Ledger mumbled his lines a bit, creating a comic element which was probably unintended. Jake Gyllenhall was very good as Jack Twist, although he grows a regrettable moustache as the story marches on into the 70's.
I also liked Jack Twist's lovely wife, who cuts a hard bargain in the world of agricultural machinery and whose hair grows more blonde and fluffy as time goes by. There was a lot of attention paid to period detail. I was very amused by the scene in which the hero Ennis visits his ex-wife and her new husband demonstrates his superiority by cutting the meat with an ELECTRIC carving knife.
The film also contains the hilarious post-coital exchange between the two loved-up cowboys - Ennis: "I ain't queer." Jack: "Neither am I". So that's all right then.
The next day we enjoyed the delicacies I had bought at my local Waitrose :) These included gooseberry crumble and an exciting new Pepsi Max variety! It is called Cino and is coffee-flavoured! The spam robot said it was her second favourite of all the cola varieties.
Then we watched camp Austrian Helmut Berger playing the part of a camp German in Tinto Brass' SS romantic drama Salon Kitty. The film was quite diverting, if also rather cheesy at times. It is about some SS men who decide to create their own brothel, and make the prostitutes spy on their clients to discover military secrets. Helmut Berger gives an overblown and fairly ridiculous performance, parading around in a number of extravagant glam-nazi outfits and shouting a lot.
It snowed in London today! The weather is so unpredictable nowadays. I didn't go out.
