Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
No you shush. Viking ponce.
What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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No you shush. Viking ponce.
Reno
The In Kraut
I thought 5 was the second best season, after 3.
TruXta
tired
West Brit.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
TruXta
tired
I knew that would get you out of bed.
Voley
🐀
Yeah that makes sense. My telly's 37 inches I think so the difference is quite noticeable but you only really go 'Wow!' when it's a film that sets out to be very obviously visually stunning. Really enjoyed watching Lord Of The Rings in this format. I didn't even mind the end this time round. When you've just watched hours and hours of the extended editions, it doesn't seem too excessive. The Hobbit arrived today too so more of the same this weekend.
rekil
to menny cranks
I enjoyed it, great humourous touches and a tidy final scene but Larrain got some stick for overlooking grassroots opposition and the work that went into getting people to vote.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I finished season one of American Horror Story - It was good enough. I got frustrated with the characters and the plot went a bit beyond far fetched to carry all the 'twists'. There's was nothing I didn't see coming and the final episode was a chore. I'll pick up on season 2 and see how it goes because I've heard it's better.I liked al the L.A Murder mythology (black Dahlia etc). I've watched it in my lunch breaks so It's been a good distraction from work.
Also saw Gangster Squad - not as vacuous as some have claimed. It looked lovely. Some good performances from Goslin and Penn. My only real argument against it was that it was a blatant rip off of The Untouchables from the early humiliating raids, to crawling along the floor bleeding scene and the gun fight on the stairs and even the characters had the same profiles and story arcs.....it was all so familiar and traceable (along with some links across to Miller's Crossing!), but maybe this is my issue for watching too many gangster films and wanting them all to be as good as The Godfather.
But.....If yer gonna do an Ellroy style LA crime flick then do one.....don't stray between that and a do-gooder does bad to do good mafia western.
Lastly, some of that dialogue was so obvious I was finishing the lines for them.....
Also saw Gangster Squad - not as vacuous as some have claimed. It looked lovely. Some good performances from Goslin and Penn. My only real argument against it was that it was a blatant rip off of The Untouchables from the early humiliating raids, to crawling along the floor bleeding scene and the gun fight on the stairs and even the characters had the same profiles and story arcs.....it was all so familiar and traceable (along with some links across to Miller's Crossing!), but maybe this is my issue for watching too many gangster films and wanting them all to be as good as The Godfather.
But.....If yer gonna do an Ellroy style LA crime flick then do one.....don't stray between that and a do-gooder does bad to do good mafia western.
Lastly, some of that dialogue was so obvious I was finishing the lines for them.....
avu9lives
famous five member
had ta sit through jack reacher were cruise does his usual beans on toast kinda film as per usual. He spends most off the film walking round wiv 2 rolls of invisible carpets under his bloody arms. Just once in id like ta see him killed in one of his films in the first 20 minutes so the film can make a massive plot twist that way id not have ta put up with him fer the rest of it.. bobbins indeed..
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
As he should, but it wasn't really a narrative about them, but about how commercialisation and commodification established the post-pinochet years, that all that was changed were images...i'm really surprised at some of the reviews that think it was a heart-warming story about victory - they must have missed the first two films to be able to come to that reading.
I haven't seen the film but I was a bit miffed they cast Tom Cruise to play Reacher. Reacher is 6'6" and built like a brick shit house. Tom Cruise is a half pint.
malatesta32
Not Serb. No, Really!
the campaign with will ferrell - though i wasnt in the mood it was well funny. then 2 episode of generation kill. which i still aint made me mind up about.
malatesta32
Not Serb. No, Really!
'The Killing (OK, but overrated)' - whaaat? it was grand man!
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 7 episodes 1-4
Reno
The In Kraut
Apart from that I'm not the biggest fan of whodunits, I think The Killing was overextended, especially in season 1. After a while the plot was just held afloat by the latest red herring, which changed every three episodes and it often felt like the series was threading water. Borgen being a political drama, has much more scope in the types of stories it can tell and I find it a lot more entertaining.
malatesta32
Not Serb. No, Really!
borgen's next on the list when cousin has finished it. kind of agree on the killing but im crap at plots and say 'it was him/her' about everyone hoping i will be right at least once.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I watched robocop 2 which was funny as fuck
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Most of season 1 of Borgias
Jeremy Irons for the win
Jeremy Irons for the win
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
I watched the first two episodes of Game of Thrones last night. . . and it was a lot better than I expected.
I didn't bother finishing the first book because I didn't find the world building convicing. I didn't find it convincing because it was trying to use medieval European tropes (knights errant, etc) in a context ripped out of the Christian world view, the only context in which those tropes made sense. In the TV series they don't have to be as specific with regard to what they mean by '"the gods", so it works a lot better in that medium.
The depiction of the Dothraki "primitives" I found nonsensical, however. Their depiction was a mixum-gatherum of simple or "primitive" societies teh world over. I counted bits of Eurasian nomads, North American plains indians, and bits of Middle eastern bedouin-style stuff. It really doesn't make any sense.
That said, though, I think I will drop in on this invented world again sometime in the near future.
I didn't bother finishing the first book because I didn't find the world building convicing. I didn't find it convincing because it was trying to use medieval European tropes (knights errant, etc) in a context ripped out of the Christian world view, the only context in which those tropes made sense. In the TV series they don't have to be as specific with regard to what they mean by '"the gods", so it works a lot better in that medium.
The depiction of the Dothraki "primitives" I found nonsensical, however. Their depiction was a mixum-gatherum of simple or "primitive" societies teh world over. I counted bits of Eurasian nomads, North American plains indians, and bits of Middle eastern bedouin-style stuff. It really doesn't make any sense.
That said, though, I think I will drop in on this invented world again sometime in the near future.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
About Elly.
Another one by Asghar Farhadi, and another absolute belter. Wonderfully shot, acted, and just intriguing, keeping yopu guessing right till the end as to just what happened. Quite brilliant, can't wait for The Past to come out.
Then, I decided I thought Silver Linings Playbook might irritate me, so we ended up watching The Perks of being A Wallflower. Which wasn't annoying so much as just plain shit. Every possible coming of age cliche is thrown in, it has no idea which decade its meant to be set in, and it makes a big thing of one event being key to the protagonists mental health, but then completely ignores said incident after bringing it up. Dire.
Another one by Asghar Farhadi, and another absolute belter. Wonderfully shot, acted, and just intriguing, keeping yopu guessing right till the end as to just what happened. Quite brilliant, can't wait for The Past to come out.
Then, I decided I thought Silver Linings Playbook might irritate me, so we ended up watching The Perks of being A Wallflower. Which wasn't annoying so much as just plain shit. Every possible coming of age cliche is thrown in, it has no idea which decade its meant to be set in, and it makes a big thing of one event being key to the protagonists mental health, but then completely ignores said incident after bringing it up. Dire.
Reno
The In Kraut
In the end there is the reveal of what happened to him, so not sure why you think the film ignores the incident. While I usually hate films using
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