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4 hours ago, Just Some Guy said:

Are they still only allowed to show the BBFC version? Patricia Arquette should shoot & kill one of the cops in the final shoot-out.

The BBFC insisted the scene was re-cut so that the cop was killed by one of the gangsters.

Oh interesting! I'm not sure what specific version we watched, they're usually running off blu-rays, but that scene was defintiely the BBFC cut where one of the gangsters takes him out. Just watched the original cut of that scene on youtube and it's definitely a better moment.

True Romance was my pick for this month's trip to the local small-screen cinema. Never seen it before and had a blast with it for the most part. It's very written by Quentin Tarantino both complimentary (memorable characters & funny dialogue) and derogatory (bafflingly racist at points) but the movie is just jam-packed full of different guys you love to see. Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, Christopher Walken, Brad Pitt, Samuel L. Jackson, and James Gandolfini all pop in for a cup of coffee as well as Val Kilmer (who I didn't clock until the credits) playing an imaginary Elvis Presley.

Only seen Christian Slater & Patricia Arquette in a couple of things before this but they're both fantastic fun. I've only seen a couple of Tony Scott movies before this (Top Gun and The Taking of Pelham 123) and I really need to get on watching a bunch more because it's always a great time.

All of BobbyBroccoli's videos are great. Jon Bois for people too dull to care about sports

56 minutes ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said:

Nice to hear what Nicola Sturgeon called the various Tory ministers

Boris Johnson - a fucking clown

Matt Hancock - as weak as nuns piss

Liz Truss - as useful as a marzipan dildo

Suella Braverman - shitler. 

Keep the motorhome Nicola. 

I'm now watching the Channel 4 programme about the Miners Strike to really make my blood boil. 

The "fucking clown" comment looks legit, but I think the rest were from a parody news account that people have run wild with unfortunately.

I think we're all discounting the real money move - signs with WWE, TKO buy All Japan, Okada the new ace of WWE All Japan

Ah shame, it's the trial & error stuff I really loved about it. Being able to go again and again until I felt like everything came together and nailed it. I think it's the closest I've come to the feeling I had playing Super Meat Boy (one of my Top 10 all-time games). 

If you're looking for a Mirror's Edge fix I highly recommend Ghostrunner. It has some fiddly puzzle bits that break the fun flow but all the parkour stuff is fantastic. You can get a sense of how it plays from the gameplay trailer 

12 hours ago, gmoney said:

Astounding telly that. Can't fault anyone who hated it, but I adored the whole thing. 

I enjoyed the series but that finale hit so well for me - I was watching it at gone midnight, intending to maybe watch half and then go to bed but I couldn't look away. One of the tensest, most arresting things I've seen on telly in ages. Expected it to be marmite, but pleasantly surprised by how many people I've seen praise it.

4 hours ago, JLM said:

whatever those boxes full of production gear are called.

Those are called flight cases!

Did a load of work with Jagex back in my gaming event days, putting on RuneFest for them. They're by and large lovely to work with, a lot of my industry friends have done spells there and only have good things to say.

I dropped the money for a Lifetime Membership to my local indie cinema, meaning I get one free ticket a month and 20% off any others.

This month I'm going to see one of my favourite movies, Ghost in the Shell, on the big screen surrounded by other nerds. Can't wait.

For a recent one, Bottoms has given almost anything else I've watched this year a run for its money. Marshawn Lynch's turn as Mr. G is a performance that's going to stick in my head for ages.

But I'm going to throw The Birdcage into the ring. Robin Williams and Nathan Lane are absolutely fantastic in this, playing off each other really well.

Some real heart to it, but it's rammed full of memorable lines & moments. Could watch this every week for the rest of my life and still find it funny.

3 hours ago, Bicurious Dad said:

Yeah this is a hobby that can escalate quickly. I picked up a brush 2 years ago now after a 20+ year gap - although I enjoy the game element it’s the painting I love the most. Good Therapy for the most part, but definitely one for the dull pile.

 Links because I can’t figure out how to embed pics from instagram.

Like the old man that I am.

The shield on that Sigvald is unbelievable!

