TV and Film

I live in a mining community.......... There are thousands of victims here.

I just finished watching mog's christmas, and cried my eyes out at a cat who wouldn't get down off a rooff (I wish I wasn't so emotional about these things,) literally can't watch anything without crying at something

Loved the original song, it was really good

Just finished watching/enjoying The Trouble with Mary.

These days I rarely go to the movie theater. This past year I think I only went once.

But a new movie just opened today, Christmas day.

Now I never go to a movie because of an actor or a director. I have, however, avoided movies for those two reasons.

But this new Christmas time movie intrigues me; "The Boys in the Boat".

George Clooney directed and that fact was a bit of a turn-off for me. But then "Variety" panned it because of the boys' skin color (white).

The movie has to do with the 1936 Olympics and Hitler.

Long story short: Theater time! (Hopefully I'm making a good choice.)

I wait for the films to be released. I like home comforts too much.

Oh, I am a Downton Abbey fan too, well at least a recovering one.

Think today I will watch the last episode of ghosts (the last, ever)

Not that sad to see it go, it's a good show but not really a favourite

I did watch the old film "Dr Who and the Daleks", or rather heard it as I was preparing lunch at the time, on Christmas day, but I didn't see the new episode. I may look sometime but I have no enthusiasm. I have watched little really but did like the animated "Tabby McTat" and "Mog's Christmas". It's been a feline Christmas this year

We watched the series Bodies, a bit confusing for OH with all the time travel but I enjoyed it.

I missed my Maigret on Tuesday night, it being confused with Christmas. Luckily "Talking Pictures TV" has a catch up, so I watched it last night.

Well I went to the theater and saw “The Boys in the Boat”, the American rowing team that took part in the 1936 (Hitler) Olympics.

It’s a good movie, wholesome and thoroughly American. It isn’t the best movie I’ve ever seen, the character development could have been better although I’m not sure how. “The Boys in the Boat” wasn’t even the best sports movie I’ve seen. “Miracle”, I think, was better, the amazing story of the 1980 American hockey team beating the Soviets for the gold medal.

But there is something exhilarating about sports and that makes this movie worthwhile.

To me, the best line of the movie is when a youngster asks his grand dad; did you like being one of the eight? He responds; we were never eight…we were one. And that to me is the message of sports. It's a good one.

And if you want, you can put real butter on it. 

Saturday, I was reminded of what I disliked about the movie theater experience...the nauseating stench of fake butter that hits me like a brick upon entering the lobby and how it permeates the entire multiplex.