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Your Deadly Sins |
| Sloth: 60% |
| Gluttony: 40% |
| Envy: 0% |
| Greed: 0% |
| Lust: 0% |
| Pride: 0% |
| Wrath: 0% |
| Chance You’ll Go to Hell: 14% |
| You will die while sleeping – and no one will notice. |
Monthly Archives: May 2006
No wonder I can’t diet and I sleep a lot!
Really really seriously DO go and see this film!
Well I’ve just been to see
I thoroughly enjoyed it! It is funny in a very gently heartwarming way but with a streak of bizzare almost surreal weirdness too.
I’m not just saying it’s good because my sister cast it! (honestly I’m not)!
Speaking as a person who can often take or leave films, this is one I would really like to see again. As my friend said as we we leaving the cinema, “I really love fims where you can’t stop smiling at the end!”
The basic plot is that a wedding magazine offers a big prize to the couple who plan the most original wedding of the year. This leaves three couples, naturist, tennis mad and into 1930’s/40’s musicals vying for the prize. Add in a couple of gay wedding planners, an unprincipalled magazine owner and a slightly sharp magazine editor and you have the basic structure of it all.
It isa really interesting film too as it was all completely improvised by the actors. The writer didn’t know exactly how the weddings would turn out or who would win, until the day that they actually filmed it.
It is funny in a very gentle warm way. With actors who have starred in the likes of The Office and Greenwing, you might expect more sharp edged humour and I think some of the critics have had reservations about it because it’s not like this. I really liked it though. There were some lovely one liners just thrown in (Wedding planner to magazine editor: “Well working with a woman who only wears things she has knitted herself is going to be interesting.”) There is an awful lot of “nothing left to the imagination” nudity in the film which is why I guess it’s a 15 but it’s all of the innocent “this is what the human body happens to look like” naturist kind, rather than anything more sexual or erotic.
If I had one criticism, it was that the real finale (not telling you what because I don’t want to spoil it for you) was just a bit too polished and at that point I found it a bit hard to suspend my disbelief, but thats a minor point really.
I left the film feeling really happy. For me this was a combination of the unashamedly feel-good ending and the slight wackiness of the whole film.
Go and see it if you can!
Go and see this film.
Well – it’s on the “to do” list, so updating my blog must be OK to do rather than all the other things musn’t it?!
I’ve not had much agency work this week ( There was a mix-up over the work that they thought I was going to do, the school wanted someone for afternoons but I only do mornings!) So the result is that I’ve had a lot more free time than usual, though I’m not sure exactly what I’ve done with it all. Next week I start my additional tutoring sessions.
One thing I have done is more gardening at church. There was a work-party on Monday where a lot of beds got weeded, so I have been capitalising on this by trying to cover the weeded beds with wood chipping mulch in the hope that it will prevent many more weeds from growing. There really is a lot of ground maintenance that needs doing. In addition to large beds and mature trees we have six lawns of varying sizes and a large car-park. Just keeping the car-park swept and tidy and picking up all the litter can be a morning’s work! I really enjoyed it though. I kept thinking when I was outside on Wednesday morning how lovely it was to be gardening (even though I wasn’t getting paid) rather than being stuck in an office or classroom! Yesterday was more of a grind though as I think my body was complaining about the number of wheelbarrows of bark chippings I kept expecting it to shift (probably over 20 in all over 2 mornings)! I must be getting fitter though musn’t I? And my muscles must be doing something because they are certainly complaining enough! I’ve not lost any weight though (how sad). All that seems to happen is that I eat loads more!
Anyway if you don’t mind swearing and full-frontal male nudity (it’s a 15), do go and see this film:
I have to. I have my instructions. It has to be this weekend as well! I’m not sure what I’m going to make of it or whether it will really be my kind of thing, but I guess I’ll go along. I’m not meaning to name-drop (much, anyway) but my sister is the Casting Director. I have been told to go this weekend to boost the numbers so that the film gets a good rating for its first weekend at the box-office! Anyone fancy accompanying me (virtually of course)?
