It's odd how completely Blair Witch fails when divorced from the hype.

The Pool
Let me just say this. In 1980 no-one died. In 1981 no-one….

@What the fuck?

I've tried a number of times but I can't make any sense of that question.

And it's pronounced "garridge" not "guh-raj".

One foot in the grave
Absolutely loved that. The jokes were mainly visual but one scripted joke that stands out was when Victor Meldrew turned up at a garage (car repair shop) to pick up his car:

'Roseanne'. I can't remember the name of the British version, I've had that part of my brain surgically excised, but it was a great steaming pile of shit coated with vomit with an icing of snot. An insult to a great original.

That is very definitely the problem with anti-war art in general; how to stop it from becoming a great clunking thudding apparatus of well intentioned obviousness. I think the works that succeed in carrying an anti-war message are the ones that use subtlety. 'Naming of parts': One of the greatest anti-war poems…

This from Russell Brand on autoerotic asphyxiation:

Yep, definitely. Can't believe I overlooked him.

Lexi. I'm not saying he lacks gravitas…Jesus, I wish I hadn't started this. What I'm saying is there are two actors that I can think of who share the same traits as Gregory Peck: A kind of unforced presence, an essential goodness, a clear intelligence.

I like to keep things simple. If the comparison is explicit it's a simile. If implicit it's a metaphor.

No….BITCHCAKES!

Burt Lancaster: Came across as completely insane. For the record I submit Il Gatopardo, The Swimmer and Local Hero.

movies and tears
One thing I've noticed about myself, and I'll trust to the universality of response here, is that what makes me cry in movies is not couples finding love, nor characters dying but quiet dignified people finally receiving the recognition they've long deserved. To Kill a Mockingbird fulfils that, as…

I am loath to admit I did not loathe Roman Holiday.

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Simile.

I think you'll find it's an archipelago made up of Monster Island, Terror Island, The Island that Time Forgot and Guernsey.

I think there are only three actors who carry (carried) that sort of gravitas; Gregory Peck, Henry Fonda and James Stewart. A quiet, reluctant dignity and an immovable moral centre.