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  • #114360

    Assigning colour to music is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard of. I would like all black people to know that I claim no music for myself, and you are just as free to play it and listen to it as I am. I am white, but nothing I listen to belongs exclusively to white people, it belongs to everyone equally.

  • #114012

    Pedro Pascal Eyed To Play Reed Richards In Marvel Studios’ ‘Fantastic Four’

    Eddie from Buffy season 4 episode 1? Good for him, finally getting a major role.

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  • #113601

    njerry wrote:
    Christian wrote:
    It is what it is.

    That should have been the tagline on the advertisements for this film.

    Unfortunately Popeye had the trademark.

    No, Popeye’s tagline is “I yam what I yam, and that’s all that I yam (says Popeye the Sailorman)”

    No, that was Gloria Gaynor.

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  • #113600

    Is it okay to ask what happened?

    Accident? Attack? Assassin? Alcohol? Apathy? Assholeness? (Assholeism?)

    Assault? Arson? Altitude sickness? Auto-immune disease? Amok time?

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  • #113436

    I used to think flat earthers couldn’t be serious and were just winding us up.

    Then I thought they were serious and it was a huge failure in our education system.

    Now I think they are just so lacking in basic common sense and powers of observation, I wonder how they are still alive.

    I made the mistake of wandering into a flat earth facebook group and saw the statement “Water does not curve, so… (blah blah nonesense conclusion)”.

    Nevermind the nonsense conclusion, look at the assertation: water does not curve. If you have lived to adulthood and not seen a drop of water, there is something seriously wrong. If you have a seen a drop of water and still assert that water does not curve, you are basically unfit to function in this world. Seriously. How are you still alive if you are that clueless? :unsure:

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  • #113301

    I find it hard to believe the BBC would commission something and leave any rights with the writer. Surely it was all work for hire, especially back then?

    Though there was that thing about Terry Nation owning the Daleks, wasn’t there?

    Maybe it was common practice then :unsure:

     

  • #113300

    If you need more positivity in your day, try this website. It shows you all the good going on in the world. I get their daily newsletter.

    https://www.goodgoodgood.co/%5B/quote%5D

    It’s probably a link to that Rick Astley video; nice try, Todd!!

    On the other hand, that _would_ bring positivity into your life!

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  • #113263

    a bit overwrought

    Also known as, “a bit Murray Gold”.

     

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  • #113262

    So the question is, should part of the translator’s job be changing source names to English names? (Serious question.)

     

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  • #113117

    8CE8F446-46EE-4266-9C22-C634AC1164A0

    It took me much longer than it should have to understand that.

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  • #113085

    Everyone says that your phone can be used as a “mobile hotspot” for other devices, well unless you know what you’re doing beforehand, it’s confusing as fuck.

    On a modern phone, it’s really not. Admittedly I work in IT, but not in consumer electronics, and I didn’t even own a smartphone until two years ago. I looked in settings and there’s a button saying “mobile hotspot”. I tapped it, and it just worked. I have a harder time programming my VCR (or whatever the kids call it these days).

     

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  • #113070

    But sources say that Corman and Ord crafted a legal procedural that did not resemble the Netflix version, known for its action and violence. Cox didn’t even show up in costume until the fourth episode.

    That does seem a bit early to have him in costume, yeah.

    I’ve got a great pitch: Hells Kitchen , a series that focuses on the seedy underworld of a big-city neighbourhood, as rival gang bosses fight over turf, fix boxing matches, and run trucks full of chemical waste through town without a permit.

    A side character in all this is 12-year-old Matt Murdoch, recently-blinded and trying not to be a burden to his deadbeat boxer dad, who meets a young immigrant teen, Electra, and an old homeless guy who claims to know a bit about fighting.

    But this isn’t their story. This is about young thug Bullseye and the gang war, all seen through the eyes of cub reporter Ben Urich.

    Guest cameos from pre-school kid Peter Parker, and the students lodging together in the upstairs apartment, Reed and Victor.

    Matt doesn’t put on the costume until the end of season 7, by which time we’ve all lost interest and just want a Young Stick prequel.

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  • #112801

    On my regular bulletin of “things featuring the Legion this week”, I just got this:

     

    One REPRINT appearance this week.

    THE NEW GOLDEN AGE SPECIAL EDITION 1

    This special edition reprints the New Golden Age one shot that led to the Geoff Johns JSA. This time it also includes short previews of the upcoming mini-series for the Golden Age Flash, Green Lantern, and Sandman.

     

    So it now appears that DC are so desperate for content they are reprinting issues and adding marketing material so they can label it a SPECIAL EDITION. Woo, and indeed, Hoo.

