I thought I couldn't have possibly made it more obvious I was joking.
Of course I know it was Barry Humphries. I love me some Dame Edna.

You know, it did really sound like Ian McShane now that I think of it. It wasn't him, but their voices are really similar.

I have no idea who is being sincere any more, so I'm going to assume Robin Williams and Ian McShane were the entire cast.

I'd see that movie.

I've seen that movie. It was called The Troll Hunter.

True fans will like it a lot, but people who are only mild fans of LOTR will be disappointed. There's a lot of backstory for certain characters and some set-up for the next two films in the series. In my opinion its perfect for a cinema voyage for a true cinematic experience. As for Smaug, he's supposed to look like a typical western-style Dragon. If he was a long asian style dragon it would completely go against the entire feel of Lord of the Rings. Anyway hey, look at Skyrim. Their dragons aren't exactly revolutionary either. Even looking at Dragonheart, Reign of Fire, D-Wars, they're all western-style dragons. Can't really recall many eastern-style dragons in live action films.

I saw Green Lantern today. I actually really enjoyed it, the sci-fi was a nice angle and the dialogue was pretty funny in parts. I know some super hero movies are a bit lame, but overall this was one of the better ones.

I've been catching up on Homeland Series 1, it's quite thrilling and also quite harrowing at the same time. This show just has this weird spy vibe that just doesn't go away. It's very compelling.

I watched a bit of Akira but it wasn't really my thing. The future was a bit too gritty and I didn't really liked the direction the plot was going. Also Evan Almighty was crap. Didn't find it funny and think the plot itself was just plain bad.

Sometimes with these "mixed reviews" films you really have to take a chance, especially if it's something you really care for or have heard good things about. Also if you hear about a popular TV show, you may want to check out the first episode. I did that with a few things like Breaking Bad and The Mentalist and was pleasantly surprised.

I stopped reading there.

Me too.

I'm a "true fan." I grew up with the books. Loved them. It's still a shitty movie.

I realised you were joking. I just don't know to what extent Barry Humphries is a known name outside of Australia (as seperate to Edna).

I think he mistook "true fan" for "rabid fan".
A rabid fan will like the movies indiscriminately.
A true fan will be disappointed in the creative liberties taken.
The Tolkien estate hate Peter Jackson's films for the latter. Jackson was definitely bolder in changing the story elements this time around, using stuff from the appendices to legitimize the addition of some admittedly bloated action scenes.

I'm not loyal to the books, as much as I enjoyed them. I knew from the beginning that liberties would have to be taken to make the film more cinematic. While this was done right in some areas, it was definitely done wrong in many too.

I saw the movie again recently in HFR/3D. I didn't think the HFR was as bad as the countless virulent critics let on. Definitely not recommended for a first viewing though. It is very distracting. The FX looked much better at 48 fps, Azog and Gollum especially. Radagast's huge snozz also looked pretty epic in 3D. I wanted to jump into the screen and ride it like a koala.

I know him best as Edna, as I'm sure most the world does. I know he voiced Bruce the shark in Finding Nemo and played Bert Schnick. That's about it though.

I feel dumb now. could have sworn I saw his name in the credits.

Understandable. Gandalf is Ian McKellan, which is pretty close. And there's Ian Holm too. Lots of fucking Ian's in these movies.

Apologies, I regret my use of the word "true fan". I'm not really a great judge of what the majority define as "good". I'll just say that I know a few people who really like the film (as much as the other LOTR films).

I'm addicted to reruns of Seinfeld at the moment.

Also Louie.

I finally sat down and decided to watch Fight Club. I enjoyed it a lot and I was expecting something strange to happen but did not really see that twist coming. A really good movie.

It's like they read our forum or something...

So did anyone else click on a Breaking Bad video after watching that? Cuz I did.

Also The Wire.

It didn't work. I've never seen Breaking Bad despite being recommend it by almost everyone I know.

That's because you have bad taste, and are bad at games.

Spyro is a pretty sweet game though.

Anyone remember Ty the Tasmanian Tiger? That game with the ad campaign that tried to say games like Spyro and Crash Bandicoot were inferior?

Yeah, neither do I.

I liked that game.

That game was solid and really good fun, but it was completely overshadowed and surpassed in every way by Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy which was released a year earlier.

I always wanted to play it because the commercials looked good, but never did.

This isn't a games discussion thread.

In my defense, I had just gotten home, was really tired, opened this thread and seriously thought it was due to the discussion. I was a bit confused as to why Sekto was posting in a game thread, though.

Anyways, I bought the fifth season of Seinfeld tonight. Can't wait to dive in to it.

ABC is showing Red Dwarf from the beginning, so I've been watching those. The first series has my undying love. There are so many fantastic moments I couldn't even begin to mention them all. We've started on series 2 now and the Cat's dialogue is already less interesting. I'm getting really excited because one of my favorites, Queeg, will be on Monday.

As much as I love Holly post Parallel Universe, Norman Lovett is absolutely fantastic. His April Fool's joke about Lister being hunted by three Fighters from the power company because he left a lightbulb on 3 million years ago is one of my favorite moments of any episode. I hope that in the future all computer AIs will resemble bumbly Englishmen.

I've just finished watching the first season of The Ricky Gervais Show.

I think I've already said this before but why is it called The Ricky Gervais Show? Karl is the obvious star. He is just hilarious. Also the animation is really good. It makes Karl so much more loveable with that perfectly round head. :D

It had me in stitches in parts so I recommend people check it out.

Unless you don't like British humour...

or Ricky Gervais...

I saw Le Miserables, and contrary to the name it was not a miserable movie.

I did cry though.

Fag.

Saw Zero Dark Thirty last night. I don't normally see war films. I'm not interested by their lack of subtlety, and machismo, but this was not a war film, and it was not some hastily thrown together piece of crap to take advantage of a recent news story. This movie is....I don't know how to put it. It was disturbing. It was disturbing how matter of factly, and without agenda it showed death, and torture. There was no catharsis in this film. It wasn't meant to be that. Every moment was fascinating, though. I never even got up to have a cigarette, which I always do.

I watched Seven Psychopaths. It was all sorts of bizarre. I liked how it starts off pretty surreal and seemingly fictional but ties in well with the plot later on, if that makes any sense. I didn't like Sam Rockwell or Colin Farrell though, but it was still a good movie.

Fuck is wrong with you?

They were making the film and it was going to end with Bin Laden still alive and out there, but then Bin Laden was killed and they changed it. I really, really want to see it.

Finally watched Moonrise Kingdom. Thought it was absolutely fantastic.

I meant that I don't like him as an actor and would have preferred someone else for his part, the character was decent though.

Watched the Les Miserables TV drama starring Gerard Depardieu and John Malcovich. It was good but a bit long. Also I'm not a fan of those really cruel characters from those types of stories, they just seem a bit one-sided and unredeemable.

Have you seen Moon? Fuck, I even enjoyed Sam Rockwell in The Sitter even though that was a terrible movie.

The Sitter looked so bad.

Moon was great though, you should watch that if you haven't, Dyna. It's on Netflix, if you get that in Finland.

Yeah, I've heard all kinds of good things about Moon, should probably check that out some time.

I watched Half Baked the other day. Even being stoned didn't save it for me. It just wasn't very funny. The humour was so forced, the story nonsensical and hardly even there, and all the jokes were just racial one-liners or pot references.