To be fair, there's an episode in a couple of weeks called 'The Door' that suggests they won't be leaving the thread hanging too comically long.

I don't remember him actually budging it? I thought they made a big point/visual gag of the massive Hulk being unable to shift the hammer.

Well there's no need to be like that.

COBRA stands for Cabinet Office Briefing Room A, and it's the actual crisis response unit for the British government. Yes, it does but something like HYDRA or whatever in mind, but it's simply a real and boring thing with no sinister implications.

I think the three-part character arc we've had that started in 'Moon' would've been much more effective played out over a few more weeks. Have the big explosion in Moon, then an episode with real impactful fallout, then the reconciliation in Mummy, then another episode where they find their feet before bringing to a…

The songs I've heard on UK radio just sound like the two of them tunelessly yelling at each other over a fairly-ok backup ensemble competently playing jazz and show tunes.

The 90s were hardly a flattering time for anyone, looking back.

I would have been six when Monsters Inc came out and I distinctly remember leaving the cinema and just bawling my eyes out in pure joy at that last scene. I've been moved more deeply by other films since then, but nothing has instigated a reaction quite so extreme as that. And it still gets me every time I watch it.

WHY

This is a well-written and interesting review. That said, I dispute it entirely. I loved this film so much.

'Santa' is still kind of an Americanism for us - I try to make a point of saying 'Father Christmas' - but a lot of our Christmas-related culture has come from America for so long that 'Santa' and 'Father Christmas' are kind of interchangeable to us. In fact, people probably say Santa more just because it's less talky.

I think the film was in production before Sievey's death and he had some kind of hand in the scriptwriting process?
Not sure where I heard that or if it is correct, but I don't think it was initially intended to be made about a dead performer, rather a weird off-shoot of the work of a living one, who then died before…

Way I remember the film (and it came out months ago in the UK, so it's been a while), he became a priest after his wife had died and then took his vow of celibacy/chastity.

And Arya. In fact, of the four 'young' Stark children, little Rickon is the only child actor who does a remotely Northern accent. I'm guessing the others are just down to the fact that a lot of English child actors are well-spoken and privately educated or had performance-oriented schooling and the kids playing Sansa,…

Just read over my own comment and realised it may have seemed snarkier or more patronising than I intended, so I'm sorry friend!
But yeah, Sean Bean certainly overestimates his ability to change his accent for different parts. He tends to just ramp up or decrease how northern he sounds without really getting rid of it.

Wow. Well, as a native of the same region as Beany I'd say that he's blissfully unaware how prominent his accent is in nearly everything he does. There's very little I've seen him in where he totally represses or changes it, he's usually got a very strong northern edge to his accent whether it's intentional or not.

Deary me, you know nuthin' Clueless Neophyte. It's pretty rare for Sean Bean to do anything without his Yorkshire accent. Usually he just softens it a little, like as Boromir in LOTR where it's quite subtle but definitely still there.

Ygritte's accent is definitely not Scottish. It's Northern English. Yorkshire (where I'm from) or somewhere nearby like Lancashire. The Northerners' and Wildlings' accents in GoT are based off Sean Bean's natural Sheffield accent, which he uses in damn near everything he's in.

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