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. 

I do agree about that scene, it was mildly amusing in it's own right but seemed out of place given how the film had panned out at that point. 

BSG season 3 - still love it, I must admit the opening 3-4 episodes didnt quite sit right, the iraq parallels were a little too on the nose, but boy do you appreciate the setup and all that it changes in retrospect once it gets back on the ship. One more season to go but I wont rush to it just yet :)

Boardwalk Empire - very well acted and shot and there are many many moments of scripting brilliance too, but there are also a number of instances of lazy writing and trying too hard. Well worth a watch because its still streets ahead of most tv, but not quite top tier HBO, well not this season by itself anyway. 

After having read the book, I decided to go for the DVD. The books are awesome (actually it is a trilogy), but the movie issued from the 1st book is somewhat deceiving in the sense it does not reflect the complete story... Well, afterall if the movie had to reflect exactly the book, then the movie would have been 5 hours long... too long for theater format.. though..
Well, overall, it is nevertheless a good movie, that reflects pretty well the book ambiance.
I will certainly look forward the 2nd and 3rd movies, just to check whether it is improving or not... 

are the best episodes of any tv show ever IMO. 

Have you seen Ill Manors?

Powerful stuff IMO. Was worth watching.