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Post by rushy on Feb 9, 2023 13:48:57 GMT
I don't mind Colin IRL, but he was infinitely better suited to be the Master than the Doctor. I'm not surprised he ranks at the bottom. Most audiences haven't heard Big Finish, and Whittaker until recently had the boost of being the current incarnation.
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Post by logopolitanicecream on Feb 9, 2023 15:09:03 GMT
I've always been a fan of Colin's Doctor. For a time he was my favourite. He's too dogmatic and virtue signalling IRL for my tastes though.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2023 23:50:13 GMT
I like some of the Ian Fleming Bond novels, but some of his views expressed in them are abhorrent. People say the films are dated, but at least Oddjob isn't given a cat to eat in the movie Goldfinger nor does Bond express his views on gay people as being "sexual misfits." Bond sees lesbians as women to cure in the book.
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Post by burrunjor on Feb 10, 2023 9:53:55 GMT
I like some of the Ian Fleming Bond novels, but some of his views expressed in them are abhorrent. People say the films are dated, but at least Oddjob isn't given a cat to eat in the movie Goldfinger nor does Bond express his views on gay people as being "sexual misfits." Bond sees lesbians as women to cure in the book. The great irony is Flemying himself was a sexual misfit. He was really into bondage. I mean hey I'm not going to throw stones, given my fantasies about being tied up and dominated by sexy female villains like Famke Janssen and Alti from Xena, but still I think it's fair to say bondage is far more outside the norm for any normal person than just being gay. Apparently Flemyings sado masochist tendencies is why there are so many long drawn out torture scenes in his Bond novels. I mean fair enough most adventure stories will have a scene where the hero is tortured for drama. You wouldn't say Terry Nation was into that because of what happens to Blake in Cygnus Alpha, but still in Flemying's case they do tend to be more drawn out and sexual in nature, like Bond getting his balls whipped! I personally always try and avoid that type of thing in my work. I normally go for cartoony violence like Ash vs Evil Dead that nobody could find sexy, and I prefer writing monstrous female villains to sexy ones, as I think writers indulging in their own sexual fetishes in their work is awful.. That's not to say you can't make your female lead attractive and sexy, (I always give them a big nose LOL.) Still difference between that and just the writer masterbating onto the page. See Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged for another one of the worst examples of that, eeeeugggh. That said however what's interesting is that Bond gets tortured by guys in Flemyings novels, not female villains, In fact in one he is tortured by two gay guys, and it's a guy rather than a big Fam or Alti type that whips him in the balls. Makes me wonder if Flemying was bi curious, but couldn't admit it and that's why he had such a hatred of gays? I'm not saying he was gay, and also I do hate the cliche that all homophobes are secretly gay, but I think he may have been a bit like Alan Partridge. IE mostly straight, but a bit curious, and a healthy dose of gay panic which both made him bigoted and evidently fantasise about it all the more LOL |
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Post by burrunjor on Feb 10, 2023 9:57:12 GMT
I've always been a fan of Colin's Doctor. For a time he was my favourite. He's too dogmatic and virtue signalling IRL for my tastes though. Where you ever on the DW IMDB page? Sorry to ask it's just that there was one guy there who also had Colin as his favourite. Only other person other than Maxil I've seen online say that, and even Maxil eventually switched to McCoy. |
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Post by logopolitanicecream on Feb 10, 2023 12:33:26 GMT
I've always been a fan of Colin's Doctor. For a time he was my favourite. He's too dogmatic and virtue signalling IRL for my tastes though. Where you ever on the DW IMDB page? Sorry to ask it's just that there was one guy there who also had Colin as his favourite. Only other person other than Maxil I've seen online say that, and even Maxil eventually switched to McCoy. I did hang around the IMDB boards once or twice, but unless this guy you saw was there for for a split second and then just vanished forever, I can't imagine I was the person in question lol. Anyways that was a long time ago. Davison's my favourite now. And I understand that that's as equally unpopular an opinion on this particular board as it is among the mainstream/casual audiences to like Colin the most. I still rank Colin pretty highly though. |
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Post by rushy on Feb 10, 2023 13:08:59 GMT
Davison in his sardonic Five Doctors-season 21 mode is spectacular. No f*cks given.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2023 13:57:40 GMT
I don't "love" his work, but I do like a couple of Steven Seagal movies. Some of his movies are insanely violent and actually really well done. I'll always defend Marked for Death.
