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  1. Ooh - that’s a nice set. Did buy that one - not sure where it is at the mo, up in the loft no doubt!
  2. I’m giving another shout out to ST3 - this disk set in particular is so nice and very relaxing to listen to when working. Will be quoting the dialogue away! ST2 is the best film combo without doubt (all the pieces work so well), but I just feel ST3’s score works even better with nods to 2. Lovely stuff! Currently playing as you might guess!
  3. Can’t go wrong with Flash & Highlander - turned me into a big fan of the band! Those tracks elevate those great films so much.
  4. Rogue 3

    The Acolyte

    Fingers crossed for this one. Trailer was good to watch. 30 min episode will make it easy watching for those dreading getting sucked in to another show. Be fascinating to see what it’s like so far in the past. Hopefully we see some differences and it doesn’t just look and feel the same…
  5. Bit random, but this new age of working from home a lot more brings some changes. When ploughing on with some routine spreadsheet work, I find it nice to pop a CD (alright grandad! ), with a classic soundtrack! Have been enjoying loads of popular classics, but standouts are: 1. Star Trek 3 (expanded score 2 disc set) - just love this! Recent purchase and defo my fave of the ST films! 2. Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome - I know the film divides opinion, but I am a fan and this disk is packed with the instrumental tracks as well as the big T’s two songs. Lovely stuff! 3. All the Bonds! So many versions of this out there, but basically all the main songs to the JB films. Nice to have on in the background! 4. Local Hero - film is fantastic and so unlike anything else. The score is a big part of that being so successful. So I prefer a largely instrumental score, just to avoid distractions when working, but with a few exceptions like above and also things like Pulp Fiction or other belters!
  6. I do wonder what it would be like to play this when not having any experience of the original PS1 game, but I am not that person! This game is amazing. Currently on chapter 8 of 14, and just loving it! Looks & sounds amazing, story has been fleshed out nicely and so many fun nods to small scenes in the original. On top of this, a ton of new content that really enhances the journey! Magical experience!
  7. Presumably that - attempts to clone those with force abilities as tests for the eventual Palpatine back up. Maybe it’s just failed versions of him, but the early tests could be based on captured Jedi - maybe some of those we saw in the Obi-Wan series? Hopefully we see more of that.
  8. Thursday can’t come quick enough!
  9. Well! Over the past 2 weeks, I have been doing a rewatch of the films in prep for watching the latest, now it has dropped on Sky for all. As per my earlier post, it was mad how little I remembered of each outside of the first one which I am a big fan of. Lots of familiar things, but merged across the films! 2nd one is still dreadful. Hits all the wrong notes and found myself clock watching throughout. “Gotta get through this” vibes. 3rd is superb. Great cast, great plot - love it. “Ghost Protocol” is solid - good to have Renner join the gang. Not as good as 1 & 3. “Rogue Nation” was fantastic! My favourite overall of the sequels. Superb villain, excellent intro for Ilsa Faust (great character through the franchise). The set pieces in the opera, Morocco & London were brilliantly done. “Fallout” had a lot of praise on here, and I can see why. Great fun, but not as good as Rogue Nation for me. I just felt it too obvious about Cavill’s character, but still great fun. “Dead Reckoning part 1” - just finished watching this. Hard to mark this one as it’s the only “first parter” in the series. A lot depends on where they go in part 2 for me. But I had great fun watching. Definitely helped having rewatched the others as a refresher. Desert battle to start with looked fab. Airport sequence - are there no security people? All sorts of undercover running around, through secure doors, on roofs - this section bugged me. Rome - fantastic chase sequences! Brought back a lot of nice memories of the classic “Italian Job” from the ‘60s with the Fiat in place of the Mini’s! Loved that and same for Venice with tense close quarters fights in narrow streets. And as for the final sequence on the train - brilliant from start to finish! Epic and looked fantastic! Overall plot - yeah, fine, but let’s see how pt2 goes as that might retroactively change opinion. AI being the villain is a good idea, draw attention to the dangers! A lot of 2001 vibes - Kubrick knew where it was all going! Fingers crossed I can remember it all this time for the next film when it comes out next year!
  10. Enjoyed the opening 3 episodes for series three! Very nice start and some interesting developments. I like where they are going with Project Necromancer - good to have some explanations that the reason cloning force users hasn’t happened is down to a loss of midichlorian count, so they are searching for a way to maintain it for the new clone as a link to the events of the sequel trilogy. Not a big fan of those films but it’s nice to see them try and get some sense into them. Good to see where we go now for our Bad Batch team!
  11. Rogue 3

