David Kelly

I'm not at all convinced with Roeder. The football is so uninspiring that it's beyond belief. I go to the games these days with no more expectation of seeing anything approaching entertainment than I did under Souness tbh. His decisions when he has had them to be made have been extremely poor imo. Playing with Butt & Parker in the centre of a midfield at home against a team of the Smoggies quality is nothing short of pathetic. Playing Martins and Dyer up front and then allowing Given and Shambles to hump long balls up to them all game is laughable. Spending what appears to have amounted to a third of our transfer funds on a player who's position we were decently stocked in while not doing anything about our complete lack of anything resembling fullbacks is nothing short of criminal. Bringing in only one player in January and then playing him in place of our only defender who's looked to have any hope of being of the required standard is just plain wrong. The list of his errors keeps growing while the list of the positive things remains very stagnent and in some cases seems to be shrinking. The fact that we are as high up the league as we are says more about the actual quality of some of the players that we have than his ability to get anything out of them. I still believe that we do have some good footballers at the club but I don't believe in Roeders ability to mould them into a team. We have never looked like a TEAM at any point during the season as far as I'm concerned. As has previously been alluded to, I believe the whole 'success' he achieved last season was mostly down to him simply not being Souness giving a boost of morale to the team and fans. Now that we are confronted with the reality of who our manager actually is, that morale has quickly evaporated. I don't like the idea of changing managers so often and I do concede that he's probably done as good a job as we could expect given his limited abilities and the chairman's limited expectations. But this club is big enough in terms of support, and therefore access to resources that other clubs could only dream of, to expect to be able to move forward from the position we currently find ourselves in. I cannot see this happening under Roeder so I can only look forward to the day when he is replaced and can only hope that somehow the fat man can actually deliver on his promises to get the right man in for once.

Zulu is class like. Give it a watch. 'They're taunting us' I would say the other two are better films. Pure class. I thought Lawrence of Arabia was a pretty painfull watch tbh. Mind you I was having a massive comedown off a new year spent on pills in Ibiza so that might have spoilled it somewhat! I haven't seen City Of God yet which I hear is something I really must rectify.

Rashomon & Three Burials of the mexican bloke. I enjoyed both of them but I did think that they both were slightly spoilled by not having a really good ending. I think what really grabs me about a film tends to be the ending and I don't think either of the endings were really satisfying. And for the record Millers Crossing is an amazing film and so is Once Upon A Time In America.

The only thing I can come up with is not connecting with the characters in Snatch the same way as those in Lock Stock. Personally I prefered the Lock Stock characters but didn't dislike the Snatch ones.

I think that's the reason why I liked it better than Lock Stock - I saw Snatch first. They really are quite similar. I agree, I can understand why someone would criticise it for just being more of the same but can't really get how someone could think one is good and the other shite. Because we've heard the jokes before and the film generally isn't as good? Well that's what I mean when I say it's just more of the same. I can understand and agree with that. I don't understand why you say it's generally not as good though. I think it's a better made film tbh. At the end of the day it's subjective like anything else.

I think that's the reason why I liked it better than Lock Stock - I saw Snatch first. They really are quite similar. I agree, I can understand why someone would criticise it for just being more of the same but can't really get how someone could think one is good and the other shite.

Vinne Jones has a bigger part in it, that's my main beef. But other than that Snatch just feels like a substandard Lock Stock. It still has its moments though. I don't mind Vinnie in either of them tbh.

Spot on. Rashomon is Kurosawa's best imo I have to admit I was slightly underwhelmed by Seven Samurai but that might have something to do with recording it off one of those dodgy channels on sky with crap sound and picture quality. And constantly comparing it to The Magnificent Seven which of course has a much more familar cast to me. The story of Rashomon sounds really interesting though.

I liked Snatch just not as much as Lock Stock because it really seemed to re hash a lot of the ideas. If Snatch had been made first I think peoples feelings on it would have been the other way round. From what I can gather Snatch seems to have been much better received overseas. Anyway I should have Rashomon sitting waiting for me tonight and that Three Burials should arrive tomorrow so I'm looking forward to watching them over the weekend.

I don't like them (they're a piss poor club with piss poor fans that have nothing going for them but a good chairman) but it's nothing close to a propper derby to me and I wouldn't really be any more pissed off to lose to them than I would be to lose to any other pile of shite.

