I concur that 300 is an awesome film. <3

Last night Alfie was on TV, I cried a little at the end but overall it was abit crap. Jude Law's english accent was really bad. He is nice though. XD

Has anyone seen Spaceballs? My boyfriend and I recently bought it and I want to know if it's any good.

- Rexy

I watched The Others just recently, I loved the concept and the plot.

Yeah, he really does, but he was in a movi with Alan Rickman, and Alan Rickman is awesome.

Spaceballs is meant to be meh. Mel Brooks is a fantastic guy though

But... Jude Law is English! I actually quite like Alfie, I only bought it cos he was in it - during my Jude Law Phase - it was nicely made guff.

Pity about that receding hairline.

I heard he was a right bastard.

I meant as far as direction goes, for his earlier films. He probably is a bastard.

Watched The Darwin Awards (not great but worth watching :p) and The Bourne Ultimatum.

I know ya did, was just tugging your twonker.

Just literally right now, sort of, finished watching Les enfants terribles, which I bought months and months ago and never got round to watching. Was really, really terrific. Cocteau's narration was slightly unnecessary and heavy-handed at times, but this weirdo world of borderline incestuous brother and sister, dragging people into their insanity was great stuff! Really loved it. Shall watch this again fairly soon.

Oh, and I watched Ivan's Childhood yesterday [Sunday], Andrei Tarkovsky's first film and also the first Tarkovsky film I've ever seen. Was fantastically shot (I understand he got far less 'showy' as his career progressed), good wartime story, more noticeable for being punctuated by the dream sequence's of an orphan child, Ivan of the title. I generally dislike war films, but this was fairly different and interesting.

If you like a good starwars spoof and can handly 80's production values, Spaceballs is awesome; one of my favourite films. I've probably seen it more often than any other movie ever.

I have just scene a guy where a shirt chick style and prance around like a whore, sadly I knew him, and sadly, he was doing it to prove that my PE shorts were short shorts and that even he was more straight than what I was wearing.
But seriously, watched Disturbia in rowing camp, God, I chat myself, as does everyone when *spoiler* the neighbour is looking right at him, and then he comes into the kitchen, far out it was funny how scarred we were.
Watched summer heights high, with chirs liely, that show is extremly funny! lol, everyone is quoting it.

I'm going to chip in and show that I'm still active and haven't left the forums. It's been a while... good to see the forums are alive and kicking.

I just watched 300. Although I watched it a few days ago, I can still feel my adrenaline glands pulsating. Yes, it was that good.

Eh, it's average, even people who really go for it tend to say the same, as a film.

The only bit I totally loved was the dance of the oracle (?), where it looked liked she was underwater, flash of tit, all this hair flowing. That was gorgeous. Other than that you've just got a shouty leading man, fighting, fighting, fighting, which all concludes the way you'd expect it to conclude. Plus the whole machismo/honour angle does absolutely zero for me.

I've watched Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard's first film, my first Godard and, I think, my first proper film of the French New Wave, which never seemed my cup of tea. Was good. The entire thing is straining to let the audience know the film is a construct, a piece of filmmaking, very modern in that sense. Self-reflective cinema. Which makes it intellectual and visually quite interesting, but ultimately you're quite detached from the enterprise. I’m sure I’ll warm to this film over time, whenever I watch it again, or get more Godard.

Also! A friend lent me Capote, which is a film that I've been meaning and wanting to see since it first came out. Better late than never, this was very good stuff. Stripped down, simple, honest drama, with a cracking central performance. Not powerful enough to be truly moving or profound, and lacks the pizzazz to stay with me, sadly. But a very High Quality film, very competent.

I went to see The Darjeeling Limited yesterday only to discover that it wasn't playing yet. So I saw 30 Days of Night instead. It was pretty decent. There was some pretty good acting in it which is what really saved it from being a cheese fest (especially since the vampires went around going "Haaaahhhhhh" through the whole thing). I enjoyed the performance of the guy playing "The Stranger" the best. He was more or less Renfield from Dracula but he really did a good job. He was also in 3:10 to Yuma which I saw recently and he was the most interesting character in that film as well. Anyone who watched Six Feet Under may remember him as Russell, as well.

Where does 30 days of Night take place? IF It's within Canadian borders, I'll go see it yesterday.

My dad has been doing vfx for it for the past 6 months. I'm cool!

SO with that in mind, I've only seen two shots, where the background was getting a map painting put into it, and a car driving on a snowy road getting powerpoles rotoscope'd onto it. And countless breath removals.

I have seen anything since Elephant a week ago. People talked about it and said it was good, but essentially it was a movie where absolutely nothing happened, then people died, and you didn't see it, then it finished. Not a piece of artistic genius, a piece of shit,.

No no, it IS a piece of artistic genius! I thought that film was absolutely astonishing, the best depiction of senseless violence I've ever seen - you spend the film with a bunch of characters just hanging about, doing ordinary (and undramatic) stuff. We know them for what they are, they're not characters, which makes what's coming all the worse.

