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Watching the first half of the top 100 war films ever thing on Channel 4 and some US film critic was talking about 'Life is Beautiful' and comes out with this piece of English - "It travesties ...". He starts about 4 sentences with that, and I'm here tearing my hair out, going, 'no mate, you're the one making a travesty of something, the English language mostly.' Argh!!!!

Also arghmachend is that Troy is at 53, about 20 places higher than Glory. How the fuck did that happen?!!! Best bit of it, is Wolfgang Petersen talking and Brian Cox proving, once again, to be an absolute darling when interviewed (the man is a fantabulous actor).

Mostly for Lizzie

Why, other than the science, I am addicted to CSI: New York



This picture really doesn't do him justice.

( Also overly pretty are )

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Got my fencing jacket today and I'm in love with it. Seriously. It's a slight squeeze to get on, getting the zip past upper abdomen and boobs, but once it's one it's like a second skin. So fucking comfortable.

This was a little delayed (from before Christmas kind of delayed) due to me ordering the wrong size, Leon Paul goofing on sending out the other one and then the club's now thankfully ex-Captain doing something so incredibly stupid and, what's really worse, unspeakbly ill-mannered that even thinking about it makes my blood boil.

Our ex-but next year unfortunately vice Captain tried to sack our coach, who is a fantastic person, claiming we couldn't afford him, and that he would do the coaching instead.

Yeah, I'm quite head-desk about it still.

Other than that I had a pint, naughty me breaking the not drinking thing, but it was called hoping mad so I couldn't really resist it.

Top 50 greatest war films thingy

My comments about it, interesting probably only to Lizzie.

Most of these films are very good. Hopelessly sad, due to their goodness and subject matter.
Eee! 'A Matter of Life and Death' is at number 47. Really, watch it. It is a ridiculously beautiful film. Brilliant film.
So many of them have very good scores.
Must see 'The Cruel Sea' one of these days.

Most of them I have no disagreement with and then we hit number one, which is Saving Private Ryan.

Now it's an incredibly well-shot movie. I just happen to despise it. It's such a simplistic view of war - you know, bad things that have to be done, good men despite this.

Which is true, but there's never any hint of doing bad things messes people up. It's what I'd call a psychologically unsatisfying film.

Let's not get onto it's depiction of the Germans. We've gone back to the pre and during the war thing of bad guys bad and don't shave, and would probably kick their dachshunds. (Sorry, bad joke from a book.) No idea that they're going through the same fucking thing as the US troops. (And indeed the same hellish fucking thing that every soldier has to undergo.)

Generally, not happy with the number one. Not because it's not a well made film, it's a beautifully made film, but because of the writing of it.