(Originally sent August 2008)
This week’s colon-heavy sequels
X-Files: I Want To Believe: Only for hard-core X-Files continuity-followers, does not warrant a big screen.
Hellboy II: The Golden Army: Great example of how to do a ridiculous and silly film that leaves the audience smiling.
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor: Great example of how to do a ridiculous and silly film that leaves an audience feeling they wasted their time and money.
Next Week’s films
Next week I may take myself to see Space Chimps, purely because I heard that the second half goes crazy psychedelic and makes no sense, which is often a good sign.
IMDb: 3.7/10, RT: 34%.
Er… perhaps not then.
A Puzzle
Google Trends shows search volume over time, which is often fascinating. For example, we can see that in the eternal battle between pirate and ninja, 2004 was a key turning point.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=pirate%2C+ninja&ctab=0&geo=GB&geor=all&date=all&sort=0
You can also use it to track the popularity of different things rather well. For example, the decline of the wrist watch as mobile phones render them redundant:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=wrist+watch&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
Given all this, how do you explain the following apparent decline?
http://www.google.com/trends?q=mobile+phone&ctab=0&geo=GB&date=all&sort=0
Quote
As Yasmin is leaving, here’s a line I remember from her that I would love to get into a screenplay some day:
Yasmin: “Oh, I’m not looking for a man to marry. I just want a man to… buy me dinner.”
Link
This week it has to be Talking Pets!
http://www.talkingpets.org/
Video
Nursery rhymes performed by modern artists (just audio really, the visuals are cobbled together by someone with MS Paint):