     

    Oh, the reason it counts for the Legion cameo bulletin: there’s a one-page Who’s Who entry for an unknown Legionnaire that was completely redacted in the original and apparently still is in the reprint. So this one’s just for collectors who are even more hardcore than me :unsure:

     

     

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  • #112799

    Don’t forget the other anti stuff they’ve gone full on with:

    • Migrants
    • Trans
    • Net zero
    • Environment
    • Benefits
    • Pensioners
    • The NHS
    • Doctors
    • Teachers
    • Business

    Shorter Q to ask is who they haven’t screwed over in this conference.

    Also, anti- 15 minute cities.

    I for one am immensely relieved that I’m not going to have any shops, doctors, or leisure facilities within a 15-minute walk of my house. Get that shit away from me!

     

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  • #112790

    The only way this all makes any kind of sense to me is if Sunak has been deliberately leaking the unpopular cancellation of the Manchester route so that he can heroically save the day today by surprising everyone with a decision to go ahead with it after all.

    That assigns him a level of competence that I’m struggling to believe.

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  • #112769

    Watched 2 episodes of Strange New Worlds. Really liked it. Not _everything_ about it, there were definitely things that mildly annoyed me. But it might actually be the best Trek spin-off for decades.

    Do I need spoiler tags? Probably not, but I’ll be cautious about what I say.

    The first and main reason for why I fell in love with it at literally the opening credits: the opening credits. Best credits since at least TNG, primarily for having the proper music and voice-over, but also because… that’s… that’s… **the** Enterprise :wacko:

     

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  • #112764

    I’d have put in Metallica on the Warriors side but..

    No, no. The point of the joke is that it’s bad bands and good bands :-)

     

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  • #112613

    1. It is deeply embarrassing for the Canadian government and parliament that this man wasn’t vetted and that this was allowed to happen. They’ve got to do better than that, as this kind of event is playing into Putin’s hands.

    The most likely explanation seems to be mere carelessness — let’s find a war veteran from Ukraine and applaud him for a cheap soundbite … [later] omg, he’s a what? No of course we didn’t do a background check!

    What I find very strange is that the conspiracy theorists aren’t coming out to say that this was a deliberate stitch-up to make the parliament and Zelensky look bad, and this veteran’s war record was faked and deliberately leaked to the press, and he’s not even a a vet anyway, he’s the leader of the opposition’s brother-in-law’s uncle who’s also a paid actor.

    But no, the tin-foil brigade aren’t saying any of that. I just find it strange that conspiracy theories only work in one direction :unsure:

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  • #112599

    Those 2023 look like they’re having a lot more fun.

    I still want them banned from my pavements :negative:

     

  • #112518

    Do I need to watch Discovery before I watch Strange New Worlds? I gave up on Discovery before the storyline with the Enterprise, and I want to give SNW a try but if I do will I be lost without the Discovery set-up?

    Just to be clear: I’m not sure I can stand to watch any more of Discovery.

     

  • #112494

    Return to the Thirteenth Floor

    I was disappointed with the first volume. The punishment-of-the-week format was too repetitive, and didn’t have any element of tension or horror to it (maybe that’s different for the young audience it was originally intended for, or different if you’re reading it in weekly episodes as intended). The only slight interest was in the ongoing will-max-be-discovered plot, but that wasn’t enough to sustain my interest over a pretty long and essentially repetitive series. I expected better from Grant and Wagner.

  • #112450

    Now this is an example of a “scare-mongering” story that appears to be true, but also — so what? Yes, this is disturbing, but it’s also not really news. Worms and spyware are as old as the Internet itself, and we have decades of reliable evidence that our governments are spying on us by multiple means. This isn’t a shocking expose of a conspiracy, it’s more of a “well duh” :D

     

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  • #112422

    I finally watched Interstellar. Yes, ok, I can see what all the hype was for. It’s a very well-made movie.

    Stupid, but very well made.

    And the soundtrack is just as epic as everyone says.

     

  • #112421

    I have a close friend who is strongly anti-authority, or maybe anti-establishment is the better word. Doesn’t trust the police, thinks the government is a bunch of crooks, thinks big business is killing the world for profit, thinks the big tech companies are controlling our lives, etc. And to be honest, I think these are all legitimate opinions, and I can’t condemn anyone for thinking them. I pretty much believe them myself.

    The problem is, as soon as you take that position, you’re on a slippery slope. It’s a short step from “big business is evil” to “therefore I’m not using a vaccine that’s been developed by big business purely for profit”, and from “the government is evil” to “and that’s why they protracting the war in Ukraine for their own ends”, and so on.

    You get to a point where if you don’t trust _any_ information given to you by authority, the only information you _can_ trust is that written by individuals on social media. Which you can believe because these are free-thinking people, not controlled by the government, who are smart enough to see through the establishment lies.

    “I don’t trust what our government tells me about Ukraine because governments are evil. Therefore I trust @freethinker947575 , who does his own research and knows the Ukrainians are Nazis.” (The truth: @freethinker947575’s research consists of reading tweets by Russian bot factories.)

