Spoiler :

The Allies win World War 2.
Hitler dies.

Max Payne on HBO.

For what it is and was meant to be, not bad.

And I'm getting one of them Taurus Judge pistoles. All the arguments against them have to do with concealed carry and use beyond 10 yds. -- neither of which affect my use of the weapon.

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Spoiler :

The Allies win World War 2.
Hitler dies.

fuck

FUCK!!

you fuckin ruiner!

thank you Arkan. ^^

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Originally posted by ArkanGL:
Spoiler :

The Allies win World War 2.
Hitler dies.

STOP STEALING MY GAGS!!!

Was that yours?

No, probably Arkan's, when he goes off to see Ned.

LOL

Rock-n-rolla

kind of a fun frenetic mess of a movie.

Dialog was a little tough to follow in parts for this yank but good writing and acting made up in part for the schizophrenic plot. I think this was a case of good writing meeting bad direction, odd since Guy Ritchie both wrote and directed it but there it is.

Just got back from Wales, and seeing Moon (yes, I had to travel to a different country to get to see it). I loved it - a well-made, intelligent and thought-provoking science fiction film. That young Mr Jones should go far.

The only wobble for me was when I realised that Sam's boss was Douglas Reynholm...

best
Chris H

Under the Same Moon - Pretty tough look at the illegal immigrant situation and what it does to families with relatives trying to earn money in the US to send home to Mexico. It has its heart-warming moments too, but there's enough hurt in it to make it seem somewhat realistic.

Haven't seen that one due to allergies to main protagonist's acting style but from what I've heard from those that have it's a bit on the 'soap opera' side; the illegal border crossing situation is just so incredibly fucked-up that anything barely realistic is, as you mention, despairingly grim. Check out Sin Nombre for a more realistic, not suitable for an evening of popcorn, raw view at the hell march towards el Norte that starts way more to the south than Tijuana.

Fermat's Room. 4 mathematicians are invited to a mysterious get together under the promise of participating in a great problem's solution. The meeting devolves into a puzzle-solving nightmare they must endure to survive. Sounds interesting on paper, but poor acting, logic plot holes, dumbed-down conflict resolution make this one a boring, bloodless slasher film.

Tear this heart out. Well crafted recreation of Mexican society's transformation as the 1910 revolution winds down (or is aborted, depending who you ask) and a new class emerges from the turmoil to settle down and become the new force of change into modernity. The story is told from the perspective of a young girl that marries a soldier on his way up the ladder of power. Semi-factual portrayal of historic events without the sacred veneer of patriotic worship, even while 'names have been changed to avoid hurting sensibilities'. A good film for catching a glimpse of power machinations in a society where a woman has to be doubly strong just to avoid becoming irrelevant.

I'm seeing 3-D stuff, buying into that scene knowing 3-D is going to be overkilled and flooded in the next few years.

For the technical I don't doubt that the 3-D done process is going to take touch and time.

Today I'm thinking about the crude. Can it be done quick? Say a two hour spot two weeks after, with a room full of people and computers in overdrive? Can crude be automated to the degree that we could get "near live". Say in the next day or two after a live program. Or two hours. How about after a thirty second delay, with good computers?

Who knows what is possible?

Because to home would be hard, but to theaters would put people back in public places. Everything comes around. I remember being extremely young and seeing a copy of "Conan" and "For your Eyes Only" on a VCR tape, when movies could only be seen on tv cut. Now everything is in the home.

3-D. I've discovered you get used to it.

Harvard beats Yale, 29-29. Seemed like a lot of Ivy League footballers making a bigger deal about a game that no one outside of the rich white elite gives a damn about. Also several of those guys seem like total douches.

Finally saw Coraline, and of course it was fantastic.

Going to watch The International tonight. (Mmmmm...Clive Owen...Mmmmm...guns...Mmmmm... Clive Owen...)

Watched TIMECRIMES, again, before sending back to Netflix. Also recently watched GIRL INTERRUPTED, KIDS, and LOST IN TRANSLATION. Oh and started season 3 of the recent DR WHO series.

Sunshine Cleaning - A whole lot of heartache wrapped in a comedic coating provided almost entirely by Amy Adams' cheery distortion field. I liked it, but it was pretty intense at times.

The Man From Earth - Very, very simple scifi film that posits a 14,000 year old cave man who is saying goodbye to a group of college academic friends so he can move on to a different life before they get suspicious about his lack of aging. As an experiment he decides to tell them the truth about why he's leaving. An hour and a half of interesting discussion and questions follow.

More DR WHO....

Congorama. A story between an inventor looking for lost family and a stranger he befriends. Conflict, treason, and secrets going back many years slowly emerge. Interesting, low-key film with a few unexpected (if a bit goofy) turns and a nostalgic tone.

Unfinished sky. The sudden arrival of a badly bruised woman at the remote property of a lonely man and his dog foretells very bad things about to unfold. An illegal alien escaping from abuse, she finds the man a puzzle that both will try to untangle, and later, try to defend themselves from both friends and enemies. Development a bit slow and cold, this film manages to portray the problems of communication between characters, and how the ongoing global problem of immigration and slavery seeps into every corner of many countries. A bit of clichéd acting and resolution but it has some arresting moments.

Candy. A young couple's downfall due to drug addiction. A few boring scenes dealing with the usual parental confrontations, broken promises and plunges into deeper waters are saved by spot-on casting (Abbie Cornish, Heath Ledger, Geoffrey Rush) and the stench of the despair that oozes from the screen. You'll find it either exasperating or gut-wrenching.

I found it gut-wrenching. It's the only movie to date I stopped 2/3 through 'cause I didn't want to see the end.