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Overprotective Internet Browser
by Squirrel- 1 follower
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I use a website to help me download video's from Youtube. It's free and easy to use and can get a decent copy of any video I need. Obviously as it's a free service the website makers need to make money so they always have annoying pop-ups and lots of adverts. I can deal with that, I know not to download anything or install anything from these dodgy websites as I'm fairly internet savvy. The downloads I get from the site are either an audio or video file, never a zip or .exe file that could contain harmful malware. Today google chrome has started treating that site differently. I can still use the site as normal but just as I get to the download file point (whi…
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PSN Connectivity Issues
by Jaggy- 1 follower
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Is anyone else having issues staying logged into PSN ever since Friday? This afternoon was the first time I tried logging in under my name on PS3. It worked and I was able to play GTA Online for about 20 minutes. I got signed out of PSN, but was also getting the "Saving Failed" message from Rockstar while parachuting. On Saturday & Sunday, Torrid was having all sorts of issues staying connected to PSN. I think he said he got signed out every 5-10 minutes from PSN. We've never had these issues before and they only started happening since "maintenance" on Friday night. I'm kind of at a loss and not sure if it's just our PS3 having these issues or if others …
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Thrustmaster T500/T300RS Racing Wheels
by DavidCore89- 1 follower
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Today I sold my trusted Logitech G27 as it's not supported on PS4, Logitech have also stopped making and supporting racing wheels. For a long time this wheel was the benchmark and almost nothing could rival it on PS3, but now I'm looking at Thrustmaster as their wheels seem very good and the high end products have interchangeable parts and upgrades. So, I'm really looking to buy a new racing wheel set before the upcoming release of F1 2015 and Project CARS and naturally I look at the top of the range . Does anyone have the Thrustmaster T500RS Racing Wheel? http://www.thrustmaster.com/products/t500rs. If you do have it or have used it, what are you opinions of…
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PS4 Default headset - Any Good?
by Nazrill- 1 follower
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Afternoon guys n gals! So the good news is I finally have a PS4 Bad news is that I'm still waiting for Amazon to get my copy of GTAV across to me so just a quick question in the interim. There's a 'default' headset which comes with the PS4 (well, an ear bud with a mic built into the line) Whats everyone's experience of this like? Will it do the job or should I look at spending the extra on a new one? (I'd like to avoid this if poss, but if has to be done then so be it) Thanks & see you all in LS soon Nazrill
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Broken PS3
by Lann- 3 followers
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So I have had a fat ps3 since they came out, and many years ago i put a 500GB in it. Everything has been working fine until recent. First the cd/dvd reader died last year, solved it by buying and downloading digital gta Now it will just give me a blinking red light when i try and turn it on. Took it apart removed all dust, still same problem. Now, my real concern is all the family video and pics that I still have on there (yea. i know, backup eh). Does anyone have had a similar issue, or even a solution to this problem? I have been told that a disc cant be moved to a new system (Fat or slim) without formating. Thanks for even reading this far! /La…
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PS3 Youtube App
by PapOiteE- 0 replies
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Hello everyone I have a little question about this app. Does it support 60 fps videos?
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PS Vita?
by JustHatched- 15 replies
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I was just curious who has one, how often do you play it? I do have one and it is an amazing little handheld. I don't game on it often, issues with my right hand prevents me from hanging on to it for very long. But I do use it quite a bit for music unlimited and skyping with my daughter.
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Spotify for Playstation
by Squirrel- 1 follower
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http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/30/8303279/spotify-sony-ps4-ps3-launch Spotify comes to the Sony consoles. For PS3 this is just a separate app to be used but on PS4 it can be used in the background so can listen to music while gaming. Goodbye car radio!
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PS4 Software 2.50
by rofur- 1 follower
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So a new software update comes tomorrow with some interesting new features. Here's the Playstation blog post with details: http://bit.ly/1Iue1ek Looks like we'll have the ability to join friends directly from the What's New tab on the XMB. Could come in handy.
