I dunno, there were a few bits I liked - the Cuban island scene was pretty nice old skool style Bond, Jinx was cool, and Q was quite entertaining. But just as I was thinking "Oh this is okay", some utter bollox would crop up and my eyes would start rolling in despair. 

I think Brosnan makes an excellant Bond... I just wish they'd get some better writers, directors, and quit the female equality crap and just leave the girls to be the eyecandy they should be. Bond is a sexist macho pig who happens to be a smooth talker, he shouldn't be dominated by strong female coherts who seemingly get as much screentime as the main character. 

I agree completely with everything you have ever said. Especially your thoughts on Brosnan. 

the charcter was ok, halle berry just looked a lost kid in a playground holding a gun.

brsonan makes a decent bond, and I wouldnt say the latest films have strong female chorots, just try hard strong female cohorts.

Some of the older bond films have proper strong female cohorts without that aspect ever getting in the way of them being eyecandy. 

Loved it in the cinema, but it'll be much better when the extended edition comes out which is supposedly the longest of the extended editions, (TTT extended was fantastic, specially actually giving some decent screen time to merry and pippin) Hopefully it will give some closure to Saruman( though definitely not in the scouring of the shire way), the kingsfoil bit, faramir et Eowyn etc.

As for Die another Day, it is one of the shittest films i saw in a long time. Now if they had got the second half of Tomorrow never dies right (the first half was spectacular), it could quite possibly have beaten goldeneye. As it is however, the best bonds are still goldeneye and goldfinger. Just make the next film have the word "gold" in it, and not some meshed up combination of "dies", "world", "tomorrow" etc. 

I just saw ROTK last night and I figured out what bugs me so much about the LOTR movies: Frodo and Sam. I don't know whether to blame the actors or the screenwriters. They're probably both to blame, but every time I see them on screen I want to beat the shit out of them. They weren't such whiny, neurotic, incompetent twats in the book. They bore their duty with some dignity, which is completely lost in the movies. Not to mention the fact that the actors were absolutely terrible at expressing inner turmoil. The director/screenwriter/whoeverisresponsible certainly doesn't help them by pacing their parts of the movie so slowly.

They ruined three otherwise good movies, for me.

The rest was all enjoyable, though. 

That was supposed to be "director / screenwriter / whoeverisresponsible" in the post above. 

yeah, that's basically what I was saying in my earlier post. 

H-Hour, I actually thought the extended FOTR was brilliant. 

Pirates of the Caribbean

Good old plain fun action movie, Mr Bloom's sleepwalking nicely balanced by Miss Knightley's heaving bosom.

Donnie Darko

Brilliant, original, dripping with atmosphere, only slightly spoiled by Miss Barrymore's autocue reading and the slight impression of a puppy jumping up and down and squeaking "look! look! I'm so clever and referential". 

saw this last night. Pretty good and very funny in parts but IMHO it was covering way too much territory for there to be any real focus. Still, good stuff. 

Something about this movie made me watch it again immediately. I guess I liked the mood of the movie and was trying to soak it up or something.

Also i had this theory that Diane had somehow snuck into Howard Beale's bedroom that night he had the vision, but unfortunately it didn't fit the facts. 

I think what cracked me up the most was Ned Beatty's monologue to Beale, that just came out of left field without any warning. 

the interactions between the extremist group and Faye Dunaway's people. 

Subsidiary Rights. 

Buffalo Soldiers - good premise, decent first twenty minutes but either the scriptwriters wee changed after that or forgot to go to their complete quota of scriptwriting classes because the rest is absolute garbage. Pity because there was potential here.

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind - Quite good, quirky and enjoyably humorous. Bit fleeting in its take on the subject given the dark subject matter but maybe its better done in this fashion as the original story is ridiculously unbelievable anyway.

Finding Nemo - Very good, but no Toy Story. On par with Monsters inc though. The Psycho touch was nice with Darla.

Lost in Translation - Extremely good, albeit a bit slow. Also genuinely funny even though it relies heavilyon stereotype mockery. Nice uncontrived ending to finish up with too.

Once Upon A Time in Mexico - Complete garbage. What was Johnny Depp thinking when he accepted this? He's the only half decent thing in this film (although there probably wasnt enough of him) but not even he can save this atrocious film. Lackluster action sequences too BTW. 

if anyone coudl suggest a few more films I should check out, that'd be helpful as I'm nearly through my DVD stack anyway. Here's what I currently have :

http://www.dvdaficionado.com/dvds.html?cat=1&id=nitin

Here's what I'm getting in the near future :

http://www.dvdaficionado.com/dvds.html?cat=2&id=nitin 

Requiem for a Dream 

Waking Life. Although it may be found to be pretentious.

Also, Underworld is rather poor IMO. Visuals are nice, though, if I recall correctly. 

IS rather poor. 

leviathan,

yeah I've actually been meaning to rder that, keep on forgetting.

RPG,

I've seen it and liked it, it was too cool to let the semi-pretentiousness get in the way. but it made me very dizzy on the two occasions I saw it so that's why I never bought it.

As for Underworld, I'm getting it mainly for my siter and the visuals. If it's compelte crap, I plan to resell anyway.

Any othe suggested titles? 

I have seen three other movies with Audrey Tatou and, while they're not as good as Amelie, they are still good if you are as in love with her as I am.

Happenstance - Best of the three.

He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not - Decent movie until the twist, when it gets better.

L'auberge Espagnole - Cheesy, but it's French so it doesn't bother me as much. This one is probably worth passing up.

Also, State and Main is a good movie. Funny, it's about Hollywood taking over a small town to shoot a movie there. The characters are all just really good, and Philip Seymour Hoffman always picks good movies. 

Requiem for a Dream - Visually interesting, spoilt for me by deeply unappealing characters (and Ms. Connelly doesn't get her baps out), but lots of other people seem to like it.

Memento - Definitely see at least once, certainly the most original film I've seen in years.

Twins Effect - Usual oriental sword nonsense, great fights spoilt by dull comedy.

FLCL - Possibly the best thing ever, only spoilt by the fact that it's not a movie. 

thanks for those but I dont really like Amelie as much as a lot of other people. I thought it was above average with some cool visuals and music which is why I have it.

State & Main, I'll try to check out. 

saw it a coouple of nights ago and it's very very good. Initially it feels a bit gimmicky with the structure but the more you get into it, the more you appreciate the skilful storytelling rather than noticing the gimmick.

And the acting is very very good, made it a bit hard to watch in some scenes personally. Only thing I didnt like was the end monologue but it doesnt detract from the rest of the film.

Oh, and Ms Watts seems to have a thing for explicit sex scenes.