    “I don’t trust climate scientists, I only trust @climateskeptic666, who has properly analysed the public-domain data and knows the Earth is not heating up.” (The truth: FFS, analysing data is the bread-and-butter of science, I think some of the 10,000 scientists working in this area would have realised that they’re not accounting for that one key variable that this one lone genius @climateskeptic666 claims to have discovered.)

    The problem is, these positions are very hard to argue against. It’s built into the position that any counter-evidence comes from the people who are “known” to be corrupt liars, so you can’t use it to persuade the person otherwise. It’s like trying to convince a fundamentalist Christian that the Bible is wrong. The very nature of their position prevents them believing anything you say that contradicts the Bible.

     

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  • #112350

    I watch a detective series called Brokenwood Mysteries. It’s set in a small town in New Zealand populated by “quirky” characters who murder each other with alarming regularity. Not the greatest thing ever on TV, but an enjoyable example of the cosy village mystery genre if you’re into that kind of thing.

    The town’s forensic examiner is Gina, a Russian woman (played by a New Zealand actor). Her main function is to exasperate the detectives by making wacky statements to show how even after nine seasons she still doesn’t “get” western culture.

    Ok, that just context. Here’s the amusing observation: In three out of the four current season episodes I’ve seen so far, they’ve dressed Gina in bright blue and yellow. The first time I saw it I thought it was an amusing random thing, the second and third times it was looking suspiciously deliberate…

    My pet theory is that a Ukrainian emigrant works in the wardrobe department. But whatever the reason, it’s become my favourite bit of minor trolling recently.

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  • #112344

    It’s based on folklore characters, but used in a very specific way. If I wrote a story about the Big Bad Wolf rampaging around the countryside and eating pigs, that’s allowed because he’s a fairy tale. If I put him a trenchcoat and called him Bigby, that’s a trademarked character that I would be infringing. But now Willingham has said, that’s fine go ahead and make a movie using Bigby. It’s a huge thing, if it holds up under Warner’s legal onslaught.

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  • #112342

    So, let me get this straight. American Republicans are attacking Hunter Biden for owning guns.

    Republicans are saying a man shouldn’t own guns.

    :unsure:

     

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  • #112341

    That’s just bonkers. I wonder how it would hold up in court? It looks like Willingham owns the trademark on the name and characters, so in theory he can do this. But Warner have very expensive lawyers… :unsure:

     

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  • #112288

    Oh, hold on, is it this?

    “All processes are becoming more complicated and slower — from sanctions to the provision of weapons,” Zelensky said in comments published on the presidential website.

    “The longer it takes, the more people suffer,” he warned.

    Because I can see how that can be twisted to mean “You will all suffer,” if you wanted it to mean that (ie. if you were a Russian looking to spread fake news). It takes a second’s thought to realise he really means that more Ukrainian people will suffer from the protracted war, though.

    If it’s not that, then I don’t know where your news comes from, I can’t find anything else remotely relevant.

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  • #112287

    Do you have a source for this interview, or is this just a Russian propagandist talking point you’ve picked up from somewhere?

    Also, it’s pretty funny that people still call the Jewish Zelensky a Nazi. It’s like people have forgotten what Nazis believe.

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  • #112261

    I have a new electric razor, and the instructions say that I should clean it by holding it under a running tap.

    And I can’t do it. My rational mind knows that it’s safe, but the irrational part is just screaming, “You idiot, it’s electric, don’t put it under the tap!!!”

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  • #112123

    I dispute the doctor’s assertion.

    *Nobody’s* Enterprise looks better than theirs.

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  • #112102

    It’s already been given to the NHS, Christian. That’s why we currently have the best staffed* hospitals in the world.

     

     

    * staffed by British people, naturally.

     

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  • #112057

    I don’t understand why the government isn’t paying to fix schools. I’m sure there are some big party doners and ministers’ mates who own construction firms :unsure:

     

     

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  • #111959

    I bought Starlin’s Dreadstar omnibuses when they ran a kickstarter a while back, then put the to one side and didn’t read them – until now. The first omnibus covers the original graphic novels and the first few issues of his ongoing Epic series.

    Now I’m reading it, I’m realising I’d forgotten almost everything of the early stories beyond the broad outline. In the first stories, Starlin’s art was pretty experimental, nothing like the style he settled down to in his later work. The first story is entirely greyscale pencils, which is beautiful, the next stories are full-colour painted, which I think is less successful.

