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#1
Film & TV / Re: Current TV Boxset Addiction
17 March, 2024, 03:13:16 AM
Unlike so many shows Rome does not suffer from "Hero Helmet Phobia". (Although Hero is a subjective concept in this case)

Game of Thrones was diabolical on that. (Admittedly Rome had the advantage of their helmets being designed to provide maximum vision and hearing, while still providing more protection than contemporaries)
#2
Film & TV / Re: Current TV Boxset Addiction
23 February, 2024, 02:38:43 AM
Been watching Rome .... "THIRTEEN!!!"
#3
Events / Re: Into Battle!
06 February, 2024, 12:07:01 AM
The Tank Museum is using material from the "Victor" in some of its displays.
As is the Imperial War Museum.
#4
Film & TV / Re: Last movie watched...
02 December, 2023, 03:20:11 AM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 16 November, 2023, 10:46:03 AMHe had absolutely sod all to do with it, aside from serving as the inspiration for multiple elements of its look and storyline, right down to that logo font.
Quote from: Barrington Boots on 16 November, 2023, 11:10:32 AMPretty sure I read that Stranger Things grew out of a rejected pitch the Duffer brothers made for IT.

The series has always been very blatant about its influences - It, Aliens, NoES etc - but the first series is especially King-tastic.
Its not impossible that he had something to do with it. And simply doesn't remember?

Apparently he was so out of his head on mind altering substances that he didn't even realise he had written Cujo until his publisher told him about it!
#5
Quote from: Funt Solo [R] on 12 October, 2023, 12:54:08 AMI was going to make a joke about the Luton airport carpark fire and how "it couldn't possibly have collapsed like that just because of a measly fire" - but actually folk are already spinning mad conspiracy threads into jumpers of doolally without my help.

Lizards!
Its Luton Airport.

That it didn't unmask a howling vortex into a Hell Dimension is the surprise!?
#6
Quote from: Funt Solo [R] on 02 October, 2023, 06:56:30 PM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 30 September, 2023, 10:17:41 AMIronically there was not a single child from a non-white background in the class.

Reminds me of teaching an all-male programming class one time:

Student: "Women belong in the kitchen!"
Teacher-Me: "Woah! Let's avoid sexist statements, thanks!"
Student: "But there aren't any women here!"

(You don't need the targeted demographic to be in the room to magically activate inappropriate language.)


This is a bit like people from Quiet English Village saying that racism can't exist in Quiet English Village because there aren't any black folk in Quiet English Village. (This was on the news recently when studies had shown that England is a bit racist, now, father.)
Then again the latest adaption of The Midwich Cuckoos had three inter-racial couples ... in rural Buckinghamshire!

Someone may have been trying a little bit too hard there?
#7
Off Topic / Re: Quoting Scripture
04 September, 2023, 12:09:14 AM
"Easy the Ferg!"
#8
Film & TV / Re: Last movie watched...
17 August, 2023, 05:22:19 AM
Quote from: edgeworthy on 16 August, 2023, 02:31:57 AMThe saving grace of The Return of the Magnificent Seven was the planning and execution of the end battle scene. It demonstrates how you would defend a village against 40+ Bandits with only seven men.

Chris, Lee van Cleef, explains the why and how. Along with an extremely cold delivery of how many of the Seven he expects to loose at each stage. (The rest of the film is generally awful)
Quote from: Barrington Boots on 16 August, 2023, 09:10:18 AMThat's Magnificent Seven Ride, but I agree, that bit is excellent. I think it's a decent sequel - the actual climatic fight is good, and the convict seven is a good idea with some good character concepts but most of them get no real chance to do much. On the downside the main villain sucks, it looks like a made for tv movie, and the all the stuff with Chris's wife getting fridged / the widows is badly dated and now creepy and weird.

Way better than The Return of the Seven which is the weakest of the lot imo. Seriously undeveloped characters (two of them barely do anything), ill-concieved recasting, weak climax, Yul Brynner phoning it in, Warren Oates goofing around...
Oops, my mistake. In all fairness the sequels do all somewhat blur together.
One critic referred to the third one, the Guns of the Magnificent Seven, as having "... all the Magnificence of a Dead Burro".
#9
Film & TV / Re: Last movie watched...
16 August, 2023, 02:31:57 AM
The saving grace of The Return of the Magnificent Seven was the planning and execution of the end battle scene. It demonstrates how you would defend a village against 40+ Bandits with only seven men.

Chris, Lee van Cleef, explains the why and how. Along with an extremely cold delivery of how many of the Seven he expects to loose at each stage. (The rest of the film is generally awful)
#10
General / Re: Best / Worst Strip Endings
22 April, 2023, 02:43:20 AM
Mentioning Vanguard, again!

It just seemed to stop without an ending at all?
#11
Has anyone else noticed that the Titan-A's Doctor is being played by veteran Scream Queen Tiffany Shepis?
#12
General / Re: Catchphrases
07 February, 2023, 03:52:49 AM
"Aint no Flies on Fergee ...
... Easy the Ferg!"
#13
Film & TV / Re: Last movie watched...
27 December, 2022, 04:47:29 PM
Quote from: JWare on 27 December, 2022, 11:03:20 AM
I don't want to derail the thread, but there's no end to Ireland's denial of her own imperial past.
I've been studying the Irish regiments of the British Army, and what the Irish redcoats got up to in India is nothing to be proud of.
I believe there was some historically tone-deaf gesture a few years back regarding the massacres perpetrated in 1857-8, and for some arse-backwards reason India apologised to Ireland.

I teach history. God knows why, because nobody listens.
Saying that the popular perception of Irish History has holes in it you could march the New Model Army through, would be putting mildly.
#14
Honestly, he might be seeing this as a chance to do a "Bad Guy"?
Could you imagine him playing Honsou?

Afterall, as a mainstream intro to 40K "Storm of Iron" is probably the story to go with!
#15
Film & TV / Re: Last movie watched...
22 May, 2022, 10:24:52 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 22 May, 2022, 07:08:23 PM
"Hitch. Hitch? You're alive. I've seen you."
"Oh am I? Thanks Sir."
"NO JOKERS PLEASE."
"Do you think the Welsh can't do better than that, Owen?"
"Well, they've got a very good bass section, mind, but no top tenors that's for sure."