Western Film is UWO's on-campus Movie Theatre, owned and operated by the University Student's Council.
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Your host for the evening will be James Waite, the Western Film Co-ordinator and lifelong movie buff.
Friday, March 14, 2008
The Ten Moviegoing Commandments.
This has got to be one of the funniest things I've read lately.
I think I'll post these in the slide show that runs before the films. Should be good for a laugh and hopefully some educational value.
3 comments:
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not only does he come up with pretty sensible and hilarious commandments, his writing is wonderful - adding so much more. it often is the case that in trying to elaborate on something funny, one absolutely butchers the original joke, thankfully this was not the case here. also, his britishisms added so much more colour... what can i say? i love the british.
and how true. i think i have already thought of every individual commandment save for the night vision goggles... absolutely hilarious. loved it.
i saw commandment #1 today before the movie played - but it was so long that i felt discouraged to read past the actual commandment in bold. the person i was with said the same... perhaps listing the 10 commandments without the full text, or maybe just highlights of the text would be a little more effective.... that's my 2 cents.
The commandments are rather long for the slideshow but to me it seemed the whole thing was one piece. The commandment itself isn't nearly as interesting without the rest of the text. I could edit it down some I suppose. For example, the line about McFly would probably be lost on people who don't know it's a music group. The only reason I know is because they were in Just My Luck.
3 comments:
not only does he come up with pretty sensible and hilarious commandments, his writing is wonderful - adding so much more. it often is the case that in trying to elaborate on something funny, one absolutely butchers the original joke, thankfully this was not the case here. also, his britishisms added so much more colour... what can i say? i love the british.
and how true. i think i have already thought of every individual commandment save for the night vision goggles... absolutely hilarious. loved it.
i saw commandment #1 today before the movie played - but it was so long that i felt discouraged to read past the actual commandment in bold. the person i was with said the same... perhaps listing the 10 commandments without the full text, or maybe just highlights of the text would be a little more effective.... that's my 2 cents.
The commandments are rather long for the slideshow but to me it seemed the whole thing was one piece. The commandment itself isn't nearly as interesting without the rest of the text. I could edit it down some I suppose. For example, the line about McFly would probably be lost on people who don't know it's a music group. The only reason I know is because they were in Just My Luck.
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