Park Life

Beautiful. How it should be.

I wanted it to be good. Some of it was good but a lot of it was a farrago. The money they spent and the talent they have available it boggles the mind they can't get a by the numbers film right. Disney will wring the last bits of magic out of the biggest franchise of all time and throw it on the scrap heap of history. It's already clear. The schedule of releasing one film every other year for 10 years is too much.

Rogue One 6.5/10 Visually the best Star Wars film with the greatest full on battle scene ever, but the plaudits end there. There are some serious flaws with this, especially the lazy and inarticulate directing which couldn't overcome buckets of exposition and 2D character development pitched at video game level. Diego Luna as Cassian is hopeless. There is his twee Spanish accent (I honestly couldn't understand some of what he said), his inability to deliver emotional dialogue and those piggy eyes...Lead protagonists don't work with piggy eyes...In film 90% of the delivery is in the eyes. Felicity Jones too is hopeless you just can't identify or care for her even in emotional charged scenes with her father she comes across as chocolate box and not even Milk Tray at that. She was good in other films so it can only be the hapless Dir of Gareth Edwards who has a great eye but sadly no orchestration to convey emotional character driven moments. There were 7 cuts in one cuddle with her father...The eye can't linger the brain can't connect the soul starts to not give a fuck. Jyn isn't helped by the fact that all her lines are exposition..'We have to do this, we have to go there...This is happening that might happen...Someone is somewhere..We have to find that...etc..The only character given a 15 min backstory for empathy loading spends the rest of the film cuing action and verbalizing plot points. The script is essentially very flat and probably the worst Star Wars script of all time...Her checklist transition from survivor to 'rebel' is a vague retinue that skips over the mind like a mobile phone commercial..We don't really know what or how it happened but it looks nice. There is a bad pot noodle mix of paper thin script, 2D acting and zero emotional range (teary look - frown - happy face). Gareth Edwards either can't direct or spent the whole time worrying about the look and the special effects (which are brilliant). Wen and Donnie Yen could have been the ace in the hole but the battle scenes they appear in their action sets are ridiculous, unbelievable and almost totally without jeopardy (bar one scene). They have no intro, no backstory bar a couple of lines and no emotional depth hence you don't really give a fuck if they live or die cause you don't really care about them. Samurai slapstick. This is a kind of 'Dirty Dozen' almost completely sanitized of nourishment like a Big Mac. Big lazy badly drawn plasticky characters flay around against one magnificent back drop after another. Mikkelsen delivers the only partially believable performance and that is saying something due to what he is up against. K-2SO has the best lines and does deadpan like a machine which is extremely funny. You're basically glued to the fantastic eye candy of the compositions with rich detail and depth and some lego figures are kinda getting in the way trying to spoil it.

I welcome the asylum...Can get on with the poetry.

These new owners probably expect him to win the CL within 2/3 years.

Is he going to make it or is the PL too alien for his refined thinking? Man City probably not the ready made club he imagined it was. Seems to deploy a lot of different formations.

2012 wants its thread back.

Blair wants to come back innit.

Vast maj of the electorate are told what they want. /MSM If Corby was presented and packaged in a different light by fair coverage we wouldn't be having this discussion. Labour are unelectable for a broad range of issues. Some of it is to do with leadership but not all.

Rename him!!!!

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You're basically the master of these things. These are nothing less than revelations to the tramps on here.

Need another goal.

Gayle hardly got a game at Palace and when he did it was as a winger/forward which basically nullified him.

Jabba used to play him as some sort of def winger.

Couldn't happened to a better club.

Yup.

Didn't Diame have a run in the PL? Was it West Ham?

Have a good one mate.

Beautiful drink.

https://corporateeurope.org/economy-finance/2016/12/ecb-quantitative-easing-funds-multinationals-and-climate-change

All the stuff I said 10 years ago.