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[tinyjo]

Things are going pretty well but I've come up against an annoying problem which I can't quite work out (to do with displaying bits) so I think I'm going to leave that for now - hope that some light is shed on it tomorrow morning. I'm going to the cinema tonight to see Minority Report which I'm hoping is going to be quite good - on the plus side, Barry Norman thinks it's good, on the minus it's Tom Cruise and Stephen Spielberg so who knows. I'll let you know.

My landlord came over today with an insurance guy to look for subsidence and he's going to replace the carpets in the spare bedroom and the bathroom! Without prompting! He's a real sweetie actually - just what you'd hope a landlord would be.

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[redtangent.livejournal.com]

I used to work by the 'Inverse Genre Barry Principle'.

Any genre movie Barry Norman likes, I don't bother with as it must be awful and horrifically commercial. Any genre movie Barry Norman doesn't like is obviously another underground classic. Good examples of this would be Trainspotting - a definite Barry no-no and A Licence to Kill - a decent Bond movie by Barry's judgement.

This used to work equally well on any science fiction, youth culture movies, art house movies and any foreign movies. However, it's a while since I've seen a Barry review so have lost touch with his thinking these days.

So if Barry likes Minority Report, my thinking is it's likely to be another overtly commercial movie that probably makes an appallinglydumb adaptation of a Philip K Dick story.

And by the time you've read this you've already seen it, haven't you? So am I right? ;)

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

I've tended to agree with Barry Norman in the past although I've been less likely to look for his opinion about cult/sf stuff I guess. I disagree with him on both examples cited there though - I liked Trainspotting and as far as I'm concerned, there are no decent Bond movies!

I actually thought Minority Report was pretty good - I enjoyed it more than anything else I've seen for ages and there weren't any huge gaping plot holes. It was a bit like a Phillip K Dick crossed with a John Grisham which worked surprisingly well really!