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THERE WILL BE KETCHUP

You can see why Keaton took the part; it's like Wolf Of Wall Street but with junk food instead of junk bonds and his character has at least two YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH speeches that make the words FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION flash along the bottom of the screen.

Thanks for the heads up on this one - first time I had heard of this - added to my watchlist immediately. 

The Last Airbender WAS based on easily the best cartoon of the last 17 years mind, so fans where going to turn out in droves before despising it and regreting their choices for years after.

I know, I was one of them.

Ah I see, that explains why big numbers turned out. I was (and still am) totally unfamiliar with the The Last Airbender series. Dave Filoni mentions thats where he came from in the behind the scenes of the Clone Wars and I know there is an xbox 360 game where you can get all the achievement in a few minutes and that's where my knowledge ends.

Sorry to hear that Hawk, did Shyamalan get anything right with it? Always sucks when these things are translated and dont end up how we imagined it (something peeps on a 2000 AD forum will be all too familiar with).

I only noticed him when he was blatantly on screen, I wonder what the other two were. That's so unfair .. there are so many actors struggling to get good roles and he gives himself three 

Didn't we direct that terrible version of The Last Airbender? He was a bit of a pariah for a while no?
I guess his tight budgeting was not forgotten when they were looking for someone to direct this.

According to wiki he only doesnt make an appearence in After Earth and The Visit, it has him down as three roles in Split?!

Also what I never knew before was just how much each of his films have made at the box office, considering majority are modest or even small budgets, I bet he has some friends across the studios who have worked with him.

Seems like he's one of those directors that are critic proof.
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Yeah no one liked the Last Airbender film but boxofficemojo has it down as making $319.7 million Worldwide on a $150 million budget so even that didnt manage a loss so it appears people always turn out with their money for Shyamalan.

Does he? I'm clearly not a fan ...

According to wiki he only doesnt make an appearence in After Earth and The Visit, it has him down as three roles in Split?!

Also what I never knew before was just how much each of his films have made at the box office, considering majority are modest or even small budgets, I bet he has some friends across the studios who have worked with him.

Seems like he's one of those directors that are critic proof.

[John Wick]

John Wick starring Keanu Reeves.

Finally got round to watching this and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Look forward to the next one.

Cheers

This seems to be a bit of a marmite movie speaking to people I know, I really enjoyed it; think I watched it twice in one week, the second time with the wife as I thought it be he cuppa ([spoiler]the dog [/spoiler]at the beginning put a downer on it for her!).

Was one of Reeves best performances in ages, these toned down roles use him best (compare his acting in something like Street Kings to Man of Tai Chi; it's like he forgot how to act between the two). Also when Willem Dafoe looks like he is having fun, I have fun.

Congrats 

I'm a big fan of both Projection Booth and Future Shock! so cant wait to go through this. Should be a good un!

cheers

[Watch Dogs]

Picked up Watch Dogs on the Wii U on the cheap and currently having considerable fun with it.

Not sure what the other versions are like but although it's rather glitchy and the driving sections are sluggish as hell, it's still worth just over a tenner of anyone's money and it's the only GTA like game the Wii U will ever see.

https://www.gameseek.co.uk/pd/VideoGamesp1e8rmfa26/Watch-Dogs

I played it not so long ago on PS4 (so had the very latest patches installed) and was very glitchy too, few missions I had to restart mid way through as a glitch had broke the game (for example there's one bit on the game where you go to a secret base via climbing into a shipping container and hitting a button, the container is meant to move to it's destination then you press the door open button when stopped, no matter how many times I pressed the button either nothing would happen or your guy would phase through the wall then back into the container. Much hilarity). So it's not isolated to the WiiU version!

Recently finished the latest Call of Duty which I enjoyed more than other people (I do prefer sci-fi over the normal military theme so that helps) and I liked how they did a Rogue One with a sarcastic robot and [spoiler]everyone dies heriocally at the end[/spoiler].

And now moved onto something completely different with Final Fantasy IX. Never played it before so thought I'd change that. Four hours in and it seems alright. Four hours in a FF game though is like 15 minutes in a normal game (I am still getting tutorials thrown at me).

FANS OF PARAGON;

I've had my Tiscali email account hacked and disabled meaning I have lost access to years of comic strips, art and contacts I had on there. You can still contact me on my gmail account or message me here or facebook. If you have sent me scripts that haven't seen the light of day in PARAGON yet this means I'm afraid I've lost them. Frustrated and angry doesn't begin to describe it. I hope you still have copies and can send them to me again

Sorry to hear that! Always gutting when this kind of thing happens. Dont suppose Tiscali support can come to the rescue and do some kind of restore?

