Recently Seen: Children of Men, BSG 3.01-04, Robin Hood (no spoilers)

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I've been very lax in recent months about writing these things up. So, a brief run-down of some recent viewings:

Children Of Men

Bloody Brilliant. I've not read the book (and given calatrice's enthusiastic anti-recommendation, probably never will) but the film is powerful, moving stuff. A proper grown-up intelligent British¹ SF movie. Go see it.

Warning for the squeamish: it's also kinda violent; OTOH, Cal (who is normally squicked by anything more bloody than Toy Story) seems to have coped fairly well.

¹OK, the writer/director's mexican, and I've no idea who paid for it, but it's set in blighty, was mostly filmed here, and *feels* British, so that'll do me.

Battlestar Galactica 3.1-3.4

Also brilliant, for several of the same reasons. I don't think I can say much more without spraying spoilers everywhere.

Robin Hood

Not bad. It's precisely the sort of Saturday tea-time swashbuckler they don't make any more. My 10-year-old self would have been glued to it every week, despite the rather frugal production values and spotty script (Contractions, guys? You don't have the excuse of being androids). However, my 34-year-old self is having an apathy attack and probably isn't going to bother watching any more of it.

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[morningstar-lj.livejournal.com]

Two posts? On the same day? Steady on lad, you'll get a nosebleed :)