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'Cloud 9' cocktails?

2 oz. Blue Curacao
4 oz. Milk
1 oz. 7-Up

95minutes done now with half the post trash compactor scenes recut and extended.

This edit can be really interesting for me as a SW fan, because sometimes when I rearrange a scene, I'm surprised to find it fits back together again like it must have been before it was recut for the theatrical release.

'Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom' 2013

Idris Elba is predictably outstanding as Nelson Mandela. He's got the voice down perfectly without ever slipping into the parody that it could have been with a lesser actor. Naomie Harris (aka Miss Moneypenny) also puts in a strong, turbulant performance as Winnie Mandela. The rest of the cast are excellent unknown (To me at least) South African actors.

Best thing is the gorgeous 35mm cinematography which looks like an epic from the 70s, capturing every ray of light and shadow across the South African landscape. There is none of the digitally-graded harsh contrast and cartoonish blueish saturation that infects most modern films. Just rich autumnal browns, grey, reds and greens... why can't all films nowadays look as good as this?

Faults include; it sticking a bit too much to the over-familiar biopic formula minted by Richard Attenborough's 'Gandhi' and the aging makeup isn't right in a couple of scenes in the middle but other than that it's a great film. It's probably fortunate that the movie was completed before Nelson's death, so it has a pleasing celebratory tone (Despite the grimness and violence of the story). Plus it never shys away from showing Nelson and Winnie's faults which the filmakers might now have been more reluctant to portray.

Soundtrack is fine too featuring the cream of political songwriting from the period(s) including Gil Scott-Heron, Public Enemy, Bob Marley and The Specials... but be warned it does have Bono singing over the credits! ;-)

DuracellEnergizer said:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) - 6.5/10

Royal pardon for codebreaker Alan Turing

About bloody time! He only helped save the world from evil and fathered the computer age. It was shameful what my country did to him.

^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8WmvMCTW_g

;-)

TV's Frink said:

In the span of two days, New Mexico legalized gay marriage and Utah's anti-gay marriage law was ruled unconstitutional.  More and more people have come to accept gay marriage.  I don't think we are far away from this going national.

 Unless they're in the Russian government that is. How Russia chooses to deal with the inevitable protests at the Winter Olympics next year will make interesting viewing.

My older Brother Neil vs The Doctor: Silloth, Cumbria sometime in 1985AD

SilverWook said:

Google is the Borg.

 and Tesco is The Tripods...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PSyiRXIEyc

Merry Christmas Adywan! and thanks for the continuing hard work on this.

I hope before you pack away the Canyon you've flown a toy Falcon through it a few times and made "Neeeoooowwwww!" sounds as is only right and proper.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Ah, Will & Grace -- undermining the gay agenda since 1998.

 Didn't know there was a gay agenda or that 'Will & Grace' undermined it. I just thought it was a show about two charismatic, witty and likeable people... and their two annoying, un-funny and self-obsessed friends Will and Grace.

georgec said:

Keep the change, you filthy animal.

 I used to be able to quote that whole sequence to my friends in the playground.

Merry Christmas (And Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and a late Diwali and Eid) to y'all!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TEHJOwvmvE

^

Ooooh an art gallery thread, didn't see this before! (I'm playing 'Vision On' in my head).

Lovin' your stuff DuracellEnergizer, the more abstract pieces are the strongest (The WWI drawing especially). If you want my opinion the following remind me of...

                          ^ Jennifer Lawrence       ^ Leo DiCapprio         ^ David Prowse

(Plus The Bride of Frankenstein and Yul Bryner lol)

As it's Christmas here are a couple of Crimbo Cakes I decorated for my mum years ago...

doubleofive's tabby reminded me of my Cat Oscar. We had to have him put to sleep this time last year because of cancer which was causing him a lot of pain. Lots of visits to the vets and operations but it was no good. Hope euthanasia of humans is finally legal when I get like that, it's a more dignified way to go IMO. I was looking at the spot on the couch he liked to curl up in the other day. Not sure how old he was because he was from a cat sanctuary.

Here he is chillaxing in front of our wood burning stove...

^ "Heeellooo all lady cats!"

But seriously folks, a duel English Japanese speaker would be handy to know for me too, as I'm thinking of a 'The Last Samurai' based project which would have a Kanji title sequence that would almost certainly be hilariously wrong if I relied on Google translate.

thejediknighthusezni said:

If he decides in his mind that the next time he feels an impulse he's going to ignore females and pursue a homosexual guy who is much easier to obtain, THAT...IS...A...CCHHOICEEEE!

You mean, he decides he's in love with a guy despite the fact that he lives in a country where that love is crime. A decision that will see him beaten, tortured, raped, ostracised by his family, forced to seek refuge in another country or publically executed then he's made a pretty dumb choice!

... or just maybe he was born that way and the world is full of intolerant assholes.

Leonardo said:

No, cold again. Read the hint above.

I really hope it doesn't turn out to be lost in translation, when I finally tell you guys the answer (assuming no one gets it).

 Okay an autumn breeze then = a wind cries, it makes trees weep their leaves, their leaves are red sheep following the breeze (It's a solution :-D)

I've made up this suitably Tolkien themed riddle for you all (I suspect it's quite easy though)...

"Robes with no hood,
but draped in sleeves.
Folk smile to hear me,
but also grieve.
Black as pitch,
painful to itch.
In the valleys I sing,
for I am the ring"

Oooooh... keyboard was the first thing that popped into my mind but I never posted it as it fitted the first two lines but I still can't figure out how it applies to the 3rd?

"I have a flock of red sheep.
When they cry, they all weep."

^ A weeping Willow tree in the autumn?

RicOlie_2 said:

Men are naturally aggressive and protective while women are more compassionate and gentle by nature... Women and men are definitely different, so why not give them separate roles?

 Seems like a clear call for a 'women only' priesthood to me.

^ The Vicar of Dibley and her husband Thorin Oakenshield approve of this message.

TV's Frink said:

Jaitea said:

TV's Frink said:

I'm sorry but I can't buy any worldview that insists there are defined roles for men and women and the two shan't mix.

Except for football.  Girls can't play it. ;-) 

 Liverpool Ladies FC seam to be doing VERY well 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25403737

J

 WRONG FOOTBALL!!!

 There is only one type of Football, it's a game you play with your feet as apposed to a game you play with your hands ;-)

Jaitea said:

TV's Frink said:

I'm sorry but I can't buy any worldview that insists there are defined roles for men and women and the two shan't mix.

Except for football.  Girls can't play it. ;-)

 Liverpool Ladies FC seam to be doing VERY well 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25403737

J

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky8_CZ4Y5Sg

I'll save everyone the time re: the OP, it's the latter.

TV's Frink said:

Jetrell Fo said:

hairy_hen said:

@ Jetrell Fo: the reason Ric was great is because Frink is funny and you are not.

I think even those who didn't appreciate the humor as much as me would tend to agree that your whining about it is far more annoying than anything you've complained about.

Ric made this forum a more fun place.  Whining and complaints make it much less fun.

That's really all that needs to be said.

My issue is with Frink, not with Ric.  I didn't make the rule to ban the dual identities so that's really all that needs to be said as well. 

 The more you ignore me, the more you can't stop thinking about me.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCj_C-Yb3xI