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Heartofice

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  1. Yeah makes sense that in certain positions its about being in place to hit on the counter, even then it does sound like Rashford could apply himself a bit more, though I've always thought the criticism of him is a bit over blown. At the same time, it's not like he's Messi, he's not good enough to change games for you in the same way, so I would have imagined that ETH would want a more pressurising player in that position. I'm not really sure what ETH's tactical style is at this point however.
  2. Even Stephen Colbert is out there laughing about the rumours https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/mar/13/stephen-colbert-prince-william-kate-photoshop The big rumour, that William had a child through an affair and Kate had a breakdown is getting even mainstream traction. Have to wonder though, I doubt Colbert would be joking about it if there was a suspicion it was true.
  3. Does he actually track back though? It's all become a bit of a cliche now, with lots of video of him just jogging along not even making minimum effort, but then I've also seen him occasionally running back too. Not sure what the general view is on that.
  4. From what I heard he was never very tactically astute and was never required to be that tactical at Shaktar. Even at a much cheaper price it's hard to see the reason for buying him, other than loaning him out to one of their linked clubs and trying to sell him on later.
  5. I get the sense that if Rashford got his head together he could be.. well, much better than he is. He seems to be let down by his own mentality and is very much affected by everything going on around him. Maybe a move to PSG will do him good, it would pretty much end his England career but he's hardly a starter anyway. Mudryk really does seem to be the worst signing, it seems to much more a case of him being worlds away from what is required tactically, maybe even technically, and it's bizarre that nobody spotted that when they were doing scouting.
  6. Watched a couple of episodes of The Gentleman, the series on Netflix by Guy Ritchie. I will say going in that I turned off the movie less than 30 minutes in, it felt like a parody of a Guy Ritchie movie, all of his worst excesses and cliches bundled into a boring half hour. The show however seems to be less in your face with the Ritchie-isms. Oh they are there, it has some weed selling burnouts, a bunch of cockney geezers, a rag tag bunch of blokes Ritchie met down the pub playing hardened criminals, an Irish gypsy boxer, Vinnie Jones... it's all there. The structure is a bit more straightforward, there are some fun characters and for the most part it's quite enjoyable. Main negatives are those weak cockney accents. The main female character is doing what I can only describe as a 'Kate Nash' (One hit wonder singer from the 00's who did a pretty silly chirpy accent) or Lily Allen, which is a bit distracting, but not the end of the world. Oh and Gus Fring is in it, doing Gus Fring.
  7. I was also a massive Xmen fan at the time, collected the comics. Tuned in to the show.. fucking Jubilee appears.. naaaah. Goodbye. Spiderman the animated show, now that was good.
  8. Not to you maybe, but by the time I saw Requiem, Leto had been in at least 3 of the biggest movies in the last year. Just because you hadn't been paying attention doesn't make it so. I remember the time very clearly, maybe you don't.
  9. Not sure if you are being deliberately obtuse or you are sleepy or something. Point being, Leto wasn't an unknown comparable to McGregor, he was a well known face, he was basically a movie star. Requiem is full of movie stars, that in of itself makes far less grounded than Trainspotting. I could point to a few other things in the way the movie is produced that means it doesn't feel quite so authentic. I will suggest that this will also be a cultural thing. I'm in the UK, UK productions will feel more authentic than an American one. But at the same time, I do think there are a lot of elements of Requiem that mean it's almost like a cosplay of realism.
  10. Apart from you know.. the massive movies he was also in at the same time and that he was on posters on every girls was for years sure. Either way, my point isn't that it's a Hollywood movie in the way that Independence day is, but that in comparison to Trainspotting it really has a layer of Hollywood attached to it and a lack of reality. It feels much less authentic.. and a bit try hard.
  11. Can't say I find her to be the most trustworthy of sources, but it's all pretty engrossing none the less.
  12. What? McGregor had been in one major movie previously, Shallow Grave, that had some underground buzz but was hardly mainstream. Trainspotting was his breakout really. Johnny Lee Miller was a total unknown and pretty much still is. Everyone else in the movie was basically even more unknown. Jared Leto had just come off the back of Thin Red Line, Fight Club, Girl Interrupted and American Psycho, plus was a teen hearthrob from My So Called Life. Marlon Wayans had been in a bunch of pretty big movies and was well known at the time. Jennifer Connolly had been around since she was in Labyrinth and Burstyn was a huge name.
