I just got a lot of packing done. I’d be in fairly good shape to move tomorrow, at a push, so I feel I’ve done something useful! I haven’t felt like writing much, tho’.
Brief comments on some recent films we’ve seen:
Panic Room… excellent stuff! Original story idea, stylish direction and Jodie Foster. Need I mention that Jodie is supremely cool? If I have little to say about this one, I guess it’s because it all works so well and beggars only mindless praise. See it if you haven’t already done so.
28 Days Later… mostly good. Genuinely scary and effective post-disaster material for the first half, reminiscent of King’s great epic, The Stand. Thereafter, for me, it loses the plot big-time. I really wasn’t thrilled with the army stuff, with its ‘the RAGE virus is only bringing out what’s already inside us—watch as we hammer this point home in a loud, surreal manner’ message. I much preferred the survival aspects of the film, with its focus on a small group of people coping with extraordinary circumstances. The second half just went totally apeshit as far as I’m concerned. Still, on the whole, well worth seeing.
More or less for a laugh, I checked out the 2001 remake of Murder on the Orient Express. Typical of American TV movies, they take a period piece and give it contemporary dressing… so we get to see Hercule Poirot fiddling around with a laptop! Alfred Molina is a good actor, but no Poirot—he’s six inches too tall, doesn’t have an egg-shaped head and makes no effort to recreate Poirot’s insufferable obsession with neatness and precision. It was entertaining enough, but mostly it just proves how damned excellent the David Suchet series is. (New episodes filming as we speak!)
Saturday night television at least boasted Death in Holy Orders, an adaptation of P.D. James’s latest Adam Dalgliesh novel. Martin Shaw takes over the role of Dalgliesh from Roy Marsden, and does a fine job. Also in the cast: Robert Hardy, Julia McKenzie and good old Captain Hastings himself, Hugh Fraser. Good stuff. Part two on Sunday night.
That’s all for now!
Hope the move goes well tomorrow! It’s always such a hassle but worth it when you get into your new place.
Thanks. But no move yet! I meant I could move tomorrow, at a push, because all my main packing’s done. We’re moving in about two weeks.
Ok, well at least you’re prepared! We’ve just got back from 2 weeks holiday and all the packing feels like we’ve moved house. So you must have had great fun with a whole house worth.
Oh yeah, and have you figured what your new GeoURL will be?
No, but we’re only moving a mile and a half up the road, so it won’t change much.
I also hope your move went well last year, and the trauma hasn’t left you psychologically scarred – it’s such a stressful experience!
I missed that version of Murder on the Orient Express. I think that was a good thing. Poirot with a LAPTOP???? It just doesn’t seem right, somehow.
However, I did watch good old David Suchet last night in “The Hollow” on TV. That hit the spot – I really enjoyed it. Suchet is the quintessential Poirot, nes’t pas, mon ami!
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