A film which illustrates why not to mix LSD and mescaline. 

although parts of it are hilarious. 

Another movie where, though I really like it, the book was simply better - and where the celebrity actors really distracted/detracted from everything else... not always of course - I really enjoy Benicio and johnny depp is far from terrible.

tbh the movie just reminds me of eating mushrooms and watching it in my friends basement, and being bummed out and bored because I just wanted to be outside. 

would like to hear your thoughts on why you found Black Death poor and unfulfilling.

Just finished it and although it had a few issues, overall I thought it was quite good. 

finished it, loved it, great stuff.

Minor nitpicks, I hope they go somewhere with the Helo/Sharon storyline because every time they cut to that, it went down in quality.

Favorite characters so far, Baltar and Starbuck. 

It gets better and better. Just suck up the filler in S2 (there's less of that in S3/4).

And yeh, Baltar is an amazing character. 

Can't remember clearly but it was definitely bad. Having watched The Orphanage the night before and liking gritty fantasy/medieval stuff it was disappointing. I vaguely remember it being wildly inconsistent, having a lot of loose threads, losing the sense of purpose fairly readily, not living up to the early potential, and possibly some naffness as well. 

have the whole set so yeah definitely going to make my way through it all. Eventually :) 

Hey, somehow I've been living in a hole, because Takashi Miike has a new samurai epic coming out this week (in the US) called 13 Assassins, which I hadn't even heard of before today, plus Hobo With A Shotgun is coming out next week, which I had been following but then forgotten about. 

Movie tie in game!
http://hoboshotgungame.com/ 

Loved it, it's like it was written by a really awesome 12 year old. 

I raved about the dialogue in The Social Network.

This morning I saw Sweet Smell of Success and the dialog in one of the last great film noirs makes Aaron Sorkin's brilliant script seem like an amateur effort.

Easily one of the all time great dialog scripts and combined with some of James Hong Wowe's best camerawork and two amazing performances from Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis, this is cinematic magic.

9/10

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051036/ 

King's speech worth watching if you are not into historic drama? 

yeah...
like
FUCK YEAH

in that context - sean bean, fuck yeah.
peter dinklage, also, fuck yeah.
and beyond that still, good yeah etc. 

I really wanted that to be awesome. How many eps in is that? 

and it's only 2 episodes in

but the sheer idea of r-rated fantasy using castles as sets, and the plot of the books (christ, Stringer Bell or Tony Soprano would be fooled in this place)...
Its just (as they said in Braveheart) "a nestascheminbastads!" 

i remember sighing in relief when reading these.
i had just finished the WoT series (up to where RJ died, not sanderson's stuff) and i was so relieved that the asoiaf series didn't have so many contrived bullshit things or cheesy characters.

honestly, it would take the tv guys a lot of effort to fuck this up. the books provide an excellent story and doing it as a series instead of a one off movie will give enough time to properly tell the story. 

Seems nice enough so far, quite faithful to the books. The first episode might be pretty confusing to people who haven't read it though, I know alot of people who missed some key points to it (mostly the family relations of people, for instance who the queen is, and who her brother is, etc).
Good work HBOoobs. 

Okay watched For a few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad & The Ugly. You're right nitin they are even better than the first.

The Good I'd put in my top 10 greatest movies. It was lacking that good vs evil that the previous 2 films had (Tuco wasn't a classic villain and angel eyes wasn't in the movie enough), and it was disappointing that Tuco (The Ugly) was the lead character rather than Blondie (Eastwood), even if that wasn't intended. More character building for Blondie was needed, rather than Tuco. Or maybe ditch the pointless (storywise) bridge blowup scene to give some more life and backstory to Blondie.

The other big flaw were the similarities it shares with the previous films in particular Eastwood's character (I cringed when he put the poncho on), even though they're completely unrelated films and different characters.

I kept thinking is this SUPPOSED to be a prequel or not (since it takes place 30 yrs before the other 2), and that's why angel eyes is rich in the second film??? But surely blondie will remember him... As good as angel eyes was, they should have used a different characters.

Anyway, minor flaws aside it's brilliant.

I enjoyed For a few Dollars More just as much, but it doesn't make the top 10 because it wasn't really as epic and unique.

Look forward Once upon a time... 

Different actor for angel eyes, I mean.

It's like using Robert Patrick to play John Connor in T4. Just confusing. 

i've heard those three films are sometimes called an unofficial trilogy. in retrospect, it would have been really cool if they had been. still, all excellent on their own. 

thematically and stylistically with nods to the other films (like the poncho scene kona mentioned).

As for Blondie's character, IMHO the civil war sequence tells you all you need to know about the character. 

Hitchcock. Genius. Check it out.

About a couple of prep school grads who start the movie off by murdering a colleague in cold blood, stuff him into a chest and then host a dinner party on his corpse, under the unsuspecting noses of their guests. That's where Jimmy Stewart, their former professor, picks up on their mannerisms and notices something is amiss...

Yeah, it's pretty bloody good. One continuous shot (not really, but it's like one long scene), pretty ballsy and I think works wonderfully. 

but get onto Notorious zwiffle! 

It's in the queue! (I bumped it up to #1 on your recommendation.)