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***Nerd alert*** ZX Spectrum
by Pb76- 4 replies
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Is coming back
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PS4 Share Play
by Smurf- 9 replies
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It was said that the PS4 has a feature called Share Play for firmware version 2.0 and presumably upwards where one of two players dont have to own a game and can take control of the other persons in game character and also play co op or multiplayer games, and able to view their friends live game play with out PlayStation +. Did any of you guys tried it and what was your experience like?
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PS3 controller , big hands hack.
by kortniechan- 6 replies
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How to make a Bigger PS3 controller. So i have kinda big hands and the PS3 controller always seems to not be very comfortable in the heat of battle. I couldn't get a real good grip on it cause the handles are so small. Well i searched and searched online and there are no aftermarket controllers that offer a bigger grip. So i decided to make my own. Here are the secrets of a wizard. use at your own risk. To to make your controller bigger you need these things. 1. 2X 5 hour energy shot / or small flexible plastic bottle of same or correct size. 2. a 20" bicycle tube 3. scissors and a hacksaw preferably 4. a ps3 controller 5. a towel and some water. …
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kik crew chat
by Ninja- 2 replies
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For anyone who likes to have a group chat we can make 1 one kik, its free to download on your smartphone and it doesn't require to hand out your phone number to anyone. So download it, add: ninja070 and we'll make a groupchat! For me personally its easier to communicate because i do everything by phone And if you like please leave your ideas on this in the comments ^^
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whatsapp group chat
by Ninja- 3 replies
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I was thinking about starting a group chat on whatsapp for the people that might think it will come in handy! Its another good way to communicate with eachother, and no there will be no stalking and creepy calling because we're all mature. If you'd like to participate just send your phone number (ofcourse with the correct country code) in a pm to me and i'll add you! Ps. Jesse likes the idea aswell so don't start thinking i'm a creep
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GIF not 'Giffing' lol
by smokethisgt- 1 reply
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So my GIF avatar isn't working Any idea why?
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ipad mini, some guidance
by Lann- 1 follower
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Looking to get one for my daughter, but I have no experience with apple. There seems to be different generations and price. No need for 3g or 4G, WiFi is enough. Is there anyone who knows a bit more about the different generations?
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New ps4 problems
by ScottyB- 1 follower
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Ok, so I just went out and got a pretty good Boxing Day sale on the ps4 with 5 games. Come home, very eager to play and the stupid thing won't work.. So pissed! So what happens is I connect it all up, and I turn it on and the tv says there is no input. The blue light changes to white so is on. I have changed hdmi ports on the to, changed cables and also changed monitors. The tv is fairly new, only bought it 8months ago but it is probably a year or 2 old.. What has happened 2 times now was that the PlayStation logo would show, and then it would lose connection to the tv. I have looked up everything and nothing has fixed it.. Check if it had a bent hdmi tab and tried t…
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New Headset ......
by markt112- 3 replies
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My headset for the PS3 broke around a week ago... was only a cheap bluetooth one. Want to get something more substantial now. I'm currently playing on the PS3 but will upgrade to the PS4 eventually so I am wanting a headset which is compatible with both. Can someone please recommend one? I have no budget but I don't have a clue as to which headsets are any good?!?! The main one ive been looking at is this one on amazon --- http://www.amazon.co.uk/Turtle-Beach-Stealth-Wireless-Playstation/dp/B00KSQAACO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1419112605&sr=8-1&keywords=turtle+stealth+ps3 Thanks
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Cheap Games
by Smurf- 0 replies
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So Sears still exist, they are having a sale on games across the console platforms so make use of the opportunity to get the games you want cheap, as they are going to discontinue selling games.
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Share Factory
by JustHatched- 8 replies
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Just curious who is using Share Factory on PS4? I used it for first time today and put this together just goofing around with it
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Free games today only on PlayStation Store PS VITA - NEED FOR SPEED MOST WANTED PS3 - MIRRORS EDGE PS4 - PLANTs VS ZOMBIES GARDEN WARFARE Oh and if you don't have a PS Vita/PS4 as of yet go to the links below sign in, chose console and search for the game put in cart and make sure that you see $0.00 before finally proceed to purchasing. Remember to chose its platform meaning ( ps3, PS vita or ps4) before searching. Https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com
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Headset Question!
by KB_Ireland- 1 reply
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Hey guys, Somehow I've lost my PS4 headset and been using my iPhone one, but it buzz's like mad, any chance that the headsets from the likes of the samsung galaxy series is an good?
