The Guard, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1540133/. One of the worst films I've ever seen.
Loon. It's not quite as good as In Bruges but it is still very good.The Guard, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1540133/. One of the worst films I've ever seen.
The Secret In Their Eyes - very compelling Argentinian thriller. Consistently surprising plot, great performances and amazing photography esp one particular scene of a chase in a football stadium that looks like one shot but can't possiby be.
Loved it. Up there with 2001, Solaris, AI.The Fountain. Wtf? A right load of old bollocks if ever there was one. By the end of it I was sort of hoping the Mayans were right.
only in the sense that it looks like one long shoti loved that film. that shot is the same sort used on children of men isn't it? but on a grander scale.
Don't get me started.The last 3 episodes of Battlestar Galactica ("Daybreak")
Um....not really sure where to start, will spoiler tag -
Good
A proper battle, feels like ages since the last one
Boomer paying back the old man, then Athena blowing her away
The opera dream tying in pretty well to the scenes of Hera running through the ship
Anders finding perfection (although they did shoe-horn in the set-up in a flashback)
President Prickly Lawyer dude
Baltar's final line - "I know something about farming", perfectly acted and made me forget how much of a cunt he really is (for a few seconds at least).
Cavill choosing to blow his head off vs live with the humans
Roslin actually dying (thought they'd go the happy ending route for second)
Bad
Everybody going along with Lee's idea to live like cavemen, I can imagine some going for it, but not the whole fleet (or did Adama just overrule the objections and sent all the ships into the sun regardless?)
Being hit over the head by biblical allegory, then having Baltar and Starbuck spell it out for anyone who's not been paying attention for 4-5 years
Head Baltar / Head Six in modern day Manhatten, are they just meant to be God/s?
A general feeling of rushed endings and unexplored plotlines
Overall a great series, but with a bit of a dip at the end.
Don't get me started.
BSG was awesome, then it turns out they were making it up as they went along and didn't have a fucking clue.
". . . and they have a plan" Ooh, that kept me watching, what's the plan, what's the plan.
The plan is to kill all humans.
All those cool episodes where Baltar was trying to figure what his head six was . . well even the writers didn't know. The end devalues everything good that happened in the series, and we have yet another 'magic' programme.
Just as well I jumped ship half way through season 3 then.
Nah, was definitely worth sticking with to the end, S4 was a vast improvement and is fucking dark in places
Also, I've only just realised that the guy who played Hot Dog is Olmos' real life son!
Nah, was definitely worth sticking with to the end, S4 was a vast improvement and is fucking dark in places
Also, I've only just realised that the guy who played Hot Dog is Olmos' real life son!
As we've discussed before... that's not really how multi-season television generally works. Beyond having a vague idea how it'll finish (and BSG did finish vaguely in the way it was always going to), it's all up for grabs. And that makes for interesting stories, better chances for character development, unexpected characters becoming more central, than an overly crafted plot will allow for.
There's probably another interesting thread in 'movies that are still great despite having shit endings,' or 'why the end never matters'
Thankfully, I ditched Lost after season 1, so never saw any of that.Just look at the Lost thread for the exact same discussion / argument
Probably involving the exact same people to be fair