4823, 4 and 5 just bet better. Thanks for the tolerance and the wit. I remember arguing earlier that community contributions give one a proportionate right to be an unpleasant person. Well I hope my maps excuse me.

And thanks for the recommendations nitin.
Overall things are pretty good. Even if we were stuck in the perpetual 80's (my god) my pessimism is just bitching. The main thing is that culture could be complete garbage but optimism or pessimism about the world, would still be an entirely different thing (ie Steven Pinker's The Better Angels Of Our Nature). 

well the posts I mean are as obvious as my shitty math abilities

in terms of film taste, I'm pretty sure I tend to like films that are critically acclaimed (except my favourite movie of all time, Ravenous, which has an RT rating of 40% but which I could not love more), I'm just narrow genre-wise. If it's classic scifi, horror or drama, hopefully I've seen it and evaluated it. 

Scarface (198x)
Totally confused, overall I did not like this too much. The beginning was nice but Tony started to get on my nerves (both accent and character) and it went all clichee textbook "bad things happen to bad people who do drugs". Best thing was some of the music and reliving GTA Vice City (which probably triggered my positive response to the music). Interesting just how much they copied right from this movie. Those IP pirates, tssk tssk!
6/10 maybe, I don't plan to rewatch it though. Maybe it is a cultural thing, maybe it is that I am watching it not in the 80s, but bleh. Heat seems like a movie you could compare it to and that one I've seen like 4 times so far.

PS: The image of http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071562/ totally looks like Legolas in thumbnails. 

i think i agree. 

I've seen it a month or two ago and while I didn't dislike it, I really don't get its status as a "classic". 

I think you've gotta be a coloured american to like it. I liked it, but didn't consider it a classic like what is made out. 

really good, but its not at all comparable to Heat. Its deliberately more operatic in everything. 

Heard reports this is decent despite a meh trailer. Anyone?? 

in case anyone cares. Have a few more to add still.

New titles start from number 298 onwards.

http://www.imdb.com/list/tRA4ZACG66o 

Your TV list badly needs more UK stuff, eg Spaced, Coupling, Father Ted, IT Crowd, Black Books. Might be too much comedy for you though. Firefly? :)

And I really have to try Twin Peaks.

Weird that you list Community. I found that painful to watch and quit after 4-5 episodes. Felt like a really badly written, clichee ridden, cheap series to me. 

Ive tried those, didnt really like them much. I do like stuff like Fawlty Towers, Extras and Blackadder but not enough to put them on that list.

Still havent got around to Firefly, have only had it lying around for about 2 years :) 

I just watched through IT Crowd this year, it was great! A really funny comedy. Just about every character was good - my fav was Reynholm and Maurice, but Jen, Roy even Richmond the goth were all great.

Probably not quite popular enough for America to remake though. Oh wait wait, I just looked it up.... turns out US DID remake it, but it flopped and wasn't picked up after the pilot. Idiots. How can you remake a comedy when it's the actors and characters that make it so good. It's completely different if you cast different people. 

Nitin have you seen Pixote (1981)? One for the "children growing up in the streets" genre based in Brazil, of course. Not as good as City of God, but different. 7.8 on imdb.

I didn't mind it. The actors were mostly kids from the streets as well. The lead was shot dead by police several years later. 

no havent heard of that one, most the brazilian cinema I have seen is post 2000, except Black Orpheus. 

Brilliant film, slower paced and more emotive and thoughtful than the trailer, a good balance of story, concept and action. 

was disappointed with Rian Johnson's last one, but hopefully this delivers on the promise shown in Brick. 

imperfect in the right ways. good sci-fi. 

really liked it although it was one of the most confusing time travel movies I've seen.

Looking forward to The Master. Phillip Seymour-Hoffman, I imagine, will play the perfect con man. Reviews are disappointing on Lawless but I've liked the other movies by that director so I'll be checking that out too. 

apart from Shia, that cast and that writing/directing combo cant go wrong.

Ive already booked my seats for 70mm showings of The Master in Melbourne. 

Watched Get the Gringo yesterday. Sadly without subtitles for all the spanish which meant we did not understand it all and had to guess here and there. Anyways, the major stuff was easy. It's a weird, kinda surreal movie. Story is average and the style is weird. Can't recommend it unless you want a random Mel Gibson is the badass movie to kill some time. It is not bad at all. 

saw it this weekend. Beautifully shot, that's undeniable, but I thought the storytelling fell apart in the second half. Phoenix's performance was the best, pretty convincing as a guy who became a paranoid and vulgar drunk while in the navy and doesn't know how to rejoin society. Seymour-Hoffman wasn't as good as I was expecting, but he had his moments: especially when challenged on his bullshit, his character's smooth authoritative veneer could easily give way. Best scenes were the original 'therapy session' and the 'party scene.' Selling the idea of dramatic past lives to rich ladies well past their prime who want someone to pay attention to them, lol, that's the oldest trick in the new age book.

it's hard to rate: I'd say it's worth seeing, but not in theatres if you're not a fan of the director. It's pretty meandering and opaque later on. 

Started watching Twin Peaks. I did not expect a continuous series... Someone please tell me without a spoiler (or even a non-spoiler that makes me think), does the series/season END properly or is it an open ending? 

there's an 'ending' mid-second season (a premature ejaculation of some sort). Under pressure of the tv network, Lynch had to reveal major elements of the main plot. After that, the story stalls during two or three eps and bounces again to more interesting story driven elements, never fully developed because of cancellation.
Avoid the movie sequel, Fire Walk with Me. It's a true waste imo... 

it ends, with answers, but also leave open many more questions. Basically like a lot of Lynch's other work.

Technically, you can stop watching after episode 8 of s2 as what follows is not really linked to what went before and is also not as good. But then you will miss out on what is one of the all time great last episodes IMHO.

And yes, stay clear of the prequel/sequel. 

like Shambler and Drew said, pretty damn good despite a few flaws (for me the Bruce Willis goes Die Hard scene stood out like a sore thumb but nothing else overly distracted).

So this is Rian Johnson's Memento, hope he gets a bigger budget with free rein going forward, he has some pretty neat ideas.