It's been Daniel Craig night here at the Chateau.
Starting with Cowboys And Aliens (2011).
Strictly speaking it should be Cowboys, Desperadoes, Prospector Townsfolk, Native Americans, A Dog And Aliens but despite everything I could imagine it being and could be bothered to read about it, it works.
It works both as a reasonable stab at a pre-Spaghetti Western and as a nice sprinkle of pulp science fiction.
One of the things that was said in what I could be bothered to read was that it looked like it was an adaptation of a computer game.
I think that's only true of the pulp sci-fi elements.
There have been a few Western themed games but the rescue, final boss and end level set up stuff is all in the Aliens end of the title equation.
The Western side has likable characters, enough grit to ring true to genre and the Aliens side is a justified excuse to allow for the sort of Western that nobody has made in a long while to happen.
A rare instance of a family orientated film where booze, smoking, mind altering drugs and guns seriously extend the life span.
Next up Copenhagen (2002).
Interesting...
The ghosts of Margrethe and Niels Bohr come back to their Copenhagen home to have a reunion with the spirit of Werner Heisenberg to try and nail the position and velocity of a much pondered similar meeting back in 1941.
It would be a handy film for someone revising before an exam.
It's very earnest and worthy sounding, I can't tire of Francesca Annis whatever she does so I came away with my moneys worth but the conclusions drawn are a bit narrow.
There are very good reasons why the Americans made the bomb first.
It had the human and mineral resources all in the same place and that place wasn't being bombed or repelling a land invasion.
It also had the benefit of not being being run by an institutionally anti-semitic regime, which was kind of handy as most of the big brains in the field were Jewish brains.
Any fog which may or may not have descended on Werner or any delaying tactics he may or may not have employed would certainly not have made a quantum of difference.