The Fish

Aye, it was Brian Harvey though.

Not to be contrary, but I go to Youtube for film reviews and I've never heard of him. I'm guessing he'll be suggested to people based on previous searches?

...and now I'm thinking about a tv series that only lasted a season, (I think), called "John from Cincinnati". About an odd messianic figure's interactions with a surfer family.

Dunno why, but whenever I see ", man " I always read it like a stoned Californian surfer dude. "chill out, maaaan ;) " style.

If Mitrovic is scoring at international and keeping his psychopathy in check, he surely fits into the system Rafa's using better than Gayle now?

Aye, but again, you're assuming it's a future iteration of our science, of our universe. It doesn't bother me in things like Aliens, where we've more advanced technology now than they had in that film, because it's a separate universe. But in Prometheus and stuff, how if it's a prequel do they have more advanced shit than Ripley and her pals? e.g. the Star Trek films, with young Kirk, the stuff looks cleaner, sleeker, but the tech is in-keeping with that universe's timeline, isn't it? If Chris Pratt's Kirk was dicking about with shit that Stewart's Pickard didn't have yet, that'd be odd, wouldn't it? In the terrible Star Wars prequels, they made an effort to make the ships look like older, clunkier versions of the more sleek ships we saw in the originals. The targeting systems on the Millenium Falcon were the same in TFA to the ones used in the originals. It's absolutely a minor thing, but it just jars when I see something like that.

Colour me surprised.

Or tv shows he watches, films he's seen, food he's eaten, servers he uses, oxygen he breathes...

Woohoosh

Why won't you answer his SIMPLE QUESTION?

If the Star Trek universe is assumed to be a future version of ours. e.g. Marvel is mostly set in the here and now, yet thanks to Stark the world has tech that's not available now, the Winter Soldier has had a robotic arm since WW2, and so on. In the ST universe, 3D holographic video conferencing were apparently commonplace pre-Kirk. As were replicators and so on.

America have a proud history of great coaches as well; Boon, D'Amato, Carter, Bombay.

Aye but what about a film that actually got your heart racing? As Rayvin says Mad Max: Fury Road was thoroughly enjoyable, it left me breathless at times. You cite Trainspotting 2, did that quicken your pulse? I've no intention of growing up, fwiw. Fuck that, it sounds dead boring. You're all "mmmurgh, I didn't like that film about space pirates. Wish I'd been organising my sock garters mmurgh. Have I told you about my low risk pension scheme Mmmmurgh" While I'm "Pew Pew, Yeah! fuck 'em up Iron Man! Responsibilities are for chumps!"

Didn't Arena basically say that the highfalutin Eurpoean teams would struggle to get out of the CONCACAF group?

The prequels were terrible films that couldn't be saved by John William's score or a couple of good action scenes (Duel of the Fates e.g.). I think TFA is a good movie, which might be too close to A New Hope for our generation, but kids fucking love it now as we did ANH then. All but a few films have gaping plotholes in them. Some great films have gaping plotholes in them, but they're still great films. Point is, with Star Wars, (and a lot of the superhero films) kids don't see them and at the end of the day, the point of these new films is to appeal to a new generation of kids who'll stare in wide-eyed wonder as samurais and pirates have cool fights with space nazis... and then bother their parents into buying them the toys. By the by, if we're honest, we can boil down most adventure movies down to the same basic story. The hero's journey. Just curious, what was the last film you really got a kick out of? Not a film that was worthy, or emotionally tumultuous, but one that quickened your cold black heart or raised the hairs on your withered limbs.

By "faucet" he means tap.

I don't get it?

Soccerball Chat For the Win!

Wondered how long it would take for the joyless one to show up.

Listen, you can't just swan in here, drop a jpeg and fuck off again. Honestly, you're like a deadbeat dad sometimes.

I honestly think if they hadn't allowed Man of Steel to devolve into the BlockbusterSmashFest it did, it could have revitalised the SuperMan character for the contemporary market. If the wider audience watched him find his feet as a beacon of hope, and earn the acclaim that he begins BvS with, he wouldn't come off so boring. As it is, he's the infallible man of beige. Even Batfleck is more interesting. fwiw, I can't remember, but I bet Parky didn't like Wonder Woman either. Even though she's hard to describe as an androgynous stick woman.

Yeah, the comics gave you multiple examples of his arrogance and how he was ultimately neutered by his own hubris. Either in flashback, or in comics based in an earlier time. You got why Odin banished him to Earth, you get why he's always wanting to be thought "worthy" and why striving for that abstract quality with his power can make him a saviour or a tyrant... He's a self-destructive, petulant and flawed character who's reduced to Marvel's Superman for the sake of brevity in the films. Superman, now there's a Mary-Sue.