Haven't been on here in ages.  Newest toy for the collection

'ken oath mate, honestly they took a few eps to grow on me but they have reignited my love of documentaries which i used to watch a lot of.

Its been a fantastic run guys, i don't post often but i've been listening since the beginning of DIF and you guys will be missed.

Hopefully the forum stays active as it will be good to stay in touch/up to date with what people are doing as i don't use social media much but i do stop by and check the forum.

Good luck and thanks everyone 

was fun to be in the chat for (i even posted once or twice which is somewhat unusual for me).  sorry i had to bail at the start of deathly hallows though, works a bitch

that was horrifying...   

The kids getting a motorbike for his 1st birthday, old school 2 stroke smoker to save him from the evils of hybrids

Seriously need to get a decent mic 

So what would be a suitable mic to use?  I might be able to help out with occa Aussie if needed as Dave seems to have gone awol from this thread...

Might have to head over for the premier thingy once we get the dates etc. should be a good excuse to make an arse of myself in yet another country

As a skydiver, yep the falling scene was fun to watch. not remotely feasable but well captured (good luck talking to anyone in freefall and i won't bother asking how the "i'll electrify your arm so you cant let go" bit worked).  again its the fact it has good moments that make me more dissapointed with the overall film.  i dont expect any type of reality from an iron man film but i do want some level of consistency with the two other films and the avengers since its mentioned constantly throuought IM3. we have had previously a fight between iron man and Thor which was hard fought though Thor clearly had the upper hand being a literal god and all. now we have Guy Pearce (go aussie) and his minions who can shred the iron man suit with no effort which is something the god of thunder wasn't able to do and why, because they are hot??. If it was a stand alone film no problem but it's not, it has 3 films worth of hstory behind it and contradicts a hell of a lot of what came before it.

Tony having the panic attacs because of the new york thing was a nice touch but nothing comes of it, it allows him to have a moment with an inconsequential character (the kid) who tells him to build something then he's fine the rest of the film. I dont care about the random kid he meets, he does nothing to progress the story, neither does ben kingsly but at least the argument there can be made that he's the macguffin of the film.

trying to write coherantly isn't my strong point, hence why i dont post much on here or any forum.  there is too much to list for me but i didnt get out of the cinema before it annoyed me. there are characters who are introduced to give a funny slap stick punch line and go nowhere, a kid missing his dad to give it some emotional grounding as there isnt any really in the main story who does nothing other thanhelp out by escaping from a situation that was only causedy him being there,, it feels like a contrivance as the whole plot serves no puropose oter than an excuse for a feel good clip in the afformentioned everything's fine montage at the end.
The main protagonist and his minions are able to tear dozens of iron man suits apart with their bare hands and survive explosions and occasionally being blown up and regrowing half their heads (depending on whats needed sometimes they survive a 3000 degree explosion and others dies when a sparky microwave ignites a bit of gas after walking through an inferno) not to mention suddenly Guy can breath fire for one scene that never comes back. All this and suddenly super fire ninja pepper kicks his ass and wins.

Im not great at articulating why i really, dislike this film, its disjointed, setups arent paid off some payoffs have no setup and never occur again, suddenly tony has an army of ai iron man suits that are all fully functioning when tony jumps into them and fully autonomus as well as seemingly made of aluminium foil (bad guys tear them apart with their bare hands cause they're hot i guess) and the kit even breaks off a finger from one of the suits...

rant over, there is plenty more that i dont like but as mentioned man times on theis site your milage may vary, did not work for me at all and the fact it had glimmers of great lines or the odd entertaining scene made the fact it was so bad much worse.  im done, bloody hate typing but have soo many more prblems with this film.....

this is why i lurk rather than post, I'm keeping this for your next birthday party...