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  • It takes a different type of courage to admit human frailty and have an open and mature debate about how we react under stress. Trump's comments don't surprise me. He is exactly the type of ignorant, school boy bully who would boast all the time abo…
    in CLOSED Comment by patb February 2018
  • "Addressing a gathering of 39 state governors at the White House, Trump said officers who were outside the school at the time of the shooting “weren’t exactly medal of honor winners”. “The way they performed was really a disgrace,” he added. “I r…
    in CLOSED Comment by patb February 2018
  • I loved Logan: I am the perfect example of how it attracted an audience that previously had no interest in the whole series. I assume it did decent box office and I know it got decent reviews. Ageing is certainly a good hook in terms of getting t…
  • http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09rzs61 This maybe on interest to some. It shows that, in the modern World, religion does not have a monopoly on delusion and confirms how people can still construct their own version of reality - choosing to pic…
  • Boyle is a clever guy, if you look at the Olympics, he focussed on themes that were about people and community (NHS, family, Windrush, suffragette) and avoided the predicatable cliches that others would have fallen into.
  • Yes, just like the Olympics?
  • He has a lightness of touch that DC lacks so he could take Bond into a new direction. His biggest issue is that he is too big a star already IMHO
  • "I respect your cowardice" Much appreciated
    in CLOSED Comment by patb February 2018
  • @Thunderfinger have you experienced these "special circumstances" yourself?
    in CLOSED Comment by patb February 2018
  • There is some "Bondness" going on here: "Hunt..James Hunt" "Only what she asked me to do"
  • We think we know unless we have been in the situation already. If this guy had gone in and taken on the shooter, the media would have portrayed him as a super hero with a visit to the Whitehouse, medals and a Clint Eastwood directed movie. He did…
    in CLOSED Comment by patb February 2018
  • The implication is that the officer made a rational decision re his life above the children etc etc, We should all be aware that adults act differently under under extreme stress (how many of us keyboard experts have experienced this level of str…
    in CLOSED Comment by patb February 2018
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2018/02/22/florida-house-votes-to-force-schools-to-display-in-god-we-trust-a-day-after-refusing-to-consider-gun-control/?utm_term=.6a66e0d87105 If the Florida House of Representatives has its wa…
    in CLOSED Comment by patb February 2018
  • 54 I wonder if we can look forwad to some kind of Taken or Die Hard follow up where an ex police/special forces guy goes to school to collect his grandchildren and gets caught up in the heat of the battle? Sounds crass now but Hollywood never mis…
    in CLOSED Comment by patb February 2018
  • The whole thing could be a set up just to keep Bond in the news pending any genuine progress.
  • None of us know how we will react in such situations. If he froze, it's easy to brand him as a coward and the NRA will use him as a distraction for sure. How many in the armed forces freeze when "under fire", we can't all be Arnie or Sly. This guy i…
    in CLOSED Comment by patb February 2018
  • The interesting thing is that, just look at the attention the rumour has got, It does show how much free publicity the marketeers can get from a big name Director rather than someone else. It makes you wonder whether Bond will always have to have to…
  • "The armed deputy who was on campus at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school when a gunman massacred 17 people stood outside the building as it occurred and did not go in to engage the shooter, the Broward County sheriff, Scott Israel, said on Thursd…
    in CLOSED Comment by patb February 2018
  • Verhoeven would be perfect to shoot an ironic movie based around Trump's view of future USA education. "A World That Works."
    in CLOSED Comment by patb February 2018
  • There was an armed sherrif on the premises at the last shooting, but schools are big places, one man can only do so much. I think a standard school uniform of body armour is somethng that Trump will also suggest
    in CLOSED Comment by patb February 2018
  • http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43158994
    in CLOSED Comment by patb February 2018
  • In an ideal world, we need both to be good but one comes before the other. It's not just Bond. Many Directors are almost household names but writers seem to be very low key. Open to be pointed towards examples of where a good director has produce…
  • It's interesting that the Director's have such a higher profile than the script writers. Looking at Hodge's work, it's a mixed bag IMHO. We seem to spend 95% of the time discussing the director and 5% of the time discussing the script writer but the…
  • Boyle is clever and sensitive enough to alter his style to fit the project but still bring his talent. Many thought he was the wrong choice for the olympics and he was a great choice. I have seen him many times in interviews state that he works b…
  • http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43126568
  • Considering we know it's his last, there is no issue re building the age topic into the script (if done well), as with many things, you turn a potential negative into a plus, but the other route (eternal youth) is not a good one.
  • The pattern continues in that atheists continue to approach the whole issue with logic and reason (the same approach that stops airliners falling form the air and new drugs to work) but we keep forgetting that this is a useless thing to do when disc…
  • If you enlarge that last image, he does look different.
  • wow, just seen that video clip, he looks very different, especially around the eyes, not good.
  • How do we know he got it right first time? If God has been around for eternity, then we could be his 99,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999th try. All the others failed due to his miscalculations. It could still be a work in progress and, seeing how bad…