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I stopped watching the first series after a couple of epsidoes, but then happened to catch the one with the torture in it and it got me hooked.

Just finished the second series - bloody hell it's intriuging

I always remembered watching a cracking BBC2 comedy series (I think it got two series) starring Robert Bathurst about relationships.

I really enjoyed it and wondered where it had disappeared to. It seems I was not the only one and a fan has had the brilliant idea of acquiring the rights and releasing the DVD himself.

MARK: The meaning of life....Remember this now and forever - it may save you a lot of pain....Life is nature's way of keeping meat fresh!

Link: http://www.replaydvd.co.uk/index.htm" target="_blank">Catch it here

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Same as the read threads are now RED, as opposed to grey.

Now this is annoying for me. Being colour blind I now find it really difficult to see which threads I've read (usually all of them).

It's only irritating because its slightly different to the norm.

Does it really make any difference to you at all?

VC = ABC/(MACH1 + MANIAC5) - XTNCT

[Avi Green from Israel]

Avi Green from Israel

Dearest me, what an enragingly ugly movie this is. And there's nothing new here either. It's disgraceful that Sly Stallone should ever have had to waste his time in movies like this that are virtually offensive. One of the many things wrong with both the movie and even the British comic book it's based on is that viewers don't know what to think of the government and ruling party for whom Judge Dredd(or, more precisely, Dreddful) works, since it's portrayed as totilitarian with overtones of Nazism. On the other hand maybe the viewers do know what to think, and that's that the film's concept of futuristic leadership is downright offensive and insulting. Not that that's too surprising though, given that it's source materiel was also like that. I had once found a compliation of Judge Dredd stories in a used book store and was almost instantly offended by it, slamming it back on the shelves soon afterwards. The characters in it-even the good characters-weren't just ugly, they seemed to enjoy and promote it, too. They even-ugh!-played ugliness fo laughs. So too, in fact, are the filmmakers who've made this adaptation. If there's any comic books we should avoid these days, I think British books like Judge Dredd are it. And that's the same for this film.

[James Berardinelli (2/5)]

I'm just looking through some reviews actually

James Berardinelli (2/5)
"Just about everything in this silly, sub-par science fiction farce is derivative. For example, there's an air speeder chase lifted directly from Return of the Jedi, and Dredd is littered with nods to Robocop. Those hoping for a coherent story would do better to stay away."

Roger Ebert (2/3)
"Judge Dredd never slows down enough to make much sense; it's a Blade Runner for audiences with Attention Deficit Disorder.
"Stallone survives it, but his supporting cast, also including an uninvolved Joan Chen and a tremendously intense Jurgen Prochnow, isn't well used. Only Assante, as the rogue Judge who frames his brother, holds up under the material, although the movie doesn't exploit the brother angle, maybe because that would have involved dialogue of more than one sentence at a time."

Mick LaSalle - SanFran Chronicle
"Stallone's articulation also is problematic. While no one would ever accuse him of trying to pass as Sir John Gielgud, he has demonstrated in his previous films a knack for putting over the kicker line at the key moment. But twice in Judge Dredd, at the climax of an intense scene, Stallone is unintelligible.
At one point, Diane Lane, as a fellow judge, asks Dredd whatever became of his closest friend. The sound track swells. 'Aye jushwa,' he sneers.
Aye jushwa?"


Matias Stuven (4/6)
"Men humoren har de for det meste forst?et at fange. Som f.eks. hvor Judge Dredd k?rer til en blok-krig for blot at erkl?re: "I am the law. Drop your weapons. These blocks are under arrest!" N?r vi nu snakker om humor, har Sylvester en ret s? underholdende m?de sige: "I am the Law" p?. Det bliver til "I am the L?r" og n?r han overfor sine kadetter p? skolen informerer dem om at alle Dommernes v?ben blot er: "Toys" bliver det til: "Tuys". S? man griner b?de n?r det er meningen og n?r det ikke er meningen."

