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1 hour ago, Devon Malcolm said:

I'm thinking more from the point of view of having to keep living here, next door to a property he owns and more or less over another one. Legally, sure, I could probably claim a victory but a year of getting the side-eye from him, the people who work for him, his family and the many friends round here. I'm not built to cope with that shit anymore, I just want a quiet life.

When you put it like that, sack it off. Quiet life not having to deal with people trumps everything else. 

1 hour ago, Devon Malcolm said:

We had the BHF come round but they wouldn't take the sofas as they're too heavy and access to the flat was via fire escape stairs, so they deemed it a health and safety issue.

Landlord is claiming all our deposit though, I just discovered, so I might just leave it and block him on my phone. Can't avoid him entirely when I only moved next door but I can give it a shot.

If your deposit is in the protection scheme, which it should be, just dispute it. Means the landlord has to justify every penny they are trying to charge, which is always fun. It's very little hassle to do and one of the few systems that is on the tenants side. 

Nick Khan is a non wrestling business man. The second Punk starts whinging he'll get HR to send a letter and put him on a performance review. 

1 hour ago, quote the raven said:

Jackson had no interest in doing the hobbit, i believe they more or less said if you dont we will find someone that will. 

 

I always thought it was linked to his lawsuit against New Line? They had hidden all the profits from the Lord of The Ring's films through Hollywood accounting so none of the cast got any royalties and Jackson never got a percentage from them (apparently worth over $100m) His lawsuit requested a full audit of New Line and the way they sold rights internally (essentially selling rights for $0 from one company they own to another. Hollywood hates audits and this led to New Line saying they would never work with Jackson again. At the same Tolkien's family were taking them to court for the same thing and trying to block them making The Hobbit. New Line settled out of court with them both and within a year Jackson was back working on the Hobbit films. I'd be shocked if it wasn't a case of 'Here's your money if you settle and make 3 more films'

If Ladbaby split up does that mean no more videos or double the amount?

2 hours ago, Loki said:

These films are only releasing in theatres to be eligible for the Oscars, right?  No bugger is going to the cinema to watch a film that’s on streaming.

I’m 100% going to the cinema to see the Knives Out sequel before it goes to Netflix. 

Films have become disposable media. There used to be an urgency about going to see a film while it was available in the cinema. Originally there was a chance you'd never see it again, then with home video you'd have to wait at least a year before you even got a chance of getting it on VHS, another year for you to be able to own it and probably another year after that before it would come to TV. Imagine waiting 3-4 years to see a film again when you can view it in 40 days now. The romance of viewing films in the cinema is ending with our generation. It's now the norm to watch at home, 

Netflix have to make their own content because everyone ring fenced the content they own. Disney never really licenced out their stuff but now they own the Fox content they aren't giving anyone else the good stuff, Amazon own MGMs back catalogue, Warner Brothers keeps trying to make their streaming platform a thing. Meanwhile the stuff available to Netflix shrinks and shrinks as their licences expire.

I know it all seems shit at the minute but just wait. We're in the middle of a bubble and it'll get worse. Netflix has never made a profit, is billions in debt and its subscriber count is now dropping for the first time. Something drastic will change for them.

Disney are releasing a free ad based level to their service, which is usually the first step in the paid tier increasing. They are desperate to increase their day and date prices and as soon as people are willing to pay £20 to watch at home in the quantities they need they'll stop giving a shit about the cinema experience

1 minute ago, alanchiz said:

Exactly, it worked great there.

Maybe they should have just left it in the comics.

So it has no place in the 'real' mcu,  apart when that time where they did it and it worked great? 

5 minutes ago, alanchiz said:

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Im standing my ground on the 4th wall stuff though, its out of place here. Your making reference to the comics, and you are right about that, but this is a different medium and different format. 

 

I liked it a lot more than I thought I would and the CGI was far better than I expected. There is a hint of uncanny Valley with She Hulk but that's more to do with her having more human features than Hulk.

1 hour ago, alanchiz said:

Im still not decided on She-Hulk yet to be honest...

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 Also, the 4th wall breaks annoyed me. Ive heard since that its a thing from the comics, but that doesnt mean it needs shoehorned in. Weve already established the supposed Marvel world, and that it's 'real', so who is she talking to? Leave that stuff to Deadpool.

