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  1. Anyone up and watching? Why are we opening on a promo to hype the main event? Is it just to get Vinnie Mac on the show? Is it because they're running low on content? Is it because everyone at WWE has lost all concept of time and don't realise the show has actually started? Do they assume that there's THAT many people who don't watch Raw who are tuning in and need a catch up? I don't know, but I don't like. Waste. Waste. Waste. Waste. EDIT: Although the StarDust stuff isn't necessarily best for Cody's career, that boy throws himself so deeply into gimmicks that I'm kinda glad he's getting to do something so completely out there. He's absolutely astounding and is the kind of crazy kayfaybe respecting guy that just doesn't exist anymore.
  2. The weeks of birthday wishes was ol' Jubbers years back. Great thread. Think it ended up being just Boyo and I. SAID THREAD* And King, I'm sorry I wasn't about for it (both the original and sequel), but happy birthday. * worth noting WHO closes it, hmm...
  3. I saw The East last night and was pretty disappointed. It follows a P.I. (but, like, a corporate P.I.) infiltrating an eco-terrorist group who are threatening to make attacks on 3 big world-destroying corporations over the next 6 months. Of course she struggles to be accepted then starts to agree with their ideals so is caught in the dilemma of where her loyalties now lie. It felt long, first and foremost. I think it ran for just under 2 hours and I was desperate for it to end, and I think that it's specifically a bad sign because by the nature of the plot we have rough beats to signal when we're moving into the second and third chapters and that just didn't ease the slow pace. The eco-terrorist group were a bunch of incredibly privileged kids who all came from money and chose to live in poverty. I dunno, I feel like they could have used their resources to try make a difference within the system, or at least use their wealth to change it or something. Then, within the group, there were a couple of really strange bonding scenes I suppose (spin the bottle with a speech at the start expressing how you can't do anything without the second persons consent and group bathing sessions where again consent is stressed as of the utmost importance) and it was a strange tension between a Manson-family cult and a group of do-gooders who have good and true intentions. There are numerous characters who never really come into play and for a film with a whole lot of pretty clear messages they don't spend a lot of time ON those messages. Throw in some fairly rubbish editing all the way through and I just was left cold. I also watched Before Sunrise which was really lovely. The third in the trilogy - Before Midnight - is out just now so I'm wanting to catch up before I go out and see it. The film follows Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke meeting on a train and deciding to take a risk, get off together and spend one rather unique night together in Vienna. It was beautifully shot, runs in almost real time and has incredibly naturalistic dialogue. They discuss all sorts of different topics, they fall in love and out of love, the struggle with the reality of the whole situation and question their place in the world and what will happen when they separate the next day. It was very sweet and a gentle, easy watch. The film was winding up and I was ready to throw the sequel in straight away just to spend a little bit more time with the two... maybe that's what I'll go do just now...
  4. Dexter is a strange beast for me. I recently watched most of it; only catching the ends of S1 and 2 before settling in properly and Netflix only has up to the end of S6, but man this is an awful show. The dialogue is laughable, Deborah is an awful, AWFUL actress and the only thing that kept me going was Masuka's hilarious and awesome laughs. Admittedly S4 was, for the most part, really brilliant and I don't understand how the show produced such a well-thought out plot frame. Oh, baby Harrison also pulls some of the most brilliant non-acting acting faces in the history of toddler acting. I HATED the entire LaGuerrta/Batista love story. It came out of nowhere, developed in non-sensical directions and then ended with the 5-minute-marriage-from-hell. But then they KEEP going with it. AAAAAAAAAAAARGH. What I'm saying is that I'm looking forward to seeing S7 and for 8 to begin. [video=youtube;1XowMv_JbB4]
  5. Folks should check out yesterdays episode of The Daily Show for a surprising representation of our favourite form of sports entertainment.
  6. So far this has been great guys, btw. In case you didn't know or aren't watching or something. How quick did those fans turn on poor Kaitlyn though? "Woo, great match... AHHH, YOU TAPPED OUT!!" Is this the Dubya' trying to mess with the smart fans a bit by having Del Rio really play on Ziggler's concussion?