    The tone of the stories changes, too. The first few chapters are cosmic in scope, with epic battles between hyper-advanced civilizations. We don;t even get introduced to Vanth Dreadstar until half way through the first arc, and he’s not the main protagonist even after that, he’s a minor part of the ensemble (I don’t think he’s even named Dreadstar at this point, just Vanth). Then the next arc then ignores Vanth entirely and introduces a new character, and switches from space opera to demonic horror and a multiversal travelogue that would put Doctor Strange to shame. For this, the art is again all monochrome pencils, and Starlin’s visual inventiveness is on full display. The next arc becomes a long character study of a brooding Vanth (finally given then name, or descriptive, “Dreadstar”), sick of war and trying to become a farmer. Because we know how these stories work, inevitably all his new friends are slaughtered, forcing him to go back to war. To match the story, we’re back to coloured art but in very dark, murky tones.

    Finally, Dreadstar gets his own monthly series, and the tone switches again to a bright, shiny, super-hero space opera. To match the stories, the art is now 100% the Starlin we know from Marvel and DC: bold, dynamic, still full of inventive SF concepts, but basically just solid super-hero art.

    And that’s about where I’m up to.

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  • #111958

    Or… and bear with me here… you could maybe use trees? :unsure:

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  • #111938

    It’s been fine here all week.

  • #111937

    I didn’t know that. But it’s a shame that the answer to the problem was “let’s shut all the women away on their own,” rather than “let’s do something about these men”.

     

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  • #111872

    I finally got round to seeing Bill and Ted Face The Music. It was basically what I was expecting, so I wasn’t disappointed. It rehashed all the same tropes and themes and even jokes as the original(s), sometimes missing the mark but rarely failing to be entertaining, and there were some big laugh-out-loud moments. (I could point to the bucket head moment, which sums up the movie: really cheap, stupid slapstick, but still hilariously funny; and making no logical sense at all other than for cheap slapstick laughs, but also making perfect sense within the movie’s internal logic.)

    There were some side characters from the originals that they had no need to shoe-horn into this movie, but I understand why they wanted to and I don’t begrudge them doing it. And there was an awesome unexpected cameo (who I won’t name because spoilers, but if you’ve seen it you’ll know who I mean).

    The weakest part for me was the daughters. I didn’t find the characters believable, which might sound weird in a film like this, but what I mean is: Reeves and Winter, even at their current ages, still convince me that they are Bill & Ted, whereas the actors playing the daughters feel like they’re acting as Bill & Ted, which got a bit irritating. But overall, their roles worked within the movie and I appreciated the idea even if not the characters as such.

     

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  • #111871

    Weird thing is I saw a news report the other day about him being in Niger touting for business for Wagner on behalf of Russia. You’d think they wouldn’t want to kill off the guy spearheading that. Well, you’d think anyone other than Putin wouldn’t.

    The best bit of analysis I read recently is that we need to stop thinking of Putin as a head of state. We go, “Why would Putin do this?“, on the assumption that he has any interest in doing the right thing for Russia, as you would expect of any other head of state. He’s not a head of state, he’s Vito Corleone. Think of him like that, and everything he does makes more sense.

     

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  • #111870

    I am surprised that the FIDE (chess) banned trans women from women’s tournament. It is a board game!

    I hear the arguments some women athletes make in sports competitions,
    but chess is not about athleticism.

    FIDE should reconsider.

    The problem is more fundamental than a trans question. The problem is, why is there a women’s tournament? It is a board game!

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  • #111756

    I’m taking full credit for that work, by the way. ChatGPT may have written it, but it was my idea to prompt it :P

     

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  • #111755

    Honestly that is mostly my response, no idea it was out.

    Yes, same here. My post was supposed to be funny, but funny because it was true.

    Ironically, I saw a Blue Beetle reference somewhere on social media last night, the first I have consciously noticed. I think it was pointing to a review saying the movie was “meh”.

     

  • #111731

    There’s a Blue Beetle movie? :unsure:

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  • #111730

    “make it more light hearted”

    [Opening shot: A vibrant and colorful cityscape bustling with life and energy. The sun is shining, and people are going about their day with smiles on their faces.]

    Narrator (enthusiastic voice): “Get ready for a ride of epic proportions in a world where adventure knows no bounds!”

    [Cut to a quirky and charming protagonist, played by a beloved comedic actor, stumbling into comical situations: slipping on a banana peel, getting tangled in their own cape, and accidentally causing chaos.]

    Narrator: “From the mind of Zack Snyder comes a movie that’ll have you laughing, cheering, and believing in the power of a good belly laugh!”

    [Quick cuts of hilarious action scenes: the protagonist trying to wield a comically oversized weapon, attempting to sneak past guards with exaggerated tiptoeing, and engaging in a playful food fight.]

    Narrator: “Join us on a journey where the only thing bigger than the adventure is the heart!”

    [The screen transitions to a series of comical character interactions, with misunderstandings and humorous dialogues.]

    Narrator: “A tale of unexpected friendships…”

    [The camera reveals a quirky ensemble of characters, each with their own eccentricities, coming together in a mishap-filled but heartwarming team.]

    Narrator: “And villains who are more goofy than menacing!”

    [Cut to the antagonist, who tries to strike a menacing pose but ends up toppling over, much to the protagonist’s amusement.]

