I watched the first season on netflix the other day, hilarious. 

Yes Archer is pretty great. I watch it on Hulu when they're posted. Makes me want to get into more of those Adult Swim style shows, I hear good things about Venture Bros, Super Jail is pretty fucked up, etc. 

Venture bros. is great, i actually plan on buying the first four seasons. Superjail is fucking weird, but also funny. Same goes for squidbillies, athf, robot chicken, &c. They're all i watch anymore. 

start with The Fly and then Videodrome for old school Cronenberg. Then follow up with A History of Violence and Eastern Promises and ask whether its still the same guy who made the latter two :) 

Nitin... which do you prefer, his old horrors or his new dramas? 

Eastern Promises is great, as is anything with Jeff Golblum (The Fly).

I've still NEVER seen videodrome, which is crazy now that I think about it. 

I like both. I think the last two are more mature works but his earlier stuff is more zany and provocative. 

in a good way though.

The Brood, for example, has some very interesting ideas. But something like Spider is a much more mature film. 

I remember really not being into that. Mature, yes, but kind of boring and with a not-particularly interesting or surprising twist... maybe I'd feel differently now. 

spider is the only other one i've seen. it struck me as the kind of film you'd write a university paper on, analysing it as a study into mental illness along with the bleakness/loneliness/confusion that surrounds it. well made in that respect but it had absolutely zero entertainment value

cheers for the recommendations nitin.. heard much about the fly but never given it a go 

is very good IMHO, its obviously not a popcorn film but surely you dont expect that going in. 

but by entertainment value i don't necessarily mean popcorn factor - i didn't expect action, explosions, special effects and all that jazz - but it never really presented itself in a dramatised film format, i guess. i respect it for that as it sensitively captured the cold, bleak, depressing realism of the situation, but there just wasn't anything to [i]enjoy[/i] about it. that doesn't make it bad, obviously, and i did feel kind of better for having seen it but i wouldn't watch it again 

I guess 'enjoy' is subjective. The ones I suggested dont have this issue though so come back and post your thoughts! 

Spider seems like a bit of an anomaly to me 

A short full of wtf, yet oddly mesmerizing. 

Not bad, a certain Hitchcock vibe. 

Yeah it was very hitchcockian. Good twist as well. 

Just saw North by Northwest last night for the ~4th time. Still an awesome movie. Cary Grant is dreamy, no homo. Hitchcock is the man. 

Harry potter and the deathly hallows part one
Did not expect it to be this good. Did not remember much from the book. Actually mixed up the sixth with this. Fantastic work with the music. Sinister. I AM excited for the last one now!

I don't get how they think it us suitable for 12 year old (germany) though.

And I still wish I had never seen anything if it thus preserving everything as I imagined it when reading. 

The 40 year old virgin
which was as empty and shallow as my bed. 

 

(ducks for cover). 

Steve Carrol sucks in the 40 yr old virgin. He just comes off as a wanker that doesn't deserve to lose his virginity.

Deathly Hallows P1, was good but I was expecting something a bit more epic. It just kind of ends. Definitely one where you need to watch part 1 and 2 together, because part 1 as a standalone movie really doesn't progress the story much. Never read the books myself. 

except first and third. 

except for 4, none of them have been terrible, just ok. 4 was rubbish though IMHO.