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So that's why they went for London...
Jun. 12th, 2007 10:55 pmWell, dahlinks, I just got back from the world premiere of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Across the nation, there are apparently people who watch the 'red carpet' footage in other cinemas in the chain, so in cinemas around the land there will have been some mildly disturbed celeb obsessives puzzling over whether they should recognise me as I strode down the actually-blue carpet. Which amuses me, obv. The film itself? Better than the first one. It still has the problem of doing a few too many standard Hollywood plot beats, a few too many superhero cliches, and Reed and Sue still aren't quite right. But Ben and Johnny are even more dead-on than they were before, and beyond that...( spoilers ) Don't rush to see it, don't expect X2 - but it's still way better than most of the superhero films lately.
(En route, I was walking through St. James's Park when I saw a sign ordering dogs to be kept on leads "to avoid disturbing wildfowl". I was still chuckling inwardly at the potential ambiguity when I nearly walked into a pelican. There was no ambiguity; I would not want any dog of mine going anywhere near that deeply disturbing wildfowl. Anything smaller than a spaniel would be a vol-au-vent to it)
I recently passed a derelict who, even by tramp standards, was quite blatantly going to spend the money on Bad Drugs. Now, this set me thinking...you see them, and at the other end of the spectrum you see beggars so hale and hearty that they don't look homeless at all, just as though they're making some pin money while they have a nice sit down. What I'm saying is, I think I've just spotted a gap in the makeover show market. And even if it doesn't work out, the format testing alone would involve Trinny & Susannah consorting with flea-ridden vagrants, which has to be good for a laugh.
Those predictably outraged over cautions for sex offenders in the UK should be very careful to consider the consequences of a zero-tolerance approach - such as the 17-year old sentenced to ten years for consensual oral with a 15-year old.
(In other sexcrime news: if a lawyer says you're "a cold-blooded killer who acted out his fantasy", it might not be the best idea in the world to yell "I'm going to shoot you with a machine gun.")
(En route, I was walking through St. James's Park when I saw a sign ordering dogs to be kept on leads "to avoid disturbing wildfowl". I was still chuckling inwardly at the potential ambiguity when I nearly walked into a pelican. There was no ambiguity; I would not want any dog of mine going anywhere near that deeply disturbing wildfowl. Anything smaller than a spaniel would be a vol-au-vent to it)
I recently passed a derelict who, even by tramp standards, was quite blatantly going to spend the money on Bad Drugs. Now, this set me thinking...you see them, and at the other end of the spectrum you see beggars so hale and hearty that they don't look homeless at all, just as though they're making some pin money while they have a nice sit down. What I'm saying is, I think I've just spotted a gap in the makeover show market. And even if it doesn't work out, the format testing alone would involve Trinny & Susannah consorting with flea-ridden vagrants, which has to be good for a laugh.
Those predictably outraged over cautions for sex offenders in the UK should be very careful to consider the consequences of a zero-tolerance approach - such as the 17-year old sentenced to ten years for consensual oral with a 15-year old.
(In other sexcrime news: if a lawyer says you're "a cold-blooded killer who acted out his fantasy", it might not be the best idea in the world to yell "I'm going to shoot you with a machine gun.")
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