Christmas seems to come earlier every year. There are Christmas decorations in some shops even before the end of August, most have the by September, and now - the middle of October - they're bloody everywhere! And the Christmas adverts have already come out on TV, playing the Christmas songs that just get on your nerves long before 25th December.
And now, via an unimpressed Norfolk Blogger, I hear that the Dickens classic A Christmas Carol is to be remade. With lots of "special effects". And starring Jim Carrey. Why? We already have the best video version of that classic book that could be made: The Muppet Christmas Carol.
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22 October 2007
Not Christmas
08 September 2007
"Your mother was a hamster and you father smelt of elderberries!"
Hundreds of fans from across the world are set to descend on Doune Castle this weekend for the third Monty Python Day.
The 14th Century keep was made famous as Castle Anthrax in the 1975 classic film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Tickets have been restricted to 500 for the event near Stirling, which sees fans taking to the castle's battlements to enact scenes from the famous film.
Aficionados will also have the chance to take part in the coconut conga or the Python Idle talent contest. (BBC)
"I fart in your general direction!"The 14th Century keep was made famous as Castle Anthrax in the 1975 classic film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Tickets have been restricted to 500 for the event near Stirling, which sees fans taking to the castle's battlements to enact scenes from the famous film.
Aficionados will also have the chance to take part in the coconut conga or the Python Idle talent contest. (BBC)
22 August 2007
"Snappy" or stupid?It may seem a strange way to entice tourists but Australians hope a blood-and-guts horror film about a giant crocodile stalking a group of terrified day trippers will boost visitor numbers.
The new film, Rogue, tells the story of a wildlife-spotting river cruise in the outback that goes horribly wrong.
When their boat is rammed from below and sinks into a swamp, the tourists find themselves marooned on a tiny island which turns out to be the lair of a huge, man-eating saltwater crocodile.
But rather than scare the living daylights out of prospective visitors, tourism chiefs believe the film will persuade them to visit the Northern Territory, where it was filmed. (The Telegraph)
Personally, a film is not going top make me any more [or really any less] likely to visit somewhere. It might emulate Wolf Creek and be able to be credited with a 10% rise in tourist numbers, or it might not. My prediction it that it is likely to have little or no effect on tourism - either pro or con. The number scared off by it is likely to be about equalised by the number attracted because of it.The new film, Rogue, tells the story of a wildlife-spotting river cruise in the outback that goes horribly wrong.
When their boat is rammed from below and sinks into a swamp, the tourists find themselves marooned on a tiny island which turns out to be the lair of a huge, man-eating saltwater crocodile.
But rather than scare the living daylights out of prospective visitors, tourism chiefs believe the film will persuade them to visit the Northern Territory, where it was filmed. (The Telegraph)
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