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"Don't ask questions, just give into the power of the tea..."
To schedule went walking in Castleton with my good friend Myron today, though I didn't quite convince him why Pirates 2 and 3 suck. The short answer - because they, like the threequels of 2007, overblow what was good from the originals to such an extent they distort anything else. Plot, cohesion. Narrative cinema. I mean, ten Johnny Depps? Actually getting Keith Richards to play his dad? Don't patronise me!
And where does this leave Zoolander, a film I got in part to amuse Myron and partly because he continually namechecks it? Well, to my surprise, Stiller didn't overdo it. Sure, it's another 90 minutes music video that coulda worked as a half-hour TV comedy. But it's dumb without bring annoying, predictable but not sterile. Not cinema genius but it has no pretensions at box office glory nor, it seems to me anyway, artistic merit. A few guys having some dorky fun.
I may be utterly wrong, of course, in which case I've like totally offended Ben Stiller yeah?
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I can never listen to "Wake me up before you go go" the same way again. Never Ever.
The soundtrack was certainly expertly chosen!
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