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Dinner has been eaten, the chicken needs another forty minutes or so before starting its cooling-off period, and I have a beer, ready to watch a film or two
This evening's multimedia experience commenced with On Her Majesty's Secret Service, as part of my ongoing and rather drawn-out "watch all the Bond movies in order" thing. I don't know where this one stands in the ardent Bond fans' pantheon, but I've always liked it since I first saw it in the now-demolished Granada cinema in Bedford in the early 1970s, as part of one of those Bond double bills they used to put on to pack the place with teenage boys on weekday afternoons. I don't suppose that could happen nowadays. Anyway, it turns out I still really like it, and if that makes me look bad in the eyes of experts in the field, I don't care in the slightest
After that: The Game, in which Michael Douglas plays a Gordon Gecko-ish character who is drawn into a kind of LARP (Live Action Role Play) in which the role one plays is oneself, and it's the surrounding live action that is the play. I remember reading about this when it came out in the 1990s and thinking it sounded like rather a neat conceit for a film. So now I finally watched it, and it blew me away: an excellent film, IMHO. Word to Zeity, should you drop in: do grab this one from the shelves of the charity shop before anybody else gets it, because it's cracking stuff
And then some more of The Americans; and so to bed.
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