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Post by tuigirl on May 17, 2019 21:42:33 GMT
Alternatively... I'm thrilled that Big Bang Theory is finally over. If I never have to hear another word about it again as long as I live, it'll still be too soon. Knock,knock,knock Digi. Knock, knock, knock, Digi. Knock, knock... sorry, could not resist. I admit I loved the show in the first few seasons. But have not seen any of the later stuff. Maybe I have grown out of it?
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on May 17, 2019 22:26:19 GMT
Alternatively... I'm thrilled that Big Bang Theory is finally over. If I never have to hear another word about it again as long as I live, it'll still be too soon. Knock,knock,knock Digi. Knock, knock, knock, Digi. Knock, knock... sorry, could not resist. I admit I loved the show in the first few seasons. But have not seen any of the later stuff. Maybe I have grown out of it? I am the opposite of Digi, but that's totally cool. I have lived the "nerd" life since the 70's without any of the awkwardness the 5 male characters started out with in the beginning. Just think, this show lasted as long as some of the all time greats, Happy Days, MASH, Cheers, Supernatural. It's all about the emotional resonance you feel with the characters that makes it your own personal truth.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2019 23:00:19 GMT
Knock,knock,knock Digi. Knock, knock, knock, Digi. Knock, knock... sorry, could not resist. I admit I loved the show in the first few seasons. But have not seen any of the later stuff. Maybe I have grown out of it? I am the opposite of Digi, but that's totally cool. I have lived the "nerd" life since the 70's without any of the awkwardness the 5 male characters started out with in the beginning. Just think, this show lasted as long as some of the all time greats, Happy Days, MASH, Cheers, Supernatural. It's all about the emotional resonance you feel with the characters that makes it your own personal truth. I'm with Digi sorry Shane, I did watch the show for the first three seasons or so but it became apparent it was the Hollywood version of what geeks are, and very unlike what we (let's be honest - we're mostly geeks here!) actually are. It patronised and mocked quite a bit and enforced stereotypes that are just lazy. What got me to really switch off is turning it essentially into Friends Redux where the show started worrying more about how to get the characters romantically involved more than just let them be as they are, a la Cheers. It's the Lootcrate version of what geek culture is, the Funko Pop version - all shallow fluff that's just another run of the mill Chuck Lorre sitcom ultimately. It certainly won't abide as long as MASH or Cheers which will be spoken of long after this - and Supernatural, I think - are footnotes in pop culture history rather than icons.
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Post by shutupbanks on May 17, 2019 23:20:30 GMT
You must see the irony in saying Pattinson can't act then saying you're going to a Keanu Reeves movie? 😂😂 Agree with you re Pattinson: he's one of the best things about the Twilight movies and I think it's a choice that just might pay off. It's not like he doesn't have box office appeal and some credibility as an actor to go with it. Studios won't cast people they don't think will draw numbers.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2019 23:33:59 GMT
You must see the irony in saying Pattinson can't act then saying you're going to a Keanu Reeves movie? 😂😂 Agree with you re Pattinson: he's one of the best things about the Twilight movies and I think it's a choice that just might pay off. It's not like he doesn't have box office appeal and some credibility as an actor to go with it. Studios won't cast people they don't think will draw numbers. Yeah, he did exactly what he needed to do in the Twilights - people might hate the films, fair enough, but he was to be a romantic lead that would get the teenage audience flocking and he did - in droves. He then went on to be hired by the likes of David Cronenberg, Claire Denis and Werner Herzog who weren't really after the teen girl market, they cast him because he could act in what they were making. He's done the arthouse circuit, the cult movies in waiting with those film legends - but yet that stuff gets ignored and it's just Twilight the internet is hating on. They haven't seen his other work so I guess it doesn't count! "Who would do better with the same material he had in Twilight?" would be my question. Would Ansel Egort, Taron Egerton or Alden Eidenreich have made those films more palpable to middle aged men? NO. He did, as you say, a great job at what he was hired for making himself a star in the process. Matt Reeves just finished the Apes trilogy which made Ceasar, a mo-cap monkey, one of the most heroic and inspiring movie heroes of the 21st century...I've no problems believing he can write and direct a Robert Pattinson led Bat-film. He's said already he wants to make it the more Noir-ish detective Batman. I have zero issues believing Pattinson can do just that. As I said in my OP, cross his performances in Cosmopolis and Good Time and that's exactly Bruce Wayne. I buy him already thanks to his other work. He'll be fine, Reeves is a great writer/director with a clear vision. I'm excited enough. Who else would people prefer? Armie Hammer? No thanks. Dan Stevens? Maybe. Pattinson is a solid potentially great pick. He'll get into the role.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on May 17, 2019 23:35:17 GMT
