Dramatic Cinematic

Ah, Procrastination
I was supposed to start typing this fifty minutes ago, but I've put it off under the guise of "doing research", which means cruising Youtube and looking at old news articles.
     Although I did discover that there's a subculture out there that consists of altering the code ("Modding" the term, I believe) for games such as 'Grand Theft Auto', to allow the insertion of bizarre and unusual things and properties.
     For example: remember last week when I was lauding the train as your preferred prime mover when the Zombie Apocalypse arrives?  There is another subculture that enjoys creating zombie scenarios for train simulators, which is a sentence I never thought I'd type nor you read.  Art?

 - and there are those who like to combine the two activities

      This is the 'Before' shot, where you can see zombies swarming that car, which I presume our hirsute hero has just debarked from.  You can also see that oncoming train in the background.  You can probably work out what happens next, although Art can supply us with a money shot -

Ouch

     "Train to Busan", do you see what you've started?  I glanced at another mod, where our hairy hero's gun fires single-decker buses; handy for demolition work but a bit over the top for sniping, wouldn't you think?
     Right!  Time to swap the motley's bungee rope with spun sapphire and see what happens!

Well well - sapphire filament is a real thing.

A Little Forensic Analysis
As you know by now - because I went on about it at length yesterday - I could not get loose-leaf Darjeeling tea at Sainsbury's yesterday.  Nor does Sainsbury's online have any in stock.  Nor do Waitrose, nor Twining, nor Wittards.  The only way to get any is via specialist tea-importers, who charge £10 per packet.  I like it, but not that much.  My guess is that I'll have to wait until next year's harvest for it to come available freely <sad face>.
     The reason I don't like teabags is the same reason I detest "Greatest Hits" or "Best of" compilation CDs.  Who is some suit to tell me what to like or not? What <Mister Hand redacts a 500 word rant> strangled with their own intestines!     Where was I?
     Oh yes, teabags.  I cut apart one of the Darjeeling teabags and a normal one, just to compare and contrast, so here you are.  Art?

     Darjeeling to port, PG Tips to starboard.  As you can see, the DJ is a coarser and less homogenous mixture, which gives me hope.
     We also need more PG Tips teabags.
A Proper Film Critic SpeaksI'm am talking of Mark Kermode, a proper film critic who watches whole films, annotates them and reports back to you, the public.  I don't entirely trust the judgement of a man who liked "Mama Mia", but am willing to trust him on what  he's seen this year that's bad.  Bad as in Just Plain Bad, not So Bad It's Good.  Art?

How to strangle the Mark Kermode way!

     I confess I haven't seen any of the first half of his Bottom 10, though I may get round to seeing Number 10 - "Pacific Rim: Uprising".  MK stated that he unexpectedly enjoyed the first film, and had high expectations for this one - which were not met.  So, really a case of comparison and reality clashing with wish-fulfillment.  Do you want a picture?  O go on then.  Art?

Giant robots whaling the tar out of monnsters - what's not to like?

     Number 9 actually gave rise yesterday to an extended riff on what an utter chump King Midas was:  "Tad The Lost Explorer And The Secret Of King Midas", the last 6 words of which they had to put in small print.  As MK said, an unwanted sequel to a forgotten original, from 6 years ago.  The original did well in Spain, but then it was made there.  This sequel is, apparently, utterly forgettable, so much so that MK didn't remember seeing it until checking his notes.

The chief chump himself.  Gloves, Midas, gloves!

     I shall save the next three for my later post, as you can most certainly have too much of a bad thing.

Finally -
I need to put some science fiction in here, just in case anyone from FB Space Opera looks in and queries my description.
     Okay! Remember the "Discovery", that iconic spaceship from "2001"?  Inspired by an animal skeleton, if I recall correctly.  Well, you can get it in kit form.  Art?

Thus

     Yours for only £1,000.  Plus, you'll need plenty of space to hang the thing up.

Okay, off for lunch.  Later!