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There's no songs in Grave of the Fireflies.


Next you'll be telling there's no amusing animal sidekick!


*gulp*

It's ok. I started off for the kids and left them to it. It's a cartoon, right?


This is correct.

I can’t see why kids shouldn’t watch it though although they may have questions afterwards which you could discuss with them, like, why does daddy hate us.


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Satsuma wrote:
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There's no songs in Grave of the Fireflies.


Next you'll be telling there's no amusing animal sidekick!


*gulp*

It's ok. I started off for the kids and left them to it. It's a cartoon, right?


This is correct.

I can’t see why kids shouldn’t watch it though although they may have questions afterwards which you could discuss with them, like, why does daddy hate us.

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Thor: Ragnarok is excellent, go and see it. It has enough heft to it to carry the plot, but it's mostly about pretty much every single character being hilarious and it effortlessly take the crown from GOTG for 'funniest MCU film'. It also looks and sounds incredible throughout.


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Yes, it is indeed excellent. So much so that I'm going to see it again tonight, in IMAX this time (3D, unfortunately, but they're not doing 2D IMAX for Thor for some reason)


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it effortlessly take the crown from GOTG for 'funniest Marvel film'

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it effortlessly take the crown from GOTG for 'funniest Marvel film'

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It is really funny and really good. I absolutely loved it

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I fear I found Deadpool only sporadically amusing.

Thor 3 on the other hand has prime Goldblum, can't wait!

I daren't watch Grave of the Fireflies. But 'Your Name' is out next month, that's my fave movie of last year and a lovely anime!

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On third watch, I've decided I quite like Alien Covenant and to hell with you all.

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+1 to the new Thor film. Especially the shirtless scene with all those muscles. Golly gosh.

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On third watch, I've decided I quite like Alien Covenant and to hell with you all.


You must surely agree that everyone in it is astoundingly stupid and everything that happens to them is a direct result of them being astoundingly stupid though, right?

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On third watch, I've decided I quite like Alien Covenant and to hell with you all.


You must surely agree that everyone in it is astoundingly stupid and everything that happens to them is a direct result of them being astoundingly stupid though, right?

Well, no.
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The decision to head to the new planet was a sound one. It was closer, and clearly habitable. So good choice there. When they arrived in orbit it was clearly covered in vegetation and water, so a fantastic, and massively unlikely find. Yay for team Covenant.

Investigating a crashed ship is not an unusual thing to do – and indeed is precisely what happened in Alien, so unless we’re undermining the whole franchise, that’s not completely stupid either. So it was not astoundingly stupid to go and have a shufty on this new planet hat was only slightly out of their way and investigate the signal and the crashed ship at the end of it. So all good there too.

Biologist woman dragging infected man back to the lander was not completely stupid either – what else are you going to do? Pilot lady was right to lock them in the med bay.

David’s intervention was something that clearly came as a WTF, but they had an explanation as to why he was there – they knew about the missing Prometheus. It’s non-obvious that a synthetic would be a massive, massive psycho with daddy issues so following a familiar face was not insane.

The only specific two things I can think of that were stupid are (a) that pretty lady going off to have wash on her own and (b) religious replacement captain following the now-obviously insane David down into a cellar, and then sticking his face in an alien egg.


But you’ve got similar stupid things in all the Alien films – and indeed any film where anyone is in anyway in peril. That’s usually how they end up in peril in the first place.

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Letting anyone out onto the surface of an alien planet without full hazmat and quarantine?

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Risking a ship full of colonists to rescue three people on a planet?

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So what you are saying is this laundry list of very stupid decisions are all things you'd decide to do if placed in the same situation?


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Letting anyone out onto the surface of an alien planet without full hazmat and quarantine?

One can only assume that's the approach they were going to take with the original planet they were heading to.

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Risking a ship full of colonists to rescue three people on a planet?

That one paid off.

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So what you are saying is this laundry list of very stupid decisions are all things you'd decide to do if placed in the same situation?

Well, I've explained why I don't think they were astonishingly stupid. Feel free to provide some sort of counterfactual beyond "they were stupid".