U2 and that bint doing One was fucking awful and I've heard a version of Creep done by Dylan that is too bad for words (although I'm not convinced it's real). Cowboy Junkies version of Sweet Jane is good and of course The Jam's version of the Batman theme is class.

A Scanner Darkly. Not sure why they felt the need to do the animation as the fact that it looked as good as it did just distracted me at times. That said I thought it was a good film with much more to think about than most adaptations of Dick's work (which I've never read but I'm told is much closer in tone to this than any of the other films).

The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are Dark Horses

One good film followed by a load of crap. I've quite liked all of his films tbh. Sixth Sense is the best I agree but there's been at least part of all of the rest I've enjoyed. Not great works of art by any means but a decent watch.

Fuck, when was that on? Really interested to see this after watching Mulholland Drive. Lynch's new one (INLAND EMPIRE) is supposed to be really good.

The Blue Dahlia - Pretty good early film noir wrote by Raymond Chandler. Alan Ladd is canny in the lead but doesn't have the same appeal as the likes of Bogart. Lana Turner is good as the 'femme fatale' though. The Lady In The Water - If you like the rest of Shyamalan's work (which I have to say I do) I think you would like this. I thought it was quite a bit better than The Village (which I thought was ok) and a pretty good fantasy story. Brazil - Generally people seem to either love or hate this but I found myself coming somewhere in the middle. It's a fantastic world that TG has created and there are some great performances, particularly De Niro who is hilarious, but I felt it fell some way short of Twelve Monkeys which I think is Gilliam's high point.

Not really, I only understood it on a superficial level. It looked great and held the tension well, but I'm not sure what the fuck it was all 'about'. Not sure what was real and imagined by which charactersor who was good and bad. Why was the old woman wearing the kids mac? All that stuff. That's the best bit of films, working it out a bit more. Scary though, wasn't she? If you didn't try to work out a film afterwards then you could never enjoy any of David Lynch's films surely. I generally find they're great to look at but don't understand at least half of them while I'm watching. Apart from 'Wild at Heart'. That's David Lynch-lite though tbf. Class all the same. I was thinking the very same thing as I was typing tbh!

Grinderman - Grinderman

Not really, I only understood it on a superficial level. It looked great and held the tension well, but I'm not sure what the fuck it was all 'about'. Not sure what was real and imagined by which charactersor who was good and bad. Why was the old woman wearing the kids mac? All that stuff. That's the best bit of films, working it out a bit more. Scary though, wasn't she? If you didn't try to work out a film afterwards then you could never enjoy any of David Lynch's films surely. I generally find they're great to look at but don't understand at least half of them while I'm watching.

Yes! Truffaut is such a tool! Best - Woman Of The Dunes, Cries & Whispers, The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie, Amadeus, Ikiru, Mirror, Taxi Driver Worst - The Brown Bunny, Igby Goes Down, United States Of Leland It is without doubt the most boring film I've ever sat through. Other than Taxi Driver and Amadeus, I've not heard of any of your other fav's. I'll have to look them up.

Tried a couple of albums. Not fussed on them. Not a fan of Sigur Ros either (arjen robben or whatever it was called was ok). Too impatient to get to the lovely bit to sit through 20 minutes of preamble. Some would contest that it's all about build-up and release of tension. Personally I have to be in the right mood. Not really a fan of S.R. though. Always tempted to stick all the 'lovely bits' together. Although not long songs, take something like 'The Falconer' by Nico or 'Mask' by Bauhaus. They're both very ugly songs for a significant length of time, but when they suddenly shift into a beautiful bit, it makes it seem all the better. The impact would be notably lessened if it was just 4 minutes of pretty music. Same of Scott Walker's 'The Electrician.' Always in awe of your knowledge Patricia. Lovely voice when he gets going. He's fucking frightening the rest of the time though!

Aye I wouldn't fancy our chances against either of them unless we had our full team available (i.e. with Owen, Shola(for on the bench), Emre & N'Zogbia all fit and Carr injured) and even then I would expect them to be heavy favourites.

Some nice long GSYBE songs are what you want. That way at least it will take you a while to listen to them!

Forrest Gump is class tbh. It's fucking gash, and I like Hanks.

Lemon & sugar on pancake day but I would happily take them with various different sweet fillings as a sweet course of a meal. I imagine cheese would be nice too.