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wychwoodI continued the culture theme - actually I forgot to post about it, but I also went to the opera! That was ten days ago now, Peter Grimes, a Britten piece I'd never actually heard before. What a downer though.
Anyway. On Saturday I went to the cinema to go and see Ocean, a new David Attenborough that was having a theatrical release. Excellent as ever, although mostly not new; I liked the juxtaposition of "incoming climate disaster" with the example of Save the Whales as a campaign that really worked. Afterwards I had a couple of hours to kill before church, and they were offering £5 tickets, so I took myself across the building to see Thunderbolts*, which was entertaining, had some genuinely touching character moments, and did not go in for too many extended fight scenes as a replacement for plot. I mean, there definitely were plenty of fight scenes, it's still Marvel, but sometimes you think "really we could have cut half an hour of fight scenes out of this film without losing anything" and I didn't, here. Helped that it was a two-hour film, probably.
Then on Sunday my dad got confused answering one of the crossword questions and produced the concept of Douglas Adam's Watership Down, and I haven't stopped thinking about it since.
Anyway. On Saturday I went to the cinema to go and see Ocean, a new David Attenborough that was having a theatrical release. Excellent as ever, although mostly not new; I liked the juxtaposition of "incoming climate disaster" with the example of Save the Whales as a campaign that really worked. Afterwards I had a couple of hours to kill before church, and they were offering £5 tickets, so I took myself across the building to see Thunderbolts*, which was entertaining, had some genuinely touching character moments, and did not go in for too many extended fight scenes as a replacement for plot. I mean, there definitely were plenty of fight scenes, it's still Marvel, but sometimes you think "really we could have cut half an hour of fight scenes out of this film without losing anything" and I didn't, here. Helped that it was a two-hour film, probably.
Then on Sunday my dad got confused answering one of the crossword questions and produced the concept of Douglas Adam's Watership Down, and I haven't stopped thinking about it since.
