The Fish

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?

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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.

For something pre-Kirk to have the replicators, the floaty intangible interactive screens, 3D holographic skype calls... Like I said, it jars a little.

Sure, he's a double hard bastard. But any jeopardy he faces will be tempered with the knowledge of the Superhero tropes. Sure he might be lying upon the ground, blood seeping from a wound but it's Spider Man, he takes a licking and just keeps ticking. I think the next Thor (Ragnarok) will ratchet up the threat to him. To be honest, he's a more interesting character in the comics, but that's possible to achieve over decades of comics, and not so easy when you're trying to sell toys and advertising.

Right, that's it. You n me pal, knife fight. Wherever, whenever. I will stripe you up.

Hey, You shut your whore mouth! Thor has personality and isn't all powerful at all! "No personality and all powerful".... I oughta carve a lengthy rebuttal with a spoon into your fucking chest.

Nothing draws out the madheads more than calm reason. It's like the Gun debate in the states, make your case calmly and reasonably and soon enough they'll be trying to scare off a hurricane by unloading a clip into the sky.

"Fucking Dummettgate all over again lads, sorry"

Worst thing is I've got them all, just never got round to watching them. Might find a weekend when I'm on my todd, make some cowboy food (refried beans and the like), drink some American beers, then smoke cigars and drink some bourbon while watching all three. Might wear a stetson and chaps as well.

Yep, Parky is a cuck.

I mean, it was fairly obvious that she would, at some point, point them Dragon Tits westward, right? I don't get googling for what's going to happen in a thing I'm watching. The writer intends for me not to know yet, and if I've committed to the show I must have faith in the story they're trying to tell. If, like you, I wasn't bothered about the show really, I'd definitely not be invested enough to actively find out what's going to happen. If you're reading a book, and it's kind of got your attention, but it's not a page turner, don't you just stick with it? Either that or just put it down? would you skip forward a couple of chapters? Or flick to the end of the book to discover the butler did it?

Not just this though, you were googling for Game of Thrones spoilers in the first few seasons.