Karate kid - anyone watched it? Heard alot of good reports n looked decent on trailer?

I got it on my PC but haven't bothered wathcing it yet, can't bring myself to watch something that is essentially nepitism on film.

The original featured a teenage kid (OK so IRL he was in his mid twenties) and by the end even adults wouldn't mess with him but I can't take this 7 year old seriously.

Colourising old black and white classics is abhorrent, masterpieces should be left alone. If someone had suggested to me that my favourite film of all time 'It's a Wonderful Life' was to be crayoned in, I would have gone after them with a tyre iron.

*Deep Breath* Just seen some of it in HD and it looks great, really really great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehjtn3YjZp4&feature=related

I love its a wonderful life as well, seeing it in colour is wrong!

I'm pretty sure Jimmy Stewart and much of the cast campaigned against colourising films.

Colourising???

Okay ill admit I was wrong on my last point, I got my directions messed up!

that being said, I presume you try to read a penalty via the players run? as that's how you have gone through all those penalties. that's no problem if it works for you, however as I said in my last post I try to read the players hips and plant foot as he is taking the shot, okay it isn't fool proof and doesn't give you as much time to react but it works. watch another video only this time when you pause it look at the players hips and plant foot and guess the direction. I managed to get it right on all bar 7/10 of those pens.

and as I'm sure you are well aware every keeper has their own preference, I was wrong with my last comment because of this. but the best penalty stoppers in the world will use some sort of method to read the player, rather than guessing. and I'm sure that unless 100% necessary a professional keeper doesn't guess..

If you wait to see the planted foot in the pro game you'd still be standing there by the time it flies past you. Top level players hit the ball so hard and accurately (usually) that you have to go before they even strike the ball. If you watch that vid and pause it at the point the striker plants his foot, the keeper has already started moving.

you do realise that a keeper will only guess if he cant read the player taking the penalty?? and being a keeper myself I should know.

and for anyone that doesn't know what keepers looks out for look out for, what direction are the players hips pointing in. what direction is the players plant foot pointing in. both 99% of the time are tell tale signs of where that spot kick is going. and lastly if you still cant figure it out they go in the direction opposite to the players striking foot, if taker are right footed the keeper will usually go right (takers left) and vice versa.

I also play GK and disagree. With amatuers I will agree you can look out for 'signs', usually as simple as the arc of their run but none of tht works against better people, let alone top professionals. Basic stats will show that pro goal keepers do not go the right way 99% of the time as you suggest so why you think at the top level goal keepers would bother looking out for 'signs' I don't know; and every single pro goalie I have ever heard give tips on pens has said 'pick a side a stick with it'. If a pro keeper does look out for anything, it will be if the taker is nervous and nowadays they'll research pre-game, studying a pen taker's habbits rather than waiting to see "which direction their hips are facing" during the actual pen.

Watch this, which illustrates my point of randomness quite well...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9-8UsJ-cpc

I paused it a split second before each pen and guessed the direction based on their run up...

1) Tevez - Skips round to give a wide angled run, indicates a shot to keeper's left. Result, he does shoot that way but Cech goes the wrong way (so thereby he must disagree with your theory as he went the opposite way to what the 'signs' suggested)

2) Ballack - Straightish run and short suggests to me hitting it to the keeper's right. Result, he kicks it the other way, with VDS going the same way, showing that this time the 'signs' were wrong/unreliable.

3) Carrick - Similar to Ballack but the wider angle and longer run suggested to me a strike to the keeper's left. Result, hits it to the keeper's right and sends Cech the wrong way so this time Cech followed the 'signs' rule but got it wrong thus disproving it's effectiveness.

4) Balleti - Wide, longish run and open body heavily suggest a strike to the keeper's left. Result, he does go left but top keeper ignores all the signs again showing you at that level relying on 'signs' isn't used.

5) Ronaldo - All the fancy tricks left me stumped I'll be honest but he misses which only reenforces my argument that trying tricks when taking pens isn't neccessary.

6) Lampard - Run and open body suggested strike to keeper's left. Result, did go left and VDS went that way too which is good for you. Although even though VDS did read the 'signs' in this case it still didn't help him.

7) Hargreaves - Run suggests to the keeper's left, body stance suggests right. Result, goes right, keeper goes right way but smashed into top corner.

8) A.Cole - wide run up and stance suggests a shot to the keeper's right. Result, it goes left and so does the keeper which is bad news for you

9) Nani - Short run and stance suggested to me a shot to the keeper's right. Result, it goes that way and so does Cech so one back for your theory.

10) Terry, well stance suggested it would go 5 miles wide so he did very well to hit the post!

And on your last point, I actually hold the opposite opinion. If in doubt, I would dive to my left to a right footed player as it is easier for a right footed player to side foot it to his right/the keeper's left than it is to either lace it or sidefoot drag it into the other corner.

Keepers are sent the wrong way all the time by bog standard run ups/strikes and I maintain my point that taking a pen in the manner the young Spanish guy did in the vid would make no difference to the probability of which way the keeper dives.

Great penalty

Meh, Totti's backheel pen is better

Besides when will people realise that GK's pick a side and go with it, 'tricks' don't send them the wrong way or anything..

Unless it was literal

I don't think it is that large in reality though...

LOL, nor is it a cup so it would be even harder to be 'in' it.

Depends whether you see England as a single collective entity (in which case it's "is") or a collection of individuals (in which case it's "and").

Either word is acceptable.

Exactly, the England team are a collection of players. In the same way the collective nation of England wasn't in the world cup (only the national TEAM) the whole town of blacburn aren't in the the Premiership, the TEAM called Blackburn Rovers are.

Ergo, "Blackburn is in the Premiership" sounds wrong and so by the same logic "England is in the World Cup" is also wrong.

You would never use "is" to describe a club team so why does it suddenly become acceptable for a national team?

Watch the video of this robbery in Oldham this week-Absolutely hilarious.

GMP you Tube

What's funny about that?

Just read the description of that game, what bizarre rules

No.

Last time I checked, football was a team game..

IS Andy Murray still at Wimbledon?

ARE Marchester United in debt?

See the difference?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbHF63b7g50

Isenglandstillintheworldcup.com

Read the customer reviews at the bottom......

Haha I love randomness like that.

Some of his other reviews were pretty comical.

There's nothing funny or inventive about these sweary dubbed jobs. It's like the Postman Pat one, just dull. Sorry.

Guess you have to be aware of Brian Cox's work to appreciate it. I agree there's too many swears but I thought the same about that Grimsby Town post on here dubbed as the funniest thing ever.

Anyway, this one is brutal rather than funny but nice to see some come uppance..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEzFIEZTU8Q

Video contains naughty words

Anyone finding themselves in Skipton and needing lunch or afternoon tea I can thoroughly recommend The Wild Oat cafe. Top of the main street just near the roundabout opposite the church with the large clocktower (on left preseumes you have the church in front of you). It's 100% vegetarian, organic, non-alcoholic

OK but where do I get the other half of my required daily intake?