Snark, Critic and Pop!

The nominations for the 31st annual Razzies are out and Twilight: Eclipse tied The Last Airbender with 9 nominations to lead the pack.  Despite the fact that Twilight is a blight upon the world, it is hard for me to believe it will be able to slow down the speeding locomotive that is the terribleness of the Last Airbender.  M Night Shyamalan also received Razzie nominations for worst director and screenplay.  Oh, how the mighty have fallen… it’s like he is Orson Wells and Sixth Sense was his Citizen Kane, except that his failure to live up to it has nothing to do with Randolph Hearst and everything to do with a lack of ideas or film making skills. 

This year the Razzies have added a new award:  worst eye-gouging misuse of 3D.  Don’t let anyone tell you they are not with the times.  The biggest drama will be in the worst actress category (continue reading…)

A Paris woman became trapped in her bathroom when the door lock jammed, and was stuck in there for 20 days.  She had no cell phone, life alert bracelet, window or other means of getting herself out, so she tapped on the pipes hoping someone would hear her.  People did hear her.  In fact the tapping was quite annoying so they decided to gather signatures on a petition to make her stop.

“You could hear banging sounds, like a hammer, even at night,” one neighbour told local media. “But we thought they were doing work at night. We said: ‘They are going too far! They are preventing us from sleeping!’ (continue reading…)