Dir: Xavier Gens
Writ: Skip Woods, based on game
- Timothy Olyphant … Agent 47
- Dougray Scott … Mike Whittier
- Olga Kurylenko … Nika Boronina
- Robert Knepper … Yuri Marklov
- Ulrich Thomsen … Mikhail Belicoff
- Henry Ian Cusick … Udre Belicoff
To be honest I never thought I’d be bothered to see this film. The trailers made it look ridiculous, and not in a good way, but we were going, and it was at the right time, so we figured what the hell. And I’m glad we did go, because while is makes no sense and is incredibly silly it was also fairly entertaining and funny.
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Dir & Writ: Chris Weitz
Based on book by Philip Pullman
- Dakota Blue Richards … Lyra Belacqua
- Nicole Kidman … Marisa Coulter
- Daniel Craig … Lord Asriel
- Freddie Highmore … Pantalaimon (voice)
- Ian McKellen … Iorek Byrnison (voice)
- Eva Green … Serafina Pekkala
- Sam Elliott … Lee Scoresby
I read, and really enjoyed, Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials a while back, so I was really looking forward to this film, the first of three. Unfortunately it just isn’t very good. It should be. The story is a wonderful one, Kidman and Craig are fantastic, although Craig isn’t really on screen for all that long, and Dakota Blue Richards is wonderful as Lyra. Some of the other kids aren’t too great, but we’ll let them away. The special effects are, for the most part, superb. The polar bears in particular are fantastic.
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Just an ickle, quick post. The xmas party was grand; a few people may be regretting actions but I don’t really know them so who cares ;). Traffic was a bitch, so instead of taxi-ing I just walked, it was half an hour in fairly windy weather, so the hair might have complained, but honestly, it was a work do, so who cares.
We have just under an hour of free drinks before the dinner, so I got my usual vodka and diet coke, only to realise that those weren’t pub measures. More like doubles, if not triples, so the three I had before dinner made me quite chatty. And the best thing about the food was the bread. So I you can guess how much I actually ate. More drinking, then pubbing, we were going to go to Copper’s, but I got fed up having the “are we going yet” discussion at least three times. And so when a few others decided to head for home I figured I’d walk with them.
Only to discover I’d lost my watch. So I wandered back into the pub for a few minutes, but to be honest I wasn’t that bothered, and then walked off home on my lonesome.
And bed. Lovely lovely bed. Only to get up far too early the next morning and go to work. Was v v tired. But luckily no hangover. Yay for vodka.
So a good night was had by all. Recovery this weekend.
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