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Sam's Thread of Chattin' w/ Jake & Other Robust Subjects

Uncle Sam said:
I can't be the only one who thinks he deserves a cheque or maybe just some sort of plaque for knowing who British actors are before they turn up in Game of Thrones.
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When people go on about how awesome someone from that show is & I reply with "Yeah, they were great in _____", my response is usually followed by a puzzled look as their mind tries to comprehend people were actually working before GOT existed.

The best conversations though are the ones where people think that they are hip because they watched a few episodes of Are You Being Served & think that it's "Just the best show, ever!".

Christ, man.



jmt225 said:
Really excited for Mad Max to finally be bumped off #1 on Sam's list by 12 Rounds 3: Lockdown after Sam sees it this weekend.
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If anyone watches the entire film, they deserve a beer. The trailer was hard enough to sit through.
 
I'm going to be utterly heartbroken if Bayley doesn't get to Takeover UK as champion. The Boss is obviously an acceptable alternative but that's not happening.

I'm actually surprisingly up for the crappy John McClane impression Dean Ambrose is going for in the new twelve rounds.

On my flight over to Boston, I watched Spy, Fury Road and Terminator: Genisys. And just like that, my first one star film of the year. I don't know who wrote the new Terminator but it was probably someone who did all the thorough research of glancing over the plots of all the previous ones on Wikipedia. Not to mention the worst fucking casting there had ever been. Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn must be turning in their graves.
 
Uncle Sam said:
On my flight over to Boston, I watched Spy, Fury Road and Terminator: Genisys. And just like that, my first one star film of the year. I don't know who wrote the new Terminator but it was probably someone who did all the thorough research of glancing over the plots of all the previous ones on Wikipedia. Not to mention the worst fucking casting there had ever been. Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn must be turning in their graves.
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All this is true, and it STILL isn't as bad as people made it out to be.
 
  1. Mad Max: Fury Road ★★★★★
  2. Spy ★★★★
  3. It Follows ★★★★
  4. Whiplash ★★★★
  5. Inside Out ★★★★
  6. Slow West ★★★
  7. Ex Machina ★★★
  8. Jurassic World ★★★
  9. Ant-Man ★★★
  10. Song of the Sea ★★★
  11. Fast & Furious 7 ★★★
  12. Avengers: Age of Ultron ★★★
  13. Pitch Perfect 2 ★★★
  14. Kingsman: The Secret Service ★★★
  15. Amy ★★
  16. Inherent Vice ★★
  17. The Gift ★★
  18. Big Hero 6 ★★
  19. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol ★★
  20. Terminator: Genisys ★

It's not fair to compare the new Terminator to its ancestors - it's shit in its own right. That said, alternate timelines can't explain how Kyle Reese turned into an enormous, sarcastic, wooden cunt. Me leering at the pretty girl in Boots seems a more plausible love story than the two bickering ********s in this one falling head over heels because of, I don't fucking know, proximity.

Pitch Perfect 2 is as surprisingly funny as the first one - somehow - but I couldn't quite figure out why it exists. It's like, "Remember the first Pitch Perfect? Well, here's a less engaging version."

The Martian is getting good reviews but I know better than to trust Ridley Scott. I mean, I'll still see it, but don't tell me Alien: Paradise Lost is going to be anything but shit. I'll probably see that too.
 
They're making a third Pitch Perfect too. I can only assume that there were a lot of cliff hangers at the end of episode 2.
 
  1. Mad Max: Fury Road ★★★★★
  2. Spy ★★★★
  3. It Follows ★★★★
  4. Whiplash ★★★★
  5. Inside Out ★★★★
  6. Slow West ★★★
  7. Ex Machina ★★★
  8. Jurassic World ★★★
  9. Ant-Man ★★★
  10. Song of the Sea ★★★
  11. Fast & Furious 7 ★★★
  12. Avengers: Age of Ultron ★★★
  13. Pitch Perfect 2 ★★★
  14. Kingsman: The Secret Service ★★★
  15. Amy ★★
  16. Inherent Vice ★★
  17. Straight Outta Compton ★★
  18. The Gift ★★
  19. Big Hero 6 ★★
  20. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol ★★
  21. Terminator: Genisys ★

Dr. Dre is the messiah. Don't forget to buy some overpriced headphones.

The second star is largely because I got to go, "Doesn't Ice Cube's son look well like Ice Cube?" in my head for four hours or however long the movie was.
 
