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I watched the Harrison Ford version of The Call of the Wild.
Well, there's 2 hours of my life I'm not getting back!

(The best performance was probably from the CGI Dog)

"Listen very carefully I shall they this only once" Allo, Allo!

Here's hoping that someone remembers to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow?

[The Outpost]

The Outpost

"The Outpost follows Talon, the lone survivor of a race called Blackbloods. Years after her entire village was destroyed by a gang of brutal mercenaries, Talon travels to a lawless fortress on the edge of the civilized world, as she tracks the killers of her family. On her journey to this outpost, Talon discovers she possesses an extraordinary and mysterious supernatural power that she must learn to control in order to save herself and defend the world against a fanatical religious dictator."

Yes, its very, very silly, but its fun.
And so much better than The Rings of Power

The best part was Paul and John playing a chord!

Convince me I'm wrong?

The cynic in me thinks that this is going to be an "Original Movie" in the same way that The Disney Channel produces an "Original Movie"!?

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)

["THIRTEEN!!!"]

Been watching Rome .... "THIRTEEN!!!"

The Tank Museum is using material from the "Victor" in some of its displays.
As is the Imperial War Museum.

He 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.

Pretty 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!

I 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!?

Ironically 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?

"Easy the Ferg!"

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)

That'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".

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)