Surf Digby

Damn, Judi Dench!

*Dame.

All At Sea (AKA Barnacle Bill).

Ealing comedy with Sir Alec Guinness as a naval captain who develops chronic sea sickness, and so buys a pier and runs it like a ship instead. 

It's all very daft, and so wonderfully British, with Guinness as the straight man while the environment provides the gags. Lovely stuff.

12 hours ago, N dot Brixton said:

stalkers by nikko jaxx

tell me what u think or sumn xxx

I didn't know robots could gargle.

Shawn Michaels vs Undertaker - Hell In a Cell

After hitting that age when I had to concede that wrestling wasn't actually real and losing interest, this was the match that brought me back into it. There was none of the hokiness of the early 90s, and it was (at that time) the most brutal match I'd ever seen. This was closer to a live action movie than 

Bret Hart vs Mr Perfect - Summerslam '91

In my first period of fandom, I thought Bret was one of the greatest, and I thought that Hennig was a mouthy cunt that needed his head kicking in, so this was the match I was wanting see, and it didn't disappoint. 
Matches like this are why the IC Championship held more prestige than the World Championship for me.

Owen Hart vs 123 Kid - KOTR '93

I probably consider this one of the top ten matches of all time. The chemistry between Owen and Waltman is as good as anybody's, and they're just hitting everything perfectly. It's probably the greatest case study of how you can all your shit in, and more, but not have it descend into a meandering spotfest. Everything just follows on in a believable way, and the winner could have been either of them.

Kurt Angle vs Shane McMahon - KOTR '01

I can still remember the edge-of-the-seat excitement we had watching this for the first time. I genuinely thought Shane was going to get crippled or actually die. 
Kurt was brilliant by this point, and Shane was probably at his athletic best, throwing some nice looking armdrags and suplexes throughout the match. 

"Please generate me an AI image of Rishi Sunak showing a foreign dignitary some of our ants, while Hagrid's brother looks on".

Our school newspaper had more convincing posed photos.

I'm struggling to believe these photos are genuine. I thought that bus stop one was a Photoshopped "bus wankers" joke, and have no idea what it's actually supposed to portray.

"The only evidence of his allegedly violent behaviour, was his previous conviction for violent behaviour".

I'm so glad someone else has pointed out the Earthsea comparison, because it was one of the first things that sprung to mind when I watched the first film (I've not read any of the books, and apart from the first, I've only seen a bit of the one where he turns into a fish).

When I watched the first film, I got an almost feeling of deja vu, because it was just a shopping list of ideas from other fantasy books/films. I'd already read The Hobbit, The Worst Witch, and the Earthsea trilogy (as it was at the time), some Discworld, etc. and so it offered nothing. My younger sister - who only likes things before they become popular - insisted that it wasn't derivative, but that Rowling was "re-interpreting classic fantasy themes for a new audience".  

Considering she regards Rowling as some sort of Goddess, but she also puts herself out as being the most inclusive person ever, I'd be curious as to what her thoughts on this are, but that means I'd have to endure a conversation with her.

54 minutes ago, Carbomb said:

I'd fucking love it if he started up another promotion and it bombed, leaving the vile old cunt completely pruned. 

I'd love it even more if he just signed up a load of fitness influencers, thinking that all they need to provide is the physique, and he'll use his genius to turn them into another Hogan and Warrior.

And instead we get the worst wrestling promotion ever, with a bunch of "megastars" that can't handle even a light wrestling schedule, and every rejected Attitude era idea getting blasted all over it.

6 hours ago, gmoney said:

Makes you think that someone found a Reddit filled with Kurt Cobain's artwork and thought "I could do that".

Sorted.

7 hours ago, Gus Mears said:

Mrs Mears passed her driving test today. Very proud, especially as she's in her 30's and from foreign lands without roundabouts.

Stoke?

On 4/12/2024 at 11:23 AM, BomberPat said:

I watched Top Gun Maverick for the first time last night, and thought it was bang average.

Apart from the last 20 minutes or so, when there was actually a bit of drama, I thought it was one of the dullest films I've seen in a long time. Far too long, and far too much of nothing really happening.

2 hours ago, Gus Mears said:

I'm sad to report that I didn't make it. Was great fun until the parachute didn't open. Thoughts are with my family at this difficult time.

For the benefit of any Flat Earthers reading, can you confirm whether or not that gravity stuff is real?

On 4/12/2024 at 11:25 AM, lanky316 said:

Of course it's all just typical overblown nonsense, getting upset over a fictional character with little to go on as far as descriptions is typical of how things are these days but when you've already had Romeo and Juliet with seals, MacBeth with Samurai, Hamlet avenging his fathers death with the help of a meerkat and the million other adaptations it's just rage over nothing. 

There's now a version of The Tempest where Ariel is a robot. It's bad enough that she's the subservient to the Patriarchy in the form of Morbius Prospero, but now she's literally dehumanised too. 

I'm predicting riots. 

7 hours ago, Tommy! said:

The woman with the green underwear who takes a massive piss before her meeting in the air up advert.

Don't ever change, UKFF.

Don't ever change.

5 hours ago, Loki said:

 If I’m washing my face, I’m not washing my ears.

Whoa, now. Washing behind your ears has always been part of washing your face. Did your grandmother never check that you'd done it?

2 hours ago, westlondonmist said:

I find it all so odd, people even complaining about drag queens? Drag queens have been around for years, as a kid Barry Humphreys and Paul O'Grady were household names, doing family TV in the 80s and 90s and I feel like nobody batted an eyelid? Am I remembering it wrong. 

To this day. I've never met or spoke to anyone that gave a fuck about Wendy Carlos being trans, or responded with anything other than mild curiosity when they found out.

I absolutely adore Brion James. He's one of those faces that instantly makes a film more enjoyable the moment he appears, like Lance Henriksen or Richard Lynch.

45 minutes ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said:

Tom Scott video?

The chap that's shitting himself when stood on the mesh?

The roof dome of the Royal Albert Hall isn't actually attached to the rest of the building. It's just sat on top, kept in place by its own 600 ton weight.

Today I learned that Rob Bottin, the special effects God that created The Thing, was the drummer in the cantina band in Star Wars: A New Hope. 

""Look at Mario! His eyes are magnets! Ha ha ha ha ha!!!"

It's laugh-a-minute around here.

21 minutes ago, Loki said:

Can you imagine Vince buying TNA or MLW because he can’t stand being out of power?  

Yes.

Yes I can.

Young Sherlock Holmes (possibly with a Pyramid of Fear).

The boy has discovered Sherlock Holmes, and he loves things to do with Egypt, so what better than to mess his head up with stained glass knights and kidnapped girls being scalded to death with boiling wax?

I will go to my grave insisting that this was a missed opportunity for a brilliant series of films.

I never have, and I'm not sure whether I ever would. I am genuinely intrigued by them, and wonder what they'd say to me if I went, but I also know people (mostly workmates) that have been to them, and what they've recounted has been the most obvious carny cold-reading shit, and often taking advantage their past griefs.