Hot Heart

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2000-07-16/

The government built those crossings with taxpayers' money, Dean. IT'S AN ENCROACHMENT.

Yeah, I guess the horseback aiming was alright once you got used to it, and could make for some satisfying gunfights against other dudes. ...but fucking cougars, man. And goddamn bears. ALL THOSE SPAWNING BEARS.

I never liked the aiming in RDR. Auto-lock made it too easy, while manual was a lot of hassle on horseback. The Dead Eye thing was compensation enough, though I didn't like to rely on it as much as the game allowed. Funnily enough, I quite liked it in GTA IV. Probably because your health didn't regenerate, so you always had to be a bit careful anyway.

Lately, I got a few from here: http://www.rjwattenhofer.com/free-hollywood-screenplay-library.htm Other times I just search for ones I feel like reading...and hope they're out there.

Been reading A Game of Thrones and it has been a pleasant experience so far. I rather like the prose, and it doesn't overcomplicate things (though it seems a smidgen clunky in parts), but I think watching S1 of the show helped get into it somewhat. Though I have been reading it on and off because I'm liking my Kindle, and its ability to display PDFs, so much that I find myself drawn to screenplays/scripts as well. Finished Munich, which I hadn't watched in ages and remember liking more than I did the script, and have been working through Chinatown...because it's fucking Chinatown, man. I did read The Big Sleep screenplay but it was an older inferior draft which also left me a little confused while reading (because I was expecting a scene that never appeared and then the finale was so sudden). I'll probably buy the Chandler collection available because the individual Kindle editions are a rip-off and I kinda want to see how the original novel ended...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4-C-qHpb34

You people have no ambition!

Two chicks. At the same time.

http://youtu.be/E3kgjzUsDeg Just because...

http://youtu.be/tV1JDW43kUE

When I first saw Damian Lewis in Band of Brothers, I didn't know he was English but then I was younger and stupider, and I never would've thought big American TV productions would be using British actors in leading roles.

A big part of it may be that I was used to seeing him playing posh twits, so hearing him really enunciate those Rs in that lower tone was weird. Off the top of my head, I can't actually think of a successful British accent by a foreigner. I'm sure it's been done, probably many times, but only all the failed ones stick in the memory. EDIT: Though I can't blame some Americans since they had Jane Leeves, an actual British person, and that godawful 'Mancunian' accent for eleven years.

Couldn't find the original on YouTube, but this is close enough anyway.

Thanks for that. I always thought Huge Laurie's accent sounded a bit exaggerated (then again, that's his voice) but there we go... Oh, by the way, Lee Adama is the character's name (but I think everyone knows him as Apollo, like they do Starbuck?). The actor is Jamie Bamber.

Funny thing is, I knew something was up with Dominic West's accent (at one point, I think his character gets angry and completely slips into a slightly posh-sounding British one) on The Wire, but I never suspected Idris Elba was a dude from Hackney.

On the subject of accents though, I've always wondered how Americans saw certain actors doing theirs. Like Hugh Laurie in House, or Dominic West and Idris Elba in The Wire, Yvonne Strahovski in Chuck. I seem to recall people weren't aware Lee Adama/Apollo in Battlestar Galactica was played by an English actor. I'm sure there are even regional differences that audiences might pick up on. I know Roz in Frasier was supposed to be from Wisconsin but her accent always had that southern sound (most likely Texan) to me. Though I have to admit, I'm not sure what a Wisconsin accent would sound like.

I could've sworn we'd gone over this before...

Touch Of Evil for £3? Yes, please!

Simple answer: no.

Also not a film, but so terrible I had to share.

http://www.edge-online.com/reviews/max-payne-3-review