Saturday, May 21st, 2011
Thousands of expectant Broadstairsians gathered on Viking Bay this evening to wait for the rapture.
When the rapture didn’t happen, the throng was treated to a showing of Mamma Mia, the unaccountably popular film, instead.
Oh well, you can’t win them all.
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Quick, perhaps Orange or some similar .. (wait for it) behemoth :O… might let some crumbs fall from their annual marketing budget towards an al fresco film festival on the beach (or Pierremont). Just please G*d, no more Mamma Mia.
The behemoths are back…
An al fresco film festival is a good idea. But if not Mamma Mia, then what – Grease?
Does God now have to be asterisked out? Does he have a superinjunction?
Realistically it would probably have to be a PG rating. But thinking of general crowd pleasers in a wider range, that of course would not find muster with a BFI critic:
The Great Escape, The Graduate, Wicker Man, Some Like it Hot, Scarface, Donnie Darko, Top Gun, Evil Dead 2, Sound of Music, Rocky Horror, Blade Runner, Jaws etc; Star Wars, Life of Brian, 28 Days Later, Full Metal Jacket, Predator, various Tarantino, Get Carter, Shaun of The Dead; Blues Brothers, Lost Boys, Brick, 300, The Thing, Mad Max, Bugsy Malone, Zulu (!), Airplane.
G*d: No, doesn’t. In these inclusive times of course one is obliged to either offend all religions or none.
A vicar might argue that it’s the devil with the super injunction and not God so that he can convince all that he does not exist.
Gosh, this is very serious. We’ve never done theology on IsleOne before. Although we did do punctuation once.
I like the idea of Jaws as a film on the beach. Everyone inching their deckchairs further from the sea as the film progresses.
Yep, but whether Broadstairs Town Council would be more positively inclined than Amity Town council is debatable.
A sea based series might be interesting. Maybe with a pirate tale or two for some weak historical anchoring. Must be hundreds to choose from, a few : The Big Blue, Titanic, The Perfect Storm, Poseiden Adventure, Ponyo, Moby Dick, Finding Nemo.
Scary monsters festival would be great – can we borrow mechanical Jaws from H’wood? Meantime, Iselone great product placement – subtle, but in your face.
Not bad for a first event – only a few things went wrong. But you know what? It wasn’t the end of the world! Feel better now.
Maybe Coke will sponsor you next year?
“can we borrow mechanical Jaws from H’wood?”
Chicken wire and papier mache and operated by the vertically challenged.
Just notice these folks have done it http://thefilmfactory.org/freedayz/#