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Looks like we're off to guardians tomorrow; is it worth the extra 50% for 3d IMAX?
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21 hours ago, frenchtoast said:
I think Captain America Winter Soldier holds up as well as Captain America First Avenger. I love both, but I think Winter Soldier is the better movie. And there are some good sequels. Raiders of the Lost Ark is great, but I also love Last Crusade. Empire Strikes Back is a better than A New Hope. Wrath of Khan is better than The Motion Picture. I liked X2 as much as the first one. Are sequels always as good? Probably not. Many times it is just an excuse to make more money. But I don't take always take it as an absolute maxim that the sequel is less than the first. But then I like seeing the characters that I loved in the first place all together again. So I'm pretty sure I may see whatever storytelling flaws there are and will still have a good time.
But that's about being "better" not "fresher".
Plenty of sequels are better, or just as good, I can't think of any that are fresher (not that I'm thinking particularly hard about it).
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Are sequels ever as fresh as their predecessor? it would seem like a contradiction of the word "fresh" if they were.
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Sorry @Anothermi whilst my comment doubled up as a name correction, t was also a genuine comment on its own
Book spoiler
Spoiler2 weeks ago i was convinced Aethelfraed was being given Osferth's role; even last week it was still perfectly possible.
The arrival of the likes of Osferth, Pyrlig and even Streapa gives me joy that they're not scars to have a large cast, with actors fading in and out over time, rather than condensg several into one to make it easier to keep track.
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Really enjoyed Osferth's arrival, a re-imagined Aldhelm as spin-master rather than mindless thug, Oda as Uthred's supporter.
Have to say, they're doing a good job of some of the books' clunkier parts; and he shaky cam for towards the end was actually really effective - for the first time since the Blair Witch Project
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Just remembered Ben Kingsley - pushes Hopkins down to 3rd
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Finan is Irish, and was already enslaved on the ship by the time we joined them. AFAICR we've not seen his back story on screen yet.
Sihtric is Kjartan's bastard son, and was sent with Kjartan's men a few episodes back.
Clapa is one of Guthred's household guard that Uthred put together - no explanation given as to why he's sticking with Uthred rather than his liege-lord in Northumbria.
Hild, the nun-turned warrior, about to become an Abbess.
Gisela is Guthred's sister, and Uthred's wife.
In Uthred's household, you've got:
Finan, Irish, bearded with a too-modern haircut.
Sihtric, Danish, beardless, much younger and inexperienced.
Clapa, big brute with a big, brutish 'tache.
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Guthram / Athelstan is king in East Anglia.
Previous king of Mercia died last episode, so 3 years ago now. Aethelred is no relation, just a Mercian noble who has become (politically) foremost noble in Mercia through the upcoming marriage to Aethelfraed, but still not a king.
IIRC they had a discussion in-episode that Alfred would not allow the Mercian Witan to appoint a new king in Mercia.
I'm happy to clarify these things, but don't want to risk heading into book-lore or real-history as the show differs from both in some respects.
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On 04/13/2017 at 2:12 AM, Kel Varnsen said:
If we are going to be talking about all super hero movies, there is also Jack Nicholson (three time Oscar winner) to consider, even though as the Joker he was basically just playing Jack in white face paint. Unless Daniel Day Lewis shows up as Immortus or Streep shows up as She-Hulk it is going to be hard to beat that from an awards point of view.
For acting talent, Gary Oldman has the title for now, with Hopkins an honourable runner up IMO.
I'd take Gene Hackman over Redford or Nicholson too TBH
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There is no king in Mercia.
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Durham the wider shots, and the shots of Uhtred et al approaching the well, all show a big rocky promontory (though the river does seem to be AWOL) - it's only really the approach to the gates that's relatively flat (and I don't recall any wide shots from there). Of course, there's no way they could film in real Durham as there's too much... Durham in the way. I'd guess that the gate approach is pretty flat as a practicality, I wouldn't fancy being an actor carrying that battering ram anyway, let alone doing it up a steep slope - it also allows for the visuals or horses approaching the gate with any degree of urgency.
Book Spoiler
SpoilerSo is Aethelwold taking Osferth's role then - it makes sense in terms of the adaptation I guess.
I'm going to miss Ragnar and Brida; I'm sure the show runners will find a way to involve them again, but they should more-or-less disappear from our screens now.
ETA: here's the wideshot for Dunholm - not very flat
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Definitely better than S1It helps that Dreymon seems to have taken acting lessons during the break - though I still hate his voice overs in the "previously on"; but then, I hate "previously on"s anyway.
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16th March for the UK; 9.00; BBC2
18th March for Netflix Australia, and a few others - I'm not sure if Netflix USA has announced a date yet; but may well be part of the pack for the 18th
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And we have a (US) release date: https://tvline.com/2017/02/23/american-gods-premiere-date-season-1-starz-series-neil-gaiman/
QuoteStarz’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods novel will premiere on Sunday, April 30 at 9/8c, the network announced on Thursday, while also releasing the key art poster below.
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2 hours ago, ChelseaNH said:
Not many 12 year olds would be familiar with Jackson Pollock, but his mom seemed to be sharing a lot of her interests with him, so who knows?
True - but there are many who are interested in peurile humour - whether they "get it" or not.
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I'd like to see a sequel to the Matrix, that film was great, and really deserved to spawn a franchise.
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1 hour ago, PaulaO said:
My speculation without spoilers. Sister is either Sherlock's twin or younger. Redbeard is real, and sister tortured and killed him. Parents sent sister to home for criminally insane and Sherlock blocked it all. Sister is nuts and met Moriarty during her time in the nut house. I don't have a theory for how she escaped. Half of me wants Mary alive because I like her, but the other half says she has to be dead, what with a bullet in her chest. I don't believe she is a bad guy or in cahoots with the sister.
Might as well put my current theory down in writing.
Sister is broadly the same age as Sherlock; with Mycroft much the older. Euros "committed suicide" (probably accidentally) in childhood; possibly in a way that killed or injured Redbeard (so jump off a cliff, or swimming out to sea); which explains Sherlock's emotional response to a suicidal client. If as a fairly young child then it would explain why he's not seeing the face of a dead 6 year-old, in the 40 year old living person before him.
Mycroft was instrumental in packing her off to a mental hospital, and she bears a grudge against Mycroft; whilst Sherlock has uncharacteristically strong emotional response to Redbeard's death, and to suicide. Euros is using Watson to get at Sherlock, to in turn get at Mycroft.
I don't think there needs to be a connection to Moriarty; though with Moffatt's involvement there will be, but Euros will be super-er and special-er than any super-special thing that ever went before.
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Well - now she drives an Aston, and power-slides around roundabouts.
She just gets better and better
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Fair point, well made
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5 hours ago, VCRTracking said:
Another thing about I like about Doctor Strange is he's the only superhero who got his superpowers just by reading a lot and studying really, really hard!
Have you met Tony Stark yet?
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2 hours ago, starri said:
A lot of the early Disney films wouldn't make the cut. Everybody always mentions Song of the South first, but I've never understood why only that one is worth being locked away (only in the United States, because I guess it's not racist anywhere else). The minstrel show crow (disgustingly named Jim Crow) is almost worse, and Peter Pan goes for the double-whammy of both racist AND sexism.
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American Gods By Neil Gaiman: The Book
in American Gods [V]
· Edited by saoirse
Spoiler tags are not needed in here.
Already foreshadowed, on the plane