LIFE ON MARS

A Life of Crime

Well, this one is on Britbox (again). There are so many great crime shows on Britbox, you just never run out.

Here, the hero of the day has a car accident in 2006 and finds himself all of a sudden back in 1973, surrounded by Geezers who won't take no shite. There is the opening gambit which involves piling shit on the "macho" blokes of the 1970s (really nasty mysoginistic bastards) who were of course real men. That is, they were just being themselves. Blokes. Before the Great Tupperware Party was forced upon them. I mean, back then, it wasn't no crime to live in your man cave at work. Of course, now you get locked up for that. Our view is that if you don't like working in a male environment then you can fuck off back to the kitchen while we continue to be ourselves.

Philip Gleinster is the "Guvnor", 1970s style. We soon find that the metrosexual, soft-cock hero of 2006 has a bit to learn about how things are handled back when "The Sweeney" (John Thaw: Inspector Morse, and Dennis Waterman) was in action. Perhaps policing has improved? "Transparent investigations" is his metrosexual's logo. And, as in "Back to the Future", he meets himself, his mother, and his Dad. It's a real romp.

Isn't it funny how they just know we will suspend our disbelief so easily. Suspending our disbelief is what men like Steven Spielberg are so good at.

Everyone says the sixties were cool but coolness actually reached its greatest heights (zenith) in the seventies. So, they are all strutting around belting heads and sculling pints and bottles of Johnny Walker to their hearts' content while wearing flares, boots, and sporting mutton chop sideburns and gold chains. There is a particularly cool West Indian hotelier of the Viv Richards mould. And then there is the beautiful actress Liz White, the policewoman with the psychology degree as representative of times to come. Well, the Skyhooks sure had it right when they sang about "Women in Uniform", especially this gorgeous chick.

On Britbox, you can do yourself a favour and watch the Sweeney movie! where they are all driving around in Ford Escorts and Ford Cortinas. For the more discerning, there are the epic Rovers and Jags.

If you want to watch a really great crime show, you should check out "The Professionals", another excellent British cop show of the mid to late 1980s. That really swings. The cop show that wins on all fronts in terms of sheer quality and heart is "Hill Street Blues", the legendary Stephen Bocho inspired TV masterpiece. We found that on Disney. Do yaself a favour. You'll love the characters, the grimy American NY overlay and you'll fall instantly in love with Veronica Hamel. It also sports the best TV intro music ever written.

We have also recently taken to reading Colin Dexter's truly brilliant "Morse" novels and then, once we have finished the novel, watching the corresponding "Inspector Morse" episode on Britbox. It is fascinating to see how they transcribe the complexities of the novel into a screenplay.

We are doing the same with John Le Carre's spy novels. He is still contributing great stuff to current streaming services. It all started after ploughing through the entire policeman Wallander series of novels these last few years, set in Ystadt in southern Sweden, written by the great Henning Mankel.

We also recommend "Slow Horses" on Apple TV+, featuring the great Gary Oldman.

Anyway, crime at its best.

THE OPPENHEIMER FILM

We have returned to work for the umpteenth time, getting back up off the canvas for the umpteenth time, at least for the moment. "It doesn't matter how many times you get knocked down, punished by the ravages of this world, it's only about how many times you keep getting up.

That is largely what life is all about.

Try telling that to the current ovarian based, overprotective, mollycoddling "education" system in Australia, which is entirely irrelevant and useless to humanity.

We read this book, American Prometheus, which this film is based on, in 2019. It was something like 850 pages and most of it was extremely interesting since it got into the technical side of quantum physics.

The film cannot do this, get into the technical side of quantum physics, even at three hours long. So far, we have watched the first 45 minutes and found it to be incredibly boring. It tells the story of where Oppy studied. There is nothing more boring than listening to a bunch of clueless scientists and physicists, who know absolutely nothing about how the universe really works under circumstances where they are limited to corporeal matter and to mathematics.

The universe, as quantum mechanics has shown, does not work by means of matter. Quantum mechanics has actually demonstrated that there is a God. How ironic for these buffoons, who refuse to accept that. They will continue to destroy humanity until they all accept that what they do is actually futile. The study of matter. It's irrelevant to humanity, since the only important question is what pre-dates matter.

So far the best thing about this film is seeing Florence Pugh's breasts.

It's also incredibly funny watching a bunch of communists in the form of elitist Hollywood garbage play communists when they really are communists. So there is no need for them to act, is there? What a bunch of elitist, overpaid, knowledgeless deadshits are the Hollywood actors. The real scum of the earth. Telling us all what we can and cannot do. That's another reason why it's just so hard to watch, having to deal with actors like Robert Downey Jnr and the rest, who you know are all elitist deadshit cunts. Although Cillian Murphy is Irish. No doubt, still another climate obsessed moron who is totally irrelevant to ordinary people.

We will trawl through this film in the hope that the theme of this film is not the Macarthyist communist witch-hunt. No matter how many awards this film has won, it remains a fact that the Hollywood elite have become irrelevant to humanity.

Yawn.

We look forward to watching the Rocky series again.