in my book, I really enjoyed it. Much more than BAR, although I liked that too. 

Melancholia
Enjoyed it, nice imagery and good performances. Not entirely sure about switch of focus half-way through.
Going to (re)watch some of Trier's older movies next, the Dogma style ones for example.

Primer
Watched it finally (I actually thought it was new). Agree with what the others said in this thread. Niceish, but some omissions make it feel unnecessarily crude in parts.

The Tree of Life
Definitely had something. Visual story telling and abstracting stuff. Maybe a bit too slow in parts.

Snowtown
Now I know everything about Australians. And not just that they eat all the time. Every day! :( Also based on a well-known group of murders in the nineties which I'm not familiar with, but I thought the characters were pale and the whole thing kind of boring. 

Actually, the switch was okay. Makes sense now that I think about what the movie was about. Or something. I leave the profound analysis to you know who. 

try Europa, that was great IMHO but keep in mind a lot of his older stuff is more abstract. 

I assume everyone has seen http://xkcd.com/657/ ? 

Cool !! 

Not a film, but has anyone else watched American Horror Story? Thoughts on it?

Freaky weird show. 

Just randomly watched Get Carter (1971) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067128/

Had no idea what to expect and got a nice grim crime thriller drama in 1970's England. Parts sure felt dated and some even amateurish (the violence in particular) but overall I really liked it and was on the edge of my seat through the second half. Seriously thrilling and unpredictable. Calm and cool. As I said, it is quite grim and has a serious theme. I felt like I was missing a lot due to language and sound troubles at times but in the end I think that a) the movie is meant to let you guess/feel a lot and b) things being uncertain or not explained added a lot.

Definitely recommended if you think you might like it! 

Spirit liked a movie ;-) 

you missed how much I liked Hanna!

also rewatched Anchorman recently and enjoyed it. 

 

there's quite a few good ones, I even enjoyed the recent Colin Farrell starrer London Boulevard, despite its many flaws.

Sexy Beast is still the one that sticks with me most out of the modern ones. 

Check out Long Good Friday. 

that and Mona Lisa too, Bob Hoskins is great in both. 

actually laughed out loud. 

Reasonably executed but completely mindless drivel. 

err, how inert was this? I dont think I was ever really excited, thriller or generally gave a shit. Except maybe right towards the end when Magneto finally turned. 

Magneto was deffo the star. I liked the authenticity of its scenes, as a movie, on the whole. 

lolwut? 

Pointless. Could have been interesting if the characters had some depth that fed into the conflict. Once the general shock of the first 1/4 of it wore off, it was a headless chicken of a film. 

like the book 

xmen first class was total crap, nearly everything in it was ripped from previous xmen movies (magneto turns the missles around like he does with bullets in xmen 1, mystique is angsty about her appearance and discrimination like in xmen 1, there is a "hot-headed" teen character with fire-powers like in xmen2, there is a cure for mutants like in xmen 3, and it's hilariously developed by beast, who later claims in xmen 3 that he's never before heard of the possibility of a cure), the plot made no sense whatsoever even in the context of mutant superpowers (lol and that takes some trying - lol a "cure" for mutant APPEARANCES that doesn't affect powers? wtf) and the one cool scene (magneto in south america) was a ripoff of a godfather II scene. nothing original whatsoever, and crap. what a mess. 

I thought it was the best of the XMen movies to date. The acting and character development was better than any of the other movies. The casting (Magneto's actor actually does pass off as a young version of his older counterpart) was good.
Seeing Mystique lean towards the darker side is fun to watch. Kevin Bacon was good. Very good infact.
Magneto turning bullets around is nowhere near as cool as him turning all of those missiles round at once.

I'll give you the stuff about Beast and the cure.

But to really get into the symantics of it is a bit rediculous. It's XMen. There is'nt a single believeable super-power or mutant character in the whole series, it's not just the film. Atleast it didnt have Halle Berry in it. Worst actor ever. 

It had Jennifer Lawrence. 

whoa wait sleepwalkr, you watched this? why?