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  1. sh1t, too slow on the draw ??: I'm sick of all the level-headed free-thinking scum on this forum, with your 'facts', your 'radio 4' and your debunking of this hate filled right-wing propaganda. Where are the BNP massive? I want the air to crackle with hatred, fear and ignorance, and certainly not witness a bunch of guardian readers sucking each other's d1cks and rationally debating the issue before drawing a conclusion which satisfies all parties. Who want's a pointless fight?
  2. it was pretty funny watching the reaction of the Norwich fans (on the BBC webpage), from shock, to outrage, to celebrating the Colchester goals. a shocking result but i for one won't be taking too much pleasure from it, karma, and the saints, being the fickle and unpredictable beasts that they are.
  3. awesome! yes, come along and let winchester show you a good time
  4. hmmmm
  5. I'm joining the chorus of agreement. I've not read Watchmen and thought the film was pretty good. I thought the point was that, apart from Dr Manhattan, they were all vulnerable humans, and yet in the opening scene we see the Joker taking the sort of abuse that could have killed superman. He dies at the end of the scene but only after being thrown out a window. On its own merits, the film of From Hell was poor, but compared to the book its an absolute disgrace, mutilating the source material the way the ripper mutilated his victims. And where the flip did an opium smoking pixie-man come from? I'm certain that all of the police in the book are very much of their time i.e. pragmatic thugs. V for Vendetta worked pretty well as a film, apart from the sick-inducing ending, but again, compared to the book it really was a cop-out. If I had to pick a favourite Moore graphic novel then I'd probably go for the second volume of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen , where they battle H.G Wells's Martian invaders. Its just so funny and dark and inventive. And famously, Moore hates all film adaptations of his work because he sees the comic book and the film as being incompatible, what works in one usually falls flat in its face in the other. This is especially true with the kind of complex and challanging comics that Moore has made his own.
  6. I saw Gattaca last night for the first time and liked it (quite) a lot. It has a really striking visual style, a pace of its own and it effectively probes away at a real grey area, how society's quest for genetic perfection could result in a new kind of prejudice based on your blood type and susceptibility to disease, and how the flaws that make us human could ultimately enslave us to a place in the under-class. Ethan Hawke is on top form but Jude Law gives one of his more wooden performances. I'm no Jude Law hater but I kept wondering how he ended up with an English accent that could shame **** Van Dyke. The film reminded me of some of the other 'identity crisis' films that sprang up in the late 90s (Being John Malkovich/American Psycho/Fight Club/Momento) as well as drawing upon familiar sci-fi sources like Blade Runner. It bobs along very nicely until the last 20 mins when it feels it has to tie up all the loose ends and give us an emotionally satisfying conclusion. But even when the narrative goes slightly t1ts-up, it looks amazing. Good stuff 8/10
  7. I'm pretty sure that Russ Abbott's Atmosphere is a different tune to Joy Divisions. I don't recall Ian Curtis singing the lines... "Let Me Take You There, and You And I'll Be Dancin' In The Cool Night Air! oh Oh oh What An Atmosphere! i Love A Party With A Happy Atmosphere, Mmmm Yeah, music Everywhere, and Soon We'll Be Dancin' In The Cool Night Air!" and I don't think Russ Abbott has the gravity to sing... "Your confusion, my illusion, worn like a mask of self-hate,confronts and then dies"
  8. Hate to sound contradictory, but I think it looks very poor. Since Jackie Brown, Tarantino has been out of sorts. Kill Bill 1 just gets away with it but part II and Death Proof suffer from the same problems, they swing clumsily from horror to slapstick, the violence is plain nasty, and the trademark dialogue which used to set his films on fire now just drags them out to frankly tedious ends. Apparently the opening scene in Inglorious basterds is a 25 minute chat between a milk-maid and a German officer which goes nowhere and ends without any sense of conclusion. You won't catch me getting too excited about that.
  9. how do you know if there is a drummer at the door? the knocking gets faster whats the difference between a drummer and a drum machine? you only have to punch the information into a drum machine once how do you know if a drummer's stool is level? he dribbles out the middle of his mouth and slightly off the topic... how many bass players does it take to change a lightbulb? one, but he'll need a guitarist to tell him where to put his fingers
  10. Genuinly touched by this, he was a true gent and a great manager. A sad day.
  11. cheers for the game you got a quality keeper there! whilst the sinistry of mound continue to underwhelm with their recent league form, results else where have blown the title wide open. 1. Dev's Allstars....................10 8 0 2 48 12 36 24 2. tels tigers........................10 8 0 2 45 11 34 24 3. Cambridge United FC .........10 7 1 2 47 11 36 22 4. the sinistry of mound fc...10 7 1 2 40 8 32 22 with four games to go, just 2 points and four goals separate the top half of the table. we've got an easy run-in with games against the three bot teams and then the current league leaders who got battered on Sunday, cambridge united are the form team, coming back from the grave to get a chance to go back up to league 5. Devs Allstars and Tels tigers have a wealth of 5 star-plus players but seem content to **** the league title away. its going to be an exciting conclusion!