Yes, it is a conceptual film, but, if you manage to buy into it, it's just stunning, IMO!

Even if you think it's shit, at least it's short.

How did I know you were going to love that film? You should try and be a little less predictable in future, MF. :p

Oooh... Muppets from Space!

I love The Muppets.

It's time to start the music.
It's time to light the light.

I'm usually all over that stuff though. Yeah, I wondered if the disc skipped, what with the abrupt ending and the dvd player saying "1:15".

But yeah, it had some blatantly obvious things the creators put into it... Somehow I dont think the two columbine students had a little gay liason and those students going to throw up in the bathroom, all a bit too 'This is an indie film, let's be extreeeeme!'.

Gus Van Sant is one of the prime movers and shakers to come out of the New Queer Cinema of the early ninties, if he's depicting two loner/outsider students it's somewhat unsurprising that he makes them gay. Besides, I love the way that angle is actually handled, very slight and ambiguous. I doubt they really are gay, it's just that they know they're about to do something terrible and aren't going to come out of it alive.

'I've never kissed anyone before.'
'Me either.' (Or whatever it was)

That's lovely stuff! Girls chucking up their guts in the bogs, less so, but it DOES happen, and as it provides one of the few genuine pieces of happening, I'd let it slide. Plus it has that kind of camp edge to it, and we love a bit of campness. I didn't find it extreme or OTT.

I dunno, tell me! :)

I just finished (painfully) watching some of the old cartoons that my (older) sister seems to demand to watch.

It was sickening, but I noticed something; Theres a lot of surprisingly provocative dialog on them old cartoons.
It was kinda creepy.

Oh, and I swear to God I heard a character from Spongebob Square pants ask for PORN, I AM SURE OF IT.

I once saw a gay joke in an Animaniacs cartoon. It was a good one, too.

American Beauty with Kevin Spacey, great movie.

I watched X-Men 3 again last night. And to resolve an old forum argument, Magneto's chess piece definately wobbled at the end but it's only a tiny amount and difficult to spot.

Well of course it wobbled, was there any doubt!?

I assume you saw the bit after the credits....

Those who doubt the wobble must DIE.

And get some new specs, you blind fools.

EDIT: And I've just seen Saw 4 at the cinema. Oh my god, was it crap. I really rather liked this series as a whole, but this was dreadful, unfocused, uber-contrived (even for a Saw film), confused drivel. Stupid stuff. Sad.

Just saw Ring 0 and The Ring. I do not get Japanese horror O.o...

You forgot formulaic.

I don't see why someone wouldn't go to a football stadium and take a lot of people with them when Sadako comes out of the Jumbotron.

I wouldn't say formulaic is a negative thing, though. I like the fact the franchise has a strong and clearly defined formula - it can go right, and it can go wrong, as this flick wonderfully demonstrates.

I found it relatively easy to spot.

I watched Eagle Vs Shark a while ago, I didn't like it too much, but I swear there is a hidden message at the very end. I'm going to have to hire the movie sometime to get closure.

I just watched some episodes of Eathworm Jim, my I love that show so much;it's probably the best adaption of a Game into a cartoon I've ever seen.

Professor monkeyforahead ftw

Well I watched Ring 0 and after that the American remake of the original Ring. Still, Ring 0 didn't make any sense to me. The only thing that kept me sane was because I knew where it was leading, otherwise I wouldn't have gotten a clue.

"Run, fatboy, Run." Hah...it wasen't as good as i thought it would be. Simon pegg was really bad in it, i think it was his worst. :/

I don't watch television. That's the devil's messenger.

That's it. I'm calling in a Havocstrike. I have the button right here, hang on...

What does that mean? By the way, I already called the four horsemen of the apocolypse. They're on the way.

I can't tell if you're joking or not, but that is the stupidest fucking thing I have ever heard.

Think about this; there's this paralyzed man that needs constant care, he is deeply religious, needs to hear gods word daily, so he has a television set up to watch mass with.

But yeah, Satan totally beams bad thoughts into our heads with television, Gluttony comes from him, not countless fast food commercials, greed comes from the Devil, not advertisements that endlessly tell you you need things, hell, thgese things can be attributed to free will, not the morning star.

You're entitled to your beliefs, but I disagree with you completely. It is a source of entertainment, let's say, hypothetically, that someone was "Corrupted" by television, whose fault is that? The television? No, of course not, it's just a machine. The people who make the shows? No, they seek to provide money, it's not their intention to undermine people. The person themselves? Yes, the Television, or the show that is on it, is not the source of the "Corruption", it is only the trigger. If one becomes "Corrupted", then it is obvious that they had the opportunity to become "Corrupted" within themselves. Let's say this person who became "Corrupted" was a good person, are they really a good person? How can they be a good person if they let themselves become "Corrupted"? They must be weak willed. So from this we can conclude, TV must not make people "Corrupt", it simply unearths the "Corruption" that already dwells within them.

tl;dr

Just like to say that TV is the root of all evil, but an excellent provider of infomercials (I love Ab King Pro and The Magic Bullet so very much!).