‘Taken’. I can watch most things with Liam Neeson in (and listen to as well- he did a great cover of the Van Morrison ‘Coney Island’ a few years back). This is a superior action movie and a revenge movie (revenge movies are a growing genre; maybe because we have no visible enemy to fight, only an undercover one. Maybe, as we have no god and therefore no Grace, and shopping doesn’t really fire the blood long term, we just love revenge bloodlust…just a hunch…).
Surveys of this studio audience (one who loves action, violence and mythical beasts in a film: preferably all 3 at once and one who dislikes all 3, instead prefering character development and emotional engagement) produced an almost 100% positive vote. One to watch after a frustrating PCC/church council.
Flight of the Conchords. Anything made by HBO and getting a screening on BBC3/BBC4 has got to be good. Comedy on TV can tend to the lame and bland or ultra shocking…but just. Not. Funny.
I am just watching the 2nd series (which is not supposed to be as good as the first) and I am laughing out loud lots and lots. I may get this DVD from my family as a present; seems like the kind of comedy that can be watched and watched and watched- and watched some more. So clever and so funny; I think the best comedy is recognizably this world yet at the same time inhabits its own universe.
Don’t despair- more deep stuff tomorrow. I just needed a break….occasionally my humanity breaks out. I will try to keep it in control in the future. Sorry.