Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[Changaneen]

I didnt shoot Ford.



I'm on fire.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Sacha Baron Cohen was great as Ali G at the Oscars - how come there is no Oscars for little yellow people with tiny dongs - you know the Minions.

 

[Magpiespower]

Geez, the Academy doesn't give a shit about sentiment. Last year, Keaton. This year, Sly. Damn. Can't begrudge Mark Rylance, though. He was amazing in Bridge of Spies.

So, er, where the f@%k was ACADEMY AWARD WINNER ANDREW LESNIE in the "In Memoriam" tribute?

Chris Rock was great. But Louis CK should host the Oscars one day...

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

G" tribute?

Chris Rock was great. But Louis CK should host the Oscars one day...

His speech about Best Documentary Short Subject being the most meaningful Oscar was very clever and had genuine wit without being smart arsed as I have seen him before.

 

[edgie]

Stallone even played a role that included MENTORING A TROUBLED MINORITY and CANCER and still couldn't win!

 

[Magpiespower]

His speech about Best Documentary Short Subject being the most meaningful Oscar was very clever and had genuine wit without being smart arsed as I have seen him before.

Yeah, it was great. Mainly coz it was absolutely positively 100% true! "The Oscar's going home in a Honda Civic."

Studio race to get a Brie Larson & Alicia Vikander movie into production heats up...

 

[Changaneen]

Why does this song do my head in?

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Yeah, it was great. Mainly coz it was absolutely positively 100% true! "The Oscar's going home in a Honda Civic."

Studio race to get a Brie Larson & Alicia Vikander movie into production heats up...

For those who missed it see below.

Great opening comment by the winner Pakistani documentary maker - she said - Good thing I have 2 of these now.

 

[Magpiespower]

Leo wins... and now everyone can STFU about him not winning. FFS, you'd think he waited longer than Newman and Pacino combined.

Now it'll probably be "when will Fassbender win an Oscar?"

Gonna catch up on some of the Oscar nommed fillums this week, starting with The Revenant tomorrow. Pretty sure I've finally got Star Wars out of my system (for now). Saw it for the 10th time in style in IMAX. Talk about a close-up...

 

[edgie]

10 times?

Gee.

 

[Magpiespower]

Kool & the Gang's "Hollywood Swinging" got a little run in the end credits. But they played the wrong PE song. Glaring omission...

 

[Magpiespower]

10 times?

Gee.

Who am I kidding? I ain't done yet...

 

[edgie]

Who am I kidding? I ain't done yet...

Save yourself, the DVD will be out soon. I thought seeing Episode III 5 times in 24 hours was bad, and that period includes a 7 hour drive to Adelaide between viewings!

 

[Magpiespower]

Save yourself, the DVD will be out soon. I thought seeing Episode III 5 times in 24 hours was bad, and that period includes a 7 hour drive to Adelaide between viewings!

Five times in a day! F@%k. Double-digits is definitely a record for me. Only other movies I've seen more than once in the cinema were Pulp Fiction - coz my 19yo ass loved it - and The Phantom Menace - coz I was numb and confused after the first viewing so I had to see it again and, yes, my worst fears were confirmed...

 

[edgie]

Five times in a day! F@%k. Double-digits is definitely a record for me. Only other movies I've seen more than once in the cinema were Pulp Fiction - coz my 19yo ass loved it - and The Phantom Menace - coz I was numb and confused after the first viewing so I had to see it again and, yes, my worst fears were confirmed...

In fairness it was the only 5 times I seen it.

TFA I've seen 3 so far.

That's about it really, unless you count the Phantom Menace 3D and the original 1999 release as twice. Seeing it in 3D knowing what I was in for was a hoot. Fun day out.

 

[StuMan]

I was reminded of David McGahan's World by a friend the other day.







I've been a fan of Shaun Micallef's since I was a kid, watching these and his other sketches on Full Frontal.

 

[Steve Dore]

Not to mention the over allocation of water to Chinese owned irrigators resulting in water supply for drinking reaching an all time low. Have a read of this:

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/broken-hi...ity-running-out-of-water-20151119-gl37m9.html

Took some pics of the lakes in better times

The Chinese don't own Tandou Station.

Webster completes takeover of Tandou

The fact that Tandou Station grows water hungry crops like cotton and rice has a lot to do with the lack of water in the Menindee Lakes.

 

[Magpiespower]

Best bit about Frank Stallone's Twitter rant blasting Sly's Oscar snub this morning...

 

[Magpiespower]

 

[Dylan8]

Pedestrian.tv is "srsly" the worst publication

This is up there with Today Tonight once claiming to have not filmed someone because they were "with a baby." The height of sincerity.

 

[edgie]

The Chinese don't own Tandou Station.

Webster completes takeover of Tandou

The fact that Tandou Station grows water hungry crops like cotton and rice has a lot to do with the lack of water in the Menindee Lakes.

It's Cubbie Station that hoards the water up North preventing natural flow in to NSW. For many years Tandou and the Menindee Lakes system have existed in harmony during the older water management systems.

 

[Steve Dore]

It's Cubbie Station that hoards the water up North preventing natural flow.

Yeah, Cubbie has a huge amount of water in on-farm storage just evaporating away but it was the same before the Chinese bought it. I lived up that way, and worked in the cotton industry, in the 1990's and the Chinese only bought Cubbie a few years ago. To me people living in NSW upstream of the Menindie Lakes complaining about people living in Queensland "preventing natural flow" is a bit disingenuous.

 

[edgie]

What about people living neither up nor down stream of Menindee Lakes?

 

[Steve Dore]

What about people living neither up nor down stream of Menindee Lakes?

I class Broken Hill as upstream

 

[edgie]

Hmmm, local radio giving out 4 grand to whoever makes the best documentary about someone with w disability from the far west.

There's a local lad competing in the world TaeKwon Do special needs games in England. Worth a punt I wonder...