Posts by Robyn Gallagher
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I would be interested in how many films other folk get to in a year.
I once read that the average New Zealander sees, on average, seven films a year. [Citation required].
Whenever I tell this to people, their reaction it either "Is that all?!" or "Oh, I wish I had the time to see that many!"
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Yeah, unfortunately they tend to be mainly found in cities, and in the sort of places where people go for weekends away.
I reckon if you're miles from even a multiplex, it's quite alright to wait for DVD - one of my favourite things is curling up in bed with a good film on my laptop.
(Also, thanks!)
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I would be interested in how many films other folk get to in a year.
OMG, probably 100, at least. And that's not counting all the shorts I saw in the Wellington heats for 48Hours.
I would encourage anyone who doesn't see films at the movies any more to find their local boutiquey cinema.
Wellington is blessed with lovely suburban cinemas like the Light House, the Empire, and the Penthouse, where you can enjoy (usually) good films in nice surroundings with grown-up audiences.
While a big ol' mutiplex can be good for event films (particularly comedies), seeing an excellent film in a more intimate space can turn film-going back into that lovely sensual experience.
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Surely it's okay to not like this film on spec? I saw the trailers and thought they were awful
What? No.
A trailer is an ad for the film. It is not a summary of the film. It is not art. It is a commercial designed to entice mainstream audiences to see the film.
You can no more judge a film on its trailer than you can judge a car from an ad for the car. You've got to test-drive it, at least.
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I should be so lucky
Lucky lucky lucky
I should be so lucky in loveKylie knew how much unrequited love sucked. Just once I'd like it to go both ways because I hear that proper love thing is quite good.
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Righto, so I shall now be calling that town Whanganui/Wanganui (pronounced Whanganui slash Wanganui), following in the path of Mt Taranaki/Egmont and Aoraki/Mt Cook.
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Thank you, Emma, for all the excellent posts, your splendid book, and indeed for collecting the lolicious comments over the year.
Let us have more of this in 2010, for it is good.
I'LL DEMAND ANSWERS.
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I also read that, by differing metrics, Eminem and N*Sync were the artists of the decade... it's hard not to wince a little
Both of these come from Billboard's "Best of the 2000s" list.
'N Sync's "No Strings Attached" album was the biggest selling album of the 2000s. It is a brilliant work of pop and anyone who thinks otherwise can bite it. Yeah.
Eminem is Billboard's "Artist of the Decade" due to all five of his albums released this decade getting to no. 1.
Billboard is all about sales. They aren't making any quality judgements, which would explain the presence of Creed, Nickleback and Limp Bizkit all up in their lists.
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personally I'm just impressed by the quality of the turn out for each craft by the mystery shaun
Crafty Sean seems to have taken a lot of inspiration from the interwebs. Why, his pasta angels are almost an exact replica of the pasta angels at Squidoo.
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I'm nominating slapstick orgasm, from the reporting of the An Adagio Christmas non-story un-controversy.