On the flight back I managed to watch a couple more movies between a nap and a dream.
A man called Otto - 10/10
This one broke me at a deep deep level.
Cried, loved it, felt it inside my skin and my soul. Great.
Gladiator II - 7/10
Visually strong, sadly some CGI is a little too obvious, but despite all the positives the story still feels very weak, compared to the first.
I’d say “unnecessary but cool”. Reading that there’s a third one to close the trilogy but it feels like the first alone would have just been fine.
If they wanted to make a sequel of an historical movie with Russell Crowe they should have gone with freaking Master and Commander. THAT one needed a sequel so bad.
The original is called A Man Named Ove. It is very good, although I can’t help but like Tom Hanks in pretty much every movie he’s in, so Otto is still my favorite version. Someday I really need to read the book.
I just watched Atonement (2007) with my daughter. I remember reading about the crazy-***ed long Dunkirk shot when the film came out. But reviews were otherwise unimpressed (Kira Knightly fatigue perhaps?). We found it to be a complicated story told damn near perfectly.
An exception being most Le Carre adaptations and more recently Slow Horses, but that is mainly because I love Oldman’s portrayal of Jackson Lamb… The ‘stories’ themselves are a bit silly/far fetched IMHO.
And if I ever see another mobile/cell phone in a SCIF I will throw a brick at the telly.
So when I decide to give a recent direct to streaming film a try, I am pleasantly surprised when I start to think, OK they understand the ‘little’ details when I see one of these:
Technically you can. Depending on how high up the food chain (pun intended) you are in the organisation. You call one of your minions and say “Get me a pizza”.
I was watching Death in Paradise, a murder mystery show set in the Carribean. There was a segment in this episode at a train station just outside of London.
I would have put down a hundred that it was @tempusmurphy coming through the voice box. Not somebody that sounded like him…actually him.
Here is the video. Go to the 32:30 mark. For those of you that know tempus’s voice, what do you think? @tempusmurphy claims it’s not him.
the ironic thing is I have that help point at my station, and in the past I have had to tell people that the replacement for the cancelled service has been cancelled but its not me
Margaritas and Fajitas Afterwards 
