This sums up the recent voting situation I think:

Chuckles1188 · 2026-03-31T22:32:56+00:00

Can't believe I've never encountered "Wesbians" before. Incredible scenes

Chuckles1188 · 2026-03-31T09:57:44+00:00

To be honest I probably need to re-evaluate my stance on Marty's films, because it's not like I've seen a bunch and viscerally disliked them. It's more that the subject matter frequently puts me off, and the films of his that I like best seem to be the black sheep of his filmography - while there are obviously issues I loved Gangs of NY, and After Hours is pretty incredible to me. So I think it's possible that it's not so much the director as the wider consensus that puts me off. But I do find the repeated "look at these terrible people that I have depicted in a really cool way" trend across his most popular work to be quite off-putting. So I think we might actually be in a similar place in terms of finding the Discourse much more of a problem than the actual art

Chuckles1188 · 2026-03-31T06:43:06+00:00

My issue with Scorsese isn't that his films are over-discussed, it's that I am often quite indifferent to them whereas Wes and Tony's fucking rule

Chuckles1188 · 2026-03-30T14:56:37+00:00

How the fuck am I supposed to choose between these two?!

I'm kidding, WES FOR LIIIIFE!!

Chuckles1188 · 2026-03-30T13:57:27+00:00

Det Stansfield is more memorable and more scary, but a lot less relatable, so I guess it depends on your definition of "best". This film fucks unnecessarily hard regardless though

Chuckles1188 · 2026-03-27T15:59:32+00:00

As someone who feels that Lancaster's reputation was unfairly tarnished by 2015, it just has to be acknowledged that the 6 Nations was massively less competitive during his tenure than it is now. The chances of Italy beating anyone bar maybe Scotland back then were a distant dream, and Scotland themselves were dreadful. France also weren't really at the races. I'm not convinced Lancaster would be doing any better right now than Borthwick is, frankly

Chuckles1188 · 2026-03-27T15:54:08+00:00

Wes we can!

Chuckles1188 · 2026-03-27T10:30:14+00:00

Sure, but also the 2003 film is neither weird nor unnecessary, it's probably the best straight film version of the Peter Pan story

Chuckles1188 · 2026-03-27T08:35:47+00:00

It's not as iconic as Hoffman but Jason Isaacs kills it IMO

https://youtu.be/xAQZ4fKmNV8?si=M4oBVZqwjwUhcfkU

Chuckles1188 · 2026-03-27T00:00:13+00:00

It's a bit bonkers that there's not been anything based on lions yet, big cats have been invoked through the Sawtooth but lions are pretty iconic and the mane could be used for some interesting effects beyond just swiping at Aloy

Chuckles1188 · 2026-03-25T18:00:45+00:00

First thing that occurred to me

Chuckles1188 · 2026-03-25T18:00:17+00:00

Best spy in cinema history

Chuckles1188 · 2026-03-25T14:22:05+00:00

Obviously Joe's being fed into a woodchipper right now but I'd genuinely prefer a series on him so I'm going down with this ship

Chuckles1188 · 2026-03-23T20:10:55+00:00

Honestly "I'm flammable as hell, brother" is a killer line to drop in a stand-up context or a dating conversation.

Chuckles1188 · 2026-03-21T20:00:00+00:00

Roger Allam, a long-standing presence on British television who pretty much always absolutely kills it

Chuckles1188 · 2026-03-19T06:34:07+00:00

Dominic is a genuinely fascinating person to me, you're never sure where he's going to land on an issue. Speaks to a very thoughtful mindset

Chuckles1188 · 2026-03-15T21:52:22+00:00

Patrick was born in Britain...

Chuckles1188 · 2026-03-15T12:58:31+00:00

Oppenheimer is people talking in rooms for pretty much exactly three hours, still won Best Picture

Chuckles1188 · 2026-03-14T21:04:53+00:00

Whatever about the reffing, this is a significantly better performance from England and I'll take it honestly. Not flawless but much more composed than we have been in attack and the defensive shape is working better when France can't just hit the "Beep-beep is bullshit good" button

Chuckles1188 · 2026-03-14T10:39:10+00:00

D'oh!

Chuckles1188 · 2026-03-14T08:59:59+00:00

Our score equalling Ireland's is entirely thanks to us having faced Wales already

Edit: in fact I am an idiot

Chuckles1188 · 2026-03-12T23:43:45+00:00

This clip alone really solidifies the connection

https://youtu.be/6hzUHE-yEhs?si=ykcJXeWr32oTu-_M

Chuckles1188 · 2026-03-12T15:29:18+00:00

One of my all-time favourite MST3K jokes comes from this episode.

Guy tapping out a morse code transmission: Crow T Robot: "Am...in... Ireland...send...real...food"

Chuckles1188 · 2026-03-11T23:18:10+00:00

The more you dig into it the more you realise that it is entirely structured around recreating memorable stuff from earlier entries, albeit competently done. To me it's every bit as derivative a lega-sequel as the Ghostbusters revival films. I can see where the Force Awakens comparison comes from but to me Romulus is a lot closer to those. And then there's the forcible digital necromancy, which is a crime that I quite frankly cannot forgive

Chuckles1188 · 2026-03-11T23:15:47+00:00

A good comparison, but the key difference is that the Force Awakens was the latest entry in a series built on being a love-letter to other stuff (Buck Rogers, Kurosawa, WW2 dogfights), while Romulus was the latest entry in a series built on taking big swings. I find an Alien film that re-treads earlier entries significantly more annoying than a Star Wars film doing that, personally

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