Having found myself with a free afternoon recently I sat down and watched Ridley Scott’s 1982 cult sci-fi masterpiece Blade Runner for the first time and to be honest I was underwhelmed. It was slow paced and not much action. Overrated even. It got me thinking about other overrated films, some massively popular with audiences and/or critics but are they really worthy of the hero worship heaped upon them?

I thought Forest Gump was overrated, as is Avatar, the Shawshank Redemption (preferred Clint in Escape From Alcatraz), Unforgiven, Fight Club, The Big Lebowski and The Blair Witch Project amongst others. I enjoyed watching most of these and some are good films but great? The Godfather and Godfather Part II are true epics but in all honesty I think I would rather spend a couple of hours watching Goodfellas or Casino.

Then there are the films that are overrated by critics for the purpose of pushing left-wing identity politics. Black Panther and the Ghostbusters reboot spring to mind. Ghostbusters gimmick was replacing a successful franchise with an all female cast whist pushing the strong independent empowered female narrative and shoehorning in social justice messaging the audiences hated but the left-wing media loved.

Outside of boardrooms in Hollywood no cunt wanted Black Panther, they just wanted a black superhero to again push ‘the message’. Yes it made $1.3Bn but I suspect a lot of that was people wanting to see what a prosperous, successful African society looked like in Wakanda rather than the real life poverty stricken stinking shitholes. To confirm its ‘overrated status’ writer and activist Shaun King ‘found the film to be a cultural moment in American Black history similar to Rosa Parks’ Montgomery bus boycott, Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, or Barack Obama being elected president’.

These are just a few of my thoughts of course and everyone will have their own opinions on if a film is overrated or even some underrated ones. As ever the floor is open to my fellow cunters for their musings.

And as for Blade Runner? A cop in a futuristic dystopian city hunting down criminals? I rewatched Dredd.

Nominated by : Liberal Liquidator

A cunting for Politicians (and why they should never be allowed to influence critical industries)

Roll out Mad Ed and Free Gear Kweer.

An announcement that we (the tax payer) will invest 22 Billion in Carbon Capture over the next 20 years, to pursue the holy grail of net zero.
What is it

National Grid.

It all sounds great but other that reducing CO2 and making jobs doesn’t help energy supplies or cost and ignores the real issues we face

Euro News.

It doesn’t end there because the problem with our electricity supply also affects the house building targets.

The Grauniad.

The UK power grid is arguably the most important piece of infrastructure, rather than the reeves plan to throw billions into the NHS, maybe these stupid politicians should address the real crisis of energy.

Nominated by : Sick of it

Now, this is an observation and I have no link, although I’ll try to find summat suitable, Admin.

When did people start decorating their house for Halloween at all, never mind at the end of September?
Why is it OK to leave Halloween decorations up until after Bonfire night, only to replace them with Christmas decorations?

There’s about a dozen houses on my dog walking route who have outside lights/illuminated deers/Santa’s in the front gardens. Window decorations and inside lit-up trees, too.

What comes after Christmas, pink hearts for Valentines, dancing eggs/chicks for Easter?
When does it stop?
With a Wicker Man, perhaps?

bbcnews

Nominated by Jeezum Priest.

More proof, that your own personal responsibility is now the legal responsibility of a third party.

Gone are the days, when you could get pissed up be helped home by a mate who puts you to bed and then goes home himself to his own family…oh no, that’s all in the past. If you did that and your mate choked on his own puke and died..it is YOU that will be charged with ‘abandonment’ and possibly receive if found guilty a lengthy sentence if your mate happens to die.

Your mate asks you for a line of coke before you go out in the evening, then sinks a few pints and decides to do a stupid thing and injures himself or dies…..they it is YOU that will be held to account for giving him coke.

What has happened to personal responsibility…….we have a world now where everything is everybody’s fault….that is my cunting.

PS. Liam…you’re a cunt as well.

BBC story

Nominated by: Chuff Chugger

Iya Patarkatsishvili and Dr Yevhen Hunyak are a pair of rich cunts unfamiliar with common sense and surveyors reports.

Guardian Link

My take on grauniad link is pair of cunts bought a house in 2019 for 32 odd million

Some moths appeared and we are only hearing about it now when they are trying to take the estate agent (seperate cunting deserved for that lot) to the cleaners for not telling them about the moths that estate agent may or not have been aware of.

Said moths or mothy potential would certainly have appeared in a surveyors report if the pair of cunts knew what one of those was or had bothered to assimilate into British society.

In my very limited (theoretical) experience of buying £30m plus houses I would always like to know what I am buying and always consult an overpriced surveyor with my profound (theoretical) wealth.

But no, they claim it would cost £10 million to fix despite a more realistic estimate being £160k.

I hope the moths end up being a protected species used to make judicial wigs and the judge tells them something ridiculous like “a rare victory for moths over toffs”.

Nominated by: Cunt of Peeblesshire