  12. I've gotta agree. Pacino's performance in Scarface is a 'turned up to 11' version of his role in Godfather part 2 which IMO is him at his very best. For the vast majority of GF2 he's just this simmering ball of rage waiting to explode, and in the couple of occasions he does he's truely terrifying. But in scarface he just repeats it until he ends up as a cartoon version of himself. I think he's a better actor when his rage is more internal, playing rather desperate and doomed characters. He's amazing in Dog Day Afternoon, Insomnia, Glen Gary Glenross, Serpico, Carlito's Way to name a few, Heat just fails to make the cut as the wrong guy dies at the end, which spoils the whole film for me. :confused: I watched the bourne films back to back and they still rock. the thing that makes them so good for me is that they go back to the bond films pre-CGI, where people would see films again and again just to watch incredible stunts being done FOR REAL. The rooftop chase in Bourne 3 makes the one at the start of Casino Royale seem contrived and over-choreographed, and of course the jaw dropping bourne scene when he leaps out the window, across the street and in through a lower story window is quickly nabbed and used in Quantom of Solice. Bond, re-booted in the form of bourne, has still got some catching up to do. The bourne films also have the edge on the re-booted batman films which again, post 9/11, became all gritty and politically aware. All have been heavily influenced by the jerky camera style of The Shield, which people seem to love but compared to The Wire, its laughably two-dimensional. But for all Bourne's plus points, bourne 3 feels like a reharsh of bourne 2, albeit with amazing set pieces. I hope bourne 4 tries something new, and moves away from the annoying flash backs and endless stream of evil surrigate father figures. one strange thing i noticed is that they're very much relationship films. in Identity, bourne meets a girl and falls in love. in supremacey the relationship ends and bourne is a very unhappy bunny. in ultimatum, bourne hooks up with his ex, makes her cut and dye her hair (as he did with his lost love), leads her on but at the key moment doesn't do the dirty with her, pushes her on a bus and tells her to get lost. i think in bourne 4 he'll end up boning the surrigate-mother, Pamela Landy. its classic fruedian stuff, now he's killed the castrating father (or in bourne's case, all three of them), he can live out his mosr primal urge and covert his mom. And who wouldn't?
  13. very good call, and I'll raise you with the beach assualt in private ryan and the attack on the japanese camp in thin red line. I watched the bourne trilogy the other day and the fight scenes in that are amazing, especially when he's flattening assasins with everyday household items, such as rolled up magazines, cook books, trifles and sleepy kittens. there's a hilarious deconstructed fight scene in Alphaville (oh those crazy french) which culminates with the hero driving over the villan's head. and least we forget the amazing fight scenes Scorsese gives us in Mean Streets and Raging Bull. oh yeah, when neo fights agent smith at the end of the first (and in my book, the only) matrix film. i could go on...
  14. I think that Stanley, and everyone else 'special' enough to drink from Nick Griffin's fowl teats, would disagree with you there. The holocaust was actually a big tea party with rainbows and kittens and smiles and laughter. The evil Jewish press, supported by intellectual gay gypsies, then spun this into some kind of mechanised slaughter for their own dastardly means. And as a result, white working-class racists are now treated like a minority in their own country by the PC brigade, general do-gooders and the health and safety lot. Hopefully, when the BNP sieze power, films like The Pianist will be exposed as nothing but lies. I mean, can anybody actually prove that WWII happened or that Poland exists?
  15. my dreams of promotion were finally put to the sword on Sunday after a 0-1 defeat to the third place side. It was incredibly tight until I threw a defender up front to make the break-through and then conceeded a goal 30 seconds later. I believe the phrase is 'phuksticks, mother's khunt'. On the plus side, this frees me up to give some of my young uns some first team experience for the rest of the season. me too, my collection of the young, the lame and the desperately out of form will be playing a new formation tonight which will either be a roaring success or a dismall failure, either way, there will be goals!
