Films

Watched Requim for a dream again last night. Forgot how good and clever it is.
Defo in my top 5 fav ever

Anyone watched Herzog's 'Into the Abyss'? Looks quite good.

Into the Abyss - Official Trailer 2011 - YouTube

It;s not out till march next year

I watched Source Code today. I thought it was pretty good actually, although I would have found the plot a lot fresher had I not watched Moon (by the same director, Duncan Jones) before Christmas. The premise of both films is pretty fucking similar in my opinion...

Gonna watch The Interrupters later. It's a documentary about gang violence in Chicago from the director of Hoop Dreams so should be good.

PS - Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Fincher) is alright in my opinion, bar a really questionable sequence where the titular girl puts on a blonde wig for purposes of international espionage. It also has the most bizarre title sequence... It really made no sense to me.

has anyone said- "whats your favourite three films of 2011 then" yet?

Jaws 15 - "Insatiable Hunger"

Back To The Future 8 - "They Don't Cross The River This Time Of Night"

Blade Runner 2 - "The Sequel To A Myth"

"A Town Called Panic" Film4 - 1st Jan, 11am

A Town Called Panic (English Version Trailer) - YouTube

Really enjoying Lemmy: The Movie

It's on TV now. What a legend.

I bumped in to him outside a strip club in LA once.

Was he kitted out in full suspenders etc?

Indeed. I stuffed a $5 note down his knickers.

Cheap cow - it was Lemmy.

He only put a tenner down mine.

What? An entire Opera singer?

If it was sterling then that's alright. Bit of a skimp if it was dollars.

Sterling silver dollar and it's wins all round.

I burped in to him outside a strip club in LA once.

Did he realise you were a fan?

It was dollars.

Nice pun Oliver :)

^I concede all of the above without exception BUT while he may be an alien-loving egocentric, he was pretty good in Rain Man and Vanilla Sky was all right (maybe), and his cold-killer in Collateral was a refreshing change from his previous roles.

Still count him as Knig of the Cnuts though...

Never, never, never watched Knight and Day.

Seriously, just don't, there's so much I can take of his fucking annoying smirk...

PS - Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Fincher) is alright in my opinion, bar a really questionable sequence where the titular girl puts on a blonde wig for purposes of international espionage. It also has the most bizarre title sequence... It really made no sense to me.

Yeah, the intro really jarred for me as well. Like a weird Bond, and really didn't sit with the scenes that preceded and followed.

I was pleasantly surprised by the film, I hadn't read the books or seen the originals, and because of their popularity I was expected something Dan Brown-esque, and I wouldn't have gone if it weren't for my friend's family offering to take me. I think I was a bit wrong, although admittedly I haven't read anything by Dan Brown or seen the Da Vinci Code either.

It took me a while to get used to the fact that it was in Sweden, adverts and shop signs were in Swedish, but the dialogue and letters between 'Swedish' characters in English. I know it's hard to get around that, but it still seemed clumsy somehow.

GWTDT

I've tried to justify that title sequence in my mind a few different ways and I'm just no closer to explaining it. I find it really hard to believe that a director of Fincher's calibre could view the completed film and be like 'Yep, that fits perfectly.'

I really wanted to love this film, and in many ways I did (Rooney Mara's performance was amazing, for instance) but there were one or two sequences that lacked polish - the 'blonde wig' sequence, as I said, felt particularly tacked-on. I'm willing to concede that this may be a weakness in the source material but as I haven't read the books I really can't comment.

Overall, this was still an excellent film. Definitely worth seeing if you haven't already. It is 'edge of your seat' exciting throughout.

Sherlock Holmes definitely is not "edge of your seat" exciting.

The RJ Downey Jnr one? So many continuity errors throughout. I can't wait for the second series from the BBC

The Guy Richie thing, just lazy. I know it's all updated and stuff, but the characters bear absolutely no resemblance to the Holmes and Watson from the books.

The BBC one I loved, although I guessed who the baddie was immediately, and I spent the rest of the episode trying to think where the twist was coming which would show that he wasn't the baddie after all. Only he was.

Sorry, got home from cinema and downed half a bottle of red.

Anyone watched Herzog's 'Into the Abyss'? Looks quite good.

Into the Abyss - Official Trailer 2011 - YouTube

fuck yeah new herzog

Just watched The Iron Lady. Meh

Starting Moneyball now