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PS4 deal at U.S. GameStops
by SeymorScagneti- 1 follower
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Get $175 credit when you trade in a 120+ GB PS3 or 250+ GB Xbox360 towards a PS4. http://www.gamestop.com/weeklyad
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Now it's been a while since some of you moved from the PS3 to the PS4 I'm interested to hear what your views are on whether you still think it was a good move and why, and if anything, what you miss about the PS3 (although I know some of you have done what I'll do and keep the PS3....in my case it'd probably live the rest of it's life as my Son's Minecraft machine). My reasons for not moving just yet is I only play a very very small number of games (mainly GTA V) and would probably just end up buying and playing the same games, so whilst there are still some great Crew members on PS3 I'm not sure I'd notice that much of a difference.... although I do miss playing with…
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Playstation TV
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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http://www.playstation.com/en-us/explore/playstationtv/ I was in Walmart today and I seen this, didn't know what it was till I googled it. Anybody have it? How does it work?
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Fragfx shark
by iriekine- 2 replies
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I'm old school. The mouse/keyboard combo is my wheelhouse. The sixaxis PS3 controller always seems to be a struggle (obviously!). This Splitfish fragfx shark is intriguing but kinda spendy. Thoughts? Anyone used one of these, or something like it?
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No mic? Tesco got you covered for £4.
by Shinsou12- 1 follower
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Seriously. That's ridiculous. £4 online for a mono wired. It's going to be utter crap but it will allow for comms for the budget conscious buyer. http://www.tesco.com/direct/gaming/other-acessories/cat29730027.cat
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[For Sale] Capture Card
by JustHatched- 0 replies
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I am selling my capture card if anyone is interested. Soon (not real soon) I will be parting with my PS3 and I am no longer in need of this device, rather than have it sit around I will make a deal with a crew member What is it? Elgato Game Capture HD https://www.elgato.com/en/gaming/gamecapture-hd It will record PS3, PS4, XB360, and XB1 game play, you can use it to live stream from a PS3 (and the others) as well. I have not used it much, and the reason is that while it is and HD capture card, some deal with Sony (legal shit) the PS3 can not be hitch to it using and HDMI cable, you have to use the supplied AV cable (graphic are effected). (there is a software update…
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Gaming Glasses
by markt112- 1 follower
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Was just wondering if anyone has any gaming glasses and if they are any good? I can barely manage an hours worth of gaming now without my eyes becoming strained and headaches. Can anyone recommend which are the best to get? Was looking at a pair of Gunnars for around £150 - not sure if these are any good? Thanks
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Joomla website help
by ScottyB- 9 replies
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Hey Guys, I have a very basic website for my business and was wanting to know if anyone knows a good free plug in that i can use to display pictures. I dont have any coding experience but would be able to slightly edit stuff if needed (through the help of google) but would rather not. It will be a portfolio of current work and i would like a layout to have a main picture that you click on and then it will go into the other pictures for that job. If any one can point me in the right direction i would be very grateful. Thanks in advance!
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PS4 Controller Stick Condoms
by ronin- 1 follower
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As you can see in the pic below, the left controller stick cap of my PS4 controller, the rubbery thing, is already worn out completely and it is getting worse by the day, though I only have it for not even 4 months and I don't bite it nor do I have a dog ... Was thinking about replacing it or put a little cover on top of it. I heard it mention in one of the PL's so I was wondering if anyone had any advise on what was the best solution. I did google a bit and noticed there are two methods: replace the cap or put a 'condom' on top of it. Are these PS4 standard caps that you put on top of he existing ones any good or am I better off replacing the whole rubber?
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Ps4 problem
by grjkie- 1 follower
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Hey guys, since you all probably have the ps4 system for longer than I've had mine I'm posting my issues to see if any of you have already had similar problems. I've had my system for a couple of months now and this morning when I turned it on it wouldn't respond. I would hear one beep but no lights or anything else. Unplugged everything, it booted. Just to turn itself off a couple of minutes later. Googled a bit, unplugged everything again and booted in safe mode. There was a system update, did that, played gta for about 2 hours and the issue reappeared. Now it only beeps, no lights or anything... Faulty unit perhaps? It sucks to have a new system die on me like this, n…
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Playstation App/Sending messages over PSN 1 2
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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I didn't know this existed until yesterday and I assume they they something for the iOS stuff Anyway if you do not have it you should get it. Best thing IMO to use it for, if you do not have a Vita or PS4 then thru this app you can have more than 100 friends on your list. I always used my Vita to accept new requests, but now can do it from my phone as well. You can also send PSN messages, shop the PSN store and link to your PS4 from it as well. Check it out, it's free so why not. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.scee.psxandroid&hl=en
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Broadband Help
by markt112- 1 follower
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We are switching over to BT infinity tomorrow. Ive noticed on the setup instructions it says to connect to the master socket. Does anyone know if this really matters? I also haven't got a clue which socket in our house is the master socket - a friend told me you can tell by the face plate but a while ago we changed all the face plates to brass so all 6 look exactly the same. If it does matter about the master socket is it easy to move? Cheers
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Party Chat
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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Just curious what you think the pros and cons are of using, I see many crew members do use it, even when in a crew playlist so I am wondering what is better than being in game chat?
