Actually it was anything but fruit - today I went for my first proper McDonalds in 4 years (although it may only be 3) during a day out in London. The last one I had was a McBreakfast one morning on the way to the Royal Brompton hospital for my first appointment about my allergy - I remember it was May 10th and It would have been 4 years ago (or maybe 3 - the years seem to blur into one these days).
Anyway, in the meantime I have had the odd mcFlurry but today was a proper "meal" (regualr sized, not super) consiting of McNuggets with BBQ sauce, fries and a vanilla shake (Hmmmmm.... I can still taste the boiled hooves....)
Some people are really down on McDonalds but I don`t particularly see the problem. Yeah the food isn`t brilliant but it`s fast food - it`s not supposed to be. And yeah, a lot of it isn`t exactly healthy, but in moderation it`s really not an issue (one meal every 4 years is fine! 4 times a week like some people do is most definitely not good)
Eating the occasional McD`s when out and about as part of a healthy balanced diet should not be a problem. I will stop now as I sound like a government public information film.
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I don`t normally post details about the weird dreams I have online because I don`t want to draw comparisons between myself and the chap at http://www.ulillillia.us who is clearly barking mad (actually that`s a bit unfair as he clearly has some sort of learning disability but even so his site really is pretty extreme!) but the dream I had last night was so great I just have to mention it here, for posterity if nothing else.
The dull parts involved a helicopter chase around Caversham (Ewan McGregor was flying the helicopter as I can`t) stopping briefly to refuel in the car park of The Griffin pub (not sure why they had a petrol pump with aviation fuel there - maybe it was something to do with the Maguire family from Shameless who were hanging around there for some unknown reason).
Anyway, the bit that had me laughing, almost hysterically, when I woke up this morning was a plotline in popular TV soap opera Neighbours involving everyone discovering that respected doctor Karl Kennedy was in fact a super intelligent hairless Orangutan rather than a human being. His Wife Susan and daughter Libby were distraught knowing that they had, respectively, slept with and been fathered by a monkey!
I don’t think I need to say any more, really. That is all.
Ok, what the hell was all that about? Ong Bak was great. It reinvented martial arts films and blew anything that was coming from Hong Kong out of the water. It introduced us to Tony Jaa an all round stunt expert and master of exreme fighting choreography and bone crunching action. Ong Bak was followed up by Tom Yung Goong which, let`s face it, was just more of the same but with added action, stunts and even more extreme bone crunching goodness. So, when making his third film, Tony Jaa coulddn`t possibly go wrong, could he.
Err, yes, it would appear he could. The making of the film was hampered somewhat when Tony, now acting as star, choreographer, director, producer, story writer and probably half the other jobs on the average film crew, threw a Hollywood style temper tantrum at not having enough money for the film and vanished into the Thai jungle for several months, essentially hoilding the film to ransom, only reappearing when he got his way. Unfortunately it would appear that Tony has started to belive his owen press, that he is the second coming of Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and half a dozen martial arts greats all rolled into one, and thinks anything he does will turn to gold. Ong Bak 2 proves the point very well, that a good film is a team effort and Tony is only a part of it. Judging from this film, he very much needs other people to handle the story, directing etc. in particualr Prachya Pinkaew, diretcor of his earlier 2 films.
Ong Bak 2 is, to be frank, rather dull. It tries to be a bit different, which is admirable enough, but people don`t come to see films like this for long winded story and Thai dance sequences (Ong Bak 2 film features a good 5 minute sequence of someone just dancing just to reintorduce a character when 20 seconds of vaguely well written story could have done the job just as wll). Audiences want to see people get beaten real good, limbs snapped and skulls crunched with elbows. And when you have to wait 48 minutes into a 95 minute film for anything like that to begin, you know something`s wrong. Ok, there are a few smaller action sequences before this but they are rather dull and uninspiring. Plus there aren`t any stunts - certainly nothing to rival Tony jumping though hoops of barbed wire, under cars or up glass walls, backflipping over a quad bike in the process. But I think the biggest problem is that Tony decided to concentrate on the use of weapons in this film (swords mainly, flails, and other bits occasionally) and he doesn`t seem to be able to do anything differnet with them. When he`s fighting woth a sword, it`s nothing new; nothing we haven`t seen Jet Li, Samo Hung, Donnie Yen (the list goes on) do a thousand times before. It`s only when he empties his hands and starts with his fists, kness and elbows that things begin to improve. But by then it`s too little too late and the film just suddenly ends with a spectacularly tenuous link to the first Ong Bak, leaving the audience with a spectacular WTF moment.
I believe his next film is Ong Bak 3 which will be a sequel to this film. With a bit of luck Tony will have eaten a large portion of humble pie by the time the cameras roll (but not so much that he too fat to pull off some great stunts).
6 series. Some good. Some a bit dull. Some fantastic episodes. Some not so good. But no one can deny it is compelling viewing (once you are hooked) and the series has gone on to be one of the most popular on any channel anywhere (porbably everywhere) in the world. A huge moneyspinner for everyone involved.
So can some explain then, why, after 6 series, they still haven`t managed to fix the graphical glitch on the underside of the letter "S" of the Lost title when it floats towards the camera at the start of each episode? Just as it is about to disappear out of frame the edge of the 3D bevel just breaks up a little bit. Why? It`s so amateurish? There are millions of people around the world, a sizable percentage of whom are probably under the age of 10, who could produce the exact same floaty logo but without the error we`ve put up with for the last 6 years.
I`m sure somewhere that some rabid Lost fanboy has writen an entire website dedicated to the graphical glitch and its meaning in relation to the show ("it represents the breakdown op an enclosed society. Also it is the Smoke monster`s mother." and other such crap). I just think it looks cheap and crap. Dr Who - now that`s how to do a good title sequence!
And Lost series 6 itself? The first 2 epsiodes are a great opening, with lots of new stuff going on. And I really did notice, during some of the slower, more thoughtful bits, just how emotional it all is. They`ve done a really good job of getting you to care for the characters by giving them various interesting backstories over the preceeding episodes (Although people often moan that the flashbacks were slow and dull and didn`t particularly relate to the main plot, I think they woulld be missed as they are so helpful now in giving the characters something to fight for and helping the audience be sympatheritc towards them).