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Flight plan, Finding Neverland, The Odeon and The Shield

December 4th, 2005

A bit away from my usual chatter but I thought I would mention how terrible “Flight Plan” is. By far the worst movie of the year due to the obvious potential and the utter destruction of this film. On the flip side, Finding Neverland, for me, was charming and really quite lovely. I should of watched this a long time ago but I only just watched it and what a film. A really good piece of work.

Finally, the odeon website, what a total pile of crap. Non functioning menuing system in IE to not working at all in FireFox. Strangely the front page doesnt appear when you first try to access the site, instead you’re presented with the terrible menuing system. On trying the odeon front page again I get the options to do text only etc but quite frankly I couldnt even be bothered. The site is boring, dark and just not even worth my time to investigate. There are better resources for film information on the net and I will not be using the odeons website for any of it, not that they will give a shit mind you.

Finally, I thought we could talk a bit about “The Shield”. This is something which I foolishly missed when it started to appear and its only now that i’ve started to watch it. It’s really rather good. For those of you (like me) who like the American way of producing evening entertainment shows then this will appeal (e.g. House, CSI, 24 etc). Why is it that the Americans do this so well? Whilst the UK pushes out such things as Heartbeat, Last of the summer wine and Coronation Street the Americans get continual seasons of good TV. In fact, they produce so much that there is bound to be something which interests you and they seem to do it really well. Im amazed with the colour quality too. It may be a small point but the quality of the colour in American TV is amazing, it seems so much more vibrant and alive in comparison to anything created in the UK.. Maybe it’s me and i’m seeing things but I like it.

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