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I watched Howl's moving castle and Two Lane Blacktop over the weekend. Howl's Moving Castle is a fairly cold slice o'life from the fringes of early 70's American society, focusing on a cross country car race between an emotionless gearhead and a middle aged fantasist. The race quickly degenerates into a wider search for meaning and purpose, as both people are turned inside out by being forced to see their own delusional states. Little dialogue, no actual car 'chases', just lots of staring and driving, and some drag racing. But very cool, and very good.
Two Lane Blacktop however, is a vivd and fast paced animation from Miyazaki about witches, spells, the power of love, and the futility of war. I found it a little hard to keep track of the action at times, and missed some fairly important plot points as a result of being dazzled by the visual beauty and the Joe Hisaishi soundtrack. Still, it was entertaining, but perhaps too complex for my slow, hungover brain. There's a girl who may or may not have been turned into an old woman and there's a dude who is possessed by a demon, who has had his heart removed which has been possessed by another demon, which powers the moving castle, and there is another witch who is really fat who wants the heart and some kings and queens who are having a war. And a scarecrow called turnip head.
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Has anyone seen Star Wars? I watched it this weekend, it's quite good but the special effects could've been better and the plot was a bit unbelievable but all in all a good option if you're stuck in on a sunday afternoon and it's on the box.
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I also watched Friday 13th over the weekend, which I would recommend to any parent looking to entertain their kids for an hour or so. Perhaps it's been ages since you went for a nice night out, like how you used to do before they came and ruined it all. Wear some fancy clothes, get a babysitter, and put on a nostalgic revival performance of the old you. If you do this, but you worry that your children might not be having fun while you are, then yes, go for Friday 13th. It has it all. Rain, trees, and Kevin Bacon.
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I loved Friday 13th as a kid. The scene where the teenager's lying on the bunk and Jason's hand comes out from underneath, clamps his head down and pushes an arrow through his neck from under the bed was one of my favourite scenes of the '80's. I wore out the Ferguson Videostar constantly rewinding and slow playing that. The plot had a few holes though.
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kids don't mind about plot holes. Nothing makes any sense to them anyway. It's all just gaudy colours and imaginary friends.
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quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: It's all just gaudy colours
This is literally true, apparently. When each of us starts out as little humans our eyes see colours, light and contrast extremely vividly. As we get older, our eyes get more and more knackered and we become more and more jaded. Until we can't stand the fucking sight of anything or anyone any more, because everything looks like runny grey shit.
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I watched Victorian Sex Explorer last night. It was quite interesting. Apparently, your muslims were quite fond of it up 'em, in the old days. Less keen now. I wonder what happened..? Maybe the quality of bum has fallen off.
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Bums were a lot smaller in those days apparently, it wa sall down to the largely vegetarian diet most people subsisted on. These days, thanks to all the cows it's more akin to waving a halal sausage in a windsock. Apparently.
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The Indian trannies they featured in the programme were no bargain. You'd have to be pretty desperate to fuck one of them. The chief tranny thought he was fucking gorgeous, as well. He wasn't.
quote:Originally posted by McDirts: Bums were a lot smaller in those days apparently, it wa sall down to the largely vegetarian diet most people subsisted on. These days, thanks to all the cows it's more akin to waving a halal sausage in a windsock. Apparently.
That reminds me. I also saw the episode of South Park where Mr Garrison invented the monocycle that was controlled by dildoes in ass, mouth and both hands. That was good.
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I liked the bit when Tony and Chris were getting rid of "Ralphie" Cifaretto's headless corpse and Tony was telling Chris he was wasting his life smoking pot. ROLF!!11!
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