Going Postal

A few of us with different blogs are joining together for a Terry Pratchett year. Bex with her Armchair by the sea blog has organised a discworld readathon throughout the entire year. Tame the boardgame are supposed to have been posting about the games such as Ankh Morporkh, Witches and Thud.

Going Postal is one of the better Discworld films and the first one to be reviewed on this blog. I have already seen this film many times but have never sat down to review a discworld film. Charles Dance is a much better Lord Vetinari than Jeremy Irons was in 'the colour of magic/ the light fantastic'. David Suchet is fantastically short and a wonderful villain. Watching him try and square up to Charles Dance is always humorous.

I've never read this book but watching this film is as enjoyable as watching 'Hogfather', which will be reviewed at Christmas. Sometimes, with discworld films they get the casting all wrong but not with this film. Everyone I know who has watched this film has enjoyed it and said that it was much better than the two films combined (which were not good). Going Postal introduces the game 'Thud' and also introduces the Golems and some key characters of the watch.

If you are new to Pratchett's Discworld then you have to try and understand that of the 30-40 + novels in this series they are split into sections. Some are about the Wizards (most of them) and that is why they made the colour of magic and light fantastic, then you have some about the witches and the tv series witches to go with that, then there are those about the watch- soul music and most of the novels that go with Lord Vetinari and the running of Ankh Morporkh and then those that are about death which would be Hogfather. Some of the TV series are good and hopefully they will be reviewed later on in this blog.

For all the women out there wondering why they should watch this film I will now tell them the answer to their question. The answer is that you get to watch a woman with a four inch stiletto heel push it in to the foot of a man who deserved it and watch her get the better of him many times over!

If you are a Poirot fan then watch this film. Being able to watch David Suchet as someone other than Poirot in film is always a joy and a rare thing to behold. If you are a black books fan then there is a reason to watch this film.

Just watch it. Don't argue- watch it and then get back to me and tell me what you thought of it.