Be Excellent To Each Other

I liked Killer Elite, and the whole reveal of what it was based on blew my tiny little mind.

I think it might be on the Lovefilm streaming thingy, if you get Lovefilm.

Is it possible to get the Lovefilm streaming without the DVD-through-the-post thingy? Because I used to have that and it eventually hacked me off enough to cancel it.
I can only see a £10/month option which includes the DVDs.

Yeah, it's a film that makes the room go dusty. Bloody good.

I think I saw a £5 a month online streaming only one on the packages on the Xbox360 app.

I know it's a bit of a tearjerker anyway, but it was also the last film I was planning to watch with me mum (I used to bring round films for us to watch while she was ill) before she passed away. No chance I can ever watch that film now!

I thought Drive was excellent. Not without it's problems, but brilliant overall.

Doesn't seem any better than it did on page 184.

He's not reading... fuck me, near on six thousand posts!

Please for the love of god do it...

Anyways I watched the new Conan film a few days ago, not as abysmal as I thought it might be but still not very good.

Just watched it.

Pretty good, very stylish and I want to say style over substance, but it did have substance there too. The only problem was that it was slow, achingly slow in places.

Just watched the Bridesmaids. Hehsome.

I saw The Thing last night. It was pretty good, but it kept making me want to watch other films, like Dog Soldiers (one of the greatest films of all time) or The Shining.

I watched it last night. Followed by Captain America. Very good film night.

I thought Bridesmaids was awful. There was the occasional funny part in it but it really, really didn't live up to the hype for me. I found myself cringing at how painfully they tried to wring the comedy out of it. Bleugh. Horrible.

I tried to watch it from the point of view of MaliA, and enjoyed it a lot more as a result.

However, it struck me as an attempt at the Hangover from a female perspective, and it fell down a bit. Mrs K enjoyed it, I heh'd a fair bit (although some of the "Isn't it amusing to portray the usual male stuff from the female's perspective, and how shit men are, especially at sechs!!"!!11!!" got a bit old) but wouldn't watch it again.

I was also quite meh on Bridesmaids. It lost me really early on, when Wiig and Rudolph we having lunch and chatting. The dialog didn't feel natural to me; it seemed stilted. It felt like a SNL sketch where the actors were winking at your from behind the characters. That sort of thing doesn't usually bother me, particularly in comedy (I'm find with Alec Baldwin's performance on 30 Rock for example), but I found it grating in that scene and I couldn't settle into the film afterward.

The broad comedy moments like

didn't work for me either. I've read that Apatow pushed for those to be added and they weren't in the original script.

Still had its moments though. Chris O'Dowd was good value, as ever.

MrsA quite enjoyed it, but said it was like "Hangover for Girls". I didn't go with to see it, as I was too busy building my Armed Hang Glider Pheasent Melee Flying Machine.

I already knew, but re-watching the Gene Wilder 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' yesterday confirmed how much better it is than the Johnny Depp version.

Gene Wilder is absolutely amazing in this film. The tunnel scene is batshit fucking mental.

Really? I thought GW was as much of an overacting pudding as Depp. The kids hated it.

Totally agree.

Oh yeah?! My kids loved it. Ms Z hated the Johnny Depp version (got creeped out by it) but she sat through the original version and loved it. Plus it has the Candy Man song near the start so extra points for that too.

I don't know if it's possible to 'overact' the role of Wonka. I think the difference between Wilder's performance and Depp's attempt is that Wilder gives the impression of a detachment from the outside world whereas Depp's character is completely alien to the outside world. With Wilder you always feel like the character is acting the way he does because, at the end, he has a positive aim for the good, but you lose that in Depp's performance, so the redemption seems too distant to make the character likeable.

I love the Gene Wilder film, but didn't like the Johnny Depp version much at all.

Another GY quick-fire round-up

Another Earth - As an exact copy of our planet appears in the sky, stereotypical indie movie girl drives into a family car, killing pregnant wife and child, but leaving musician husband to go all wrong in grief. Eventually free from prison, girl seeks to make amends, all the while there's this other earth hanging over. I loved it to pieces. Impecaqble performances, though be warned, this is one of those 'long shots of a person's face, just being a face' films. Highly recommended if you can get over that, though. A philosophical minefield, the macguffin works very nicely.

The Change-Up - One of the least worst body swap comedies I've seen, one excellent pair of breasts and a whole series of truly awful ones. Some jokes. Reasonable acting for the genre. No need to avoid seeing this.

Inbetweeners Movie - Predictable series denoument via Kevin and Perry. Worth watching for the chubby girl who is gorgeous, or if you like the Inbetweeners.

No Strings Attached - Portman and Kutcher in commitmentphobia-com. Fair play, she's an absolute delight in this and Kutcher fails to annoy. It's got the most telegraphed plot in the world but that doesn't detract from the chuckles, the sweetness or the general feeling of surprise at how much I loved this one.

Just Go With It - Adam Sandler gets 'plain' (glasses on, hair tied back) employee Jennifer Anniston to pretend to be his missus so he can pull some pneumatic blonde. Guess what happens? I must confess to enjoying this one greatly as well, and would have done so even if the hula competition between Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Anniston wasn't in it. But it is, gods be praised.

