Tuesday 10 April 2012

Star Wars cash in

The first three Star Wars films are excellent, there's no getting round that in my eyes, they rank as one of the best film trilogies ever made and at the time they came with the appropriate levels of merchandise for the kiddies to want to buy (and if they kept hold of in good condition put on eBay for the ubergeeks to pay good money for now), I've no problem with that at all.

My problem is with the continual whoring out of everything Star Wars related to buy George Lucas another golden nob stroker (or something similar). The man, or indeed his marketing department, never seem to miss an opportunity to make just a little for cash from the franchise. Did we really need 3 sub-standard more films 16 years after the original trilogy reached it's natural conclusion? No. Did we need VHS box sets all slightly different to the previous, followed by DVD box sets, once again several versions slightly differing from the last? No. Thank the lord there's only been the 1 Blu-Ray version... SO FAR, there'll be more, there'll be an added scenes version and a 3D version and a 3D version with added scenes and the version with the out take included that has Carrie Fisher farting as she runs down a corridor...

There's the 3D cinema reissues, I'll pass on them thanks George, you do know a piece of shit... in 3D is still a piece of shit, it's just in 3D... Maybe when you get to episodes 4-6 I may, but until then, F.R.O.

Some of the things that have been done to these films is horrible, I'm not just talking about the "Noooooo" added to Jedi to match the piece of shit trilogy. What about in Star Wars when Han meets Jaba in Mos Eisley, it was cut, and then due to the future design of the Hutt character the scene no longer worked, so why wedge it in with awful effects. For those who don't know Han walks round Jaba, who at the time didn't have a tail, but when added back in, he would have, so Han steps on it and he yelps weirdly. No, stop it.

That brings me to the current Vodaphone adverts. Now previously C3P0 and R2D2 where used as bitches in some electric shop advertising campaign. Not happy, I think it was Comet or Currys. That was rough and the feedback I assume as negative, so why the fuck is Yoda, grandmaster motherfunking Yoda getting bitched out to promote Vodaphone services? The line has been crossed, the line is a dot to Lucas (or appropriate person who ok'd it). They won't rest til Mark Hamill is selling tampons on the back on London buses, Chedwbacca is doing pet shampoo and Wedge is selling his own brand potato wedges.

But he won't stop, he'll never stop it, what happens when the income dies down from these re-issues and the cartoon finishes? Does he re-issue again, probably. Does he make episodes 7-9? I really wouldn't be shocked. Does he rent some other CG cast member out to sell anything as long as the company are willing to pay? Inevitably.

The only time I'll accept this is if JaJa fucking Binks is used to sell rifle scopes, I'll be first in the queue for a go at that bitch.

Monday 2 April 2012

I still hate looking for cars

I may have mentioned this before:

http://andrewdrisc.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/i-dislike-looking-for-cars.html

But the job of looking for a car has re-reared it's annoying head, the Fiesta I bought, hopelessly broken and returned to the garage a few weeks ago. Nothing against Jackson's in Caerphilly really, after the first annoying bloke they were nice to deal with and gave a refund with no quibbles when it became apparent the car was a prize box of bombs.

The weirdest part, they've clearly passed/sold the car on and as if by magic:

http://www.wbrees.co.uk/used-cars/ford-fiesta-1-4-tdci-zetec-5dr-bridgend-201213460430908

Here it is back for sale in Bridgend, be warned anyone wanting to buy YR03 WWZ... Don't! It'll fall apart in seconds!

Anyway, the search is back on, I'm off Fiestas after that little debacle and so am really down to 2 types of car I like.

The peugeot 307:


Nice car, looks nice the 1.4 diesel is cheap to tax, same as the fiesta was, but that model is next to impossible to find, especially on my kind of budget. The one above is a 2003 model, which is about the age I'd be looking at.

The rival is the Audi A3:


I saw one of these, a little over budget and with a chav'd out exhaust yesterday. Loved the red colour, the inside space and the layout. Downside was higher tax, the aforementioned chav'd up exhaust and they're generally originally company cars to the mileage is through the roof, but Audi engines were built to last so that's not bothering me.

I did see it in Trade Centre Wales, so chances are it was overpriced, but if I can find one... and it was a straight choice, I'd go for the audi in a heartbeat, such a nice car, and let's face it, the only time I'll ever own an Audi.

But now I can visits to forecourts and pushy salesmen ahead again. Can't wait.