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[NickFitz]

Tea has been battered cod fillet (non-chunky) with chips and beans

This was largely because the beans were the second half of a can and had been in the fridge for a while, so i wanted to use the up before they turned furry

To accompany this, E2 of Titanic Sinks Tonight on iPlayer. They resisted the temptation to have the theme music for this going "A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh” but it would fit quite well with that title

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Novocaine (2025) in which our hero has that genetic condition that means you can’t feel pain, and sets out to save the woman of his dreams when she’s taken hostage by robbers at the bank where he works. It’s not bad; it's inclined towards being a comedy, but with plenty of violence that’s too far over the line to be considered slapstick. But maybe a crossbow bolt through the leg is considered slapstick nowadays, and I’m just out of touch with the youth of today? Anyway, it has the most tenuous claims to be a Christmas movie imaginable: the bank robbers near the start are dressed in Santa suits, and when he’s on a date with the young lady before that, he’s wearing a novelty reindeer tie which gets mentioned again at the end; and I think there are one or two minor references to it in dialogue. There are no other indications that it’s Christmas whatsoever that I recall. It’s set in San Diego and all the exterior shots look like it’s the height of summer, and I don’t remember any of the interior sets showing any evidence of seasonal decorations. So it’s entertaining enough, but it’s no Die Hard

As the young lady in it is played by Amber Midthunder, it reminded me to rewatch Prey (2022), the new (then) Predator movie. I seem to recall a lot of fuss about this being the first movie in which the dialogue was mostly in Comanche, and it was when I first watched it. But that seems to have just been for the awards season, as Disney+ now defaults to showing the English version and the Comanche one is an optional extra. I couldn’t be bothered to stop it and switch over when I realised this after I’d started watching it, but it’s a good film either way. I think, all in all, I prefer the Comanche version though

Goodnight all