  13. Not absurd at all! Think you are taking this a little too personally mate. Anyway, just look at the cast, Trainspotting had a bunch of unknowns, regular looking people, speaking in a language that is barely intelligible to anyone outside of Scotland. Requiem had a cast made up of major Hollywood stars, Jared Leto and Jennifer Connelly being some of the most beautiful people around, Burstyn and Wayans also incredibly recognisable. I know Requiem is a dark and grim, but it also is clearly a Hollywood movie. I also highly doubt Aronofsky had never seen Trainspotting by the time he'd made Requiem.
  14. My comparison to The Office is in the way the same topic can be approached differently but the similarities and differences say a lot about the creators and the culture and audience it’s designed for. Also Requiem and Trainspotting are from a similar period of time so stylistically share a lot of the same language, in a way that US Office takes a lot of cues from the UK version and adapts them to what it wants to do. Maybe it’s not a totally fair comparison, but that’s how it felt at the time. Trainspotting feeling real and gritty, Requiem feeling like a grim Pepsi advert in comparison, the facade of reality but with a Hollywood sheen that broke the illusion. Which is kind of how I feel about US office.
  15. By the time Requiem for a Dream had come out I had probably seen Danny Boyle's Trainspotting about 10 times. So my reaction to it was that it just felt like an overblown Americanised version of that. Similar subject, but higher production values, bigger stars, less subtlety. Dunno if I would feel the same now, I certainly have never wanted to watch it twice, but in my head it's like the difference between the UK and US The Office.
  16. Yeah it’s shit. They put out emails saying you can upgrade to not get adverts. Cheek of it, they have almost nothing on there most of the time anyway.
  17. I'm pretty sure he is, there doesn't appear to be a 'Where did this Ginger hair come?!' situation like previously.
  18. That would be funny, but unfortunately it's Prince George next.. the Spare has fulfilled his role as a kidney and liver backup and can stay in LA, partying.
  19. Theres is a whole thing about this guy Thomas Kingston, who was a friend of Kate or something, shooting himself, and William leaving an event when that came out, and him having bruises on his neck. The rabbit hole is so deep, it's hilarious. Just imagining the scenario where William has murdered someone for having an affair with Kate. They would have to do another season of the Crown, thats how big it would be.
  20. Off the back of UK Oscar success, we should remind ourselves that the real disparity when it comes to representation in the arts is class. Nearly half of UK award nominees in last decade were privately educated It's surprising that number is so low to be honest. Not only are the arts riddled with Nepo-Babies, but in order to get anywhere you basically need to know the right people, have gone to the right school, and have a shit ton of cash to allow you to basically not do a proper job for your early career. Plus you need a plummy posh accent too.
  21. So apparently Kate was seen in a car driving to an event yesterday.. and yet the BBC just publish a photo of her silhouette inside the car, where you can barely see her. That is hardly going to stop the conspiracy theorists! I have to admit I'm starting to have fun with it all, there was a video where someone noticed all the kids and Kate are wearing the exact same clothes from an event in November, just recoloured and 'shopped. It's just so mad and set's the mind racing! There would be such a simple way for the Royals to put an end to all of it, and yet it seemingly hasn't happened, which is the most odd part of it. When you look at how the English language has changed over the centuries and how there is a massive disconnect between the way words are written and how they are spoken, it all tends to make sense, in so much that nothing actually makes sense and you shouldn't try and reason with it.
  22. Yeah, the silliness is kind of the point. Fallout was never a game that took the setting especially seriously, it was always a weird kitsch 'Jetsons gone wrong' vibe that made it very appealing and made it stand out from the crowd. I always remember playing those first two games and being mesmerised by the old time music in front of imagery of an apocalypse, with cartoon visuals. It very much has it's own aesthetic and the show, so far, seems to have done a good job capturing it.
  23. Sure, I just think you need to be in the right mood to watch it. It’s purposefully grotesque and the music is ear splitting. It’s good, but I didn’t really enjoy it in the way I have his other movies.
  24. I think it's a nice, if not exactly very original song. My kids like it, I don't mind listening to it. I have no idea about Ellish, all these popstars fade into the background for me because I'm a middle aged old git.
  25. This might be one of the worst adverts for Google Pixel phone's smart editing software, if that's what this is.
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