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Play with any controller
by Smurf- 1 follower
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So I ran across this little innovative USB device recently called 'CronusMAX' an as my title states play with any controller I would emplore you to check it out on your own because I am not sure if Its allowable be pasting links in here but I am sure I will probably be getting one in the near future. Leave comments below of how you think it would help you and or what features stand out.
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Guys, make sure you use your one-time 10% discount in the Playstation Store this weekend. We are getting a 10% discount and a five day extension to our PS+ membership from the downtime at Christmas. Here's a link to the article with the discount code and what's included: Discount Code
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Microsoft HoloLens
by SeymorScagneti- 4 replies
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234Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
What I Watched This Week #172 (Apr 14-20) Alien dir. Ridley Scott/1979/1h57m One of the greatest sci-fi horror films of all time, Ridley Scott's Alien stars Sigourney Weaver as a member of a deep space mining crew who takes a detour to an SOS message on the long journey back to Earth, finding a crashed ship full of eggs. My favourite thing about this film after seeing it so many times is how worn and lived in the ship is. I totally believe that it's real and functional and that this crew has spent months living in it. The opening sequence where we explore the empty ship while the crew is in cryosleep not only builds tension but allows us to take in the incredible details in the production design. Speaking of design, H.R. Giger's design for the xenomorph is the best in movie history (though the lil guy who bursts out of John Hurt's chest is kinda cute and goofy looking). The aggressively ph*llic look of it works well with the very male perspective fear of r*pe and childbirth. The whole cast is excellent, alongside Weaver and Hurt you have Ian Holm, Harry Dean Stanton and Yaphet Kotto, the latter two making a great comedic double team. 9.5/10 Lime's Film of the Week! Now You See Me dir. Louis Leterrier/2013/1h56m Now You See Me tells the story of a group of Las Vegas magicians known as the Four Horsemen (Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco) who rob banks live during their show, distributing the money to their audience. They are being tracked by Mark Ruffalo's FBI agent Rhodes who is determined to uncover their secrets. Totally forgettable fluff, there are some nice moments in here, and I liked the twist at the end even though you can see it coming a mile away. The big trick showpieces are entertaining in that artificial Vegas way that also feels hollow and meaningless. My biggest gripe here is with the four main characters and that I didn't like any of them. Like real magicians I found them to be annoying and so far up their own *sses that I was actively rooting against them every step of the way. The exception is Harrelson, though he comes close at times. There's solid support from Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman, with Ruffalo giving the best performance in the film. This is the definition of inoffensive cinematic background noise. 5/10 Cinderella dir. Georges Méliès/1899/6m Georges Méliès here with some more ground breaking work from the dawn of cinema. Not only is this the first film adaptation of Cinderella, it's also the first film adaptation of any fairy tale and also the first film to use dissolves to transition between scenes (with this being his first film with more than one scene). Watching this is to watch the evolution of film in real time, and, like the rest of his work, it's nothing less than magical. This is Méliès becoming more innovative and inventive with his films becoming more complex and technically demanding. The sets and costumes are beautifully detailed and like illustrations come to life. It's amazing to me that a film from the 19th century can still be so magical. 8/10 How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies dir. Pat Boonnitipat/2024/2h7m This family drama/comedy from Thailand stars Putthipong Assaratanakul as M, a lazy young man who has dropped out of college to try and start a streaming career ("wow four viewers" his mother chides early on). When he learns that his grandmother (Usha Seamkhum) has cancer he thinks that he can weasel his way to the top of her will by moving in with her to care for her. A tender and gentle film that also surprises with some pretty dark humour, I found this to be incredibly charming with two excellent lead performances from Assaratanakul and Seamkhum. Seamkhum is particularly impressive in her late in life film debut as the wily old woman who sees through all the bullsh*t from her grandson, but also sees something of herself in him. The plot is fairly predictable - of course the two will grow closer to each other and form a real bond by the time she dies - but the journey to that point, and the touching epilogue, I really enjoyed. There's a lot of family drama with the grandmother's children but it always feels close to reality and not emotionally manipulative or overly melodramatic at any point. 