Afro Droid
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Kicks off at about 9pm, fiddy bucks prize! Grr, argh!
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Oh yeah! That gave me the willies but the worst bit was when the baby was born. The baby that looked totally human until it flicked out its forked tongue with a little hiss. I didn't stick around for the birth of the other one...That used to give me the willies like nothing else on earth (sic) when I was a kid - nightmares, the works. I watched it again recently and pissed myself laughing. The original show really doesn't stand the test of time IMO. And apparently, rather than having the visitors real reason for coming to earth to eat people, they've come seeking religious devotion: massive BSG rip-off.
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The new remake series started in the US yesterdaym, anyone seen it yet, i'm a big fan of the original miniseries and Final Battle mini series (I like to pretend the TV series didnt happen). I havent yet watched it but will hopefully watch it tomorrow night, anyone seen it with any thoughts ?I've read a bit about it (the remake), it sounds like it'll be massive Battlestar (remake) rip-off. It's got the sexy dame from Firefly in though...
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Taken is an awesome film, that's exactly what I had in mind when I found out he'd be in the A-Team
Photo here....
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Damn straight.
Oh, and Knights of the Old Republic. What a game.
Possibly the greatest game ever IMO. Played for 40 hours straight once, stopping only for toilet and food breaks....
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Big thread on this at the Martin Lewis Money Saving Expert forum.
Halifax/ Bank of Scotland: a guide to account changes. - MoneySavingExpert.com Forums
I'm in the midst of reclaiming my charges from Lloyds TSB using the template letters from that site. TSB charge around 25 per day for an unplanned overdraft. Bastards.
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I got Jedi Knight 2 : Outcast
Runs on Vista X64. AMAZING. I wank over their direct X compliance and 32-bit purity. It's bullshit hard though. I'm getting stuck all the time and feeling like m,odern games have made a pussy out a me.
It's the bomb - as were the X-Wing Vs TIE Fighter games...
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I caught Serenity last night on ITV4. It was pretty awesome. I disliked how episodical Firefly was and I really wanted to know about the Tams and the Reavers and basically all the stuff that was awesome and less of the bits that were like Bonanza in space. Story arc FTW!
One more thing, if everyone speaks Chinese as a 2nd language then where are all the Chinese people?
I fucking love this show, and movie; which has the best space battle I've seen in sci-fi for ages. It's criminal that it was cancelled. So disappointing that we'll probably never know what Whedon had planned for Sheperd Book's mysterious past...
There are Chinese people in the series.
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Purchases over the weekend...
Deep Space 9 seasons 1 & 2
Thundercats season 1
Good times
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Last night I watched Knowing, was OK, again fairly predictable towards the end; but better than I was expecting.
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The Day the Earth Stood Still (original Robert Wise-directed 50s version)
Awesome, so much better than the shite re-make. Still stands up for a 50-odd year old movie. If you like like Sci-fi this should be essential viewing. 8/10
Angels and Demons
Bog-standard, predictable Hollywood sequel fare that completely lacked any balls at all. Totally tip-toes around any criticism of the catholic church. Plus, wouldn't sky detonation of an anti-metter bomb shower the Vacitan in weird big-bang radiation? 4/10
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PS. Ergonomical management keyboard.
Genius, just genius.
Anyone seen True Blood? (Can't be bothered looking back this thread). Any good? starts on Channel 4 soon. All I know is that Anna Paquin gets them oot...
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.. and really Batman & Robin should be on there. Awful.
Agreed. I walked out of the cinema...
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I read and have heard through the grapevine magneto is also getting an origins movie...If i remeber correctly it will be set in his past so wont have the same actor playing him...
Yup, there's been talk of a Magneto movie for a while, and an X-Men: First Class movie (Cyclops, Jean Grey, Iceman, Angel, Beast), which will be impossible to fit in around the current X-movie continuity, but hey-ho...
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I watched X-Men 3. Really enjoyed it, though it had a weird feel about it. It kind of gave the impression that they run out of ideas with the script so instead they just flooded the film with hundreds and hundreds of mutants - because of this most of the characters get so little screen time they don't really get the chance to show what they can do and there's absolutely no character development. They basically introduce them and then they do nothing until the big fight at the end! Juggernaut, Kitty Pryde, The Beast, Archangel, Collosus, the guy that can duplicate himself, the guy with the quills et all may as well have not even been there.
