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If you 'know' me, then feel free to request me on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JoanneMcCarthy
I figured I'd leave the following stuff here from my old profile, as it must've meant something to me at the time!
According to the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, I am an INTP type. The description is scarily accurate, so if you want to know more about me, then check out this link... http://www.intp.org/intprofile.html
Thanks to tuttle and Chromium for their input on that!
A Few Favourite Movies (Not a definitive list)...
Amelie
The Shawshank Redemption
The Purple Rose Of Cairo
Trainspotting
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Donnie Darko
The Wizard of Oz
It's A Wonderful Life
The Shining
Die Hard
The Breakfast Club
Favourite Director...
Woody Allen.
Favourite Authors...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
John Steinbeck
George Orwell
Yann Martell
Stephen King
Favourite Bands/Artists...
Crowded House/Neil Finn
David Mead
Counting Crows
The Killers
Foo Fighters
Muse
Arctic Monkeys
The Beatles
David Gray
Some Lyrics I Love...
"I would love
to trouble you in your time of need.
Lose your way,
it's a pleasure when you're in my command."
"In My Command" - Crowded House.
"Take off your dress don't worry, take off your boxing gloves.
There's nothing in your touch to hurt me,
but the punishment i'm thinking of."
"Mine And Yours" - David Mead.
"Everytime she sneezes I believe it's love,
and oh Lord i'm not ready for this sort of thing."
"Anna Begins" - Counting Crows.
"Please forgive me if I act a little strange,
for I know not what I do.
Feels like lightning running through my veins,
everytime I look at you."
"Please Forgive Me" - David Gray.
"When you were here before,
I couldn't look you in the eye.
You're just like an angel,
your skin makes me cry."
"Creep" - Radiohead.
"Tie my hands behind my back,
put a gag on top of my mouth."
"Turn And Run" - Neil Finn.
"Step out the front door like a ghost
into the fog where no one notices
the contrast of white on white.
And in between the moon and you
the angels get a better view
of the crumbling difference between wrong and right."
"Round Here" - Counting Crows
"Say the word now girl,
i'll jump that moon."
"Be Mine" - David Gray
"She never gets wet
She smiles and it's a rainbow
And she speaks and she breathes..."
"Kate" - Ben Folds Five
Sorry about the long lyrics list, I got a bit carried away!
If any more come to me, I may add them at a later date!
Quotes about me from fellow IMDbers...
"pib and pob- Wonderful personality, and always loads of fun. She's bold and saucy, and gives this place some spice. She's also down to earth, and honest, and genuinely nice. Something about her, draws us all in. If the Sandbox had a Queen, hands down, it would have to be Pib." - sweetlynnie
"Pib doesn't like anyone on here. She's only here to ease her spelling correction fetish." - danny_robbo
"WOT PIB SAYS RULES" "She is the ultimate" - gorgeousoz
"Pib = Intelligent, tactile and fun, the embodiment of what a poster should be and the last bastion of the glorious days of the Sandbox!" - morganlee
"If this place needs a president, it should be pib_and_pob. No doubt in my mind."
"You have been here for quite some time, and you strike me as a very smart, funny, and all-around charming person." - Chromium
"You are such a wonderful person who deserves to be worshiped by everyone in the galaxy." - Zeo Fozki
Blah, blah, blah... Do any of these people even exist anymore?!
Previous sig-lines (in chronological order)...
Hi. I'm Ed Winchester. (Quoted from 'The Fast Show'.)
Yes, it's always the nice boys who are the dirtiest. (Original creation. )
"Tie my hands behind my back, put a gag on top of my mouth." (Neil Finn lyric.)
"A long December, and there's reason to believe maybe this year will be better than the last." (Counting Crows lyric.)
"I'm breathing in the words that slip softly from your fingertips." (David Mead lyric.)
"Everything gets turned around, but I will risk my neck again." (Crowded House lyric.)
"Ain't necessarily a bad thing to believe the things I say." (Counting Crows lyric.)
"I've been talking drunken gibberish." (David Gray lyric.)
"If things get real, promise to take me somewhere else." (Turin Brakes lyric.)
"Every word is nonsense, but I understand." (Counting Crows lyric.)
"Pib doesn't like anyone on here. She's only here to ease her spelling correction fetish." (danny_robbo quotation. )
"I said what you wanted to hear and what I wanted to say, so I will take it back." (Ben Folds Five lyric.)
"I am pob's complete lack of surprise." (Bastardized 'Fight Club' quote. )
"I tried to be good but i'm still so bored tonight." (David Mead lyric.)
"Sports, politics and religion are the three passions of the badly educated." (William Gass quote.)
I can't help being convinced that my dear fellow men, with a few exceptions, are worthless. (Gustave Flaubert quote.)
"People say that life is the thing; but I prefer reading." (Logan Pearsall Smith quote.)
Participate in my New IMDb Poll at...
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Again, I suspect this no longer exists.
Remember: It's better to waste your time than to do nothing at all with it.
Ratings
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Reviews
This Is England (2006)
A highly overrated film. (Only minor spoilers.)
I watched this film last night with anticipation, but really wasn't very impressed.
With the exception of 'Combo', I thought the acting was poor and the narrative was limited. It came across like a 'made for TV' drama.
I felt that the film was very contrived. The whole set up of hammering in the context at the start (yes, we get that this is 80s Britain - you can stop now) was tiresome, and gave a very one-sided view of what life was like in 80s Britain - poverty, war juxtaposed with royalty, Margaret Thatcher, yet nothing in between? There were actually middle-classes who existed back then - just ordinary working people, with a decent wage and a mortgage. The Falklands clips also seemed to be added randomly towards the end, for 'dramatic effect', I presume.
The sequence of events felt a tad disjointed, as the characters moved one one action to the next without us seeing how their mindset could've changed so quickly.
The relationship between 'Shaun' and 'Smell' was toe-curling. I couldn't even look during the snogging scene. I find it very hard to believe that she would've been attracted to a boy who was not only so much younger, but also looked so much younger. I know there were only four years between them, but four years is nothing once you reach your twenties, yet it's a huge difference in your teens! In my experience, that kind of teen age difference only occurs when the girl is the younger one, since girls mature so much quicker, and are more on the wavelength of boys a few years older. Sorry, but I didn't buy it - an unnecessary plot point created for shock value.
The ending was somewhat abrupt and, again, contrived. If the flag throwing incident was supposed to be iconic, then it fell somewhat short in my eyes.
It bugs me that British films only concern themselves with either the upper classes or the poverty-stricken. Don't get me wrong, I love Trainspotting, and Four Weddings has its charms, but can't we Brits come up with anything different? Why are our films always so hung up on the class system? I was born in 1973, so wasn't much different in age to 'Shaun' would've been in 1983. I grew up in a single parent family on a fairly down-trodden council estate in a city in England. However, my childhood experiences were vastly different to those portrayed in the film - I don't even remember racism being an issue (although i'm not saying it didn't exist). 'This is England'? Not in my experience.
The bottom line is that I felt this film lacked substance, and I was completely bored and unimpressed throughout.