    Narrator: “Zack Snyder presents…”

    [The music shifts to a lively, upbeat tune as we see moments of camaraderie and teamwork: the characters practicing their fighting moves in a silly manner, and a dance-off in the middle of a battle.]

    Narrator: “A rollercoaster of laughter, a whirlwind of wackiness…”

    [The music reaches a crescendo as the camera pans up, revealing a cheesy but endearing romantic subplot between two unlikely characters.]

    Narrator: “Get ready for a romance that’s as awkward as it is adorable!”

    [Cut to a series of slapstick comedy scenes, with characters accidentally triggering traps, falling into pits, and creating chaotic Rube Goldberg-like contraptions.]

    Narrator: “This summer, prepare to laugh until your sides hurt!”

    [The screen fades to black, and the title appears in colorful, playful letters: “MISADVENTURES UNLEASHED”]

    Narrator: “Misadventures Unleashed. Coming soon to a theater near you!”

    [The music fades out, leaving behind an infectious sense of joy and excitement.]

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  • #111729

    “script a zack snyder movie trailer”

    [Opening shot: A desolate landscape, with dark storm clouds swirling above. The camera pans over a shattered cityscape, revealing a world in ruins.]

    Narrator (deep, echoing voice): “In a world on the brink of darkness, where hope is but a distant memory…”

    [Cut to a close-up of a rugged, determined face, illuminated by a flickering firelight. It’s our protagonist, played by a charismatic actor.]

    Narrator: “One man… one destiny…”

    [Quick cuts of intense action scenes: our protagonist wielding a massive sword against a horde of monstrous creatures, leaping off a crumbling building, and narrowly dodging explosions.]

    Narrator: “Zack Snyder presents…”

    [The screen fades to black, followed by a series of rapid shots showing glimpses of characters and their emotions: sorrow, determination, anger, and camaraderie.]

    Narrator: “A tale of survival, of sacrifice, of the unbreakable bonds forged in the heat of battle…”

    [The music starts, building in intensity.]

    [Shot of a group of diverse, rugged survivors, each with their own unique skills and weapons, coming together.]

    Narrator: “United by fate…”

    [The music reaches a crescendo as the camera pans up, revealing an imposing figure cloaked in darkness. This is the antagonist, a formidable and enigmatic force.]

    Narrator: “And divided by destiny…”

    [Cut to a heart-wrenching scene of a tearful farewell between our protagonist and a loved one.]

    Narrator: “Love will be tested, friendships will be shattered…”

    [The music shifts to a slower, haunting melody as we see moments of introspection and doubt on the faces of the characters.]

    Narrator: “But in the midst of despair, a glimmer of hope remains…”

    [The music swells again as we witness epic battles, explosions, and daring rescues.]

    Narrator: “Prepare for a visual spectacle like no other…”

    [The screen fades to black once more, then bursts into a montage of stunning and surreal imagery: a cityscape morphing into a twisted nightmare, a surreal dreamscape, and flashes of ancient symbols and prophecies.]

    Narrator: “Zack Snyder invites you to embark on a journey beyond imagination…”

    [The music builds to a climax as the protagonist and the antagonist face off in an epic showdown, sparks flying as their weapons clash.]

    Narrator: “This summer, embrace the darkness… to find the light.”

    [The screen fades to black, and the title appears in bold, dramatic letters: “ECLIPSE: RISE OF LEGENDS”]

    Narrator: “Eclipse: Rise of Legends. In theaters soon.”

    [The music fades out, leaving a sense of anticipation in the air.]

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  • #111596

    if you can’t treat Charles Manson in a way you wouldn’t want to be treated, you can’t put him in prison.

    If I did what Charles Manson did, I would want to be put in prison.

    I mean, I wouldn’t want to be put in prison, because I’d be a loony psychopath, but if I was thinking rationally, I would want to be put in prison.

    So I think it still works.

     

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  • #111418

    Louie Louie?

    Oooo, DC/Millarworld crossover!

     

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  • #111397

    I have no idea what kids today mean by “pegged”, and I suspect I don’t want to know.

     

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  • #111395

    I think characterizing Gladio as neo-Nazi is a bit of a stretch. One Gladio cell (and I think only one) in West Germany was found to have ex-Nazi members, and it was therefore disbanded. It’s probably hard to create a network of patriotic fighters without pulling in a few right-leaning people, but that’s not the same as _deliberately_ creating a neo-Nazi network.

     

  • #111171

    I had shwarma(?) for the first time at the weekend. It’s become very trendy over the last few years (I blame Tony Stark) but I’ve never noticed a place round here that serves it. So I had to go all the way to London to find it.

    And… it’s basically a donner kebab? :unsure:

    I’m not complaining, I like kebabs, but I’m not sure why there’s been such a big fuss over what’s basically an expensive kebab.