9/10 Shock Treatment dir. Jim Sharman/1981/1h34m Shock Treatment is a sequel to one of my all time favourite films, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and picks up with Brad and Janet (now played by Cliff DeYoung and Jessica Harper) a few years later with their marriage now on the rocks. To rectify this they appear on a TV show with the result being Brad getting committed to a psychiatric hospital run by Dr. Cosmo McKinley (Richard O'Brien) and Janet getting groomed for superstardom. This is perhaps even more bizarre than Rocky Horror, certainly more cynical, with the world now seeming to exists as a series of TV shows, a live studio audience never leaving, sleeping in their seats as the film happens on screens all around them. It's a strange dystopia that seems to predict the dominance TV would have over our lives to an even greater extent in the era of commercialism and Reganomics. If there's not a camera on you then you don't exist, like the antithesis of Rocky Horror's theme of "don't dream it, be it". Many of the Rocky Horror cast returns with the exception of Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick as Janet and Brad (though DeYoung and especially Harper do an excellent job in the roles) and most notably Tim Curry. I kept imagining him in the role played by Barry Humphries (most famous for playing Dame Edna Everage), a garishly sleazy host called Bert Schnick. Humphries is great, but we all know Curry would have been better. Another slight let down for me is the soundtrack. As a musical this doesn't really compare with Rocky Horror, though there are some catchy tunes in there, the main theme still popping into my head occasionally. 9/10 #21xoxo dir. Sine Ozbilge, Imge Ozbilge/2019/9m This animated short from Belgium shows a girl (Indra de Bruyn) and her experiences with online dating, hooking up with several men before finding a genuine connection. The most striking thing about this film are the visuals, with the film being rotoscoped, a process where live action footage is traced over by animators giving it natural movement, a process used by Disney for Snow White back in 1937. Here it's given a thoroughly modern makeover, with the screen bombarded with text and images and memes representing the experience of being chronically online. The aesthetic also calls to mind pop art of the 60's, showing that the digital world may be new but the problems of finding a partner are anything but. It's at times overwhelming, purposefully so, but there's still a cohesion between all these elements. The ending is a bit on the nose but it's well done, wrapping the whole thing up maybe a bit too neatly. 7/10 Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves dir. Chintis Lundgren, Drasko Ivezic/2019/18m Another animated short, this time from Estonia, this tells the story of Toomas (Drasko Ivezic), a wolf who is fired after turning down his boss's advances. With a wife and children to support he turns to prostitution and then gay p*rn. Meanwhile, his wife Viivi (Chintis Lundgren) is learning some things about herself thanks to militant feminist Alexandra Horn-Eye (Lee Delong). This reminded me a lot of Bug Diner, another charming and cheeky animation about sexuality and relationships starring anthropomorphic animals. That was stop motion while this is animated in a simple yet effective style, the linework wobbling between frames like Doug, the 90's cartoon. Like Bug Diner, this is also a very mature film with more human characters than a lot of live action films that tackle the same subjects. 8.5/10 No Home But Cinema: The Spaces of Chantal Akerman dir. Jessica McGoff/2025/14m (no trailer for this, so here's one for a similar film) This short essay film explores the films of Chantal Akerman through her use of space and locations, how she films them, how she moves through them and what they represent. McGoff doesn't narrate this film, rather her essay is presented as text on the screen over clips from films that illustrate her points. I like this approach and how it's executed. The text isn't presented in blocks but line by line and is edited with the rhythm of the film clips so that they're unobtrusive and allow you to fully immerse in the various worlds of Akerman. This doesn't go too in depth with any of her observations as they are things you will pick up on by just watching the films, but it would work as a good introduction to her and what to look out for in her work. 7/10 Hotel Monterey dir. Chantal Akerman/1973/1h3m (no trailer so have an extended clip) Staying with Chantal Akerman, Hotel Monterey is an observational documentary in which she explores