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I just remember having the feeling from the marriage onward, That's odd that they have that same actress playing a different character. Before she was too cool for school and suddenly she is this loving earth mother. Is there something going on with twins that I missed?

Or something like that. It's not fresh in my mind.

But it's definitely easier to stick with a half hour comedy than an hour long drama so I will rejoin the fray whenever it starts up again.
 
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011) - I found this to be a very charming, enjoyable film. It is an unusual case where I have it rated quite a bit higher than the general public at imdb. They got it at 6.8; I am calling it 7.49.

It is a Lasse Halstrom film and I have liked quite a bit of his stuff (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Chocolate, The Shipping News, The Cider House Rules). I did not find this typical of him though. It is more focused on one main plot without the usual peripheral activity. But it worked for me.

I know we have Emily Blunt fans here; I expect they will enjoy her work in this. Ewan McGregor - also very good.

It has a few thin bits moving the plot along especially towards the end. The reason I rate it 7.49 is because it is basically 7.5 - which leaves the option of 7 or 8 for my imdb rating - but I just can't see myself clicking the 8 for this. 8 is a different level of lofty thing in my mind. So 7.49 and 7 at imdb.


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It's about this rich Yemeni sheik who decides he wants to bring Salmon fishing to the desert (as part of a greater development vision he has for the future of his homeland) and so he enlists the aid of Scotland for the large engineering project, and the two leads are thrust into it for different reasons and with varying degrees of enthusiasm and faith.

And shit happens.
 
Here's something that always freaks me out though relating to Sideways.

As an alcoholic, I think of someone like Miles. Now whether or not Miles is an alcoholic I don't know. He clearly doesn't always handle his alcohol well but who knows? But there are bound to be people with that particular obsession with wine who do cross the line. Some may in fact be professional writer's or critics or tasters or whatever.

It must be a hell of a thing for someone like that, if they ever reach that magic point of realizing that alcohol is their problem in life. Like it's hard enough for anyone to deal with it - but to have so much of your identity and perhaps even livelihood tied up in it . . .


Just kinda freaks me out to think of it.
 
Honestly I think alcohol was less his problem and engaging others in meaningful relationships-communicating and being honest were his bigger problems. Yeah he poured wine all over himself, but I think that was a reaction to the book being turned down, also probably some nice shock value for the audience.

Wine is a bit of a different beast. Seems to me like those who I would consider REAL alcoholics (can't get through the morning hours without a drink) it's almost always vodka that's their choice. Beer sometimes, but it's rarely wine. Not saying they don't exist, I guess I just never once saw Miles as an alcoholic, despite his rather consistent drinking throughout the film.
 
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Wine is a bit of a different beast. Seems to me like those who I would consider REAL alcoholics (can't get through the morning hours without a drink) it's almost always vodka that's their choice. Beer sometimes, but it's rarely wine.
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Oh no. Sorry, don't mean to be argumentative or try to pull rank but this is an area of considerable experience and expertise for me. Apart from my own shenanigans, I have spoken to and listened to literally thousands of alcoholics, and workshopped with many many many professionals who deal with alcoholics for a living over the last couple decades. That quoted passage is just chalk full of misconceptions.

Almost always vodka? What an extremely strange thing for me to read.
 
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