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Budget Classic Car Night.
by SkyeDave- 2 replies
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Come join us this Wednesday 2nd March where we pit the cheapest Classic cars against each other for a night of fun, low stakes racing. Eligible cars are: Dynasty Manana Peyote Tornado Tornado Cabrio Tornado Custom Mariachi Tornado You can race the same car all night or chop and change and try other peoples. Sign up below: 1. SkyeDave 2. Mulder
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Mystery Car February 2022
by Mark Verstappen- 3 replies
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Come and join us for Mystery Car on Wednesday 23th of February at 20:00 GMT. We will start out in free roam at the parking lot west of the Vespucci Beach Houses from where we will have to follow the clues to find the Mystery Car. Once the car is revealed we will all buy it if needed, modify it, then spend the night racing it. The price of the car will be less than $100k so don't worry about having to spend millions to join in. The usual rules will apply, don't bring the emergency services along with you in free roam, don't kill other players, race clean and respect the other racers.... Basically don't be a bellend. Post your best mystery GIF below to get in…
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The Return of 'What's Under The Hood?'
by SkyeDave- 4 replies
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Is it Stock or Sleeper? Racer or Ricer? Join us this Wednesday 16th February 20:00GMT for a muscle car series with a difference. As well as trying to beat each other on the track we'll be trying to trick each other into being in slower cars as we wonder, what's under the hood? It's like a game of poker at 100mph. The 11 Cars allowed on the night: Blade, Dukes (not of Death), Ruiner, Sabre Turbo(not custom), Burger Shot Stallion, Phoenix, Redwood Gauntlet, Stallion, Buccaneer, Gauntlet and the Vigero You can pick a different car each race or stay in the same one. The cars can be fully modded, they can be stock or if you're feeling particularl…
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ABC 2
by Mark Verstappen- 5 replies
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ABC 2 Come and join us on Wednesday 9th of February at 20:00 UK Time for ABC! Just turn up to the parking lot of the Church in Strawberry in any of the 8 ABC 2 cars. We will determine who knows their ABC best before we start a playlist to determine who gets an A+! For all races we will all race one car of the ABC per race from 1 to Z starting with F to M this Wednesday. ABC will be hosted sporadically. We wont do all of the nights in succession. Don't worry if you don't own all/any of the cars, we can spawn them in for you. For this week the list of cars is: Fränken Stange Gauntlet Hellfire Hellion I-Wagen Jac…
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Survive the Hunt 3
by Mark Verstappen- 6 replies
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Survive the Hunt 3 Come and join us in Survive the Hunt, where the aim is to... Well... survive the hunt! Wednesday 2nd of February 20:00 UK time starting from Vespucci Helipad. What is Survive The Hunt? Essentially, Survive The Hunt is a freeroam game mode where one player is "hunted" by 8+ other players. There is no radar, HUD or name-tags in order to make this a bit more interesting. While there is no set tactic, the most popular and effective one is for the hunted player to "blend in" with the game AI - either on foot or in a car. This means obeying traffic laws, following the road at an AI-ish pace, stopping at traffic lights etc. The hunters can employ a…
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Hello Vans! Sorry, I should dhav ebput the sup much sooner. We've been Kindly invited to join XDBX this Wednesday night as part of their 8 year anniversary. They're starting a little earlier then they normally do to accommodate us. It'll be a mixed playlist which has always been good fun in the past, not least because they're a really good bunch of guys. Please click the link and RSVP on the left hand side to give them an idea of numbers. Apologies for not putting this up sooner. @mulder @Mark Verstappen @Warriors-Ten @CatManDoza @JuniorChubb @Paulie @badingaaa
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Sports C Class Wednesday 19th January
by SkyeDave- 4 replies
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Come join us at short notice this Wednesday while we race cars from the Sports C class. (Thanks to Broughy1322 for the tiers making everyones life easier) There's a mix of new and old school cars in the group and you can race as many different cars on the night as you like. 9F 9F Cabrio Bestia GTS Cypher Flash GT Jester RR Komoda Penumbra FF Raiden Revolter Sentinel Classic Specter Specter Custom Surano V-STR
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1979 Rallye De Paleto, Wed 12th January 8PM
by SkyeDave- 14 replies
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The Annual Rallye De Paleto will be held this Wednesday 12th January. Where is it? Paleto Bay is a quaint little town in the North of Blaine County, San Andreas. It's Northwest of Paleto Forest and at the foot of Mount Chiliad. It's mixture of great shops and amusements as well as the Procopio Beach making it a great place to visit for the whole family. What is it? Set over 3 gruelling stages totalling more than 35miles the Rallye De Paleto promises to break cars as well as spirits as it winds through the Paleto Forest, Chiliad Mountain State Wilderness, Raton Canyon, Cassidy Creek, the Alamo Sea, Mount Josiah and the Grand…
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Cont(r)act Racing!
