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  • As soon as you go for three options or more, then you run the large risk of a smaller minority winning and then you get everyone else moaning: Example......... 30 % leave - May deal 30% leave - no deal (so 60% want to leave in some form) …
  • Desmond L's final scene is wonderfully written and executed IMHO with a perfect balance of pathos but still works within the context of the movie. I'm so glad they did that rather than a "normal" scene. If done well, the same could apply to DC's …
  • Another idea: Q is working alone after hours in his lab, sitting at a workbench. Bond enters. Bond "I hope you're claiming overtime" Q "Hmm, what's that ?" Bond "Here, another job for you." Bond pulls his Walther from inside his jacke…
  • If Buble' never does a Bond thme, it will be a waste of talent and fans will look back in decades to come and wonder why it never happened. There are so few singers with his classic style of voice. He just needs a great songwriter.
  • Don't worry, those with a hotline to God seem to have the answer: "Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, was one of the early speakers. He called for national reconciliation, and said that a second referendum might be one way in which this …
  • Some wish thinking here based purely on the result. The referendum was in the Conservative manifesto. So, if you agree with Parliamentary democracy, then Parliament had a duty (given the Conservative majority) to run the referendum. Attlee and Th…
  • OK, Ive tweaked my original idea. Buckingham Palace: The changing of the Guard. First shot from the front balcony through a window, looking down (hinting that someone is watching from that angle). Bond and M stand at the front of the barriers …
  • It also shows how "bonded" these two are and how they both feel about the end result. Surely a good pointer that they will work together again?
  • The establishment and the "london bubble" have been twisting and turning to try and find a way to override the result of the original vote. So many factors have come together including a PM who seems to be pretty useless, that I really do fear that,…
  • Any reasonable observer would confirm that the remainers used fear as much as leavers. Remember the leaked "emergency budget" for example. There were many expert predictions concerning what would happen to the UK econmony following a leave vote and …
  • Spent alot of time talking about this down the pub last night. One topic which does not seem to be discussed is: if there is a second "peoples vote" (horrible phrase), what exactly would be the options? If "out" is an option and wins, then we are ba…
  • I think it's asking too much of the audience to switch emotions so quickly. In the PTS scene, Bond is meant to be running for his life. What emotions are the director/scriptwriter wanting us to feel? Bond is meant to be in a serious situation (or t…
  • got 4 tickets to the circle row 2 , s section, £50 each , should be a good evening
  • 830 in the queue!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Just my 2 penneth but I think there is a difference between humour being "bolted on" and humour being organic to the movie. For example, the couch gag in SP serves no purpose but to add humour, the PTS scene would work fine without it *(plus it c…
  • It's a tribute to the "crossover" appeal of SF that my wife wants to come and did not blink an eye re the cost of the tickets. Hard to imagine that reaction with any other Bond movie.
  • This is one of the main issues with online political debate. The overall content and level of debate can be adult, educated and erudite (on both sides) and then you get one post with quite the opposite of qualities and it detracts the focus.
  • She has created that situation. If she had set out her own vision and defined what a "win" looked like, then success would at least have been an option. Her own tactics have created a "lose/lose" scenario where nobody is happy.
  • Sympathy is not really what you want to feel for your national leader.
  • https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46187460
    in CLOSED Comment by patb November 2018
  • I've been getting up to speed with Jordan Peterson. What's interesting and a little dangerous IMHO is that many are so fed up with the narrow PC narrative put forard by the media/politicians that anyone can gain a quick/big fan base by going against…
  • https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46168995 Perhaps he was worried about his hair? .@realDonaldTrump has cancelled his visit to a US war cemetery due to "bad weather" as world leaders mark #armistice100 http://po.st/SRv6yM
    in CLOSED Comment by patb November 2018
  • It's very easy here in the UK to soak up all of the anti Trump coverage (he's a moron IMHO) and not realise how well supported he is. Reading the comments to some of his Youtube clips is a real eye opener to how much admiration and support he has. …
    in CLOSED Comment by patb November 2018
  • https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/07/dutch-man-69-identifies-20-years-younger-launches-legal-battle/ A pensioner has begun a legal battle to be recognised as being 20 years younger than his actual age so he can go back to work and achieve …
  • I like this one..... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/06/national-trust-exhibition-margaret-armstrong-cragside-northumberland-covering-up-artworks-men It was designed as an exhibition to promote the role of women and celebrate the …
  • https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/nov/03/sainsburys-apology-to-readers-over-stew-recipe
  • The next challenge will be some killer one liners that will sum up the themes of the movie and Rambo's tipping point where he has to go back to violence.....if done sensitively, this could be Stalones' Unforgiven.
  • The tone of these still shots is spot on IMHO plus that fact that these are the ones selected in advance for us fans. They are giving us a very clear message and managing our expectations. This will be a very different Rambo movie - bring it on :-)
  • It's interesting: as an adult, I know it's stupid and dangerous and would never want my two boys to do it, but I can't deny that I had tremendous fun with fireworks. A wonderful combination of physics and chemistry. I used to cellotape 2 or 3 rocket…
  • Still like the idea of a female villain; Toni Collette perhaps? (I know about Knives Out) superb actress IMHO and around the right age.