Quote: Griff @ July 30 2009, 1:58 PM BSTWords can't describe how much I don't like Pinter plays.
Books you read as a child... Page 15
Quote: Marc P @ July 30 2009, 12:46 PM BSTAnd on the original theme .. The Little Grey Men
agreed.
Quote: roscoff @ July 30 2009, 1:26 PM BSTYou need a shot of testosterone and quick my boy or you'll be turning into Aaron.
I'll have you know that I have never cried at a film!
Although The Green Mile was bloomin' close.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ July 30 2009, 1:17 PM BSTJackson should be hanged, drawn and quartered for his 'dwarf tossing joke' alone. Terrible. (Though I really liked the score).
Yes that stuck in my craw, as did most of the 'script doctor' attempts at humour. And those action scenes seemed f**king endlesss. Boiling down a thousand pages into 9 hours - lets cut out the plot and character development and throw in a ten minute fight with a troll. 
Quote: Aaron @ July 30 2009, 2:23 PM BSTAlthough The Green Mile was bloomin' close.
Crikes, that's a long film!
I wonder if that mouse is still alive now?
Quote: chipolata @ July 30 2009, 2:26 PM BSTCrikes, that's a long film!
I wonder if that mouse is still alive now?
I suspect he probably is...
Quote: john lucas 101 @ July 30 2009, 1:07 PM BSTI'd dearly love to see a Lord of the Flies/Inbetweeners screen adaptation.
Now THAT is a good idea!
Quote: Aaron @ July 30 2009, 2:30 PM BSTI suspect he probably is...
That mouse was way to young and sprightly. That mouse at the end of The Green Mile was like the Dave Chapman of mice.
Fair point, yes.
Quote: chipolata @ July 30 2009, 2:31 PM BSTThat mouse at the end of The Green Mile was like the Dave Chapman of mice.
And like Chappers found himself most invigorated when a huge black man was blowing him.
Quote: Tim Walker @ July 30 2009, 2:36 PM BSTAnd like Chappers found itself most invigourated when a large black man was blowing it.
Noddy.
Oh wait, that was yesterday. No it wasn't. It was week before.
(I'm not taking the mick, I was looking after my two year-old sister.)
Quote: Marc P @ July 30 2009, 1:15 PM BSTThe decorator thought I was mad until he saw it finished with books and furnitue and all that sort of stuff.
Apparently that is known in the trade as 'bastard red'. I had it in the hallway of my house in the country and the decorator called it that, because it's a bastard to paint and needs several coats.
Going back to children's books, I did read all the Ladybird classics. Does anyone remember the Ladybird Beauty and the Beast, where the Beast is a chimpanzee in a blue satin knickerbockers suit.
Quote: Tim Walker @ July 30 2009, 1:53 PM BSTI used to read collections of Harold Pinter plays when I was 12. (Yes, I was a tosser even as a child.)
Yeah, I started young, too.
Eloise - an old 50s edition with classic drawings that I found in my auntie's house.
All the Narnia books read to me by my auntie at bedtime.
The Jungle Doctor books.
Aesop.
The Golden Path by Louie Jesse - odd mix of beautiful and terrifying short stories.
An old world atlas that I'd examine in detail for hours. I'm still fascinated by maps.
I remember that Ladybird book DD.
And Lovecraft, I read a great deal of, but went off quickly.