We watched Monsters vs Aliens in 3D yesterday. I must say that I was slightly blown away by the 3D - verrrry cool. Also very cool for the movie companies that will now look to re-releasing at the cinema all their killer back catalogue. Basically, think of your favourite film (possibly 'Heat' for me) in 3D on a massive screen. I'd very easily part with £8.40 for that.

Anyway, in the adverts before the main feature was a short promo film from the Scottish Tourist Board showing a model couple (ie they both looked like models) swanning round Scotland having THE most amazing time. To be honest the Tourist Board could probably be done under the Trade Descriptions Act, because it made Scotland look amazing (I'm half-Scottish so I'm allowed to say that). To be fair it was mainly showing the West Coast, which actually looks like an overcast Caribbean (true); white sand beaches, clear blue sea and idyllic, secret coves devoid of any form of humanity, and more importantly, tourism. They finished this rose-coloured montage with the strapline/URL VisitScotland/perfectday.com. Now, it may just be me (Shoulder Devil says, "it usually is". Shut up Shoulder Devil!!) but when I put the words, Scotland and Perfect Day (the Lou Reed song about drug abuse) together, I come up with the scene in Trainspotting where the 'hero' Mark Renton, played by Ewan McGregor, overdoses on heroin in a derelict squat, is dragged into the rubbish strewn street by his pusher and left alone, at death's door, to wait for the ambulance.



Like I say, that might just be me, but I don't think that that's the image that the Scottish Tourist Board is looking to conjure. Unless of course they have a shed-load of 'brown' to shift...