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The Ambrose/Renee dynamic could be interesting but its told terribly.

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LIke all sketch comedy they had more misses then hits, but when it was good, it was very very good

Nah, all a lot of silly nonsense to me. Odd as with Life Of Brian and Holy Grail they made 2 absolutely brilliant films. I also like them all individually, Palin being the best obviously.

Monty Python were shit bar two films.

I think Nolan mentioned he drew on a lot of musicians as inspiration for the role so no doubt Waits probably played into it.

Isn't Tom Waits in Polar Express playing songs on top of the train? My Mum loves that film and its always a nice surprise that he pops up in it.

How long till we get people yet again apologising for his behavior? Everyone seems to skirt over the wife beating/abuse so I am sure this will be looked over when he starts crying on TV over Bobby Robson once again.

It was done the moment they fired Bryan. People felt deflated. Way to 'suspend disbelief'

He also couldn't be bloody arsed to even force change in the EU. He lazily attacked it, hyped up the fear to appeal to UKIP supporters and then put a referendum in the manifesto that he didn't even think he was going to have to honour. Coupled with austerity being proven to be an ideological choice rather than an actual necessity to cutting the deficit (which ones can also argue has contributed to the Brexit vote) means Cameron will go down as one of, if not THE, worst PM we've had since Chamberlain.

Smug wanker

I sympathise with you, but there was a lot of people saying what would happen. Gove's 'People are sick of the experts' line was the most telling. Too many people utterly ignored what was being said by people who warned what this would happen. I admire your honesty there, and I think a lot of people will be in your situation. Its why those like Farage don't want a second referendum, they know their lies can be proven wrong

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I'd be genuinely concerned in the event of an election that we'd get a Rees-Mogg/Johnson type

Rees-Mogg would never run. Johnson could, but chances are he's blown his chances at it. He keeps positioning himself but the majority of Tory MPs hate him and I imagine he would lose the first round of votes.

A new Government could mean a lot of things. Mainly it could reverse Article 50 with a majority vote, or delay the date of March. It could also call for a second referendum. Or, and most importantly, a majority government would be able to get its Brexit deal through. Right now it seems any plan May brings will be voted out leading to the No deal.

Didn't PTA basically sort of remake Rebecca with Phantom Thread? Which was class.

I find Wheatley gets a lot of props despite only directing one good film (Sightseers) and one semi ok one (Free Fire) The rest is pretty awful.

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I think the funny thing is, remainers and brexiters, who were divided by the original referendum are now all united at what a shit show this all is.

But the Brexiters are refusing to take any responsibility for this shit. I don't like May at all, but how they can pile on her when not a single one of them has come up with any alternative is laughable. They were never getting their idealised vision of Brexit because it doesn't fucking exist.

Anyway, she'll be gone in a week and an election will be coming up.

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Sidenote - I’m aware Landis eventually got outed as a shitty human being by the #MeToo movement and the way he went from super active on social media to dead silent was fascinating. Does anyone know what became of him? Is he still getting work as a writer?

He's still on Instagram and he's still getting a lot of writing work. The girl who played Batista in that video made an accusation about him on Twitter (not against her) but it seemed to go nowhere, just a few people going 'Oh I've heard stuff' so most people moved on as nobody actually knew anything.

I really liked Brigsby Bear. Kyle Mooney is really good in it. Its such an odd story really but it manages to enthuse itself with some real heart.

I took a bet on Fulham going down at the start if the season just because of the amount of player they had purchased. It sort of stunk of QPR syndrome (without the stupid wages)

Anyway, everyone loves Ranieri. Great to have him back.

Ha 98 complaints for saying Cunt. These days he would get that many for calling Jordan 'It'

You can add that Bumblebee movie in as well. I care nothing for Transformers and all those films. Then that trailer dropped and it looked like The Iron Giant crossed with E.T.

That Detective Pikachu trailer is probably the best example of a film going from 'why are they doing this shit?' to 'Holy crap that looks fun!'

Well that's why he was fired wasn't it? To be honest though the show is rubbish without him. Bring back Dickinson to liven it up

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Oh, wow. I’d never even considered that, but that’s a really great idea. If Becky has to lose on Sunday then the best finish by far is her refusing to tap out, only for the ref to ring the bell when her arm, “snaps.” 

You can start building the Ronda/Charlotte match but have Becky just constantly show up raising hell with her arm in a cast. The 'I never lost' the ref stopped it would be utterly great for her.

Oh Becky. She's utterly on fire. The Austin parallels are there and they should lean into that with the match against Ronda. You can basically rip off the Bret/Austin match and leave Becky looking incredibly strong despite not pinning Ronda. But man, if she does beat her (shady means etc.) then what a story you can build to Mania with these two.

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Judging by how close the EU referendum was it would seem it was the correct call to hold that vote, regardless of how it came about.

You cannot hold a simple YES/NO referendum on EU membership. As the last 2 years have shown, its far too complicated a situation. You're not even voting on a deal, you're voting on an emotion. There was no counter plan as to what leaving the EU would involve.

Cameron could have forced some EU concessions on a number of things, fact is he couldn't be arsed and decided to slag it off so as to court UKIP voters and then that kicked him in the arse.

Oh I agree. I'm not an AV fan. I do think PR should be looked into properly, but the fact is no sitting Government will ever go for it.

True. I suppose I meant it was barely debated. The merits of PR were just ignored by a Tory Government who were determined to fuck it off. If I remember correctly, didn't Brown offer PR to the Lib Dems if they went in coalition with Labour?

Just watched it. What an ending.