Sergio Mendacious

It's nice of Rey Rey to scratch Cara's bad arm.

Watched the Charlie Sheen roast last night, and Amy Schumer was the best thing going. Better than Jeff Ross, who generally walks away with those things.

Even him against Orton at Night of Champions seems like a match I don't want to see yet. It seems too soon.

He should be feuding with them the whole time now, but there should be diversions. He should have mad obstacles in his way, and overcome them.

I remember when they used to do that with Austin - he'd feud with Vince McMahon, then take on the Headbangers and Leif Cassidy for a few months. Best thing, really - rest while the iron is hot.

I love mild, myself. Even a rarity outside of real old mans' pubs in Nottingham now, but I used to drink lots of it in Bangor, because it was the cheapest ale on tap.

I'm getting a bit sick of Karl Urban, and I blame Tumblr for that - forget the NSFW filter, I want a combination Star Trek/Ponies/Sherlock/Dr Who/Welcome to Night Vale/Supernatural filter - basically a customizable "I'm not interested in your interests, but sometimes you post funny videos of cats" filter.

There's no fucking elves, anyway. I hate fucking elves. I'm only on book one, stalled behind the TV series, so there'd better be no fucking elves later. Jon Snow is practically an elf, that cunt.

I feel like we're going off on a whole other tagent here.

I think you were all raped in your childhoods.

I wasn't. I was an ugly kid and wore Bummer's Kingdom trainers. The local pervs wouldn't have touched me with yours.

At least no-one pulled your helmet off.

I think you were all raped in your childhoods.

You watched Dredd yesterday Devon, do you think it would've been much better if you'd seen Karl Urban's face? Even if it wasn't based on anything I'd think that was an interesting choice to make for a lead character.

 

I don't think it would have made any difference to the film at all so there would be no reason to do it. That's not my point, though!

What I get from this is that one day, a comic book adaptation pissed in Devon Gladstone's tea.

Dredd's face has NEVER been seen in the comics, so as soon as you do that, you're moving away from the mythology.

No strictly true - in "Tales of the Dead Man", Dredd's face is in plain view. It's just conveniently burnt off.

And I see both of your points - of course an adaptation doesn't have to kow-tow to its source, I have no problem with that. I'm a big fan of Superman, but I'm not some twat who wouldn't be open to seeing a movie where he was portrayed as wildly different in powers, appearance, etc. I also think that it's a weird way to go about using a property, though - there's a lot of things that make sense to change in Dredd's mythology, but the facelessness seems like a ridiculous thing to sacrifice if you're making a Judge Dredd movie. As a movie about Judge Dredd, Dredd fails far more than the Stallone version, but in maintaining that grim "I am the law" facade (as well as just being an eons better movie), it's a winner.

I really enjoyed the new Dredd movie, but more just on its own terms as an excellent action film. I agree with the Total Package in a sense, as the Dredd comic book may have a grim (if sometimes sarcastically amusing) central character, but he's surrounded by a whole gaggle of comic relief characters, and a lot of absurdity. Stallone's movie went too far one way, and the new one went too far the other.

Millard did me a favor by warning me off of Under the Dome a long time ago - it's true, Big Jim in the book is practically demonic, yet still kind of believable, and it sounds like they've utterly cut the nuts off of the whole property.

I'm still watching True Blood, and I'm not really sure why - habit, I think. I don't remember ever dumping a show that I've watched for that long, so I'm going to see it through to the end. It's a step down, though - Sunday night is pizza night in our house, and at one point we were watching Game of Thrones followed by Mad Men - the low point was definitely waiting for anything else to come on along with True Blood, but now it's going to be Breaking Bad, Boardwalk Empire, and Total Divas.

Sin Cara's making a UK appearance apparently

 

He lives in Pontefract, I think, just a few doors down from the angling club. I think he's an instructor there, actually. Sans mask, of course.

Shit.....

 

This.

Agreed.

It's dreadful - I didn't get around to trying to watch it till a couple of years ago, and I just couldn't do it. That was the same day that I tried to watch Tomb Raider 2, and I couldn't get through that shite either.

Former British wrestler Max Voltage has been nominated for the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award (previously known as the Perrier Award) at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival: see here, he's one half of Max and Ivan.

That's fantastic, that is. I'm sure that, wherever he is, Dan Head shakes his damn head. He's Samoan, you know.

I just felt blessed that some of the twats I know weren't in charge of production - "Ledger was a blinding Joker" "I loved Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent"... "Nolan had better cast Megan Fox".

I wandered in, got my ego puff points, got my hetro card stamped, and then left before I got told the soggy biscuit story. I also ate ice cream - was a good night.

Don't know where to put this, or whether it's been posted before. Eric Stonestreet from Modern Family is going to punch the first person he sees.

And again..

My grandparents bought a static caravan down there when I was about 18 months old, in Ingoldmells, and I would think that I probably spent about 250 weekends there in the first 12 years of my life. They basically lived there weekends between March and October, and I spent a lot of those weekends with them.