Man in a Shed: A very Silly film

Sunday, August 02, 2009

A very Silly film

Right - this is going to be the "reward" for the best contribution to Silly Week as determined by whatever method I dream up.

This film probably makes Battle Field Earth look good. It answers questions like what does Dinosaur taste like ( you already know the answer ) .

Jules Vern's estate should sue, and might Tolkien's - not for copying but for deformation.

What amazes me is that they get money to make this sort of thing ....

But it is very, very, ever so Silly... so there you go ... ( picked up at a school Fete for 20p or such ).

I'm going to make an intermittent update of the posts people have let me know about in comments sometime soon, and will then try to make a definitive guide post (a day or two later ). But the family is trying to drag me to the back of the house to do something called gardening so it may have to wait ...

5 comments:

James Higham said...: Great entry, MiaS.

I wonder, in your trawling, whether you've been counting the #silly week in the labels below the post or only the words in the title?

I've observed quite a few posts around the sphere which were part of #silly week but this was not in the actual title, nor in the body of the post - only in the labels.; 1:57 pm
Man in a Shed said...: Generally I've gone with google (general and for blogs ) and twitter searches for #SillyWeek.

But I'll try and have a more thorough trawl tomorrow to catch everything I can.; 5:00 pm
Welshcakes Limoncello said...: That doesa sound an appropriately silly film! I forgot to put Silly Week in the title once so it's worth a trawl in case others did the same. Happy Last Night from Sicily!; 7:27 pm
James Higham said...: This one wasn't labelled Silly Week but he is in it and it qualifies:

http://www.pro-liberi.com/2009/08/01/build-your-own-plane/; 8:29 pm
North Northwester said...: How about a post next Monday about the good that our culture has produced in art, entertainment, and literature?
That’s entertainment; 9:57 pm

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