It is much better than I expected, but then I have only seen Silence of the Lambs some 15 years ago and I have never read the books. But as I said, everything about that show is really well done: characters, dialogue, visuals, acting, ensemble, story arc, and the weekly stories.

The only mildly distracting thing for me is Mads Mikkelsen's accent, which is heavier than I expected. I keep waiting for them to explain it somehow, but they don't. Maybe it's something that I'm supposed to know from the books. I always assumed Hannibal Lecter was American. 

So, he's from Lithuania. Alright then, but still, the Finnish language is, AFAIK, unlike any other language in Europe except for Hungarian, so it's not very believable. 

Wow that was quite an odd movie. Liked it though. 

High Fidelity

Jack Black is an obnoxious cunt. Weird movie with character development that makes no sense (I can see how it is explained in a book), weird random jumping from thought to thought, I still wanted to find out how it ended and the ending was both nice and stupidly random. Can't recommend, no idea why it is so praised. 

Yes he is. 

That cunt0r! 

you seen Kill List?
Watched that and then Rubber.
Really happy with both films, actually, but kind of wish I'd watched them in the opposite order! 

have had Kill List for 6 mths or so, havent got to it yet. 

to go in without any context or hype, if possible 

Gangster Squad (2013)
Boring and stupid. Skip by all means.

Hansel and Gretel, Witchhunters
Stupid and weird. Started great but later witches seemed like a mixture of lesbian goths and anorexic male metal groupies with makeup. Terrible acting too. Weird mixture of serious and silly. Not bad if you are looking for a silly movie with no pretense. Whenever they used the word "fucking" I cringed. 

Do watch it. It's goddamn amazing. Mads does an astounding job playing Hannibal. 

The Shadow Line - brilliant UK neo noir crime miniseries. It has very distinctive style which some have found off putting, but I watched the whole thing in a day.

Friday Night Lights Season 1 - whoa, this should not be as good as it is. Generally well written for the most poart, great characters and terrific acting.

The Good Wife Season 1 - only saw this because someone I really trust said to. And like FNL, it is also much better than it has any right to be. Some of the week to week legal drama stuff is not that great but the acting and characters are phenomenal and the season arc storytelling is pretty good.

Hands Over the City (1963) - watch this and then watch some of the Berlusconi coverage from now. I would make a case that this movie demonstrates that italian politics is actually in mind bogglingly better shape than 50 years ago.

Silver Linings Playbook - good film with good acting, but massively overrated and overpraised.

A Separation - amazing iranian movie which is surprisingly not really about a divorce in Iran (although that is a mjor plot point) but about how truth is a matter of perspective. 

 

should be watching Man of Steel on Tuesday night, anyone seen that? 

...but that was rather disappointing, beside the usual hollywood cgi machine. 

the first 40 minutes is fairly strong, pretty affecting. The film moves ably between the present day man drifting, trying to hide his abilities out of a sense of duty for his adoptive father, and his childhood as he grapples with what he is capable of. Costner and the kid who plays young kal do great.
Then it gets pretty ham fisted, and the tiresome latter half slogs toward its inevitable happy ending.
Kind of similar to my feelings about the Matrix 1, actually, which maybe makes sense considering the matrix-like plot elements and general blase ultraviolent cgi'd progression (and fishburne). 

Agreed! When I first watched that show I couldn't believe how good it was, given the setting. But it is. Even the somewhat cheesy game moments are touching, and also the games are very well filmed.

Also, Minka Kelly. 

Was fun to watch. I delves in and out of different genres at times so its not pure horror. 

Minka Kelly is hot but that voice... 

actually like Insidious. 

http://alittlemoreaction.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/minka-kelly-009.jpg 

like a broad spectrum of films, I usually have good taste but I also do like a lot of "bad" films (art is subjective after all!). 

wasnt just directed at you :)

I think someone else mentioned, maybe kona, that they really enjoyed it. So I am in the minority, not you. 

I know I have a habit of enjoying terrible films, films like Trailer Park of Terror and Tokyo Gore Police. ;) 

Insidious- a lot of people I've talked to have loved that.
Haven't seen Trailer park, but I'd say that's a different sort of horror than Insidious - intentional rather than unkowing (pure) camp... based on the title, and association with TGP (which I was kind of disappointed in, actually).