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Interstellar was enjoyable enough for me - but even by Hollywood standards the science was just laughable.

Never mind the fact they needed some huge old-style Apollo/Saturn type booster rocket to escape Earth's paltry gravity well, but to escape the combined gravitational pull of another Earth-sized oceanworld planet that's so close to a fucking black hole that the astronauts experienced massive relativistic time effects, only required the quick firing of shuttle-borne rockets...?

There's also the issue of said planets being blown to fuck if their parent star had gone supernova (which it must have done if there's a black hole at the centre of their system instead of a parent star); if said parent star was massive enough to go supernova and form a black hole it must've been a huge O or B Class Blue Supergiant which would've only lived for a few million or tens of millions of years at best (no way could planets with breathable atmospheres form in that geological timescale, and that's ignoring the massive stellar wind arising from, and hugely variable nature of such stars 'cause if you're a planet, said massive star suddenly turning into a Red Hypergiant can be somewhat disconcerting and terminal); and most importantly - if there's no star, only a black hole, how come it's fucking daytime/daylight on said planets and why is there even weather at all...?

I read some piece about the 'genuine science' done on the part of the film's producers in modelling exactly how a black hole is supposed to look, which struck me as a bit rich considering the pre-school stuff like this they did get wrong.

I dread to think what true science-heads made of it.

Sounds like you guys all need to get DISCOPATH watched instead, no need to worry about the science behind it all then LOLZ.

Any suggestions on where we might obtain this from?

@Hearthly

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The usual combo of nzbplanet and Tweaknews worked for me, torrenty type stuff might be able to sort it out as well I suppose but I don't do torrents.

Amazon says you can buy it from the 4th May - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Discopath-DVD-J ... B00T7QLCF0

Not much of a result for the legal option there considering it's been up on Usenet for 166 days.

I would never put you on ignore old chap, (I've never put anyone on ignore here, for that matter), I think we just need to agree to disagree when it comes to politics

I know mate, that was my lame attempt at sarcastic humour.
I'll not give up the day job.

Y'know what I fancy watching today? DISCOPATH.

So, you thought the never-ending runway at the end of Fast and Furious 6 (or whichever one it was) was stupid? Well, 7 is like that for basically the last two thirds of the film.

CGI Paul Walker was good though, although he is facing away from the camera a noticeable amount.

I am off to see 7 at the Imax tomorrow night. Mrs T is overjoyed to be coming along

45 minutes into Discopath and I'm very close to turning it off. It's awful. Bad bad not good bad.

Dialogue, plot, acting: awful.

Disco: Terrible with generic disco sounds (it's the same track again and again) since I doubt they had the budget for real disco music.

Sexy lesbianism: Not even a side boob.

AE must have been high on meds when he posted in here about this garbage.

In all fairness I didn't make any promises besides it scoring a 1 on the scale of taking my mind off my FUCKING BOLLOCKS in the wake of a vasectomy gone wrong. (Where 0 is 'Oh fuck my bollocks hurt' and 1 is 'Blimey I actually forgot about my throbbing bollocks for a bit'.)

Did you finish watching it then?

He's just fell off the roof.

No, he's going down some scaffolding as the credits roll.

The best thing I could possibly say about that was that the American cop looked a bit like Nicholas Cage and was on par in terms of their acting ability. Cause Cage is garbage as well.

I liked the title sequence though.

0.0001 out of 10

Try The Toxic Avenger. It's awesome! You know, good bad. Or bad good. Or whatever. But good! Or bad.

Well, I enjoyed it tremendously, but I was very, very drunk.

So that's a tick for you in the 'ambivalent' column then?

Sorry AE, I hated it. It was really terrible.

I gave it a shot though.

Talking of terrible films, I've got one question:

Is Mark Wahlberg the Jason Statham of action/drama?

Yes, I watched Mark Walhberg play Mark Walhberg in The Gambler. Just like Statham he's occassionally loveable as Mark Walhberg no matter what setting you put Mark Walhberg in but The Gambler was too much Mark Walhberg as he attempts to be Matt Damon but ends up being Mark Walhberg. Again. I hated it.

In a similar vein, has Johnny Depp, in your heart of hearts, been in a good film in the oast 20 years?

The first Pirates of the Carribean, perhaps. I'm ignoring the existence of any of the other films until I die.

I haven't seen it myself but Public Enemies is supposed to be good and Depp is a lead in that.

Has he done more than one film in the last 20 years?

I'd been under the impression that he recorded the script for one role and they just CGI'd different hats on his head and cut the footage into various movie scripts, such is his scope of character acting.

In fact, has anyone actually seen him around outside of movies? I reckon he's probably long dead.

Watched Interstellar.

I didn't find TARS annoying as I think many did, though the I practicalities of his locomotion annoyed me. Character wise he fine, though.

