Roderick

You drove that weird dad car?!?! Amazing!

Criterion? Get that shit up in the Idle Thumbs Crit Club!

Prepare yourself, Deleric, for your turn is swiftly coming up! WILL we see another black-and-white feature? WILL it be European, Asian or American? WON'T it have hysterical people doing hysterical things again? Let's get CRITE(I)R(T)I(IC)ON(AL) about it!!

What the hell is Pathologic? The 5.2 score is intruiging. Everything about it sound horrible/appealing.

Ace Ventura's Abyss Odyssey

Yesterday night Dutch television aired a film I didn't yet know, but that was so powerful I kept watching until two. It was Un Prophète. A beautifully constructed, quiet prison drama about an Arab teen going for a six year stint and juggling his loyalties between a Sicilian gang and his 'own' brothers. Engrossing, realistic, silent and French. Well worth it.

AKA the smallest Oktoberfest.

I saw the monkey movie too and wrote a (spoilery) thing about it, and it has become kinda philosophical.

Internet Explorer-tan! I'm switching.

I feel that Jorge is the real lead character here, and the only sensible person in the lot. I mean, he gets out on top, so he has to be the hero.

Right, sorry it took a while, but I saw Viridiana. I found it a troubling film, and not at all pleasant to watch. Well, let me restate that: the first half hour I thought was rather fascinating, with the desperate uncle and strange imagery of Viridiana shoveling dirt into a basket. It felt a bit exaggerated here and there, but it was artfully shot. I was indeed expecting this to be a bleak condemnation of religion, but instead the film fixes on the contrast between the pious and the irredeemable wicked. Poor Viridiana has her hopes dashed at every turn, and her faith proves utterly worthless outside the cloister. As soon as the paupers come in (which felt like it came out of the blue) I got a sneaky suspicion this would end in grossest violence. That didn't quite happen fortunately, though I came close to switching off the film as soon as the toothless leper and the other bum started raping her. I like Ariskany's interpretation of this, that it's about the progress of civilisation and plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. I was slightly baffled at the ending, which felt tongue in cheek (let's play cards!) and inappropriate. I don't quite know what was the point of it all: was there a lesson for Viridiana here? Is she a martyr for a bygone life style? I feel that a film that's so heavily auteured (the Last Supper painting, the weird interludes, they're all knowing winks) is primed to make a statement. It can't just end on 'well, that's the whole story because that's just what happened'. Or is it really just the horribleness and disappointment of life that Viridiana has to endure?

But Mington's quest to befriend Olly is the Citizen Kane of video games! This is an outrage.

Oh dear, we've invoked the Mushroom Kingdom nega-version of Olly, Wa-Olly.

Ugh, that's horrible, Zeus. My thoughts go to you!

Wait, are you implying that the name refers to 'noobs', as in 'A noob'? That's absolutely not the case. If you'll allow me: the spider lords in the Warcraft universe are all named such. The first one was Anub'arak from Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. Why refer to noobs over there? Doesn't make sense.

Donald Duck is to this day a HUGE thing in the Netherlands, with his own magazine read by over 300,000 Dutchmen, young and old.

There's only one way this can play out:

"Fuck" Anub'rekhan.

The immediate result is HUGE LAG! I played two arena games just now, won them both, but the game crashed upon the second win and I dreaded it didn't register. Fortunately, after rebooting (sloowwwwly) I saw it did. I played the first boss of Naxxramas and it was fun. A new board is always a good thing and Blizzard really put an effort into getting all the details right. Like they do. It's a fun package. I'm saving the other bosses for the rest of the week, there are three in total. Anub'rekhan was pretty easy to kill with a fairly standard mage deck, but there are levels of difficulty, so it should provide a challenge.

Dann hast du gar keinen Clown gefrühstuckt!

Isn't that... your office? He must be damn good at whatever he does. Especially if he's VP of I Can't Even.

Surely what he actually said was... "I doont underztant zee problem, eet eez very praktikal: vier shpeeds, zwelve Einheitsfunctionen." I_Smell, you try to get fat when you only have tulip bulbs to eat! So insensitive.

You are fucking making that up.

"He woke up with the monkey, but it's not my circus." Am I doing it right?