  7. I'm pretty sure DC (the comic makers and not our resident pedant) has spoken about how the Nolan Batman films aren't going to play into the JLA universe. Like, Bale isn't going to be back to direct (he's stayed on as a producer but that seems to be so advertising can brag "produced by CHRISTOPHER NOLAN the DIRECTOR of THE DARK KNIGHT TRILOGY") and people were flipping their lids because they assumed Jo-Go Levitt was going to be Bats in the JLA film but that, at the time of release, was untrue as well because they just threw the cheeky reveal in there to mess with the fans. I'm not 100% but it seems likely because, if the Nolan films were going to play into it then DC certainly would have announced official plans for JLA (release dates for their pre-JLA films, some casting maybe) with Dark Knight Rises release last year instead of flailing in the water like they are just now. To consider that they are talking about 2015 and going head-to-head with Avengers 2 and yet have announced NOTHING official is crazy, especially when you compare to Marvel's Phase 2 (and even Phase 1). With all that in mind I'm expecting, with a huge opening weekend for MoS for DC to come out soon after announcing everything including a new, tone-correcting Batman film that steps away from Nolan's universe. Because, as Hancock says, the Nolan films make no sense in a JLA universe. None at all. As it is with Man of Steel, I'm incredibly sceptical but boy-oh-boy do I like Michael Shannon. I mean, holy moly would I marry that man. He's absolutely one of the greatest things since sliced bread and I've tried sliced bread. Plus I like the music a lot so far especially the march-y "You are not a-lone" beat that appeared in the "Fate of your planet" trailer.
  8. I think we're going to be okay.
  9. I left to go find my fortune after I graduated from Uni. Instead I joined a film podcast, started writing film reviews and lost my job earlier this year so thought I'd pop in and see how everyone was doing. As it turns out you're all doing pretty well, so my job is done.
  10. In the flesh. :brows I thought Life of Pi was phenomenal. Went in expecting nothing and was just blown away by the plot, the effects and the general "what value does belief really have?" stuff.
  11. Nah, you have Life of Pi's cool ratio changing during the flying fish scene, Dredd had surprisingly good 3D and was used interestingly as a reaction to the SloMo and then both Hugo and Tintin used 3D well enough generally. All examples since Tron's Oz-D. I saw Jurassic Park last year on the big screen. Was given a very short re-release, I think, as some kind of studio anniversary celebration and it was great. 3D ain't gonna improve a damn near perfect film.
  12. You want some horror films recommended to you Jamster? Hell, I's got some horror flicks to suggest. My first, top, absolute number one is The Exorcist. I'm talking the 1973 Billy Friedkin classic. Only saw it for the first time all the way through last October but holy hell it's incredible. It's a film that is, arguably, light on actual scares but the beauty lies in the way the film unfolds. There's a horrible tension in a LOT of horror films between scares VS character. If you don't have enough scares, viewers are disappointed, but if people don't care about the people in the film then viewers have no investment in what happens to the protagonists. The Exorcist walks this line brilliantly with an incredible performance by young Linda Blair and although some of the effects aren't exactly mind-blowing as they were on release, I still think everything holds up. There's a LOT of religion stuff in there so be ready for that (in the cinema I saw it, there was somebody behind me who kept mumbling about how unhappy they were by the amount of God-talk... WHAT FILM WERE THEY EXPECTING?!). If you enjoyed Last Exorcism then this is an absolute must. To continue with my Friedkin love he released a film in 2002 called Bug which is pretty badass. Has Michael Shannon being absolutely crazy which, hey, Shannon is really, really great at. It's all based in the one motel where a guy befriends a girl and is concerned that they've been infected by bugs under their skin and so they have to go and deal with that. Is the government involved? Are there really bugs? How do they get rid of them? It's incredibly tense, thoroughly excellent and got one of the grossest, toe-curling awful moments to do with teeth I've ever watched. You should watch Cabin in the Woods and Dale and Tucker VS Evil for two excellent turning-horror-on-it's-head films. CITW specifically either completely ruins or improves tenfold all the 80's slashers. It's got Joss Whedon (of Buffy, Firefly and The Avengers) connected to it if you need any other reason to watch it. My one warning is that you should know NOTHING going in. Learn as little as possible, seriously, because the less you know the more you'll get out of it. Tucker & Dale is a comedy film where two friendly hillbillies find themselves in the middle of a series of gruesome accidents as a group of teens die around them. Horror and funny can be difficult to work well together but this is super. John Carpenter's The Thing is a film I personally love. Oh, goodness, and the original Alien. Both are films that hold up incredibly well today - plot wise and in the effects department. The Thing specifically is a film that always, in my head, more potential than maybe the actual film delivered on but still has some incredibly iconic moments that, yeah, you should watch it. Gud, I'm going to go make some dinner but I'll come back to this bad boy. Oh, I shall return!!
  13. So, hey, ha! Ol' Matty-D brought my attention to this and I thought it'd be really jerkish not to say thank you to everybody - especially those who don't even need to know who I am (was...?). What really put the pressure on to make a comment though was to let you lovely people on TWO know that, on Monday just there, myself and the ol' gurlfriend of five years got engaged :). So, yeah, thank you everyone and I'm really glad I've got some good news to bring to you all in return. I hope this comment doesn't tarnish my legacy and remind everybody what a d*ck I was :(.
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