I collect and paint Warhammer miniatures. Started it as a bit of fun with workmates and now I've got expensive brushes, two different types of palettes, and I'm trying to get good enough to enter painting competitions. I don't even play the tabletop game, just spend my weekends hunched over my second table. This is my latest, took me hours and I've got 19 more identical to this to go.

I'm an absolute sucker for Joanna Newsom. Stumbled onto her music at a really formative time in my life and fell in love, it was just so different from anything I'd ever heard before.

Even now, almost 20 years on if I'm having a bad day I throw on her albums, or a live recording and it sets my head straight.
 

I was dragged to the Eras Tour in cinemas by my wife. I've liked Taylor on and off but at the time I was very much off and work gets horrendous this time of year so I was not in the mood to go sit and watch a very long recorded concert. It's exactly as you described though, and by a third of the way through I was buzzing and even enjoying entire albums of hers that I usually can't stand. Might be the best thing I saw at the cinema this year.

I'll second the Death Stranding love. It's my favourite Kojima game by a mile, and I really love the take on asynchronous multiplayer by having other people's structures show up in your world - does a lot to land the feeling of connection and helping others to rebuild a society in the wake of apocalypse. Played it on PS4 then bought the Director's Cut on PC just to do it all again, I think it might actually be the best game ever made.

Yeah, I'm right at the edge of it feeling affordable/worthwhile so I'll hold out 'til the end of the month and see what our money looks like/if they get a price drop. I'd mistakenly thought they'd already done a Pro, but I guess that was just the Slim

Getting incredibly tempted to pick up a PS5, I'm done with my current batch of games and looking at the list of things I want to play and they're mostly timed exclusives (God of War, Spider-Man 2, FF16 & 7R next year). Thinking it might be nice to have a gaming setup that isn't also just my work from home setup, so I don't find myself tempted to alt-tab into Slack to see what the Americans are up to.

1 hour ago, Chili said:

ATM I'm still jobless after losing my job on Oct 27. Applied for miserable office jobs and delightfully heard naff all. Lovely for your confidence to not even get a shit job interview. Universal Credit will still not pay a penny until mid January. I got a gf over the summer and she lives in France so she flew me over there to take my mind off battering myself mentally for a few weeks. Now back in the UK, considering not even looking for work at the moment. The break might do me good though the lack of money and having to be extremely careful and frugal is obviously an arse. Just to update anyone who remembers my last check-in on this topic ❤️

I was unemployed for a few months a couple of years back and the lowest moment of it was applying for seasonal temp work at a Tesco Express and not even getting an interview. Ultimately glad they said no and I took that time to figure out what I really wanted to do (even if it meant a few months of counting my pennies and barely leaving the house) but at the time felt dogshit.

Hopefully things look better for you in the new year.

I'm glad it's releasing weekly because watching the first two episodes back to back was genuinely tough, just cringeing through so much of it (in a really positive way)

I, like many others, got really into the Cracking The Cryptic YouTube channel over lockdown. I got so into it that I joined their Discord where a group of people set a new sudoku every day with some benchmark solve times. Not only have I done them every day for 616 days straight, but I even keep track of my times (187 solved in the fastest benchmark time, 320 within the average benchmark, and 109 coming in over the benchmark times).

If Her Story appeals then I can't recommend Immortality enough. It's another Sam Barlow joint but really pushing this format about as far as it can go.

You're piecing together three films, including table reads, rehearsals, and other incidental video material - and uyou unlock new footage by selecting objects in the scene (faces, paintings, furniture, ashtrays etc) and getting a match cut to another piece of footage. Has some meta stuff pulling it all together but I could have spent hours without that just meticulously combing through footage and getting overjoyed when I found a clip I hadn't seen before. Truly fascinating game.

3 hours ago, Carbomb said:

D'oh. Just noticed that the Bellator logo is a stylised Roman centurion's helmet. Love that sort of cleverness in design.

Much nicer than PFL's "Esports Team logo we bought off Fiverr"

Not even remotely seasonal, I watched Asteroid City last night - my first time watching a Wes Anderson film somehow.

Thought the whole thing was really delightful. I'm probably missing a lot by not knowing Anderson's history as a director, but I still got a lot out of it's metanarrative approach. Recently been reading about the work of Bertolt Brecht so loved being able to tell my wife that it felt very Brechtian