Keith Houchen

https://apnews.com/928c10ea552641c3ab3a06490e68e674

Suge Knight agrees to nearly 30 years in prison.  If that's a good deal, what was he going to get?  Can't see someone with his health problems and enemies living that long anyway.

2 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

but I'm going to cheat a little bit and swerve on over to Hotel Hell

Not cheating.  This is a catch all thread.

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/ramsays-kitchen-nightmares Have at it, you wankers.

Just now, tiger_rick said:

I loved the UK Kitchen Nightmares but I've never dared watch the yank version because their reality TV shows are just so fucking cringey. Is it good?

Yeah, it's well skill.  Does that thing of showing what's coming up after the break before an ad break, then recapping what happened before the break when they return but it's ace.

2 minutes ago, Porkchopcash said:

Thought this was going to be related to Neighbours! Was looking forward to Henrys best bits.

There always has to be a Mona, doesn't there.  He's no Grant Mitchell.

(Double post because that joke deserves it)

1 minute ago, Chest Rockwell said:

Ramsay's YouTube video on how to cut an onion properly changed my life. Big props

 

 

""Three fingers, one in front, two behind" properly changed my life too.  Amirite ladies?

WTF is that big bowl of SHUT YER FACE?

In honour of my new avatar, and at the behest of Chest.  Lets talk RAMSAY!!!

Kitchen Nightmares is the shit.  Yes it's the same thing every week but by god it's entertaining.  Amy and her dodgy husband were the best episode they've had.  It was on today so I rewatched it, recorded it, and then went down a Youtube rabbit hole.  I also learned how Sami was meant to be getting deported because of his dodgy past and speaking of dodgy pasts, Amy wasn't always Amy.  She was Amanda and did a year in the big house for using someone's social security number to get a 15k loan.

She is the sort who would fuck you to death, then feast on your still quivering corpse.  The way her eyes narrow for a split second tells you that she already has thought of 4 ways to kill you.

Let's talk Kitchen Nightmares and Hell's Kitchen.  Don't bother if you're a weepy, fat tongue poor people hating healthy mockney.  You aren't fit to clean Chef Christina's glasses.

1 hour ago, BomberPat said:

In fact, fuck Batman in general. 

Reg is right.

HAHA!!!!

Come on @Onyx2, you can't leave us hanging after that tear jerker!!

9 minutes ago, Scott Malbranque said:

Johnny English Strikes Again is funny.

 

 

I was interested in this but "No Pike, No Like" for Kool Keith.

Those actions were done in the name of the nation, not just by a random lone wolf.  I'll use Churchill as an example.  His genocidal racism was his personal viewpoint, but all the politicians and people who voted him in share in the collective responsibility of the death of millions, he takes the blame of course, but because it was done in the name of the country, it's different to him just going rogue.  And those of us living here are benefiting from that.

I guess you can say the same about Tony Blair.

But that's the difference, isn't it?  The actions of individuals against the actions of a nation.  

We absolutely should be ashamed of the colonial past.  It's not about personal shame but a collective acknowledgment that the wealth and prosperity of this nation is built on a murderous and thieving past, and recognising that our privileged position owes it to that.

I'd rather see great roles written for 70 year olds, but that's a bloody huge ask.

Steve thought it was a bit backward.

Poo PR more like!!!!!

Part 382 of how Marvel are ruining cinema.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/sep/19/captain-marvel-digital-deageing-samuel-l-jackson?CMP=twt_a-film_b-gdnfilm

Marvel’s habit of de-ageing its veteran Hollywood stars is now something of an obsession. First, in 2016, there was Robert Downey Jr as a slightly weird-looking teenage version of Tony Stark in flashback scenes from Captain America: Civil War. Then there was 1970s, Bee Gee-barneted Kurt Russell in last year’s Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2. And this week we saw the debut trailer for next March’s Captain Marvel, featuring a version of Samuel L Jackson’s Nick Fury restored to his 1990s prime for the period-set superhero epic.

