The Fish

They're just types of sword, don't we all know things but we don't know why we know the things we know? Y'know? Look, I don't know how this shit takes up space in my brain when I honestly cannot remember my own mother's birthday despite it happening on the same date the past 36yrs of my life, but they're in there like an old wifi password, or the commentary from the 5-0 over Man Utd. They're in here and there's nowt I can do about it. It's like when you move house and you find a whole box full of plates you didn't remember ever buying/receiving, or when a new manager takes over and sees Haris Vuckic still on the books. Except I can't get rid of it. I'm burdened by knowing useless shit.

Avengers 2 was average at best, and yeah, the action scenes were mostly pony, though I did enjoy Hulk vs Iron Man set piece. I know the fight scenes didn't have to be perfect, but they were just poor. Those aren't techniques, just types of sword/dagger. Trying to think of a good example of a sword fight from a recent movie and can only come up with the big Lightsabre fight in the 1st of the awful prequels. Game of Thrones is a good example of choreographed sword fights adding to the story, rather than detracting. Hound vs Mountain, Mountain vs Viper, Ned vs Jaime, Young Ned vs whatshisname, Brienne vs Arya, Jorah in the fighting pits, and so on.

As I've said before, I'm confident it'll happen because of the announcement from Ashley, the attendance of Staveley, the caliber of linked suitors, and Benitez' demeanour. When it'll happen is anyone's guess.

CGI will always need to be used because people can't fly, or shoot lasers out their eyes, but as in Logan, Cap 2, Nolan's Batman, if the story's good, if the characters are developed and if there's a weight to the CGI it works. If it's Green Lantern or Transformers it's clunky, jarring and discombobulating. The big problem is the overreliance on destruction porn to raise the stakes. and that's not a fault of the source material, that's an issue with the director/producers/studio. Which is why the tunnel scene in Cap 2 is much better than the fight between Superman and Zod, the former had pacing and there was peril, the latter was basically the same as getting bored in Simcity and unleashing the aliens and disasters on your buildings.

Yeah love Clancy Brown as Kurgen, recasting that character will be tough. Need a big bloke who has genuine menace, but isn't just a Dolph Lungren type. Vin Diesel wouldn't work, for example. The Soundtrack is quality and while I'm not sure it would work in a remake, they should endeavour to have something similar for it. That said, I'm not sure that's possible these days, and it'd end up being fucking Muse or something. I don't agree about them not being as much fun, but we're grown men comparing a 1980's 15 certificate movie with modern PG/12 movies. Highlander was able to be more violent, more adult than most of the Marvel stock. There were parts of Cap 3, Avengers 1, Guardians where I was just grinning throughout the entirety of whatever action sequence I was watching at the time (Tunnel and Airport, Forest and Finale, most of it). Re: the fight scenes in Highlander, I think they're among the weakest parts of the film. These guys are supposed to be expert swordsmen and yet they're duelling like they're schoolkids fighting with sticks. They stagger about just trying to clang their swords together. If it were remade there'd be scope for clashes of styles and equipment; katana vs rapier, claymore vs khopesh, sai vs falchion etc.

Sparingly in Paddington? the main fucking character is a CGI bear for goodness sake. The CGI in Logan was subtle and did blend into the story, the CGI in Cap 2 had weight to it and was used sparingly, the CGI in Doctor Strange was everywhere and it was dazzling, but it didn't pull me out of a story which is supposed to be mind-bending and weird. The CGI in the second half of Batman vs Superman was awful, ditto Wonder Woman. Very Michael Bay. But the CGI in Christopher Nolan's trilogy was subtle and probably went by without you noticing. fwiw I agree with you that I switch off when the filmmakers dump the character work from the first half of a film in favour of a Baysplosions and destruction porn. However, I think Marvel films try to avoid that as best they can given the source material. Certainly in the more "grounded" films like Captain America and Ant Man etc. They even made moving away from the big city-wide destruction-porn lunacy a plot point in the second Avengers movie. By the way, nobody wears pants outside lycra anymore, not even Superman. Get with the times grandad.

Time for Murphy? Aarons? or push Perez out wide?

2 missing by my count.

The joyless one wades in again. Spreading his misery like a patient zero Eeyore. I don't like CGI for CGI's sake, fwiw and practical effects still trump most CGI.

All about opinions I suppose, but I think the X-Men films are amongst the worst. Certainly not as good as the first Iron Man and Avengers' movies, the 2nd Cap film, the Guardians films, Logan and Deadpool. I like watching Highlander for the nostalgia, but that's about it.

Behave yourself man. You're letting nostalgia cloud your judgement. The dialogue is clunky, the acting from the leads is pretty fucking awful, the fight scenes are hilariously bad, the special effects weren't even any good at the time. Not to mention the casting. The kid in me loves that movie, but objectively it's got many, many flaws.

I like it, I like the tweaks with the match engine, the game feels faster, I like the enhancements they've made to the player and press interactions, the dynamics page is very useful too.

These are all lovely memories Peter, but what's on the menu.

True, but he is scoring (which is more than can be said for Joselu) and not getting a chance to show whether or not he can do it at this level (again).

See I loved it as a kid, but even then I could see the fight scenes were shit and the special effects were worse. Watching it again and it's clear that the acting is pretty terrible too. There's some decent actors around that could do well in the roles and we've seen with Marvel movies that you can take something a bit silly and turn it into an enjoyable movie.

Whatever you say Jack, you're the master race.

The worst parts of that film were the fight scenes and special effects. Sort them out and cast well and it's a tip top prospect for a remake. Tom Hardy as Macleod, Pedro Pascal as Ramirez, Dave Bautista as Kurgen, sorted.

Swear I've heard stuff about it being stuck in pre-production Hell, but it's got Denis Villeneuve at the helm.

Especially films like MoTOE where the twist is so well known that it ruins the point of the film. Do Highlander!

Shut up, he finally became interesting.

They don't and wont. Not in this system where getting and keeping "power" every election is the be all and end all. Too many "career" politicians who're competent at politicking but useless at governing. The populace is too distracted by sound bites and faux outrage to truly consider longer term policies and politics. Also they treat politics as if it's a team to support, and will vote for their team instead of the party that proposes the best policies.

Hands up who noticed a tattoo?

I don't love them, I love you. You're my sun and stars.

Don't remember anything about him being injury prone or anything, as far as I know he was kept out of the Dortmund team on merit (perceived or otherwise).

Sershul Meeja's fault that.