off_world_beings wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> off_world_beings wrote:
>>
>>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> "Children of Men" opened this last weekend in theaters across
>>>>
> the
>
>>>> country. This is a movie that Barry saw last fall in Dublin
>>>>
> and
>
>>>> reported here. I plan to see it this week.>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Barry must have been drunk when he saw it. Its not very good.
>>>
> They
>
>>> compared it to Blade Runner. No way. More like something that
>>>
> should
>
>>> have been made for a BBC TV series. Pretty bad. Some ok acting
>>>
> though.
>
>>> OffWorld
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Great film! I just returned from seeing it. Well worth seeing.
>>
> What
>
>> were you drinking?>>
>>
>
> Its really not that good and is terrible compared to Blade Runner
> which it has been compared to. It is mediocre.
> Maybe being British one is put off by it more because you are used
> to the culture, and there were TV series a lot like that on British
> TV growing up.
>
> A bit like the movie "The Queen" is very popular here in the States,
> but I found it so so.
>
> OffWorld
Not enough robots or spaceships? :) I idea of third world Britain was
kind of a hoot. And then they took potshots at the "dumbass war" which
is still going on in the future.