X-Men 3 is a weird one I think, I really disliked it when I first saw it, but it's kinda grown on me with repeated viewings (it aseems to be on Channel 4 every fortnight at the moment). Totally agree with your point about too many new characters - Wolverine Origins suffered even worse from the same problem - Angel in particular is absolutely pointless. The story is an amalgamation of Joss Whedon's 'cure' story from his run on the Astonishing X-Men comic and Chris Claremont's classic Pheonix Saga run. Inevitabley they've changed a lot for the movie (my main bug-bear is the fact that Jean gets killed by Cyclops in the book, not Wolvie); but movies are different from comics blah blah blah...
I think Bret Ratner is a really workman-like, uninspiring director, the third movie would have been better with Bryan Singer at the helm. Roll on Kenneth Branagh's Thor movie...
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Went to see 500 Days of Summer and absolutely loved it. Maybe not as much for the film itself but for all the references if you know what i mean. Film's still very clever and quite unique though.
I went to see 500 Days of Summer last night, and I couldn't disagree more - although it had good perfomances from the lead actors, I found it a blue-print carbon-copy of 'quirky-indie' romance. It totally ripped off Wes Anderson and Amelie, there was nothing unique about it at all, it was just as formulaic as your bog standard rom-com, just a different formula. It could've done with a few explosions or something...
I also watched Project A-Ko last night, which is one of the first wave of animes to be released in the UK by Manga Video in the 1990s. Set around the rivalry between super-powered school-girls A-Ko and B-Ko for the attention of C-Ko (who is the most annoying character in anything, ever - if Jar-Jar makes the Ewoks look like fucking Shaft, C-Ko makes Jar-Jar look like Mace Windu). A-Ko and B-ko have a scrap and wreck their school, then transexual aliens invade, under the impression that C-Ko is their long lost Princess. The Captain of their ship is a raging alcoholic. Violence and destruction ensues. Good wholesome family fun - violent, weird and funny. All things I like.
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He was a typical knob until something horrible happens to him, then he became a nice guy. Clich, but it's hard to not have full sympathy for him as he changes his character and becomes the hero.
Is it so rare to have proper character development in a movie that people don'y know what it is anymore?!
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Cheers folks, got Combifix running a fix now
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I think I've picked up a virus on my machine - it sometimes doesn't boot properly or at all, applications random launch themselves, and it sometimes shuts down by itself. My virus software won't launch, or when it does, won't let me start a scan. Any ideas? I think I'm going to remove and re-install Mcafee - is that a good idea? Help me IT friends, you're my only hope.
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Inevitably...
And a potential 'OMG!'
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Tonight has been Aberdeen night, with Location, Location, Location being in Aberdeen as well!
Man, what a shit-hole Aberdeen looked on that show. Grim as fuck. A quarter of a million for a box in Ferryhill, nae thanks...
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the needles have split up haven't they? they were an awesome live band.
Paul has left (moved to London) and the rest of the band are now using the name The Hidden Masters. That's what Johnny Wolfe's mum told me anyway...
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X-Men 2 - Seen the start of this once but have never seen the whole thing. I did like it but it didn't have the same spark as the first one. William Stryker was a bit of rubbish baddie compared to Magento in the first one and there were some annoying plot holes. Was good to see Ice-Man, Rogue and Pyro getting ready to make the step up to join the proper X-Men team. I like how they are developing the characters of the younger ones from film to film, though Pyro is a bit 2-dimensional. Good, but not as good as the original. Halle Berry is still so wooden you almost forget she is there.
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X-Men 2 is probably my favourite comic-book movie, just for Wolvie's berzerker rage in the mansion. I think it's awesome, one of the few licensed comic book movies that really captures the spirit of the book (admittedly, there are a few more now that Marvel have brought their movies in-house), it's just awesome.
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96/99Atom Flask Blind Bird evloved into this band with the inclusion of Colin Biomechanoid. Rather good band and a tad too far a head of the times. Played T in The Park and were interviewed on prime time radio 1. The band desolved
One of my first Aberdeen gigs was Atom Flask at the East Neuk, I'm sure I have the demo I got that night somewhere too. Awesome
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Bab 5 is ace, I think it the FX still hold up, given they were done on an Amiga or something...it's the at-times excrutiating acting that bothers me sometimes ("Get the Hell out of my galaxy!"), but the story is untouchable...