Wednesday 13 April 2016

Don't See This Film

Just a friendly warning. Don't make the same mistake I did earlier this week....

BATMAN VERSUS SUPERMAN!

Original art located HERE

28% rating on Rotten Tomatoes is more than generous.

I guess not having seen Man of Steel didn't help, but this latest issuing from the DC franchise appeared to be a sort of mash up of sequences from all the other Superman and Batman films ever made, inserted in entirely random order. Jesse Eisenberg impersonates Heath Ledger visiting what looks like Sydney Opera house but is actually a Kryptonite spaceship (I think) to get something important in order to do something bad. Meanwhile Ben Affleck tries his best but not so good take off of Christian Bale, growling deeply meaningful phrases like "My parents taught me life only has meaning if you make it." (a sentiment equally applicable to this film).

It is never clear why the two superheroes dislike each other so much - some sort of misunderstanding between Batman's habit of branding paedophiles and Superman's involvement with a rendition programme on the face of things. It culminates in a chaotic fight where Batman is set to bash SuperQuiff to death with a toilet cover. How the mighty have fallen!

Into the middle of all this, for no clear reason, someone arrives who I thought was meant to be Xenia the Warrior Princess but turns out to actually be a leather-togged version of Wonder Woman. She has some gurning friends, one of whom lives in a sunken ship and prods anything that comes close to him with a trident. Who knows why? We never see him again.

The theme score by the omnipresent Hans Zimmer isn't bad, but does lend this mish mash of high speed scene changes the fullest sense of being a shot at the longest music video in history. Complete with moody Bat dreams and Super-brooding - who needs kryptonite to squeeze the franchise into senseless oblivion?

But, perhaps most implausible of all is the conceit that a committee of American senators would spend time agonising over the deaths of some Arab civilians. Utter fantasy if you ask me....

Wednesday 6 April 2016

My Daddy Was A Tax Dodger



My daddy was a tax dodger
And he never paid the HMRC
He just loved to live that way
And keep the public's money

So I’m rich and you are poor
And that’s how it will stay
Cos my cheating accountant
Is the only one I’ll pay

So you’ve come to shake us up
And think we’re going to grovel
But instead we'll hammer you
With the judge’s gavel

My daddy was a tax dodger
And he never paid the HMRC
He just loved to live that way
And keep the public's money

You might think that you can
Bring our system to the ground
But we’ll put you in prison
And we’ll grind you right down

And we’ll never give you bail
Or let you work together
Cos the feral elite
Know that'd not be so clever

So we’ll charge for your rocking chair
Cos what we’re spinning
Is we’re all in it together
And that Britain's winning

My daddy was a tax dodger
And he never paid the HMRC
He just loved to live that way
And keep the public's money

Run bolshie run
Hide out in the hills
I can use the hole in the wall
But you poor never will

Vote Tory Vote Tory Vote Tory Vote Tory (repeat & fade)

"The Capitalist Guard" (1918, Netherlands)

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With fullest apologies to The Clash...