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I thought the first 2 eps of season 16 of It's always sunny were really good. I like the show but I'm not a die hard fan like lots of people who watch it. For the last couple of seasons I was thinking it might be past its best but it feels like they've tried to make it a bit more like it used to be with these ones so far which is cool.

20 hours ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

Rolled my eyes twice at things that happened in the final act. 5/10

Still, there was a giant robot gorilla with Ron Perlman's voice so can't complain too much.

41 minutes ago, johnnyboy said:

why was Ariel singing along?!?! 

No idea, I haven't seen the original since 1990 at the cinema. I thought I wasn't even going to enjoy the reboot so when I started to like it I wasn't looking to nitpick. I'm certainly not a Disney adult, although I did think Cruella was 10/10, I really loved that one.

I watched The Little Mermaid yesterday afternoon to get out of the sun for a bit cos I'd been out in it all day, was surprised to find myself really liking it. The introduction to the undersea world looked incredible and the whole thing was pretty spectacular and "magical". Ariel was adorable and appropriately otherworldly. I forgot it was going to be a musical until Ariel broke into song suddenly, I could take or leave most of the songs (except under the sea obviously which is great).

2 minutes ago, Factotum said:

I thought the first 90 minutes were brilliant, then it sort of lost its way.

I actually complain all the time about films being too long but it worked for me on this one, it felt like I had been in the cinema forever when I came out but it did feel like I just experienced something. 

Anyone else seen Beau is afraid? I knew nothing going in, it's like a 3 hour unreliable narrator odyssey about an extremely anxious and neurotic guy but it felt more like 5 hours. Crazy film, I still don't know if I enjoyed it or even understood it all but I am thinking about it a fair bit.

5 minutes ago, SaitoRyo said:

I think the struggles of Sunny is an episode in and of itself. Maybe a two-parter. 

Absolutely could be, just thought they might not do it after already doing this one. 

1 hour ago, LCJ said:

Thought that was a decent episode. I highly recommend.

I think it could have done with a bit more on Sunny post candido's death. It made it look like the next thing that happened after he died was sunny going to prison when it was like 15 years of her continued decline between.

Watching the most emotionless man ever Lance Storm crying was tough.

I love PCO, being an indestructible Frankenstein is a rough gimmick for a guy in his 50s but it works so well for him. I normally find the Impact men's title scene pretty boring so I really enjoyed PCO's borderline death match antics at Under Siege. Would love to see Joe Hendry and Mike Bailey in the title picture.

I mainly watch impact for Deonna and Jordynne so I've been enjoying their feud and was great seeing it main event the last big show. Gutted to see Jordynne doing another "I keep losing" angle now though, it just doesn't suit her at all, prefer to see her dominating and full of energy like ultimate warrior. 

There was an NXT PLE yesterday as well which kind of went under the radar with all the other stuff this weekend. It was really enjoyable. Dijak v Dragunov was awesome. And 

Last ever episode of Barry tonight, fuck knows how they're going to wrap that up in half an hour.

I went to a preview of Hypnotic that Ben Affleck "inception type" thriller.

Not my fave genre but this was enjoyable enough nonsense, felt a bit dated though. Less than 90 mins long too which was refreshing, they should use that as a selling point in the marketing. Could see it was Robert Rodriguez if you knew but he was fairly restrained.

William Fichtner is always the same, nothing against him but he's not the most thrilling bad guy. Looking forward to seeing Jason Momoa as an outrageous heel in the new fast and furious.

Big George Foreman I'd never heard of this and was was surprised to see it showing at the cinema and surprised I bothered to see it. 

It was like a tv quality by the numbers sports biography but it was completely fine, informative enough and not boring. I suspected halfway through it might be one of those inspiring Christian type films cos it gets very Jesusy. 

I really liked the casting of Muhammad Ali, he was this dude Sullivan Jones 

6 minutes ago, Chest Rockwell said:

Was that the exhibition in London that was around Shoreditch-y kinda way? I went to that with my mum. I think he had a bit of a boost in popularity around that time because he did the art for Offspring's Americana album. 

Definitely would have been that one, he was showing new figurines he had started working on before vinyl art toys took off which was what he moved into in his later career, I believe he was one of the top guys at kidrobot in the end.

6 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

Had to Google him but I recognised tons of the stuff that came up, a very distinctive style and surely anyone of a certain age into alternative rock has seen his stuff. 

Yeah he was pretty much the poster artist of the 90s US alternative scene but he kept adapting and was still doing loads of stuff (mainly in vinyl art toys as I mentioned above). 

Very prolific pop artist Frank Kozik has died, I was a pretty big fan, I went to an exhibition of his pushing 20 years ago and still have a cool signed piece I got.

I say it every time someone brings up Congo but it's one of my worst films ever. 

Spoilers: I only saw it once when it came out but from what I remember the "heroes" go to a hidden colony of badass gorillas to get some special diamond, kill all the gorillas then don't keep the diamond at the end anyway. Pretty shit for a young gorilla fan such as I was. Best gorilla film is Kong Skull island (although King Kong isn't really a gorilla, he's a monster that resembles a giant gorilla)

21 minutes ago, RIDDUM_N_STYLE said:

While we’re keeping on the PR subject, the 30th anniversary episode/movie that Netflix released a couple of weeks back 

Are Bulk and Skull in it? 

46 minutes ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

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Absolutely didn’t see that coming. King of the heel turn is Noho, especially after raving about his joy only weeks ago.

 

How about that most recent episode of Barry though 

I didn't like infinity pool at all. Imaginative of David Cronenberg's son to make a "weird horror", must have been really hard for him to get it greenlit. Only thing I enjoyed was some of the gore and nudity and that wasn't even all that. Actually I liked Mia Goth, I've never seen her in anything and I can see what the fuss is about.

Genuinely enjoyed that mummies cartoon like 5 times as much.

Josephus was awesome

Music writer/journalist/Art of Noise bloke Paul Morley shopping in my Aldi. Seen as a talking head on many music programmes. 

Not as famous as Matt Smith 

On 4/26/2023 at 10:42 AM, theringmaster said:

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Just saw Aliens at my local odeon, showing for "alien day" or something. Was a real treat to see it on the big screen I tell you hwat. I was wondering which version it would be before it started - was the director's cut.

The hardest part of seeing an old film you haven't seen for ages is now being older than all the characters like 10 years younger than me Paul Reiser.