by Mark Verstappen- 4 replies
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Cont(r)act Racing! Come and join us on Wednesday the 5th of January at 20:00 UK Time for Cont(r)act Racing! Just turn up to the parking lot of the Golf Club in your favorite released 'The Contract' car. We will determine who has the best car before we start a playlist to determine the best Contract Racer! We will race the currently released cars from the Contact Update with the cars listed below. Each race will feature only one of the cars so we can all try them out equally. The Cars: Astron Buffalo STX Champion Cinquemila Deity Ignus Jubilee Baller ST Zeno …
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The Return of the Cat! 1 2
by JuniorChubb- 34 replies
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To celebrate the return of Catman (who probably wont even turn up) we have a night of RoofRacks & Saftness! Post below if you are coming out to play and suggest a job that reminds you of our bearded Mexican friend to add to the playlist... We will also tie in some stuff from the new update, especially if it involves Alfa Romeo's and roof racks. Wed 15th Dec 8pm, be there or.... don't be there!
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Helmut's American Autos D Muscle
by Mark Verstappen- 3 replies
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Helmut's American Autos D Muscle Come and join us on Wednesday the 8st of December at 20:00 UK Time for Helmut's American Autos D Muscle! Just turn up to the parking lot of Helmut's European Autos in Paleto Bay just of U.S. Route 1 in your favorite eligible Muscle Car. We will determine who has the best car before we start a playlist to determine the winner of Helmut's American Autos B Sports! We will race the Burger Shot Stallion, Deviant, Hermes, Phoenix, Redwood Gauntlet, Slamvan Custom, Stallion & Tampa against each other. You can switch the whole night with the cars you want but each car can only be used twice. These cars should be all about the sa…
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Daves Motorsport Masterpiece
by JuniorChubb- 13 replies
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Sorry guys... not been the best of weeks, got nothing planned right now but hey... that’s no reason to not sign up! I should be online and have something sorted, if not I’ll let you know ASAP!
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Mystery Car November 2021
by Mark Verstappen- 5 replies
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Come and join us for Mystery Car on Wednesday 17th of November at 20:00 GMT. We will start out in free roam on the soccer field of the track-and-field complex at the University of San Andreas, Los Santos location from where we will have to follow the clues to find the Mystery Car. Once the car is revealed we will all buy it if needed, modify it, then spend the night racing it. The price of the car will be less than $100k so don't worry about having to spend millions to join in. The usual rules will apply, don't bring the emergency services along with you in free roam, don't kill other players, race clean and respect the other racers.... Basically don't be a bell…
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Go Kart Race Night
by JuniorChubb- 14 replies
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Apparently Go-Karts are here... Come and join us for a night of Go Kart Racing this Wednesday!! Not sure what to expect but I'm sure we will find out, Go Kart Gifs below please...