the titular hotel, a cheap one in New York where she stayed when she first moved to the city, from the lobby to the roof. It starts off at night where her camera captures people milling about in the lobby, taking the elevators up and down. She then prowls the corridors like a ghost, her very formally structured compositions bringing out the textures of the grimy yellow walls. Methodically we move upwards until we are on the roof, it is day now, and the feeling of escape is palpable. We do this all in silence, and I mean total silence. No music, no background noise, nothing. Not only does this make us even more aware of what we're seeing on screen, but it also makes us aware of our own environment. An exploration of space is happening on the screen and in real life at the same time and it's kind of amazing once you notice that. It's like Akerman speaking out of time saying here I am, where are you? This also feels like a prelude to her masterful film News From Home, in which she takes the same approach but expands it to the whole city, though this time with sound. This totally isn't for everyone, it's not even close to what you'd call entertaining, but if you give it a chance you'll get so much out of it. 8.5/10- 1
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234Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
Local Hero (1983) dir Bill Forsyth A great early 80s British light comedy drama. Peter Reigert (who I have never seen in anything else) plays Mac, a lawyer / accountant / fixer working for Texas based Happer oil. The CEO, Mr Happer (Burt Lancaster), sends Mac to oversee the purchase of an entire Scottish fishing village that they want to demolish to build a new oil terminal. Mac expects at least some of the villagers, led by their lawyer / accountant / hotel manager Gordon Urquart (Denis Lawson - Wedge from Star Wars), to put up somewhat of a fight. But they are not quite the simple folk he expects. They already know what is going on and Urquart intends to squeeze as much cash as possible from the big oil company. It also co-stars a young Peter Capaldi, almost unrecognisable at times, as Oldsen, a Scottish Happer Oil employee assigned to help Mac and Jenny Seagrove as marine biologist Marina, working for them in what she knows is really just a job to generate good PR in case of environmental problems. Marina has slightly webbed feet, making her seem a bit like a mermaid as she swims, which her job requires a lot of. This is possibly a nod to the Jerry Anderson puppet show Stingray that had a mermaid called Marina. (And maybe having watched Team America last week this is what subconsciously made me decide to watch this film that I have seen many times before). It also features a host of other faces, mainly Scottish actors, familiar to anyone who has watched a lot of British TV over the years, like me. But sometimes it takes a while to recognise them, because this was made over 40 years ago. One of the non-Scots is Christopher Rozycki, who is great as the captain of a Soviet fishing trawler that makes frequent visits to the village. He quite clearly is not a believer in the political ideology of his homeland. He has a great line I wish I could remember word for word, but at one point he says to Mac something like “Don't look so worried. You are doing a great thing here. You are making people very rich!”. It is a beautifully made film, technically very, very good. It's set mainly in the village, but starts in Houston and switches back there a couple of times and has some stunning scenes of the Scottish countryside and coast. There's no great tension to the story, no massive plot twists. It's quite a gentle tale of Mac falling in love with the village he has basically come to destroy, but the locals just wanting the money. Forsyth got a well deserved BAFTA for the direction and a nomination for the original script. It also got a number of other worthy nominations including Chris Menges' cinematography and Mark Knopfler's modern score that includes the iconic “Going home” guitar – saxophone instrumental that accompanies the end credits. The only acting one was for Lancaster but the rest of the cast are very good, even down to some quite minor roles. I do have to pick it up on a couple of factual issues. The village is shown on a map in North West Scotland, but the oil is (was) all on the east, in the North Sea between Scotland and Norway. And I know, from a friend who used to live there and remembers the filming, it was mainly filmed on location in various villages on the east coast. The other thing might have been a deliberate joke at the expense of Hollywood. This is when Marina is showing Oldsen a colony of what are described as grey seals, but what we see on screen are quite clearly sea-lions, the sort you might well see in California but certainly not Scotland! Those don't really detract from the overall film though which is one of my all time favourites. 10 / 10- 2
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