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

[augstone.livejournal.com]

awesome.

it immediately brought back growing up in the 80s when everyone was convinced there would be this surprise communist attack (my middle school was designed, with basically no windows, in case of such an event). having santa claus be the one to sweep through the u.s. really plays on how ridiculous it all was. (not that 'the cold war' wasn't a real threat but the way i remember ordinary citizens reacting...)

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

To listen to the way Fox News et al. talk about the Clintons and the liberal media elite, you'd think the reds really had swept across the US...

Thinking about it - Father Christmas gives stuff away, doesn't he? So he is clearly a redistributionist red!

[augstone.livejournal.com]

i think we're really onto something here.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Funnily, I've still not had any calls from the studios yet - you'd think with the strike they'd be desperate for UK scabs!