     

  • #110913

    Not sure who those old guys are. Is it David Gilmour on the left?

  • #110882

    Nah, it’s really good but people just aren’t talking about it here.

    I would if I could see it. But no channel I get to seems to care enough to show it.

    Edit: ok, I’m being stupid. It’s exclusive to Paramount’s paid service, isn’t it?

     

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  • #110849

    The only thing I’ve watched this last week has been more Wednesday (note to tie into my argument in the other thread: created in 1938) episode 4 & 5. The parents day episode was actually emotionally affecting. The dance episode was … well, it was.

    I’m still enjoying it, but still come away from each episode feeling that it’s flawed somehow.

    It’s interesting how they give the impression that Wednesday is growing as a person, without every actually changing a single aspect of her character. If they do change her, like at the finale she says “I was wrong, you’re all right, I’m going to lighten up and embrace joy”, I’m going to personally go and burn down the studio that made it.

    Thing is still the greatest character on the show.

     

  • #110848

    By that same argument, people might as well stop writing novels or creating music.

    Art and entertainment reflect, and to some extent influence, our society. Individually, you can make the decision to bury yourself in past work – and, I mean, nothing against like scholars who exclusively study 18th century literatur or something – but on a societal level, that just won’t fly.

    In other words, yes, I believe we do need Hollywood to put out new shit every year. Skipping a few months shouldn’t be that bad though.

    I agree that contemporary art – in any medium – is important to society.

    I disagree that contemporary entertainment is. I think entertainment is not tied to a time period. If you haven’t heard a piece of music from the 1960s, it’s just as “new” to _you_ as something recorded last week.

    I also don’t believe that American media puts out very much contemporary entertainment anyway. Almost everything we see on our screen is a remake, an adaption, or a continuation, of properties decades old. The only thing contemporary about most of it is the production technology.

     

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  • #110847

    This isn’t a “problem”. Franz Joseph showed us how this worked back in the ’70s: https://biblio.co.uk/9780345244710

     

  • #110789

    There are move existing movies and TV shows I have never watched than I have time for in my remaining lifetime. If Hollywood shut down tomorrow, it wouldn’t impact me at all.

    Of course, I would feel bad for all the people losing their jobs. But let’s not kid ourselves that the audience *needs* Hollywood to put out new shit every year.

     

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  • #110782

    This date in 1985. Check out the lineup:

    Not reflected in that poster, but Phil Collins actually appeared on stage for both concerts. He performed a “greatest hits” set in London, then boarded a helicopter that flew him to the airport to catch an overseas flight to Philadelphia in time to perform at JFK Stadium.

    Also, I wonder how Jimmy Page felt about being just part of Robert Plant’s backing band, without name billing? :unsure:

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  • #110781

    Whichever ones I choose I think my adaptation of Little Women is going to be a disaster.

    Or possibly the gender-positive masterpiece our times are crying out for.

     

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  • #110758

    DC (in comics) have always had this problem of wanting Superman to be the first super-hero, then also wanting legacy Golden-Age heroes, and you can’t have it both ways (unless you’re doing Earth-1/Earth-2, in which case he can be the first hero twice). Looks like they’re going to hit the same mess in the new movie universe.

     

  • #110757

    I cast Sean Bean in four different roles. These 4 guys are on a hiking expedition and someone is killing them off one-by-one. Because it’s Sean Bean, he has to die so why not die 4 times in one movie?

  • #110698

    When Twitter first went into meltdown last year(?), lots of bands I follow suddenly started begging people to subscribe to email newsletters.

    Like, the informative, content-rich newsletters I used to love getting from you every month before you stopped them and forced me to subscribe to 5 different social media platforms? Yes please :yahoo:

     

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  • #110669

    Late to the party, but I’m finally watching Wednesday. Three episodes in, and I’m enjoying it. Wednesday’s character is of course perfect, and the actor 100% nails the role.

    But despite how good it is, I have a fundamental objection to the premise.

    What makes the Addams Family work is that they are the only point of weirdness in a completely straight, vanilla world. And it’s the clash of cultures when the normal world meets the family that makes it clever/funny. But they don’t do that in this series. Instead, Wednesday is put in a school full of vampires and werewolves and super-powered psionics. She walks in and they are like, meh. There is no culture clash to drive the drama. It’s not really the Addams Family universe. It’s more like Harry Potter with goths.

    And actually, they should have just called the series “Thing”, because he’s the best character in it :yahoo:

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  • #110418

    I’m a rare contrarian with Blackadder (not for effect, I fully believe it). I like the first series best.

    I completely agree, though I couldn’t have articulated the reasons as well as you did.

     

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  • #110401

    Nic Cage loses out again :wacko:

     

  • #110397

    I did catch up with a bit of Elton John’s ‘farewell’. He has an amazing back catalogue to choose from but his singing now is very Vic Reeves ‘club style’.