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ABC 1
by Mark Verstappen- 8 replies
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ABC 1 Come and join us on Wednesday 3rd of October at 20:00 UK Time for ABC! Just turn up to the parking lot of the Church in Strawberry in any of the 8 ABC 1 cars. We will determine who knows their ABC best before we start a playlist to determine who gets an A+! For all races we will all race one car of the ABC per race from 1 to Z starting with 1 to E this Wednesday. ABC will be hosted sporadically. We wont do all of the nights in succession. Don't worry if you don't own all/any of the cars, we can spawn them in for you. For this week the list of cars is: 190z 8F Drafter 9F (Either one) Adder Bison Cyp…
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Night of the Bogey Car!!!
by JuniorChubb- 17 replies
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Come and join us for some last minute planned Halloween fun this Wednesday... This Halloween themed night will feature a new racing system called the Bogey Car! We will all pick a different car on the grid, we will elect chose the worse car and elect this to be the bogey car, we will select a few other choices to be known as the 'popular cars'. Whoever won the last race and/or whoever is top of the Playlist will have to race in the bogey car. To rid yourself of the Bogey Car curse all you need to do is not finish last in a race and you can go back to the popular selection again. Best Halloween gif below get pole in the first race!
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Rigged Random Car Extravaganza Pt6
by Mark Verstappen- 9 replies
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Come and join us on Wednesday 20th of October at 8 PM British time for Part 6 of the Rigged Random Car Extravaganza! After doing the Rigged Random Tier Extravaganza recently I thought it was only fitting (and time) to see what wacky, fast, slow, stupid cars it would give us. After a meet up in free roam east across the water from Bristols (The big t*ts looking buildings 💦) we will launch into a playlist of races where you will only know what car we will be racing each race when we get to the race lobby. Each car is determined by a random generator with a few exclusions like not more than 3 cars from the same class, used recently in an event or often used cars in…
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Gamblers Anonymous
by JuniorChubb- 19 replies
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Come and join us this Wednesday for a night of racing!! Race points will go out the window as the only thing we will keep track of is the money... Every race will see every racer bet on the outcome, make sure you bring a pencils and some paper to keep track of your gains and losses as the player with the highest cash sum at the end of the night wins, so its go big or go home. Bet as little or as much as you like on each race (every missed bet will cost you cash and grid positioning). You cannot bet on yourself to win. The races will be locked to one car (sorry all my jobs to make things easy) so we don't waste tie picking cars, we can just bet! …
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Pfister Tonight!
by Mark Verstappen- 12 replies
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Pfister Tonight! Come and join us on Wednesday 6th of October at 20:00 UK Time for Paulie's Night! Just turn up to the front door of the Von Crastenburg Hotel in Morningwood in any Pfister. We will determine who has the best taste in Pfister before we start a playlist to determine who is the Master of Pfisters! For this night we will do all 8 Pfisters once. These are in order... Comet 811 Comet Retro Custom Comet Safari Neon Comet SR Growler Comet S2 Don't worry if you don't own all/any of the Pfisters, we can spawn them in for you. If you own an 811, please let me know with your sign…
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Planes Trains and Automobiles
by JuniorChubb- 11 replies
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Come and join us this Wednesday night for something involving vehicles of the travelling variety! If it can be raced we will race it... and do other things with it, hopefully things that might stop Mulder from winning because they require more luck than skill. Planes, Trains & Automobiles my dudes. Post a suitable gif below to sign up, best gif gets a prize!
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Rigged Random Tier Extravaganza
by Mark Verstappen- 14 replies
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Come and join us on Wednesday 22nd August at 20:00 UK Time for the Rigged Random Tier Extravaganza. After a meet up behind 'Bishop's WTF?!' we will launch into a playlist of races where you will only know what class and tier of car you can choose before each race when we get to the race lobbies. A tier is a group of cars in a class all about on the same pace. For example in SUV's one of these is the Granger, Landstalker XL, Rocoto, Seminole Frontier, Serrano, Squaddie & XLS. This should give us a diverse grid of cars maybe not often used while still competitive among eachother. Each tier is determined by a random generator with a few exclusions like skipping…
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Night of the Pantoloons Pt2
by JuniorChubb- 7 replies
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Come and join us for this nonsense!!! I know I promised you a Top Gear but I am rubbish so have this instead, a night of debauchery in the the official car of the Van Society! Meet at the Vans Clubhouse in your Panto... be there or be a four sided polygon with sides of equal length. Post below to show some kind of interest.
