To finish the night of I've gone for Rocky, nostalgic times.
To finish the night of I've gone for Rocky, nostalgic times.
Most of it is just people whining in rooms though, which doesn't provide what I'm looking for. Not enough cattle theft or horizons.Originally Posted by Spikey M
Dr K was once declared an alcoholic for sipping 250ml's or red wine a day from his sports bottle. This is THE middle class soap. These are your people.
Why was he hiding just 250ml? Was it just the one bottle/250ml a day? That's just a glass.
Mark Brennan had an afternoon on the booze this week and his siblings staged an intervention.
He was a keen cyclist and had to be suitably aerodynamic.
I need to get back involved. Start the fred Lou Bear.
Who else watched it? Me, you, Pongo, Alex... I want to say John but surely he never liked something.
I watched it with my gran. Whizz made about eight posts a day about it. He was the top poster in that thread by miles.
I used to watch it.
I'm a twit
I was a Home and Away kid. The day Alf got ran over was the day I stopped caring.
Watched fighting with my family last night, I thought it was surprisingly good.
Stopped caring? That's some devotion.
I watched Neighbours at 5:30 and then Home and Away at 6:00 when I was a kid. I started watching again briefly at University because everyone else was.
Yep, the closing credits a strong theme from my childhood as it was on just before my mum watched the 6 o'clock news, which in those days was usually centred around the Bosnian war or Northern Ireland.
Fucking get in
Alf carried that show. Being hit by a car going 31 in a 30 zone did him in. He wasn't the same man.
It was an amazing joke where 'stopped caring' meant stopped travelling by car, but I'm too brilliant for you all.
Watched Rocketman tonight. It's good, just, but suffers from Elton John as a person not being anywhere near as interesting as his music is enjoyable and a film revolving around him isn't really warranted as a result.
Mamma Mia is better.
I saw Joker today. It borrows quite a bit in terms of..... theme or tone, I guess, from a number of other films like Taxi Driver and while it probably tries to tie more into Batman stuff than it needs to it works through the performance of Phoenix and it's a perfectly serviceable Joker origin on a comics-y front. I liked it a lot but I dunno if it's one I'd bother to watch again.
And I guess a lot of people will say that it is only negative toward mental health stuff but I don't know enough about that to really know where I stand on it. I'll be interested to see if they do any follow-ups because I've seen enough saying that's not the plan. But who even knows how DC films work any more.
Sunday again. After last weeks success has anyone got another film to recommend? Netflix or Prime, I don't mind renting from Prime either.
I went to see Ad Astra last night. I thought it was pretty crap.
The Founder is god if it's still on Prime.
Joker is wank.
Go on....
It tries too hard to be serious and just ends up being boring. I don't think Joaquin Phoenix is that good in it either. He just gurns and laughs a bit.
Few reviews that the Breaking Bad film was the film no one asked for.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/el_...king_bad_movie
Seems like it's doing alright.
I hated Joker on just about every level. It is absolutely unrelentingly bleak and joyless, and at the end of it, you're expected to cheer for this gurning anti-anti-hero who is basically a murderous incel who has inspired all the absolute droogs in the society to rise up.
And that's before the actual issues I have with the film, which while feeling decidedly influenced by some of the darker issues within society at the moment, gives them a sympathetic ear and encourages you to side with them.
And then there's the mental health aspect. Why is it utterly impossible to give any villainous character a back story that doesn't revolve around childhood issues, and the likes? It feels like such an unhelpful trope that is always perpetuated. I found it uncomfortable.
I thought El Camino Was good. It felt like an extended Breaking Bad episode, which is a positive as far as I'm concerned. Was it really needed? Probably not. But I enjoyed it.
Should I finish Better Call Saul first or doesn’t it matter?
I'm a twit
It is a direct continuation from the end of Breaking Bad afaik, so I shouldn't have thought it matters.
Yeah it has nothing to do with Better Call Saul, which is still ongoing anyway.
The BBC have given it a 1 star review, so I wouldn't go rushing either way.
The trailer made it look shit, but I'll be watching it tonight because why not.
That BBC review is one of the biggest loads of shite I've ever read.
Did you read the supercunt in the Guardian giving Chernobyl a hard time for being a bit far fetched or something equally bonkers?
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...-disaster-epic
It's too confusing, guys. Everyone in the reactor wears the same uniforms. Can't follow it.
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That was a brilliant review.
She may as well have just said she's a bit thick.
El Camino was great. It's just a bit more BB but it's done really well. Doesn't have any supervillain/Heisenberg stuff (or, fucking Skylar) but it's pretty pitch perfect. If you like BB then you'll like it.
Spotlight is superb. Late, I know, but I found it tremendously sympathetic to the heavy subject matter, it was never over-acted at all and casted extremely well, and it was – for once – a relatively accurate portrayal of life in a newsroom. Loved every second of it. I was engrossed.
El Camino was bang average/just about good.
Yeah its excellent, as is tom McCarthy generally. The station agent and win win are both get and worth watching as well.
Does SNL make anything funny?
I've just found out about The Irishman.
Not often but that’s one of their better ones.
Getting great reviews as well when I was half convinced it was going to be rubbish.I've just found out about The Irishman.
Did I read somewhere that it was a straight to Netflix job? I’d seen some awful looking ageing special effects, they really need to stop doing that.
It's getting a short cinema run at the start of November, then straight to Netflix at the end of November.
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