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The thought of anyone being worse off than Sunderland at any point this season goes to show the scale of the mess that Paul Clement must have had to clean up at Swansea, although it was certainly a stroke of luck for him that we renewed our commitment to unwavering crapness when we did. Jordan Pickford making a superb save against Hull with the score at 0-0, but handing Llorente an early goal with a keeping error. Billy Jones' square head finding the net against Hull, but missing an easier chance against Swansea. Throw in a pathetic, half-arsed performance from a spineless set of players and Andre Marriner's incomprehensible failure to spot one of the most blatant handballs of all time, and they couldn’t have wished for an easier game.

Anyone been to see this one, then? The task of following up on probably the most idiosyncratic entry into the Marvel stable couldn't have been an easy one, but honestly, you'd never have known it from watching. What with the Guardians' world being fairly familiar territory at this point, it lacks a bit of the freshness and surprise element of the first one, but it makes up for that by prioritising character over action in a way that's smarter and so much more thoughtful than it might seem on the surface. I honestly wasn't prepared for the final act to pack such an emotional punch. It's always enjoyable too, to see what a riot of colour these films are. Almost too much to take in on one viewing, but lovely to see after a few too many desaturated, washed out flicks.

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We're back using those two images now, so let's see what happens. Do feel free to drop me a line with any others, I'm doing as many as I can in the Actresses, Other Females and Female Athletes sections at the moment.

Honestly, I could only be swayed from the opinion that Deckard is human if they were to explicitly state otherwise in this new one. And if that's the way it ends up panning out, may the sequel be stricken from the records forever.

I think it's more a case of Trump being unable or unwilling to learn that he can't approach the presidency like he approached reality TV. There are tons of real-world consequences to his every decision, but he appears completely incapable of predicting the outcome of any action he takes. He still seems to think he can rewrite the narrative, sack the writers, edit out the bits he doesn't like, or any of the other tricks he was used to using on The Apprentice.

With the story taking place in an age-matched future (thirty something years later), it'll be interesting to see how much advancement there's been from the world established by the original. Unless it's set in a completely different area of course, or they take it offworld, there's only really so much they can do to change the conditions. In general though, I always think the cyberpunk genre works well in film, games, graphic novels and whatnot, because it's so visual. It's just such rich ground for the imagination to run wild.

Mackenzie Davis' character reminds me so much of Pris, I get the impression that she and the other guy could perhaps be followers of Roy Batty. So based on that, Rutger would be my guess too. Either him or a younger version of Deckard. I didn't care much for Leto's take on the Joker in Suicide Squad, but some of the cast did give fun performances. Perhaps give it a try if you've got nothing to do on a Sunday evening and it comes on TV.

The best thing about Kristen was that she had (and probably still has, I'm not too sure ) that really angular face, which was always great for edgy editorial work. I don't really think Lily has inherited that, but she does have a similarly provocative and confrontational kind of look.

You know how sometimes in kids' cartoon shows, there's a storyline where the villain of the piece creates an evil, demonic-looking doppelganger of the hero? Lily McMenamy is basically that for Daphne Groeneveld.

I see. I know there was a drop box option to narrow a search down to your current topic or search the whole forum, which doesn't look like it's there any more. But if you're visiting a thread, it should still be possible to type what you're looking for into the usual place and find all the relevant posts within said thread. Leave it with me though, I'll see if I can get to the bottom of it for you.

As in searching within a topic or just the general search function?

Sorry about that, the boss is aware of the issue and working on it.

Apparently, there were rumours that at least one of the original replicants might make an appearance in Rogue One-style CGI form. The character hanging out with Jared Leto actually reminds me a lot of Rachel, so that might rule her out. Then again, there are a few new characters in there who look quite a bit like the old ones. Incidentally, it's impossible to look at Jared Leto and not just see Jared Leto.

Watching the trailer again, it doesn't quite seem to have that sense of decay or the sort of grimy realism that gave the first movie such a distinctive look and made it so compelling as a spectacle. It's most jarring in the scene where Gosling first meets up with Ford, parts of the place look spotless. I always found it a bit ambiguous in terms of how densely populated the city space really was. Some areas looked very crowded and others, like Sebastian's building, seemed almost completely abandoned.

I hope you're not including my sister Ekatarina Dupanova in that.

Even the briefest of cameos would be cool to see, despite the apparent blacklisting of Sean Young by Hollywood. The original movie really wouldn't have been the same without her.

What do you think our chances are of getting a surprise appearance by Rachel in this one?

I know what you mean. The trailer has a definite 'prestige action movie' feel to it, whereas the original worked more because of its empty, quiet moments. The story is still relatively mysterious, though, and I do like that. It teases us and tells us nothing at the same time.

Looks like it's going to be shot beautifully, which I suppose isn’t too much of a surprise considering the talent involved. I’m cautiously optimistic, since one of the main strengths of the original was the deliberate and measured pacing, that the action stuff they're emphasising in the trailer is a little less prominent in the full movie.

Another new clip.

Looking at this new trailer and comparing it to the Spider-Man one that was only recently released, I'd have to say that while this clip has so much more action (not to mention heavy metal guitar riffs), the other has a level of dialogue and character acting that feels better executed. I'll probably still end up seeing both though, just to compare and contrast.

I'll be seeing that as soon as I can too, will meet you in the Covenant thread afterwards. It sounds at the moment like Logan will be the next film in line to receive the black and white treatment, which seems like a bit of a pointless exercise to me. I mean, I enjoyed it immensely but it's technically a weaker film, and I suspect black and white will only serve to highlight that. Quite honestly, I'm already sort of hoping that isn't the start of a new trend where Hollywood, having found cinemagoers less and less keen to pay a mark up for the 'delights' of 3D, hits upon the wheeze of charging people a second time to watch the same movie again in monochrome.

I see this being pitched somewhere between the ordeal sequence of Saving Private Ryan and the large-scale beach sequence in Atonement, with Nolan able to indulge his eye for extravagant spectacle. Since it won't need to be crammed with tons of exposition in the way that something like Inception was, I think he'll be quite economical with the dialogue.

Bearing in mind that none of your posts have been removed or even edited, I'm a little confused as to why you'd think my 'clean up' message was in any way directed towards you.