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Ah well, once more with brevity: atheists are fine, anti-theists are dicks.

Sorry, mate, I can't agree with you there.  While of course you're free to believe whatever you want, I can't help feeling that the major theistic religions have caused an enormous degree of unnecessary violent conflict and persecution throughout the history of the human race.
I understand that most religious people are good people but too many times religion has been used as an excuse to justify slaughter, destruction and subjugation of other races.  Having grown up in 70s and 80s Ireland, for example, I see how Catholicism has used fear and guilt as a tool to control people (especially the women who are excluded from power and the children who no member of the hierarchy can have anyway).
So while I believe you are perfectly entitled to follow whatever faith you choose, I also believe there are enough influential gobshites who use theistic religion as a weapon to make me wonder if we'd be better off without it. 

The golden rule is half your age plus seven.You cannot go wrong.

LOL, Should that be her minimum age or the gap?

The gap, I believe, as recommended in olde-worlde Mrs Beeton-style romance guides.  I say feck it, though, whatever makes you happy.  And is legal, of course. 

Actually some of the soundtrack when I listened to it in the I-Sense cinema reminded me of the booming, ethereal sounds of the bigger techno gigs I used to go to, so put that in your pipe and smoke it, Olivia (but I still love you, don't worry).

The Dredd film I've always dreamed of.   Not only a faithful adaptation with the perfect cast, but a true cinematic spectacle: the slow-motion, 3d and soundtrack were combined to create an atmosphere that I've never experienced before and was absolutely blown away by. 
The awful memories of the Stallone monstrosity have finally been exorcised.  To everyone involved:  Thank you.

Yes, well.. You've also got Stallone as an avatar..

I know, I know.. it's a lonely road, but someone must tread it.

It's a poster for a film called Krysler's Mark.

Thanks!

Just seeing this lovely wee community of ours shown a bit of love in a movie that means so much to us made me feel a bit mushy.

Me too.  Made me proud to be part of the hivemind - also nice to see in the Megazine that Alex Garland had been reading the forum in detail while writing Dredd.

A friend of mine says he saw a thank you to the Judge Minty crew during the credits. Is this true or is he getting it mixed up with the thank you to the forum that someone else mentioned?

I haven't looked at the credits at all during my two viewings.

Yep, I spotted it on the second viewing.  Think it was the first thank-you to come up in the credits.  Also a thank you to everyone on this forum, which was nice.

Word

Welcome on(to the) board.

Howya

[SPOLIERS]

(SPOLIERS in following paragraph)

When a group of rouge Judges show up it looks like things could get interesting. But instead it gets even more banal. The stupidity of these new adversaries is unbelievable; three of them all die from taking the time to talk to the people they are being paid to kill. And in a bizarre casting choice, the lead rouge has a very similar jaw line to Karl Urban and thus it is painfully hard to tell who is actually fighting who. It all ends up like watching someone else play a video game on an easy setting.

Never noticed any blusher on the corrupt judges personally.  With 'rouge' and 'spoliers', it sounds like the guy is talking French.  AND NOBODY WANTS THAT.

Noticed the Ezquerra, Bolland and O'Neil (sic) blocks on the second viewing.  Also 'Fatties Rule' graffitied on the skate ramp.  Caught a quick glimplse of the Krysler poster - does anyone know what it says in full?

I enjoyed the God Delusion, me.  To be fair, it is Dawkins' genuine opinion that belief in God is a delusion, so why not call the book that? 
What I find the biggest shame about Dawkins is that he used to be known for his groundbreaking theories in the field of evolutionary biology; and now he's just that atheist guy who's always on the telly.  Largely his own doing, of course, but still a pity that his more important achievements are largely overlooked these days.

Ah, right.  This was during my godawful spell in Mega-City 1 Beijing.

is there something I need to know,you're making me nervous?

Nah, just Dredd got a bit shit for a while in the 90s when other writers took over.  Two of the highest profile comic writers in the world today, who would have thought it?

Actually getting back to the film; about Dredd staring at Anderson in the lift after she realises she's shot Kathy's husband - I think he must have realised something was up. 

Noticed another amongst our number on my second viewing.  Can't quite remember but it was some kind of TV advertising thing near the start, 'sponsored by Commando Forces'! 
Someone must have mentioned this before, surely?