Sadly, Seagal is a massive arsehole. His manner towards women, his egotistical nature, the lies, the rudeness... he's not a nice guy.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2023 22:04:19 GMT
The James Bond novels are being edited and rewritten to remove racism and other offensive comments.
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Post by burrunjor on Mar 5, 2023 10:08:24 GMT
I'd also like to add John Landis. He is a f*cking c*nt who caused the deaths of actor Vic Morrow and two children through his recklessness on the Twilight Zone movie. What makes it even worse is that he didn't have the decency to disappear after that. He still pops up on retrospectives and docus all the time, where he presents himself as a happy go lucky, laid back, nice guy. He's certifiable quite frankly. I hate, HATE having to see him pop up on Ray Harryhausen docus.
That said however he has directed some of my fave films. Blues Brothers, Clue, Trading Places etc. He does great work, pity though that not everyone makes it out alive.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2023 11:00:38 GMT
I'd also like to add John Landis. He is a f*cking c*nt who caused the deaths of actor Vic Morrow and two children through his recklessness on the Twilight Zone movie. What makes it even worse is that he didn't have the decency to disappear after that. He still pops up on retrospectives and docus all the time, where he presents himself as a happy go lucky, laid back, nice guy. He's certifiable quite frankly. I hate, HATE having to see him pop up on Ray Harryhausen docus. That said however he has directed some of my fave films. Blues Brothers, Clue, Trading Places etc. He does great work, pity though that not everyone makes it out alive. That footage of his and the children's death is absolutely horrific. It shouldn't be on YouTube to be honest. |
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Post by burrunjor on Mar 5, 2023 11:54:23 GMT
I'd also like to add John Landis. He is a f*cking c*nt who caused the deaths of actor Vic Morrow and two children through his recklessness on the Twilight Zone movie. What makes it even worse is that he didn't have the decency to disappear after that. He still pops up on retrospectives and docus all the time, where he presents himself as a happy go lucky, laid back, nice guy. He's certifiable quite frankly. I hate, HATE having to see him pop up on Ray Harryhausen docus. That said however he has directed some of my fave films. Blues Brothers, Clue, Trading Places etc. He does great work, pity though that not everyone makes it out alive. That footage of his and the children's death is absolutely horrific. It shouldn't be on YouTube to be honest. I agree and would never, ever watch it, but in all fairness from what I've heard on TV Tropes, Vic Morrow died sacrificing himself in sadly a vain effort to save the two little kids, so at least his heroism is being remembered. PS Steven Spielberg was also the producer of that movie and on set when it happened. At the end of the day the blame must fall on Landis, but Spielberg's hands are not entirely clean, especially considering that the children I believe were hired illegally and made to work after hours. |
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Post by burrunjor on Mar 5, 2023 11:58:37 GMT
Actually to be fair, just read a bit more about it again for the first time in years, and Spielberg had apparently warned Landis not to use the explosions on the set that caused the accident, and had a falling out so bad over Landis' reckless actions overall even before the accident, that it ended their friendship, so it's not fair to rope him into that.
Landis is 100 percent to blame there.
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Post by iank on Mar 5, 2023 21:14:55 GMT
Yes it's a shame, esp as I love American Werewolf and Trading Places. Why does everyone have to be such a c**t?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2023 0:15:50 GMT
It's sadly one of those freak occurrences where the helicopter crashes right where the actors are. I think Vic knew something was up and tried to get the kids to safety.
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