    Wasn’t it always? :-)

     

  • #110396

    A barista was telling me the origin of the coffee we call “Americano”.

    At the end of WW2, Europe was full of Americans who wanted coffee but couldn’t drink European coffee because was too strong for them. So the Europeans cafes made a weak, watered-down coffee which just to serve to Americans, and that’s why they called it “Americano”.

    I don’t know if this story is true, but going by how Americans also like their beer weak and watered down I can believe it :-)

     

  • #110362

    I’m now trying to figure out which band I’ve seen with the most different line-ups. It’s probably going to be Mostly Autumn, as I’ve seen them around 80 times.

    Deep Purple: five different line-ups (I never saw I, III, IV, or VI).

    Magnum: six line-ups.

    Mostly Autumn: nine different line-ups, I think. Not counting the “special guest” one-offs.

     

  • #110355

    I’ve seen the band YES in concert three times, but it’s been a different line-up each time.

    Six times, four different line-ups :D

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  • #110354

    They could only find 10? :unsure:

    If they could list 10 that weren’t, then I would be impressed.

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  • #110353

    Based on the public criticisms of this company that predate the accident I’m surprised that they were allowed to operate. I’m guessing that similar operators will be under more scrutiny in future.

    After reading more about this today, I gather that part of the reason they were able to operate without much (any?) oversight is because the dives took place in international waters. So I’m not sure how easy it would be to enforce additional regulation for this kind of thing.

    They operate in international waters, but they sell tickets and bank their profits in the United States (or wherever). It should be fairly easy to shut down their business, if there is any political will for it.

    If I row out into international waters with another British citizen and shoot him, I’m pretty sure I’m still going to be arrested when I row back to shore.

     

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  • #110264

    (Also while I agree China Girl is problematic with the ‘eyes of blue’ stuff you have to be aware with the ‘swastika’ line that in east Asia they are a Buddhist symbol that appears everywhere. Within 5 miles of me there is a Red Swastika Society centre and a temple with over 1000 statues adorned with the symbol. I can’t know what he meant there but in the context of the song it’s probably more likely that than a Nazi one.

    But also, as an Englishman, there’s no way he could have written that line without knowing what 90% of his audience would think of. It had to be a deliberately provocative choice.

     

    My main objection to that list is that if you’ve heard some of these songs and “you didn’t realise” they are racist, then you’ve got a serious problem.

    There’s a version of Brown Sugar on Neil’s Really Heavy Concept Album (yes, I owned that; I am unrepentant) where Neil stops singing and goes “Oh no… I thought this was a song about health food.”

     

  • #110263

    I found myself wondering… if I knew I was down to an hour of oxygen and would die slowly and horribly, would I trigger a pressure breach instead? :unsure:

     

  • #110198

    I saw Deep Purple’s last ever UK show on their “long goodbye” in 2017.

    I have seen them three times since then :unsure:

     

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  • #110154

    In the article I saw at Deadline (I posted it in the Flash thread), it seemed they’re trying to blame the writer’s strike because it’s forced all the talk shows to go dark

    It’s a bit mystifying that a “talk show” needs a writer. Don’t people just sit down and… talk?

    Moreso than in the UK, the US talkshows have prepared sections like an opening monologue that obviously would require writers.

    Honestly, if a host can’t improvise an opening monologue why is he a talk show host?

    I’m not being funny, I really don’t get it. Didn’t Colbert, for example, start in stand-up comedy? And he’s a published writer. Doesn’t he write his own monologues? Isn’t that literally why he was hired?

    Actually, as I think this through, I guess the ones who can write their own material aren’t doing so, out of solidarity with the strikers.

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  • #110125

    In the article I saw at Deadline (I posted it in the Flash thread), it seemed they’re trying to blame the writer’s strike because it’s forced all the talk shows to go dark

    It’s a bit mystifying that a “talk show” needs a writer. Don’t people just sit down and… talk?

  • #110123

    This is Lifesigns, by the way. You can see why they are deeply unpopular:

  • #110122

    At a Lifesigns gig on Friday, the singer (John Young) told this story:

    After forming the band 10 years ago, we finally got our first interview on BBC radio the other day. The interviewer asked, “You’ve been going 10 years but I ‘ve never heard your music before, why is that?” and I replied “Maybe you should ask the BBC.”

    It’s funny because it’s true :yahoo:

     

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  • #110121

    It’s a white tea from Japan, I think. I can’t remember what it’s called; my partner drinks it, not me.

    I am not a tea connoisseur. I drink black tea from the supermarket, or sometimes green tea, but I don’t think too much about where it comes from.

  • #110027

    The collector in me hates it when they’re putting out a run of omnibuses then skip 10 years of continuity and pick it up again at a “fan favourite” point.

