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Like him personally, seems a good bloke, however we're conceding a lot of goals because of his positional sense, decision making and general lack of athleticism. He's got to be replaced or at the very least get some better competition.

This is 100% correct. It would have been a much better film if they'd have played it much more like a legal/courtroom drama (something along the lines of "A Few Good Men" or "Trial of the Chicago 7"), and emphasising the fact that in this time it's essentially a property dispute with the added jeapody of her being executed for things she had no control over. Comer was the best thing about the film and steals pretty much every scene she's in, as expected because she's just a terrific actress. I'm not sure it was on purpose from Scott to make it all about the men, it was just a natural consequence of him adding all the battle scenes, all the history of these two men's feud and the final duel. It was a subject matter that needed much more subtlety that a director like Ridley Scott has ever done. It doesn't help when you call something like that "The Last Duel"...you're starting with making it all about the duel and make that your big showpiece. I thought it drew a lot of comparisons to Rob Roy which I thought was a much better thought out and acted film and certainly dealt with the rape and revenge aspect much better.

What did you think of it overall? It absolutely tanked at the box office but it's found an audience on streaming. Like you I took issue with Damon and Affleck's weird accents where they seemed to go from American to British to something sort of inbetween. It was jarring and I kind of wish they'd just ditched the whole "true story" thing and set it in Medieval England and cast a bunch of British actors. It must be a challenge for a film maker though when you have a story set in medieval France with a star cast of American/British actors, what accent do you ask them to do? I remember a few years ago there was a Tom Cruise film about the von staffenberg and the uprising against hitler and they just basically went "**** it, everyone speak in your native accent" which was equally weird. Or you could go the other way and do Passion of the Christ where it's in the right tongue but you have to get actors nobody heard of.

I really hope that if they have a winter shutdown they also delay the January transfer window....Wouldn't want a certain unnamed club from using it to get a bunch of players in to help their relegation cause....

Apparently Johnson didn't even attend yesterdays Cobra meeting with the other leaders of the devolved nations...that's right, it's an actual national emergency but that oxygen thief can't be arsed to attend an emergency meeting on a sunday to coordinate all efforts to combat it.

Tbh I just think it's incredible that they all seem to remember every meeting and every non-party/gathering that happened 18 months ago enough to 100% conclusively say they didn't break any rules.

Any old people fancy spending a few days swimming in a Petri dish for the good of the nation? https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-retired-teachers-urged-to-return-to-classrooms-to-cover-staff-absence-as-omicron-takes-hold-12500466

The science of masks is really **** simple. Do you cover your mouth when you cough? Yes? Wear a **** mask Do you cover your nose when you sneeze? Yes? Wear a **** mask It doesn’t give you protection from other people but it does give other people protection from you. There's really no excuse at this point other than just being a selfish sack of shit.

What they do have going for them is it looks like another year where an incredibly low number of points will keep you up. People used to take about 40 points but last year 29 would have been enough to stay up. Hard to see if being that bad but it could maybe be 33 or 34.

Outrageous. They want our fish but not our people! Someone needs to teach Pierre a lesson!

I had the same. It always makes me quite uncomfortable when you get people cheering and clapping in a cinema. Just feels really wrong to me.

He wasn’t going to pass up a chance to turn up and say “vaccines” over and over to boost his approval rating with the retards.

Because they see them walk though the lobbies en mass. When you see a bunch of labour people going into the “no” lobby the secret is out. Agreed they are pathetic but there does seem to be a shift happening.

I would bet that if some of those rebels got a sniff that labour planned to go the other way we’d have seen some back and certainly a lot of abstention’s. Enough to put a shot across the bow but not enough to sink the ship.

majority of 80 MPs but had over 100 of his own MPs voting against him tonight despite begs and threats all day. Surely he’s now a busted flush and doesn’t have long.

Raab doing his best to look a tit on his media round today. Got his figures all wrong, causing the government to have to issue a public correction and then started getting very arsey when challenged about his bullshit.

Isn't the general rule of Pandemics that they tend to get more infectious but milder? It's surely to any viruses benefit to spread easier but leave the host alive?

There's some evidence from South Africa but our situation and theirs arent a direct comparison because... - It's summer in SA - Their population is signaficantly younger than ours - Their vaccination rates are different, both in sheer number, but also the type of vaccine used (We used AZ to vaccinate the elderly and it appears this is an inferior vaccine) - Their population lives in very different conditions (shanty towns etc) - Their natural immunity rate is different because they've not had the "waves" of infection we've had. Some of the above are to our benefit and others to our detriment. It's all very complex.

Someone needs to go to jail for the money that was spent on that.

They could just get everyone back for a day in the New Year then shu.....Oh

I think we all know that wouldn’t have happened. He wouldn’t have been able to get through the traffic and then take on Hamilton. Still, you can’t just invent rules because you want to make the sport more exciting. That way lies madness and proper corruption. FWIW, I also think they got the decision wrong at the start to let Hamilton off when he went (was forced) off the track. It’s all just a bit of a shitshow isn’t it?

I don’t think it’s that kind of corruption. It’s incompetence. He saw the race finishing under a safety car or not having a neck and neck finish as something to be avoided and in the process made a snap decision that was against the rules of the sport, creating an almighty mess. If he’d have stuck to the rules we’d have had a boring finish, moans from red bull but ultimately it wouldn’t have become this unseemly mess.

He absolutely is. The Russians really don’t want a confrontation with NATO and they’ve calculated that although NATO won’t be happy they absolutely won’t do anything for Ukraine except talk tough, give them some weapons and impose some sanctions. None of that will be enough. If NATO was serious about wanting to keep Russia out of Ukraine they would have stationed some troops there or fast tracked them to full NATO membership. Ironically that’s exactly what this Russian move is designed to prevent. They really don’t want the urkrainians in NATO. The Russians can’t actually go much further into Europe without a direct confrontation but they’ll bide their time, continue their covert strategies to undermine the fledgling democracies of Eastern Europe - hope for more Victor Orbans etc, wait for a moment of weakness and then try to exploit by bringing those countries back to their “sphere of influence”. Ultimately nothing will happen until they do something to a country we give a shit about.

No one is going to war over Ukraine. Putin knows it and the rest of the world knows it. It’s an easy target for them. Culturally as close to Russians as you can get and not a NATO member. The real confrontation will come in the next 10 years for Taiwan.

Reloaded was just complete trash. That ridiculous exposition dump at the end of the film. It seemed to end in a really abrupt way. The biggest sin it committed was that to actually understand the final act of the film you had to have played the "Enter The Matrix" game. Who in the movie studio signed that off??