Movie and a few Beers
The Arthur Boys were out on the town last night for a few cheeky beers and the absolutely intolerable pile of crap that is The League of EXtraordinary Gentlemen.
Well, where to begin with the film? The plot is quite honestly absurd and is about as thin as sheet of bog paper. Europe is on the brink of war and the British Empire calls on its trusted citizens of Alan Quartermain, Dorien Gray, the Invisible Man, Some vampire, Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde and Captain Nemo (isn’t he that little orange fish?) to try to avert it. Anyway before you even begin, if you take these good(?) literary characters and think of a literary character of diabolical ingenuity and intelligence who could be the bad guy most folk can work out (for those that don’t theres a clue in the name of the boss of British intelligence, M).
The film was surprisingly well acted (and you have to ask yourself why Connery would lend his name to this) its completely let down by an appalling script (always happens when theres no plot on which to build a decent script).
One plus point for the film was the special effects which i have to say looked really cool (Not Star wars Attack of the Clones cool but pretty damn good) the trouble is that eye candy is useless without anything to back it up (unless your name is Katie Lawler)
After the film the Beer monster needed feeding so we visited a few of Edinburghs fine establishments (Rush, Opium, Lloyds Bar) finally ending up in the lovely Scrubway Cowgate. In a night which was absolutely heaving with bodies (I counted ohhh at least 12 including three bar staff, 5 bar staff in for a few beers, Rick and I and two other punters) This is not the Subway I remember (granted seen as the last time I was in there were two boys pissing up the back wall behind the speakers that may not be saying much).