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I've always said Chris Hemsworth would be perfect for Reacher. Great shout Paperboy. Liam is a bit too pretty although it would just be a matter of roughing him up a little bit I suppose.
 
Absolutely. I think Chris could play it next week. His Thor look is already there. Throw on a Liam Neeson style coat and he has it nailed. Liam would need a few months to rough the edges up, too pretty at the moment, but he could get there.
 
ha ha. If you read the Reacher books then you will understand. 20 odd books and his appearance is a very key feature. Tom Cruise is the right gender and skin colour, although actually it would not impact the story at all if you changed that aspect, but that is about the only thing they have got right. Imagine the next Thor film with Danny Devito as the lead. A good actor but you would spend the whole time watching the film thinking it was just wrong. That's the score with Tom Cruise and Jack Reacher.
 
I defy anyone to watch I Daniel Blake and not feel ashamed of modern day UK.
I would say that it was a decent reflection of reality, if anything slightly sugar coated.

I loved the bit in the credits saying how much help the film makers had from DWP workers who will obviously have to remain anonymous.
 
An hour into The Hobbit - The Battle of the Five Armies.

Completely underwhelmed with it and how he's butchered a 200 page book :rant:

So you've only got 8 hours to go. Seriously, I've not watched the hobbit, because I can't see how a 200 page book has become a 9 hour film.

Oh, and every time I have been on a plane, and some one in front of me have been watching it , it's just been midgets, running across the screen. They run off to the left, then off to the right. More running. And a bit more.

I loved LOTR but the hobbit? No thanks.
 
The wife was away last weekend and I ended up watching half of Sausage Party before i fell asleep. Was actually quite funny in places, specially the war film bit when they fell out of the trolley 😂
 
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