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the first kusturica film i've seen and it certainly won't be the last as it's a pure joy to watch.
its exhuberance reminds of me of those 'it's a mad mad mad world/genievieve' caper films, except it's enormous fun.
the detail on screen is so rich, every shot crammed with odd things going on, such as a pig devouring a car.
the plot's like a shakespeare comedy but it's all about the characters - i loved the balkan john c reiily dancing gangster fella.
i haven't laughed so much at a film in ages.
if you haven't seen it order it NOW.

I always appreciate your recommendations, gonna check this one out :cool:
 
An Education - Good film (spoilt slightly with the abrupt ending) and all throughout I was shouting 'don't do it!'
 
The Killing Fields - I wanted to like it, maybe like is the wrong word there, but in the end found it strangely uninvolving.
 
Attempted to watch the new Robin Hood but it wasn't my cup of tea. Fell asleep half way through. Never been a fan of Russell Crowe.
 
Zombieland. Warning: spoilers.


The kid is a pretty good nerd, although he might be a bit too nerdy to break through into the major markets, like the guys from Superbad. His nerdiness is too believable.

It's sort of uneven, but what do you want from a zombie movie? Bill Murray is good as himself. Woody Harrelson is himself.

Good, lighthearted zombie fun. You get to see the head of a zombie clown smashed with a sledgehammer, for instance, starting at the red nose.
 
I also saw the Mel Gibson movie, Edge of Darkness a couple of nights ago. I think Gibson's trying to build up some sympathy by playing a bereaved father, but this movie is a touch on the weird side. Some good car chases, though, and a couple of unexpected deaths by surprising means.
 
Mum & Dad! Cheap budget british horror fest from 2008. Supposedly based on the fred n rosemary west story!? Pretty gruesome in parts but wasnt that impressed Wiv da overall film if im honest! 5 outta 10
 
I also saw the Mel Gibson movie, Edge of Darkness a couple of nights ago. I think Gibson's trying to build up some sympathy by playing a bereaved father, but this movie is a touch on the weird side. Some good car chases, though, and a couple of unexpected deaths by surprising means.

you've never seen the original then :hmm:
 
First 3 parts of The Pacific.
Very good - although I'd like to see some humanisation of the Japanese at some point.
 
Dead Man with Johnny Depp, who was as usual brilliant, although many of the other performances were brilliant. Very good film which I had been looking forward to watching for a while as I haven't seen that much of Jarmusch's work.

I love that film :cool: Have you seen Coffee and Cigarettes? That's fucking ace.

True Blood S1 is currently on tvchoiceondemand, so me and our lass watched the first couple of episodes last night, and fuck me - LOVE it! It's wayyyyy better than I thought it would be :cool:
 
Street Dance 3D - let down. Absolutely terrible acting and yewtjive

Gommorah - pretty good. Dragged toward the end but a great insight into life in other cultures
 
Between Marx and a Naked Woman - fantastically pretentious attempt to cross political drama with magic realism - does the first by leaden realism and the second by cliched surrealism. Main point is the banality that revolutionary desires are a sublation of other desires, erotic especially. Worth a look if you're into Ecuadorean Official Communism between 1960 and 70 :D
 
I watched Dune (lynch). For some reason there was some fucking shite american v/o bloke chipping in every now and then to explain shit and the Irulan v/o was absent. I got 40 minutes in before being to drunk and going to bed annoyed
 
That'll be one of the special editions (not sure which, the Alan Smithee version?), with a different, and .

I prefer the prologue from the theatrical cut with the to Arrakis, aboard those fecking huge Guild Highliners.

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