Ben X

I got Obama, but I was clicking 'No Opinion' for a lot of it, not understanding a load of American systems, eg health care.

Is there an established internet slang term for something that everyone's seen? Like, say, if I posted a thread saying "Hey, look at this 'Zero Punctuation' thing", or whatever. If not, can we come up with one, please?

Well, OFN is closest to what I was looking for, although I was hoping someone had come up with an amazing pun term. Thanks, Thumbs!

Re. the original question: Although most sites don't include the track 'Angel' in the credits, wikipedia lists it as an uncredited track, and this site says: I'm still of the opinion that it's so close, it must be a licensed non-vocal version.

Digg it, everyone! That's me playing park-zombie/bad Bruce Campbell impersonator. I haven't seen it myself yet due to Flash issues, but I expect I look like a smug cheese advert child for most of it, for which I apologise. Dan (he made the film) is a big fan of both World War Z and that 50 000 Volts special...

Obviously, he owned bombs and stuff as well, but those details haven't been released. Either that or he was arrested on a hunch and they're making it sound as if there's lots of great evidence they can't talk about. They'll be shooting people for wearing rucksacks next.

...up at avclub, which made me actually respect him a little, although he's probably talking complete rubbish. Is avclub one of those sites that everyone reads and doesn't need to be linked to? I agree with every one of their reviews, and I love 'commentary tracks of the damned' and the 'savage love' advice column.

Two parties on Saturday, very fun, up 'til 3am. After 2 hours sleep, get up to scout a location for the tv show I'm working on. Specifically, for a sketch pastiching 28 Days Later, so I was alone on Westminster Bridge with a camera at 6am Sunday morning. Got a couple more hours sleep, then watched Shoot 'Em Up (good fun, but not John Woo) and DeathProof (the full-length European cut, amazing). Went home, watched Face/Off, fell asleep.

Bummer. From the adverts, I figured it was either a really canny realignment of the series to fit the Wii audience... or a shameless rip-off of Animal Crossing. I suspected the latter.

Games TM is an awful mag anyway. It's a clumsily written, badly edited Edge-wannabe.

Good stuff! Glad you retained the classic icon. Any chance Josh Roberts is going to continue his Adventure Architect column? Hope his game hasn't folded...

It's DJ Shadow, according to Peter. Any thoughts on the trailer? A lot of people have been unimpressed by it, possibly because it doesn't bring the funny. It's supposed to give a general vibe more than that...

I'd like to recommend that everyone in the UK check out the trailer for, and look forward to, The Peter Serafinowicz Show. I worked on it, and it's shaping up to be brilliant.

So, assuming this is true (or do we now know it to be true?), is it a good thing? Are we excited? Is one-man-show Jack Black just the guy to usher in a new era of film star video games? Or is Schafer going to lose his Midas touch?

Red Riding Hood sounds hot, too. Bit old though.

Teen Wolf would kick Ruxpin's ass.

I care about Teen Wolf.

A word of warning: don't expect it to be too similar to Shaun Of The Dead. The humour's a lot broader. It's definitely worth watching, but I personally prefered Shaun.

And I'll stick to reading Frank Miller's Robocop Vs Terminator comicbook miniseries.

Sin City (2005) SHIT Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) SHIT Spy Kids (2001) SHIT The Faculty (1998) SHIT From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) CLASSIC Desperado (1995) GREAT Mariachi, El (1992) V GOOD

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So, when's the next podcast scheduled, then?

It's ATROCIOUS. Even my New-Dr-Who-fan housemate thought it was terrible. You thought Kevin Costner was anachronistic as Robin? Wait 'til you see this hairgelled loverboy poncing about amongst the leaves. The whole thing is boring, unfunny, badly directed and flabby. Meanwhile... Smokin' Aces: Fun middle section where all the characters come together, but ends abruptly in a mess of unnecessary plot twists and loose ends. Night At The Museum: Shit, obviously. Bobby: Professional but dull. Lots of people do stuff, then Bobby's shot. End. The Fountain: Amazing imagery, performances, soundtrack as usual from Aronofsky, but very 2001 in its unfulfilled promise of story resolution. Probably needs a couple of rewatches to appreciate. Blood Diamond: Powerful, but jarring mix between message movie and action thriller. How many times can these three characters dodge bullets?! DiCaprio good but accent strained, Hounsou powerful, and Connelly believable and back on the boil. Sorry if these have all been out forever in America!

Being an internet idiot, I have no idea why they would do this. Who's going to accidentally type in benchguys.net when looking for idlethumbs.net? And what would they possibly do with someone's idlethumbs forum password? To quote Tom Hanks in Big: I don't get it!

I actually assumed they'd licensed 'Angel' and taken the vocals out. Massive Attack must live off the royalties of that song, it's used everywhere!