Tuesday 5 October 2010

Whiteout: Blood, Ice Axes and SNOW … !!

You know, I’ve got to admit, it is getting rather late: I’ve actually started posting this at just gone 23:55 and my eyes feel vaguely like they’re going to drop out of my skull.

Hardly a pleasant image, I know, but as soon as I find a nicer one, I’ll let you know … !

Suffice to say — all things considered— I might just finish this post in the morning.

But wanted to get something up, just to let you know that Movie Night Adrian and I managed to catch the 2009, Kate Beckinsale film, Whiteout, tonight.

Which isn’t maybe the most intellectually stimulating movie going.

But is rather entertaining, none the less.

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6/10/2010

OK, OK, I know I said I meant to pick up this post where I’d left it, in the morning …

But there you go …

At any rate, last night saw me and Movie Night Adrian happily settling down to watch the 2009 film, Whiteout.

And believe it or not, not because we wanted to watch Kate Beckinsale getting her kit off, bonus though it was.

No, because we fancied some entertainment.

Yes, ok, I know … !!

But there you go … !

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Let me get moving on …

Whiteout sees Kate Beckinsale as US Marshal, Carrie Stetko: a marshall assigned a US base in Antartica who — along pilot, Delfiº and Dr John “Doc” Furyª — investigating the apparent accidental death of a scientist who’d been investigating meteor landings in the area.

One who’d seemingly been injured by an ice-axe, had fallen from a great height — miles from any cliffs — and not been wearing cold weather gear at the time.

And on top of that … ?

On top of that, the crashed Cold War era, Russian plane they discover — shown to us in the films early scenes — seems to have — or have had — something on it that had been stolen by the dead scientist …

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Now I was talking about entertainment, earlier … ?

Now Whiteout isn’t exactly brain food.

Not with Joel Silver as a producer!

But it is value for money entertainment.

And not a bad way of spending an hour and a half.

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ª Tom Skerritt: best remembered as Captain Dallas, in the original Alien.

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