Pimping the Wargaming Girl Day 3........

.....and a bit of humour!

Tamsin the lovely Wargaming Girl is giving away more free stuff over on her blog and this picture made me actually laugh the other day!

I've also won some GZG 15mm tanks from Seb and 5 historical painted minis of my choice from Andrew but the nice man has agreed to 5 non historical minis (I've never painted them as I could not do them justice) and they are on their way to the poor unsuspecting fool (well he's a very talented painter and these minis will end up in my display cabinet).

This picture made my day.......

Best or Worst Movie Remake Blogfest.......

........and Tamsin is giving away free stuff!

Anyway Alex is hosting along with others a blogfest asking what are the best and worst movie remakes ever made, I've done 10 of each (you have to set a limit) that I believe are good candidates but everyone will not agree......maybe and there's one or two that may even be controversial!

I give you my lists........and don't forget Tamsin is giving away free stuff (that must be worth 10 extra Tamsin as I mentioned it twice!).

Hosted by:

Alex J. Cavanaugh  http://alexjcavanaugh.blogspot.com/

Stephen Tremp  http://authorstephentremp.blogspot.com/

Father Dragon Al  http://fatherdragon.blogspot.com/

Livia Peterson  http://leaveittolivia.blogspot.com/

The Best Remakes in no particular order...............

A clever reworking of the original...........

There was nothing wrong with the original Infernal Affairs but this was an epic collaboration of  great performances.......

A remake of Yojimbo by Kurosawa which is in it's own right a masterpiece but this was a relaunch of the western genre and the epic rise of Mr.Eastwood........

Very enjoyable remake of the slightly dated original, great performance from Colin Farrell.........

Good update of the Charles Bronson original with maybe a different ending.........

No question here, far better than the original..........

Not that there's anything wrong with the original L.A Takedown but this is slicker than goose faeces....

Speaking of slicker than Ray's hairdo...........

This is a good reinvention of the slightly dated original.............

Enough said, blots the stain that was Stallone's abomination...........

.....many others out there obviously!

Now the worst remakes...........

James Caan would be horrified, this is shocking.........

Now before we start the ranting I prefer the original, there's nothing really wrong with the new one but the old one had a better story and the slow zombies still get my vote...........

Very foggy fecking remake, the original scared the faeces right out of me...........

The originals ending still annoys the faeces out of me but Stallone should apologise for this....just after he apologises for Judge Dredd

The original is dated but not compared to this................

The original Nikita is leaps ahead of this wooden remake, it also goes under the title The Assassin..........

There is only one Willy Wonka and that's Gene...........

Fecking merde...............

Alec Guinness would be upset, along with Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers etc.........

Shocking descent of a once great actor..............

....and don't forget Tamsin's give away (that's 15 extra Tamsin!)

15mm Painted Rebel Minis Titan Dropships........

....or Gunships!

2 resin and metal dropship/gunship kits from Rebel Minis (they did a sale last year and I caved), they also come with flight stands which I have mislaid but should turn up? They're not bad but there were some issues with holes and flash and needed some green stuff and bodging.

I've included a 15mm GZG sci-fi figure to help show scale and size.