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Mr Men get rude, sorry Mousieur Homme sont grossiers

tulip — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:50:39 +0000

So, the Mr Men are getting a 21st Century Makeover to appeal to today’s kids. The computer generated TV show now has Mr Strong looking more like a body-builder (although still red and not orange or wearing a thong apparently) and the one that has caused the most comment has been that Mr Rude speaks with a French accent and farts…. You have got to love this political correctness these days haven’t you When asked, a spokesman for the French ambassador to the UK refused to comment but a source at the French Embassy said:

“It is obviously meant in a light-hearted way but it won’t improve Anglo-French relations.”

They really are so rude aren’t they

Keep it real – watch TV part 3 or ‘Brokers have feelings too’

tulip — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:43:48 +0000

The Freakonomics guys are following on with their series of watching ‘The Wire’ with a group of ex-hoods. I’m not going to spoil it, but for those who think those hoods are hard, unfeeling folk, this week’s episode really got them, proving they really are a bunch of soft-hearted, soppy luvvies…..honest!!

Would the Ramones doing the soundtrack to Spiderman 3 have made it any good?

tulip — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 05:30:07 +0000

Keep it real – watch TV part 2 or How to make ‘The Wire’ even better!

tulip — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:41:40 +0000

As a follow up to this post, in which a guy sat and watched Season 5 of The Wire with a group of thugs and ganstas to get their opinion on how true to life it really is. Well, I thought I had better point you to the follow up post. As one of the comments said, ‘Can we get commentary like this every week? This is great.’ Let’s hope so – I’ve got money on Marlo knocking off Prop Joe……

Keep it real – watch TV!

tulip — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:57:23 +0000

I thought this was fantastic.

Have you ever sat around watching some TV show, whether it’s some hospital thing or a legal thing etc. with someone in the profession that sits there tutting and saying, ‘It just doesn’t work like that’? Well how about sitting around watching ‘The Wire’ with a group of ex-gang members, most of whom have served time for some pretty nefarious activities, and getting their opinion on it? Sounds like fun, but I wouldn’t want to disagree with them too much on anything, it might get a bit, er uncomfortable….oh, and whatever you do, don’t say ‘It’s only a TV show’….might not be good for your health!

Matt Damon is good value…apparently!

tulip — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:50:35 +0000

Now I don’t know about you, but ever since Team America, I have been completely unable to say ‘Matt Damon’ without doing an impersonation of the film, however if you want to make money on a film star’s salary then your best bet is Matt Damon. The Bourne Identity, Bourne Supremacy and Bourne Ultimatum trilogy must have helped, but I have to admit that I do like his style on screen, very understated. This works far better for me than, say, Tom Cruise, where everything seems like an act, but then I don’t think Tom Cruise knows how to act ‘normal’ anyway, so everything he does is an act…..but I digress (I have always wanted to be able to say that…how sad is that…but I digress again….)

The top ten looks like this -

Matt Damon
Brad Pitt
Vince Vaughn
Johnny Depp
Jennifer Aniston
Angelina Jolie
Renee Zellweger
Reese Witherspoon
Ben Stiller
Sandra Bullock.

Now is it just me or, from looking down the list, the one thing that jumps out at you is – Sandra Bullock must be really cheap to hire?

Star Wars, the Chaplin years

tulip — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:14:41 +0000

Bourne in the USA

tulip — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:01:35 +0000

After another slew of terrible Hollywood sequels, I mean who would have believed that the third Pirates of the Caribbean film could be worse than the second (however even that couldn’t manage to topple the king of this trick, namely the last in The Matrix trilogy), and another slew of old boys pretending they are still young enough to play action types – I mean the first Die Hard was a classic of the genre, this latest one smacks of another dose of CGI over, well everything from the plot to Bruce Willis’s wrinkles. I’m hoping that the new Indiana Jones might be an exception, but I have the horrible feeling I am just deluding myself….

Anyway, there has been one set of action films in the last few years that have actually been good. They even star Matt Damon, but somehow the Bourne Identity and Bourne Supremacy have been fantastic, taught, intelligent, action thrillers. No sappy hero gets the girl, no villian getting suddenly hopping up at the last minute to get shot by the side-kick to pay-back the hero or hero ‘accidently’ killing the bad guy when he stumbles and falls off a building or onto a sharp, pointy thing. No, you watch these things and the fights are not something Nureyev would be proud of, they are mad, scrappy blurs and when someone gets clocked, they don’t deliver a pithy line, they get hurt. The people behind both Batman Begins and Casino Royale have both pointed to these films as influences on their tougher, grittier style. Now we have the third part coming out. Bourne has spent the other films outside the USA, but this time he gets to cause mayhem in New York, as well as Europe, in case you haven’t noticed, I can’t wait!

Mika Brzezinski was right….

tulip — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:40:05 +0000

Who really gives a toss about that spoilt brat, leave that to E! or something equally vapid, this is supposed to be news. Fire the other two idiots…