Posts by Morgan Nichol
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Generally when people say something is so bad it's good they're less than half right. I'll watch Best Worst Movie, but I won't watch Troll 2.
"But it's so bad you'll laugh and laugh! And oh did I mention the spoons?!" Doesn't do it for me.
The sex scenes mostly consist of Wiseau's muscular, pitted ass filling the screen as he thrusts up and down in slow-motion to awful R & B music while grunting like a dying ox, with his pelvis positioned somewhere above his co-performer's transverse colon.
Yet more good reasons I'm glad I skipped it.
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I loved the years it was sending everyone to Birkenhead for fairly average meals at The Engine Room.
I've had several incredibly good meals at The Engine Room.
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I guess that didn't auto-embed it. Let's see if this works...
[it didn't. lame. why love the shittiness of youtube and not support the aceness that is vimeo?]
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Made by myself, several of the Cactuslab boys, and a bunch of our friends as part of the 48hours short film comp a few weeks ago.
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Basil and Sybil have moved on
Am I the only one tempted to go there and fuck with them, small camera rolling discreetly, ready to catch the hilarity?
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Yeah, I guess you know more about how Hollywood works than Nikki Finke does. She's talking about why people voted the way they did.
A bad process is a bad process, but I'm not convinced the process was bad given that (yes this is only IMHO) Avatar won the awards it should have won.
[Edit: Great argument from authority, by the way.] ;)
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Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood:
Academy voters rewarded a tiny film that made no money just because almost everyone in Hollywood really dislikes James Cameron. This shows how out of touch the Oscars are with moviegoers around the world, who loved Avatar. But what can you expect from a bunch of mostly geriatrics who decide on the Best Picture by watching them on small screens instead of in the movie theater. Most of the 5,000+ voters only saw Avatar in 2D. So, of course, The Hurt Locker played better. And people wonder why I have nothing but contempt for the Academy?That's complete rubbish. The only thing Avatar had going for it was the visuals, everything else was derivative or even directly carbon copied from other films. The Academy recognised the visuals with several awards.
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Avatar isn't just flawed, it's a complete piece of shit. It won the awards it should have won, which were purely about the visuals and the way it was shot. Was really delighted with Hurt Locker win. It's a hell of a film.
The Wellywood sign idea is cringe inducing. I like the idea of massive public works of art - and public art is one of the very few things that Wellington does better than Auckland - but this one is simply the wrong idea.
Also, I have a spare ticket for tomorrow night's Pixies concert if anyone is keen to go but missed out (why my girlfriend would rather go to some other crappy gig I simply cannot fathom, but there you go).
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Which assumes there was an argument to back off from. The one and only time I've ever been in a bar fight a tall young chap hit me in the face before saying a word. I hit him back far harder and he fell on the ground. There was no time for discussion.
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But I'd be interested to hear the opinions of other people who've worked in customer service. It may be that I've had a bad run of it and I've been spending too much time on this site lately.
Not for a really long time, and then with a fairly specialised service (well, internet stuff, but way back in the day, when only people who were a bit geeky were interested). I particularly liked talking to the really upset people, I liked to soothe them. This was easy on the whole, all they needed was some straight talk, honest appraisal, and timely help. Which apparently isn't something they were getting from the others (or they wouldn't have made it to me).
Some people, only a very few, should never ever ever be allowed to provide customer service. There was one guy on the helpdesk (later on, after I'd moved departments - otherwise I would have straightened him out) who would scream and shout and (literally) hit the walls after practically every call.
Completely out of order. It just wasn't the line of work for him, and I don't know why he didn't just get a job that suited him better.
I hope no one has to work with anyone like that. Even just the stories fucked me off, and I never had to sit in the same room as the guy.
Not 30 minutes ago I was chucking people around, and being chucked around. I feel tired, but I'm glad I did it, nothing takes your mind off work like it.
I never liked the chucking much, probably because it was too easy for me. Far rather the hitting and being hit. Half torn off callouses on the hands and feet and a chestful of good honest bruises... good for the soul.