In the UK’s defence it doesn’t have the luxury of simply ordering change to happen.
China: Oh so your house stand in way of glorious five year plan for bullet train connection of country. Fuck you! You no have house anymore!
UK: I’m awfully sorry but would it be possible to draft plans for possibly building a new railway line made up fifteen year old technology to potentially maybe come fifteen miles close to your house? What’s that? Oh I do beg your pardon, no I don’t want to challenge this in the ECHR. I do apologise. Please allow me to buy you a cup of tea.
That being said, the UK sucks balls at planning and building and I don’t think this will now ever improve. We’ve hit peak UK about twenty years ago in that regard 🥹.
It’s the building part that is key. The UK wouldn’t have past the planning stage to get to the part where they build around NIMBYs. And yeah, the hey day of UK infrastructure has past us sadly. The last good thing we did was the Olympics. Ten years ago, in the South in the country.
Presumably you’re implying that we should cut military spending? Given what’s actually happening in the world, a prospective Trump presidency and what that means for NATO, what is the alternative you are suggesting?
Kind of in response to an earlier post in here about trailers that spoil everything, I think it is easier nowadays to count how many didn’t spoil everything.
Oh yeah, I got you. I remember the trailer quite vividly - I used to listen to Duel Of Fates on Winamp (remember that?) with the visualer effect!
But I don’t think it was a mistake at all. It got you excited for the movie because you knew there was a kick ass lightsaber fight in the movie - which there was.
Anyways each to their own. We can at least agree the movie did not live up to the hype of the trailer.
Without wanting to start another SW flame war, I actually think the prequels (as bad as they were) are better than the new age Disney sequels for one massive reason. They were original movies, with original stories, and original characters (ok interpretations of characters 😜). They were at least creative. The new movies, to me, are rehashed committee designed waffle. As wonderful as the cinematography is in them, I am deeply disappointed as to why they didn’t simple film Timothy Zahn’s Heir To Thr Empire and Kevin J Anderson’s Jedi Academy. They could have done that as a trilogy slightly condensed.
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What are actual good movie trailers that get you hooked without spoiling everything?
Kind of in response to an earlier post in here about trailers that spoil everything, I think it is easier nowadays to count how many didn’t spoil everything.