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By: KUNG FU PANDA 2 | JAMES WARD: I LIKE BORING THINGS

KUNG FU PANDA 2 | JAMES WARD: I LIKE BORING THINGS — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:19:30 +0000

[...] You may remember a while ago, I complained about the poor pun employed by Robbie Collin from the News Of The World and used as a p…: [...]

By: Mullies

Mullies — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:26:31 +0000

I had a quote on the poster for I Love You, Phillip Morris which said, ‘An Unmissable Ride.’ It was only when I saw it in a billion-point type on the underground that I realised people might think I was trying to make a pun. I really wasn’t.

By: Rino

Rino — Thu, 26 May 2011 07:49:20 +0000

I saw the right-hand poster up on a Brisbane CBD billboard recently (we don’t have the thor-oughly amusing version down here), and was drawn to the top billing: “From the studio that brought you Iron Man”

Hmmm. I thought: how odd. I stood there and tried to unpack all the loaded implications of that phrase.

Is it a desperate association (by viewership/box office) with a previously successful movie-brand?

Was there *nothing else* they could say about the film, to warrant that top-billing eye-space? “Has the Dude from Home & Away”? or: “Not quite Downey Jr”?

Who’s ever cared about the studio as a pull-factor, ahead of cast, director etc? (and hence an insult to Branagh)? No movie is better or more powerful simply because of its studio, obviously. Except maybe with animation flicks.

Possibly an insecurity about its own product, not quite knowing how to market & to who; hence the lame/desperate §s above?

Does anyone parse this unconscious gufft? It begs comic extrapolation: From the third director’s assistant and the gaffer from Titanic, with some studio space from Leeds, comes a Jane Austen classic…

Honestly, even something as savagely simple as “It’s. Really. Good, yeah.” would’ve sufficed. Or a cryptic: ‘From a studio.’ Or, ‘Direct from Valhalla.’ Or ‘Hammeringly good’. Or perhaps in that line: ‘Götterdämmerungly good.’

Rino

By: finzent

finzent — Thu, 19 May 2011 07:59:44 +0000

The joke comes out a little more coherent if we assume that the giant asking the question has a lisp, and that the god – who might or might not indeed be Thor – is making fun of him. It’s less funny that way, though. But we’ve got to stick to principle here, I say.

By: itovertakesme

itovertakesme — Thu, 19 May 2011 07:41:23 +0000

@internetsdairy the problem i have with this joke is that it requires either Thor to have a hearing disorder accompanying his lisp, or that he assumes the person asking him has the same lisp. I don’t know anyone with a lisp who does that.

By: barbara carlson

barbara carlson — Wed, 18 May 2011 23:14:06 +0000

I vote for “thorly” ’cause the first time I read “thor-oughly” I got hung-up on the “oughly” but this is moot as I wouldn’t go see it no matter how many stars or puns. But if Kenneth B. was Thor, maybe… he’s a great actor. After watching him only a few minutes, I forget his complete lack of lip flesh and begin to think any amount of lip fat is oddly ugly…or… oughly.

By: internetsdairy

internetsdairy — Wed, 18 May 2011 20:48:24 +0000

I didn’t even realise Robbie Collin was aiming for ‘thoroughly’ or even ‘surely’. I would read it as ‘sorely’, because of the old joke:

A Norse god rides into Valhalla on a horse, bareback.
‘Are you Thor?’ one of the giants asks as the god dismounts.
‘Of course I’m thor,’ replies the god. ‘I forgot my thaddle.’

The conceit being that the god has a lisp. And ‘I sorely enjoyed it’ isn’t really something people say. If he’d said ‘You thorly need to see this movie,’ I suppose that might have been OK.

PS Amazingly, my wife has just walked in and said she is going to take out the ice cream *to thaw*!!!! She has no idea what I’m typing here. You couldn’t make it up.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Wed, 18 May 2011 19:30:14 +0000

Oh, look, Mr Yahoo! from the modern internet is better than the dinosaur who fiddles about with ink and stuff like he thinks its still the ice age. The death of printed media, hello.

By: themanwhofellasleep

themanwhofellasleep — Wed, 18 May 2011 17:25:11 +0000

I watched Thor. I enjoyed it but didn’t feel the need to make a pun.

By: Mike Taylor

Mike Taylor — Wed, 18 May 2011 10:55:12 +0000

Yes! “Sort of distant affection tinged with pity” — that’s it exactly!