I lied.

I’m probably going to go see Cloverfield at some point, probably when I have to be out of the house for 3 hours while the house is being cockroach bombed. The reason for this change of heart is the legal team have told me I can’t call a movie the worst movie of all time just because I’ve seen the trailer.

Speaking of the trailer, the TV spot lists it as being rated M for frightening sequences or something and “Sci Fi Violence”. What the fuck is Sci Fi violence, and how is it different from regular violence? “Oh My God that nice man’s head exploded when the bad man shot him!” is no different to “Oh My God that nice man’s head exploded when Mr alien bad man went ‘BZZT’ with his ray gun!”. The ratings used to be simple, the violence was in varying degrees of violence or animated violence. None of this pointless sub-categorising with “War Violence” or “Battle Violence” or “Sci Fi Violence”

Either way I apologise for lying that I’d avoid Cloverfield like the plague, then turning around and deciding to go see it. As I’m a sad little quote monkey I’m going to end each post with a quote from whatever DVD I watch while writing the post. Tonight it’s “10 Things I Hate About You”(1999) the romantic comedy with Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Allison Janney and a host of other people whose names I can’t be bothered to remember.

“I still maintain he kicked himself in the balls” – Kat