You must see the irony in saying Pattinson can't act then saying you're going to a Keanu Reeves movie? 😂😂 Agree with you re Pattinson: he's one of the best things about the Twilight movies and I think it's a choice that just might pay off. It's not like he doesn't have box office appeal and some credibility as an actor to go with it. Studios won't cast people they don't think will draw numbers. He has done everything possible to not do "Twilight" style movies ever since.. My point of view is if they are spending big $$$$$$ they must see something in him that convinced them he is the right person for the role.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2019 23:43:58 GMT
😂😂 Agree with you re Pattinson: he's one of the best things about the Twilight movies and I think it's a choice that just might pay off. It's not like he doesn't have box office appeal and some credibility as an actor to go with it. Studios won't cast people they don't think will draw numbers. He has done everything possible to not do "Twilight" style movies ever since.. My point of view is if they are spending big $$$$$$ they must see something in him that convinced them he is the right person for the role. Exactly. It would be like judging Jennifer Lawrence only by her performances in the(also marketed to teen girls Hunger Games and completely ignoring her stunning performances in Winter's Bone and Mother. I don't get why the mob always react like this - there's a petition with 500,000 signatures to sack Pattinson already going round - only to be proven wrong again and again. Keaton and Affleck already had the exact same backlash in the exact same role, it's a spectacular lack of self awareness for Bat-fans to hate on it en masse when they've seen themselves proven massively wrong already more than once.
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Post by Digi on May 18, 2019 0:56:34 GMT
He has done everything possible to not do "Twilight" style movies ever since.. My point of view is if they are spending big $$$$$$ they must see something in him that convinced them he is the right person for the role. Exactly. It would be like judging Jennifer Lawrence only by her performances in the(also marketed to teen girls Hunger Games and completely ignoring her stunning performances in Winter's Bone and Mother. I don't get why the mob always react like this - there's a petition with 500,000 signatures to sack Pattinson already going round - only to be proven wrong again and again. Keaton and Affleck already had the exact same backlash in the exact same role, it's a spectacular lack of self awareness for Bat-fans to hate on it en masse when they've seen themselves proven massively wrong already more than once. I agree with your broader point, but the highlighted part isn't helping
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2019 1:16:09 GMT
Exactly. It would be like judging Jennifer Lawrence only by her performances in the(also marketed to teen girls Hunger Games and completely ignoring her stunning performances in Winter's Bone and Mother. I don't get why the mob always react like this - there's a petition with 500,000 signatures to sack Pattinson already going round - only to be proven wrong again and again. Keaton and Affleck already had the exact same backlash in the exact same role, it's a spectacular lack of self awareness for Bat-fans to hate on it en masse when they've seen themselves proven massively wrong already more than once. I agree with your broader point, but the highlighted part isn't helping I think it's pretty generally agreed taking subjective individual opinion off the table that Ben was a good Batman and a highlight of BvS. The film was atrocious but he was a high point for audiences. This very fporum had plenty of praise for him. Reviews pretty much all mentioned him being one of the best aspects. I wasn't as hot on him as some - a lot of the praise was for the fight scenes in which Affleck's double did almost all the work - but he was a great Wayne. Like Cavill, he was let down by Snyder who killed the potential they showed, by the time Justice League rolled round, audiences didn't care about anything such was the fallout from BvS. But Affleck came off BvS smelling of roses, it's Justice League where people started going off him - which, sadly, is about the time he hit the bottle again and would soon go into rehab. He was filming reshoots for a film he didn't believe in by most accounts and really hating the gig he'd dreamed about for years. I'm kinda at the "don't care" stage for these kinda things - not because I won't see the films but because pop culture is so dynamic nowadays that if you don't like something...there's a MILLION other geeky pursuits, films, games whatever that are up your street. Don't like Tobey Maguire's Spiderman? Andy Garfield's replaced him. Don't like that? Ok, here's Tom Holland - oh but there's also a seperate Venom universe and an animated Spiderman franchise at the same time. Something for everyone, guaranteed. The geek shall inherit the Earth! I'm thinking Ready Player One was more prescient than I thought!
