Although I believe the film falls into the category of "Naff Bond", where Roger Moore does something daft in an underwater sledge before killing a bad guy with an excruciating pun. Something like that. Either way, he adjusts his tie.
Anyway, one other thing about "Stranger Things 2" that needs mention is the soundtrack, which tends to be cool UK music of the period. I was mightily chuffed at recognising The Icicle Works "From a Whisper to a Scream" as the play-out track on one episode, given that it's many decades since I last heard it.
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| You want strange? Here's strange: Polish film poster strange. |
There will now be a short pause whilst I go put my cod and chips in the oven. I got two bags of oven chips at the last big shop, and we only really need a single bag, so I am doing my civic duty by consuming one bag all on my own.
Here an aside. Polish film posters are a subject that deserve a post all of their own. They are frequently stylish, elliptical, and scary, even when the latter doesn't actually apply to the film they promote. I shall cattle-prod Art into action. Art?
| Congratulations! You made The Muppets frightening! |
Answer honestly now: would you as a parent be willing to take your precious offspring to see a film which looks like it wants to eat them?
Well, time to send the motley sliding down the stairs on a tea-tray - backwards*!
Acceptance At Last
It has taken a while, but our Surrogate Daughter Edna has finally come to (grudgingly) accept one of the two dog-nests that have been carefully washed, dried, plumped-up, inspected and positioned in the lounge. Art?
She will lie there, huffing occasionally just to let you know that Her Rightful Place is on your lap, matey, and this is a distant compromise that is barely acceptable. The bed up against the radiator, which is nice and warm - completely ignored.
Excuse Me -
If you have been paying attention, then you will know that BOOJUM! has been analysing one of the great might-have-beens of military history, the potential Teuton invasion of the Allotment of Eden in the Second Unpleasantness.
Er - which is a concatenation of BOOJUM!-speak that I ought to translate.
"Teuton" = German
"Allotment of Eden" = Britain
"Second Unpleasantness" = World War Two
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| WW2 being rather grim, here's some bunnies in a field instead |
I don't want any of you out there to misunderstand. We aim to inform, after all.
The lengthy and interesting Wiki article on OS does quote that it would be the first large-scale mechanised amphibious invasion attempt.
O but I say! You know what a pedantic hair-splitter Conrad is, so I shall instead refer you to the largest war you've never heard of - the Rif War.
This was a colonial spat in the Twenties between the Berber tribes who inhabited Spanish Morocco, and the Spanish, who - you're probably ahead of me here - fondly regarded Spanish Morocco as theirs, no questions asked. My mate Richard published a set of wargaming rules about it that I bought, not because I intend to ever game it, but because it's just so interesting. Art?
Anyway - I wanted to mention the combined Franco-Spanish amphibious landing at Alhucemas Bay, which involved deploying tanks and artillery in a beach assault. It precedes OS by quite a bit. Art?
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| Damn! Can't see any tanks |
I would guess that the reason there's no tanks present is because the front lines have moved well inland, since this is obviously a while after the initial attack.
Z Nation
Is back! Not only that, it's been back a good few weeks now, and your humble scribe has not seen any episodes -
| They're alive? |
Well, I'm about half-way into the first episode, where they have craftily moved the timeline forward 2 years, stating "Things have gotten worse".
Not sure how this can possibly be. At the end of the last episode of Season 3, the two young ladies above had both taken a swan dive from a cliff. Bar an eyepatch, this doesn't seem to have done them any harm. I'm sure we'll get this addressed in about 2 seconds of throwaway dialogue when they re-unite with the rest of their Operation Bitemark compatriots.
* Don't worry, I used to do this when a youngster, and look how I grew up.
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