Zorac (zorac) wrote,
Zorac
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  • Mood: midly annoyed and highly amused
  • Music: The Eagles - Hotel California

By Grabthar's Hammer... what savings

Got an email from Amazon grovelling about the fact that they didn't get enough stock to fulfil all their pre-orders of The Getaway. As the order also has some Christmas presents on, I cant wait for them to get it in stock, so had to cancel that - which then took the order below the £39 threshold for free delivery, so I added a copy of Peter Jackson's Braindead - an early effort from the director of the LotR movies which is possibly the most ridiculous gore-fest of all time and extremely sick fun. On the plus side, Amazon did give me a £5 voucher for my trouble, so all's well that ends well.

Coming back to the subject, I watched Galaxy Quest to cheer me up - a brilliant comedy which works on so many levels:
  1. A spoof of Star Trek
  2. A send up of the Star Trek actors and fandom
  3. As a great movie in it's own right
Feeling much happier now.

P.S. The spell-checker wanted to change 'fest' to 'feast'. Ewww...
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  • 4 comments

jiggery_pokery

December 11 2002, 15:44:55 UTC 18 years ago

Next time we colocate, I suspect that viewing of Galaxy Quest may be on the agenda, for that is something I have always (*) wanted to see and never got round to doing. By the same token, Braindead will be off the agenda. :-)

(*) for some suitably restricted version of "always"

zorac

December 11 2002, 16:29:47 UTC 18 years ago

Sounds like a plan, but are you sure you don't want to see the horde-of-zombies vs lawnmower scene?
</evil>

jiggery_pokery

December 11 2002, 18:42:48 UTC 18 years ago

Quite sure, Mr. Tarrant, and that is my final answer.

(Ding-ding-doo-o-o-o-o-ong...dubbadubbadubbadubbadubba)

(You had one lunch. .... You've still got one lunch.)

zorac

December 11 2002, 18:56:58 UTC 18 years ago

And if you had watched it ... I get it ;-)