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eps 9 & 10 of the final Shiled. We are now supposed to not wach the rest until me sis can come and join us, but I suspect we wont be able to wait that long.
 
just been to see Exit Through the Gift Shop... at the flicks like

Was great and nothing like i thought it would be :)

I saw it on Saturday. I thought it was absolutely brilliant, and I'm not much of a Banksy fan.

It was laugh-out-loud funny in a few places, which I wasn't expecting.
 
cabin fever 2 - it wasn't my choice but it turned out to be excellent to my surprise. much better than the first. it had everything: nasty gore that makes you flinch and look away, great characters, loads of funny jokes and the tension is racheted up just high enough to keep you guessing. find of the month!
 
Woody Allen's Whatever Works. (Larry David playing the character that Woody Allen would have usually played.)

It was a Woody Allen movie by numbers. He could have phoned it in.

It didn't work for me.
 
i watched Oldboy, it is alright but a bit melodramatic and greek tragedy for me and i wasn't too keen on the music, all a bit goth and OTT. but pretty good, just nowhere near the other two Vengeance ones.
 
i watched Oldboy, it is alright but a bit melodramatic and greek tragedy for me and i wasn't too keen on the music, all a bit goth and OTT. but pretty good, just nowhere near the other two Vengeance ones.

Aha - so you've watched Lady Vengeance then.

What did you think?
 
Aha - so you've watched Lady Vengeance then.

What did you think?

better than Oldboy but not as good as mr vengeance for me.... i thought it was a bit more linear, i am not super keen on dramatic plot twists they seem a bit manipulative and silly to me. i mean i still thought it was a great film but mr vengeance just balanced everything the best for my taste, with no tricks, everything seemed to unfold more naturally and i didn't think the director was hiding anything from the audience artificially like i a bit did in the other 2.
 
better than Oldboy but not as good as mr vengeance for me.... i thought it was a bit more linear, i am not super keen on dramatic plot twists they seem a bit manipulative and silly to me. i mean i still thought it was a great film but mr vengeance just balanced everything the best for my taste, with no tricks, everything seemed to unfold more naturally and i didn't think the director was hiding anything from the audience artificially like i a bit did in the other 2.

That was one of the reasons I really liked it :D

All great films though - so totally different to anything Western-produced :cool:
 
the evil that men do - another nasty exploitative piece of trash starring charles bronson. this time he's persuaded a-team style to go after a torturer who runs a school of americas style torture training academy.
it's pretty violent and it's odd that films like this were left alone during the video nasties scandal of the mid 80s. these kinds of films are much more offensive than the likes of evil dead. i'm guessing that it's because this film, death wish and other films of that ilk were produced by major studios.
 
I watch 5 movies over the weekend:

Hurt Locker (first 2/3 was amazing, but it fell apart when he went home)
District 9 (very good)
The Cove (favorite of the five, but I'm a documentary junkie)
Terminator Salvation (not as bad as you might think)
The Informant. (absolutely awful movie)
 
I watched Eastbound and Down on i think sadken's recommendation, an american comedy show about a baseball player fallen on hardtimes, a lot of the jokes are just him swearing in inappropriate situations but it is actually pretty good and dark too... i was sad when the dvd came to an end anyway.
 
Yeah i know, I don't really like graphic descriptions of sodomy. To follow it up I was going to watch born into brothels but I chose Grizzly man instead. I didn't realise it was made by Werner Herzog.

A whole evening of light entertainment there. :D

Not sure a film about a man with mental health issues and his girlfriend getting torn apart by a bear is that uplifting either.

I think Capturing the Friedman's is a brilliant film, btw
 
The Boondock Saints

It was even worse than I thought it would be . . . and that's saying something. Troy Duffy had something on William Dafoe to make him do that movie. There's no other explanation for his involvement in it.
 
A whole evening of light entertainment there. :D

Not sure a film about a man with mental health issues and his girlfriend getting torn apart by a bear is that uplifting either.

I think Capturing the Friedman's is a brilliant film, btw

I just started to watch Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills but its too much doom and gloom. I need a happy film help me out someone.
 
From_Paris_With_Love

From_Paris_With_Love ----john travolta
what is Travolta doing making such idiotic films such as this one.:confused:
A complete over the top macho kiddies film.
 
I just started to watch Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills but its too much doom and gloom. I need a happy film help me out someone.

Little Miss Sunshine? I rarely watch 'happy' films or read 'happy' books tbh - I only realised this when my daughter pointed it out!
 
From_Paris_With_Love ----john travolta
what is Travolta doing making such idiotic films such as this one.:confused:
A complete over the top macho kiddies film.

Because they pay him lots of money and because he's an idiot.

I find him just unwatchable these days. They may just as well cast glazed ham with a perma-smirk painted on and save themselves ten million or whatever his fee is these days.
 
Little Miss Sunshine? I rarely watch 'happy' films or read 'happy' books tbh - I only realised this when my daughter pointed it out!

In fact bollocks to that, I'm going to watch The Suicide Club instead.

On May 26, 54 teenage schoolgirls gather on a platform at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo to commit mass suicide. As the train approaches the station, they line up on the edge of the platform, join hands, and throw themselves in front of the train as it is arriving. This leaves the station in complete chaos as blood literally splashes on the platform from under the train.
 
more mad men s2 - i fucking love it so much. it always makes me think and always educates me in something i hadn't considered before and it's so well written. a cynical part of me thinks many of the key dramatic scenes have signposted the themes a little too obviously, but the non-cynical side of me thinks that this is just due to the brilliant writing - everything is so clear. the characters are so endearing even don draper and pete campbell. i love peggy - elisabeth moss is superb. i just saw the episode in which she gets promoted due to a colleague's booze problem and the mixed emotions on her face are so eloquently played. she's great with her family and the priest too, esp when she does some copywriting work for the church - very funny scenes there as we realise how different the two worlds she inhabits.
and those suits and dresses! everyone looks gorgeous. christina hendricks and her bottom are particularly entrancing and john slattery and jon hamm have a particularly envious wardrobe.
kinsey is another intriguing character - they ALL are, even the lift operator, whose personality you only get the briefest of glimpes of.
sorry
i could go on about it all day....
 
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