Re: The NEW, "What's that in your eyeballs?" thread. Part 20

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The Mummy is on Legend.

It's the Christopher Lee one.

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Witchcraft is on TalkingPicturesTV, at 9:05.

Starring Lon Chaney Jr.

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The Thing is on Legend at 9 o'clock.

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Where Beagles Dare is on on C5.

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Now to see what's on the telly tonight.

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ITV3 is still showing Carry On movies.

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Shape of Things to Come is on Legend, at 6:35.

It's not the famous version. It's a thing from the 1970s.

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Sam Ryder Rocks New Year's Eve is on BBC1, at 11:30.

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It's up against Jools Holland on BBC2.

Starring Andy Fairweather Low.

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I don't know anything about him, other than that I always lump him in with Peter Frampton.

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Shape of Things to Come is on Legend, at 6:35.

It's not the famous version. It's a thing from the 1970s.

Barry Morse is in it.

Doing a ropey American accent.

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I've just properly got up and turned the telly on and started flicking and alighted on ITV3 and immediately, upon seeing the title sequence to Abroad, my autonomic brain functions made my mouth go "oh, wonderful" without me having to think of the words before.

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"You stupid what?"

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Blooding cheek!

[Fangirl Three]

Mr Farkyhars

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It's a weird film that.

It's uncomfortably 'physical'.

The bit where KW has to kiss Miss Plunkett is especially uncomfortable.

The cast is weirdly off as well - there's no Jim Dale, Kenneth Cope-esque bumbling young man character, instead we get this motley bunch of blokes who're all a bit too old for the role - the coarse Scottish man who seems to have walked onto the wrong set from another film entirely, the straight and gay pair who seem to have inexplicably gone on holiday together and then Bernard Bresslaw's lapsing monk.

There's also a lot mercurialness about the character's personalities - one minute they're all jolly and then they're losing their tempers, one minute they're all blithe and carefree, the next they're panicking and losing the plot, one minute they're all uptight and the next they're all amorous, one minute the the various potential pairings hate each other the next they're jumping into bed with each other.

Also, a lot of the characters don't seem to serve any kind of distinct purpose - Hawtrey especially, who genuinely seems to be unhinged and slightly dangerous (which, I suppose, he was in reality).

Ultimately, there seems to be an undercurrent of real animosity throughout - Sims is a hectoring fishwife, The two girls just seem generally angry and/or disgusted and Hattie Jacques just acts as this perpetually furious, one-dimensional grotesque.

The scene in the village and the brothel is quite violent too.

At least Jack Douglas doesn't go on the trip I suppose.

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Phew, I'm glad I got that off my chest.

[Fangirl Three]

At least June Whitfield gets herself unfrozen by Ray Brooks' latin charm.

[Fangirl Three]

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Now to see what's on the telly tonight.

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