chrisp65

to expand a bit, and I'm really not looking for a fight or anything - it's really nowhere near my field of expertise to get into a tiff over but here goes: A little research tells me that I've just watched the second of three films, I saw it in 2D, on a TV, via Netflix. It looks like there is a game - but its a lego game (if that makes any difference). From the off, there was a strange highlight around characters in the foreground. Nothing terribly dramatic, but odd in a film I understood they spent a spectacular amount of money on. Then, about 15 minutes in there was a sequence where some bees fly into shot from close range, buzz about a bit and then fly off in to the distance. They had no part in the story whatsoever (unless I missed some nuance) and at this point, 15 or so minutes in I began to notice things more and more that didn't obviously help the film along. The 'levels' statement is exactly what I meant but had clearly poorly articulated. I don't know much about computer games (apologies, it's not snobbery, I just drifted away from computer games when they put colour over asteroids) but that's what it looked like to me. There was a scene with barrels, jumping in and out of barrels killing baddies. It had one barrel bouncing along a line of baddies and then spinning and then had a (hobbit? dwarf?) character jumping in and out of it. I was half expecting some coins to appear or Mario to overtake them. Then there was a scene where two characters ended up sliding down some chutes in the mine and were in mine carts suspended on wires. They didn't actually do anything, so I guessed that was another level in a game. Similarly, another character rides down a flow of molten gold in a wheelbarrow.... Levels in a game. Elsehwere, when the wizard guy was talking there were dandelion seeds (or somesuch similar thing) blowing around for no obvious reason other than to remind us it was 3D (was my guess). All in all, quite distracting, I found myself watching the screen for quirky shit, rather than following the story.

Er, sorry if I've upset you in some way Chindie? It wasn't meant as a fully considered critique. It was more of a, well, a question really. I don't watch many films like that, it's not my thing. I usually stick to gritty cop car chase movies - French Connection is my fave. The question was genuine. If I needed to expand on it, all well and good.

just watched the second of the Hobbit movies I presume it was made when 3D and computer game sales were the two big drivers of what it should look like?

where's Voinjama when you need him?

Nevermind, goalfest coming up on Thursday. If you were the new Crystal Palace Manager, who would you want to play to buy time to steady the ship?

Nearly got shot on the German / Dutch border once. We were driving through and the German border guard guy gave what my dad thought was international sign language for 'yeah, just keep driving'. But it turned out to be international sign language for 'pull over there for a 100th car random cursory check'. So the old man accelerates away in his top of the range Chevette and an inconceivable number of Germans with stubby little machine guns all poured out of this tiny hut shouting and screaming at him. They kept us waiting there for about half a day whilst they checked out our story of going for a swim where the swimming pool was just over the border. You'd think the fact we had little else but towels, bathers and change for lockers would have been enough of a clue, but I think a point had to be made! I suspect that's very much the case all over the world. They've got all day and its interesting to hear what might get said after a couple of hours of being messed about.

classy

To be fair, they gave it to George Osbourne last year and I think maybe Alex Salmond the year before - so it's clearly not something to take too seriously.

jaffa!

Had the satsumas gone baggy? Much easier to peel when they've got the texture of a pensionable orangutan's nut sack. You can do that clever all in one peel up and around that looks like an elephant trunk and ears.

Xann is that record label you can just buy it 'artist unknown' and it'll have gems on it. I'm out and about today buying a fridge freezer and watching the football (ying n yang), but I'll put a list up later for any takers. We play TATA STEEL today - bottom of the league versus top, so inevitably the game will be 0:0 but now we own the club we have control of the half time music. Which at the moment is all a bit Glam Rock or Henry Mancini as it has to be on cassette! Elephant Walk by Mancini as the players come out on to the pitch got a good laugh.

Best Before date on my selection box appears to have expired

snow on the laptop playinmg hhhavoc wittht myrear wheeel drive g g gera man keyboar d

I'm putting together a band to raise money and awareness for gamers that can't enjoy their new xboxes and playstations. They were just on the news straight after the Tsunami anniversary, poor bastards, I had no idea they couldn't even download films in some cases.

Do curly hair and a big massive bush automatically go together?

SFA - Mwng

stock take: over half a turkey left, about a kilo of beef and 8 pigs in blankets

just finished making mince pies for a very brief outdoor service in 30 mins time you know, community n all that

Walken in a winter wonderland

I think the shepherds washed their socks.

I'm in. Chrisp, Pints and a Pie? I assume you'd all meet in the pub not if it's Chris's turn to buy the drinks ..... tonight I'm mostly drinking duty free......bought on expenses!