Actually I didn't have fun this Xmas. I ended up watching a TV miniseries of Doctor Zhivago. Well, that's about the most depressing thing I've seen in a while.
At least it was better than David Lean's old version (one reviewer called it 'mawkish'), which I found a grand disappointed after seeing his Lawrence of Arabia (which for me is the greatest movie of all time). And I was glad to see Sam Neil in the miniseries, whom I've liked ever since I saw him the first time in the neat B movie In the Mouth of Madness.
According to IMDB, a new Russian miniseries adaptation is in the works, and I'm looking forward to see how it turns out.
I had become extremely anti-communist over the years on an intellectual level, but this story for me added an emotional perspective, so I can now say that I despise them, as well as the diluted version that is socialism (and which is making worrisome inroads here in Canada, given the number of seats Jack Layton and his pinko cronies hold in Parliament).
At least it was better than David Lean's old version (one reviewer called it 'mawkish'), which I found a grand disappointed after seeing his Lawrence of Arabia (which for me is the greatest movie of all time). And I was glad to see Sam Neil in the miniseries, whom I've liked ever since I saw him the first time in the neat B movie In the Mouth of Madness.
According to IMDB, a new Russian miniseries adaptation is in the works, and I'm looking forward to see how it turns out.
I had become extremely anti-communist over the years on an intellectual level, but this story for me added an emotional perspective, so I can now say that I despise them, as well as the diluted version that is socialism (and which is making worrisome inroads here in Canada, given the number of seats Jack Layton and his pinko cronies hold in Parliament).
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