The film could have lost over an hour of indecipherable mumbling though.

I have watched Rocky II.

Or I may have just watched the first Rocky again. Difficult to tell.

Four more to go.

Rocky IV is the best, where he solves the cold war WITH HIS FISTS and also a really inspiring speech. EVERYONE CAN CHANGE!

Totally skip Rocky V which is just awful, then Rocky Balboa (technically Rocky VI) is surprisingly watchable in a really cheesy sort of way.

Like the Rambo films, it's worth remembering that the first ones in each series are actually very good films.

Well, that was pretty terrible, yet weirdly entertaining at the same time.

Last night's film was 'A MOST VIOLENT YEAR', which unlike DISCOPATH, is actually a proper film with proper actors and a script and a point and stuff.

Very well regarded by them there critics, Rotten Tomatoes summarises it thusly:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_most_violent_year/



Now I should note that there really isn't much actual violence in the film at all, the principal character abhors violence and is determined to avoid it, so if you're expecting ACTION and EXPLOSIONS and ROBOTS this isn't the film for you.

This is an excellent character-driven film with a superb script and acting, it's by the same bloke who did the fantastic MARGIN CALL and it's got a similar sort of 'feeling' in some regards.

Unlike DISCOPATH which I didn't exactly 'recommend' as such, I definitely recommend this - 8.5/10.

I have deducted half a point for the main character having the most amazingly smooth and hairless chest, which I didn't think was very realistic.

Sounds like the plot summary of the next GTA.

There was far less bowling in this though.

Really, well I'm out.

Great title, but makes me wonder if the makers came up with the title first and then made up a film to fit.

I'm watching Taken 3 and I got bored half way through and stopped to do a spreadsheet comparing 6/12 month rental contracts.

They should release two Taken movies at a time. One with the family and relationship bollocks, one with None Stop Action.

I thought 3 was better than 2, but both were far worse than 1.

Reasonably interesting 'Cutting Edge' article at Melonfarmers about the shredding that Taken 2 and 3 got for a PG-13 in the States and then even more so for a 12A over here. (And a brief look at how the original Taken was cut down for a PG-13 in the States from an uncut European version. We got the cut version in the cinema but the uncut version on DVD/Blu-Ray.)

http://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/bbfc_cuts_taken_2.htm

I've just realised why that site is called that; very good.

Which led me to this relatively interesting page on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minced_oath



I like the fact that in stuff like Only Fools and Horses when someone is being called a 'berk' they're actually being called a cunt.

It's a great site, and it's been there almost forever. It was definitely there in the mid/late 90s.

I generally check the site every day, as it's a good place to find out which films are getting cut and in what territories, so you can make sure you get an uncut version. (Or in some cases, where no uncut version actually exists for various reasons.)

Yesterday I saw Cinderella but before it was Frozen Fever which was completely charming and superb. In fact the lovely cute, comical nature of Frozen Fever probably eclipsed Cinderella just a bit and possibly Frozen as well.

Cinderella - A very nice pleasant heartwarming traditional fairytale (reinforcing the idea of ruling by right of birth and who you marry, tsk). First 20-30 minutes struggled to really grab my attention but from the moment the fairy godmother appears it improves considerably. Helena Bonham Carter brings huge fun and live to the role and the films pace seems to pick up somewhat. The ballgown transformation sequence is utterly spectacular and the best setpiece in the entire film. Everything is obviously very predictable and it never verges at all on being nasty or clever with it (Though does contain scenes of emotional upset, the BBFC warns). I didn't expect to like it as much as I did but I found just going with it meant I got a huge amount of pleasure out of it.

Most obvious use of this is Frack instead of Fuck in the re-made BattleStar Galactica even in going so far as saying "Do you want to Frack me?" and "Frack off!" etc.

Red Dwarf managed to change every swear word to Smeg I think.

There's a companion article listing some of these here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minced_oaths_in_media

And then you have Porridge, which invented the expression "naff off" as a way to get past the swearing censors in the 70s

It didn't invent the expression, it just used it. No one seems to know for sure where it came from but it was certainly used before Porridge e.g. the book Billy Liar in 1959.

I invented the word munter. Trufax.

Furious 7 - Tremendous marvelous fun. Silly over the top action done right. Achieves what Michael Bay can only wish for. Despite being 2h20m it was paced perfectly and I loved it. Statham is still an amazing screen presence.

The Duff - A sub par teen rom com with overwrought (but still good and valid) message. Lacks the smarts of say Pitch Perfect or Mean Girls.

Gravity: I wish I had seen this at the 8 max and in 3D. Annoying physics aside it was a pretty good ride.

What We Did On Our Holiday is jolly entertaining.

Which, given that it's an Andy Hamilton and Guy Parker effort, is hardly surprising.

Also, blarting like a girl.

Also Rosamund Pike.