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I did see real Rush at Glasgow 2004 at Glasgow for R30 tour, and it was superb, kicking myself for not grabbing the opportunity to see them at R40 too. They will never play live again, for obvious reasons, so thought that was that, but was grateful to have seen them at R30. They were splendid. However, big bands have a habit of sincere tribute acts that are damn good too, following in their footsteps, like Australian Pink Floyd Show were to real Pink Floyd and so on and so forth. I'd become aware of Moving Pictures a while ago, a very good Scottish Rush tribute act, who have some history with the real Rush who are playing Aberdeen this time next week. Really looking forward to it, my memories will come flooding back for sure of R30. Bass Player looks uncannily like Geddy Lee too, love this song, La Villa Strangiato. mid-section is so sublime, it's all good, though. Moving Pictures.

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It looks like I've let this one slip under the radar for local cinema? I try to go see most major (and even minor releases) here and been pleasantly surprised by many a good sleeper film. Not saying original Gladiator was magnificent or anything, but it kept us entertained, were we not entertained by Gladiator II I wonder ? I do try to avoid all possible, spoilers, but hearing good and bad things about it already, and that's cool, missed it at my local flix, but if its still showing at Inverness Vue a few days from now and next year of 2025, might go see it ... I do enjoy Cinema This is the official trailer, honestly not watched it, just searched for it and grabbed the url for here ... I bet it looks awesome, but don't all film trailers look awesome? rarely are they indicative of the finished article though !

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Another teaser clip, it really is an intense thriller of a film.

Hi Ian, erm not really sure TBH, but will post a pic of its cover soon ... pls remind, will probably forget It's a 4 disk ver and correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't all 4K UHD, you buy anywhere region globally free now? And that's along overdue change I have a couple of 4K UHD players now, and it works fine with both, with no hacks or mods we used to have to do. EDIT: Vid answer I just looked at

Starting to see good improvements now ... as far as global bandwidth distribution and loading times are concerned. It now takes about 8 minutes to load from clicking start icon to presentation screen, took me hours initially with lots of fails and restarts and crashes, lots of content still lacking, there is no doubt this release is not really ready for the global market they pushed for, neither are their servers One of the big positives ASOBO pushed for was quicker loading times and a smaller disk space install in order to introduce scenery ETC in a potentially faster streaming fashion to their customers who used to complain about FS2020 loading times and a bigger hard disk install, so far, that's still way off target, my older MS FS2020 loads much faster and is a smoother flight experience with it all installed to my local disks, fine-tuned with lots of third party apps, ETC. Managed a few flights now, nothing more ambitious than in a Cessna 172, it was stutter free and quite smooth to be fair (mostly) ... view distance is much better, it's just all a bit raw now IMHO, lots of bugs still, but I now feel they can overcome these early start problems. Hope so.

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Been around MS releases since FS4, only MS Flight ... remember that one? Bombed so disastrously, that sim/game was dumped by the actual bean counters at MS after a year or so, this is fact. I think, MS bean counters told Asobo, to release on the 19th, ready or not, to get a return on money, and It's clearly not ready for release, either are their servers. This is just the worst software, major launch I've ever seen in my entire life. Even previous MS Windows release like 10 and 11 were seamless, nothing like this. Am sure their servers might meet full capacity in near future, but feedback from trusted sources, its not a good launch, and feedback from the few folk that have managed to download it, its all far from positive, very nice loading screen that entertain us of course, but it repeats and gets boring vert fast. Been trying to download this since 3AM. Its now 12 + hours later. Not good, and am a big fan of this genre.

Both versions are included on the package I bought, it defaults to the director's cut that I prefer.

Not a review, more a heads-up if you like Have been meaning to add this 4K disk to my collection for ages, it was a long time coming, with Cameron stalling, delaying and promising ETC. Then, when the 4K UHD release was announced, our beloved UK censors decided the rat scene had to be cut before it could have an official 4K UHD release here in UK, absolutely stupid when we consider they allowed this on original cinema release, VHS ETC. So Cameron decided no cuts ... and I dont blame him, so no UK release for this one in 4K. Anyhoo. Eventually got hold of it yesterday, had to import it, (£35 + yikes!) but it defaults to English language and directors cut, it's a 4 disc package with both versions on UHD and normal blu ray x 2 discs. + 2 other discs of extra's I've yet to explore. Thoroughly enjoyed it, had deliberately not watched it for years, awaiting this release, it was worth the wait, classic tense film, one of Camerons best.

Thanks Chally. Really looking fwd to future releases of this kit and will of course pre order for this release soon, so glad Airfix finally got round to this in 1/48.

Isn't the underbelly tank on the all black SD Lysander picture I posted actually a utility carrier for agents and not a fuel tank? Seem to remember this from the mists of time .. not important of course, just curious