Beefy's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

Archer is a cartoon? Didn't know that.

 

Yeah I was expecting it to be like March or something. Awesome. And GoT will probably be on soon after Archer ends.

 

Totally agree with Sam Allardyce .( not the bit about PE being AS important as English & Maths though ) .



http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24470649

 

Went to watch Sleepy hollow and only part recorded on Sky , poor signal ...anyone ever had this problem ?

as an aside , anyone watch it ? any good ? NO spoilers please !!!

 

I think they all had something to say that one could agree with, though Allardyce was quite correct. Harry was also right when he said that kids don't play informal football anymore. You just don't see a dozen or so youngsters with a football, with jumpers as goalposts. That's what kids did in their thousands, when I was growing up.

Nowadays, if you do see kids playing football, it's all very organised. The spontaneity has gone. Kids don't seem to have a kickabout anymore, where the initial skills are learned and the interest takes hold. They're a bit too keen to stay indoors and make EA Sports a little bit richer.

 

Harry was right yes , funnily enough where we live young lads do play football on a patch of grass , but I agree with sam about the fact PE should be mandatory up to a certain age .

 

The Johnny Depp film? It's okay. Bit silly.

 

No, the new TV series. Am watching at 10 tonight...must be repeat of first episode.

 

Alan Shearer provides a reasonable summary of the current state of play:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24462625

 

What is it about Johnny Depp that I find so annoying at best, or uninteresting at worst..? I've tried watching various films of his, like Edward Scissorhands - crap. Pirates of the Caribbean - thank goodness the cinema ticket was a freebie, because I walked out, it was so bad. So are its successors.

Sleepy Hollow I tried really, really hard with, but it did nothing for me. Now a lot of this is due to director Tim Burton's style, which I more or less loathe, but Depp has been in other films, and I don't like them.

As a person Johnny Depp seems OK, so it's his style and choice of film that bugs me. His latest creation as Dani Osvaldo is a winner though.

 

Depp is one of those people who's a great actor but appears in crap films. The only Tim Burton films I particularly like which I've seen are Ed Wood and Big Fish.

Edit: Edward Scissorhands was quite good, too. Alice in Wonderland and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory were bad.

 

I thought Edward Scissorhands was good, but maybe that's just because I was infatuated by the young Winona Ryder, and I love Tim Burton's style of surrealism as well. Pirates wasn't a very well done film, but I thought Jack Sparrow was the highlight. It would have been a lot worse without him.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a good film, and probably Depp's finest hour as a character actor. He lived with Hunter Thompson for months to get his character just right. Also Once Upon a Time in Mexico is good.

 

Depp's a very good actor, but it gets a bit lost when he's playing "wacky person with stringy hair and heavy makeup No. 26".

 

Least Depp can act, Affleck has to be one of the actors I dislike most.

 

My favourite Jonny Depp film is Blow, probably also one of my favourite ever films

Ben Affleck is indeed terrible, whenever he is mentioned I always think of this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pM8PrqY5Rg

 

Affleck's a good director; would be nice if he stuck to it. Historical inaccuracies aside, Argo was pretty good, but it would have been even better without his morose mug.

 

I grew up in the 70's. We played footie, Cricket and Rounders on any decent sized green, but they all end up with a no ball games sign.
(I think) that`s why you don`t see groups of kids out playing and keeping healthy.
So you can partly blame the councils and moaning minnies.

 

I am really not good at dealing with colds. Eurrrrrrgh.

 

He has a cheesy as hell face. I can never take him seriously in any of his films because of it.

 

What's eating Gilbert Grape . Depp and Di Caprio Juliet Lewis . Fantastic film IMHO .