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Yup facts and intelligent comments aren't welcome around these parts, I've gathered that. Ahh, so that's why you've avoided using them See again this is what I'm told splits sides around these parts. (It does go down well though, I agree) While not quite up there with some of the florid descriptions of a good shit, it did raise a titter.

Haven't had your hole for a month She's got some warped idea that if we don't have it for ages it'll be even more amazing than normal. Was tearing my hair out the other day and went to take whats rightfully mine but turns out she had the decorators in so I'm still in limbo! Balls like water melons. Blatantly getting a portion elsewhere tbh.

Shame this has come at the end of the season, "Quit yo jibba jabba" would ring around stadiums all season if it had been timed better.

Yup facts and intelligent comments aren't welcome around these parts, I've gathered that. Not to the exclusion of a GSOH, no.

Bring it back tbh. Fop wins hands down this week.

Sex tape of hers floating around somewhere

Agreed. John Hughes should be held in as high regard as Scorsese & Spielberg. No-one's made a better run of films than: The Breakfast Club (1985) Weird Science (1985) Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987) Genius.

Sure it wasn't 'Inside men' you've been watching You tit I can see where he'd get that idea. Sounds like a film James Dean would have enjoyed. Allegedly.

Martha Wainwright

I thought the Beardsley talk in was next Wednesday? Might have been a corporate do or something. He got shown around the changing rooms and that.

Move to block emissions 'swindle' DVD http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatec...2064925,00.html

Wacky Jnr, another Messianic figure.

Can't believe Solano still hasn't been renewed.

Anyone else go to the Beardsley chat at St James' last night? My cousin was there. Beardsley says both Sidwell and Distin are almost done deals.

See, this is what I'm talking about. http://www.toontastic.net/forum/index.php?...=12502&st=0

Not much, just doing a few reviews/articles. It's all HTT's baby.

More than likely so don't read it. And they say there's no bullying.

Even without the Van Nistelrooy picture? Wow!

What's a maguffin? And I disagree. It's the central point of the movie. It's a plot device used to hang your story off that's not actually very important in the scheme of things. Like the Maltese Falcon for example. We don't give a toss about the statue, just the people chasing it. Similarly the breifcase in Pulp fiction, which goes so far as to not bother telling you what's even inside. The Matrix of The Matrix is ostensibly more integral to the plot but in the grand scheme of things it's just like alice's wonderland or the fantasy underworld of Pans Labyrinth, an imagined place for the characters to go and have their adventures. Not at all. The Matrix and the limits it imposes is essential to the story. It's nothing like as uninvolved as the Maltese Falcon. That's why I said it's "almost" a maguffin. My point was, it's just another imaginary world like the land of Oz. Doesn't matter where or how these places exist, just an age old storytelling tool to take the characters out of normality so they can strive to get back.

What's a maguffin? And I disagree. It's the central point of the movie. It's a plot device used to hang your story off that's not actually very important in the scheme of things. Like the Maltese Falcon for example. We don't give a toss about the statue, just the people chasing it. Similarly the breifcase in Pulp fiction, which goes so far as to not bother telling you what's even inside. The Matrix of The Matrix is ostensibly more integral to the plot but in the grand scheme of things it's just like alice's wonderland or the fantasy underworld of Pans Labyrinth, an imagined place for the characters to go and have their adventures.

Well...not really, because those characters are in no way singled out as special. Anyway, iirc the fact that 'humanity' are unaware that life is a simulation in the Matrix is as insignificant as to almost be a Maguffin.

Sounds like Tron to me. Not really. In Tron they know they are in a virtual reality. And it was annoying as shit to watch, I still don't think I've sat all the way through it. Do they not in the Matrix like? You're basically claiming it's hugely original because no-one's made a film called the matrix about the Matrix. Tron, Superman, Ghost In The shell and any other film that shares the same themes are disregarded by you because they aren't identical. Oasis don't play all the same notes in the same order, but they've lived off the Beatles for 7(?) albums. I don't think there's anyone alive who at the age of five didn't look at their hand and think "I wonder if that's really there" or look in the mirror and think "is that what other people see" or look at blue and think "I wonder if other people see pink". There's nothing original about the ideas in the film. Superman? You've lost me there. The idea that the simulation is unknown to the masses is central to the Matrix, nothing like what occurs in Tron. I think you've generalised originality in the same way Alex did. RE superman - The christ figure, the one, saviour of humanity.

Sounds like Tron to me. Not really. In Tron they know they are in a virtual reality. And it was annoying as shit to watch, I still don't think I've sat all the way through it. Do they not in the Matrix like? You're basically claiming it's hugely original because no-one's made a film called the matrix about the Matrix. Tron, Superman, Ghost In The shell and any other film that shares the same themes are disregarded by you because they aren't identical. Oasis don't play all the same notes in the same order, but they've lived off the Beatles for 7(?) albums. I don't think there's anyone alive who at the age of five didn't look at their hand and think "I wonder if that's really there" or look in the mirror and think "is that what other people see" or look at blue and think "I wonder if other people see pink". There's nothing original about the ideas in the film.

Sounds like Tron to me.

That's the kind of over the top bollocks I was on about. I guarantee you're in the minority in the wider world of film lovers. It was gorund-breaking in terms of story and effects. In terms of story it wasn't. Nor in terms of effects either tbh. Time slice was an old technique that they (all credit due) modernised to capture a moving body to create bullet time. So the film makers came up with a single new technique that isn't really usable by other film-makers because it's too showy and too tied up with the matrix to come across as anything but an already cliched rip-off.