Recent Trailers and Adverts

Since Movie Day was a great success (except for London Midland screwing up so I missed Book of the Dead), have some short comments on the trailers first.

Good:

The Penguins of Madagascar is on my to be watched list along with Get Santa which looks like my kind of nonsense. And my hat is off to Rafe Spall for managing to look/act so differently in everything I see him in.

The Bizarre:

The Spongebob movie trailer looks like Hollywood has been imbibing the nose candy again.

Not My Thing:

The Imitation Game - probably one of those things where I know slightly too much about the cryptanlysis side of things (I am terrible at cryptanalysis, but I enjoy reading about it) to enjoy the film.

Nativity 3 does not look like my kind of nonsense.

The Drop
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I'd love to know why in Virgin Trains's advert for their Birmingham to London route, they're using footage of Liverpool Lime Street. To the point of asking them on Twitter. I have spent too much time at Lime Street, New Street and Euston not to recognise them all instantly, but more importantly, the rock formation and color at the back of Lime Street is unmistakable.

Is that Kevin Spacey I see in the new Call of Duty ad? And is that Taylor Kitsch in the ad for whatever military shooter that was?

They're letting ad agencies at the crack again, aren't they? As evidence, I would like to nominate this Just Eat advert (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWsjVV4iLZs), this O2 advert (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTFxwYZ96Cg) and this Freederm advert (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wleR59hiV0A). Not that I don't like them, but bzuh, what?! The other main theme seems to be Busby Berkley as done by Dyson (in an advert I can't find on Youtube) and Currys/PC World (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU8WLf9OIlU).

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

This film was serious Raphael propaganda and did terrible things to my boy Mikey but it was surprisingly good fun.

Contrary to reports received, April O'Neil was awesome. I suspect people have been prejudging her because of who is playing her and who produced the film but she was tenacious, heroic, brave and wonderful.

Splinter was also awesome, even if, rather worryingly, Raphael was my favourite Turtle in the film. This is a very wrong thing.

Advanced warning, the opening of TMNT is awesome, and then there's about 15-20 minute that are not so good and then the film kicks into gear.

( Spoilers )

I was sat next to a particularly talkative example of the actual target audience (I still don't know why this was a 12A). The 7 year olds in attendance loved it, which is what matters, even if they have been brainwashed into liking Raphael.

( Why Raphael worked for me in this, more so than he normally does. )

Last Week's TNA

I once again wish to laugh bitterly at TNA pretending it has a tag team division.

( Spoilers )

Eric Young as the defender of the poor, the downtrodded and Spud made me so happy. He is awesome.

( Back to the spoilers )

Discussing other people who really should have been in the tag team tournament, James Storm and his harem of brainwashed cruiserweights was recruiting again. Storm was trying to recruit the Wolves because ... we've still not been given a reason for Storm's brainwashing. It does however lead to the most wonderful WTF expression on Little Wolf's face (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QHS7oc5rcI&index=8&list=PLcovtt7Bdo9MrF27ulHVg89-jOK2ats_j).