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  1. I'm getting a pretty good feeling about this. On balance, I think it's the right time for a reboot, and if they're doing an overhaul of the mechanics then there's really no better example to follow than the 'Uncharted' series. Looking forward to seeing what Rhianna Pratchett (lead writer and daughter of Terry) and the developers have come up with.
  2. Michael* replied to donbot's post in a topic in Computer & Video Games
    Magical stuff. This game simply can't come soon enough.
  3. Michael* replied to a post in a topic in Computer & Video Games
    ^2:20 - "what do we get in our version? This wobbly dickhead."
  4. Looks fantastic. Way to go, Don!
  5. Michael* replied to goose's post in a topic in Sports
    Does this not prove that the FA Cup is slowly dying as a competition as well? It's certainly a massively devalued competition these days, and the continuing presence of so many 'unfancied' sides in the draw is, of course, more a case of big club complacency than lower league revival. But it's still a path to European football and a chance to win a trophy in a league where the title is completely out of reach for all but three or four clubs. I wouldn't trade Sunderland's Premier League status for a trip to Wembley and a bit of silverware, but I'd have no complaints about finishing, say, 15th instead of 10th.
  6. Michael* replied to goose's post in a topic in Sports
    A minimum of three Championship sides appearing in the last eight of the FA Cup this year. How many Premier League clubs (including my own) will be looking back now and regretting their blatant disregard for anything that isn't the league, I wonder?
  7. Michael* replied to OriginalSin's post in a topic in General Talk
    Frankie Rayder Find me a model dressed up as an animal.
  8. Michael* replied to OriginalSin's post in a topic in General Talk
    Raquel and Freja at the Centre Pompidou, Paris Find me a model who's jumping in the air.
  9. Anna Selezneva 4 Carre Otis 3.5
  10. Michael* replied to OriginalSin's post in a topic in General Talk
    Challenge accepted! Find me a model sitting on the bonnet/hood of a car.
  11. Michael* replied to Michael*'s post in a topic in Movies
    Cool, though to be honest, he'll always be the children's author in 'Elf' to me.
  12. Michael* posted a post in a topic in Actresses
    Doona Bae (born October 11, 1979) is a South Korean actress and photographer. She is best known outside Korea for her roles as the protagonist's political activist girlfriend Cha Young-mi in Park Chan-wook's Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) and as archer Park Nam-ju in Bong Joon-ho's The Host (2006). She also had a starring role as Sonmi~451 in Hollywood film Cloud Atlas (2012), directed by The Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer. Life and career Bae Doo-na was born in Seoul, South Korea. Growing up, Bae would follow her mother, Kim Hwa-young, a famous stage actress in Korea, around the theater and rehearsal halls, learning the lines of dialogue as she went along. This did not initially lead Bae towards acting, saying: "People might say that since my mother is a theater actor, I became an actress. But to me, those experiences probably had the opposite effect. On the contrary, because I saw many great actors working with my mother, I thought this was a job only people with extraordinary talent could do." A Hanyang University student in 1998, Bae was scouted by a model talent agency while walking in Seoul. This led to modeling clothing for COOLDOG's catalog, amongst others. In 1999 she made the switch to acting, debuting in the TV drama School. Later the same year, she appeared as the ghost in The Ring Virus, a Korean remake of the Japanese horror film Ring. In 2000, director Bong Joon-ho cast her as Hyeon-nam in the film Barking Dogs Never Bite for her willingness to do the part without makeup, something other South Korean actresses were unwilling to do. In Kim So-young's documentary Women's History Trilogy (2000–2004), Bae notes her admiration for veteran South Korean actress Yoon Jeong-hee. Yoon returns the compliment saying "Bae Doo-na owns her world." In this same documentary, Bae shares how her own most memorable scene is being chased by the homeless man throughout the apartment in Barking Dogs Never Bite. That same year she gave a risque performance (albeit with a body double for the more intense scenes) in Plum Blossom, and slowly started getting more work on television. She followed this with two more critical successes, 2001's Take Care of My Cat, directed by Jeong Jae-eun, and 