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"Who watched 1984?"

I think it did the book proud...

Nice and bleak and John Hurt (sp) was fantastic for Winston Smith

However, I feel if you didn't read the book you might have struggled to understand the plot and it missed some bits out.

Still good.

Channel 4 has an annoying habit of showing things at really stupid times. They had a week of fantastic ilms on every night, all at 1am, during my exams...

And apparently the reason why 1984 is almost shot in monochrome is that the studio refused to let the shoot in black and white and they wanted to make it as desolate looking as possible. That was about the one thing I picked up from Roger Deakins' 10 minutes of face fondling on the Man Who Wasn't There DVD...

Damn straight.

err not in theory in reality

Damn

Vote Conservative

In theory yes

1984 also shows how a revolution is usually never better than before

Great book, but I prefer Animal Farm. Because it shows how much Communism sucks and will always fail.

It was on at 4 in morning

It probably would be on earlier if there wasn't full frontal nudity and the country weren't morons who'd say:

" Isn't that depresssing? " and throw it away in disgust

One Sunday night they had Big Brother AND Room 101 on TV...

First time ever that my TV giude had the word 'Orwellian' twice on the same page...

I don't think I'll ever watch the film though. Simply because I'm lazy.

Sigh, I had to explain to my sister where Big Brother originally came from when me and my dad were chatting about 1984. I'm ashamed of her.

I've seen it a few times before, excellent film.

And I think anyone that hears the phrase "Big Brother" and thinks of the C4 mindrot should spend a few hours with the cage over their head.

*shrugs*
But that's just my opinion.

I think it did the book proud...

Nice and bleak and John Hurt (sp) was fantastic for Winston Smith

However, I feel if you didn't read the book you might have struggled to understand the plot and it missed some bits out.

Still good.