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Post by Digi on May 18, 2019 1:25:35 GMT
Really, I don't know anybody, real life or internet, who liked Affleck's take. "Batfleck" stuck for a reason, and it wasn't because people appreciated his nuanced, detailed performance.
Again though, I take no issue with the broader point you're making. Casting directors are (usually) wizards, who see potential in actors that us John/Jane Q. Public often don't until far later in the process.
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Post by Jeedai on May 18, 2019 1:46:32 GMT
Speaking of recasts and reboots, today's Darkwing Duck centered episode of DuckTales had me grinning well after it was over. The OG versions were two of my favorite cartoons when I was a kid, and this was the perfect mix of nostalgia and re-invention. And meta-commentary on nostalgia and re-invention.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2019 1:54:42 GMT
Really, I don't know anybody, real life or internet, who liked Affleck's take. "Batfleck" stuck for a reason, and it wasn't because people appreciated his nuanced, detailed performance. Again though, I take no issue with the broader point you're making. Casting directors are (usually) wizards, who see potential in actors that us John/Jane Q. Public often don't until far later in the process. Remember WB were hot enough on Affleck to not only give him his solo movie - they announced proudly that he would direct and write it too. They don't do that if his take didn't catch on with audiences. Now ,Affleck it's pretty well known hated Justice League with the Snyder/Weddon changes and mass reshoots and sadly had personal demons with the booze that saw him go into rehab just after the shoot - so much so he dropped out of directing his solo Batman film. Then dropped out of writing it. Then dropped out altogether. But before Justice League he had the keys to the kingdom after BvS based purely on reaction to that film. Even on here people were praising him after BvS - I think along with adoring BladeRunner 2049 it's one of the only things Timelord007 and I have agreed on with movies! No-one was saying Cavill or Eisenberg were the best thing in the movie! I really think though - and I'm not referring to you Digi but to the debate in general - that ALL this is kinda missing the point - no-one is trusting that Matt Reeves, the actual director of the film, the auteur if you will has proven he can make wonderful, immersive films with clear plots, relatable characters and use technology to enhance his storytelling. It's his vision that we're going to see realised, not Pattinson's. Not one person here has mentioned Reeves and it's the same on my facebook feed. The Keaton films were not Keaton's - it was Tim Burton's Batman. The gaudy panto of Forever and Batman & Robin was 100% Joel Schumacher's vision, not Kilmers and Clooney's. Nolan was the man who created that world for Christian Bale's Batman to reboot and reimagine the role. This whole debate ignores the creative process entirely for the cult of celebrity. If Reeves feels his noir-ish detective Batman, that he says was written to be a younger Wayne can best be realised by Robert Pattinson he has my absolute confidence in that.
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Post by Timelord007 on May 18, 2019 5:37:21 GMT
John Wick 3, intense, action packed & very very entertaining, love the world the set up in these films & it also showed there are consequences if you disobey them.
