Apparently they may have to classify the new Margaret Thatcher biopic "The Iron Lady" as an 18 certificate.
It contains scenes that may be upsetting for miners 
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The Margaret Thatcher Film ;o)
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anyone seen it?
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It contains scenes that may be upsetting for miners
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Is it just me, or is that large expanse of forehead on the posters just begging t have something written on it?
Now, children; what could we write on the blank area?
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666
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Not seen it but it sounds rather depressing being partly about dementia.
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Now, children; what could we write on the blank area?
saviour of Great Britain
stuff the miners
wahey maggie you goddess
take this pinko lefties
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Now, children; what could we write on the blank area?
Well Elf, for the Iron Lady and that full '80s vibe it would have to be "Very Metal" wouldn't it?
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The reviews I've read are basically that Streep is incredible, but the film itself is not much cop.
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I would draw a bullet hole followed by the word gotcha in the blank area.
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How's about a big sloppy lipstick kiss??
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You're thinking of Gorbachev.
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Anyone remember that Specialized ad in bike mags in the late eighties/early nineties, with Gorby on a bike, and the birthmark on his head was a Specialized logo?
Shoulduv cut that out and kept it, it was class.
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Saw this last night. Excellent film but hard to watch for so many reasons. Not recommended for anyone who has just lost someone or who has a relative who suffers from dementia - too painful.
Streep is superb (as is her make-up) even down to the teeth. But Jim Broadbent as DT steals it for me, for his humour at the perfect time.
Having the main character someone who stirs up so much emotion adds to the natural challenges of the main subject but would be hard to watch if you were family.
Cinema deadly quiet at the end as Bach's prelude appropriately accompanies the credit. Very moving in a painful way.
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A very lefty friend of mine saw this the other day and announced "I feel kind of sorry for her now".
I don't.
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There's nothing that could happen to that bloody woman that would elicit the slightest hint of sympathy in me
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Its a good film irrespective of your political persuasions - there is a very telling scene when she squashed Howe in a Cabinet meeting and you realise that's the beginning of the end.
Leading Tory males are not dealt with sympathetically - I can see why Tarzan didn't like it!!
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You would enjoy her suffering then binners.
If you black out the MT bit, its an interesting portrayal of living with dementia.
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what binners said
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JY - I had teed you up there and that was it!!!
My childhood years, so interesting to re-live the 70s and early 80s. Not a great period although few people seem to remember the 70s!!!
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According to the synopsis it contains " brief nudity " , why do I feel so queazy
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How bitter do you want me to be towards a senile old lady?
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a friends daughter works at the light cinema in leeds.
told him that that nobody is going to watch it. 20 people for the 1st veiwing is the most they have had.i reckon i will get a crowd of 30 or 40 when i have my 'thatcher is dead' barbie, when the time comes.......
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I watched it and really didn't like it. I felt that the "present day" sections (far too long) ruined what could have been an extremely interesting biography.
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There's nothing that could happen to that bloody woman that would elicit the slightest hint of sympathy in me
Not even if she was in effect brain dead and the person who walks around in her carcass today is a completely different person to the one which existed 30 years ago ?
I have to say you show all the unflinching and steely determination not to allow compassion and emotions cloud your judgement which I would expect from a true child of Thatcher.
And since Thatcher never seized power through a military coup and would have been utterly powerless and have achieved absolutely nothing, had it not been for the millions who supported her and urged her on, do you maintain the same level of hatred and unforgiveness to the millions of her supporters ? Is there nothing they can do which will allow you to forgive them ?
For all the predictable misery and destruction which Thatcher caused she was actually "Leader of the Conservative Party", and she served her party, industrialists, and bankers, well ..... no one can argue with that. Neither could anyone be in any doubt that she was Tory, which is more than can be said of her admirers in the Labour Party.
I don't see the point of damning someone for being a Tory and behaving like one when they are actually leader of the Conservative Party. Makes no sense.
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Its a good argument you put forward ernie and I read it on another thread [ not a dig] and FWIW it changed me from despising her to just being unsympathetic
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For those that haven't seen this yet :
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To die of dementia is a hard way to die. I have seen it many times and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
I still despise her tho. the damage she did to this country is incalculable and may never be healed
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ernie_lynch - Member
Not even if she ... is a completely different person to the one which existed 30 years ago ?
... do you maintain the same level of hatred and unforgiveness to the millions of her supporters ? Is there nothing they can do which will allow you to forgive them ?
Fair coment about her being a different person.
However, her supporters "her party, industrialists, and bankers" continue to shaft the people of this country.
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I still despise her tho. the damage she did to this country is incalculable and may never be healed
Other opinions are available.
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PP other opinions are indeed available BUT none of them truer.
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Never was affected by her financially myself but at least I wasn't blind to what she did to other people.
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