The ever so exciting week in review.

This week has been a lazy one.

I really haven't done an awful lot, simply lying around with my significant other (at the time of writing) watching various films I wouldn't usually be caught dead watching. Mean Girls, Marley & Me & The Notebook were all watched this week and all of them were my choice. You see under normal circumstances I would denounce all these films without second thought, however when one is trying to encourage a little romance Blade Runner & Chinatown probably aren't the best choices. But hey if incestual rape, corporate greed & facial mutilation don't put you in a romantic frame of mind, I don't know what will.

Alarmingly I enjoyed these films, Mean Girls was good fun if totally predictable and Marley & Me was.....tolerable. If you love animals like I do you cut films with loveable animals as one of the leads a little slack. Sure it was really long and cheesy to the point the TV was starting to smell but, but hey that dog sure was disobedient. Oh and Alan Arkin was doing his familiar grumpy deadpan shtick as Owen Wilson's boss and that's always good value.

The Notebook on the other hand was all slush and no puppy (HA, that's so bad I can't possibly delete it). Even I have my limits and after half an hour the film was removed from the DVD drive and hopefully put away never to be seen again.


Finally. I got a chance to watch BBC's Gavin & Stacy which was fantastic. Great writing, loveable characters and just the right mixture of comedy & drama. I can only hope the next 2 series are as good as this one and maybe I'll start to appretiate James Corden


Maybe Not

The great discovery.

After years and years of looking for a film that truly deserves the title of best bad film ever made, I think, I have finally found it.



You see there is nothing I enjoy more then a bad movie, a few drinks, a couple of mates and some genuninly bad cinema are often the ingredients for a good night in. However it cannot be just any bad movie, you see for me to find a bad movie entertaining, those involved have to be taking the proceedings seriously. Films that aknowledge their own shortcomings and are played for laughs more often then not come across as annoying, take for example Snakes on a Plane or Mega Shark Vs Giant Octopus.

This is why 'The Room' is such a triumph. I cannot discuss it any great length now but all I'll say is that it's truly the greatest bad movie I've ever seen.It's even better then Hercules In New York and that film had Arnie fighting a guy in a bear suit.

Wasted oppotunity.

I'm currently typing up a website for my 'Third World & Transnational Cinema' unit. One of the films I was referencing is the 2005 film crash, when typing up a brief description of the characters within the film I ended up with this.


Although this was a US production, the film text itself has elements to it that would suggest it is a transnational picture. Among the characters are an Iranian family, two African American youths from the Ghetto, An African American director & his mulatto girlfriend, a latin American locksmith, a chinese couple and a bunch of pissed off white people.


I really was fond of that last line, its a shame that its not considered academic enough because I think it's a suitable description. Oh well.