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ps4 sound issue
by truelife98- 3 replies
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Wondering if anyone can help i use turtle beach headphones for my ps4 optical goes in back and usb in front everything works fine however i have to unplug headphones if i want to go back to sound through the TV. On the ps3 i could leave everything plugged in and i just turned down the volume on my tv when using headphones. So my question is does anyone know of a setting on ps4 where i can do this again hate unplugging headphones every time Thanks
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PS3 issues
by Lann- 1 follower
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Anyone familiar with this issue: My ps3 (fat) do not send any picture to the tv, just black. Was working fine last night. Tried the reset thing, a second cable, second tv, still no picture. Its old, the laser gave up a few months ago, maybe this is the end. EDIT: Well, out of nowhere it started to work again. (damn glad i have the ps4 ready when it drops)
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Pulse and Pulse Elite PS4 FYI
by JustHatched- 0 replies
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Just to save anyone some frustration, If you use either of the headsets mentioned in the title with your PS3, either will work with the PS4 but it isn't just plug and play like the PS3. Long story short the only way it will work is to download the Companion App from the PS Store to your PS4 and then plug the headset into the PS4 via USB cord and download the app to the headset and it will then work like it is suppose to. If you do online research it's all wrong, most tell you to plug it into the controller like the factory supplied ear bud, you can get game sound that way thru the headset but the mic will not work, you must download to app as mentioned above.
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PLAYBOOK 4 - The PS4 Laptop http://news.yahoo.com/custom-made-ps4-laptop-cost-125600389.html http://youtu.be/f20p5BOm4P0
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Image Blur
by G37- 4 replies
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Some of you might know I recently purchased a new TV. It is a 42" SHARP 1080p LED HD TV. Huge jump up from my 4 year old 36" Toshiba LCD one. Picture quality is more than great for what I need it to do. Colors are rich and blacks are deep. It has a 120 Hz refresh rate which is noticeable in action/speed sequences. Getting used to playing on something like this is kind of like picking up a game after not playing it for a month or coming back to a game after you've been playing another solely for an extended period. To the point though. I don't exactly have the words to describe it but since we all play GTA here perhaps someone can give some insight as to what's goi…
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What is your PS3 internet connection speed 1 2
by Smurf- 1 follower
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What is your PS3 Nat type, download speed and upload speed when you go to Settings > Network Settings > Internet Connection Test on the PS3? Mines is Nat type 2, download speed 28.2, upload speed 4.1
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Macbook/TV Help
by alchemist3321- 0 replies
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I've tried so many help resources and videos with not much help, so I figured maybe I could try here. I'll just copy and paste what I put on the Apple forums: Hello, I am having an issue with an Insignia Mini DisplayPort to HDMI Adapter. The picture is working just fine, however, I am not getting any audio as it continually comes through the Macbook Pro. I have scoured the web and watched endless help videos and read many help sites and forums. The problem is I am not getting my TV on the audio output drop down list to select for audio. I only have Internal Speakers and a bluetooth speaker I set up a while back. Things of note: - The HDMI adapter does…
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New internet option
by JustHatched- 2 followers
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Most know that I live in the sticks, and it is alot of an internet dead zone for anything, the phone company doesn't even provide dial up here. SO we use a Hughesnet satellite for general web use and for the shop, we use verizon cell phones as hotspots to game off of. Neither is a good option, can't game from the satellite and the phone has a data limit that doesn't alllow much past gaming itself without paying a fortune. I found a comapny today that swears they can give us top notch service here. It's called broandbandq and the 2 plans we are looking at, A - 3G service with 6 MBPS download speed and 1 up with unlimited data cap and the speeds do not change with the amo…
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PS4 Impressions
by JustHatched- 20 replies
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This will be a simple topic of my impressions of the PS4 as I get it setup and running and figuring out the menu and what. For reference I will be using the Sniper Elite 3 game as well (was going to get the Destiny bundle but decided against a white PS4 plus Sniper was on sale) Since I am at work now the only thing I can comment on is going to get it, first thought - Good god this thing is heavy compared to the PS3.
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Best website ever.....period
by handcuff_charlie- 3 replies
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Sorry hatched, you have done a swell job here, but this website owns.
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Iphone 5s or samsung galaxy S5?
by johan- 1 follower
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First off al dont let this being into a apple vs samsung war Oke im in the position of my contract to pick a new phone but im not sure wich one to get , ill tell some pro and cons i think of the phone. Atm i have a iphone 4s Iphone 5s: nice and small can be used with 1 hand Ios is just very easy to use. Display isnt even HD (i believe), my old samsung s3 even had a hd display. not very much of a difference compared to my iphone 4s i believe Samsung S5 Full hd display better camera. larger screen less restrictions compared to ios Its alot bigger then a iphone 4s , i remember using my galaxy s3 with one hand i sometimes hitted th…
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iPhone 6, 6 Plus and iWatch 1 2
by G37- 1 follower
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Phones have been a little interest of mine for a long number of years. After watching Apple's keynote presentation on a number of releases and future plans, it got me thinking. With the release of the next iPhone and much hyped about iWatch (which is a huge gimmick IMO), will you be getting a new phone this Fall? Is this iPhone on your list? Do you intend on getting a new phone sometime down the line? Perhaps you're Android and if so, are there any devices you're looking forward to whether it's a phone or tablet? Or do you just not care? http://www.apple.com/watch/ http://www.apple.com/iphone/
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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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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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