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Sick day, in restaurants carefully scheduled to coincide with day off, few errands on list this morning (must remember to eat, I forget this and it will be someplace dire and local...), couple of thrift shops, an independent shop in Kensington (odd hours which serve more as guidelines as to when the staff will be somewhat recovered from their hangovers), independent shop isn't open so I plug the meter, go for coffee, by the time I'm back they're open.
Then lunch - Indian Buffet, the once a week balancing of my diet, home for a 4 hour non-lucid nap, reading Lolita, watching inane videos online. But a few discoveries - the first - Moon Based Nazis. Can't review yet, but looks promising:
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One to watch for -
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"As long as there's none of those damned commercials" I tell the clerk as I buy the tickets, "Absolutely none" he tells me, "the film goes right into the movie...".
Now these commercials, the best, the Bronze, Silver and Gold Lion winners from Cannes, they're great. Some are better than great, most have far more insight, originality, depth and emotion than James Cameron's entire life's work. Links to some of the more memorable below.
Allstate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DU5LKoC1A8 - You know it's going to be good when the narrator tells you he's your son. The other Allstate commercials with Mayhem are worth watching as well.
Drink Driving - Brandhouse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JWUXXXJq8k - Like being a woman on Plenty of Fish...
Heineken - The Entrance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcX1PTOmvO8 - Which only serves to remind me how much I need to improve my party skills....
Nike: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl0IlD4qLUM - Deep pockets can buy you great advertising. Love the ad, despise the corporation.
Indian Train: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzEKCYb6zzU - Just for the WTF factor. I mean, WTF.
Tippex - A hunter shoots a bear: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ba1BqJ4S2M - Clever Viral, try and stump the hunter. Go on.
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The pick today, no great alternative alternatives presenting themselves.
And I'm surprisingly impressed. Stephen Fry, (I explain to the boy - "In Britain you can be an intellectual AND an actor...), Robert Downey Jr. (One of America's top black actors), good sets, design, props, great choreography, Guy Ritchie directing (I have to respect anyone who's survived divorcing Madonna - look at what Sean Penn did in Into the Wild) - not hugely intellectual, but some very fine moments, and a good job of contemporizing and making available to later audiences the Holmes franchise - overall - especially for a Hollywood film, worth seeing. If you're into that.
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I like Johnny Depp. That said, this was a highly missable exploration of one of Hunter S Thompson's more forgettable works.
Now I know that Johnny Depp was buddies with Hunter S, and even went so far as to fire his cremated remains from a cannon, but there's something about a 47 year old Depp (in fine condition, to be sure) portraying a 23 year old Hunter S that doesn't wash.
The film, long, less a film as a whole than a series of somewhat (more or less) amusing incidents from his stint as a journalist in Puerto Rico.
The cinematography is good, the landscape beautiful, lush, the boy enjoyed it, I could have done entirely without.
That said, I like Johnny Depp, and this was probably by far his most normal role in a very long time. Still, give it a miss.