This Lord of the Rings Facebook parody is probably a bit funnier than the Star Wars one, only because of the language.

So yeah, I was kinda busy the last few days with some stuff, but that’s all done and dusted and I’m back.

“Done and dusted”, with some comprehensive flooding, is exactly what happens to our planet in Roland Emmerich’s latest disaster flick, 2012. Some flaky Mayan Mesoamerican Long Count calendar interpretation and some dodgy scientific theories form the groundwork for this mother of all disasters movies.

2012 delivered some absolutely stunning special effects, where planet earth gets a thorough and destructive whacking. It’s not a classic dystopian sci-fi film or anything close to an epic, but it was quite spectacular entertainment.

Fantastic trailer for Moon, a movie that seems to have the makings of a great science fiction flick. Rather ironically, the director happens to be the son of Ziggy Stardust.

[Via Gizmodo]

The Wife and I just got back from a good five-day holiday at Koh Lanta. It’s a quaint, unspoilt and sparsely populated island in the south of Thailand. There are some great beaches and clear waters in Lanta which we had heard about but didn’t experience.

Because when we were there, it was raining most of the bloody time.

Although it was the ‘green season’, it rained in the day and through the night, which was a lot more than we had expected. We caught a couple of hours in sunshine on the beach, but otherwise most of the time was, rather unbelievably, spent watching television.

We caught Hot Fuzz for the first time–I thought it was hysterically brilliant! I also caught the very entertaining 1972 French classic Le Grand Blond Avec Une Chaussure Noire and the somewhat disappointing US vs John Lennon. We also watched (not for the first time) Gladiator, Jerry Maguire, Mambo Kings, Herbie and Frequency, although I would rather have been out on the beach. I also had the misfortune of watching the Black Storm, Basilisk and Underfunded, only because there was nothing else to watch on the television. Oh, I also watched a lot of Ben 10, a bunch of classic Liverpool matches and Discovery Channel documentaries.

So, after travelling two hours by air, three hours on land and another hour on sea, covering close to 900 kilometres from Singapore to get to our island destination in southern Thailand where we had a room in a spiffy boutique hotel, we ended up spending most of our beach holiday watching TV.

Now that we’re back, I can’t wait to catch The Dark Knight…

Spending all day at home on a work day recovering from bacterial tonsillitis is not really that much fun because the medication makes you all woozy and daytime TV makes you want to throw up. And yet somehow, I ended up watching the rather entertaining Flyboys from start to finish on HBO.

The story is revolves around the enlistment, training and aerial fighting of the volunteer American pilots who served in the Lafayette Escadrille during World War I. The movie is a little long and the effects are not the best but the aerial combat scenes are great. This flick would make a good addition to any war movie buff’s DVD collection.

Sitting in the front row for a movie about a Godzilla-like monster wreaking havoc in New York with Blair Witch-style camera work was not really that different from sitting at the last row for a movie about a Godzilla-like monster wreaking havoc in New York with Blair Witch-style camera work.

They should have laced the popcorn with some Emetrol.