This community is a place created for the people of Melbourne and Victoria. We are a positive, welcoming and inclusive community. We might not agree about everything, but we always strive to stay civil and respectful.
The focus of our discussions is based around things that effect Victoria, but we are also free to discuss our local perspective on wider issues. Or head to the regular Daily Random Discussion thread to talk about anything.
Ongoing discussions, FAQs & Resources (still under construction)
Adoption Certificate for Nellie, the Daily Thread numbat (with thanks to @Catfish)
Movie Review. Kick-Ass.
Thoughts on an R rating for a movie about violence and force perpetrated and suffered by children.
In real life children can suffer all the same horrors as adults and too often do. I really do think we should put our effort in protecting children from real life violence rather than fictional violence.
And maybe fictional violence can help children understand the world around them better.
I don't like violence, doesn't mean it's good to pretend it doesn't exist.
I survived the electricity. I woulld like to thank my rubber soled shoes. I'm not sure if that's a myth but so far still kicking.
Belated Movie and TV Reviews.
**The Kingsman movies. **I like these homages to the Bond movies, the sound, the fast editing, the villains, the cold war, the cross the pond alliance, the costuming are all reminiscent of 60s Bond and the most recent Bond.
And like the Bond movies there is no blood and that bothers me. I know it's for the M rating but it bugs me. That train scene in Argylle should have been a blood bath. Literally 2 cm of blood on the floor and everything else spattered with blood guts and bone.
Also has running gags and scenes across all the movies, which is cool.
3.5 hobbits . -.5 because no blood
**Rings of Power Review by Charlie Hopkinson. **YouTube. Reminded me how much I hated the fucking Hobbits in RoP, especially Lenny Henry. And what they did to the greatest elf warriors is embarrassing, made them look like accountants.
here's Charlie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj2bn1Rvac8
4 real Hobbits.
Taken. Yes, that movie again. Having seen it a few times it's a really good exercise in seeing all the red flags/arsehole behaviour from lennie and her rich git husband that made the daughter disrespect her dad and make unwise choices.
The moral is be good parents, ay, teach respect or your kids will suffer for it.
3.5 hobbits
**The Union. **netflix. Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry
Pretty standard spyfi movie , the latest story lines in spyfi seem to of an organisation within an organisation and the old race to find files of names before the bad guys get it.
But it's really about people taking risks, pushing limits and achieving potential.
3 hobbits.
**Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. **
Loosely based on real events. Fast paced action , quite enjoyable. Nazis are bad guys.
3 hobbits
The first Kingsman movie is actually better than the comic it's based on. There was this weird period where anything Mark Millar wrote just got adapted into a comic regardless of how good it was. It's how we got Kick-ass and Wanted, remember that movie?
Since seeing Deadpool wolverine recently, fam wanted to watch all the X-Men movies. We started two weeks ago and have made it to Logan.
Haven't seen it since 2018 and remember crying at the end.
Looks like those feels are gonna come back tonight.
On the bright side we'll be watching the first Deadpool flick tomorrow so that'll alleviate the sads