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Mystery Car September 2021
by Mark Verstappen- 16 replies
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Come and join us for Mystery Car on Wednesday 8th of September at 20:00 GMT. We will start out in free roam at the parking lot in eastern Cypress Flats from where we will have to follow the clues to find the Mystery Car. Once the car is revealed we will all buy it if needed, modify it, then spend the night racing it. The price of the car will be less than $100k so don't worry about having to spend millions to join in. The usual rules will apply, don't bring the emergency services along with you in free roam, don't kill other players, race clean and respect the other racers.... Basically don't be a bellend. Post below to get involved! Verstappen …
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Drift Kings 1 2
by JuniorChubb- 30 replies
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Come and join us this Wednesday for our Drift Kings night!!! Come along in any car that you are able to fit Drift Tyres to, and make sure you have fitted those drift tyres. We will be running a night of drifting and racing in a low grip environment. Post below to get involved. Photo by serjan midili on Unsplash
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Survive the Hunt 2
by Mark Verstappen- 7 replies
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Survive the Hunt 2 Come and join us in Survive the Hunt, where the aim is to... Well... survive the hunt! Wednesday 24th of august 20:00 UK time starting from the parking lot of the Maze Bank Arena. What is Survive The Hunt? Essentially, Survive The Hunt is a freeroam game mode where one player is "hunted" by 8+ other players. There is no radar, HUD or name-tags in order to make this a bit more interesting. While there is no set tactic, the most popular and effective one is for the hunted player to "blend in" with the game AI - either on foot or in a car. This means obeying traffic laws, following the road at an AI-ish pace, stopping at traffic lights etc. The…
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232Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
@LimeGreenLegend I remember watching some of Threads when at school, maybe a year or so after it was released, as part of an English project on nuclear weapons. I didn't live in Sheffield then, which I seem to recall making it seem more distant and as teenagers we kind of dismissed it with a "this can't happen to us" type of attitude. I do intend watching it at some point, I noticed it on iplayer, probably not this weekend.- 1
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What I Watched This Week #171 (Apr 7-13) Captain America: Brave New World dir. Julius Onah/2025/1h59m The latest entry in the MCU sees Anthony Mackie take up the shield as Captain America for the first time (on the big screen at least, I've not seen the TV show, which made a lot of this quite confusing), getting caught up in an international incident that I honestly can't remember anything about. The entire time I was just waiting for Harrison Ford, playing newly elected president Thaddeus Ross, turn into a big red Hulk, which is all I knew of this going in. It's actually quite amazing that I can't remember any of the actual plot because most of the film is made up of people spouting exposition at each other in bland locations. The villain, played by Tim Blake Nelson, looks so stupid that I thought his reveal was a joke after being kept hidden in the shadows for a lot of the run time, but no, that's the look they actually went with. I don't care if it's accurate to the comic books, it looks f*cking stupid on film. Mackie and Ford both give decent performances, and and I liked Danny Ramirez as Cap's new sidekick Joaquin Torres, but this just feels like content churned out to meet a schedule drawn up by committee. 3/10 Mickey 17 dir. b*ng Joon Ho/2025/2h17m Robert Pattinson stars as Mickey Barnes, a man who, to get away from some dangerous people he owes money to, signs up as an expendable on a colonisation voyage to a distant planet. His job is to perform all of the most dangerous tasks and occasionally act as a lab rat, and each time he dies they just print out a new one, an act made illegal on Earth. This is director b*ng's follow up to his Oscar winning masterpiece Parasite, and while this film shares similar themes with its attack on the elite it comes at it with a very different tone. This leans heavily into comedy, with Pattinson giving an almost slapstick performance at times. His whiny, weedy accent also took me by surprise, but it really does fit the character. Mark Ruffalo as failed politician Kenneth Marshall, the leader of the colony, also gives a very broad comedic performance, similar to the one he gave in Poor Things, and he steals every scene he's in. I had a lot of fun watching this but it all feels kind of inconsequential and throwaway, like all of the clones of Mickey, and a little short of b*ng's best films like Parasite, Memories of Murder or Mother. But this is still an excellently crafted film with great supporting performances from Toni Collette, Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, and British comedian Tim Key as a man dressed as a pigeon. 