GET THE FLUCK OUT

Good morning Internet.

It’s Monday.

Diana Dors knows how you feel.



FUN FACT: Her real last name was Fluck. The movie bosses made her change it. No idea why.

Swinging Dors,

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WOOLWORTHS: OWNED AND OPERATED BY ALIENS

Yr science lede of the day:



Explains a lot, doesn’t it?

Extraterrestrial savings,

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HK ACID RAIN, PART 6

Meanwhile, here’s how the weekend went:



I wasn’t there, no.

But this is the sixth time this has happened since December 2008. This one happened at Temple Street in Yau Ma Tei, which is a popular tourist spot because of the night market and food stalls – which is probably why it rates coverage outside of HK, now that tourists are gettingt hurt.

They’ve never managed to figure out who’s behind this. And the guy they arrested this time turned out to be a false alarm.

Big fun, eh?

Previous acid coverage here.

Everywhere I go it rains on me,

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BIG BALLS OF MEAT

And yr first big hit of the 2010 movie season is:

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs

Yes, I know this came out at least a semester ago for many of you. But it only opened in Hong Kong less than two weeks ago.

And it’s great fun: manic nerd scientist invents a food machine that accidentally makes food rain from the sky. Hilarity and unforeseen consequences ensue.

The whole concept is ridiculous, but they make the most of it – once the food starts coming down, the film shifts from zany slaptick to very surreal zany slapstick – which gets even more surreal once it starts parodying Roland Emmerich disaster films.

There’s also some not-so-subtle commentary on runaway technology, gluttony, the cost of a free lunch, how society values good looks and idiocy over smarts, and the obligatory father-son bonding routine. But for all that, I can’t remember the last time the bridal unit and I laughed this hard in a movie theatre.

In a word, wacky. Wacky is good. We need more wacky in cinema.

FUN FACT: The funniest part, of course, was wondering who decided to model the cop character after Mr T, only to find out that it WAS Mr T.

Pity the fool,

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