Chili Magician Death Watch
The once-a-week update plan has really gone out of the window. I can’t think of any reason why you wouldn’t want to know about films I’ve seen recently, so here goes:
Death Proof
It might look good from the picture, but Death Proof is the most boring film I’ve seen since Timeline. 2/10. If you want a film that’s mostly talking, try…
The Magician
Chance rental by hungover Duncan. It’s about an assassin and is shot as a documentary that is filmed by his neighbour. There’s not much violence but the dialogue is solid and often quite funny, which makes this a black comedy of sorts. Watch it then impress people at parties with your knowledge of independent film. 7/10
Day Watch
If you’ve seen Night Watch, this film is great, see it. If not, the end of Day Watch will be totally meaningless, so watch Night Watch then watch Day Watch. 9/10. If two witches were watching two watches, which witch would watch which watch?
Bonus round: Chili facts!
Chilis aren’t actually hot like fire, but the chemicals in them bind to pain receptors in mammals (birds are immune to chilis, that’s their superpower). The body interprets the pain as heat and reacts accordingly. Use this to your advantage by eating chilis when you’re hot, tricking your body into perspiring more. Science is full of useful information.
The Scoville scale is a measure of the “hotness” of a chili pepper.
- A standard jalapeno scores 2,500-8,000 Scoville Heat Units
- Scotch Bonnets rate in the 150,000-325,000 range of Scoville Units
- Naga Jolokia, the world’s hottest chili, measures 855,000-1,041,427 Scoville Units
- Pepper spray wins with 2,000,000-5,300,000 Scoville Units
Chili research is all from Wikipedia, so could be lies.
Timeline wasn’t that boring due to it being so hilarious. And it had Paul Walker’s amazing acting abilities in it.
Timeline was dire, don’t even pretend otherwise. People in the cinema were talking to each other during the film, and nobody cared because it was so utterly tedious. However, Fast and the Furious 4 is on it’s way with Walker and Diesel back in the lead. Huzzah.
New research just in shows that chillis are the way forward for medical care: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/04/chilli_anaesthetic/
I liked Deathproof!!
You know we love the independent film at 236, it’s like a coffee shop I tell thee.
Haven’t watched Daywatch, but I have seen Baywatch and that show made my eyes pop out of my teenage head. All I rememeber is slow mo andmy dad wolf-whistling.
NOTE FOR COLIN - on reflection the blog does look hot at the moment.