The history boys and the dead poets society - a comparison

No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

_John Keating

I found this review where the reviewer loved the history boys and felt it necessary to trash the dead poets society as a consequence. example:
The movie showed soulless patriarchs driving tender adolescents to suicide for the crime of reading poetry aloud in the woods.
way to miss the point! *rolls eyes* he killed himself because he didnt want to go to military school and then be forced to be a doctor.

My point is more that actually you cant compare the two because of the ocean that divides them (set as they are on different land masses). the dead poets society is a movie about repressed little american boys in a sad private boarding school. unloved by their parents, subdued by bad teaching and too many rules. the history boys is about thriving little oxbridge candidates from Sheffield. who are on hyper-casual terms with their teachers. example:
You're very young, sir. This isn't your gap year is it, sir?
yes they're both about teaching and teachers but thats about all they have in common. the dead poets society is not a brit filum and hence cannot be judged in brit filum terms. and its not meant to be a comedy. it would make sense to compare the history boys with say the school of rock maybe...


I didn't want to turn out boys who in later life had a deep love of literature, or who would talk in middle age of the lure of language and their love of words. 'Words' said in that reverential way that is somehow Welsh.

_Hector

What time is it? IT'S WATCHMEN SPAM TIME!

I have been prevented from updating this blog by the biggest obstacle of them all: laziness. I have finally overcome it, and even though Watchmen is all over the internet, I am assuming that you are not yet sick of it. But because everyone else analyses it and I don't feel that I have anything to contribute to that, I am going to bring you a visual Watchmen spam. Hooray!

First: The Black Freighter awesomeness and Under the Hood awesomeness.



Link to Under the Hood.

And now for some lulz:

I love the Good Omens reference.

Last but not least:

I didn't make any of these, I just laughed uncontrollably at them. I hope you did too.

You're the only man I know who could mix Elvis Costello and Public Enemy! ...What's so funny about... peace, peace, peace...

When I was in London I saw Ralph Fiennes in "Brandt". My mother and I went to the stage door, because we were so blown away by it. We were just gushing American fans. And then this guy went, Omigod, Jeremy Piven!" And he started giving it up in a very un-British way. It was a strange moment.

_Jeremy Piven

more people should loooooove jeremy piven. he can sometimes be my entire reason for watching a movie. let's say im watching a trailer and suddenly catch a glimpse of him, i get all omg omg jeremy piven! and start beating on the person next to me to make sure they saw too. and then i know its a movie i have to watch. like today, i ended up watching 'chasing liberty' a silly (but cute-ish) little movie about mandy moore (she's the president's daughter)'s need for freedom (she's always followed by secret service types) and her dad (the ever gorgeous mark harmon) gets this guy (ss obviously) to pretend to be just some guy she met and...no it's not jeremy piven! jeremy piven is the king of non lead roles. jeremy piven is the guy (also ss) who's following the guy and girl...it's all very stalker. anyway my point is, i should have logically been swooning over matthew goode (geek fact: adrian veidt in the new watchmen movie!).

but no, i wasnt even remotely giddy. and he's got youth and looks and a british accent on his side...but jeremy piven is the only one with jeremy piven-ness. the end. he may have a receding hairline...but i need to make sure im sitting down cause oh do i swoon or do i swoon at the sight of him :)

jeremy piven can make the smallest of roles seem like the most important part of the story...like in serendipity where you really really care about him and his wife (unseen) about as much as you want john cusack to just get the girl already (cause john cusack is just so awesome).

other good movies to catch him in: singles/say anything/music from another room.

maybe i should start watching entourage? ^^

Cream colored ponies and crisp apple strudels

we also love singing joss whedon songs at people. talking weird languages. and swearing in even weirder ones. talking in quotes from withnail and i, firefly and other miscellany.

...and oh yes! your mum's a bunny suit!

Brown paper packages tied up with strings

This blog's about our favourite things. We like indie music, weird films and B movies, fantasy, science fiction, comics, 80s/early 90s cartoons and other splendid things. This introduction entry isn't very informative, but introductions are boring anyway and they always give away the plot (damn you, Penguin Classics!). So we'll just get on with it and start posting about the fun stuff.

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