The Fish

Princess Liar

I can't remember how many of our signings from last summer were rumoured beforehand? Don't remember there being a long courting period for any of them. Gamez, Lazaar, Sels, Hayden, Clark, Yedlin all seemed to come out of nowhere, didn't they?

Cheers It's not about me you know, it's just the Birthday threads are a vital part of this community and I, for one, would hate to see that tradition die. Definitely not about me. So that we're clear, I want you all to wish me a happy birthday, but it's not about me.

Ahh, you shouldn't have.

RIP the Birthday threads for users.

Fuck off you chippy cunt. How's that for a short response?

Like Costa, Drogba, Shearer, Rooney and Kane?

Sundowning a term for the slow decline of mental acuity? If so, he's fucking midnighting.

What a fucking oddity. Feel for the kid, it's parent is trying to make a stand, fair enough, but is inviting a world of confusion, isolation, and attention on a kid that hasn't chosen it. Which is, for me, a far greater imposition than permitting the gender designation shortcut at the beginning of it's life based on its genitalia. I mean, should the kid be born with a penis and later feel more feminine or gender-neutral, I'm assuming it will have grown up in an environment that is supporting of that path. And the gender on it's documents won't be the biggest issue it faces. Also, were it to feel changing the gender on its documents is necessary, it is fortunate to have a parent who's been through it.

I honestly don't think I'd mind that, if we hadn't been a shit show for his tenure.

Classy player when fit, but so rarely fit I wouldn't risk relying on him being our first choice. Personally, I'd flog him now or in the winter window.

Good to see we've got someone early in the window. Looking forward to more business.

I don't really bother with star ratings to be honest. Suicide Squad was rightly mauled by the critics and the fans, AoU and WW rec'd much higher star ratings than SS I'd say the criticism of both films is fairly well known. The trouble, for me, is that while the missteps in those films (AoU and WW) are poor, the overall film delivers on its remit. Transformers doesn't. I think I'm in the same camp as Kermode, it's not just that Transformers are bad movies, it's that they're not even aiming for good any more. It's just bang crash wallop buy my toys. And they're offensive, skeezy, with a sense of humour that can also be found in Madea/Mrs Brown's boys. I get that you didn't necessarily think it's a good movie, but I'm surprised that you don't think it's a terrible movie. I'll have a watch of it, try and be objective, and see if I'm way off, but Bay's movies always leave me angry.

he wasn't even at the club was he? I loved watching Ben Arfa, but he's 3rd on the list of "Mercurial French Left Wingers".

I'll have to watch the latest Transformers movie, but I'd be staggered if it was better than Civil War, Cap 1. The other 3 aren't great films, Avengers AoU leant more towards everything that's bad with big blockbuster movies, but still retained some humour and benefited from already established characters. Civil War is a good blockbuster, plotchasms aside. If for no other reason than the big set pieces (Tunnel chase, Airport scene) were excellent bits of action cinema. Captain America is better on a second viewing imo, but I get the criticism. Thor 2 and Iron Man 3 were poor by Marvel's high standards, no doubt. I guess my problem with Transformers is that it lets itself down by not delivering anything that I expect from a big blockbuster. It's not fun, it's not funny, the editing and construction of action sequences is bewildering and oddly boring. The movies drag along and the perfunctory battles do little to quicken the pulse. I know it's all personal opinion, but you're the first person I've ever seen say they enjoyed any of them and it's surprised me.

Grayson may arrest the slide if he gets the right players in and starts well, but I just can't see them getting promoted this season, as it stands. They've no senior goal scorer, it looks like their creative players are on the way out (Khazri et al) and they've signed up John O'Shea for another year and if he is their 1st choice centreback, any side with pace will get plenty of joy.

Wasn't great, that's fair enough. I've not seen Bay's latest porno, but I'd be amazed if it was better than any of the recent Marvel films. Elektra, Daredevil, Ghost Rider, sure, but not the recent ones.

So is the Power Rangers movie, and even that is better than Bay's Transformers. More wit, more character, and so on. Disney movies are aimed at kids, for the most. Pixar too. They're not offensive horseshit Hells Bells, the Lego movies are better written, better directed than Bay's movies.

I was mostly joking, but the Transformers movies are utterly shit. Just curious, which Marvel movies did you enjoy less than the latest Transformers one?

You didn't enjoy it as much as Marvel films. You're a bright lad, with usually sound judgement so it's frankly not at all possible that you enjoyed this disorienting smashycrashy horseshit as much as Marvel's fare. Unless you're Chez-ing it up and "sometimes just fancy a kebab".

Bay's Transformers film have zero plot, zero time spent building the characters, they're CGI heavy, destruction-porn heavy, have terrible, terrible scripts and zero wit. They honestly had two characters who were racial stereotypes fighting a bad guy and the crux of it was a gag about robots having bollocks. The women in the films serve no purpose beyond giving the 2 dimensional leads something to rescue/ogle/roll their eyes at. They're awful films. Even the big set pieces are turd because the giant robots don't seem to have any weight to them. When characters from your childhood like Optimus Prime and Bumble Bee are clashing with their nemeses, you shouldn't be bored. I know I'm biased because I like Marvel's source material, but I was still very excited about Transformers. The early teasers looked cool, I was interested to see if, in a post Batman Begins time where an objectively ridiculous character was given new life, if Transformers could too? Bay's Transformers couldn't. These films don't even stack up against the cartoon movie from the 80s. Compare that to the biggest spectacle of the Marvel stable; the Avengers. Whedon took time to give each of the heroes a stake in the climax, the scripts were decent, there was humour and when the big CGI-fest appeared it felt more like the crescendo of a well-paced story, rather than something to distract us because it's been 5 minutes since Michael Bay blew something up. compared to tl;dr If the Marvel movies are Obama, Transformers are Trump.

This will be a boring match