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Last month’s Edinburgh International Film Festival ent inspired a flurry of comment activity on film.list.co.uk. Dak99 opined that photography doc Finding Vivian Maier was ‘great all y, around. Cool photography, gy, history, twisted psychology, ct mystery’, which we suspect could be our first ever e, rhymed review. Meanwhile, both Steve and Gideon were excited about urban crime drama The Guvnors, pictured (Steve particularly said he was ‘lookin forward to this,’ before reaffirming this sentiment with an ‘oh yes’). Most attention- grabbing, however, was site user te user Ashley who, from what we could ascertain on Google, appears to have contributed to literally thousands of online articles that mention Quentin Tarantino (including our EIFF interview with Don Johnson) with the same quote: ‘this is me at my most sadistic – and truthful’. Simultaneously bewildered and impressed by Ashley’s single-minded dedication to this exceptionally niche form of expression, we were sad to learn it’s actually a misquote – in Tarantino’s Kill Bill, David Carradine’s Bill describes himself as being
THUMBS DOWN Re: British Red Cross Refugee Week Comedy Night Bruce Morton may want to think twice before commenting on the subjective-ness of comedy before accusing a young woman of texting during his feature (which I wasn't, simply so unimpressed that I was literally twiddling my thumbs) and then threatening to hit her with the microphone if I had been. Wasn't impressed by his performance in the slightest. Comment posted by Turtle Unicornz on list.co.uk
When contacted by The List, Bruce Morton declined to comment.
at his most ‘masochistic’ at his most ‘masochistic’, not sadistic, when he shoots The Bride – so we fear his or her tireless commentary has been for nought.
Elsewhere on the site, people seem to be having a bit of fun with our headlines. kolly sanni responded to eye-themed horror film Oculus with a snappy ‘see ya soon’, while Vile (which may or may not be an unsubtle alias for one of our writers – check our list of contributors on the right to see if you can figure out which) wryly noted that Lana Del Rey ‘seems like a barrel of laughs’ in response to her ‘I wish I was dead’ remarks. The wag.
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2% ‘Oh yeah, Wimbledon was on as well, wasn’t it?’
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