Fright Night (remake) - Farrel is an awesome vamp-neighbour, Yelchin makes a great Charlie, McLovin' plays Evil Ed the way he plays everyone and Tennant phones in a decent turn as Vincent. Happily the love interest is Imogen Poots (Cracks, 28 Weeks Later), who just gets harder to watch with every film, she's so mesmeric. A bloody good remake.

One Day - Finally, I have a new Truly, Madly, Deeply. One day a year over 20 years in the lives of star-crossed lovers. Completely gut-wrenching at times, the conceit of people who can't sort it out in drama is so often tea-chuckingly irritating but when it works, as it does here, it'll kill you. Hathaway's northern accent might be 'all over the place' as some critics have said, but so was my heart... and I didn't notice at all. Awesome film. Wept like a teased vagina.

Martha, Marcy, May, Marlene - Olsen twin's younger sister Elizabeth (actually a rather bloody good actress) runs away from a cult and stays with her sister and husband in big house by a lake. She goes mental. Tough viewing, epic lead, big things to come, well worth the effort.

I'm watching Megamind. So far the soundtrack has included Back in Black and Highway to Hell by AC/DC, and Crazy Train by Ozzy. Aces!

Was just watching that with my kids, but then it got too late, and they had to go to bed.

Got to the bit where Megamind must be about half way through...

quite good so far.

Malc

Watched Moneyball. For some reason I love baseball films, especially if they are based on true stories (yet I've never watched a whole baseball game in my life) so this should be right up my alley.
Moneyball was ok, but not helped by pretty much every character being unlikeable. Story was great and it was well acted, but the screenplay and direction was ponderous to say the least.

6/10

Christ, no-where near. That's fairly early on.

Huh, I posted about megamind but it must not have sent. I watched it tonight as well, enjoyed it. Santa Claus the movie is on ITV tomorrow morning at 10am...sky+ set!

You did post about Megamind. You were admiring the soundtrack.

3 films watched last night - Elf, Arthur Christmas and The Nightmare Before Christmas. A theme has developed.

Btw, Santa claus the movie is on at 9:30

Watched 'Home Alone 2' yesterday. Absolutely hilarious. Had forgotten how good it is.

It's a Wonderful Life - Firstly it's rather long and it feels like it. Secondly the God stuff bothers me. It feels like a movie that is fine to doze off to on a christmas afternoon without necessarily missing much. There seems an awful lot of padding. It could easily have been 90 minutes and had the same message. Having said that though James Stewart is brilliant in it and I thoroughly enjoy the message of the film. I find it hard to consider it a true classic when I compare it to the likes of Mr Smith Goes to Washington, which is astonishingly incredible.

Film day today I think.

Mrs T has actually requested to watch Star Wars! I think she must have bumped her head or something, but I'll make sure we watch it before I take her to the hospital...

I watched this the other day, too. It was a bit ‘meh’ — a few funny bits, but overall pretty generic and predictable. I expected a bit more from it.

The chubby girl was pretty, in the face.

STOP BEING PARTIALLY WRONG!

The best line in this film is:

"Merry Christmas Mr Potter!"

"And a Happy New Year to you too... IN JAIL!"

I find the God stuff very endearing, actually. I also can't see any padding. I also am guaranteed to cry when:





I don't think there's one duff or unnecessary scene in the film apart from:

Yeah, I thought inbetweeners film was pretty weak compared to the series, which is only OK.

Just watched Super. Ellen Page is so wrong I could soil myself. Dear Christ.

I took my little brothers to see the very first Harry Potter film when they were seven. I've never seen or even glimpsed any of the others. I've been close to buying a box set a few times, but keep thinking that I should wait until the last installation and buy the entire series then.

I received the full box set yesterday! I cannot WAIT to sit down with popcorn and blanket.

Also, we introduced a couple of 80 year olds to the magic of The Princess Bride today, and they loved it.

Today I decided to watch The Sixty Day. I've got Shutter Island and Inception to watch, but wanted something shorter. Not a great film though - the plot was ok, but the acting pretty useless, the goons idiotic and the one liners pretty hopeless. Still, it was only 99. Picked up Spider-Man 2 and 3 for the same price too.. my local Cash Converters is serving me well.

Oh and I've ordered a few films from Play's sale today. If anyone was after the A-Team, it's only £2.99 on there.

Weird film, that. She is indeed utter crazy filth, mind.

I watched 'Juno' yesterday, for the first time.

Great movie, and she's awesome.

Juno was a steaming turd. Too much manchild

Like in a bad way?

Horrid precocious awfulness.

@pete re-it's a wonderful life.

I find much of the introduction very plodding. I don't like the bits with the stars/angels talking. I find the scenes with mary pre-incident very slow and laborious. The middle section of the film is largely okay but seems to largely cover the same ground over and over. Didn't like the twee angel bloke much.

However in the end they are mild irritations which just take the classic status away from it for me. But you know I'm always wrong and all that.

Oh hell no.

Rewatching Wall-e on blu-ray. This is possibly my favourite film of all time.