Chindie

I'm biased but it's my favourite of the series. 10 I've only completed once and thought was ok but that was back when it came out. 9 is wonderful imo.

Actually I think you'll find that of every journalist they've intentionally actually shot/blown up/assisted into the next life in a gentle manner, 100% of them were not journalists, who claimed to have worked for enemy organisations that hold themselves out as news offices but actually just reported things that may or may not be true, besides which everyone knows Hamas is running around putting bodies they found next to video cameras, mics and notebooks, and making fake social media profiles of any Tom Dick or Muhammad's body they've acquired by nefarious means claiming they were journalists. The only actual journalists Israel has killed are the ones they shot accidentally while shooting at them. Which isn't many because they kindly killed all the other ones before this. And anyway can you blame them killing so called journalists when they're all antisemites.

I mean yeah but... *rattles off loads of irrelevant bollocks*

Nobody is going to be shocked if it turned out Heck was a dick, really.

This is less relevant to me now, but generally... Restaurants - yes unless theres a service charge or if the service has been shite. I also don't subscribe to the 'percentage of the bill' thing - the tip is whatever I think is reasonable for the meal. Barber - yes. Never much though, couple of quid. Taxi - round up fare and keep change, unless I can tell they've taken the piss. I've more often than I care to remember been in taxis where I know they've taken a shitty route and in those cases they get the fare and thats it, regardless if it's a pain in the arse to sort out the change.

Another hospital attack.

The ultimate fancast for Doom was always Mads Mikkelsen for me. But they used him for a bad one and done villain already and he's probably too old and I don't think Marvel would use him for a long running villain anyway.

Trying to find a joke there is like trying to find a needle in the New Guinea rainforest with only your arse, and never having heard of a needle or having any concept of 'sharp things'.

Doom is one the best villains Marvel has, and he's intrinsically linked with the F4... That bit of casting needs to be bang on. As for the F4 cast themselves... I like Pascal a lot but he's not Richards for me. He's that slight bit too old. Richards should be that little bit more mature than the rest, but Pascal is knocking on for 50. I also don't think the type of character Richards is is who you'd go to Pascal for, he's the slightly nerdy super scientist who is also a bit of a father figure, Pascal can do father figures but he does tough 'normal guys', not extremely capable nerd 'thought leaders'. Vanessa Kirby, meh. She's a solid actress but Sue Storm anyone could play, Kirby feels like Marvel's classic 'get someone who isn't a name yet that fits the bill'. Joseph Quinn is a good shout for the Human Torch. Ebon Moss-Bachrach is a very good actor and could have a lot of fun playing the Thing, he is the pick of the characters in the F4 and will be the big comic relief character and probably a fan favourite if they nail his scenes. Casting Doom though, that's where they really need to nail it. Doom is a very particular character and you can't just punt out a generic villain performance, there's more to him than that. You have to believe that this man is genuinely a world ending threat, and that he's the most capable guy in the room at any moment.

Well they've killed 80 odd people in the journalist/news media industry in this conflict and they've got a strong record of killing journalists over the years so I wouldn't quibble too much about a slightly hyperbolic comment because they've not shot everyone from the BBC yet. Unless we're all to discuss this topic like we've got autism to help protect Israel for some reason.

It's a few things. They're a foundational group. The original team up superhero comic. And the characters were all pretty well done, they have well developed personalities and their relationships are interesting and help create good narratives with depth as they are a true family unit (i.e. Reed has been everything from the classic father figure in a 60s context to a sinister near megalomaniac with all the things between and all the impacts that would have on his family relationships). They also have a ridiculously good foe roster with a few that are true universe spanning threats. They are a bit daft as characters in their purest form, they were born of a 60s desire to sell a family superhero team to kids and that feels a bit naff in the modern context, but you can still do very interesting things with them and they remain very important. In recent years the run by Hickman on Fantastic 4 was one of the most lauded of any Marvel comic and went to very dark and hugely impactful places for the entire Marvel universe, but was founded on the basis of those characters that goes right back to the 60s. Whether a movie can truly do that... Who knows.

The country would be better off if happy nukes landed on London, Manchester and Liverpool.

Never mind kids, some of the relatives of the people that murdered your parents may have come to these lands under duress.

Why they took them over 2 months to actually announce I've no idea. Now is the Josh Hartnett Doom rumour going to be true...

Kenny Baker. Iirc he also, like most of the cast of Star Wars, thought Anthony Daniels, who played C3-PO, was a clearing in the woods.

Stolen from elsewhere, but lovely point. Starmer is claiming he took decisive action on the candidate that don't like the Jews much. One of the accusations held against the Great Satan is that he interfered with disciplinary matters, which should not happen... Tut tut Kier. Best pack your desk up now, there's a good lad.

Israel has ground the accusation of antisemitism into the ground, and the Labour Party's kowtowing to it for factional gains (which brilliantly are now coming back to bite it's face off hopefully) has completely degraded it. It should be a heinous accusation, but it's been slathered with so much disingenuous bullshit and used so flagrantly it's lost a lot of weight. As for the Labour Party on it, well... look at the current debacle, and then look at the stuff they've spent the last 4 years chucking people out of the party for saying (including a number of Jewish party members), and the lines of Osamor only a fortnight ago. Complete jokers.

**** the Labour Party obviously.

Rafah will be a slaughter. City of 250k now harbouring 1.5m people, with a blood hungry regime ready to flatten it. Would be condemned outright had a enemy nation done it, maybe even found itself being forcibly democratised. But instead we ignore it, facilitate it, offer some weasel words of contrition, and leave the innocents to die. Shameful. Israel should be a pariah state, a number of it's political and military leadership should hang, and the country at large should be facing sanction and rejection.

Oh you'd never stop laughing at Starmer getting into an anti-Semitism row, would you? Teehee. How's them face eating leopards you clearing in the woods? Best hope the complaints team is up to snuff.

They've also rolling back Dolby Vision and Atmos support for anyone not paying the additional fee. Really shifty practice.

Russia has already invaded Georgia. 2008. Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Technically still ongoing but essentially the same playbook as Ukraine.

Kraven it's one of the few ideas they've had that could be ok. Helped by it casting pretty well. But it's going to be rubbish as well because they've changed a load of stuff for... reasons? Which will inevitably knacker it. It's probably not helped by bits of Kraven's story being quite stupid. Kraven it's a really underrated villain but there's no... great story in his origin, and there's no real need for there to be. The trailer didn't fill me with much hope. Especially when you had the villain 'mutate' into Rhino. Just... No no no. No.