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craigoxbrow) wrote2008-07-27 07:17 pm
craigoxbrow) wrote2008-07-27 07:17 pm
Three years and three weeks later...
Spielberg's War Of The Worlds is on TV tonight - its big terrestrial premiere, 8pm on BBC One.
Cat and I saw it three years ago in a rather charged atmosphere. The Gleneagles summit was starting, and Make Poverty History was all around town. There were riots in the Old Town and the whole area had been cordoned off. The Cameo was about as far in as we could actually get. It was really about half a mile from anything going on, but still...
So there we were watching the rioting, looting and chaos caused by huge events beyond the characters' control on the big screen, on an evening when it wouldn't have entirely surprised me if we'd actually been evacuated.
My Make Poverty History white band snapped a few weeks ago. Poverty still exists.
I'm gonna go watch a movie.
Cat and I saw it three years ago in a rather charged atmosphere. The Gleneagles summit was starting, and Make Poverty History was all around town. There were riots in the Old Town and the whole area had been cordoned off. The Cameo was about as far in as we could actually get. It was really about half a mile from anything going on, but still...
So there we were watching the rioting, looting and chaos caused by huge events beyond the characters' control on the big screen, on an evening when it wouldn't have entirely surprised me if we'd actually been evacuated.
My Make Poverty History white band snapped a few weeks ago. Poverty still exists.
I'm gonna go watch a movie.