Iāve just shaved off a weekās growth apart from a moustache and goatee (is that the right term?) - on the instruction of Mrs C_S and YoungAdult#1
Feel I need another week before I share the pure grey/whiteness of it eg as per @PhilippineSaint
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That is a distinguished look that I have 
Grey / Whiteness is for old fuckers.
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Remind me in a week - unless Iāve been made to get rid of the grandad perv look 
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I do have a āpap originalā about the phenomenon of grey hair.
āDyeing is lying, but why have hair for the bingo when youāve got a face for the discoā.
Donāt use it much these days. Face for the Bingo, init. And even then, only on the nights where theyāre dead enough to accommodate the possibly homeless.
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Yeah but can he read a Westrex Punch Tape?
Tenet is a good film.
Like Interstellar & Edge of Tomorrow it will need rewatching to completely get it.
I was surprised at how sensible it was considering the concept & a lot of the film is batshit mental but I followed it. Just.
My only gripe is that it is not for watching on low volume in a shared house. You really do need to hang on every word/nuance.
Enjoyed. Clever.
Thanks āfriendā
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Iām officially on my jolibobs so I am watching some films Iāve never seen before. Watched Jack Reacher for the first time and quite enjoyed it. A nice moody feel to it with the emphasis on investigation.
Watching the second one now.
They are good films, Tom Cruise is good.
But he simply isnt Jack Reacher
Isnāt Jack Reacher supposed to be 6 foot plus, poor old Tom couldnāt reach that even with platforms on his platformsā¦
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Yep. But also built like a brick shithouse.
Tom for all his acting ability never had shithousery
I am pretty sure that Lee Child, the author, (a Brit) has said any future film rights will not be sold to Tom Cruise / will star someone else.
As one of his classics will be on over Christmas as always, here is his story.
Months after winning his 1941 Academy Award for best actor in āThe Philadelphia Story,ā Jimmy Stewart, one of the best-known actors of the day, left Hollywood and joined the US Army. He was the first big-name movie star to enlist in World War II.
An accomplished private pilot, the 33-year-old Hollywood icon became a US Army Air Force aviator, earning his 2nd Lieutenant commission in early 1942. With his celebrity status and huge popularity with the American public, he was assigned to starring in recruiting films, attending rallies, and training younger pilots.
Stewart, however, wasnāt satisfied. He wanted to fly combat missions in Europe, not spend time in a stateside training command. By 1944, frustrated and feeling the war was passing him by, he asked his commanding officer to transfer him to a unit deploying to Europe. His request was reluctantly granted.
Stewart, now a Captain, was sent to England, where he spent the next 18 months flying B-24 Liberator bombers over Germany. Throughout his time overseas, the US Army Air Corpsā top brass had tried to keep the popular movie star from flying over enemy territory. But Stewart would hear nothing of it.
Determined to lead by example, he bucked the system, assigning himself to every combat mission he could. By the end of the war he was one of the most respected and decorated pilots in his unit.
But his wartime service came at a high personal price.
In the final months of WWII he was grounded for being āflak happy,ā today called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
When he returned to the US in August 1945, Stewart was a changed man. He had lost so much weight that he looked sickly. He rarely slept, and when he did he had nightmares of planes exploding and men falling through the air screaming (in one mission alone his unit had lost 13 planes and 130 men, most of whom he knew personally).
He was depressed, couldnāt focus, and refused to talk to anyone about his war experiences. His acting career was all but over.
As one of Stewartās biographers put it, "Every decision he made [during the war] was going to preserve life or cost lives. He took back to Hollywood all the stress that he had built up.ā
In 1946 he got his break. He took the role of George Bailey, the suicidal father in āItās a Wonderful Life.ā The rest is history.
Actors and crew of the set realized that in many of the disturbing scenes of George Bailey unraveling in front of his family, Stewart wasnāt acting. His PTSD was being captured on film for potentially millions to see.
But despite Stewartās inner turmoil, making the movie was therapeutic for the combat veteran. He would go on to become one of the most accomplished and loved actors in American history.
When asked in 1941 why he wanted to leave his acting career to fly combat missions over Nazi Germany, he said, "This countryās conscience is bigger than all the studios in Hollywood put together, and the time will come when weāll have to fight.ā
This holiday season, as many of us watch the classic Christmas film, āItās A Wonderful Life,ā itās also a fitting time to remember the sacrifices of Jimmy Stewart and all the men who gave up so much to serve their country during wartime. We will always remember you!
Postscript:
While fighting in Europe, Stewartās Oscar statue was proudly displayed in his fatherās Pennsylvania hardware store. Throughout his life, the beloved actor always said his father, a World War I veteran, was the person who had made the biggest impact on him.
Jimmy Stewart remained in the USAF Reserve following the war, retiring as a Brigadier General in 1968. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985 and died in 1997 at the age of 89.
ā Ned Forney, Writer, Saluting Americaās Veterans
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Yeah they sort that by hiring people that are near his height.
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Never been that impressed with Tom Cruise, seems to be the same character in all his films, no real depth to his acting. As for him being Reacher, that was a laughable decision that alienated a lot of Reacher Creatures
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Iād read the first book at the time and thought the Cruise decision was crazy. However, I do know that Cruise typically puts a lot into whatever he works with. He has really been the driving force behind the Mission Impossible Reboot.
He does tend to play an ultra macho ultra hard person quite a bit. Overcompensating a bit? 
However, he has done the odd film or two whereās heās almost unrecognisable. The bloke knows his acting, whatever heās doing it for.
In Cruiseās defence he does also do most of his own stunts.
I worked with someone who played Cruiseās hand double in the first M:I film!!
They decided that Cruiseās typing on the keyboard, in the scene where he was on the suspended rig, wasnāt realistic enough so drafted in an IT guy I worked with to do some random typing that actually looked more realistic.
Itās his hands you see in the film, not Tomās.
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Thatās gotta be worth a name dropper badge!
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Over-comensating?
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I would have been available to be his hand double in all his sex scenes. I can do realistic, and for sure my heart would have been into it more than his was. Allegedly.
Yep it was, Lee told me he had no input in that decision and as said, Tom Cruise will not star in other Reacher films