Maybe the Dalek will sue?

This week’s chronicle of the drab and mundane commences with the observation that yet again the world evinces signs that proprietary madness is now the rule and not the exception. In support of my argument I offer the following article in today’s Times.

The BBFC (for my US/Canadian readership, that is the British Board of Film Classification – censors, in other words) have banned the DVD sale of the Doctor Who episode “Dalek” to anyone under the age of 12. Why, is it too scary? Apparently not, no. They have banned it on the grounds of “excessive cruelty” towards the dalek.

It seems that today’s kids, seeing someone be beastly to a piece of rubber in a tin can will feel compelled to drill each other through the head, or something similar.

Political correctness gone mad.

Again.

Last night I watched Bubbahotep on DVD. Quite the oddest movie I have seen for a long time. I quite enjoyed it, I think - I certainly wasn’t bored by it, and didn’t feel as though I’d wasted part of my life watching it, but I have no similar movie against which to gauge my appreciation of this opus. Very strange. My main area of concern is over the question of movie makeup and the hiding of Bruce Campbell’s chin. Where’d it go?

Maybe the Dalek will sue?

This week’s chronicle of the drab and mundane commences with the observation that yet again the world evinces signs that proprietary madness is now the rule and not the exception. In support of my argument I offer the following article in today’s Times.

The BBFC (for my US/Canadian readership, that is the British Board of Film Classification – censors, in other words) have banned the DVD sale of the Doctor Who episode “Dalek” to anyone under the age of 12. Why, is it too scary? Apparently not, no. They have banned it on the grounds of “excessive cruelty” towards the dalek.

It seems that today’s kids, seeing someone be beastly to a piece of rubber in a tin can will feel compelled to drill each other through the head, or something similar.

Political correctness gone mad.

Again.

Last night I watched Bubbahotep on DVD. Quite the oddest movie I have seen for a long time. I quite enjoyed it, I think - I certainly wasn’t bored by it, and didn’t feel as though I’d wasted part of my life watching it, but I have no similar movie against which to gauge my appreciation of this opus. Very strange. My main area of concern is over the question of movie makeup and the hiding of Bruce Campbell’s chin. Where’d it go?