Keith Houchen

Victoria Coren. Hur hur I'd "Poker" and let her read my column, if her mouth and my cock could "Only Connect" etc.

Just watched Das Experiment tonight. Cracking film - probably really difficult to pace and possibly not helped by too much emphasis on Tarek's girlfriend on the 'outside', but it's really enjoyable and had a really satisfying ending, I thought.

 

8 nightsticks out of 10.

I Sky plussed it a few months ago but the signal was lost when they put Tarek in that little box so I've no idea what happened, if I see it cheap I'll pick it up as I really enjoyed what I saw.

Fair enough, I guess I'll have to lump you in with the rest of the bottom feeders then.

Loki, must you do a running commentary? That's what the BBC is for.

Maybe he means the Glamorgan area and local economy and not the Glamorgan cricket team.

He's as English as St George, Allan Lamb and Zola Budd.

Hick was English?

I once saw The Mighty Hick play in an exhibition match at the Cov & North Warks cricket club on the Binley Road in Cov, also playing were Beefy and the beguiling seamer Steven Ogrizovic. The sight of Hick actually pushing children away from him on his way back to the pavilion cemented his legendary status for me.

FrankSidebottom, I think you should do the text updates on the BBC, also Boycott is immense. He is far and away my favourite wife beater of all time. [Frank]Four hours it took him to give her a black eye[/skinner]

A kid down our street had a Neo Geo. I think I probably had my first orgasm the day I played that thing. unfortuantely, I wasn't allowed to hang around with him, me Mam banned me. He used to shoplift. Bye, bye Neo Geo.

Well, those Neo-Geo games didn't come cheap.

You had a Neo-Geo, didn't you Loki.

Loved your list, Loki. Some gems on there. I remember playing AVP on my mates Jag, scary shit indeed.

12. The Ninja (Sega Master System)

 

Frustrating piece of crap this but brilliantly playable. Some bits just seemed impossible, trying to react to 3 or 4 baddies at once with accurate throws of the ninja star. I never completed it, I was too crap but I did love trying.

Now you're taking me back! ~

 

I never got past the bit that required crossing a stampede of horses. That was probably level 2...

According to some games magazine or other, I held the high score record for this game for about 6 months. Not because I was brilliant at it but I could only find 4 of the 5 scrolls needed to get in to the castle, as a result you warped back to level 4 with your current score intact. Repeat this until you run out of lives, take a picture of your telly and there you go, a legend in your own lunchtime.

Skool Daze was one of the most annoying games I've ever played. It was as hard as HTBACB.

 

Bonus points if you know/remember HTBACB on the speccy.

I had a copy of it, word got round school and I had loads of new "mates". Being a Speccy owner though, I was already one of the cool kids so the CommoBores could go fuck themselves.

Mrs Mopp and Manic Miner FTW.

I have nothing to add really, just wanted to say that someone mentioned the SF2 tourney on Cov's Holyhead Road, I went to that! I was working in HMV's all new games department at the time and used to encourage kids to wag it to play in makeshift tournaments. I'd arrange them for my day off so they wouldn't happen, I like to think I educated them in my own way.

Apart from my shithouse books, I was given A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole a while back as a gift from my mother in law, I really should start reading it, any good?

Been to HMV recently Steveo? That's where I picked that up for 3 quid (and Dawn Of The Dumb). Really good shithouse reads they are, you can get through one article per dump usually.

I was bought The Guardian Book Of Football which is write ups from the paper about football matches and events from the last 50 years. Some great stuff in there.

Anyone else watch Krod Mandoon last night? What did you reckon?

It was shite.

I remember Caddyshack 2 being absolutely shite. Anybody else ever watched that?

Christ it was terrible, Dan Ackroyd was shocking bad. Also Judge Smails is the best character in Caddyshack.

I was honestly in tears by the end of this.

EDIT: Also, my post was from a week ago. You must be pretty bored to comment on week-old posts.

Maybe he'd only just seen it? I wasn't aware that there was a forum time limit on such matters.

 

Brian Sutherland - Best boxer in the world?

The commentary team were sublime!

I just saw Star Trek again, loved it just as much second time, my film of the year so far for sure. No doubt you'll see people starting to bash it soon to be cool and go against the grain of the majority because people like it.

Or they'll bash it because they simply didn't like it.

Coraline

Since moving to Manchester, I hadn't been to the Cinema and Mrs Houchen had wanted to see Coraline, what with her being a fan of animation so a tram ride from Stretford to G mex later, we were at the pics. The AMC seems to be a multiplex that I could get on with, many screens and unbelievably, LEG ROOM! Luckily screen 13 was quite empty as well, Coraline is billed as a kids film so there were a few kids there too, never mind, the comfy seats and leg room will make up for that.

Coraline isn't really a kids film, more a kids horror film, the opening title sequence where a doll gets pulled apart set the tone nicely. Given that it's directed by Henry Selick (The guy who really made Nightmare Before Christmas) I was expecting a visual feast and sure as shit, that's what you get. The voice casting is spot on, the animation of Coraline coupled with Dakota Fannings voice made for a heroine who I really rooted for, before the film started they were playing songs from films over the PA and one from Labyrinth came on, Mrs Houchen said how much she loved that film as a child and really wanted to be the girl in it, (I instantly thought of the ass to ass scene from Requiem For A Dream) I can imagine that 8 year old watching Coraline would want the same thing (not the ass to ass scene, obviously). Speaking of RFAD, it was strange to hear the cat in Coraline being voiced by Big Tim from RFAD, (There's that ass to ass scene again).

There were some genuine scary moments and there were a few crying children during the film which brought a smile to my jaded, cynical face, overall I thought it was a wonderful film with some truly amazing visuals (The mouse circus and the gardens in the 'other world'), not as good as the ass to ass scene though but yeah, great film.