originally i’m from just along the road from the Loch Ness Monster!
now i’m a weedgie! 
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In west wales we had 3 distinct accents within our secondary school
Inverness to Glasgow? That’s a bit of a downgrade! I lived in Dennistoun at one time where the most common language was drunkenese.
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loved Inverness in the summer time in my youth, loads of tourists from all over the world wandering about, bars full with tourists and live music playing.
when working in the bar, I always got asked the same question
(usually by Americans),
have you seen the seen the Loch Ness monster?
yip… everyday in the shower! 
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I’ve been laid up in bed ill today, so watching a few films.
Son of Kong (1933):
This was the sequel to King Kong, released just a few months after the classic original. I never knew this even existed until a couple of months ago. It’s around a third of the budget of the original and it shows. It’s 69 minutes long and the monsters only feature for around 15 minutes max. That said, it does have a sense of humour, but I can see why it was forgotten.
KPop Demon Hunters (2025):
I ended up watching this to see what the fuss was about. It’s actually a lot of fun. Essentially, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but with Korean pop singers instead of American high school misfits, with lots of musical numbers.
I was rather taken by the animation style. It’s done with 3D CGI, but it has a slightly staccato feel reminiscent of stop motion film making. It’s quite unique.
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My daughter absolutely loves this film. Apparently there is a second one due out in 2026!
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Whoa!! (Yes very late to the party) just saw the new version of Murder on the Orient Express! What a cast!!
I’ve never really got what Branagh thought he was doing with his version of Poirot, or why.
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And that moustache 
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Probably the only time in history that those two films will be watched by one person on the same day.
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Get well soon, @RedWhippet 
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Does anyone have any interest in the new Avengers? I was not really its target audience even in its peak run, but I watched most of them, and enjoyed most of those. But this reboot seems really desperate.
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A few days before I cancelled my Disney subscription, I watched Thunderbolts. It was actually decent but it only reminded me how MCU standards have slipped since the third Captain America film. I don’t have interest in that film universe anymore if I’m honest.
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I am. Sort of. I havent seen the latest trailer yet so am not sure what to expect from the next round of movies. I just hope some of them are fun.
They’ve dropped 3 trailers now (not sure if the third is “official”) and they all just say “remember those old characters, the ones that if they’re absent makes you not show up? Well, they’re back”
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Loved the Infinity saga. Most of those movies were watchable and made sense either as a standalone and as part of the whole and was fun to watch with a whole lot of jeopardy thrown in. Didn’t require too much of a shift to understand either. After Endgame there was what seemed to be fifty thousand series that you had to watch, the movies were bland and alot of the characters were no more. Massive step down and now I couldn’t tell you who’s who or where they fit in. Pity, really. Spent many enjoyable gloomy days watching and rewatching them with the family. Can only go so far, I guess.
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Trying to get you to watch the TV version, because he’s a big Suchet fan
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We have just watched Der Tiger (English: The Tank) on Amazon Prime, and if you fancy a rather intense war film which is as big on emotions as it is on explosions, this could be for you.
It involves a German Tiger Tank crew who are sent on a mission in Ukraine during 1943 to rescue a German Colonel. It has a lot of story similarities to Apocalypse Now (or, at least, Heart Of Darkness) and the ending reminded me of another Vietnam War film which I won’t name as it would give away the ending.
As far as i can tell, it is available in various dubbed and subtitled versions as well as the original German. Well worth a watch.
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Forrest Gump?
The main character’s best friend dies in his arms so he promises him he’ll move to Rostock to corner the Baltic Sea shrimping market?