8/10 The Foreigner dir. Martin Campbell/2017/1h53m The Foreigner is an action thriller starring Jackie Chan as Quan Ngoc Minh, a London restaurant owner whose daughter is killed in an IRA bombing. He suspects that politician and former IRA member Liam Hennessey (Pierce Brosnan) knows something about it, and seeing that he's former Chinese special forces he'll stop at nothing to find out what. A conventional yet well made film from the director of two of the best Bond films: Goldeneye and Casino Royale, what really kept me hooked here was the totally serious performance from Chan, something I've never seen before. That extends to the fight scenes where there's none of his usual fun and games with random props. Here he just wants to hurt people. There's a haunted look in his eyes that he has for most of the film that feels so real and full of pain. Brosnan is also very good as a politician with a murky past, and he does a good job at keeping us guessing as to how much he actually knows. 7/10 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw dir. David Leitch/2019/2h17m The Fast and Furious franchise takes a little detour with this spinoff film starring The Rock and Jason Statham as the titular Hobbs and Shaw who must team up to defeat Idris Elba's evil cyborg Brixton who is searching for a virus that could wipe out humanity. The virus is in the hands of Shaw's sister Hattie (Vanessa Kirby) because what would these films be without family? Just as mindlessly fun as the recent films in the series, what let this one down for me is the constant trash talk between The Rock and Statham. It's cute for a while but over two hours of this pissing contest is just tiresome. There's also an extended cameo from Kevin Hart who I can't stand. The action scenes are totally ridiculous - Elba's transformer like motorbike is a personal fav - but they're all fun and unique. The final act showdown set in Samoa is also a nice change of location. This does feel like a script where they changed the names of the two main characters to make it fit into the Fast and Furious universe just for the name recognition, but this film delivered exactly what I expected from it, which I guess is both a positive and a negative. 6.5/10 Threads dir. Mick Jackson/1984/1h57m Made for BBC TV on a tiny budget, Threads is a docu-drama set in the Northern English city of Sheffield during the lead up to and fallout of a nuclear war. With its use of actual BBC documentary narrator Paul Vaughn, stock footage and text on screen detailing the time line of events this could be mistaken as real. The drama part of the docu-drama comes from following young woman Ruth (Karen Meagher) who has just become pregnant with her boyfriend and is just about to start her life. In the background on news reports and newspapers tensions are rising between the US and Russia. This lead up to the bombs dropping is incredibly well executed, the tension slowly being cranked up as these reports come to the foreground slowly but surely. It begins to invade the normal everyday lives of the people of Sheffield. The second half of the film details the bombings and the breakdown of society in the aftermath and it is the most grim, brutal, depressing, hopeless, scary, and sadly realistic (judging by the extensive list of doctors and professors in the special thanks section of the credits) depiction of the apocalypse I've ever seen. I nearly stopped watching at a couple of points because it's all just too much. That says nothing of the ending, a horrific series of events set over a decade after the end of the world which snaps into a freezeframe just as a character is about to scream and then the end credits roll in total silence. This is one of the best films I've ever seen and I urge you all to watch it, it's on the BBC iPlayer if you're in the UK or have a VPN. 10/10 Lime's Film of the Week! The Devil in a Convent dir. Georges Méliès/1899/3m Another short from Georges Méliès sees him continue his fascination with demons and religion. Here he plays a tricksy devil who appears in a convent, disguises himself as a priest and torments the nuns there before being banished back to hell. As well as his continued perfection of his special effects techniques what really stands out in his films are the gorgeously detailed sets that look like they're taken straight off of the stage. His films are also becoming longer and more intricate, three minutes was considered long for a film at the time, and his 12 minute Trip to the Moon a few years later was initially mocked for being too long to keep people's attention. A wonderful slice of magic from the dawn of the artform. 