2002's Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, directed by Park Chan-wook. 2003 was less kind to Bae, as she saw both Tube and Spring Bears Love flop at the box office. After completing principal photography on Spring Bears Love, Bae decided to take time off from film, saying: "I never lived even once without having anything to do. The moment a film was presented to the press, I was almost always already shooting the next one ... I thought by myself: now my first cycle is really over. While I rest a little, I wanted to make a fresh new start." During her hiatus from the big screen, Bae took up photography, much of which can be seen between her official blog and her published photo books. She also continued to work on TV, starring in Country Princess and Rosemary. Bae finally stepped onto a theater stage in 2004, for a production of Sunday Seoul (not to be confused with the South Korean movie of the same title), a play co-written by Park Chan-wook. In 2005 Bae gave a memorable turn as an exchange student who joins a band in the Japanese film Linda Linda Linda, then played a divorced woman in the experimental omnibus TV series Beating Heart. She reunited with Bong Joon-ho in 2006's The Host, which became the highest grossing film in South Korean box office history. For her role, she trained in archery for months that she was told if she really wanted, she had enough talent to make it at an amateur level. She then returned to television, through the series Someday and How to Meet a Perfect Neighbor. After winning accolades for 2010's Air Doll, a film by Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda about an inflatable sex doll that develops a soul and falls in love, Bae made back-to-back TV series, playing a high school teacher in Master of Study, and a night club singer in weekend drama Gloria. Her 2012 sports film As One was based on the true story of the world table tennis championship held in Chiba, Japan in 1991 where North Korean player Li Bun-hui and South Korean player Hyun Jung-hwa overcame their difficulties and came together to defeat the unbeatable Chinese team. Bae and co-star Ha Ji-won were trained by Hyun herself, and Bae learned to play left-handed like Li. Afterwards she made a brief appearance in the science fiction film Doomsday Book. Bae made her Hollywood debut in Cloud Atlas, as Sonmi~451, a clone in dystopian Korea. She also played the minor roles of Tilda Ewing, the daughter of a slave-holder and wife of an abolitionist in pre-Civil War America, and a Mexican woman who kills an assassin who attempted to kill two whistleblowers. Co-directed by The Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer, the $100 million adaptation of David Mitchell's novel premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival to divisive reviews, though Bae's performance was unanimously praised by critics.
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  15. Michael* replied to OriginalSin's post in a topic in General Talk
    Ah yes, more of a ukulele that one isn't it? I was only half paying attention until I saw the pic full size, by which time it was already posted. Second attempt... Find me a model wearing a crown.
  16. Michael* replied to OriginalSin's post in a topic in General Talk
    Ana BB
  17. Michael* replied to donbot's post in a topic in Music
    And 'All The Time' finally popped up on YouTube...
  18. Michael* replied to donbot's post in a topic in Music
    Another new one by Suede. Much prefer this one to 'Barriers'.
  19. Michael* replied to donbot's post in a topic in Music
    What do you think of Mumford by the way M*? I've always got the impression you're not really a fan. I probably should be, it's the sort of thing I'd usually like and I'm a fan of pretty much all the artists you'd closely associate with them. I've just never really felt compelled to hop on the bandwagon, as it were. Some kind of weird blind spot, I guess.
  20. Michael* replied to a post in a topic in Music
    Willy Mason / Save Myself
  21. <B U M P> Melody Prochet (Melody's Echo Chamber) Danielle Haim (Haim) Mariko Doi (Yuck / Parakeet) Dee Dee Penny (Dum Dum Girls) And, how could I forget... Annie Clark (St. Vincent)
  22. Michael* replied to OriginalSin's post in a topic in General Talk
    Joan Pedrola Find me a model dressed as a superhero.
  23. < B U M P > Nariko (Heavenly Sword) Fiery red-haired heroine with spinning chain-blade thingy.
  24. Michael* replied to goose's post in a topic in Sports
    Wallop!
  25. For some reason, I'd forgotten about Rosie a bit in recent months (which I'm sure she'll be very gutted about), but this is as good a reminder as it's possible to get. Cheers Baron!