We're not in the business of having people hate our films

[alexsarll]

I may have spent Friday night walking with gods and monsters, and yesterday on the psychoactive lemonade with the chattering classes, but it's still 'Time Crash' for which I'll remember the weekend so far. Hell, even remembering it's getting me all misty-eyed. 'You were my Doctor.' Sniff.

I've had a great idea for a film, except because I watched it in a dream, now I'm vaguely concerned it might already have been done: Father Christmas invades the USA. I don't know what happens with Canada - non-aggression pact, presumably - but he sweeps down from the North Pole and soon subjugates the majority of the US (I didn't see this bit, but presume that with his manufactories on a war footing, and the FTL superstealth sleigh, it wouldn't be too hard). And I have no idea why he was doing it - was the film a 'real meaning of christmas' story, a political satire, or just crazy for the sake of it? I don't know, I didn't see the whole film. I just remember him in a khaki camouflage version of his outfit, in a Patton stance.

Why I shall not be going to the Tutankhamun exhibition.

Much-hailed talk of a 17% fall in heart attacks in Scotland since the smoking ban revealed as at best exaggeration, at worst another outright lie by the neo-puritans:
"It is conceivable, although perhaps unlikely, that the smoking ban had no effect at all...what appeared to be hard medical evidence now looks more like over-hasty and over-confident research, coupled with wishful political thinking and uncritical journalism."

Comments

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

Closest thing I can think of is this masterpiece http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058548/

[augstone.livejournal.com]

you need to write this film.

perhaps, if he is ever pictured with his red suit (and with rudolph's red nose), the americans could think "the commies" are finally attacking.

or 'red dawn II' (red christmas morning). i'm going to have to stop, having too many ideas about this.

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's probably solar flares. Or Mossad. Apparently passive smoking actually cures warts. My gran smoked for 108 years and etc.

[perfectlyvague.livejournal.com]

It was when they said it would be at the O2 that I knew I would not be going - I am more likely to find myself in Cairo than North Greenwich. Actually it was the fact that the death mask is all over the fucking publicity when it's NOT EVEN THERE was what got me initially riled. Oh - and the 'Tut' this and 'Tut' that of the press - reducing the man god to cheery Vegas spectacle.

[amuchmoreexotic.livejournal.com]

Isn't it a bit soon for the undoubted public health benefits of the smoking ban to be trickling through? I bet you anything that the 17% figure was produced by the press somehow misinterpreting or exaggerating the study.

Those health do-gooders - taking our pump handles! Damn them.

[davegodfrey.livejournal.com]

Its always been a source of shame that I was at UCL for four years, have lived in London for another six after that, and I still haven't been to the Petrie Museum.