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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - I thought it was great, enjoyed the suspense and revenges.
And then, watched the next two of the Millennium Trilogy - DISAPPOINTED!!! They lack the tension buildups like the first one.
 
A random episode of that Spartacus: Blood and Sand.

It's fucking ridiculous in the best possible way - the blood, the sex, the Roman politics.

When a topless Lucy Lawless orders John Hannah to "split the [servant] girl's arse while I watch" you know you've gone down a weird road.... :D

I may have to watch the rest for the lols.

dotty has been ranting about this show for ages, and yet this has never come up in his reccomendations. I may well have to watch this show now.
 
Law Abiding Citizen - It could had been as dark as Se7en/ Silence of the Lambs etc. But it turned out shite. Predictable. Moralistic. Happy families bullshit. Bollocks. I hate Gerard Butler shit choice of film roles. He's on course to become the next Travolta for sure (with Stallone's odd moving mouth).
 
last episode of Bottom, the Prime Minister blackmail video bit's much funnier knowing about John Major and Edwina Curry:D
 
Got the first series of Outnumbered, having not seen it until recently for some reason. I like it. The kids in it are like my boy, split into 3.
 
Live! - Half-decent satire on reality TV spoiled by a clumsy last five minutes and a couple of other frustrating flaws.
 
A random episode of that Spartacus: Blood and Sand.

It's fucking ridiculous in the best possible way - the blood, the sex, the Roman politics.

When a topless Lucy Lawless orders John Hannah to "split the [servant] girl's arse while I watch" you know you've gone down a weird road.... :D

I may have to watch the rest for the lols.

watch it all. Really you do eventually realise you have got hooked in. Behind the gore and nudity and swearing there is a good story. The final ep is brilliant. So much violence
 
watch it all. Really you do eventually realise you have got hooked in. Behind the gore and nudity and swearing there is a good story. The final ep is brilliant. So much violence

I did love the politics and barely concealed loathing between the various Romans in the bits I saw, so will definitely be giving it a run.
 
Alex Cox's Straight to Hell, starring Joe Strummer, Courtney Love AND the Pogues.

It doesn't get much better than that.

'Louise, I thought you loved me'.

'I don't know what love is'.
 
eh? he's mentioned it loads of time, by jupiter's cock!

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Fuuuuuck, we are undone! do I have to do everything?

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no my husband, merely wait as I get my baps out and all shall be well. You charm the intriguers and I shall gull the casual viewer
 
Sherlock Holmes.

Well I never, a really good film by Guy Ritchie, with Jude Law putting in a cracking turn. Some minor faults that were suprising - ie crap direction on the big explosion and big fight scenes, but a very entertaining and well made fillum nevertheless.
 
Parallel Lines on youtube.
- 5 different short films, 1 dialogue. Interesting idea of the project and some quality works too :cool:

Just watched three of them and I can't be bothered to waste any more of my life on this.
Interesting idea but poorly executed. There are so few lines of vague dialogue that it renders the intriguing concept dull and practically pointless. . .

"What's that?"
"A unicorn"
"I've never seen one up close before."
"Beautiful"
"get away"
"get away"
"I'm Sorry"

And even that feels really really badly shoehorned into the three I watched. Ugh. Terrible.
 
Please Give.

This American film about the trials of being a neurotic middle class person in Noo Yawk city was promoted as a comedy, but it's not really that sort of thing, although there are a few laughs.

The person I saw it with really liked it, I not so much - but I still thought it was pretty good. The acting was very good - naturalistic and not grandstanding. I also thought that it had a peculiarly Canadian sensibility for an American film. I'm not sure what I mean by that, but hey.

Also saw the trailer for Tetro, which looks really bad, perhaps even as bad as the Brothers Bloom.
 
Sherlock Holmes.

Well I never, a really good film by Guy Ritchie, with Jude Law putting in a cracking turn. Some minor faults that were suprising - ie crap direction on the big explosion and big fight scenes, but a very entertaining and well made fillum nevertheless.

:D

This feels like coming out or something, but I agree. Saw this on the flight from Oz and I was quite impressed by the film as a whole, but the surprising level of chemistry between RDJ & Law. Loved the steampunk-without-steampunk feel to the whole thing too.
 
Sherlock Holmes.

Well I never, a really good film by Guy Ritchie, with Jude Law putting in a cracking turn. Some minor faults that were suprising - ie crap direction on the big explosion and big fight scenes, but a very entertaining and well made fillum nevertheless.

Gut ritchie has made 2 great films and one good one. It's ok to say it.
 
the surprising level of chemistry between RDJ & Law.

that the best bitchy gay couple has been created by them & Ritchie really is quite surprising. Clearly it was just maddie holding him back.

Gut ritchie has made 2 great films and one good one. It's ok to say it.

this & lock stock are great, snatch good?? Maybe, i dont see any need to see any of his others again, but would very happily rewatch this un.
 
aaah, the joys of having a decent avi playing DVD player...

finally watched All Tomorrow's Parties, the movie. Not enough Shellac therein.

And last night was Zombieland, absolute cracker.
 
The Thief and the Cobbler (recobbled cut)

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Incredible animation - lifework of Richard Harris (roger rabbit) - cruelly finished off by the studios and butchered in editing to make it look like an Alladin ripoff (whereas in fact many TatC animators took their ideas on to Disney to re-use them for Alladin). This is a fan edit, using all sorts of sources for original footage, pencil tests etc. to make a version of the film as close as possible to the original vision. Not the most amazing plot, but some staggering animation, especially the War Machine towards the end.

Cheers to Brainaddict for the recommendation
 
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