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Today I went to see ( The Changeling. ) But that isn't really the point. The points are as follows:
Point the first. In the cinema foyer, I encountered the lenticular standee. THE LENTICULAR STANDEE, PEOPLE. I had no idea what those two words in combination meant at all when first I read them, but basically it's a life-sized cardboard poster of Shah Rukh Khan and a woman who isn't Kajol in their upcoming film Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, which I may have mentioned once or twice in my journal before. And lenticular seems to be mean liken as unto one of those rulers you used to have as a child on which the dinosaurs moved as you tilted it. In standee terms, this translates to Shah Rukh Khan's seguing magically between his nerdy moustachioed bespectacled persona, WHICH IS ACE, and his dudey t-shirted clean-shaven persona, which is at least still Shah Rukh Khan. And now I want a lenticular standee for Christmas. I spent quite a lot of time dancing about in front of the lenticular standee making SRK lose and regain his moustache. It felt like the best ten minutes I've ever spent and I don't really understand why it isn't yet the twelfth of December.
Point the second. I saw a trailer for Radio 4's comedy slot that featured Paul Merton and the bloke who does the silly voiceovers for melodramatic film trailers, and at the end, Paul Merton said 'Ian Hislop sounds a bit like that first thing in the morning. So somebody told me'. And mostly all I could think was 'How happy would that have made me three or more years ago?'
Point the third. I saw a trailer for Frost/Nixon and it made me stupidly excited. I don't think it's actually called Frost slash Nixon as such. I probably ought to point that out. But yes. I don't know why I found it stupidly exciting because I don't recall being stupidly excited by the theatre reviews or anything, but then I always forget how much I love political and/or journalistic films until I'm actually watching them. And it's vaguely amusing because mostly I associate Frost with introducing sketches featuring the Two Ronnies and having a tartan blanket over his knees in Dead Ringers and trying to interview the Beatles while they were making up a song about him. So I might go and see that on the whole.
Point the first. In the cinema foyer, I encountered the lenticular standee. THE LENTICULAR STANDEE, PEOPLE. I had no idea what those two words in combination meant at all when first I read them, but basically it's a life-sized cardboard poster of Shah Rukh Khan and a woman who isn't Kajol in their upcoming film Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, which I may have mentioned once or twice in my journal before. And lenticular seems to be mean liken as unto one of those rulers you used to have as a child on which the dinosaurs moved as you tilted it. In standee terms, this translates to Shah Rukh Khan's seguing magically between his nerdy moustachioed bespectacled persona, WHICH IS ACE, and his dudey t-shirted clean-shaven persona, which is at least still Shah Rukh Khan. And now I want a lenticular standee for Christmas. I spent quite a lot of time dancing about in front of the lenticular standee making SRK lose and regain his moustache. It felt like the best ten minutes I've ever spent and I don't really understand why it isn't yet the twelfth of December.
Point the second. I saw a trailer for Radio 4's comedy slot that featured Paul Merton and the bloke who does the silly voiceovers for melodramatic film trailers, and at the end, Paul Merton said 'Ian Hislop sounds a bit like that first thing in the morning. So somebody told me'. And mostly all I could think was 'How happy would that have made me three or more years ago?'
Point the third. I saw a trailer for Frost/Nixon and it made me stupidly excited. I don't think it's actually called Frost slash Nixon as such. I probably ought to point that out. But yes. I don't know why I found it stupidly exciting because I don't recall being stupidly excited by the theatre reviews or anything, but then I always forget how much I love political and/or journalistic films until I'm actually watching them. And it's vaguely amusing because mostly I associate Frost with introducing sketches featuring the Two Ronnies and having a tartan blanket over his knees in Dead Ringers and trying to interview the Beatles while they were making up a song about him. So I might go and see that on the whole.
