I remember seeing that on your Facebook. I was jealous.

I recently watched A Clockwork Orange, one of my all time favorites.

But one movie I feel I really need to talk about is Silver Linings Playbook. I went and saw this has it had really great reviews, talk about an overrated flick. It wasn't a bad movie, it started off really good, but it just got so mediocre because me and friend were sat there in the cinema telling each other what was goona happen next before it even happened and sadly for us 99% of the time we were correct and it just really lowered the quality of the whole thing. In the end, it just ends up being a very predictable movie consisting of everything you have seen in every other movie.

Remember that time when I sad I watched the first episode of Breaking Bad? (see the top of the page) I've watched the whole first season. I want moooore.

I bet you'll have watched all the episodes by the first week of March. I literally couldn't stop watching the show, so good.

But that's not Street Fighter.

I've just seen those 5 miniepisodes of Breaking Bad made between the first two seasons. God they were shitty. Why did they make them, again?

They're funny. Just don't take them seriously.

To answer your question, I'm really not sure.

They were mostly uncreative, the directing was absolutely awful and it didin't really feel like Breaking Bad at all. More like some fan videos... with real actors and stuff.

I started watching Sonic X again for shits and gigs and I have the theme stuck in my head

GOTTA GO FAST

I watched Punch Drunk Love with Stephanie. Holy shit, I forgot how much I love that movie. Best movie Adam Sandler will ever be in. Best movie Adam Sandler will ever see.

I need to see that one.

My friend has been trying to get me watch Archer. I don't find it funny. Maybe I'm not watching it enough, but it just does nothing for me.

Still need to see that.


My friend's been trying to get me to watch Archer. I don't know why he loves it so much. I find it very dull, and it's never really made me laugh honestly. Just feels like a constant stream of cheap sexual innuendos.

same. people have told me to watch it but it just isn't my kind of thing. don't really see what the appeal is, unless i'm missing something.

The appeal is Jon Benjamin's voice, but that's about it. You'd be better off watching Bob's Burgers, the latest debacle by master of dry comedy Loren Bouchard. It's far more endearing than Archer, with all the Jon Benjamin-y goodness in tact.

I find Archer much, much more entertaining than Bob's Burgers.

I loved the first Archer episode I saw, then liked every subsequent episode slightly less with the exception of one or two standouts. I'll give the third season a look whenever they finally decide to air it here, but I won't be buying it or anything silly.

Jon Benjamin's voice is definitely part of the draw for me.

Depends on what kind of humor you like. Archer has the asshole factor going for it, where all the characters are assholes and we laugh at them because they're assholes. Bob's Burgers is the opposite in that the characters are flawed but endearing. The former wears on me faster than the latter, though I enjoy both.

Oh, I should watch that. I loved Lucy, Daughter of the Devil.

That show was great! Still, their greatest achievement will always be Home Movies. Nothing compares to the genius that was Home Movies. Nothing.

Yeah, John McGuirk was easily Benjamin's finest role.

Bob's Burgers I do like. For more than just Jon's acting. It's a genuinely funny show.

paging all macintosh branded steaks



but it lost the director of the first one

Archer was hilarious at first, when it was mostly just babble and improvised nonsense.

As much as I loved the first one, I'm not expecting anything much. It looks like a pile of puns and nothing more.


But, having said that, I was expecting the first one to be shite from the trailer and was pleasantly surprised at the subtlety of its humour. Is it just me or have most CG films lately been badly served by their trailers?

All movies are badly served by their trailers these days.

I, too, hated the first much less than I expected too. It was a real turning point in me giving movies aimed at younger audiences a more serious go. You know, back when I was at that snotty, high-and-mighty teenager phase.

aaaaand I'm interested in movies again.
Did they lose Mister T as well?

According to IMDB he's been replaced by Terry Crews, the black guy from the Tim & Eric directed Old Spice commercials.

