April | 2016 | Life Vs Film

Three months into the year and I’m already a solid month behind on my progress through the 1001 Movies list. At least in March I was able to catch up to where I should have been at the end of February, but I didn’t exceed that target. And even more annoyingly, March featured the glory of Easter’s 4-day weekend, only for it to be squandered on spending time with family and recording podcasts. Over that whole weekend I watched one feature-length film (Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice) and one animated short on TV one evening (Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers). One of those things is infinitely better than the other, but regardless of how much I love Aardman’s stop motion hilarity, it didn’t make up for a frittered away expanse that should have been spent watching movies. Anyway, here’s the tally for the month:
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The problem with having goals is my time gets spent trying to achieve them, and I often find myself striving to fulfil these predetermined tasks instead of doing something I want to do now. Thus, most of the movies I watch are ones I need to for the task at hand – be it to meet a goal, or in preparation for a podcast. And so it was that this past week I found myself longingly looking at a LoveFilm DVD of Robin Hood: Men In Tights, a film I’ve never seen but would probably enjoy, but which I did not have the time to watch. My partner had no interest, though to be fair she’d already sat through two Robin Hood movies in recent weeks and doesn’t much care for parodies or musicals, and my time to watch films outside of her presence is filled with the ones I’ve yet to cross off my many numerous lists. All was not lost though, as some unplanned and unlisted movie watching was accomplished this week, and of a film I’d owned for years without ever popping into the player. What film was that exactly? Well read on to find out.
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