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enteirahOoh, and I can't believe I didn't mention it on the last entry. The other thing I did in Newcastle today was to see Shrek 2 at the cinema. It's not a bad film, although I wish there'd been more of Dragon in it. There was something about that character I liked in the first one, which I still think was better overall. I do think John Cleese sounds a lot less like John Cleese these days mind. =:P
It's weird in that this must be the first time I've been to a cinema in about 4 years, and I'd forgotten just how much cinema pictures flicker compared to standard video. That left me with a bit of a headache afterwards, but I soon recovered. Perhaps I'll get out to that place more often. There's that new film with some tigers out soon isn't there, which I may be able to persuade some to go too. I'd much prefer that over Garfield and certainly over *cough* 'Thunderbirds'. Mind I should be careful with my money now that I'm into the overdraft once more. I should really be saving up for fun later in the year instead. =:)
(*giggles* With all this talk of films, I'm starting to sound like our resident Red Panda film buff. =;))
It's weird in that this must be the first time I've been to a cinema in about 4 years, and I'd forgotten just how much cinema pictures flicker compared to standard video. That left me with a bit of a headache afterwards, but I soon recovered. Perhaps I'll get out to that place more often. There's that new film with some tigers out soon isn't there, which I may be able to persuade some to go too. I'd much prefer that over Garfield and certainly over *cough* 'Thunderbirds'. Mind I should be careful with my money now that I'm into the overdraft once more. I should really be saving up for fun later in the year instead. =:)
(*giggles* With all this talk of films, I'm starting to sound like our resident Red Panda film buff. =;))
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Date: 2004-07-29 04:21 pm (UTC)Gladiator is still the last film I saw in the cinema, which must have been 2000-ish.
I'm starting to sound like our resident Red Panda
Nope - you need at least hrair more links in your post for that. =;)
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Date: 2004-07-30 07:54 am (UTC)They give you a bus pass for that? I never got one for doing French! =:P
it's just films based upon such history I've never been a fan of.
I have mixed feelings about them - a lot are terrible, and those that are realistic are necessarily violent. I like watching them on the whole, but it's a rare film that holds my interest. Gladiator just happened to work for me (except when the embleer idiot sitting next to me yakked on his mobile for five minutes... *growls*). Still, there's always Life of Brian. =;)
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Date: 2004-07-30 08:00 am (UTC)The council does actually. =:) The criteria for free bus passes states they'll only provide one if it's 'the nearest appropriate school/college to your home, and is more than 2 miles away'. As Classics is such a rare course, only done by about 2 places in the North East, putting that down guarantees a pass to that particular Sixth Form, as it's the only one 'appropriate'. Lots of people put the course down solely for that reason (the same for their Ceramics course actually), although in my case I did have a genuine interest in a course with both English and History anyway (without wanting to do either as a complete A-level).
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Date: 2004-07-31 09:52 am (UTC)I think I'd have enjoyed that Classics course, but it's so rare that it never occurred to me. Of course I really wish now that I'd done English A-Level, but then what I thought at 16 is a lot different from how I think now. And having only got a C at GCSE History I didn't really have the option to do that for A-Level.
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Date: 2004-07-29 05:31 pm (UTC)As for the flicker - maybe see what you make of a DLP screen, if there's one somewhere around. (Come to think of it, the last film I saw that way, I think, was Shrek)
Thunderbirds.. *sigh* *double sigh* I may catch it at some point, just to know what it's really like, but I'd been fearing the worst since the news of Lady Penelope's Ford. Similarly, bells began sounding once I saw the first photos of the outfit in Catwoman.. okay, not so much bells as klaxons.
Be warned: with Akira visiting from Friday, there will be many films watched and reported upon. ^_^ Definitely looking forward to Heart of the Dog and Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary in particular.
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Date: 2004-07-29 11:01 pm (UTC)At the start of the film Donkey appears back at the swamp and when asked why he's there, tells them it's because Dragon has become very moody lately. Presumably this is because she's carrying young, as she turns up at the end with a family of cute Dragon/Donkey crossbreds. =:) Mind you, considering they actually screened that bit of footage a short way into the end credits, I expect quite a few people had already left and missed it. It serves them right! =:P
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Date: 2004-07-30 04:53 am (UTC)*grins* Well, as it's nearly £60 just to get to London in the first place, I think I shall have to pass you up on that offer. =:P
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