Re: Sheep Puns
From: Charles Taylor <nerik@m...>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 00:32:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Sheep Puns
In message <3C905733.1E5B59E4@blueyonder.co.uk>
David Brewer <davidbrewer@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Alan E Brain wrote:
> >
> > May I recommend a New Zealand film called IIRC "Meet the Feebles".
It is, AFAIK
> > the only film showing someone RPGing a sheep.
> > NOTE: new email address mailto:aebrain@webone.com.au
>
> That's "Bad Taste" where the Kiwi rockets a sheep, which is a bit
> of a spoiler. Written, directed, filmed (special effects, etc.) by
> Peter Jackson of Lord of the Rings fame. Great scene where one
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ now that I _didn't_ know !!!!!!!
> character hammers a bayonet into the bottom of a captive alien's
> foot... both are played by Peter Jackson. Glorious, and I've never
> seen so many people walk out of a film before.
IIRC there were several scenes like that - some of them rather clever
:-)
>
> "Meet the Feebles" is a different Peter Jackson film, something
> like the Muppet Show on bad heroin, worth seeing for the junkie
> frog knifethrower's Vietnam flashbacks, spoofing "Deerhunter".
>
> Both out on DVD, I'm surprised to find.
Well, IIRC 'Bad Taste' was shown on BBC 2
>
> --
> David Brewer
>
Charles Taylor