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Title: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - on TV Tonight
Post by: Mike Barrio on 21/12/2014 at 12:56
BBC2 8pm tonight ........ if you haven't seen it :cool:

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Title: Re: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - on TV Tonight
Post by: Jim Eddie on 21/12/2014 at 16:18
Read the book,never saw the film. The author died fairly recently.

 :z18

Jim
Title: Re: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - on TV Tonight
Post by: Euan Innes on 21/12/2014 at 21:54
Well there's 90 minutes of my life that I will never get back. What a pile of kack! Thankfully Miss Blunt redeems herself in Edge of Tomorrow.
It was certainty not a casting video, that's for sure! Is that what non anglers think fishing is actually about and how it is done? Sigh.....
I am sure the book was excellent but the film not so much. No ten from Len!
 :z1
Title: Re: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - on TV Tonight
Post by: Mike Barrio on 22/12/2014 at 09:44
At least there were no adverts :z4  :z4  :z4
Title: Re: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - on TV Tonight
Post by: Colin Sunley on 22/12/2014 at 12:38
I was flicking for the adverts to liven it up only to flick back and they was burning a Rod and Real FFS !!!!! :mad :mad
No it was not good at all.
Title: Re: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - on TV Tonight
Post by: Mike Barrio on 22/12/2014 at 12:58
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WARNING: Do not watch this film unless you are a fan of films like "Love Actually" :z17

It's supposed to be a romantic comedy guys ...... not a fishing film :z4  :z4  :z4
Title: Re: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - on TV Tonight
Post by: Hamish Young on 22/12/2014 at 20:49
Just so Mr B, the film (unfortunately) isn't quite the political satire the book is (it's worth reading) and despite the strong cast unfortunately ends up being something of an also ran romantic comedy....but what do you expect when you send a decent novel to a scriptwriter and tell him it's a British comedy :? In angling terms there's no denying it's dire, "A River Runs Through It" has still to be beaten in terms of half decent fly fishing getting featured in mainstream (no pun intended) cinema.
It's still better than that bloody awful docu-movie about Megan Boyd "Kiss the water". Kiss my arse more like.... I wouldn't watch that again unless I was paid  :mad

H :cool:
Title: Re: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - on TV Tonight
Post by: Colin Sunley on 22/12/2014 at 20:53
:P:P
Title: Re: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - on TV Tonight
Post by: Mike Barrio on 22/12/2014 at 21:06
Yes, I enjoyed the book :z16