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Yeah, that's the scene that everyone remembers - made the more shocking that there's no build up at all, just after lots of build-ups and false alarms.
Wish modern films would take note.
I mean, when can you remember any film lately where the jolt isn't telegraphed miles away by tense music - escalating music - the door in the background still in focus - the mirror on the cabinet door not quite straight on to the person etc etc?

"An intellectual carrot?"

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Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_6490000/newsid_6499100/6499121.stm?bw=nb&mp=wm" target="_blank">... but who lives in a house like this?

Bear, no way could i have said all that as well as you. Ta for being so eleqo... elekwan... good with words.

"When I was a kid I don't remember having to be told whether Doctor Who was brilliant or not to enjoy it."

Spot on.

Dare you to listen to any of RTD's audio commentaries without either: gnashing teeth,swearing out loud, making balls of fists, throwing the remote at telly, turning off.

Personally, went for the last one and have avoided any interview or feature on him since

Finally, FINALLY, my Thrill Power rises like sap up a tree!
THAT's what i've been waiting for in Dredd - a momentous move forward in the tale, a killer revalation at the end and gorgous Ezquerra art (how i want page 2). It's like its 1982 all over again

Er... it moved a bit with the force of smashing through...

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Rather pleased how this came out.
Its obviously based on the Kev Walker fridge magnet from a few years back but this is a sculpt, cast in resin and 1/6th scale (same as Action Man).
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"The next Dogbreath should hopefully have a tale in it that explains how some of these weapons may have come about..."

Oh, i'll hold onto things for the mo then.

Got a vague memory that some of the SG Agents weapons (the time ones?) were created by Kreelers men.
Any ideas which?
And have the origns of any of the other weapons been shown yet?

Toilet.
That way, if i run out of loo roll, i can use Sinster Dexter as emergency back-up.

Remember that local tv report on Dreddcon (05?) featuring a bunch of us?
Wouldn't it be an idea to get it up onto youtube for the whole world to savour?

Sorry, just don't get it.

It looks very nice but oh so patently fake - didn't believe for one minute any of the backdrops were real. And a lot of times (mainly long shots) the folk didn't sit in them well at all.

An action film that has every bit of action in slow motion isn't much of an action film is it?

A film that's based on a GN that consists of just a coupla skirmishes and a battle will need padding and, boy, were those bits dull.

The endless "we're Spartans, we're dead tough us" to me just came across as some drunken posturing down the pub.

And the king. When not shouting, was he deliberatly doing a Sean Connery or what?

Didn't really believe in the others being Spartans - they were more a bunch of beefed up Dave Gormans

The hunchback. Baaaad make-up.

Xeses. The culmination of the campness in the film - at least the audience i saw it with took him as such.

I guess by adding the fantasy elements to it, they're maybe saying how fact becomes myth over time but i just felt it was too much - in the GN you get a coupla elephants come along, slip on some dead persians and fall off the cliff. In the film it happens but they've become Oliphants bigger brothers. Didn't really see the need. Liked the executioner though.

I dunno. Maybe i'm being too harsh. Or maybe its tongue in cheek and i'm just not getting it.