     

  • #110004

    It’s funny because he’s not from Worcester, so it’s cultural appropriation :yahoo:

     

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  • #109967

    Amazon have just told us that can’t deliver a package of tea, because tea is sensitive to hot weather :unsure:

    Weirdly, they are going to deliver a package of chocolate :unsure: :unsure:

     

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  • #109953

    My sister wants to go to a concert of Hans Zimmer’s music, and seemed to expect I should want to go too. I told her I can’t remember a single thing he’s written.

    Of course, I know *what* he’s written, and I know I’ve seen some of the films he’s scored. I just can’t remember a single bar of any of it.

    In comparison, I could hum a dozen John Williams pieces without pausing to think.

    I don’t think this is a reflection on Zimmer. I think it’s more likely that the way I engage with films now is different from how it was when I was a kid.

     

  • #109875

    Apparently Wolverine vs Predator is on the way, written by Ben Percy. I’m totally down for that. Sounds like fun.

    That’s going to be the shortest fight in history :unsure:

     

     

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  • #109874

    The 9 Most Beautiful DC Actresses Of All Time

    I had to double-check to make sure it wasn’t me posting that :unsure:

     

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  • #109770

    My claim to fame is having dinner with Bonnie Langford :yahoo:

     

    (Full disclosure: I was having dinner at one table, and her party came in and sat at the next table.)

     

     

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  • #109768

    In the end it’s a somewhat flawed system. I hit back at ‘real’ music fans that said these talent show people can’t sing, I remember ragging David here actually on that with this performance:

    I honestly don’t remember that :D but I can imagine I’ve said it in the past. I would have been wrong though, because there have been a lot of talented people on these things over the years. But the system is more than somewhat flawed, I actually think it’s unhealthy for music as an art form and mentally unhealthy for many of the performers who participate.

     

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  • #109713

    I don’t know anything about her, but I’m not surprised. Some of these competition winners go on to big things, some don’t, and I don’t think it’s a reflection on their talent either way. It’s all down to how much a label cares enough to push them.

    The last UK X-Factor winner was Dalton Harris in 2018. Anyone in the UK remember him? He released one single in 2019 that flopped, and that was it for his 15 minutes of fame.

    (To be clear, he now has a career singing in stage musicals, so he’s far from “flopped” himself, and obviously he had the talent to make it with or without X-Factor, but obviously nobody thought enough of him to make him a mega-star after his win.)

  • #109667

    There’s something off about that picture. It looks painted.

  • #109666

    My sister was telling me basically the same thing (minus the blood).

  • #109586

    10 Best Superhero Shows For Adults

    The list fails because it doesn’t have The Tick.

     

    Which version?

    Is there a bad version? :unsure:

     

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  • #109585

    Evil has a weird mix of humour and horror. Sometimes it feels like this show shouldn’t work at all, but somehow it does. A lot of it has to do with the writing just being pretty good – even the stuff that’s completely over the top, like grandma not believing her daughter that this man has been threatening her (and Kristen never properly explaining what’s happened) kind of works because the dialogues work. But yeah, those bits are kind of stretching it, but it all hangs together pretty well and it’s very entertaining. I’m considering whether to buy the second season, the first one was on amazon prime but I’d have to pay for the next one.

    Oh, and I don’t think Succession is for me. I understand why everybody is raving about it, it is very clearly an extremely good, sharp show, but… I just can’t watch everybody being a dick all the time like this, it’s exhausting.

    I found Evil season 2 a let down after season 1 being one of the best things on TV. It still had some good stuff in the stand-alone plots, but the season arcs just got too ridiculous for me. Still enjoyed it on balance, but I would have been pissed off if I had paid for it :-)

     

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  • #109583

    They told us in the UK that we would have power cuts last winter. We didn’t have a single one here, and I didn’t hear of anything elsewhere in the country. I think the threat is just another tool in the politicans’ playbook of “how to keep the country scared and compliant”.

    I don’t know about South Africa, though. It looks like they’re suffering from decades of not investing in power stations. But why a country famous for its sunny weather is not 100% solar is a bit of a mystery.

     

  • #109558

    Maybe Bruce Wayne could sell JJJ photos of Batman in action as a side gig.

    I could see Jason Todd becoming a photographer just to troll them both.

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  • #109557

    “Listen to their ideas, then abandon your own position and go along with them, trusting God to sort it out.”

     

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  • #109556

    There was the first “North East Comic Con” in Newcastle last weekend. I didn’t go because I had to visit my sister, but it appears to have been a great success.

    Haven’t seen a single report about it that mentions comics, though, nor any lists of guests that includes anyone I recognise from comics.

    I’m not judging. I’m sure the TV and movie actors were all great. But I do wonder why they bother to put the word “comic” in the event title. It’s not as if comics have a high enough cultural capital for the word itself to be a selling point. I just don’t get it.

     

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  • #109555

    Well in Doctor Who, Humans are the main aliens, and as a rule Humans are generally terrible.

     

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