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Totally ace according to the reviews, but dragged a bit for me. A lot of French films do. Juliette Binoche is very nice though.
 
Yeah, her husband's a dick to her in this movie and I found myself mentally screaming 'FFS! That's JULIETTE BINOCHE you're alienating! Are you fucking insane?!' :D
 
Seasons 1-7 of Monk. I like watching a character who is even more obsessive/compulsive than I am. I spent a couple of days snowed in and it was the only thing in the house I hadn't watched a million times. Thank god for libraries.
 
belboid said:
naah, completely wrong agian. Lousy comparators too. firefly only got one series, so didn;t have enough chance to turn crap. futurama is a series off one offs, it doesnt have or need to same overall story arc, much easier. lost, I gave up long ago, but as you've just said, it was shite for at least some of its run. BSG was consistently well written, reasonably plotted, both long and short -term, and only a little bit too schmaltzy.

Just had a shitty ast episode
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I didn't say BSG was shit, I said it ended badly. I was just more affected by the bad end because it could have shaped up to be a masterpiece if they had just written it, or at least a story arc before they started filming it. Firefly not going on long enough to be shit does not make it shit. At least it had a finite story arc already written for the first series (it was cut half way though, despite everyone involved being paid up to finish the series - the comic books and the film are basically the second half). Most sci-fi is shit from the off. I mentioned Futurama because I love it. I couldn't think of anything else sc-fi that was actually good.
I adore Sapphire and Steel, Old Doctor Who, Lexx (series 1&2) but I am well aware that they are not shining examples of good telly.

What would you suggest? Andromida? Babylon 5, Farscape? Space Precinct?
 
In andromeda he has a telescopic staff that is also a gun and in one memorable episode is shown to have a hitherto unmentioned anti-aircraft mode. Awesome.
 
kyser_soze said:
You like Lexx, so are in no position to criticise Andromeda
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I like the 'home made' feel of it and it tries to be dark and funny. Andromida is highly polished american shite at it's best/worst. It's like space captain zep from alpha centuri or something. Ugh.
 
I watched 20 minutes of GI Joe and half an hour of City of Ember before they went back into their Lovefilm envelopes. Gave up on rubbish movies and watched three episodes of Project Runway Season 6 instead. :)
 
I never know what this "mindless entertainment" thing means. Obviously I knew I wasn't going to see something like Haneke's The White Ribbon here. I believe even a blockbuster should have reasonably engaging characters, something resembling a plot and coherently edited sequences where you knwo who does what to whom. GI Joe is one of those films which are like watching someone else play a computer game and that's the most boring thing I could imagine doing. If one CG action scene after another and not much else is your idea of fun then it may be for you.
 
Ah, someone with huge over-expectations of a genre. I take it you can't stand 50s B-Movies then? Or are you one of those people who have 'reclaimed' the intellectual ground on mindless pop entertainment from a few decades ago simply on the basis that it's old and can serve as a sociological snapshot of the period's social mores, standards and other stuff?
 
Yes, I do love 50s B-movies. I don't know how something as smart as The Incredible Shrinking Man or Them ! compares in any way to a film as soulless as GI Joe.

You are making a hell of a lot assumptions about me because I've rejected one particularely poor film.
 
Watched the end of Series 3 of the Wire. Shit!! Can't believe it.

Watched the start of series 4 of the Wire. Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit!! Can't believe it.

LOVED the Omar/Brother Mauzone standoff scene in ep 9, series 3. Think it was ep 9, anyway.
 
I finally got round to watching Synecdoche, New York. I wasn't very impressed. I often like Kaufman's films, when he's not the director I guess, but this was just self indulgent, obviously too self referential and boring. Didn't really enjoy much about it apart from Philip Seymour Hoffmann who was good as always, and some of the other actors. It was a pretty cliched mess to be honest, particularly the stuff about his wife: 'Genius artist goes to Berlin', having been in Berlin quite alot recently, even I can tell the accents they put on are awful, the Maria character literally just does the whole 'v for w' and 'ze for the' routine.

That annoyed me so I watched hours and hours of Reno 911!, which, if anyne haven't seen it, is one of the best American comedy series imo. Its like a mockumentary Cops, but all ad libbed and very punchy. Then I watched an episode of the Day Today, as I was rather baked :)
 
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I'Genius artist goes to Berlin', having been in Berlin quite alot recently, even I can tell the accents they put on are awful, the Maria character literally just does the whole 'v for w' and 'ze for the' routine
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I'm German and while I've mastered a "th" I still pronounce "w" as "v" after 26 years in London. :D

There is no such thing as one foreign accent. They vary, greatly depending on the individuals aptitute for pronounciation, so I never understand why people believe they are specialisits in every possible variation of foreign accents. Apart from that, Jennifer Jason Leigh is supposed to be a charicature, as seen through Caden's eyes.

Of all the things in the film, to focus on this minor detail and character to dismiss it strikes me as rather odd.
 
Reno said:
Of all the things in the film, to focus on this minor detail and character to dismiss it strikes me as rather odd.
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Yeh I guess, it was just one little bit that annoyed me that I rememberd, I really dismissed it because I didn't enjoy it :)




p.s. I love the way German's say 'w' instead of 'v'
 
kyser_soze said:
Is it worth sticking with Zenie? I was awed by the first 10 minutes with the Jew hunter dude, then thought 'Hmmm' at the next bit...
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Yes, it's a good film, nice and gorey too. :D

Tried to watch Lust Caution the other night but the subtitles are so fast I got a headache after about half an hour trying to keep up with them, and the boyfriend gave up straight away. :facepalm::(

Is it any good? It was meant to be :hmm:
 
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