"The Iron Lady" - what a truly appalling movie :-(

.......and yet you watched all of it ?

You're one of those people that counts all the swear words and then writes in to complain about the swearing ain't ya ? ;)

Have to agree about this movie. It could have been a 3 part mini series on TV. Great acting, but the real title should have been Maggie goes mad. It's really more about dementia than anything else. Kind of sad really, and not what I expected.

I saw it was on Steve and decided that seeing as how much as I despise the woman in real life, (Thatcher - not Streep), I'd give it a wide berth.

Watched Aliens instead - the Xenomorphs were a lot more pleasant

Didn't you watch the Bonneville documentary (think it was on at the same sort of time)?  Excellent, and they've only just got to the flats in part 1...

I wouldn't have been able to watch the Maggie film without either thinking of Dingoes, or saying "I had a faaahm in Aaaaarrrfricaah"

So it's not a sequal to Iron Man?

SteveStrummerUK

Awful.
 

I agree!  No armor, no repulsor rays, no pulse bolts.  Hell ... she couldn't even fly.  What a gyp!

Wood67


Didn't you watch the Bonneville documentary (think it was on at the same sort of time)? 

I recorded that Chris, watching it later.
 
 

SteveStrummerUK

FastBikerBoy


Look on the bright side Steve, some of us paid to see it............ and I agree.

 
I sympathise.
 
 
At least you didn't get to pay £23.75 for a small carton of popcorn and a Pepsi.....     oh.. yeah..
 
 
What a total bag-o-sh!te film though.
 
 
How on earth did Her Streepness get an Oscar for that though. I've seen less ham on the deli down Dewhursts.
 
 
Truly awful.
 
 
And I recorded it. I suppose I can watch it again if I need a good larf barf.
 
 

FIXED!

I don't guess I will see it, I don't care for Streep....

J

Bub


My wife and I are on the last episode of Season 2 of The Tudors. Great series. It's free if you have Amazon Prime. It got me so interested that I've been doing some reading on Henry VIII and the show is turning out to be fairly accurate when it comes to the major events.

Not for kids ...

 
As, I'd venture, is a lot of the sordid history of our 'beloved' royal family Bub.
 
It would appear that throughout the long history of this Sceptred Isle, its first family have been guilty of every conceivable human failing, while at the same time, the ruling head of this mafiosa mob, as titular head of the Church of England, has adopted the hereditary position of Defender Of The Faith.
 
Over the years, our Monarch has demanded from his/her subjects both respect and taxes, firstly at the point of a sword, and nowadays through the quaintly anachronistic vehicle of the Civil List. At least now, our respect appears to be optional.
 
It seems to me that our current sovereign has taken upon herself to put the House of Windsor back in to some semblance of order, and as such is to be applauded. It does, I would argue, place her in a very small minority of those similarly dutiful among her ancestors. But one often wonders if she would have adopted such a stance if the sordid and scurrilous activities of her ancestry and progeny had actually not been made public by a news media no longer slavishly conspiring in league with the monarchy to keep these indiscretions under wraps.
 
Vive la République.
 
 
 

Aw Steve - didn't you enjoy the Jubilee or the parachute jump last year?  Over the years I've lurched between the monarchist and republican position and for now am ok in the former camp.  Seems to me a lot of value in a nominal Head of State who doesn't have to make any decisions based on the voting feelings of a majority who align their thinking based on the whims of reality tv shows.  I get far more irritated by the nonsense and guff coming out of all sides of the Commons.

It's funny but after over 10 years of living outside the UK certain things about it seem bizarre to me now....like the Royal family and the TV license. The Royals just seem like an archaic, quaint soap opera that refuses to quit. And as for having to buy a "license" to watch TV.....hooooo boy! That's just the biggest bowl of wrong....

jamesg1213


The license is a bizarre concept I guess..on the other hand we do have a dozen TV channels and the same if not more radio stations broadcasting free from ads, sponsors, politicians and shareholders...on the face of it.

 
And long may it continue thus.
 
 

sharke

SteveStrummerUK

jamesg1213


The license is a bizarre concept I guess..on the other hand we do have a dozen TV channels and the same if not more radio stations broadcasting free from ads, sponsors, politicians and shareholders...on the face of it.

And long may it continue thus.

Unless you have no desire to consume their content, in which case you should not have to pay for it. 

 
Fair point that.
 
 
 

Would anyone else enjoy seeing a newly crowned king of England dismiss the PM and Parliment and  arrest dissenters, assuming the complete control of a King of England. It might be a bad thing but it really would  be interesting... especially if he was a great and good king of the people.

Why have a king if he isn't really a king? If I were king....