Tag: movie

To @brizzly @tweetie @seesmic @echofon: Add this feature and I will have your babies.

Heart/Toxic An example of my proposal

I don’t want a separate app where I have to gather all my friends and influencers in one place all over again — I have that in Twitter.

What I want from you is a way to flag a user (secretly) as someone whose opinion has aligned with mine in the past, so that when they say “I love this new movie”, I’ll be reasonably certain that I will too. And if I could flag someone’s opinion as wrong((that’s what we’re all thinking right?)) most of the time, then I will know that when they say “I love this song”, not to bother clicking through to it. It might mean that some of the users in my stream have slightly darker or lighter updates so I can tell at a glance which ones I’ve flagged as trustworthy or mostly wrong.

Heck, just being able to easily see that someone is in a “trusted” private Twitter list with a glance at my main stream would be double handy. Do that.

Thank you for listening. If you do this, you will win the world.

PS. to all the people I follow: I’m not talking about any of you. I think all of you have fantastic taste. It’s those other people I worry about…

So I get it the first time next time:

Why don’t I just learn, once and for all… if I’ve not seen someone in ages, and want to talk and hang out and drink… DON’T GO TO A MOVIE. Unless the movie is the greatest movie ever, I’ll just be disappointed.

Stupid life doesn’t have do-overs if you do it wrong the first time.

Herwin Attacks!


Herwin is dangerous! He will kill you. You have been warned.

Watch it on Google Video

“Little Man” stop motion animation

My first clay-mation… if you could call it that.

My second movie on the web

This is another movie I did a while ago with iStopMotion.

Stop-motion video

This was the first stop motion video I created using iStopMotion, an excellent little mac program for creating frame-by-frame movies. I added the sound in Final Cut Express.

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Hercules Returns Returns!

Yippee! My biggest Christmas present so far has been finally getting a copy of Hercules Returns on DVD. For those of you who don’t know why I’m so excited, check out my previous post on Hercules Returns.

A classic Australian film featuring the talent of the wonderful Des Mangan and Sally Patience (and those other three who somehow get all the credit) has finally been made available legitimately on DVD.

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Batman as you’ve never seen him.

I want to share one of my favourite things with you. Superheroes. Actually I want to share a few of my favourite things — Superheroes, old crappy movies, and animated GIFs of people doing amusing things.

Check this out:

The Dynamic Duo Check the pointy ears

Yes, that is supposed to be Batman. Nice eh?

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest or “How to wow and annoy an audience all at once”

Went to see above-mentioned film on the weekend. First off let me take the opportunity to say, “Shove over d#@-head!”. The session I went to was the biggest of the 30 screens on offer, but it was still overcrowded. Which wouldn’t make me annoyed (well not in the same self-righteous sort of way) except that each group of people decided that everyone that didn’t belong to their little group was smelly or evil and left one seat between them and the next group of xenophobes.

So my friend and I were forced to split up and sit either side of one fat guy with a B.O. problem… no, I’m fibbing — we had to sit in the second row.

Thus begins the discussion of “Pirates of the Caribbean”, starring Orlando Bloom’s Nostrils, Johnny Depp’s Mascara, and Keira Knightley’s… pores. Don’t get me wrong — they’re beautiful pores (actually I will say this for the film — when you’re looking up at the pores of a real person and a CG character and they’re equally as detailed — it’s good CG), but no one should be forced to critically analyse an actor’s skin because of another person’s ignorance.

So on to the movie.

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Hercules Returns: PLEASE!

I was reading about some stupid but fun movies on DVD Verdict, and thought I’d get their opinion on a movie released in 1993 that was one of the silliest, and most quotable movies of all time — Hercules Returns.

It turns out they haven’t reviewed it. Neither has Rotten Tomatoes. “What is wrong with the world”, think I.

Searching IMDB finds it, but sadness sets in as I realise that it can only be bought legally on VHS from the UK (and if memory serves the quality wasn’t great to begin with).

To my international reader — Hercules Returns was a movie made by a few of our comedians by re-dubbing an old 1960’s Hercules movie with new dialogue. It’s some of the funniest stuff to ever be made in Australia, and is one of those films that gets mentioned in passing in a social situation, and dominates the rest of the evening being quoted over and over until someone says they haven’t seen it, and you all troop to the nearest (or furthest if necessary) video shop to hire it immediately because they MUST SEE IT NOW.

“I’ll fight you on one condition… that you lower your nipples.”

Seriously, this is a must see for any Aussie. Sadly, it is becoming increasingly difficult to induct friends into the Hercules Returns club because it’s just so difficult to find now.

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