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The rest of your post I think is a matter of taste, but when you mention it I do think these are direct failures of the adaptation for non-readers. I dunno that everyone would feel them as strongly as you, but there is definitely stuff left unexplained here. Basically the answer to the first one is 'they know there are people there, they just don't realise how many'. It's a genuine important part of the theme really- the Harkonnens were just so uninterested in the people they were exploiting, they dismissed them. The 'Oh shit there's millions of them' moment is quite prominent in the book, but there just wasn't one here. I would say the 'just land there from space' thing is pretty easily handwavable- where would you land a spaceship that it wouldn't immediately get eaten by a sandworm. The other part would have been even easier to fix because it would have taken all of three lines of dialogue to explain that using atomics on people is their society's greatest taboo (after maybe using computers).

This is absolutely brutal

KingAerys is just jealous because GRRM has read the Silmarillion and he hasn't.

Well of course. It's Klopp's last season.

Well done Rochdale. Good going.

You're responding as if I were arguing that films have to have loads of dialogue. But I didn't. It's just that Villeneuve said he hates dialogue in movies and strongly implied that they shouldn't have much of it, and I'm saying that that's silly. If anything your examples also knock down Villeneuve's point because he's essentially putting forward the thesis that there aren't many strong image-led movies these days, but you named two off the top of your head. There are loads. He might have a point if we're talking strictly big, effects-heavy blockbusters. They're very often visually-lazy movies dominated by quips and buffyspeak, and there Dune stands out. But even there he's not alone: The Creator and The Batman aren't like that for example.

The problems isn't with the idea that some movies could stand to have less or no dialogue. It's that what he actually said was that dialogue is for TV and shouldn't be a big deal in movies. The idea that dialogue heavy movies are a post-golden-age-TV thing is pretty wild too tbh, athough that was an interviewer insert that Villeneuve just agreed with. Like Quentin Tarantino doesn't exist. Hell, like Casablanca doesn't exist.

Nah he's being dumb there. Possibly for hyperbole reasons because there's a valid underlying point to think about there. But what he actually says is some real silly shit.

btw I've been being obnoxious about my guy JWP all season and in the meantime one of the other guys I've been bigging up for time has quietly put together a genuine POTY contender season. Ollie Watkins with 16 goals and 10 assists? That's some Thierry Henry numbers.

Gangster No. 1 Layer Cake (it's legit mad that there's only four years between them, the feel is so different) Get Carter (the original of course) Snatch is a must if you like Lock Stock and haven't seen it Not considered a classic, but Wild Bill is a fun, sweet movie about a notorious ex-gangster just out of prison and trying to live a life as dad.

British gangster films > American gangster films yeah I said it I actually haven't seen The Godfather though. No idea why. There are a lot of classics I've not seen, but that one's really one that shouldn't have escaped me, but has. Mind you I haven't seen Long Good Friday either as the representative for British gangster flicks so... swings and roundabouts innit.

So is Goodfellas

I mean, that puts a whole different spin on it than the situation you originally described to be fair. 'I missed a family birthday that happens on the same day every year' is a whole different issue to 'my brother asked me to take three hours out of his day to do him a favour', especially since I don't think I'm the only one who read it with the distinct implication you asked him last minute. Wow, this thread is now AITA.

Obviously I should really be rooting for Aston Villa to lose and give us the smallest chance to haul them in, but realistically we're not gonna anyway, and them and Arsenal are the only non-heinous teams in the title race so... that's fine.

FA and PGMOL to Liverpool's rescue again I see.

Update from a friend and coworker of mine who's currently sitting in a detention center after fleeing Russia to avoid being drafted into the war and eventually trying to immigrate into the US. ICE suuuuuuuuuuucks.

On the earlier question of Galloway and why is he bad- he's one of those people who claims to be pro-freedom etc, but isn't, he's just anti-western and will support any anti-US/UK voice that he thinks will allow him to get a few licks in. Not only Russia as some have mentioned but Iran, plus at times Saddam in Iraq. And he's vocally a supporter of Hamas specifically, not just Palestinian freedom. He's also got all the moral strength of a wet biscuit. Check out his flip-flopping position on both Saddam and Assad depending on what he thinks is more beneficial to him at any given moment. Like he criticised Saddam during the 80s when he was getting support from Britain against Iran, was meeting with him in the 90s and then when he fell he was a bestial dictator who Galloway always wanted rid of. Also this (targeted letters in general are pretty standard, but fuck me these are shameless. How are you going to go all in on 'I am a fighter for the Muslim world' with one hand and toot grooming-gang dogwhistles with the other): He also thinks the fall of the Soviet Union was a great tragedy so fuck that guy.

So yeah, some thoughts:

On the continuity error: Anyway, I'll have fuller thoughts when I get home but a really good film. I liked most of the changes, even if they removed some ambiguity.

Ancient Greek kinslayers shake their heads sadly

Did our boy just suggest that Tolkien invented the concept of Kinslaying. Also: Ursula Le Guin shakes her head sadly alternatively Nnedi Okorafor shakes her head sadly

Didn't know we had Roy Keane on these forums.

I dunno if it's still the case or if there's been some change in the writing in the last few years, but about 6-10 years back nearly every English-speaking parent I knew who had let their kids watch Peppa banned them from doing so, because imitating the way she talks made them so rude. Weirdly that problem didn't translate over to German so much. The whole 'German is more direct' thing I guess.

That would be fine, more or less, in a broad sense, but the last paragraph is using that complicity to justify the October attacks. The scare quotes just drive the point home- he's saying there are no illegitimate targets for Hamas.