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Knives Out vs Phantom of the Paradise

Yes, you can help influence not only the film Pandy & I use as the joint review, but the homework we assign each other to plot the range of their career. As announced in Episode 92, our subject will be Eddie Murphy. Pandy & I will take an executive decision on what makes the joint review by 7 January 2023 so get your ideas in before then! NB) We will not be covering voice over roles or his stand-up film RAW. Unless you can convince us otherwise.

Same reason I used Ocean Colour Scene's Hundred Mile High City to start off the first episode. It's a numeral choice.

Paddington lives up to its substantial hype, whereas the Winnie the Pooh film is basically one of the package movies but featuring the same characters throughout - it's charming enough, but it lacks a throughline narrative or any real tension/conflict. I would add that I don't *expect* tension/conflict in a Winnie the pooh anthology film, but Paddington deals with that and makes it wholly satisfactory.

The Godfather vs Apocalypse Now

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I refer the honourable gentlemen to what ranked stark bottom of the Kubrick Flickchart Forum.

I like Kick-Ass and admire it for being basically done on the cheap (Kick-Ass 2 can get in the sea) but Robin Hood has more nostalgic goodwill for me, even if it is hardly a Disney classic.

That's some delightful trolling!

Jeff needs to get over his DUI charges first.

Donovan's favourite film (just above Age of Ultron) vs a sub-par Disney film

Bad villains though.

The original. The live action film has a phenomenal cast, but if you strip it back/notice the credits, it's simply a 90s John Hughes film using the 101 Dalmations story. By which I mean adult antagonists consistently humiliated by children/animals. Does Cruella de Vil need to be dropped in a vat of molasses? Hardly. But that's the kind of thing you get in the Home Alone films, Dennis the Menace, Baby's Day Out....

I agree - he's suitably contemptible and you want him to get his comeuppance.

That's just a funny question without context!

Yeah that is a close one. 73 & 109 on my Flickchart of 990 entries. Men in Black is higher so I'll go with that. I have very few negatives to say about Blade which gets better and more important with age (save for the Blood God CGI) but clearly a film involving Stephen Dorff cannot break into my Top 100 films of all time. He just can't.

In fairness, I haven't seen Sleeping Beauty for the longest time. But Jim Carrey prancing about in green spandex is almost immediately better than a film that only has Maleficient going for it.

Batman Forever

I was at a wedding reception for a former colleague yesterday evening. In attendance were two of my closest colleagues who did the same job (one's left, another's interviewing elsewhere*), 3-4 other ex-colleagues and the Regional head of the firm (AKA lead partner for the Newcastle office). The almost universal response to me handing in my notice on Friday were high fives and "good for you" wishes. Even the regional head told me "I totally get it"! * This colleague is in a different team, but he found out when the three of us met up in the pub ahead of the reception, that he was on £7k less than me and £9k less than our other colleague, despite the fact we all did EXACTLY the same thing. He's on more now, but he was livid to learn that.

I've accepted a new job that pays over £1,500 in terms of base salary than what I'm on now. Still a quasi-lawyer, but I'll have more opportunity to pivot into something I really want to do with this role. Starts January - can't wait!

Would need to watch both again - aside from the Siamese cats scaring the shit out of me aged 4, I have no memories of Lady & the Tramp. And Notting Hill is very problematic on a diversity front. Superman (1978) vs Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

I mean, they didn't let him go as such - he walked out whilst working hurt and was fired from his contract on his wedding day. I would agree that Punk's personality of holding longstanding grudges has really overshadowed his talent and may well be his legacy. He should have used AEW as a clean slate, but he wasn't able to do so, and whatever fault can be attributed to Page/The Elite for grating on him, this is a situation of his own making.

That's pretty much my understanding too.

Right, two sixty-something men, one of whom has Parkinsons. It isn't a work, but it has highlighted a major weakness of Khan's authority. The blame has to rest mainly on Punk's shoulders, who reportedly always intended to launch into that diatribe ahead of time without any prompting, which is massively unprofessional, damaging and whatever other words you want to use. And weirdly, Punk/Page haven't always had a bad relationship - there's footage of them singing with the crowd or something in the weeks after Full Gear and swapping fun tweets earlier this year but April/May time something changed, and Punk decided to go into business for himself against him both onscreen and in that presser. Kenny & the Bucks? It's very unclear what influence they have as EVPs since Khan took full creative control of storylines away from them over Christmas 2019. But Cody said post-AEW that he didn't like the role and preferred just being a wrestler. One thing I would say about the altercation is they brought the AEW Head of Legal before the confrontation, so clearly it was a bit more than simply spoiling for a fight, but it would have been better just not to have happened that night in the first place. Punk was injured, thus would only have had a cameo on the following Dynamite, but what's to say the altercation doesn't happen 3 days later? You'd hope cooller heads would prevail, but the atmosphere would have been toxic as fuck. Weirdly, the AEW product has actually pivoted for the better because/in spite of the drama as the last 4 Dynamites have all been over 1m in viewers, which hasn't been the case since August last year. Death Triangle get to be Trios champions and the tournament to crown the next AEW champ has led to some outstanding matches. Props to Moxley for doing this when he was meant to be having time off. Bottom line: AEW's roster being as deep as it is means it can withstand the immediate loss of CM Punk, Omega, the Young Bucks, and all the people they have out injured, but with the caveat of Moxley being on hand. BUT it's been a bitter learning experience for Khan which he will need to learn from in that AEW still isn't 4 years old yet.