Archive for the ‘Film’ Category
It’s over…
I’m kind of too tired to think straight right now, but I just wanted to take a moment to say thank goodness the Oscars are over and that Kate Winslet won the award.
Now can we get back to more important things? Like boycotting Easter eggs until it’s actually Easter?
Oh, and check out this stunningly stupid segment relating to the Oscars from one of Channel 7′s stupid programs.
The program sent a reporter to a slum in India. Not only does she beam and bounce about during her segment, she refers to the open sewer in the slum with a straight face, just stopping short of an excited squeal (of the “Look where I am today!” sort).
Oh, and look out for the man beating one of those poor children in the background as the above mentioned reporter does her thing.
It’s a shame not even the economic crisis stopped channel 7 from spending money to send their daring and intrepid reporter to India’s slums in honour of Slumdog Millionaire.
But yeah, glad Slumdog Millionaire won best pic.
Orientation
“You punch in at 8:30 every morning, except you punch in at 7:30 following a business holiday, unless it’s a Monday, then you punch in at 8 o’clock. Punch in late and they dock you.
Incoming articles get a voucher, outgoing articles provide a voucher. Move any article without a voucher and they dock you.
Letter size a green voucher, oversize a yellow voucher, parcel size a maroon voucher. Wrong color voucher and they dock you!
6787049A/6. That is your employee number. It will not be repeated! Without your employee number you cannot get your paycheck.
Inter-office mail is code 37, intra-office mail 37-3, outside mail is 3-37. Code it wrong and they dock you!
This has been your orientation. Is there anything you do not understand, is there anything you understand only partially? If you have not been fully oriented, you must file a complaint with personnel. File a faulty complaint and they dock you!”
– Mailroom guy, The Hudsucker Proxy
I haven’t seen a good movie in a while
Ricky Gervais has emerged as one of the best comedy writers in recent years. I also love the fact that he is picky about what movie roles he takes on because it’s more likely the movies he features in won’t be crap.
I can’t wait to see Ghost Town. It looks like a corker of a film — genuinely funny and original — and it’s been getting great reviews. And it has Greg Kinnear in it, whose comic timing is brilliant.
