As I still haven’t found the screencaps I wanted for the stuff I was going to write about Ocean’s Thirteen (watch this space, I’m sure it’ll be worth it, no unnecessary hype here) in the meantime I will leave you in the more than capable hands of a somewhat ranty Mark Kermode, expressing his dislike not only for the movie, but also for the city I will one day call home. Cheekily borrowed from the podcast of his BBC Five Live show.
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I’m not transcribing the whole thing – just press the damn play button, it’s only a minute long – but here’s a taster.
"If truth be told, Las Vegas needs to be wiped from the face of the earth because it is an evil abomination and, you know, bad and a blight upon mankind. Obviously."
Not everyone loves Las Vegas, so in the interest of providing balanced – although in this case clearly wrong – opinion, here is another rant (here’s the first one) from BBC movie reviewer Mark Kermode.
".. Las Vegas is not a place to go and ha