Penn and Teller
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QUOTE (Chimp with a Limp @ Apr 1 2018, 12:40 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Also, great review Penn and Teller
I think I preferred your review! I wanted to tear it to shreds but realised that I am not the target audience and am fascinated to find out what kids and teens get from the detritus of our youths.
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QUOTE (Al. @ Apr 1 2018, 02:00 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I went to see the Pacific Rim 2 in the cinema over Ready Player One and Isle of Dogs and I have no regrets. As above I assumed it would never exist so I was delighted to get an opportunity to live in the world once again. It is definitely a worse film than the original with none of the style and class of GDT but all I wanted was some big robot fighting. It does that and after a bit of a slow start it never gets boring or feel too cheap. This is Jurassic Park 2 to Jurassic Park. In all ways worse and not all that great.. but it scratches a dino itch so you watch it occasionally anyway. If you loved the original and are happy enough to take the quality cut just to see more like me this is 3/5. Otherwise don't bother.
Never saw the original in the cinema so might bite the bullet with this one.
Al, are you familiar with Robot Jox? Late 1980s movie with a similar premise, it isn't a patch on Pacific Rim but I found it entertaining enough on rewatch after decades. -
2018 feels a bit bananas. It is like my apocalyptic pals were all right as regards WWIII.
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I haven't watch it yet but it has the most varied reviews in my personal circle of anything in a long time.
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Ready Player One (2018)
I gave it around about a 3/5 in my review for Thumped https://thumped.com/movies/movie-reviews/ready-player-one/
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I watched S1 and although I liked it I wasn't scrambling to see S2. It seemed to kinda fizzle out a bit at some stage. I might give S2 a go at some stage, the show is one of the more interesting and better made of recent crop.
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QUOTE (Chimp with a Limp @ Nov 8 2016, 11:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>As for Sirtis, I have met her within the last two years at a comicon and she has a bawdy English accent, plus to be fair is twenty years older than in the show.
So still amazing I hope.
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Watched it all. Thoroughly excellent in every way. I adored the set dressing detail for utterly unremarkable things. Large metal trash cans in alleys. Those utterly cylindrical beer and pop cans. The calculator wrist watch.
It's absolutely worth reading the subreddit sorted by top. Some great AMAs and fan art.
https://www.reddit.com/r/StrangerThings/?so...op&time=all
I am saving this up to watch all in one go on one of the lonely christmas days off. -
Jupiter Ascending (2015)
If someone ever gives my 8 year old niece €100,000,000 to make a film I hope she makes a better stab at it than this. Some dodgy effects, from facial make up to city/space scapes that look like they were cogged from Myst, largely incomprehensible and silly plot, and more ham acting outside of a Miss Piggy revue, and yet there is some charm here and an awful sense of what might have been, given all the resources and talent poured into it. 2.5/5, might be willing to go to 3 if when my niece watches it she likes it. -
When I visit my mother, who has cable tv, I catch bits and pieces of TNG episodes. One thing that struck me having seen an S2 episode of late, Marina Sirtis was ridiculously pretty. I know it probably sounds silly as she was many a teenage TNG fan's introduction to puberty but it is the most striking feature of that part of the show's run other than, with the benefit of time how much it seems to have way more in common with TOS than it did when I initially watched it.
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Wow, that is amazing that you moved back to NZ (sorry I haven't been here in months). I always wondered, having spent the better part of a decade going out with American women, whether I could live there and part of me felt I couldn't or at least wouldn't like it nor feel as safe I suppose as I do here.
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QUOTE (Al. @ Sep 30 2016, 01:59 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>There's a lot of talk about it being the last Glastonbury in its original location next year. If anyone had always planned to go this is the time to get off ass. Tickets on sale on the 9th and requires registration before hand to be able to buy.
Hoping to be working at it this year since it is last chance saloon for me and I've never been there, nor to a real camping festival before. -
I watched the last Captain America there recently and I found it surprisingly watchable. I haven't watched all the franchise films but it seemed way stronger than most of the recent Marvel cinematic universe cash cow excretions. I do think the formula is running its course, the meta-ishness, the one liners. I don't know if they need a gritty reboot or, like with the recentish Antman film, they need to concentrate on telling a story about one or a couple of characters and not shoe-horning in 10 name stars for the people who get off on them all being in one film.
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Is there any real doubt Clinton isn't going to win?
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I went sea fishing for the first time in my life last May. I only went as I was visiting my cousin and thought feck it I'll tag along to at least go out on the water, had no real interest in getting to fish. It so happens it was immensely enjoyable. I found it hard to stand on the boat while fishing as trying to balance distracted from trying to fish but once I sat down and cast out the line I was enchanted. A whole afternoon melted by as if it were half an hour. We caught a rake of pollock. It was a real eye opener as without the particular circumstances I would never have bothered trying. I haven't been fishing since but it is definitely something I intend doing again.
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I have enjoyed the episodes I've seen of this and Carmen my 8 year old niece digs it but for kids' shows (which I don't think Rick & Morty is intended to be but which I enjoy a lot in parts) with a wide range of age appeal I would go with Steven Universe every time. I haven't started watching it comprehensively but it is a really enjoyable show with a lot of heart and wisdom and Carmen enjoys it even more than Adventure Time.
There is a slew of other kid/adult shows on the various childrens' channels my mother has and I've dipped into some of them such as Uncle Grandpa and some of them definitely have their charms for a world weary mid-30s eejit.
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Glad to see nostalgia catching up with my later youth!
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QUOTE (Al. @ Mar 4 2016, 07:53 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Pretty much nailed it. Unless there is a serious amount of unseen funny this is going to be mediocre at best. Is this meant to be in the same universe btw? Why the references in the trailer to the old team? This lot appear to be starting from scratch.
Apparently some of the original cast have cameos in it. -
Bit of a sketchy racial element there no?
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I mentioned the books in the Book thread http://www.chimpwithalimp.com/boards/index...ost&p=18627
I have the series ready to watch when I get a chance. The initial trailers made it look like cheap 90s scifi but I will try make more time to give at least the first episode a peak.
It could definitely do with a bigger budget.
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QUOTE (Al. @ Feb 18 2016, 07:53 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I assume it is like secret torrent sites and after a year you get a free invite for a friend? The last holdouts in home ownership are falling here leaving me as one of the last renters. Something I'd be fine with if there was anything decent to rent for under a fortune. Hell I'd consider buying except for there is a strange ritual involving nudity, masks and wax neccessary to get approval for mortgages and you still get a hovel from the 30s with electrics hastily sellotaped in at the end of that. Basically what I'm saying is Ireland is a nice place to live but for the finding a nice place to live in it part. May have to consider elsewhere unless the economy collapses (come on president Trump!)
I live in a fantastic Victorian gaff in Stoneybatter with three other people and the rent is not onerous. I am the youngest (though alas no longer young
) and I am getting a bit freaked out about not owning somewhere. My current situation is all but perfect but I don't want to be renting with "strangers" when I am 44. It is amazing how hard it is to find somewhere to live in this city.
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The Expanse
Has anyone watched this? It is by no means perfect but very watchable SyFy 10 part production set in a partially colonised future solar system. The first season really struck a decent balance between telling its own story and leaving one wanting more. I am surprised I have not heard more about the show. There are some elements of it that are excellent, hard sci-fi based and a lot of the political satire in it is very of the moment. I know this doesn't work as an endorsement around here but at its best it reminded me of the best facets of Babylon 5.
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I still managed to black out at a gaff party. Hurrah.