@Steve said in Springboks v All Blacks I:

Foster was a joke in the press conference.

"Congratulations to Marx on his 50th. Im sure his family is proud too"

Fuck Marx and fuck his family.

Stop trying to be everyones friends all the fucking time.

What’s the issue with that ?

I don’t see anything wrong with being a decent sportsman, it would sound a lot better coming off a win though.

@Kirwan said in All Blacks vs Ireland - series decider:

@antipodean said in All Blacks vs Ireland - series decider:

@Smudge said in All Blacks vs Ireland - series decider:

@Bones it's on Reddit so I see no issue sharing it here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rugbyunion/comments/w3c64q/all_blacks_sharing_a_few_choice_words_with_justin/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

All I see is a wasted Marshall obviously being gobby and a sober Clarke moving him on while some other All Blacks are clearly unimpressed with whatever shitface Meg has been saying.

No punches, no issue.

Pretty sad seeing an old guy that drunk in a bar.

It’s ok at home though right ? RIGHT ?!?!?

@Bones said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:

I think there was mixed reviews over PJ but can't remember which thread.

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@Kiwiwomble said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:

@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:

@Kiwiwomble said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:

@Rancid-Schnitzel you definitely can make the argument, see the comments about Rey (force user with no training, fighting kylo with no training), but the critique of lots of other seems to boil down to them just being women who kick arse and that not being believable or people just not liking seeing it...like the only think he mentions as for why he doesn;t like them...is theyre women

and re it being over done, we've had god know how many years of unbelievably male centric cinema....im sure we can survive if they swing it a little too far the other way

I find comments like this really strange. Women and girls have had plenty of films, TV, entertainment etc that cater exclusively to them. Ever heard of chick flicks? You think Sex and the City or umpteen other series or films were going after the male demographic? I had a "step daughter" for 3 years and, if anything, she had too much choice. So I'm not really sure why any swing was required, and definitely not too far in one direction. There's plenty of room for everyone. Existing properties don't need to be drastically changed for that.

you know not all women are the same aye, they don't all like chick flicks, lot probably really enjoy seeing women kick arse on screen, have you heard of the Bechdel Test? it shocking how many movies cant even manage to have two women talk to each other about something other than a man, the sequels actually pass the test but hang heavily on Rey and Leia talking to each other, I mean all three trilogies have two male leads and one female

Well in this case it’s hard to get a word in with Finn running round screaming for Rey every five minutes.

@Kiwiwomble said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:

@MN5

but they do give good, imo, explanations (unlike rey), cara is litterally built like a brick shit house, Bo has been born and raised to be the leader of a military culture, fennic is an assassin, shes not generally swinging a club around, she snips with a gun most often and dones some acrobatic shit...there is still far more male character that kick arse over all in Star wars to each their own so is it just that we see them all in the same series?...too any women?

Fair enough. I did re edit my original post.

To further add to your post Ashoka is an extremely powerful Jedi Knight.

Maybe the girls are just bearing the brunt of my criticism of the new series. Han, Luke, Leia etc struggled to put away troopers much more than these guys do.

Han got decked by a Scout Trooper and Luke and Leia really struggled to catch the others. They only escaped the Death Star cos Moff Tarkin ordered it.

In the latest movies, series etc though they’re a joke. Any less than 20 of them is basically target practice.

Their combat instructors need to be fired for this inept training

@Kiwiwomble said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:

@Rancid-Schnitzel you definitely can make the argument, see the comments about Rey (force user with no training, fighting kylo with no training), but the critique of lots of other seems to boil down to them just being women who kick arse and that not being believable or people just not liking seeing it...like the only think he mentions as for why he doesn;t like them...is theyre women

and re it being over done, we've had god know how many years of unbelievably male centric cinema....im sure we can survive if they swing it a little too far the other way

I never said that.

More a case of a good male fighter is always better than a good female fighter. These latest strong females seem ridiculously overpowered. To be fair not only confined to the girls though, the scene where Mando, Fett and Fennic wasted about 40 Storm Troopers without a scratch on any of them was a bit stupid. It was real Keystone Cops from the men in white.

it’s not like SW hasn’t had strong females in the past either, Leia and Padme certainly spring to mind.

@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:

Hard to disagree with this

SOME of what this guy says is very accurate, but it is very over cynical.

I’m still loving Mando, the Obi Wan show was good.

Excellent point about the ridiculously strong female characters though. Mando was literally the only bloke when they stormed Gideons ship ( I guess they kept Boba away cos the writers couldn’t think of an appropriate reaction to him meeting Luke for the first time since the Sarlacc Pit fight ), Fennic what’s her name did ALL the heavy lifting in the Boba Fett show, Cara Dune kicked arse before she got cancelled and now Bo Katan is doing exactly the same. You know the Armourer chick will be an awesome fighter and Ashoka Tano dominated every scrap she was in.

….and that’s not even going into Reys ridiculous force powers with no training, I bet she wouldn’t get her her arse handed to her by a single Tuskan Raider like Luke did in ANH.

@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:

@Kiwiwomble said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:

i actually remember thinking the sequels were going to be able hunting down luke, with all the talk of a map and shit, like we wouldn't actually see him until the third film and he'd come back all OP and help them win it....nope, find him straight away

That would have been infinitely better than the shit we were served up. Just the pure lack of originality and ideas was terrible, not to mention the mistreatment of beloved characters. I was hope that the originals would kind of hang in the background watching over the new characters, but intervene and unleash some cool shit if called upon to do so. Instead they made Han a fůcking smuggler again and then had his weird-looking son kill him. And the less said about Luke the better. What a disaster. Without the Mandalorian they'd been even more fůcked.

Just on Lucasfilm, they've probably already pumped stupid money into the latest Indy film, but fark me they're crazy if they don't get SR involved somehow.

I watched Kingdom of the Crystal Skull with the boys recently.

My revised opinion is it’s DEFINITELY at the bottom of the pile ( although to be fair the original trilogy movies are varying degrees of absolutely brilliant so that was a given )

It had some cool actions scenes however the Mutt character ( thankfully not in the latest one ) was absolutely ghastly. ( how is that guy a star, he is SUCH a cock ) and the “I’m too old for this” schtick from 66 year old Harrison Ford grew a bit tiresome.

How this is going to be at age 80 ( Ford is 81 this year ) doesn’t bear thinking about. I think this movie will be terrible ( but I’ll still take the boys to see it )

Also it irked me to no end that Han became a small time smuggler who lost his fucken ship !

He was one of the major heroes of the rebellion and should have lived a cushy life after that.

@Kiwiwomble said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:

@MN5 one of my completely unsubstantiated theories for judging special effects, seems cheap movie have all their action at night (or space) i assume so they can hide details or lack of detail in the shadows....full spaceship battle in broad daylight?....awesome

Yes indeed, I loved the space battle in Rogue One as well to name another.

To be fair to the OT the technology wasn’t available to make it look as polished as it does today.

Landos heroics in ROTJ will always hold a place in my heart though, that battle is awesome.

I reckon Lucas should redo the one from ANH, a horde of fighters were in the battle in Rogue One but only a small handful came out of the Death Star which you’d assume would house hundreds of thousands of tie fighters.