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[NickFitz]

GOOD MORNING HAPPY CAMPERS!!
just got incentivised* to stay with this gig for a while longer.
might stave off senility for a bit. fingers crossed.


*got filthy lucre waved in my face
oh, and I intend to pay all due taxes on it.

Boomed!

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Hamnet (2025), which I believe I remember ladymuck and HWMBO going to see in the cinema last year, with lm speaking highly of it afterwards. I agree; it’s very good and I thought the ending was wonderful. I should watch films of this nature and calibre more often, rather than all that stuff about robots and such

But beauty and art are variable quantities, as I was reminded the the other day when somebody on Bluesky posited that a person who’s seen 100 films will assert that Citizen Kane is the best, a person who’s seen 1,000 will assert that 8½ is the best, and a person who’s seen 10,000 films will assert that Crank: High Voltage is the best.

I thought it important to undertake the arduous duty of testing the validity of this opinion. I’m not going to waste my time watching Citizen Kane again, because every bit of it has been adapted by The Simpsons so we all know everything there is to know about it. And 8½ is one of those French things involving circuses. In my view, the only worthwhile depiction in film of anything to do with circuses is that minute or so in La Cabina (1972) when the circus people travelling in the opposite direction gaze at the chap in the phone box as he gazes back at them.

So there was only one thing to do: rewatch Crank (2006) (because you have to watch the first film before you watch a sequel) and then rewatch Crank: High Voltage (2009). And I did, and I reckon Crank is better than Crank: High Voltage because in the latter, they try too hard to get clever with the premise and the context, and they aren’t as clever as they think they are. But Crank is simply the film it set out to be: a ludicrous premise as an excuse for mayhem. Therefore, Crank must be the best film ever made

It all started from what somebody I don’t know said on Bluesky and they were just joking anyway, so maybe it was a waste of time. But both films are good fun, so I was fine with it

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

^^ I don't know how many films I've seen (far less than you, I expect) but I would say Constantine or Leon: The Professional are the best films.



Morning all, local time 0915

Very low cloud, fog/mist going on. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 17 expected. A strong wind warning is in force. Barometer up to 1008 mBar.

Sunrise 05:54; Sunset 20:52 EEST

Congrats to SKB. I didn't get the gig I interviewed for on Monday. The agent was a bit miffed that there was no useful feedback as to why.

Today we are going to visit an old KGB listening post hidden in a hotel.