The Importance of Being Idle

Atrophied National Pride

As regular readers will know... what do you mean I don't have any regular readers? If there's nobody reading how are you interupting? Hmm? Didn't think of that did you? Not as smart as you thought eh?... Now,where were we... Ahh yes. As my (allegedly fictional) regualr readers will know I am all too infrequently proud to be British, but today I felt what I believe was the feeble stirring of my atrophied national pride. One week after the terrorist attacks on London, the nation observed a two minute silence as a mark of respect. And guess what? We all did. Everyone stopped what they were doing, and went outside their home or place of business (even the Queen stood outside Buck house) in open defiance of the terrorists, and stood in silent reflection for two minutes. I myself went outside, and my neighbours were all out there too, and they're old (no seriously, for some of them standing in the beating sun for two minutes is pretty hard). In fact I'm pretty proud of the way the country has reacted as a whole, there's been remarkably little racial viciousness, and we have not been cowed to any appreciable degree. Like I said, I'm not often proud to be British, but in the face of a crisis I don't know as there's any other country I'd rather be in, cos we handle them pretty well.
In other news... well the postman came to deliver my copy of Killer 7 in the twenty minutes I was out this afternoon (and what the hell time for the post to come is 1pm anyway? I'd waited in all morning cos I was expecting him...), which is pretty annoying - I'll have to go fetch it tomorrow. I have also finally watched the Godfather. For years and years I couldn't get into it (I think the last time I tried I was like 17 though, so that was a long time ago) and then I just gave up. So today I sat down to watch it, and did! Yay me! To be fair though, it was a very enjoyable movie, although I don't quite see what exactly all the fuss is about... I mean it was a great film, and is clever in so far as its a family saga first, and the family just happens to be a mafia family, so it's a crime drama second, and it is pretty much faultless over all (the performances, direction, set design... the whole thing is just sooooooooo atmosperic). I suspect the sequels (number 2 especially) add breadth and depth, and create a true saga, but so far my feeling is that Apocalypse Now is the better film. Looking at Copolla's directorial output though, its clear that his reputation is built upon these two movies, cos there really isn't anything else of consequence in there (although to be fair, I've never achieved anything!), but then I think anybody'd be pleased to have directed either one of them.
I'm sure there was something else I was going to say, but it's slipped my mind. If it comes back to me (and is even slightly interesting) then I'll post it later. For now, cold drink-wards!

posted by BadMonkey @ 7:02 PM