  1. Mad Max: Fury Road ★★★★★
  2. Spy ★★★★
  3. It Follows ★★★★
  4. Whiplash ★★★★
  5. Inside Out ★★★★
  6. Slow West ★★★
  7. The Martian ★★★
  8. Ex Machina ★★★
  9. Jurassic World ★★★
  10. Ant-Man ★★★
  11. Song of the Sea ★★★
  12. Fast & Furious 7 ★★★
  13. Avengers: Age of Ultron ★★★
  14. Pitch Perfect 2 ★★★
  15. Kingsman: The Secret Service ★★★
  16. Amy ★★
  17. Inherent Vice ★★
  18. Straight Outta Compton ★★
  19. The Gift ★★
  20. Big Hero 6 ★★
  21. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol ★★
  22. Terminator: Genisys ★

In the words of some random bloke on Twitter, isn't it amazing how a director suddenly returns to form when you get him a decent script? I mean, I suppose "form" for Ridley Scott is Alien and Blade Runner, which this isn't in the same universe as, but it's still better than shite like Prometheus. For one, it suggests that spacecraft are manned by scientists and not just any gaggle of morons. For two, it features a Lord of the Rings reference in a scene in which Sean Bean is sitting right there. It does spend way too much time on Earth, in meetings about logistics; a director's cut should be leaner if anything.
 
He can do it - I believe in him.

I was thinking about the movie today. Stylistically, it feels a bit like a tribute to his brother.
 
Shane Meadows, like most English film-makers, is a bit grim for my liking. The last series was all rapey and that. How the other half live.

Ben Wheatley is a possible exception. He's grim, really grim, but there's a tinge of, "But isn't this incredibly fucked up thing funny?" Except Kill List is fucking horrific.

Edgar Wright is so far removed from that that people don't think of him as an English director.
 
Uncle Sam said:
Shane Meadows, like most English film-makers, is a bit grim for my liking. The last series was all rapey and that. How the other half live.

Ben Wheatley is a possible exception. He's grim, really grim, but there's a tinge of, "But isn't this incredibly fucked up thing funny?" Except Kill List is fucking horrific.

Edgar Wright is so far removed from that that people don't think of him as an English director.
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The grim moments in Meadows' films are pretty memorable in their own way but the humour he manages to add along the way is very natural and unfortunately overlooked, because of the grimness.

86 was the rapey one, 88 was mainly about the main characters coming to terms with their new circumstances because of what 86 did to them. 90 was pretty good but a lot of people seemed expectant that it would be as heavy as 86 and 88 and while it had some heavy stuff with Lol's sister, it had a bit more levity overall.
 
  1. Mad Max: Fury Road ★★★★★
  2. Spy ★★★★
  3. It Follows ★★★★
  4. Whiplash ★★★★
  5. Inside Out ★★★★
  6. Slow West ★★★
  7. The Martian ★★★
  8. Ex Machina ★★★
  9. Jurassic World ★★★
  10. Ant-Man ★★★
  11. Song of the Sea ★★★
  12. Fast & Furious 7 ★★★
  13. Avengers: Age of Ultron ★★★
  14. Pitch Perfect 2 ★★★
  15. Kingsman: The Secret Service ★★★
  16. Amy ★★
  17. Inherent Vice ★★
  18. Straight Outta Compton ★★
  19. The Gift ★★
  20. Macbeth ★★
  21. Big Hero 6 ★★
  22. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol ★★
  23. Terminator: Genisys ★

S 'is a derger ah s b'fore muh?

Huh?

Er huv given suck

What?

Eht. Eht. Bruff candle.

Oh my fucking God, speak up! The plot is explained through the fucking words on the page - it's a good thing I studied this fucking play otherwise I wouldn't have had a clue what was going on. But yeah, mumble your way through the some of the most beautifully written text in the English language. You know, when the soundtrack isn't drowning it out. Fucksake.

Sure is pretty though, and some scenes are discernible.
 
What I watched tonight was apparently the only 70mm print of The Thing in the world. That film is still nothing less than astounding.
 
Empire has given the new Bond four stars but the review reads like three stars. Not a great sign when the magazine that's basically been a Spectre fanzine for the past few months isn't glowing with praise.
 
There was a slight pink tinge to it because some cunt left it out in the sun at some point but the picture was good quality and the sound was phenomenal. I might have to rearrange my favourite horror films list. I recall you having a penchant for horror, X.
 
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