Also, the ending annoyed me. Her cousin spent years on the run hiding his identity, presumably to avoid getting chopped up by the US army and avoid killing innocents. But she drops her identity at the drop of a hat, just because someone burst through the wall like the Kool-Aid man from Family Guy. I dont think she was even after She-Hulk as no-one is supposed to know who she is, or that she even exists.

 

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17 minutes ago, hallicks said:

Youngest decided to try and swing from the curtains at my aunts house, pulling the curtain pole fixture off the wall. It looks like it was just screwed into the plasterboard. What’s a quick fix for this? Could I put polyfilla in the holes with the old fixture and set it back in place like that? 

You can get plug-fix polyfilla which is a stronger finish (closer to wood filler). Get the old rawlplugs out, clean the hole, fill it and re-drill the hole

30 minutes ago, DavidB6937 said:

Weekly "fucking hell Better Call Saul is incredible" post.

One left 😭

All the awards for everyone involved. Kims breakdown on the bus (along with everything she did in the episode) was just amazing. 

That was my biggest problem with Lightyear. It was supposed to be the big franchise blockbuster from the 90s that Andy saw. Its should have looked like a 90s blockbuster and gone the Galaxy Quest route.

There should have been janky stop motion looking alien monsters, 90s aesthetics and OTT action. Instead we got Interseller lite for kids. 

It was fine but could have been so much more. 

On 8/6/2022 at 3:29 PM, WyattSheepMask said:

How does this Netflix one compare to the HBO* doc from last year? More of the same? Or companion piece?

* I’m assuming that’s the one you mean @chokeout?

Companion piece. There’s a lot of crossover from what I remember, although the  HBO one used a lot more footage from people at the event, rather than the Netflix one using (what I’m assuming was rushes from) MTV. Which explains why the Miz pops up in the very first shot. 
 

The HBO one had a bit more balance and doesn’t ignore the acts they could get clearance for. Mentioning that Korn riled the crowd up but no mention that ICP, Megadeth or Metallica had similar crowds. In fact I think the guy that died happened during Metallica in the pit. I mean Rage Against the Machine followed Limp Bizkit, they even use their song in the Netflix doc but never mention they were there which is very odd. 

I'm sure there was another documentary about Woodstock recently that mentioned the 3 deaths (none in suspicious circumstances) and that there was a LOT more sexual assaults than they mentioned in this one. Not sure if it was brushed over because they managed to get the organisers involved but it was a proper shit show of an event. They essentially managed to host a frat party for 250,000 people. Just a failure at every level. 

Alien vs Predator 

Predators is a love letter to the first movie and is ace. It also has Walton Goggins and is therefore superior to Predator 2 

Don't get me wrong, I love predator 2, it made my brother throw up when he saw it so will always hold a special place in my heart because I get to mention it to him as much as I can. 

1 hour ago, King Coconut said:

What's your second?

Predators

The code is 

Predator, predators, prey, predator 2. 

And that's it. No other films exist with the Predator after that. 

Prey is the third best Predator film. Good lead, theres a dog in it and some great action. 4 fanny faced aliens out of 5.

On 7/3/2022 at 1:49 PM, chokeout said:

 

 

One month on from this... 

Averaging about 8foot tall. (the dwarf ones are all about 3 foot) 

*ignore the untidy grass and lack of colour, it's getting a face-lift on the weekend. 

Regal being gold and if anyone says they could see how this interview would end then they're liars. 

The mental gymnastics they end up doing to fit Tokyo Drift into a timeline is hilarious. 

There was 2 killer lines from it that had me laughing

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If this group was any whiter, Jericho's wife would storm the Capitol with it

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How are you supposed to be republican if you can't even keep the Mexicans out of Charlotte?

Not that we need an excuse to rewatch it but it's 50 years this week since Deliverance was first released, a film that did for rural people what Jaws did for sharks. 

Superb casting (let's not forget Ronnie Cox was in stuff before he became the baddie in every 80s film) an actual good performance out of a motivated Burt Reynolds and in between all the bits that people remember, a beautifully made film. 

Boorman never really lived up to the first 5 years of his Hollywood career with Point Blank, Hell in The Pacific and Deliverance all being heavily ripped off, even to this day, but going on to make the god awful Exorcist sequel and Zardoz would have sunk pretty much anyone. He also tried his best to kill the cast of Deliverance by making them do their own stunts in an uninsured production. It's madness seeing Burt Reynolds go over the side of a waterfall or Jon Voight scaling a rock face to save a few quid. 

Adam Cole is a catchphrase dragging an undersized bag of meat. He's not been missed.