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Feel free to provide some sort of counterfactual beyond "they were stupid".

I haven't even seen the film, I just like winding you up.


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Risking a ship full of colonists to rescue three people on a planet?

That one paid off.


That is absolutely the criteria required when assessing risk, yes.

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The decision to head to the new planet was a sound one. It was closer, and clearly habitable.

Jeopardising a carefully planned mission by throwing in a million unknown variables?

Not sound.


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The decision to head to the new planet was a sound one. It was closer, and clearly habitable.

Jeopardising a carefully planned mission by throwing in a million unknown variables?

Not sound.


Oh, you were in that subterfuge game, too. It was quite the talk on Monday night.

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The decision to head to the new planet was a sound one. It was closer, and clearly habitable.

Jeopardising a carefully planned mission by throwing in a million unknown variables?

Not sound.


Also it was seeded with organisms that kill you mercilessly. An odd definition of clearly habitable.

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Not visible from orbit though! Or indeed from the ground. And there was just as likely to be something inpleasant on the other planet.

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Not visible from orbit though! Or indeed from the ground. And there was just as likely to be something inpleasant on the other planet.


Which is why you have the aforementioned inviolable quarantine procedures.

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If you'd been in charge we'd never have had an empire. "Oh don't get off the ship Smithers, those delicious pineapples and locals will give you a horrific gene altering disease".

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The problem, of course, is that the whole series is stupid. Quarantine! That's a great idea... It's never been seen in the entire series, though.


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If you'd been in charge we'd never have had an empire. "Oh don't get off the ship Smithers, those delicious pineapples and locals will give you a horrific gene altering disease".


I also, of course, wouldn't be horribly dead.

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Neither are 99% of the people on the Covenant!

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The problem, of course, is that the whole series is stupid. Quarantine! That's a great idea... It's never been seen in the entire series, though.

Except Alien.

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Seen Thor 3, bloody great film.

It is one of the funniest Marvel films. It is in my top 3 Marvel. GOTG, Deadpool and Thor 3

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On third watch, I've decided I quite like Alien Covenant and to hell with you all.


You must surely agree that everyone in it is astoundingly stupid and everything that happens to them is a direct result of them being astoundingly stupid though, right?

Well, no.
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The decision to head to the new planet was a sound one. It was closer, and clearly habitable. So good choice there. When they arrived in orbit it was clearly covered in vegetation and water, so a fantastic, and massively unlikely find. Yay for team Covenant.

Investigating a crashed ship is not an unusual thing to do – and indeed is precisely what happened in Alien, so unless we’re undermining the whole franchise, that’s not completely stupid either. So it was not astoundingly stupid to go and have a shufty on this new planet hat was only slightly out of their way and investigate the signal and the crashed ship at the end of it. So all good there too.

Biologist woman dragging infected man back to the lander was not completely stupid either – what else are you going to do? Pilot lady was right to lock them in the med bay.

David’s intervention was something that clearly came as a WTF, but they had an explanation as to why he was there – they knew about the missing Prometheus. It’s non-obvious that a synthetic would be a massive, massive psycho with daddy issues so following a familiar face was not insane.

The only specific two things I can think of that were stupid are (a) that pretty lady going off to have wash on her own and (b) religious replacement captain following the now-obviously insane David down into a cellar, and then sticking his face in an alien egg.


But you’ve got similar stupid things in all the Alien films – and indeed any film where anyone is in anyway in peril. That’s usually how they end up in peril in the first place.

Investigating a new planet without a environment protection suit... just silly

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Kathy Burke is great, but not solely because of this:

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“The year was 1996 and Bonham Carter complained on record that people didn’t take her seriously because she was pretty and middle class.

At that time it was only actresses like Helena that were getting interviewed: people thought all actors or actresses thought the way they did,” Burke says. “Helena was doing a lot of work – and I think that’s where my umbrage came from. So I just wrote a letter to Time Out, that’s the only way I could think to express what I felt.”

The letter, which was printed, said: “As a lifelong member of the non-pretty working classes, I would like to say to Helena Bonham Carter (wholly pledged member of the very pretty upper-middle classes): shut up you stupid cunt.”