  16. SPOLIER WARNING THINGY ABOUT PANS LABYRINTH The endings a real killer, this bad thing happens which you don't expect, you then have this wonderful fantasy sequence which comes and wraps a nice warm blanket around you and tells you everything's alright, and then with the very last shot of the film it rips the blanket away and tells you that actually everything is very far from alright and that fairy tales, untouched by disney, don't have happy endings. its interesting that its about the spanish civil war but its set two years after the war officially ended. spain remained under fascist control until the 70s so its clear that the rebel forces ultimately lost their struggle, so i guess this is their last small victory of sorts. maybe its not that interesting.
  17. http://www.smh.com.au/news/sport/cricket/merciless-flintoff-shows-australia-what-they-are-lacking/2009/07/20/1247941873482.html Here's a really good article in the Sydney morning herald, its author points out that the aussies have now gone 5 competitive games without a win (including the 20/20 thing) and he fears they are becoming a mid-table side. there is a very real fear that if Freddie carries on in this form and lasts till the end of the series, the aussies could get pasted. Obviously, we fear that they'll come back at us all guns blazing, they fear that they've got nothing left to offer. But bret lee might be on the road to recovery, he's got some of the old fire and never-say-die attitude and must be itching to make his mark on the series the way freddie did today. as many people have pointed out, flintoff's test figures really aren't up to much when comparing him with the greats, but he can really confirm his place in the select few by delivering the killer blow to the australia's dominance of test cricket since i can remember.:axe::smt071:smt070::minigun::smt066 what a phucking amazing result, one which makes the cardiff draw feel like a victory so here's too freddie, strauss & cook, collie, the wagging tail and an aggressive yet disciplined bowling attack ONE-NIL!
  18. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jul/02/apollo-11-hoax-myths-debunked
  19. could this be building up to another classic 'final ball' ashes conclusion? i'm sure we all hope not. we're still bowling well but we really could do with breaking these two up before the close of play. but we've still got lots of time in hand and runs in the bank, as long as it doesn't rain too much tomorrow [-o
  20. be happy but be prepared to have a little cry now and again and brace yourself for the immensely moving ending. have you seen it before?
  21. Not a song, but a prayer.. Our Liebherr, who art in Switzerland, hallowed be thy Nazi gold, Thy billions come, we will be gone, through the play-offs or automatic promotion Give us this day our daily cashmoney As we prepare to sh!t on those that have been sh1tting on us. And lead us not back into administration, but deliver us from league 1 For thine is really smashing, how many billions did you say you had? for ever and ever. Amen
  22. its probably the best kept secret on the internet, type P-A-W-N into google and prepare to party :smt117
  23. i don't understand whats stopping you from looking at nakie ladies on some of the other websites out there on the internet? unless of course this is the only website you're allowed to visit :smt018
  24. Have done :cool: if when you look at the games you've played you click on the triangle made out of dots, you get a star rating for each player. my highest star rating for a player is four and a half so far, but i try to only pick first team players who can get three stars plus. for league 7, i imagine you wouldn't want a player that scores less than 2 stars.
  25. Robocop 2 - not the worst film ever made, but still utterly awful compared to the first film. rubbish script, terrible acting, cringe-worthy attempts at humour, no audience empathy whatsoever, and it leaves a nasty taste in the mouth like anything connected to Frank Miller (he wrote the script). Whereas the first film had great fun attacking the notion of vigilante justice, this one just wants to be Dirty Harry. 3/10 Alphaville - Crazy French New Wave sci-fi (set in a distant galaxy which looks a lot like Paris in the 60s) that has great fun deconstructing film noir, but like most of Goddard's films, its a bit of a slog to get through. Contains one of the funniest fight scenes ever. 7/10 Slumdog Millionairre - pretty good I suppose but nothing amazing, its most interesting aspect is that it takes the viewer on a tour of Mumbai's slums and dares to have a hero that works in a call-centre. 6/10 Man on Wire - brilliant documentary about the twin towers and the french wire-walker who made it his dream to break in and travel from rooftop to rooftop. its made like a bank heist and to its credit leaves all the 9/11 stuff unsaid. But the shots of the towers being built can't help but conjure up images of its twisted and burnt wreckage. highly recommended. 9/10 Thats a crazy film. I don't think too many films come out of Belgium but here are three great French films made by Belgium directors - The Ordeal/Calvaire - if you got to the end of Man Bites Dog then you'll probably 'enjoy' this one. A club singer breaks down in the middle of the French countryside and gets abducted by the freaky, in-bred locals for all manner of appalingness. The first half is slow-burning and the second half is absolutely phucked in the head insane. Just like the manin character, you reach a point in the craziness where you start laughing uncontrollably. its unforgettable and very funny, but not funny ha-ha. Delicatessen & The City of Lost Children - two very strange but great early films by the guy who later did Alien 4 and Amelie.
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