I had no interest in this season after I lost the will after that terrible xmas special where he had an alternative version running in his drugged mind (why couldn't they keep it a fun one-off where it was a Victorian Sherlock with the same cast?!). So haven't seen any of this apart from the last 20 mins of the finale when the wife had it on the TV, I thought I was watching a made for TV version of Saw or something. She paused it and gave me a run down of the events of the season and I still don't know if she made some of it up or not as it sounded like some awful fan fiction crossed with Saw (Jigsaw who always had multiple apprentices, recorded messages for seemingly every event, set up things in advance knowing exactly how people would react, the next twist more unfeasible than the next). The first two seasons were brill, sad to see a massive drop in quality. Felt the same about the X Files revival, so much potential ruined by writing that hadn't been reigned in by decent edit or two.

Thinking more about this "season" the only one I can say I enjoyed was the Jimmy Savile ep but I feel that was more down to Toby Jones sleazy performance than the actual story itself.

Oh I do love Toby Jones, kind of wish I saw that episode now.

[Locke & Key]

So yeah tldr not a fan of idw

And yet, IDW have produced some amazing comics.
Locke & Key is widely (and justifiably) regarded as a modern classic.
Ragnarok is one of the best ongoing comics currently being produced.
I've also really enjoyed several other series by the company- Transformers Regeneration One and the Dredd / Anderson / Rogue Trooper minis.
All of those comics also had fantastic production values (although the thicker card stock covers seem to have disappeared).
Yeah, they have produced some lemons- but every publisher has.

Personally, I've bought and enjoyed far more comics from IDW than I have from Marvel over the past few years.

Their rebooted and ongoing version of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" has been top, consistently great art and great writing IMO. I hear that their reprints of the old Eastman and Laird era have been good too.

IDW's "Season 10" of the X Files was also much better than the actual return of Season 10 we got on the TV.

Clone Wars is canon now thanks to Rogue One, so the heavy lifting done there applies to the PT.

It was always canon though because George was heavily involved throughout (and how better the end result when he takes an mentor role rather than driving the thing himself).

AotC through Clone Wars, Anakin is torn and it's only in Sith that he actually turns.
It was never "inevitable" though - if the Jedi hadn't betrayed the Republic, Anakin would have stayed loyal.

Loyal for how long though, until something else happened to trigger something else? From the beginning he showed problems against authority figures which is why they thrust Ashoka upon him to help show here what he should be like (even though it turned out to be do as I say, not as I do). If he had stopped with the Jedi the truth about his children could have jeopardised him staying with the order had they found out.

I'd always hoped that Palps was in some way behind the Sandpeople's inexplicable treatment of Shmi.  I mean, what was all that about? The problem with seeing Ani actually falling to the Dark Side at that point is that everything we see afterwards in the two Clone Wars series must depict a man already lost, rather than a boy still struggling with his demons. I like and understand cartoon Anakin in a way I could never grok live-action Anakin.

It's amusing that the Anakin in Clone Wars is a more fleshed out, 3 dimensional character compared to the version you see in the films; those series does a lot of heavy lifting for the prequel timeline one expected of an animated cartoon delivered in 20 minute chunks.

As far as Tarkin's inclusion, or indeed exclusion, from Rogue One could be concerned, there where only really three options.

1) Leave him out completely. This would no doubt annoy fans, including myself, if for no other reason other than he's fairly integral to A New Hope. And this being the immediate precursor to ANH he's kind of required.

2) Bring back Wayne Pygram to reprise his role cameo from Episode III. The only problem with this is though he might look the part...from a three quarter length shot...for a few seconds...I'm not convinced he could have pulled off the kinda of scenes Tarkin had in RO.

3) The CGI, which IMHO was the best course of action. This kind thing is of course a slippery slope, but as I said before I was chuffed with the execution and so long as it doesn't become a regular occurrence i'm happy with this irregular method used for such an irregular movie.

I didn't have a problem with Tarkin, I think Star Wars series should always try and push the expectations from SFX (as much as I am not a massive prequel fan, I do give Lucas massive amount of praise for attempting to push the technology with near all digital set pieces, all digital clone troopers and the push to filming digitally) so I think they did the right thing. If I was in charge of Rogue One though I don't think I'd be as brave and would of tried to hide the pitfalls of the Tarkin CGI model within a hologram projection in conversations with Krennic, that way you could hide a lot. I do wonder if they considered that or always intended to do nothing but the full version.

He's always had a mean streak but I'd agree that the turning point was with the Tusken Raiders, it was a slippery slope from there with things like killing Dooku until he finally was christened Darth, before then I'd say he was with the darkside and the name was merely a formality. It always bothered me when Padme has a line of dialogue in  Sith where she says something like "I don't know who you are/ What you've become" as when he tells her about slaughtering a mass of Tusken Raiders she just says something like everyone gets angry. Like slaughtering Sand children was fine but Jedi children was a step too far. Shocker your husband is a killer.