    Creed 3

    Nice list Zathras - only change I might make is swapping 1 & 3 round, but agree with the rest there mate. Also haven’t see Creed 3, but enjoyed the first 2 a lot!
  12. Finished up the 2nd season and agree the Kahhori episode was one of the strongest. Also enjoyed the Hela & Nebula episodes. The others were much of a muchness. The 1602 one was just nonsense, as was the Christmas one, although I did raise a smile at one or two of the Die Hard references. Personally I am happy with self contained What If’s - I have no desire for them all to be linked somehow. But that’s the way they go.
  13. Carl Weathers has passed away at the age of 76. Very sad news to hear - what a legend
  14. Thanks for the tip! Ordered the first book, so will hopefully find some time to get my reading hat back on!
  15. Yes, super close to the end there. Well worth going back to, as once done once, those chase sequences can be skipped on replaying chapters with all your levels and gear. Highly recommend Crisis core as well - lots of stuff in it, but story wise you can knock it out in a week of evening play, no dangers. Or watch this guy play it - his enthusiasm is superb, and he knows all things FF! And this is the start of his play thorough of Remake as well: Sometimes we just don’t have the time for a full play through! I do like listening along to them while working!
  16. I can’t say how much I am looking forward to this! Out on 29th Feb! My love for these games goes back to playing an imported NTSC version of FF6 on the SNES (it was never released here on PAL in the UK originally, only many years later), and bought a PS1 purely because FF7 was going to be release on it. And it was a legendary game for many reasons! FF7 Remake was a superb start to this next gen trilogy. Not just a remake, the “whispers” in the game indicate things are literally being remade, so there were subtle differences to show that it’s something fresh and new - not everything will happen as we remember…. The prequel PSP game Crisis Core was re-released last year and they really got rid of the bad elements of game play to leave the brilliant story of Zack. Someone we potentially will see a lot more of in parts 2 and 3 of this trilogy due to the above changes - well worth a play in prep. And so to part 2! We leave the city of Midgar and head out into the world. These trailers are superb - if you played the original game, there will be a lot to recognise! Trailer 1 Trailer 2 Counting down the days!
  17. Love it! And totally agree!
  18. So, not sure why I haven’t watched it prior to now, but finally watched Excalibur! An interesting cast with lots that go on to greater fame of course, and mixed with a lot of classic thespians who are chewing up the dialogue with relish! Very odd casting by Boorman for his 2 kids (not exactly cheery roles for them!), and lots of mystical, arty elements in there, but all enjoyable. Only tricky part was from more or less half way in where it’s hard not to think about Monty Pythons Holy Grail in certain scenes! Good film, glad to have caught it at long last!
  19. Defo - usually have a book on the go and have a read when the wife puts some reality nonsense on the box! Various on the shelf, but I do always drift back to a re-read of “The First 15 Lives of Harry August” which is just a great read. Series I am currently reading is Awaken Online - no highbrow stuff here, just quite a fun series in the style of Ready Player One, but where the lead is playing a dark character in the online world.
  20. Series 2 now available - watched the first episode this evening and plan to not binge this, but enjoy it over time. See if I can stick to that! Reading the synopsis, I was wondering if this was the best pick to open the new series up, but that was great fun - Nebula was fantastic and heroic, plus nice support from other less featured characters from the MCU - nice start!
  21. Urrgh yes - the big reset button. With you there pal - hate it!
  22. Hope you all had a good Christmas! After all the fun with our family and seeing my 5 year old having “The best Christmas ever!”, was nice to settle down in the evening and catch up on the Christmas special - The Church on Ruby Road. This was Ncuti Gatwa’s first full story as the 15th Doctor and introduced the new companion Ruby Sunday, played by Millie Gibson. Really fun adventure, a lot better than recent Xmas specials for sure. Lots of mysteries that RTD likes to sow the seeds for - who is Ruby’s mum, who is the Mrs Flood? Strong guest appearances by Davina (recreating her role on her show about tracking down family via DNA), and Anita Dobson coming in as the reoccurring character who knows too much - fascinating look down the camera at the end! Very rare to break the 4th wall in this show! For those overseas, the song was released as a single with all proceeds going the charity Children in Need. The additional elements for the song with the Doctor and Ruby adding their lines to the song was great fun! Very nice festive treat! New series coming in May at long last! The specials have helped, but long overdue the new series!
  23. Ahhh. Well that was not quite what I was hoping for. I quite liked the opening 20 mins or so, then it turned into a Dirty Dozen style recruitment where each character has 5 mins of focus, then next to nothing for the rest of the film. Felt like a lot was cut on characterisation as the ending made it feel like you knew these people better? I agree that there was a lot of stuff out of focus. Most notable was when the girl and the robot were talking by the stream. Slow mo - jeez man. Enough. The main lead wasn’t convincing either. Not drawn into any of the characters with the exception maybe of the robot. I’m sure I will watch part 2 in April still, but man that was disappointing.
  24. Nice one - hope you enjoy it! I’m looking forward to catching it, think it hits us here in the UK on Friday. Yes, absolutely agree with the background! Fingers crossed it will be a nice pre-Christmas treat!
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