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Movies, security, repairs
Last night, in lieu of the weekly game, we watched Peter Jackson’s King Kong on DVD. Three hours plus interruptions, say 3 hours 30 minutes in all, including phone calls, coffee breaks and the like.
Excellent special effects as you would imagine from WETA, but it really is a classic example of a director who has just had a huge hit being given carte blanche to do as he pleases. Did everyone forget that this is the man behind such abysmal fare as Basket Case?![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
colonel_maxim had the right of it, I think, when he observed that Jackson needed a good editor. Virtually every scene is about 20% too long and a couple of them shouldn’t be there at all. When the gang fell into the ravine with the giant insects we both shouted “referee!” at the telly. I mean, come on.
With 20% lopped off it may become a good film; I can’t see it ever being a great film. I would have hated to see it at the cinema.
Sometime later this week, the police will be sending someone around to look at our flat door and to talk security to us. Apparently although Whetstone is generally a low crime area, there has been a spate of break ins and attempted break ins along the High Road in recent weeks. I am hoping that armed with that intelligence and perhaps even something in writing it will spur the landlord into providing us with a stronger door, perhaps one with a separate steel gate a little in front of the door itself. A new security door would do, though.
Does anyone out there in LJ land have any useful experience of pressurising landlords into keeping up their end of the tenancy agreement? I don’t want to threaten him with lawyers or anything like that if we can possibly get away with it, but I would like us to get what we’re entitled to from him, especially as it isn’t the cheapest place in the world to live. Practical advice welcomed; I have had a look at a couple of websites, but they seem to be a little hazy on the subject and don’t go beyond suggesting that it may be possible top pressurise landlords into making repairs.
Excellent special effects as you would imagine from WETA, but it really is a classic example of a director who has just had a huge hit being given carte blanche to do as he pleases. Did everyone forget that this is the man behind such abysmal fare as Basket Case?
colonel_maxim had the right of it, I think, when he observed that Jackson needed a good editor. Virtually every scene is about 20% too long and a couple of them shouldn’t be there at all. When the gang fell into the ravine with the giant insects we both shouted “referee!” at the telly. I mean, come on.With 20% lopped off it may become a good film; I can’t see it ever being a great film. I would have hated to see it at the cinema.
Sometime later this week, the police will be sending someone around to look at our flat door and to talk security to us. Apparently although Whetstone is generally a low crime area, there has been a spate of break ins and attempted break ins along the High Road in recent weeks. I am hoping that armed with that intelligence and perhaps even something in writing it will spur the landlord into providing us with a stronger door, perhaps one with a separate steel gate a little in front of the door itself. A new security door would do, though.
Does anyone out there in LJ land have any useful experience of pressurising landlords into keeping up their end of the tenancy agreement? I don’t want to threaten him with lawyers or anything like that if we can possibly get away with it, but I would like us to get what we’re entitled to from him, especially as it isn’t the cheapest place in the world to live. Practical advice welcomed; I have had a look at a couple of websites, but they seem to be a little hazy on the subject and don’t go beyond suggesting that it may be possible top pressurise landlords into making repairs.
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Charlie Brooker (I like Charlie Brooker) says some things about King Kong here -> http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1680381,00.html
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