How about they set the next one at a nudist colony?

In the tradition of Ja's The Greatest Movie... series, I saw a certain movie was to be on TV the other night. I checked it out on IMDb and Wiki and discovered the above text and thought "Surely this will be the greatest movie that features a little man emerging out of another man's penis". You'd think a movie with the highlighted death scenes would be sort of hilarious, but no. Leprechaun 4: Space Platoon was ten different kinds of shite. I mean, the leprechaun emerges from the guy's penis! How could they ruin that? (granted, it was the funniest bit in the movie, but still sort of stupid). And when the leprechaun picks up a tray with all sorts of acid-like products on he then just throws the tray and squashes the guy's face. Strange.


Yet, the biggest question I have is how did the leprechaun get into space?! I mean, last time I saw him he was livin' it up in Las Vegas. And now he's in space? Bizarre. The best part of the movie was actually seeing the lead male Brent Jasmer conveniently shred his shirt for the last 15 minutes. He's not my usual type, what with the blank-beekcakeyness, but anything that took the attention away from the surrounding mediocrity was a-okay with me. So, naturally, here are some screencaps that I took (because I got nothin' better to do, apparently).


...and because it's my favourite...

(he's not even doing what you think he's doing. It was just an unfortunate moment to capture)
(click to watch them grow)
It did have Guy Siner as a human/computer hybrid mad scientist. He turns into a hideous half man/half spider thing towards the end of the movie. It wasn't funny. Although I did chucklen when the spider thing tried to grab the lead female (that'd be someone by the name of Jessica Collins) and instead of grabbing her he/it grabbed her pants and so she spent the last 10 minutes running around in her skivvies. Nice, huh? Here's a picture of it for the, what? Five guys who like women around here. Of course I chose a moment with the hideous spider creature thing in it to.


Has there ever been a horror film set at a nudist colony? Cause that'd be hilarious.

Still, Leprechaun 4: Space Platoon is still the greatest movie ever to feature a small man emerging from another man's penis. It's just that that, however much unfortunate, that doesn't really have a lot in movies.

Happy St Patrick's Day!

So I have no real knowledge of why we celebrate St Patrick's Day other than, I guess, Irish people are sorta cool and that we decided to only way to celebrate their place in the world was by getting shitfaced plastered and wearing green a whole lot. Still, it's sort of interesting that Ireland has a day that is recognised throughout the world as theirs. Isn't that sort of crazy? Not even America or England or Kazakhstan has that!

But, naturally, St Patty's Day leads me to think about Ireland and the entertainment arena. The first thing I thought of was the hilarious Simpsons episode where Bart gets drunk on St Patrick's Day and so they ban alcohol and Homer becomes a beer baron. It's a super episode. I wonder if they'll show it on TV tonight before I have to go out? Hmmm. The only other television I can think of relating to Ireland is Father Ted a show I haven't seen in many years, but that I remember enjoying a lot when I was younger. The only episode I remember destinctly (I wonder why...) is when Father Ted himself enters Eurovision and Ireland's judges choose him to represent their country because they can't afford to send a real act. Sort of ironic considering Ireland is the most successful country in Eurovision history with seven wins. I love Eurovision. It's getting around to that time of the year, too!

Of course, there are movies. I have a soft spot for the 1994 kids tale The War of the Buttons. I'm not entirely sure why. It's been ages since I saw it, but I do remember seeing it as a kid. Plus, the poster you see to the right is sort of kooky. Loves it. Another great one, albiet of a much more serious tone, is Peter Mullan's The Magdalene Sisters. This movie got royally shafted throughout the 2003 awards season (did anyone even see it? Look at it's rotten tomatoes page!) It's incredibly well-made and acted and very emotional. I think I shed a tear or two, but I'm not certain on that. And of course there's the Academy Award-nominated In the Name of the Father from Jim Sheridan and starring Daniel Day Lewis and Emma Thompson. That one is all about an IRA bombing and the court case that resulted against the innocents charged. There's the slighted Intermission, which not many people saw. It has Colin Farrell and Cillian Murphy in one of those movies with many different plot strands that all sort of converge at some point. It was actually quite good. I believe in the US this week Ken Loach's The Wind that Shakes the Barley is being released. How festive!

I must point out the Leprechaun films too, even though they're not Irish. The only ones I've seen are the one where the Leprechaun is in Las Vegas, and the one where he's in "the hood". They're incredibly bad films so don't even bother with them.

Two Irish movies I don't like are the Keri Russell dance flick Mad About Mambo, which is just multiple levels of ridiculous, and the Neil Jordan-directed The Butcher Boy. I can't remember what it was about that movie that I disliked so much, but I gave it a really poor grade. I think it had a nuclear bomb in it?

Musically the only acts that wikipedia tells me are popular and that I like on some level are Sinead O'Connor, The Cranberries and Enya. I'm choosing to ignore Westlife, okay. Ugh. Anyway. Sinead is clearly all sorts of awesome. Check out her back catalogue now! Enya is very hit-and-miss. For every one great song she has a bunch of endless songs of her humming over the sounds of a waterfall. So, yeah. The Cranberries were pretty cool in their time, too.

...or there is still Michael Flatley, Lord of the Dance (The Irish jig guy, teehee, who caught the Friends reference?) But let's not go there, shall we?

So, er, drink up, greenify and do a jig of some kind. It's totally worth it.