Kingdom of Heaven

[Louie]

Have just started downloading this, will let you no what its like

[Louie]

Have watched half way through this and it hasn,t done anything for me. Some blood and gore but totally overated (boring) imo you can get it for the cheaper price £11.99 (plus free delivery) here http://www.choicesdirect.com/templat...uctGuid=673447

[Stephanie]

Hi Snorri

Im an epic girl myself, Gladiator/Ben hur/Spartacus etc etc and I didn't really rate Troy that well and thought Kingdom of Heaven was worse, might of been a bit better if they chose a better actor than Orlando Bloom, he's too much of a 'weakling' in my eyes !!

[Snorri the Priest]

Thanks for the link, Louie, I've bookmarked it for future use! I'm always on the lookout for cheapies! At that price, I may go for it, Orlando Bloom or not!

In "Black Hawk Down", the director made good use of him, and threw him out of a helicopter. After all, even Orlando can play "dead" without too much effort! BTW, I've heard he's going to star in a new film about a haunted house - he's going to play the doorstop!

Snorri


P.S. - if you're beginning to get the idea that I don't rate him, you could be on the right track!

[deefin]

i seen this and didnt realy rate it much its too much like troy but then im a huge horror fan ..

[Snorri the Priest]

Ah well, I follwed Louie's link and decided to grab it at the lower price. Where I live, the cinema is part of the new leisure centre, and it's only part-time anyway. They keep films for only about three days; it's fifteen miles away and not very cheap (the whole complex is running on a deficit and they have upped charges to try to balance the books). If we go, we have to a) settle the dogs and b) eat out, so I thought that, at £11.95, it was going to be cheaper and easier just to get the DVD, especially if we take the petrol cost into consideration! In Kirkwall, petrol (Unleaded) is 99.7p a litre, and our Nissan Primera would drink about a gallon on the return journey to town, effectively adding £4 to the cost of the film!

The last time I was in a cinema was in Edinburgh - for the original release of "Jurassic Park" (which was, I think, 1992!)

Nowadays, I prefer to watch films on DVD, at home - nobody gets shirty if you stay for a second showing, there's a bar, and no shifting seats to let people out to go to the loo! Videos were fine, but DVDs are so much better. Videos don't seem to store as well - I've just had to replace my video of "The Last of the Mohicans" with its DVD version - the video colour was beginning to fade, the DVD is perfect! Bl**dy excellent film, too, BTW!

Snorri

[deefin]

i mostly buy my dvds in from america a they are cheaper and b half the time they just reaching our cinema and i have it on dvd already ..

[Snorri the Priest]

Originally Posted by deefin

i mostly buy my dvds in from america a they are cheaper and b half the time they just reaching our cinema and i have it on dvd already ..

Which is fine, if you have a multi-region DVD player! Mine is a multi-region Toshiba, but we've never tested it with a non-region 2 DVD (too mean to risk the price on something that might not work!). No reason why it shouldn't work, but I seem to have no luck with things like that! I do have some CDs that came from the US, nowt wrong with them at all, but a helluva lot cheaper than in the UK (like too many other things!). No wonder people say "Rip-off Britain"!

However, having said that, I saw a CD advertised in the Britannia Music Club mag, at £7.99 + P&P. When I ordered it from their website, I got it for £5 + P&P, and it arrived in record time (no pun intended!). Vladimir Horowitz playing piano sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, very relaxing, just what I needed!

Snorri