Oct 15 2008

Is This What We Have To Look Forward To?

Category: In The MediaChrisM @ 1:51 am

I occasionally dip into Dom Joly‘s column over at the Independent’s website, and came across his recent piece on organizing children’s parties. Up until reading the article, I’d not considered the politics involved with deciding where to go and what to do or see in such circumstances. The idea that the film ET would somehow be too scary was amusing, though I guess every child is going to be different. One quick thing, Dom states that ET is rated PG (parental guidance), but the IMDB entry shows it as a U in Britain. Maybe the CGI re-release was re-certified?
Anyway, when it comes to the time that our soon-to-be-daughter’s friends are invited to parties, I hope we handle it well, and don’t end up annoying the other parents involved.

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Ooops, serves me right for not re-reading the article before I posted this – it turns out my memory was faulty, and it was a comment left at the article that inferred ET was a PG film…

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May 27 2008

Red Dwarf

Category: VideosChrisM @ 11:18 pm

I can’t remember why, but I recently came across some videos on YouTube that purported to be Red Dwarf the Movie trailers. Three turned out to be utter fakes, which seemed a little pointless, and one was actually someone’s home made CGI effort. Anyway, whilst there, I found the American pilots produced, which I had seen the first of some years back. Both pilots have been taken from VHS recordings, so the quality isn’t too good, and sadly the same could easily be said about the pilots – they didn’t seem to transfer the style of humour very well. Anyway, if you happen to be a fellow Dwarf fan, and have not yet seen the American version (which never went further than two pilots), you might want to check them out below…

Red Dwarf – 1st American Pilot Part I

Red Dwarf – 1st American Pilot Part II

Red Dwarf – 1st American Pilot Part III

For whatever reason, the YouTuber who put up these videos did not want the next two to be embedded directly, so you’ll need to visit YouTube to watch them. Just click on the links…
Red Dwarf – 2nd American Pilot Part I
Red Dwarf – 2nd American Pilot Part II

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