Nobody said he would be able to return as if nothing happened.

He will get stick from opposition etc, but he should still be able to return to "work".

You don't think people out in the world treat you differently when you're a famous convicted rapist?

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Well, he can't REALLY return to his life as if nothing happened, considering he's been branded a rapist.

He very well might BE a rapist... But sure.

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Still an atrocious record.

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My tantrums are never far removed from my erections

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Why do you insist on pushing my buttons, Franck?

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Fucking hell.

Thank you Burnley.

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efukt

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By Shola | On 27 December 2014 - 18:32 PM

Wrong.

The correct answer is the Newsroom. The best think ever.

Get out.

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Liverpool fans deluding themselves into believing that they can magically turn Torres into a player again.

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Well, Bale is better than Reus.

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The PS3 could never play MKV files?

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By Franck | On 20 December 2014 - 11:47 AM

Out of those films only The French Connection was made before The Godfather. I don't think of it as a 70s thing, more of an old school thing, it's how someone being shot to death used to be portrayed in films in the 40s, 50s and 60s, The Godfather is a film that has one foot in the modern and the other in the traditional, especially as it was made right at the start of the 70s, and I think the dramatic deaths is an element of the traditional.

With my modern eyes I think it looks silly because for the past 30 or so years people have only died that way in films either for comedic effect or as a light-hearted homage to films of the past.

Coppola was always on the forefront. Whether it was made in 69 or 75, I can pretty much guarantee you it would've been made in the same way. Realism, grit and groundedness began breaking through in Hollywood in the late 60s. Films like Bonnie and Clyde (which has a pretty operatic, but at the same time pretty rough scene of the main characters getting slaughtered) and Easy Rider changed the way Hollywood made films.

Having a foot in the traditional has nothing to do with it being made in the early 70s, it's very much a stylistic choice.

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By Franck | On 20 December 2014 - 10:29 AM

Watched the whole Godfather trilogy over the last two days, first time in over 10 years for the first two and the first time ever for the third.

The first film is legitimately one of the very best of all time, the overly dramatic deaths typical of films from that era look silly now, more than 40 years later, but otherwise it is essentially a perfect film.

The second film is also excellent, though for me it doesn't quite reach into the greatest of all time territory of the first.

The third film is a mediocre mess, that mixes a lot of bad, like the awful plot and Sofia Coppola's non-acting with some brief glimpses of greatness, like the scene where Anthony sings for his father. Overall the music is the only thing in this film worthy of the title.

1: masterpiece
2: better masterpiece
3: doesn't exist

The overly dramatic deaths isn't really a 70s thing, as much as it is a stylistic choice from Coppola. He loved the operatic and overly dramatic.
Compare it to films like French Connection, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver from the same era. Nothing alike.

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Classy.

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Liverpool are fucking muck

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By Slashman X | On 10 December 2014 - 13:54 PM

Rodgers also rejected a director of football I believe, which is exactly what is needed these days when you have £100m to spend

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Sport/Pix/columnists/2013/6/19/1371641860380/Franco-Baldini-008.jpg

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#225339 Barclays Premier League 2014/15

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#225336 Barclays Premier League 2014/15

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Throwin' it all awaaaaaaaaaayyyy

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Waltz seems a bit uninspired casting. But he might turn out good.

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Smoking's enjoyable.

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By Carroll. | On 01 December 2014 - 11:48 AM

Does there need to be?

By bluemoon. | On 01 December 2014 - 17:17 PM

John Terry?

Well, if he'd said "I hate Chelsea" that's one thing. There are plenty of reasons for that.
"Fuck Chelsea" is simply so immediate. And I've now learnt that there indeed was a reason for it.