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I should really watch Moana.

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I watched The Princess Bride for the first time last night.

Was the perfect film to round off a busy weekend with the family.


I too watched this for the first time today.

It was a very pleasant way to spend a couple of hungover hours with Mini Fop.

I hadn't realised what a star-studded affair it is. It was Mini Fop's first exposure to Peter Cook and she seems to be a fan. Will get some Derek and Clive for her 6th birthday.

Also, I had always thought the spanish sword fighter was played by Timothy Dalton. Because he looks like Timothy Dalton. I certainly wasn't expecting him to be played by SAUL FUCKING BERRENSON. I felt mighty confused for some time about that. I think I might still be.

Was also surprised to see lots of familiar scenery, with many of the countryside scenes being filmed in places I spent a lot of time as a kid in Derbyshire, like Wynetts Pass outside Castleton.


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I watched The Princess Bride for the first time last night.

Was the perfect film to round off a busy weekend with the family.


I too watched this for the first time today.

It was a very pleasant way to spend a couple of hungover hours with Mini Fop.

I hadn't realised what a star-studded affair it is. It was Mini Fop's first exposure to Peter Cook and she seems to be a fan. Will get some Derek and Clive for her 6th birthday.

Also, I had always thought the spanish sword fighter was played by Timothy Dalton. Because he looks like Timothy Dalton. I certainly wasn't expecting him to be played by SAUL FUCKING BERRENSON. I felt mighty confused for some time about that. I think I might still be.

Was also surprised to see lots of familiar scenery, with many of the countryside scenes being filmed in places I spent a lot of time as a kid in Derbyshire, like Wynetts Pass outside Castleton.


Don't forget Christopher Guest, Billy Crystal, Carol Kane, Andre The Giant, Robin Wright, Columbo, Kevin from The Wonder Years, Mel Smith, and Cary Elwes!!

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Thor 3 is really good.

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I watched The Girl With All The Gifts last night and really, really enjoyed it. It's ostensibly a post-apocalyptic zombie film but it's done with a slant I doubt you'll have seen before and a surprising amount of time goes by before they even bother explaining that's what's going on (which I mean as a compliment). Atmospheric as all shit and brilliant performances throughout, not least from the titular 'girl' who's fucking incredible despite being only about 12 when it was filmed. The rest of the main cast is Glenn Close, Paddy Considene and Gemma Arterton if you need that further hook. Very good stuff indeed.


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I watched The Girl With All The Gifts last night and really, really enjoyed it. It's ostensibly a post-apocalyptic zombie film but it's done with a slant I doubt you'll have seen before ...


... unless you’ve played The Last of Us.


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I watched The Girl With All The Gifts last night and really, really enjoyed it. It's ostensibly a post-apocalyptic zombie film but it's done with a slant I doubt you'll have seen before ...


... unless you’ve played The Last of Us.


Yeah, sure, it has similarities with TLOU that it doesn't share with most zombie flicks. I still think it's unique though given that
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I’ve considered the ending and I’ve decided it was garbage. I did write some words about it on here a fair while back I think. Essentially I thought it was brilliant until the last 20-odd minutes when it got very shit very fast. Still, as you say, very good (until then).


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I’ve considered the ending and I’ve decided it was garbage. I did write some words about it on here a fair while back I think. Essentially I thought it was brilliant until the last 20-odd minutes when it got very shit very fast. Still, as you say, very good (until then).


Eh, I thought the ending fit very well with the characters as they'd been shown up until that point. Indeed the general consistency of characterisation was one of the major selling point for me.


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Also, having bothered to search back on your previous posts, you never actually bothered to explain what you didn't like about the ending even at the time so it's genuinely impossible to comment meaningfully.


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Bamba wrote:
Also, having bothered to search back on your previous posts, you never actually bothered to explain what you didn't like about the ending even at the time so it's genuinely impossible to comment meaningfully.


I probably didn’t want to spoil anything... and now I can barely remember apart from “the *hnngh* children” bit. I’ll have a think.


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