Too Many Ideas - Posts Tagged ‘Film’
Live Free or Die Hard aka Die Hard 4.0
Friday, July 6th, 2007It’s been twelve years since we last saw John McClane. Now thanks to an interesting new application of the delete key by a group of bad guys who don’t seem to do things the simple way when there is a complicated way to do it, he’s back in action. This is the kind of popcorn […]
Thursday Thirteen #16
Thursday, June 28th, 2007Thirteen Things about Mark Caldwell’s flight in a 1944 Dakota Excitement – I was like a kid on Christmas morning I woke up at 5AM Nerves – These hit me on the way to the airport. It was my first time going up in a plane so being a bit nervous on the way was […]
Flying Over Liverpool in a Dakota
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007For as long as I can remember I’ve had a picture of a plane flying over clouds and mountains. It had that grey, crome look that lots of 1950 art had. It was the front of a card, probably a birthday card but I don’t remember it ever having the back. I do remember the […]
Thursday Thirteen #15 / Post 500
Thursday, June 21st, 2007My Thursday Thirteen this week happens to coincide with my 500th post to this blog so I thought I’d combine the two events. Here are 13 posts from the 500 posts by Mark Caldwell about having Too Many Ideas… My First Post which isn’t particularly exciting: Staring at a Blank Page. Favourite picture: A reed […]
Shinny Hot Fuzz
Monday, June 18th, 2007I’m not one for buying DVDs until they drop from full price to something more sensible but I cracked at the weekend and picked up Hot Fuzz with all the shinny extras. I’ll not rave about the main film again. If you want to know what I thought of Hot Fuzz you can read what […]
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007Just back from watching Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, the second part of the two part follow up to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Enjoyed it. Plot was twisty and did some interesting things with the characters. Great action sequences. Interesting characters. I would have liked more Chow […]
Spider-Man III
Friday, May 18th, 2007Went to see Spider-Man III and Tsos for dinner yesterday with friends including Kim and The Ent. I’m not a big Spider-Man fan or for that mater super heroes. In the same way I prefer a gritty spy film to a high action one. I suspect this helped me because my expectation of Spider-Man III […]
Thursday Thirteen #1
Thursday, March 15th, 2007Thirteen Things random things about Mark Caldwell 1… I remember far too many useless facts for my own good but can’t remember a thing if I’m on a quiz team. 2… Being in high up places doesn’t bother me. My fear is unsteady high places I may fall off. 3… I’ve just joined the moderating […]
Cop Night #5: A night with the Fuzz
Saturday, February 24th, 2007Hot Fuzz is far too funny and clever for its own good. I hate Messrs Pegg and Wright for the ridiculously high level of humour they maintained throughout the film. I despise them for their effortless references to action films from around the world; to the plot structure beloved by Bruckheimer Simpson Bay and associates; […]
Cop Night #3
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007More robbers than Cops tonight really. Just finished watching The League of Gentlemen which arrived from Amazon today. Not the situation comedy but the film from 1960 that the series took its name from in which Jack Hawkins and a hand picked crew of ex soldiers stage a bank robbery. The focus is on the […]