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Squidgy Black · 19-12-2021 04:42PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118346781#Comment_118346781

You would have to imagine that the number of people who aren’t vaccinated and also haven’t been infected, even asymptomatic, is probably such a low number everywhere

Neil3030 · 19-12-2021 06:47PM

Yeah, SA has a low vax rate but they also had at least two awful previous outbreaks - beta variant toward the end of last year, and delta variant this summer (their winter).

It would indeed be great news if omicron is infectious but mild, while able to fight off more serious variants and leave people with antibodies. But we'll be waiting a while to know for sure.

swiwi_ · 19-12-2021 10:07PM

So I watched power of the dog. This is a really well made film. However, it will be marmite to viewers: love it or hate it.

kuang1 · 20-12-2021 12:41AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118349177#Comment_118349177

Yeah watched it myself last week. Cumberbatch is v v good in it and deserves all the credit he's getting.

Despite that, as a movie it didn't really ring my bell.

swiwi_ · 20-12-2021 10:10AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118349776#Comment_118349776

Thought the best actor was Peter (Kodi Smit-McPhee). In terms of film-making as an art, can't fault it. Should pick up technical oscars like cinematography (North Otago NZ, not Montana USA...), and I think Campion, Cumberbatch and Smit-McPhee will be in the running too. In terms of film-making as entertainment, you will have those that love it and those who are bored shìtless after 5 minutes and think it's the worse film ever. Basically, it comes down to whether you like slow-moving arthouse films or not...

hold my beer · 20-12-2021 12:28PM

I absolutely hated There will be blood. Most boring movie ever. This sounds similar.

sydthebeat · 20-12-2021 12:32PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118351214#Comment_118351214

TWBB is a masterpiece. The last 30 mins of that movie is arguably the best 30 mins of cinema ever made.

hold my beer · 20-12-2021 12:35PM

I should really watch it again to see if my opinion has changed. It must be nearly 15 years since I seen it.

kuang1 · 20-12-2021 12:43PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118351253#Comment_118351253

Yeah it's not a million miles off TWBB.

Didn't get the fuss over that movie either, although the final scene was excellent.

Just for context, a movie I really enjoyed recently was "The Good Liar".

Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen. Starts off leading you to believe that it's a "Dirty rotten scoundrels" type vibe, and then turns into something else. Very good movie for me.

sydthebeat · 20-12-2021 12:46PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118351253#Comment_118351253

ah everyones opinion is different. i tend to be into really slow moving, dialogue light "cinematic" movies. I rate "a ghost story" by david lowry as one of my fav movies yet a lot of people ive discussed with hated it for its blandness and lack of movement.. which was essentially the whole point :)

pickarooney · 20-12-2021 12:56PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118351253#Comment_118351253

Same, I found it tedious as **** and DDL's ham-acting just got on my nerves.

Why did we go from Delta to Omicron and skip all the letters in between?

I don't remember a Gamma either.

sydthebeat · 20-12-2021 01:10PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118351367#Comment_118351367

we didnt, we only skipped nu and xi

youve only heard about omicron after delata as it is a "variant of concern"

the other variants in between are not concerning enough

swiwi_ · 20-12-2021 05:00PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118351214#Comment_118351214

I really didn’t like there will be blood that much either. The power of the dog I thought was very good on the other hand, it really is very well directed

the most boring film I have ever watched was l‘Aventurra. The same director did Blow Up which I thought was really good. But these are old films.

Neil3030 · 20-12-2021 05:13PM

"Le Conseguenze Dell'Amore" felt like an eternity but I think that was the point.

stephen_n · 20-12-2021 05:34PM

Anything with Will Ferrel in it would feel like an eternity to me.

Never made it through there will be blood. Daniel Day Lewis was a little bit too DDL in it.

swiwi_ · 20-12-2021 05:43PM

The thin red line. Now there is a snore fest of a war film!

im looking forward to Belfast, seems highly rated.

20-12-2021 08:57PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118352906#Comment_118352906

have you seen Stranger Than Fiction?

molloyjh · 20-12-2021 08:59PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118352906#Comment_118352906

Would you believe he was decent in The Shrink Next Door. I am not a fan, but it’s a serious role so not full of his usual schtick.

And totally agree with swiwi on The Thin Red Line. Christ that was dull.

stephen_n · 20-12-2021 09:31PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118353722#Comment_118353722

Works sometimes, I always found Jim Carey more tolerable in straight roles.

Neil3030 · 22-12-2021 06:18PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118341191#Comment_118341191

A nice thread here with data from New South Wales, Australia (where only 2-3% of the population had the Delta variant). Once Omicron took over, hospitalization rates fell to roughly half what they'd been in the months previous. If anything, looking at the plot below, the rate arguable started to fall from ~mid November onwards, suggesting that if this drop is Omicron related, the variant was basically everywhere, a lot earlier than we thought (circular as that logic may be). NSW was also highly vaccinated. More data needed on case fatalities vax v non-vax before we can conclude this is actually a milder strain. I'm still of the mind that viruses don't get weaker, we get stronger, but a lot of signs are nonetheless pointing to the former.

Paul Smeenus · 22-12-2021 10:43PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118352941#Comment_118352941

Completely agree on the Thin Red Line. Endurance test of self-indulgent toss.

Belfast is schmaltzy as hell - not my cup of tea at all. Which is a shame, as it tells a part of our history that has been completely ignored.

kuang1 · 23-12-2021 10:34AM

Had to Google "schmaltzy"... Excessively sentimental apparently!

It's gas these days. If I hear about a movie that's been nominated for this that and the other, it's almost certain to be a schmaltzy, maudlin, achromic, languid piece of work* that the average cinephile (like myself) just doesn't get.

*This post is sponsored by thesaurus.com

Honestly never understood any of those 4 adjectives before today. Never even saw 2 of them!

23-12-2021 03:13PM

Anyone else get covid as an early Christmas present

dregin · 23-12-2021 04:05PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118366527#Comment_118366527

Yep. How's it going for you? Think we're getting away fairly mildly so far.

23-12-2021 04:11PM

Very mild altogether. Gf went out for a jog yesterday morning so almost back to normal. We got it just before I was supposed to fly home though which isn't ideal. Quiet Christmas year.

Neil3030 · 23-12-2021 04:13PM

Is any trying to play FPL this year? The cancellations are adding.a whole new world of pain!

Dave_The_Sheep · 23-12-2021 08:29PM

Pre-Christmas Covid seems to be a real trend at the moment. My two best mates and their families both have it, my sister (in Canada) has it, my aunt and uncle have it. Far more so than last Christmas.

stephen_n · 23-12-2021 09:31PM

Thankfully I got it out of the way at the beginning of December. Feel really sorry for the people who will have to isolate through Christmas.

dregin · 24-12-2021 10:45AM

Thought this was hilarious at first, but now the fury has kicked in. How many needless deaths have this prick and his friends caused during the course of the pandemic? Fair play to Roley's.

https://twitter.com/IrlagainstFash/status/1474104630485336069

Podge_irl · 24-12-2021 11:25AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118367891#Comment_118367891

I just got it yesterday 😀

🙃

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