Epic action scenes, fights, shootouts, i can't fault Keanu Reeves commitment he gives his all, is he the best actor....no but unlike the Taken sequels he ain't phoning it in & takes a beating as much as he gives one, Halle Berry was equally impressive as well & the regular cast are excellent.
My only criticisms the choice John makes in the last part of the second act needed better explanation as it's makes no sense 5 minutes later & this film could've tied up the franchise but ends with a sequel bait tease for the inevitable John Wick 4.
If John Wick 4 goes in the direction i think it's going it should bring closure with the final chapter of the franchise.
My Rating. 4.5/5
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on May 18, 2019 8:48:59 GMT
Federal election in Australia today.. Polling booth closed 17 mins ago at 6pm.. AUST $150 fine if you didn't vote..
For anyone that has followed Australian politics the last 10 years.. wow.. It's more like "Days Of Our Lives" with the backstabbing etc..
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Post by tuigirl on May 18, 2019 8:50:23 GMT
Wonderful day today! I went home to my parents place and now I am going out to enjoy the sunshine. Finally I have the time to try out my new horse-bow, we have a 3D shooting range in the forest behind my parents house (they put up foam animals so you can do a simulated "hunt") and I was looking forward to some nice weather and a chance to do this for ages now. And after that, there is a hammock waiting in the garden for me, and two more 10th Doctor audios... I wish you all a wonderful day. I am off now to shoot some foam animals in the forest.
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Post by tuigirl on May 18, 2019 8:53:19 GMT
Federal election in Australia today.. Polling booth closed 17 mins ago at 6pm.. AUST $150 fine if you didn't vote.. For anyone that has followed Australian politics the last 10 years.. wow.. It's more like "Days Of Our Lives" with the backstabbing etc.. LOLZ OMG I did not know you guys have voting DUTY. With a fine!
Is that a recent thing? I have been to OZ, but I never realized this.
Sounds a bit like North Korea, to be honest.
But maybe this would be a good thing over here, too. We have the European Elections next week, and I am pretty scared by all the right-wing party election posters outside on all the lamp posts. If more people would show up for voting, maybe they would have less of a chance. At the moment, I am not so sure.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on May 18, 2019 9:09:16 GMT
Federal election in Australia today.. Polling booth closed 17 mins ago at 6pm.. AUST $150 fine if you didn't vote.. For anyone that has followed Australian politics the last 10 years.. wow.. It's more like "Days Of Our Lives" with the backstabbing etc.. LOLZ OMG I did not know you guys have voting DUTY. With a fine!
Is that a recent thing? I have been to OZ, but I never realized this.
Sounds a bit like North Korea, to be honest.
But maybe this would be a good thing over here, too. We have the European Elections next week, and I am pretty scared by all the right-wing party election posters outside on all the lamp posts. If more people would show up for voting, maybe they would have less of a chance. At the moment, I am not so sure.
It's always been.. technically you have to walk in and get your name ticked off the list.. It's good because as an adult you have your 1 vote to have your say. That way if you don't vote you (IMO) cannot whinge and whine when things don't go your way.
It's fully casual, not Communist like, I walked in this morning with my tracksuit pants and thongs on and ripped t-shirt, they always have sausage sizzles/BBQ's too LOL..
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2019 9:17:54 GMT
Federal election in Australia today.. Polling booth closed 17 mins ago at 6pm.. AUST $150 fine if you didn't vote.. For anyone that has followed Australian politics the last 10 years.. wow.. It's more like "Days Of Our Lives" with the backstabbing etc.. LOLZ OMG I did not know you guys have voting DUTY. With a fine!
Is that a recent thing? I have been to OZ, but I never realized this. Sounds a bit like North Korea, to be honest. But maybe this would be a good thing over here, too. We have the European Elections next week, and I am pretty scared by all the right-wing party election posters outside on all the lamp posts. If more people would show up for voting, maybe they would have less of a chance. At the moment, I am not so sure.
