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Frankly it's all been a bit ridiculous really. Pallett was out of order and did wrong but some people seem to want blood. Some people are acting like she's the first celeb to do something wrong. Also there's a kind of "selective moral high ground" in today's society via things like twitter and facebook, even among other celebs, that disgusts me.
For instance, Leslie Grantham who played Den had actually killed someone and he was a popular soap star. Now I get that in the 80's prior to the internet it wouldn't have been known much when he was first in Eastenders but it was well known by the time he returned in 2003 and I don't remember people with their pitchforks out. And I'm not saying they should have been but the fact remains he had taken an innocent person's life in a robbery when he was younger. Jim Davidson was very abusive to one wife in particular and he bullied Brian Dowling on TV but then he went onto be popular among many and won CBB. Pete Burns actually bullied Traci Bingham on CBB "just for fun" until she cried and he was loved on Bit On The Side. Even Denise Welch has had the pitchfork out over Pallett and she's the woman who on CBB was acting like a bullied victim of Michael Madsen just because he didn't gave her the attention she craved!
I'm not defending Pallett but the witch hunt should end I think and the death threats are just over the top. Hopefully it's just because it's so recent that the anger's so volatile. And I do completely understand the anger from people who are actually abused and from people who have wrongly accused, especially with the recent #metoo movement.
I don't know if Pallett is just a vindictive person, as some of her ex-Emmerdale co-stars have said or she's mentally ill but either way she's paid the price for it. She's lost her panto gigs, her radio job... and she's permanently tarnished. What else can be done? I'd really hate to hear that she actually was attacked or she'd committed suicide because of it. And if she is actually mentally ill, I hope she gets help.
Nah. I've seen worse.
And to me, Askey was annoying at times, more so in the first half, he seemed to tone it down in the second thankfully when things got creepier but even when he was annoying it didn't really bother me because he was playing a comic and some of those people just never stop. Some continuously like to fool around and be the constant centre of attention, and because he was supposed to be annoying and the other characters continuously let him know that he was.
Any problems I had with Askey's character, the plot and atmosphere more than made up for.
Nah, no remake. Sick of them.
Agreed. Great atmosphere.
Agreed. Nolan was a gorgeous stunner and those natural boobs of hers were off the scale.
Americans are much more gullible and tend to take everything at face value.
"I don't want to worry you two boys but unless I'm very much mistaken that young girl out there's up the duff".
"I couldn't make head or tail of it. It was all blibs and blobs".
"I'll have something non-alcoholic".
"Mike, a pint of your best bitter please!".
"Your mini cab's arrived Albert".
"You think I'm bald, don't you?".
"Well it had crossed my mind".
"Well I'm not".
"Well that's an hell of a parting you've got there son".
"Showed us films on how it all happens".
"We've already got some of them in there".
"Rodney".
"Irene".
"No, Rodney".
"It'll be like the old days Rodders".
"We're not gonna be pulling birds, are we?".
"We never pulled any birds in the old days Rodders!"
"Do you reckon it'll turn violent in there?"
"I don't care if it does".
"No".
"No. This is a fast car".
"He's a bit like a trifle".
"What do you mean all mixed-up?".
"No, he's thick and fruity".
"It's called there's a Rhino Loose In The City?".
"What's it about Del?".
1987 - 1989.
Good episodes here and there throughout the whole series but I think from the Frog's Legacy to The Jolly Boys Outing the show was on fire and at it's absolute peak.
They were either feature length specials or 50 minute episodes so John Sullivan could write material that often didn't have to drive the plot, and there were a lot of memorable and very funny plots/moments like Danger UXD and Chain Gang, the seance, and Del falling through the bar. Even though there's still some 90's episodes that I think are perfectly watchable, it all became a bit too "cosy" in the 90's, and frankly a bit depressing seeing Rodney still needing and relying on Del.
"do you honestly believe that British comedy is on the whole funnier than American comedy"
Erm, yes. Most American comedy, and I use the word loosely is crap. The fact that you even hold up Two and Half Men as an example of great comedy says it all.
This is how bad Hollywood thinks British comedy is:
Porridge, Only Fools and Horses, Birds Of A Feather, One Foot In The Grave, Till Death Us Do Part, Steptoe And Son, On The Buses, Men Behaving Badly, Man About The House, Robin's Nest, The Inbetweeners, Rising Damp, Coupling, Red Dwarf, Fawlty Towers, The Vicar Of Dibley, The Office, ETA, Dear John.... and these are just off the top of my head, have all been remade in the states. Some a full series, and some just a failed pilot. And surprise surprise most of them were a huge flop.
"the average American has never ever heard of Only Fools and Horses, Fawlty Towers, or Blackadder"
You're not doing much for the dumb American stereotype here. What's popularity got to do with quality? Nothing. Zero. Zilch. John Wayne and Clint Eastwood are more famous and iconic worldwide than Daniel Day Lewis and Gary Oldman, I guess that must mean they're better actors? LMAO.
I wish I could I could like it but I just can't. Bottom the TV show will always be much better. This just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
It is. Not a patch on the TV show or the first couple of Bottom Lives.
"I'm a paki Rambo!"
"Are you calling from paradise?"
So many brilliant lines.
Canned laughter tracks don't have applause after some jokes do they? The laughter sounds real to me anyway.
Grim cracks me up.
You clearly care.
She's a crap actress.
I certainly wouldn't kick her out of bed.
"because the 2010 film is vastly better than the 1985 TV series"
"i got about half way through the 2nd episode and i stopped watching it"
So really you actually preferred the film to the first one and half episodes then and not the series. People like you with short attention spans are the reason why we get so much dumb entertainment now.
Yep. I think the first three Mad Max films are going to age much better than this. The sandstorm here already looked like a pixar film in 2015.
For all it's flaws in plot structure and tone, Beyond Thunderdome, still looks very good and much better than this 33 years later. No CGI enhancing, no orange and teal crap just some stunning visuals.
I also remember how many Fury Road fans tried desperately to downplay Mel Gibson's Max and what he did in the first three to try and counter balance the fact that Max had to share the film with Furiosa in a way that he never had to before.
Good. We won't get a crap remake then.
We'd have a CGI enhanced landscape with two actors with nowhere near the same amount of screen presence, charisma or natural chemistry as Connery and Caine, and probably some love interest thrown in for good measure.