Now Screening - What Are You Watching Right Now?

[struth]

need a bit of feisty. not too much but enough when needed. when you end up looking like me your happy to take most that are nice folk, as long as their is no huge wobble bottom and face doesnt look like she took car to the crushers and forgot to get out

[Marco]

There's nothing wrong with you mate, so don't do yourself down, and you've been through a lot, which not many could've handled so well!

Like that last description, btw!

Marco.

[struth]

Ok enough music and back on topic, Wild China, 2008. Narrated by Yosser Hughes, aka Bernard Hill.



Amazing country alas run by maniacs.

[Pigmy Pony]

I find 'Pretty' girls a bit generic, picked to a formula if you like. Probably mostly bimbos who are more interested in looking at themselves in a mirror than looking at you. I prefer a bit of character, a bit of cute as well doesn't hurt though.

What about Amy Adams, the actress?



Looking pretty damn good for a woman in her forties. Smart too!

Yep, Amy's definitely got something

Did you watch any of that series "Sharp Objects" last year? Starred Amy, who played an alcoholic used-to-be self harmer returning home. A bit dark. Her stepdad had a very expensive Simaudio Moon set up which he spent all his days listening to. Worth a watch anyway.

[Marco]

Oi - wot about the long post I wrote to you earlier! No comment?

Sometimes I wonder why I bother....

Marco.

[Barry]

Oi - wot about the long post I wrote to you earlier! No comment?

Sometimes I wonder why I bother....

Marco.

I often write long posts in answer to a technical query, only for it to be completely ignored, let alone receive any thanks from the OP. All part of the job I guess.

[Macca]

Acts Of Violence (2018)

Three brothers join forces to get the fiancé of one of them back from slave traders (who are also drug dealers).Bruce Willis gets top billing so I expected it to be a film about him killing people (with his brothers). But instead he plays the cop and is hardly in it. In fairness he does sort of kill a bloke in the first 5 minutes and another at the end but that's your lot.

There are some plot elements that are a bit odd. The elder brother was in the army in Iraq so he trains the other two in basic infantry tactics and shooting in what, given the film timeline and all, can at most be a couple of hours. And then they are able to go through a couple of warehouses full of baddies without even breaking a sweat.

There is a training montage, of course, but I'm still not convinced.

Also, when they get the girl back they just go straight home and sit around with candles burning having a chat. Even though Bruce Willis has already specifically told them that all the slaves have a GPS locater put under the skin which is how the baddies were able to find her after she had escaped for a short time previously.

But despite it being really really important it's inexplicably forgotten and they are surprised completely when twenty minutes later forty odd gangsters surround the house.

Production values are good and Cleveland is the setting which is suitably post-industrial, and the pace is good, but overall it's nothing special.

[Marco]

I often write long posts in answer to a technical query, only for it to be completely ignored, let alone receive any thanks from the OP. All part of the job I guess.

I know, mate. Still, it's good to make the effort regardless, as even if the intended recipient doesn't acknowledge your help, chances are someone else reading who's interested in the subject will benefit

As for Stevie-boy, he's a naughty chappie with a bad habit of, erm, 'inadvertently missing' posts of mine where I've gone into some detail, in order to clarify matters on a particular subject!



Marco.

[Marco]

Acts Of Violence (2018)

Three brothers join forces to get the fiancé of one of them back from slave traders (who are also drug dealers).Bruce Willis gets top billing so I expected it to be a film about him killing people (with his brothers). But instead he plays the cop and is hardly in it. In fairness he does sort of kill a bloke in the first 5 minutes and another at the end but that's your lot.

There are some plot elements that are a bit odd. The elder brother was in the army in Iraq so he trains the other two in basic infantry tactics and shooting in what, given the film timeline and all, can at most be a couple of hours. And then they are able to go through a couple of warehouses full of baddies without even breaking a sweat.

There is a training montage, of course, but I'm still not convinced.

Also, when they get the girl back they just go straight home and sit around with candles burning having a chat. Even though Bruce Willis has already specifically told them that all the slaves have a GPS locater put under the skin which is how the baddies were able to find her after she had escaped for a short time previously.

But despite it being really really important it's inexplicably forgotten and they are surprised completely when twenty minutes later forty odd gangsters surround the house.

Production values are good and Cleveland is the setting which is suitably post-industrial, and the pace is good, but overall it's nothing special.

Nice review, mate. Sounds like a good film, so I'll check it out

Marco.

[Macca]

Nice review, mate. Sounds like a good film, so I'll check it out

Marco.

It's a good test for how well your system does gunfire if nothing else.