A random thought I had about Wall-E…

For assorted reasons, it reminds me of last year’s Western of sorts, There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men.

It reminds me of There Will Be Blood in how it shows the evils of consumerism and corporate control, as well as the scene with Eve blowing up the spaceship reminding me of the burning derrick scene in There Will Be Blood. Also, the opening 16 minutes of Wall-E was wordless, as was the opening sequence to those two films, when no dialogue was spoken. And lastly, the “look” of Wall-E just resembled the look of NCFOM at parts. (Although I’m probably imaging things seeing as I know that Roger Deakins was a consultant on Wall-E)

OK, so that’s not an awful lot to go by. But I just wanted to say.

How cute was Eve, by the way? Her giggle was just adorable:

Bunging bless!

01. The three “dads” in Mamma Mia!”: Stellan, Pierce and Colin. Rank them in order of hotness.
(Men, you can rank Serena, Blair and Jenny in gossip girl)
02. What is your favourite item of clothing that you own?
03. Do you have any particular fitness regime?
04. Would you like kids when you’re older, and if so, how many?
05. Which movie kid/teenager would you least like your child to turn out like?

Top 10 of 2008 so far.

I’ve been trying to catch up with all the 2008 releases I wanted to see during exam period in the past couple of weeks on YouTube and whatnot, so that now I’ve seen a respectable number of 2008 movies (31), I can compile a top 10:

01. Man on Wire
02. Wall-E
03. Kung Fu Panda
04. The Dark Knight
05. Bigga than Ben
06. Son of Rambow
07. Mamma Mia!
08. Happy-Go-Lucky
09. Iron Man
10. Definitely, Maybe

The only movies that I consider complete bollocks are 27 Dresses (Katherine Heigl pisses me off a lot), 10,000 BC and Cassandra’s Dream. Funny Games I'm confused about, but I think I need to see it again to form a concrete opinion about it.

My Favourite Moments in this Season of Mock the Week so far.

I honestly think that this year’s Mock the Week is the best so far and, because I’m a bit depressed because my iPod is broken upon irretrievable limits, here’s to listing them!

01. Russell Howard’s monologue about newspapers. The Sun hollering, “Are you a paedo?! Are you a paedo? Are you a paedo?” incessantly, The Daily Express still lamenting Diana, The independent’s shock tactics to getting readers to care about the environment, The Daily Mail’s bigotry and The Guardian’s penchant for wallcharts… classic. “YOU JUST KILLED A POLAR BEAR!”

02. Hugh Denis envisioning what it’d be like for John Cain, who can only lift his arms up to shoulder level, to feed himself.

03. Michael McIntyre’s anecdote about “Slow Arab”.

04. All the Josef Fritzl jokes… “Welcome to meet our families. Mr Fritzl, where’s yours?” “It’s not the Von Trapp family, but it’s the Trapped family!” “Ignore the banging, she’s been in there for 24 years!”

05. “What’s that joker? You’ll be back? Somehow, I don’t think so.” – Frankie Boyle. So, so harsh, but my brother and I were in stitches with cruel laughter.


06. “There is a vegetarian option… you can fuck off!”

07. The spoof of M&S. “This isn’t just a gimp. This is an S&M gimp”

08. Just the general weird voice that Russell Howard uses that goes quite deep and bizarre.

09. "Marks & Spencers Potatoes, They're just fucking potatoes"

10. “Hello, I’m back from my canoeing trip!”

11. The discussion about laptops and porn.


Also, I reckon Mock the Week is rather good value for the pretty. Russell Howard’s Peter Crouch-lookalike is my no.1, but Ed Byrne’s Irish accent completely makes me swoon, and Mark Watson, once you get used to his hyperactiveness, is completely adorable too.



So if you don’t watch it, what are you waiting for? It’s all up on YouTube, and I guarantee that you'll be laughing for ages. :D

Seeing the funny side of it all with the lil’ brother.

Earlier this week when I was sitting in the study reading “Candyfloss” with Tom, my brother (yes, I know, but for his entrance exams in secondary school we’ve been told that he’s really bad at English and should read as many types of books as poss. Hence the Jackie Wilson), my mum came in and asked us if we’d heard of the actor Morgan Freeman. I was indignant beyond belief, he only goes and bloody stars in my favourite bloody film! Even Tom acted like the question was ridiculous, yelling at her, “He was in The Dark Knight, mum!”

Anyway, my mum told us that he’d been in a terrible car crash and was in a terrible condition. I was heartbroken, it sounded to me like it might die, and it was Morgan Freeman! The Dark Knight was starting to become a curse.

Two days later though, I heard that he was alive in hospital. To say he was well would be pushing it, but he’d been well enough to banter with all the nurses and even say to the paparazzi “no freebies!” when they’d tried to snap him up.

Freeman could have a laugh and a joke even at the unfunniest, seemingly most dismal situation. And that made me smile.

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Btw, terrifying as The Dark Knight was, now that it’s been two weeks since me and Tom watched it, we can’t stop taking the piss out of it. Don’t get me wrong, I thought it was a great film (in my top 4 of the year along with Wall-E, Man on Wire and Bigga than Ben [my part guilty pleasure, part obsessed with Russia movie]) and technically wonderful, etc etc, but the lines that had me quivering in fright in the cinema, now, with retrospect, also happen to be such easy targets of ridicule.

Take the line “Want to know how I got these scars?”

I currently possess a heat rash, and one morning I went to Tom, “Want to know how I got this heat rash?” in that creepy Heath voice, and we couldn’t stop laughing.

Another area of The Dark Knight that Tom and I enjoy making fun of is Harvey Dent’s horrifying face. You know how in the movie it was beyond terrifying, simply because one side of his face was normal and the other, his mouth and eyes are wide open? Well, we’ve been trying (and failing) to distort our own faces like that in front of the mirror.

I know we’re never going to make it onto Mock the Week, but laughing at inappropriate things is what me and my brother do best. Whilst it’s OK that he does it – he’s 10 – I’m 18, a legal adult, and probably should start growing up sometime soon. XD

All this piss-taking out of The Dark Knight is my way of pussfooting around writing an actual review of it. I just can't, I dunno why.