Just saw Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki/The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki, the third big budget film by Hosoda Mamoru (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time/Summer Wars). It was pure visual poetry and at least as good as Miyazaki at his second best (That is, not Nausicaa or Mononoke). Best film he's done so far and easily cements him as the next big anime film director after Miyazaki.

Been watching a lot of Louis CK stand-up. That guy can make any situation hilarious.

The worst things about trailers:
- They spoil a lot of the plot
- They are misleading, using quotes out of context or else cutting out important words from quotes
- Fade to black too often so you can't understand what's going on at all
- Spoil the only funny joke in the film

watched 10 Rillington Place. great film. Richard Attenborough.

That's their point, though. If they didn't do these things nobody would watch the film.

I disagree. I think the trailers with the best hook are the ones where the filmmakers shot content exclusively for the trailer, like District 9.

It seems this "trend" is getting bigger, using shots that weren't used in the film or making shots exclusively for the trailer. I don't mind it, as long it's well implemented.

A lot of trailers are edited before the final version of the movie hits the cutting room floor, so they often contain brief shots from deleted scenes, or different versions of other scenes.

You're right, but that wasn't what I was leading towards. There have been a number of films recently that looked like they would be terrible from the trailers but ended up being good.

Examples:

Megamind: The trailers made it look like the entire film was about a crappy supervillain who is incompetent and gets beaten up by the superhero a lot. I refused to see it in the cinema and thought my friends were stupid for liking it, but when they forced me to watch it I realised that the trailer only represents the first ten minutes of the film. The rest of it is about a supervillain succeeding in taking over the world and what happens next. And it's really quite funny.

How To Train Your Dragon: The trailer made it look like it was a cheesy, Disneyfied story about a boy and his anthropomorphised pet dragon. The film turned out to be a hell of a lot more interesting than that, with some really subtle humour.


Those are the two trailers that come to mind straight away, but there have been many more.

Arthur Christmas was pretty good and terribly serviced by its trailer.

I have to agree there. I think kids movies suffer from this the most. Things like Tangled, Brave, Up. Logically showing all the best bits of the movie should be exciting and draw people to see the film, but for some reason it doesn't work.

I would consider these to be good examples of trailers: Inception, Looper, Django Unchained, Les Miserables, Skyfall (despite the fade-to-black overuse), The Hobbit.

The Dark Knight Rises was fairly good but I didn't like Batman's cheesy line "This isn't a car", since it absolutely kills any potential humour from seeing that part in the actual film itself.

So, I watched Twilight: Breaking Dawn The Deuce last night. You know how everyone hates on a thing so hard that you think it must be at least somewhat exaggeration, and a lot of just joining a band wagon because it's fun to hate things sometimes? Well, this movie isn't like that. This was by far the worst movie I have ever seen in my life. The fact that the director got paid actual money for turning in this boring piece of crap depresses me more than almost anything I can think of. This was the slowest paced film in the history of film. Literally nothing happens for ninety percent of the movie, and then when something does finally happen it was all a dream sequence. There was no reason for the "bad guys" to act in the way they did, and their choice of waiting months so that the "good guys" could amass an army before attacking them was so goddamn stupid that they couldn't possibly be a threat to begin with. No one that dumb is scary.

The acting was atrocious, but what could you expect? These people were clearly hired for their looks, and not for their acting ability. Or maybe I take that back. The script was so bad that it's impossible to say whether or not the people saying the lines were doing a good or bad job. There was no way that anyone could have made that dialogue sound interesting.

There were a few redeeming qualities to the film. The one bad guy had the most amazing laugh I have ever heard. Also, the creepy pedophile werewolf's looks of longing at the baby were fucking hilarious.

I am still not sure, if you're telling me to watch the film. should I?
and can I pretend, that we're watching it together? you know, like buddies; hating it with one, collective wrath.

now please everyone; watch this trailer. I've never seen any images like these. it looks SPECTACULAR!
hopefully going to see this film by the end of this week in the cinema.

Looks... spectacular? It looks like a documentary about fishing.