CaaC (John)

The IceRoad (2021) - Liam Neeson - 8/10 Quite enjoyed this one and had me sitting on the edge of the sofa with some of the scenes on the icy road.

Back on topic... Freaks (2018) - Horror/Thriller - 8/10 Lost track of it near the end as I was drinking wine but not a bad film and even the wife enjoyed watching it with the occasional small screams in-between.

True I would imagine when you saw them enjoying the sea and playing some games, supping bottles of whisky and what not then going back into reality and battle with the horror of war, I can remember my old man who was in the subs during WWII telling us stories of pulling dead bodies out of the water all bloated up and one particular young lad who had just arrived straight from training and when they turned the body over looking for an ID for records and forward onto beloved ones the dead person groaned because all of the seawater in their body, the young rating fainted on the spot. Then my tours of duty and walking into mortuaries as part of our duties the things you saw in there I would not describe in here and I still get small flashbacks to this day as they are still there in the back of my mind. Then you would have a few hours off and sometimes even a whole day where we would try and keep ourselves amused as we were not allowed around the City Center (Belfast) as it was too dangerous, one amusement we did was have a 'Hillbilly Fight' as we called it in the corridor, our room consisted of 6 of us in bunk beds and we called our room 'The Rednecks', the room opposite us was 6 other guys called 'The Suckets'. You would be lying on your bed and a knock would come on the door with a guy from the Suckets room and would say in an American Hillbilly tone "Us Suckets want a battle with your lot in 5 minutes..." which we accepted then all hell was broken loose for 10 minutes with guys kicking shite of each other, no holds barred with our Troop Sgt Major and Captain looking on both laughing their balls off when they thought it was getting too messy with the blood they would end the Hillbilly fight with buckets of water all over us which we knew that it was time to clear up the mess and recover from our wounds.

The wife listens to too much shite on Facebook with people ranting on you could end up dead bla, bla, bla having a booster and I told her that "Stop believing all the bull shit you read on Facebook..." I would be a top priority with my age plus I have asthma, COPD, sciatica and a heart failure condition so I would have it just in case we get a new virus from outer space next!!!!

I think you will be ok and the only side effects we have was in the sleep mode, well, me, anyway, I keep crashing out on the sofa here especially when I have had something to eat. They were going on about having a booster jab sometime later on and that would not bother me going for it if when but the wife said they can go to bloody hell, she said 2 jabs were enough for her.

Me and the wife are still in the land of the living after having our 2nd jab over a month ago so you should be ok...I think?

Still prefered the other films mentioned, loved Nick Nolte though as the Lt Colonel yelling down the walkie with the veins on his neck sticking out.

The Thin Red Line (1998) War - 7/5-10 The Longest Day & The Battle of the Bulge was far better than this and even the 1964 version with Jack Warden shaded it, not enough action for me and the film was never classed as a remake of the 1964 version.

Dug these out from my book collection for the next read, again, after finishing my 'Pop Goes The Weasel, saw the series 'Band of Brothers' and these 3 books are top draw and D-Day was the best out of the 3 portrayed in the series. @ASF & @Viva la FCB mentioned the series here in the Famous or Highly-Rated Series You've Not Watched? thread and you guys if you have not read them then you are missing a great read.

A bit cloudy here in this neck of the woods, a few showers earlier on but looks ok so far and I hope so as today is our daughters birthday so we hope to spend a few hours with her.

Wee Kaiden and our daughter were watching it yesterday and found it quite funny.

Up to 14 &1/2 stone and the wife, daughter, and son are giving me jip, the daughter when she calls with wee Kaiden says to him "Go and pat your granddaddies baby in his tummy

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Just watched the trailer and it looks good, just sent a text message to the daughter as wee Kaiden would like anything like that, he loved 'Find Nemo'.

One of these is Kaiden's Puddin

The Intruder (2019) - Thriller - Dennis Quaid - 6/10 Not bad, seen worse and have seen better the only critical bit for me was Dennis Quaid as the villain, Quaid just did not seem the villain type in this film and if they had chosen someone like Jack Nicholson or thereabouts then I would have rated the film an 8.0/10

That's our daughter ear-marked a wee kitten from a friend for September as the mother cat gave birth today with 4 kittens and our daughter has chosen one and wee Kaiden has called her Puddin, I don't know why Puddin? The daughter said she won't be buying any more pet rats as their life span is too short and Kaiden is always heartbroken when one dies, that's 3 rats the daughter has lost now in the last 6 months and vet bills cost a bomb nowadays.