8/10 Monsters University dir. Dan Scanlon/2013/1h44m This totally unnecessary prequel tells the story of how Mike (Billy Crystal) and Sully (John Goodman) met at college, starting out as adversaries before having to work together to help their fraternity win the annual scare games and keep their place in school. Mostly a collection of tropes, cliches and stereotypes from every college film since Animal House this still does have some good jokes scattered throughout and, as usual, the animation is excellent. Crystal can get grating at times but Goodman is always a pleasure to listen to, and there's a good supporting turn from Helen Mirren as the dean of the college. In my opinion Monsters Inc is one of Pixar's best films with a perfect ending, so I'm glad they didn't try to do a sequel (and I hope they don't in the future), but that stuck them with doing a prequel, and the characters aren't really that different at the start of the film than at the end, so there's not even any growth or development. It's just more time to spend with them, which isn't a bad thing, but it's time spent doing nothing. 5.5/10- 2
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Team America: World Police (2004) dir Trey Parker A film from the makers of South Park, so you should know what to expect; totally irreverent, doesn't care who it offends, anything and anyone can and will be made fun of, with some great comedy songs and few Star Wars references thrown in. It's made with puppets in in the style of Thunderbirds and the other Gerry Anderson shows from the 60s/70s/80s. The title refers to an international crime fighting force with a very gung-ho attitude. So long as they get the bad guys, it doesn't matter who or what else gets hurt or destroyed in the process, even if they end up leaving an even bigger trail of destruction than the one they were trying to prevent. They recruit a new member, a Broadway actor, because they need someone to “act like a terrorist”. They are up against a wave of attacks, organised, behind the scenes, by North Korea's then dictator Kim Jong Il (the father of the current one). He is hosting a “peace conference” for all world leaders to hide his true intents. He has enlisted the assistance of F.A.G. (the Film Actors Guild), a group of Hollywood actors lead by Alec Baldwin and including Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Samuel L Jackson, Helen Hunt and many more, who hate Team America. Just to be clear for anyone who has no idea what this film is; none of those people are in the film, it's puppet versions of them. A puppet Michael More also makes an appearance protesting against Team America. And all the voices are done by the same sort of people who voice South Park It doesn't take sides. I don't think it's trying to make any political points. I'm not really sure you can even call it satire because, just like South Park, Parker and Stone are simply having a laugh in their own way and doing what they think is funny for no other reason than comedy. Some good aspects to point out. They chose to make this with puppets and I'm sure with modern technology they could have made them a lot more realistic than Thunderbirds, especially when it comes to how they walk. But other than the mouths moving better in sync with the dialogue, they don't look that different, and you can clearly see the strings. The puppets are obviously small, so the film is mainly made on model sets. But they have a couple of scenes using real-world backgrounds, so the puppets look really tiny – for comic effect. There's one hilarious scene in which a couple of characters are attacked by what are supposed to be black panthers, but they use domestic cats instead. Then what I think is the best scene, the s*x scene. This would have been extremely graphic if it used human actors. It would have been fairly graphic if the puppets had g*nitals. But they don't. So it's just two puppets, minus their clothes, playing out various s*x positions. I have not seen this in full since I saw it at the cinema back when it first came out. It was not as funny as I remembered, but still a very novel idea. 7/10- 1
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