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Originally posted by boogerhead:
Hopefully we'll all live long enough to see the war crimes trials and the public hanging for his wanton traitorhood.

Amen!

WAYS OF SEEING - part 4 "Commercial Art" This was a pretty cool series. Must have really blown some minds back in the day.

john tucker must die - american teen comedy. got back to glasgow yesterday and wanted to go see something, but had to find something that gave me time to get something to eat first, so this is what i ended up with. i'd looked it up before, because when it opened it didn't get much press. it was better than i expected it to be, reasonably amusing, if faily predictable and all that.

REVOLUTION OS - a brief history of GNU/Linux and the free software and open source movements. Nerdish fun.

TEAM AMERICA - from the makers of South Park. Yeah, I missed this when it hit theaters and when it came out on DVD. Some friends forced me to watch it last night. Thanks friends.

Saw The Sentinel the other day. Good looking, well filmed, some good action scenes, marred by a plot unbelievable to start with and with additional holes along the way. Kiefer Sutherland seems stuck with a 24 like role but Eva Longoria ends up being one of the best points of the film. If they had spent a bit more on the script... But that can be said of most Hollywood action films.

To balance it out, and because we had Vienna still fresh in our minds, The Third Man. Gorgeous. The city is another character, with almost everything filmed on location, and somebody knew how to write dialogues back then.

Keeping the Welles theme, we wrap up with Touch of Evil. Surprising how badly those ten years treated Welles, from the slick Harry Lime to the bloated Quinlan. And yet both are evil to the core and both are almost likable. And Welles got out of Charlton Heston the best in his whole career.

Keeping this old movie thread, the following day we saw, back to back, Rashômon and The Outrage. There is not much that can be said about Rashômon that has not been said already, but although The Outrage pales by comparison, it makes the idea much more accessible, not to mention funny. The last telling, fortunately, is the best.

Paul Newman is a dodgy Mexican but a quite faithful Toshiro Mifune...

José

Halfway through 'Ronin' at the moment, and enjoying it a lot.

Who needs plot when you've got a MacGuffin, eh, Bravus?

A fucking great movie, with one of the coolest band-of-badarses ensembles ever. And a killer car chase.

ALIENS VS. PREDATOR - Nice FX design and production work on the alien specimens and the ancient pyramid. Horrible direction.

Last night:

Fast & Furious 3 - Why, oh why, did I subject myself to this? It is (almost literally) like watching a bad car wreck in slow motion. Except without the laws of physics. Or actors that could act their way out of a wet paper bag. Anyways, if you're planning a bad B movie night, this is almost stupid enough to qualify for unintentional funny. For the love of god, download a torrent or something though. If anyone pays to watch, it will only encourage them.

The City of Lost Children (1995) by Jean-Pierre Jaeunet and Marc Caro.

What came first, the STNG Borg, or the City of Lost Children's mechanical-optics?

Very interesting HG-Wells-esque visuals.

I wish my French were better, the vocabulary is a bit odd.

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Originally posted by Black Jacque:
The City of Lost Children (1995) by Jean-Pierre Jaeunet and Marc Caro.

What came first, the STNG Borg, or the City of Lost Children's mechanical-optics?

Very interesting HG-Wells-esque visuals.

I wish my French were better, the vocabulary is a bit odd.

I loved City of Lost Children ... dark, atmospheric, and emotional. It didn't have the wealth of dark comedy that Delicatessen did but there was enough humor to soften it a bit.

Just watched Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children and satisfied my eye-candy craving for the day. At times actually had myself convinced that I understood what was going on.

harsh times - christian bale and his friend drive around looking for working, allegedly, but really smoking and drinking and stirring up shit. but bale is ex-forces, and is pretty much fucked in the head. it rambles along, one of those free form aimless kind of films, where they are supposed to be cool because of the stuff they get up to. i thought they were all a shower. it has some pretty cool moments in it, but for the most part i didn't like the characters at all.

The City of Lost Children was great, as was Delicatessen.

I saw Tokyo Drift just as it came out here, I needed a meaningless, fun movie and it was just that.

And, on Sunday we went with the Arkans and striv and saw Dead Man's Chest. Wow! Great fun, great acting, great visuals... great movie!

And now, I'm going to see Les Chavaliers du Ciel over lunch.

Going...

That Keira lass has grown a bit, no? Gettin geven more beautiful.

Chevaliers du Ciel was sooo good! Lots of flying sequences, apparently shot with real planes. We also have those Mirage 2000 in our Air Force and they are great in maneuvering, I believe even better than the F16, which we also have. We're tryin gto satisfy every weapons dealer in the world you see!

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Definately a more puffy face

Exactly what I noticed during the movie. She's almost a... woman, now.

I'm stuck; can't bring myself to scroll down past her tummy.

I liked the new Pirates ok but it was a bit too makeup & costume driven to be wholly satisfying. Plus the action seemed way way over the top, as compared to just plain over the top in the first one.

I have been on a thirteen year old boys movie binge, As a treat for me...(FOR WHO?) We have watched a selection he came up with. Posidon Adventure, Sorry action pals. Twas terrible active, I'd give it that.
Lonsome Dove that was fun.
The Terminal
Rat race
Told him "we read next week, no more movies... He has a mad desire to see The Snake in the Air movie. NO AND NO. Somethings you need to pawn off on Dad.
City of lost Children. Ok. Great sets.

That Keira lass looks very much like an amalgam of Liz Hurley and Winona Ryder.

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

There is absolutely nothing wrong with that my friend.


I watched the Chronicles of Narnia tonight. Wow, I did not expect to be that bored. It was like 2 hours of total suck with 30 minutes of watchable fighting at the end. I'm not sure what all the buzz was about.