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Tried to watch it on a long trans-Atlantic flight... I honestly did... but after the first ten minutes went back to the book. Finished the book about an hour later, the stupid movie was still on, so I caught the rest of it.What a dump.
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So now you are back from your latest to St.Petersburg? Have a chance for any fun or was it all business? How are those Russian women dressing this spring?
Larry
It was a mixed trip, with plenty of time allowed for fun.The biggest one perhaps was driving one of the Russian cars on the dilapidated Russian roads at neckbreaking speeds. After some of those rides you feel like the demolition derby winner, as usually there are as many "lanes" on the unmarked roads as you can fit cars... with an inch each to spare. After a while that becomes your second nature, though.
The car that has all its idiot lights permanently ON ("Oh, just ignore them... these cars rarely break" I was told by the rental office guy... he turned out right!), shakes like a Soiuz rocket at 100kph, but becomes quiet again at 140, and has torque steer that is bound to break your wrist if you let it. In dense traffic simply lifting off the gas and slamming on brakes will make your car jump two feet to the left.
Charming...
But on positive note, there is still plenty of good cheap beer (around 50 cents for a half-liter bottle) and good food is easy to find.
And as far as the Russian women... girls... they truly deserve the special chapter... a whole book, and perhaps we best leave it at that, as children are watching, but don't just take my word for it - experience it at least once, so you too will become a walking wounded under the skies sliding towards the White Nights and with the never ending night life all around you.
And some of them can even cook...
I don't think I'll bother with 12.
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Everyone has different tastes. I thought it was just OK. My wife thought the same. I guess you liked it? :)
The thing was a dog!
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I think that was the point of the film. The film has nothing to do with plot, crimes, or anything else for that matter. The point of the film is to put Clooney, Pitt, Roberts, Damon, et al., on the screen, and let them interact and have fun. The film could have been about anything. If you are looking for logic here, you are looking in the wrong place. Akin to watching the Wizard of Oz in hopes of planning your vacation.Having said that, I too found the film disappointing. I do not mind character driven films, as opposed to plot driven films. After all, most foreign films are character driven, not plot driven, but thirteen or fourteen characters become too tedious. And when all they do is stand around exchanging flirty looks, well, that gets boring. Maybe it takes a women to appreciate this.
that all the actors agreed to make this movie based on the script they must have read!
Jon,BIG $$$ for all involved.
If the film had been called "Ocean's dark creamy turd floating down the Seine"...they still would have made it.
Tosh
"Revenge is a dish best served cold and it's mighty cold in space"
The movie made no sense and was extremely boring. All that about jacking the house up? Just so they could shoot an arrow? Logic would have suggested they LOWER the house to make it come into line of sight.Oh well, that's as far as I got and then I also fell asleep- and never turned it back on either. What a waste of "talent".
Music is Emotion
...if you happened to like the actors and actresses in the film, it looks like they were at least having fun making it. Otherwise, the film made absolutely no sense.
I fall asleep after about 10 minutes into the movie the sad thing was I did not even find out how the movie went as I returned it the next day do not want to pay the late fees you know.
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