Funny People

Loved it!

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Originally posted by ArkanGL:
The Lost Boys
Some films age well.
Some don't. This one clearly does not.
I laughed whenever Kiefer Sutherland was on screen.Everything was so kitschy... especially the bare-chested long-haired saxophone player from the introduction.This movie is the proof that everything we find cool now will be laughable at in 20 years. That said, it was certainly innovative for its time, and introduced some ideas that would be reused many times.

Agreed. Caught it on TV a fortnight back and squirmed. Still cool and my eldest lad loved it, but bah, how good was it when it first screened, eh? It just was

Caught a few episodes of the latest Dr. House on the Sky channel whilst on holidays; background TV whilst prepping for dinner. I've managed to avoid it to-date, given HR's comic goofy background (typified in his excellent performance in Jeeves and Wooster) - have to say i really enjoyed it and will defo be borrowing the box sets of my mates when i return to work. Very edgy. Hope the first series was just as sharp.

CLOAK AND DAGGER - blast from the past! Funny how delusional that poor kid seems now that I'm an adult....

Watched the first 3 episodes of Firefly again last night. Man was that a good show! Kind of debating buying the bluray version of that and Dollhouse soon.

Also, I watched Defying Gravity 1x02, which is pretty good! I know some reviewers thought it was too slow and too much badly done drama, but imho it's at least as good as Lost and hopefully we'll get some answers before the end of season 5 in this show.

The Ugly Truth
I expected piece of shit.
I was surprised.
It's not bad at all.
Like a chick-flick with dick jokes : a dick flick

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Originally posted by ArkanGL:

dick flick

Take that to the bank Twitter.

My Wife the Actress - Fairly amusing French film about the trials and tribulations of being married to an actress. I laughed enough to say it's worth renting.

Open Your Eyes - About 4/5ths through the film, I finally realized this was the one they remade into Vanilla Sky, which I never saw. But this was actually pretty good in an Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind kind of way.

The Goode Family 1x12 - Hilarious! I'm torn whether the best line was when the grandfather tells them that he's been threatened to die in so many different ways, he's immune to new threats (except a super-virus) or when someone screams "Move to France, Lance!" when Gerald is bicycling on the highway.

Watched an episode of the original Star Trek series and it was pretty rough. An entire planet that was somehow influenced to act like 1930s gangsters. Yesh. At least Vic Tabac was in it, I love that guy.

It was better than last week's episode where there were friggin' space hippies (maybe space beatniks, hard to tell) that were causing trouble. So bad.

The Dark Knight - finally, for the first time. I enjoyed it, though TBH it dragged a bit and seemed like a couple of movies shoe-horned together.

I agree my first viewing of it left me somewhat tired. Watching it again though it flows at a very nice pace for me. I love the themes that are really brought out here much better than in the first movie. The hope embodied by Harvey Dent and the tragedy of Two-Face. The depression of Bruce Wayne. The desperation of Gorden. The compassion of Lucius Fox and Alfred. The menace of the Joker and the overwhelming exhaustion of the city as a whole.
I love the ending with Gary Oldman's monologue.

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adam - its actually more of a serious drama than the trailer makes it look, but it has a definite charm. adam is a guy with aspergers, who has been living with his dad, and working a job his dad got him. but with his dad's death, the loss of his job, and a possible relationship with a new neighbour things get confused and messy.

Watched the original Inglorious Bastards movie and it was ok. Sort of a Dirty Dozen feel. Not really worth the effort.

I also finished season two of Friday Night Lights and I'm not sure I liked how it ended. Seems kinda crappy.

West Wing - awlays liked the quick writing on this show.

Amy - So you're Canadian now?

Donna - Yes.

Amy - Do you feel funnier?

Donna - No but am developing a massive inferiority complex.

HELLRAISER - tore our souls apart....

12 MONKEYS - love this movie!

FIGHT CLUB - you do NOT talk about FIGHT CLUB....

Fast & Physics-free - Yes, it's a series I can't seem to look away from. Like an hour and a half long car crash. Newton is redlining in his grave he's spinning so fast. Oh wait... the nitro-methane boost is kicking in; he's going faster still!

Seven Dumpsters And A Corpse

Aristocratic Swiss compulsive hoarder and cat lady dies in her rented apartment, her two sons spend a month cleaning it out. And filming it all.

Dunno if these guys had heard of "gloves" or "tetanus" but the doco digs deep into their mother's somewhat disastrous yet sad blue-blood life and the brother's upbringing - literally. Flashbacks and exposition are triggered by old Super-8 films, letters, legal documents, toys and airguns are found in the vast quantities of crap.

There's also a nice Greek take on dealing with unwanted kitties.

Kofi Annan makes an appearance. No, really.

And some extremely close-to-home, at least for me, lying to the landlord. A disused fireplace is used as an incinerator, landlord asks about the soot on the walls..."That...this was where the lodger lived. Nothing to do with us..." quickly intercut with the two brother gleefully throwing cat baskets and magazines onto the leaping flames.

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BILL COSBY - HIMSELF excellent stand up. Musta watched this one a billion times as a kid. Still funny as all hell!

THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOIS - Bunuel's surreal comedy about a group whose efforts to sit and have dinner together are repeatedly thwarted. I've tried watching this 3 times now, and something always happens that prevents me from finishing it. I plan to watch the second half tonight and NOT fall asleep this time....

The Hurt Locker
Traumatic.

Fifty Dead Men Walking
Not bad at all.
Irish.