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Ratatouille. Pro-segregationist propaganda.

LOL!

Just finished up Season 2 of the current DR WHO!

Had a chance to see a sneak preview of POST GRAD, friend had some tickets from a neighbor but couldn't go, but I declined after not being able to even sit through the trailer.... Blegh!

District 9

BLEEEAAAAAAAAK!
Magnificently executed.
Fun as hell.
Original.

I loved it.

The trailer for Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones played before the movie.
It seems really good. In a Heavenly Creatures way.

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Otherwise, I'm having a jolly good time watching Stephen Fry in America.

I was left feeling a little disappointed with this series. I expected much more from Mr Fry, over and above the English eccentric. That, and the fact that he seemed to skim past some states. Nevertheless, a light and funny tour.

Grow Your Own

A bitter sweet Brit movie centring around immigrant families being given allotments - peices of communal land in the city, on which to site a shed and cultivate your own food, by way of cheap therapy; an alternative to councelling and pills. Predictable reactions from the locals, before the drama commences. Very nicely shot, good acting etc (Benedict Wong was excellent as the traumatised alien), but ultimately failed to deliver on what could have been a very moving story. Shame.

Jamaica's Olympic champion Usain Bolt wins the 100m gold medal at the Athletics World Championships in Berlin and sets a new world record time of 9.58 seconds in the process - BBC iPlayer video link

the time traveller's wife - i really really enjoyed the book. started to get a little nervous about the film. the clip they kept playing was from the start in the library, and the dialogue felt much clumsier than the book. but once you get into the film i kind of just got into it. i could probably do with re-reading the book, but probably best to leave it till after the film. i was conscious that there were changes, things missed out. there are things i remember, which aren't in there at all. and things that are in there that i don't recall having as big a part. anyway, i just let myself get into it, and mostly enjoyed it. its a decent enough job, given how big the book is and how much they must have had to juggle to make it work at all. of course, it works well enough having read the book, might be different altogether if i hadn't.

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the time traveller's wife - i really really enjoyed the book. started to get a little nervous about the film. the clip they kept playing was from the start in the library, and the dialogue felt much clumsier than the book. but once you get into the film i kind of just got into it. i could probably do with re-reading the book, but probably best to leave it till after the film. i was conscious that there were changes, things missed out. there are things i remember, which aren't in there at all. and things that are in there that i don't recall having as big a part. anyway, i just let myself get into it, and mostly enjoyed it. its a decent enough job, given how big the book is and how much they must have had to juggle to make it work at all. of course, it works well enough having read the book, might be different altogether if i hadn't.

I really liked the book as well and looking forward to see the movie.

When I first heared about the movie I knew they would change it alot. The idea behind the book should transform very well into a movie. It is basically just a random stream of shortstories taken out of somebodies life. Easy enough to get rid of some and add others that will work better for the medium while still stay true to the idea and overall story.

Without having seen the movie, one thing I dislike is that the trailer to it contains a 'major' spoiler. - unless they changed quite a lot of the darkest periode of the book.

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District 9

BLEEEAAAAAAAAK!
Magnificently executed.
Fun as hell.
Original.

I loved it.

Is it out yet?

First seen a teaser for it over a year ago, waiting for it to arrive ever since!

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Is it out yet?

It came out in Canada last Thursday.
No idea about the rest of the world.

Yeah, it's out here in the USA....

Disgrace. A professor in a Cape Town university, facing some serious sex-life issues, falls in disgrace after an 'incident' with a student, event he dismisses with overflowing ego. He retreats to his daughter's land farm in remote Eastern Cape, where trying to live the life of the settler is difficult for a lone woman. The father soon finds a suspicious web of events unfolding and is victim of an attack along with her daughter. But even deeper, darker things begin to come to light...

Great performance from John Malkovich and Jessica Haines. A bleak, stark landscape is the background for a powerful drama over sexuality, human nature and post-apartheid race relations in South Africa.


Pixar's UP. That wasn't a film for kids at all. Some heavy, dark interpretations of the plot give it a sad, brooding aspect to it all. Well, maybe for 21st century kids.

Undeclared disc 1 of the series made by Judd Apatow and introduced a lot of the crew that we can see in Funny People, Knocked Up, etc.. Very funny look at the first year in college for a group of freshmen and life in their coed dorm.

An Evening with Kevin Smith
Basically a collection of witty stories from the college tour. Too much of the stupid kids asking questions and a lot of fat, sweaty Kevin Smith trying to make the answers as funny as possible. There were some good stories, and the appearance of Jay was funny. They made a joke about him not showing up for appearances which is funny because the Girl was at two cons where he did just that. The Jay you see here in 2002 was a fairly clean one, when we saw him in 2008 he was pretty tweaked out.

Julie & Julia
Really a funny little period piece, or more precisely two period pieces. The story of julia child learning French cooking was such fun to watch that it could have stood on its own. Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci are dazzling as the American ex-pats loving Paris while enjoying the food of their adopted home.

The more modern piece, set in 2002, was a little sappy as you have to endure the very cute Amy Adams 'blogging' about cooking all of the Child cookbook recipes in a year. Her husband is so supportive and nice that you get a little pissed at him after a while. Still a very funny chick flick. I especially liked how the film uses the audio of people eating to really make you FEEL the texture of the food. When they munch on the tasty looking bruschetta you hear the satisfying crunch that, rather than sounding disgusting, made me hungry.

Killshot
Based on an Elmore Leonard novel Mickey Rourke plays a native American that is a hitman for the Canadian mob. With Thomas Jayne playing basically the hard working everyman character he always plays and Diane Lane and Rosario Dawson the women that seem as beaten down by the weather as much as they are by the pathetic men they were saddled with. Mickey Rourke and Joseph Gorden Levitt were fascinating to watch as the killers. Really this movie had much better acting than writing which ultimately left me unsatisfied with it.

Saw District 9 and it's fantastic. Really well put together and impressive. Had a couple of questions, but definitely worth seeing.

I wonder if there will be a sequel and if so, they will make it good. Not sure whether I'm for or against it.

Alive in Joburg

In case you have not seen it here it the short film it was based on.

Best District 9 review so far : It Was A Spaceship Full Of Dr. Zoidbergs!

Damn, now I'm going to laugh at the wrong parts when I watch it.

As usual, I only see movies on planes. So, I just got around to seeing J. J. Abrams' Star Trek reboot. I quite liked it, actually. It was respectful to the canon without being bound to it, and a fun story. Good action sequences, too.

I was not totally blown away, but I did like it.

Edit: It does contain one enormous impossible coincidence (among all the other merely gigantic ones), but in the end I gave it a pass.

Last year saw about 80% of the latest Indiana Jones while on a plane. Technical and human problems made me desist, not to mention some plot points.
Yesterday saw it on the TV and it seemed even worse.
BTW tried to watch 'Duplicity' recently also on a plane. Interesting premise, but the forced chemistry between Roberts and Owen and the convoluted, illogical plot turning into a romantic pap makes me wary of revisiting it on a proper screen.

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We were disappointed by Duplicity well, I was. I think PK thought it was going to suck going in.