R L Winger
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Jake Arthur leaves his old man at the Parramatta Eels and moves on to play with the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles for the rest of this season and next season.
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Very seldom do you see a team crash to the bottom of the table with a win.....Bad luck for me it happens to be the Dragons.
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As I thought the Wolfpack are toast
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Trouble is brewing in the NRL
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So it looks like the Toronto Wolfpack is dead and buried...Covid 19 claims another victim. Very sad to see.
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BRING BACK THE MIGHTY NORTH SYDNEY BEARS
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Island - Gerry Rafferty
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Bring on season 5 of The Last Kingdom.
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Just finished watching season 3 of the TV series remake of Lost In Space, it was pretty good and finished the current story line quite well.....They say it is the final season of the show but they left the ending open for further seasons in the future for sure.
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On 01/10/2021 at 00:27, The Hallucinating Goose said:
I'm gonna start this post with a disclaimer. I am an obsessive, life long Bond fan, I have read the books at least a dozen times each and watched the films approximately 100 times each, that is not an exaggeration. I will try not to give anything away.
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I have just been to see No Time to Die. It was ###### dreadful. It is one of the worst Bond films ever made.
1. If I wanted to watch a sci-fi/action film from the 1980s then I would watch one. This is a science fiction film not a spy thriller. I felt more like I was watching something like Universal Soldier or Blade Runner than Bond. The main story is so unbelievable and far fetched I just could not feel engrossed by it. On top of the main story as well, there are several subplots that just over complicate the flow of the film to the point where you are slightly confused as to which direction the film should be going in, which story it should actually be following.
2. The storyline was incredibly disjointed and so little is explained effectively to leave you feeling satisfied and gripped by what is going on. I was very aware I was sat in a cinema, it just did not draw me in.
3. It so obviously rips off and references several previous Bond films without any apologies and also takes a massive amount of plot out of one of the novels which was never used in the film adaptation of that novel. This is not done with any kind of sympathy of respect for the source material.
4. Similarly a couple of key characters from the Bond universe are treated with utter disrespect by the filmmakers and cast aside as if they mean nothing to the series.
5. As I say, the film is disjointed and this is very much seen in the choice of locations. One of the key things in Bond is the locations are almost a character in themselves. Traditionally Bond is sent to a glamorous location and the film is themed around that place. In this someone has clearly closed their eyes and picked a random place on a map, sent Bond there and then decided off the top of their head what will happen when he gets there for the 10 minutes he is there and as a result all these completely unrelated places seem to almost present unrelated little short stories themselves. This is not a glamorous film at all.
6. Hugh Dennis shows up at one point in an attempt to be a serious actor. It does not work. It is as bad as when Goldie was in The World is not Enough.
7. The direction is dreadful. Someone tell this director that he can occasionally use a wide angle, pulled out shot. I just watch 2hrs 43mins or a camera basically shoved a centimetre away from Daniel Craig's face. This film felt ridiculously claustrophobic as a result and also contributed to the poor treatment of the locations.
8. The main villain is rubbish, holds no presence on screen and the actor was unimpressive. I say holds no presence on screen, that being during the little time he actually seems to be in the film. I'm sure he only actually appeared in about 20 minutes of the entire thing. I actually thought his main henchman was better than him.
9. Bringing back the previous Bond girl was so unnecessary. At one point Bond meets up with a female CIA agent who would have made a fantastic Bond girl, really liked her, unfortunately she was only in the film for 10 minutes if that.
10. Daniel Craig didn't even seem quite as on his game for this one as previous Bond films he's been in. He seemed to be trying to imitate Roger Moore a hell of a lot throughout it and it just didn't work, it came across like a spoof of the Bond character rather than a serious take on it.
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There we are, ten reasons why this is one of the worst Bond films ever made. For me it is currently in my bottom 5 Bond films. After a second viewing I may be able to reevaluate this but at the moment I am very, very disappointed.
And so, I give it: 4/10
Ps. I stayed right until the end of the credits as you should with Bond and indeed it did say that James Bond will return.
The best James Bond Film.....On Her Majesty's Secret Service
The Best James Bond.....George Lazenby 1969, (I block my ears as the howling starts LOL)
My pick of the best actors to play James Bond on the big screen or TV, following on from my number 1 pick of George Lazenby 1969,
2..Sean Connery 1962 - 1967, 1971, 1983
3..Daniel Graig 2006 - 2021
4..Roger Moore 1973 - 1985
5..Pierce Brosnan 1995 - 2002
6..Timothy Dalton 1987 - 1989
7..David Niven 1967
8..Barry Nelson 1954
A LITTLE KNOW JAMES BOND FACT
Contrary to popular belief, the honour of being the first actor to play James Bond fell not on Sean Connery, but on American Barry Nelson, who starred in this live 1 hour production of Ian Fleming's Casino Royale. The performance on 21st October 1954 (8.30pm EST) was the first in CBS's 'Climax' series of dramas.
CBS brought the rights for Fleming's first book for $1000. Since then the rights have gone via Charles Feldman's spoof of 1967 to Eon Productions, who picked them up in early 2000. The film, which is black and white, was actually lost until 1981, and even then all of the various VHS incarnations (except the Special Edition from Spy Guise Video) lack the climax of the film, stopping with Le Chiffre apparently dying, but having just got the razorblade from his hat.
2023 TOTAL RL FORUMS NRL SURVIVOR ELIMINATION COMPETITION HEAT 4.......UPDATED AFTER NRL ROUND 21.......WE HAVE A WINNER FOR HEAT 4.......WELL DONE R L WINGER
in The Australian Rugby League Forum
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THE RULES OF TOTAL RL FORUM.....NRL SURVIVOR COMPETITION 2023
1: You must pick one winning team a week till you are eliminated
2: If the team you picked wins, or ties, you survive. If the team you picked looses you're eliminated.
3: You may only pick any team once. - As an example if you pick the Penrith Panthers in any week,
you can't pick them again in any other week during the current heat, but you can pick them again in any other heat of NRL Survivor or the final of NRL Survivor if you are a heat winner.
4: You can edit your picks as long as the game you are picking a winner in has not started
5: All picks must be in before kick off of the game you are picking a winner in.
6: You can enter the competition at any week during the heat stage of the competition but you must be a winner of a heat to compete in the final of the competition for the prize of $100AUD. You will be invited by forum private message to come and participate in the final if you are 1 of the heat winners.
7: The competition continues in every heat & the final until there is a winner.
8: Don't miss a week or you will be eliminated from the competition once you have entered a heat or the final.
9: Once you are the winner of a heat you must wait until you are invited back to compete in the final before taking any further participation in the competition, that gives more people a chance of competing in the final.
10: When the competition gets Down to 5 players surviving in a heat or the final.
You must pick a combined points total of both teams without breaking the actual total points that are scored in the game by both teams.
This will be used as a tie breaker, if needed to find a winner of the current heat of Survivor, but not the final, see rule 12 for the final tie breaker .
After the heat gets down to 5 players or less no more players will be admitted to that current heat, but you can rejoin the competition in the next heat. If you are invited to take part in the final you must take part in the first round and every round till either you are eliminated or you win the competition, miss a round of the final and you are eliminated.
11: The 3 State Of Origin Games will not be included in the competition.
12: If after the result of NRL Grand Final has been decided and there are 2 or more Survivors still surviving in the competition, It will come down to whoever gets closest to the total score, regardless if you break the combined score or not.
THIS YEAR THERE WILL BE A PRIZE OF $100AUD FOR THE WINNER OF THE FINAL IN THE COMPETITION.
GOOD LUCK EVERYONE.