Marvel simply cannot resist flinging a paint-bucketful of pixels over any actor over 55, like a kid messing around on Photoshop. Prior to Captain Marvel, the technology has been used primarily for flashback scenes, which are often so stylised and filtered to distinguish them from the “present day” that the faces’ washed-out glaze barely matters. In Captain Marvel, however, Jackson reportedly appears as his younger self for the entire movie.

If Marvel falls short on even a few seconds of rendered footage, the experience could be highly distracting. But if the studio gets it right, there is potential for further “flashback” movies to follow: After being de-aged for scenes in Ant-Man and recent sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp, Michael Douglas has already said he would be keen to return as “young” Hank Pym. It is hard to imagine that Harrison Ford would not sign up in a heartbeat to return as digitally de-aged Han Solo, and even harder to imagine a scenario in which any such movie, decently realised, would not fare better with audiences than Solo: A Star Wars Story. The reaction to Ron Howard’s film made it very clear that Ford is the only space scoundrel anyone really cares about.

Jackson may well be a better test subject. Most of us don’t know how he looked or sounded in his perky youth: he only rose to stardom in his mid-40s. And Jackson has aged well, his looks and voice changing only subtly.

By contrast, one imagines Douglas’s hopes of starring as a young Pym might suffer from the fact that he simply looks and sounds very different to the way he did in the 1980s – as is perfectly natural. Marvel would have to go some way to capture the charisma and youthful vigour of Douglas in Romancing the Stone. It might even need to develop new tech to de-age voices.

There are other issues. Audiences may enjoy short bursts of their favourite stars restored to their peppy youth, but will they sit through an entire movie centred on an actor who has been plunged into the digital fountain of youth? Can an actor exude sex appeal if we know they are a lot more wrinkly than they appear?

Marvel, like Lucasfilm with its resurrection of Peter Cushing for Star Wars: Rogue One, has been using “ghosting” tech – loosely the superimposing of a famous older actor’s features over those of a younger actor performing in mo-cap – to achieve its results. The prospect of sex scenes using such techniques is icky to say the least.

Perhaps what Hollywood really requires is the development of a new “suspension of disbelief” technique – a mind-altering substance drizzled over audiences as they enter multiplexes to ensure they do not question the dubious reality before them. Move over Smellovision, the era of “Sprayovision” awaits …

Congrats to Astro for getting his work on the stage in Croydon.

23 minutes ago, Richard said:

Probably going to catch some flack for this one but, cheese boards. Cheese in general, cheese culture. Just the entirety of it. Overly pretentious nonsense.

Thank fuck the board doesn't have a downvote option anymore. 

Yeah, I hate cheese.  It ruins everything.

55 minutes ago, tiger_rick said:

I didn't watch Raw or Smackdown. I still care and have an opinion though. Anyone who doesn't like that is quite welcome to go fuck themselves.

WWE has been a product you have to pick the bits you like from for years. Can't blame anyone who still finds enough in there to continue watching.

 

What people do with their own time is none of my business.  When I don't like a TV show, I stop watching.  Sure, Phil Mitchell on crack was art, but I don't watch Eastenders for when he is on screen.  If people record and skip through 5 hours of TV and like a 5 minute part of it, good on 'em.  They've got a level of dedication I couldn't subscribe to.

6 minutes ago, TildeGuy~! said:

I don’t watch WWE anymore, 

It isn’t the be all and end all of wrestling, there is so much more to choose from nowadays, sure I keep up with the results but all I need to do is read them and know I don’t want to watch, for me New Japan is where it’s at now.

That's what get's me.  The accessibility to Wrestling has never been better, yet people still watch WWE week in week out despite hating it.  Stop watching it then, chumps.

3 minutes ago, Zaheer said:

Sometimes I genuinely feel I'm the only person on this forum that enjoys watching wrestling.

 

 

You mean you don't like the weekly "Here is where Vince is going wrong, I'll watch next week to point out where he went wrong again" posts?

1 hour ago, Mr_Danger said:

I know you're only vaguely alluding to something there but if I watch the film now and try to figure out where it's going you've eliminated one option for me to guess at.

Yeah, hate shit like that and "The twist was great"  Fuck off.

I Kill Giants.  Really sweet film about a sensitive subject, handled it really well.  Great performances and worth 2 hours of your time.  I'm told it captured the comic really well.