The Fish

If Dylan has Seinfeld for a musical equivalent, Mindy Project has Nick Knowles.

I was close to a few the weekend before last.

You and I have very different takes on what is funny. One of the most successful and award winning comedies ever* vs quirky squeaky voiced Doctor girl** * 3 Golden Globes, 10 Emmys, amongst many others ** nominated for Outstanding Costumes for a Contemporary Series, Limited Series, or Movie in the 2015 Emmys, but lost out to Transparent.

I'm not sure they're equal, so after some consideration I think you are close to a cunt, which is ironic.

He called you a cunt because, without context, it looked like you were wanting his team to lose out of spite, rather than wanting Denmark to win. Which would be a cunty thing. If you'd said "Howay Denmark, show me the money" he might not have called you a cunt, because he could infer you were chasing that paper. Either way, we all call each other mean things, I wouldn't take it personally. You silly cunt.

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Been binging that on the ipad while cooking most nights. Aye, that's right, I've got an ipad and a kitchen. Who said I wouldn't make it big?

Yeah, I can't sit through it either. The lead is far too annoying, the blokes are decent comedic actors, but it's all a bit too try hard quirky for me. When was the last really good Sitcom?

Brilliant isn't it. I was genuinely disappointed when Netflix didn't skip onto an 11th episode. Enjoyed all the classic cars they were driving about in, even though none of them were rare or anything. Would it be the Art Director who makes those style choices or a prop manager or a producer? whoever it was, they got the props spot on.

re-reading it, the sarcasm doesn't come across and instead it reads pretty earnest. I'm soooooo sorry.

That set is surprisingly flimsy, usually their furniture stands up to a fair amount of abuse.

Oh, smiling are we? What a prick. Have you ever thought about Dugongs? They can't smile, yet here you hare arrogantly smiling like you're better than them. well you're not Rayvin, they're beautiful gentle kind creatures and you're just a Nazi.

Fuck you, you massive Nazi! :munch:

If you can't see why he'd be annoyed at your support (without context) of his team's opponents, you need to try harder. Much harder.

JamesBondPun\ Shocking \JBP

Good fight, but I don't really remember it as a sword fight, more of a brawl. An ear biting, cunt-punting brawl.

One of the first episodes, Mountain just lost to Loris Tyrell in the joust, Hound wades through the crowd to clash with his brother, it's a short fight, but it's good.

They're just types of sword, don't we all know things but we don't know why we know the things we know? Y'know? Look, I don't know how this shit takes up space in my brain when I honestly cannot remember my own mother's birthday despite it happening on the same date the past 36yrs of my life, but they're in there like an old wifi password, or the commentary from the 5-0 over Man Utd. They're in here and there's nowt I can do about it. It's like when you move house and you find a whole box full of plates you didn't remember ever buying/receiving, or when a new manager takes over and sees Haris Vuckic still on the books. Except I can't get rid of it. I'm burdened by knowing useless shit.

Avengers 2 was average at best, and yeah, the action scenes were mostly pony, though I did enjoy Hulk vs Iron Man set piece. I know the fight scenes didn't have to be perfect, but they were just poor. Those aren't techniques, just types of sword/dagger. Trying to think of a good example of a sword fight from a recent movie and can only come up with the big Lightsabre fight in the 1st of the awful prequels. Game of Thrones is a good example of choreographed sword fights adding to the story, rather than detracting. Hound vs Mountain, Mountain vs Viper, Ned vs Jaime, Young Ned vs whatshisname, Brienne vs Arya, Jorah in the fighting pits, and so on.

As I've said before, I'm confident it'll happen because of the announcement from Ashley, the attendance of Staveley, the caliber of linked suitors, and Benitez' demeanour. When it'll happen is anyone's guess.

CGI will always need to be used because people can't fly, or shoot lasers out their eyes, but as in Logan, Cap 2, Nolan's Batman, if the story's good, if the characters are developed and if there's a weight to the CGI it works. If it's Green Lantern or Transformers it's clunky, jarring and discombobulating. The big problem is the overreliance on destruction porn to raise the stakes. and that's not a fault of the source material, that's an issue with the director/producers/studio. Which is why the tunnel scene in Cap 2 is much better than the fight between Superman and Zod, the former had pacing and there was peril, the latter was basically the same as getting bored in Simcity and unleashing the aliens and disasters on your buildings.

Yeah love Clancy Brown as Kurgen, recasting that character will be tough. Need a big bloke who has genuine menace, but isn't just a Dolph Lungren type. Vin Diesel wouldn't work, for example. The Soundtrack is quality and while I'm not sure it would work in a remake, they should endeavour to have something similar for it. That said, I'm not sure that's possible these days, and it'd end up being fucking Muse or something. I don't agree about them not being as much fun, but we're grown men comparing a 1980's 15 certificate movie with modern PG/12 movies. Highlander was able to be more violent, more adult than most of the Marvel stock. There were parts of Cap 3, Avengers 1, Guardians where I was just grinning throughout the entirety of whatever action sequence I was watching at the time (Tunnel and Airport, Forest and Finale, most of it). Re: the fight scenes in Highlander, I think they're among the weakest parts of the film. These guys are supposed to be expert swordsmen and yet they're duelling like they're schoolkids fighting with sticks. They stagger about just trying to clang their swords together. If it were remade there'd be scope for clashes of styles and equipment; katana vs rapier, claymore vs khopesh, sai vs falchion etc.

Sparingly in Paddington? the main fucking character is a CGI bear for goodness sake. The CGI in Logan was subtle and did blend into the story, the CGI in Cap 2 had weight to it and was used sparingly, the CGI in Doctor Strange was everywhere and it was dazzling, but it didn't pull me out of a story which is supposed to be mind-bending and weird. The CGI in the second half of Batman vs Superman was awful, ditto Wonder Woman. Very Michael Bay. But the CGI in Christopher Nolan's trilogy was subtle and probably went by without you noticing. fwiw I agree with you that I switch off when the filmmakers dump the character work from the first half of a film in favour of a Baysplosions and destruction porn. However, I think Marvel films try to avoid that as best they can given the source material. Certainly in the more "grounded" films like Captain America and Ant Man etc. They even made moving away from the big city-wide destruction-porn lunacy a plot point in the second Avengers movie. By the way, nobody wears pants outside lycra anymore, not even Superman. Get with the times grandad.

Time for Murphy? Aarons? or push Perez out wide?

2 missing by my count.