Box Office Online (1/2)
"It's always interesting at a certain level to watch so much money moving around on-screen in the form of matte shots and CGI effects, but there's nothing here technically that hasn't been done far better elsewhere, often using considerably less. Assante is fine; supporting actresses Diane Lane and Joan Chen are absolutely wasted; and comic sidekick Rob Schneider gives what could be the single most obnoxious mainstream performance of the year. Stallone exists in a realm beyond analysis of his acting skills, and he's beginning to exist in a realm beyond analysis of his appeal."



And the most entertaining one which is a comment made on the above review -

According to IMDB it actually made about $20m

Budget
    $90,000,000 (estimated)
Gross
    $34,693,481 (USA)
    ?7,023,123 (UK) (12 September 1995)
    $113,493,481 (Worldwide)
    $78,800,000 (Non-USA)

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NOSTRADAMUS I do hope I win it this week. I?ve got some chops in the freezer.

RICH Now Nostradamus, last week you said that Eastenders would be BBC1?s most watched programme. The news said

PING

RICH Correct. What a good start.

STU That happens every week

RICH Stu, why are you so sceptical of Nostradamus? ability

STU You?re making it easy on him cos you fancy him

RICH AND NOST BLUSH

RICH Don?t be stupid Stu, Nostradamus is a man

NOSTRADAMUS Yes I am a man, and the Holy Bible tells us that love between us would be wrong.

RICH How can something that feels so right, be wrong?

NOSTRADAMUS No, it can?t be.

RICH Second you said that York City would lose 3-1 to Bournemouth. The news said?

NEGATIVE SOUN

RICH No in fact?.. so that?s another Chinese burn for you Nostradamus and I?m going to give you a wedgie

NOSTRADAMUS Ow, my pants are cutting into my undercarriage?.. but I like it. Harder Rich. Hurt me. I?m a bad mystic

STU Stop it.

RICH You need to get this one right to win the barbecue Nosty. Thirdly you said that you would once again fail to win the barbecue this week. The news said..

PING (TREV MOVING THE THING BACK AND FORTH DURING THIS)

RICH Yes you were right. You have failed to win the barbecue, which means 2 out of 3 correct, you have won the barbecue, which means ..

(NEGATIVE NOISE)

? prediction 3 is wrong so you?ve failed to win the barbecue this week, which means

.. (PING)

.. you win the barbecue, which means you don?t and prediction 3 is wrong so you?ve failed to win the barbecue this week, which means

.. (PING)

.. you win the barbecue, which means you don?t

SMOKE STARTS COMING OUT THE BOARD. NOISES GOING CRAZY. STAR TREK MUSIC.

STU Oh no, it?s a parallax, like some rubbish episode of rubbish old Star Trek before it was good

TREVOR PULLS OFF PURITAN COAT AND IS WEARING YELLOW OLD STAR TREK TOP.

TREVOR It?s the prediction board Captain. She cannae handle it.

THE BOARD AND THE BARBECUE EXPLODE.

NOST Oh! They did it. The mad bastards. They actually did it.

STU Looks like you?re right. You didn?t win the barbecue. Ha ha ha

NOSTR Well I happy to take the fence instead

STU The fence is not on offer. Move on.

RICH What are your predictions for the next week

NOST Prediction 1 Reef will play the Royal Albert Hall on Tuesday, show starts 7pm.

STU That?s not a prediction. You read it in a listings magazine

NOST Prediction 2. The united States of America will sink into the sea.

Prediction 3. Richard Herring and myself shall share a lingering kiss and then go back to my place for a sausage from my lovely new barbecue.

RICH And can you come back next week to see if you got that right

NOST My lips are puckering up already.

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Don't be ridiculous

Way to give our position away, Mr Bolt ;)

The Mess is with you guys in the Mall now

Is the yahoo members website cocking up for anyone else? Whenever I log in it only gives me message from a week back.