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funniest show since Arrested Development aired IMHO. A bit rough around the edges but loved most of the season.
you can probably ignore that last paragraph, in all seriousness, it's a 3/5... not that smart but kinda silly and likeable. I have gone off Rachel McAdams though. I'm sure when she reads that she'll be very upset.
I've gone off every single Woody Allen movie having the lead character act like a stuttering fuckwit just like every character Woody himself ever played. Which is basically himself.
Black Swan is indeed an awesome movie. I enjoyed it. Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, Truman Show) writes classic style 'what if' sci-fi (bit like Philip K Dick or Isaac Asimov). In this case, Time is literally money. Aging has been completely stopped, and everyone has a clock on their arm that starts ticking down from the age of 25. You can just hold hands and instantly trade units of time (and it is stolen equally easily, which is a bit silly!) If your time reaches zero, you die instantly. If you're rich, you can live forever. If you're poor, every day is a fight to add those precious minutes and hours to your clock.
No attempt is made to hide the comparison to modern capitalism and society (it's mentioned in dialogue repeatedly) so if you're more of a pro-market type then you'd probably want to watch this as much as I want to watch Atlas Shrugged. It's interesting to see a sort of left-wing leaning action film though. And in a world where stuff as silly as the Dark Knight gets rave reviews I don't know why critics have such a problem with it. It's simple, well made, doesn't outstay it's welcome, has some tense scenes and fun character exchanges and I think Niccol has a lot of fun with the world he creates... oh and I couldn't get over the fact that the main character looks like Cole from Infamous :p recent adaptations of "Jane Eyre" (8.5/10) and "Dorian Gray" (7.5/10) - both good! Jane Eyre was handled better, but I felt that the 42% on RT that Dorian Gray got was totally unjustified. There were a few bad choices but come on, look at the shit that gets squeezed through the hollywood system every day, Dorian Gray had good casting, good acting, a great score, and it captured the moral of the story.
"The Rise and Fall of the Russian Oligarchs" - well, what I DID appreciate was candid interviews with really rich, selfish men who were just like yeah, A was a logical chess move so I did A. America looks a little less corrupt in comparison - but it looks a lot more hypocritical! Yeah a friend of mine had the same thought. It's a chase movie, feels a bit like Minority Report in places too imo.
It ain't Stalker but it's a fun film :p the leads are actually watchable? I was interested but those three leads are pretty bland.
Tronyn, how good is Fassbender and shame he is wasted in crap like X Men First Class. I think it was fine if you compare it to other recent action films and not proper hard sci-fi. It's central idea is silly but it's heart is in the right place.
Main characters didn't bother me, but they are very stock and not at all memorable. I was more interested in where he was going with it. Certainly fine to say that the characters are dull. It is a very silly idea but people don't have a problem with this in stuff like Inception so whatever. America looks a little less corrupt in comparison - but it looks a lot more hypocritical! You should watch The Trap documentary by Adam Curtis. It has a section on the fall of the soviet union and how the west moved in and by insane economic moves created the Oligarchs and in turn led the country to Putin. In fact you should pretty much watch anything by Adam Curtis ever, it's all good :) will watch it. I just think Niccol is a better writer than director (Lord of War being a case in point). Whereas I rate Nolan as a better filmmaker than writer making plot silliness more forgivable.
Yeah that's fair enough, it's very unremarkable in that way, and Niccol is a very samey director.
tbh a colaboration between them would be interesting. I think Nolan is losing his way a bit since the Prestiege :/ Justin Timberlake (lol) is actually not too bad at acting. HE has a great moment where you drop to your knees and scream:
"NOOOOOOO!O!OO!O!O!O!!!!!!!" It's wasn't that convincing, but you could tell that he tried :D :D :D Overall I enjoyed the film. has anyone seen this doc? It's german, but with english subtitles. I definitely reccomend looking it up to get an interesting glimpse of the current world economic market. Some really REALLY interesting scenes and locations, and also interesting talking heads. if you like talking heads.
just realised I didnt pimp this, excellent little animated flick that didnt get as much coverage as it should have. Probably because its borderline unmarketable with most of its (rather quirky) jokes coming through clever dialogue and characterisation rather than visual gags.
Riffs a lot of classic movies too including a priceless setpiece moulded on the Flight of the Valyries invasion from Apocalpyse Now. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Great humour, sometimes hard to get, dragging, weird ending, did not get the german guy himself. Not the masterpiece I expected but definitely a good movie I will probably see again. She's out of my league (2010) Watched this as motiv--- no wait. I like teen romance comedies. This one was pretty good. Ultra hot Alice Eve (might know her from Big Nothing). Liked it! Slackers (2002) Kinda dark humor teen comedy romance thing. Social fucktard blackmails exam cheaters to get him a girl. Was really nice until later. Sucked badly then. 4/10. Little Miss Sunshine (2006) Fun. Not great but good. And feel-good too. I watched Little Miss Sunshine twice and find it quite overated. It's pretty dull and not really that charming.
I didn't like Dr Strangelove the first time I saw it. Maybe I was too young. But the second time I loved it. Haven't seen She's Out of My League or Slackers. Started watching Kingdom Hospital. I'm not Stephen Kings biggest fan - he's done some brilliant stuff, but he's also done a lot of garbage. Only up to episode 4, it's pretty good so far. Not spectacular - but fully deserving of a 10.30 timeslot. Would be interesting to see Lars Von Trier's version of Kingdom Hospital, the original version. Anyone seen both King's Kingdom Hospital and Lars' The Kingdom? dark and evil http://vimeo.com/33061861
french and funny http://vimeo.com/7600831 big and stenchy http://vimeo.com/2695298 Sorority Pillow Fight! http://vimeo.com/21351070 re super, the skin I live in, antichrist, I saw the devil (a lil bit), possibly others.
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