Ohhh, this has been a thing since 1912, just a few years after the Australian colonies were federated into a full country. I always find this perspective fascinating, we had Finnish homestays that reacted in exactly the same way. I don't find it particularly weird, nor does it feel like a curtailment of civil liberties, as such. I've come to find it enormously satisfying actually as there's no way to wash your hands and say: "Not my problem." Everyone has a stake in how the government is run. Mind you... Days of Our Lives is giving it a bit too much sophistication, it's more like a game of musical chairs with snobbish rich kids. OMG I did not know you guys have voting DUTY. With a fine!
Is that a recent thing? I have been to OZ, but I never realized this. Sounds a bit like North Korea, to be honest. But maybe this would be a good thing over here, too. We have the European Elections next week, and I am pretty scared by all the right-wing party election posters outside on all the lamp posts. If more people would show up for voting, maybe they would have less of a chance. At the moment, I am not so sure.
It's always been.. technically you have to walk in and get your name ticked off the list.. It's good because as an adult you have your 1 vote to have your say. That way if you don't vote you (IMO) cannot whinge and whine when things don't go your way.
It's fully casual, not Communist like, I walked in this morning with my tracksuit pants and thongs on and ripped t-shirt, they always have sausage sizzles/BBQ's too LOL.. Oh, god, could you imagine if it were ever made a formal event? People would never turn up, fine or no fine. We had a cake stall and handmade jewellery at ours.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on May 18, 2019 9:37:28 GMT
OMG I did not know you guys have voting DUTY. With a fine!
Is that a recent thing? I have been to OZ, but I never realized this. Sounds a bit like North Korea, to be honest. But maybe this would be a good thing over here, too. We have the European Elections next week, and I am pretty scared by all the right-wing party election posters outside on all the lamp posts. If more people would show up for voting, maybe they would have less of a chance. At the moment, I am not so sure.
Ohhh, this has been a thing since 1912, just a few years after the Australian colonies were federated into a full country. I always find this perspective fascinating, we had Finnish homestays that reacted in exactly the same way. I don't find it particularly weird, nor does it feel like a curtailment of civil liberties, as such. I've come to find it enormously satisfying actually as there's no way to wash your hands and say: "Not my problem." Everyone has a stake in how the government is run. Mind you... Days of Our Lives is giving it a bit too much sophistication, it's more like a game of musical chairs with snobbish rich kids. It's always been.. technically you have to walk in and get your name ticked off the list.. It's good because as an adult you have your 1 vote to have your say. That way if you don't vote you (IMO) cannot whinge and whine when things don't go your way.
It's fully casual, not Communist like, I walked in this morning with my tracksuit pants and thongs on and ripped t-shirt, they always have sausage sizzles/BBQ's too LOL.. Oh, god, could you imagine if it were ever made a formal event? People would never turn up, fine or no fine. We had a cake stall and handmade jewellery at ours. LOLZ.. musical chairs.. yup..!
Cake stall..! Cool.. !
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Post by shutupbanks on May 18, 2019 10:42:13 GMT
Ohhh, this has been a thing since 1912, just a few years after the Australian colonies were federated into a full country. I always find this perspective fascinating, we had Finnish homestays that reacted in exactly the same way. I don't find it particularly weird, nor does it feel like a curtailment of civil liberties, as such. I've come to find it enormously satisfying actually as there's no way to wash your hands and say: "Not my problem." Everyone has a stake in how the government is run. Mind you... Days of Our Lives is giving it a bit too much sophistication, it's more like a game of musical chairs with snobbish rich kids. Oh, god, could you imagine if it were ever made a formal event? People would never turn up, fine or no fine. We had a cake stall and handmade jewellery at ours. LOLZ.. musical chairs.. yup..!
Cake stall..! Cool.. !
I requested a lefthanded booth this afternoon when I went to vote. Was disappointed that there wasn't one available for me, especially when dealing with a ballot form that could have been folded in half and still not fitted comfortably in the booth while dealing with a pencil on a string. Voting is confidential but I took great annoyance in not being able to vote certain candidates equal last.
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