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I end up there after every film I watch. It has me in its evil thrall

It's like you didn't read one post

I've just had an amusing image of Grim..., looking like he does, sitting on the train with his iPad on his lap watching Twilight. I reckon at least one guy looked over your shoulder at what you were watching and thought "Is that guy gay?" and then rapidly went about their business elsewhere.

I had to react immediately due to the nature of your statement.

I watch it on my phone, but that sort of thing's never bothered me.

When I used to go to work on the tube and be a proper skinhead, I'm sure I had some people confused.
"Cor, look at that fat thug. What's he getting out of the inside pocket of his floor-length leather jacket? Is it a gun? It is a bat? Oh no, it's a Jilly Cooper novel".

I like to people guessing

I bet you made those yuppie girls moist, you handsome man!

I might have done if I'd have read them some of the book.
I love early Jilly Cooper, but her latest books are rubbish

Yeah, they did Vampires pretty well in that film.

You all owe it to yourselves to watch The Room

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368226/

It's...astonishingly terrible. It's possibly even a worse film than Southland Tales.

I'm perversely looking forward to W.E, Madonna's film about Wallis Simpson. It's been getting such a kicking from most critics I think it stands a chance of being so bad it's actually good.

I could hear that when I was a kid, actually Same with Panthro and Mr Huxtable.

Now, Kevin Nash as Super-Shredder. That surprised me.

Just watched The Guard. Brendan Gleeson plays Sgt Gerry Boyle, one of the cops out in the middle of Galway. Has a penchant for hookers, Russian literature and swearing. Into his cosy little world comes a new cop from Dublin and an FBI agent (Don Cheadle), the latter on the trail of a half billion dollar shipment of cocaine that is heading for the west of Ireland.

So you have the straight laced FBI agent being run rings round by a not as dumb as he seems Galway copper. And it is blisteringly funny. Especially if you have an evil sense of humour - the opening scene is absolutely hilarious and sets up Boyle as a character brilliantly. Throw in some hilarious dialogue, some touching moments between Boyle and his ill mother and the bad guys quoting Nietzsche at each other and you have a daft, yet massively enjoyable film which neatly subverts a number of cliches.

Unfortunately the trailer is a bit shit - the Western theme is developed over the film and not completely in your face. But it does have some good examples of the dialogue.

I watched Limitless the other night... Quite enjoyed it too.

Just watched Con Air for the first time. Review in the spoilers..

Aye, The Guard was ace.

Just saw War Horse.

Eagerly awaiting sequel, Peace Cow.

The Guard is next up on my Lovefilm queue, so I'm glad to hear the high praise! (My last one was Porco Rosso, which I enjoyed a lot, in spite of its frankly embarrassing treatment of women.)

Have you seen the play, Mr Pete? how does it compare, and which should I spend my ill-gotten gains upon?

Hall Pass is better than I thought it would be.

Goon is as dumb as you expect. If you like films that glorify being stupid and hitting people then you might like it. I don't and didn't.

Tucker and Dale Vs Evil - An unexpected delight. Very clever and well done.

I watched that YouTube film last night, is it called life in A day? World in a day? something like that. I thought it was brilliantly, really lovely and made you feel a million different things. Editing was brilliant as well.

I quite want to see this. Mainly to punish MrsA for Valentine's Day.

Has anyone seen The Iron Lady? It wasn't a bad film, but as some reviewers have said, they taken someone with a really interesting life, and concentrated on the most boring bit of it. You could have easily made a whole, interesting film on her actions during the Falklands, or the poll tax riots or the leadership contest, but the flashbacks are so choppy you don't really learn anything about her political career. People love her! Hooray! Now people hate her! Booo! She's torpedoed the Belgrano ( not personally, obviously)! Hooray / Boo! She and Dennis survived the Brighton Bomb! Hooray! Now she's mean to Giles from Buffy! Boo!

I was expecting a lot more of a political thriller, but it was much more of a "woman getting old" film.

The AWakening - Subtle and effective English spookiness film. Rebecca Hall and Dominic West are both excellent in it.

Haywire - Generally quite poor apart from Gina Carano. It seriously lacks decent pacing, structure and an ending.

Just wait for the porno parody version.

Valentine's day! Fuck.

Right, need to think of a suitably grim horror film I can watch as I sit, separated from society.

I'm watching "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" at the moment. It isn't very good.

I've also watched Salt (surprisingly good), RED (very good, although it was a little confused about what it wanted to be. The female lead in it is lovely, though, although the end is a bit creepy), Hall Pass (better than you'd think), and something else.
Er...
Fuck! What else did I watch? Couldn't have been that good

Tomorrow I get to watch them on my new Fire, which will be nice. Phones are too small for action movies.

There's a new American Pie out this year, with the original cast in. The first one is thirteen years old

Kung Fu Panda 2 is awesome. Perhaps not as awesome as the first, but still awesome. Also, it is an absolute visual delight from start to finish. Truly beautiful.

Hnnnngh. Make it stop!

Lol. It never, ever does!

Helen Mirren's all right, I suppose...

Mmmmmm, Mary-Louise Parker. You should really watch this. Although not at work or anything as it's very, very rude.

Ooh, yay!

Also: ten points if you recognise the guy in the scene.

Although you lose 20 points for looking at the guy in the scene.

Darkest Hour - Perhaps a case of diminished expectations but this wasn't all that bad. Sure the characters were incredibly bland and what little CGI monsters there were happened to be quite poor. But y'know it is what it is. Not meant to be anything special. And I kind of enjoyed it. It provided a reasonable end of world experience. Even though the ending was utterly utterly stupid and hilarious.

Underworld Awakening - About as good as Underworld 1+2.

Just saw a trailer for a film called 'Man On A Ledge' no prizes for guessing what that's about!

Is it an upper class ballet dancer meets cool urban street dancer to bust the system using fusion dance moves type movie?

Mali?

A girl wants to go to Dallas to try out for the Texas Cowgirl's cheerleading squad, and gets her cheerleader friends to help her fund the trip by performing sex acts for money?

Or is it about a girl who slays vampires? They should probably come up with a more descriptive name if it is.

Hey, I liked Center Stage 2: Turn it Up!

Have you been watching Breakin'?

Is it about snakes on a plane?

You read it wrong, it's Man on A Hedge.

A Titchmarsh biopic.

Nono that's Man In A Hedge.

Perhaps it was that film about rural car thieves, Van in A Hedge?

It's the Christmas classic, Old Man on A Sledge