We're Back

To the hundreds of people that have emailed us asking why the posts to the blog have dried up… we say to you “read the blog title!” To post on a regular basis would hardly be half arsed would it now?

So its 2006 – Christmas has been and gone… many blog posts have been half (arsed) written and discarded, gems like why are yellow cabs in Brisbane orange in colour, and Silver Top cabs in Melbourne don’t have a silver top.

Maybe a movie review or two this year – I will review the emotional thought provoking movies, many that have no endings (its about the journey); Praj will review movies that have a chopper in them ("… the best movies have choppers, guns and explosions in them.” Basnet, 2006)

Brokeback Mountain: A little long and my arse got sore after a while (I think Heath Ledger said that too). So with the double entendre out of the way… Unless you have been living under a rock then you know the story. Of course once you realise that these guys aren’t actually cowboys but shepherds (no cattle only sheep) then you know the 'John Wayne' image of a cowboy is in serious trouble. However the story aint about sheep rustling or just about gay (bi-sexual actually) cowboys; it is about romance, it is about pain - as Ennis (Heath Ledger) wrestles between what he feels for Jack and his family responsibilities, over 20 years. Ang Lee directs hmmm... A Chinese director on a film about gay cowboys with a wanker(HL) as its star with Alberta Canada pretending to be Wyoming... but it works! [BD]

Predator: This is the movie that started the Chopper craze with Arnie's (the Governator) immortal words, "....run, get to the chopper", where the word chopper should be pronounced more like choppah. Anyway, this movies got it all, guns, arnie, an alien, a fight between an alien and arnie, a chopper, and more guns and explosions. Anyway there's also a plot (I believe all movies have a plot, just that some movies don't consider it as important a component as others). Basically, arnie and his commando buddies are in a jungle somewhere on rescue mission, when people start getting killed by a alien - the predator, and only Arnie stands in his way........ [PB]