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How is this your conclusion to that story?

lol. Honestly, if Auggie was a man, but looked like Jason Momoa or Chris Hemsworth it would be just as distracting.

It's like there are 2 shows going on with 3 Body Problem. There is the high concept alien story, with historic elements in China. And then there is the 'Oxford Five' show. One is much more interesting than the other. I agree that Cunningham and Wong are knocking it out the park with their performances, and good enough that they can say any old crap and make it sound good. The rest of the cast really don't have it. The Oxford 5 really are just a bunch of daytime tv quality actors thrown into an expensive production, one or two of them are really bad. Eliza Gonzalez is incredible looking and can't complain when she is on screen, but she is also not great, and as I mentioned before, her being one of the most beautiful women on the planet and having a hair and beauty regime required to maintain that doesn't really align to the idea she is some hard working scientist who spends all day in a lab. In fact none of them really seem to be that hard working. So that element is just really quite bad and silly. Very much 'Late Game of Thrones' level of writing. The rest of the show I do quite enjoy though, and am kind of hoping they jump past this bit quickly

Roadhouse 2024's existence feels like the product of some late night coke fuelled Hollywood conversation. It is a real mess of a movie.. thought not always unenjoyable. I can only imagine Conor McGregor was at one of these parties and had an idea about getting into acting, and was rambling on to Joel Silver, who said he'd put him into something just to get rid of him. McGregor is just bizarre. Roided up to the teeth, gurning and twitching, his new veneers on show in every scene as he just grins and swaggers around. You wouldn't call it acting, but someone decided he did enough to stay in the movie. There are a bunch of other over the top performances too. I've seen commentary that 'they don't make movies like this any more'.. they do! It's just you don't watch those movies because they are so awful. The other side of this movie mixes incredibly uncomfortably with the over the top swagger and silliness. It's like Doug Liman and Jake Gyllenhaal wanted to make this deeper, smart movie about the life of a down and out UFC fighter.. but that got merged with a big dumb Roadhouse remake by Joel Silver and somehow this monster was produced. Having said that, I quite liked it!

So furious that United scored so late again, after being utterly wank for so long. Felt so horribly undeserved, especially after so many chances Brentford had missed by an inch or so. So it was glorious for Brentford to pull one back and take those points away from United. Really they should have scored even more to win it, but can't have everything.

Makes me want to vote for him even more.

Revisiting Claremont stuff from that period can be a bit rough. Every time I’ve tried it, the wordiness and the style and the rushing just feels really odd, where I barely noticed it when I was a kid. I guess this stuff doesn’t quite translate to 2024 animation for me. Or maybe it translates far too well. I dunno.

Agree it was pretty quick, but I don’t remember them rushing through the plot at this pace.

I'm halfway through the series, and my general thoughts are that I find the concepts and ideas far more interesting than many of the characters, so maybe that weakness isn't totally improved.

Actually Episode 3 is just bizarre really. The pace of change of Madeline going 'oh what I'm a clone?!' to 'Yup I guess I'm a crazy supervillain now' is done within the blink of an eye. It just feels really really weird. I mean basically everything that happens over the episode is so squeezed from what I think is the story from the comics it's almost funny.

What point are you trying to make?

Yeah he’s a dick and he handled the whole thing very very badly. If he got a minute of jail time for that it would be insane. 2.5 years in jail for a slightly inappropriate kiss would make you wonder what world you live on.

Maybe A Serbian Film. Just really grim. Audition the Takashi Miike movie really freaked me out when I first saw it too.

I must have been about 10 when Burton Batman came out. It’s hard to really capture just how much hype there was for that movie. I had all the T-shirts and merch. The Batman tshirt was maybe THE clothing item to own as a boy back then. But then I watched the movie. Even then I knew something was off. The script is really wierd, i just remember it being very disjointed, people talking in soundbytes rather than sentences. I came out feeling pretty disappointed and never felt the need to watch it again, which is weird given how often I would rewatch movies. Probably doesn’t help that I read The Killing Joke before I saw the movie, and a similar story where the Burton take comes off much worse. I appreciate the Burton style a lot nowadays and what he did was really interesting and noteworthy. I probably before Batman returns these days but I will never love those movies.

It’s funny how people talk about culture wars like it’s a right wing thing, but when left wing policies or actions are implemented which right wingers complain about, that’s not culture wars.. it’s just something to accept.

Yeah I think lunatics on social media don't need much of a push to get sucked into that sort of stuff.

So now Episode 3 of X-Men 97 is kind of getting me excited. Pretty much the point where I stopped reading the comics was somewhere around the time there was the X-men / X-Factor crossover event with Mr Sinister and Madeline Pryor. I guess they are pretty much building up to that, just in a bit of a different way.

It kinda does.

There is a 'Gran Turismo' movie, that is not 'Gran Torino' by Clint Eastwood, and I watched it. It's opening 10 minutes is bizarre. It's maybe the closest to an actual advertisement for a product I have ever experienced in a movie. It opens with a montage of the creator of the Gran Turismo game and how he created the greatest driving game the universe has ever seen. Outside of that element, which was utterly shameless, I quite enjoyed the movie. The main kid who sits in his room playing games all day actually seemed pretty grounded in reality. There were also surprisingly ok performance from Orlando Bloom and Ginger Spice!

Sure, the location is relevant, but I think the Lower Thames Crossing is a case study in how not to build infrastructure and it involves many of the elements that are holding back UK construction. The conservation element is a part of it but it's a much bigger picture. This is a pretty good summary of many of the issues Budget blowouts and delays: why the UK struggles with infrastructure

lol, feel like I’m bashing my head against a wall here. Apparently because I think spending £300m and 13 years just to PLAN a crossing might be a bit much.. I just want to introduce the Chinese system.

How do they cross the river if the nearest crossing is miles away?

It’s a river crossing, it might help solve the problem for people who need to cross the river

Feels like you are dodging the question here. Saying ‘projects go over budget’ doesn’t really touch the sides of £9bn for a river crossing plus the insane amount of time and paperwork involved. The question is whether it is reasonable and whether there might be a signal here that there is something broken with UK planning processes which makes it unreasonably difficult to ever get anything made. Making comparisons to China is totally inappropriate too, again there is a massive difference between ‘less convoluted planning’ and ‘Chinese corruption and white elephant projects’. It’s about a level that is reasonable.

Tell that to the people who live in the area. Anyway. Not the point.