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[TJD]

I agree. I liked the actress that played the daughter... thought she did a great job!

I did as well.



The husband was pretty funny guy. A lot better then the Micah ****** from the first movie who you kind of wanted to just get killed off.

 

[supraman]

Seen Red this weekend. Bad ass. Bruce Willis is still da man.

 

[winos5]

Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Laughed nearly as much as my kids. Great family night movie. Recommend it.



Repo Men - I'd pass on it. Worth a netflix or on cable but wouldn't shell out the money for a PPV.



Give Em Hell Malone - Worth a netflix or on cable. Can't figure out if this was a graphic novel adopted for film or just a cheesy attempt at film noir/ private detective film.

 

[Ymono37]

Watched Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton version) last night. I didn't dislike it, but it seemed to miss some of the "magic" I expect in any story about Wonderland. Maybe because Burton wanted a more solid "story" as opposed to Carroll's strange trip but it wasn't horrible. The movie was pretty well cast, especially the newcomer in the title role, Mia Wasikowska.



Does anyone else have a hard time seeing Crispin Glover as anything but George McFly?

You are my density...

 

[TSD]

Watched Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton version) last night. I didn't dislike it, but it seemed to miss some of the "magic" I expect in any story about Wonderland. Maybe because Burton wanted a more solid "story" as opposed to Carroll's strange trip but it wasn't horrible. The movie was pretty well cast, especially the newcomer in the title role, Mia Wasikowska.



Does anyone else have a hard time seeing Crispin Glover as anything but George McFly?

You are my density...

Haha totally agree, I think the last thing I saw him in was that movie about rats.

 

[Ymono37]

Haha totally agree, I think the last thing I saw him in was that movie about rats.

You know I never got around to seeing that one... have to check Netflix out.



I watched "My Name is Bruce" this weekend. I think with a little bit more of a budget this movie could have been really good. It wasn't terrible and I definitely like that Bruce Campbell can make fun of himself. The story was interesting in a "Three Amigos" kind-of-way and Ted Raimi really made good use of a few cameos. If you're a fan of the man with the chin, it's worth watching. Hell, if I found it in a bargain bin somewhere, I'd probably buy it otherwise, unless you like really low-budget comedy-horrors it's probably one to skip.

 

[TSD]

You know I never got around to seeing that one... have to check Netflix out.



I watched "My Name is Bruce" this weekend. I think with a little bit more of a budget this movie could have been really good. It wasn't terrible and I definitely like that Bruce Campbell can make fun of himself. The story was interesting in a "Three Amigos" kind-of-way and Ted Raimi really made good use of a few cameos. If you're a fan of the man with the chin, it's worth watching. Hell, if I found it in a bargain bin somewhere, I'd probably buy it otherwise, unless you like really low-budget comedy-horrors it's probably one to skip.

Wan di is his name. That song got stuck in my head for ages. I bought that movie when it came out. I love BC.

 

[winos5]

Watched Cop Out and Sherlock Holmes this weekend. About what I expected with both films. Not terrible, but not that good either.

 

[Ymono37]

Wan di is his name. That song got stuck in my head for ages. I bought that movie when it came out. I love BC.

It actually reminded me of all the movies of his I need to get caught up on. AND - it's been ages since I've seen Maniac Cop.

 

[bookjones]

Watched Cop Out and Sherlock Holmes this weekend. About what I expected with both films. Not terrible, but not that good either.

I was not a fan of that movie and not just because I am normally a Robert Downey, Jr. hater either. That was a miss by Ritchie for me. However speaking of Sherlock Holmes, last night I watched the final episode of Series One of Sherlock on PBS---the newest re-telling of the Holmes mythology but set in and told in a thoroughly contemporary London. Fucking BRILLIANT! Benedict Cumberbatch was pitch-perfect as Holmes and the always awesome Martin Freeman was a fantastic Watson counterpart. THIS is the way to inject contemporary sensibilities into the Holmes story---just go fucking whole hog instead of Ritchie's weak period-contemporary hybrid of a mess IMO. I'd HIGHLY recommend the series to anyone and all 3 episodes can apparently be viewed online through mid-December or else it's coming out on DVD for purchase or rental tomorrow (11/09). Of course PBS, showed slightly edited versions as per their usual bs so I am thinking I may have to get my paws on the BBC dvds. Can't WAIT until PBS airs Series Two and am hoping they don't make us wait a whole year or anything.

 

[Ymono37]

I was not a fan of that movie and not just because I am normally a Robert Downey, Jr. hater either. That was a miss by Ritchie for me. However speaking of Sherlock Holmes, last night I watched the final episode of Series One of Sherlock on PBS---the newest re-telling of the Holmes mythology but set in and told in a thoroughly contemporary London. Fucking BRILLIANT! Benedict Cumberbatch was pitch-perfect as Holmes and the always awesome Martin Freeman was a fantastic Watson counterpart. THIS is the way to inject contemporary sensibilities into the Holmes story---just go fucking whole hog instead of Ritchie's weak period-contemporary hybrid of a mess IMO. I'd HIGHLY recommend the series to anyone and all 3 episodes can apparently be viewed online through mid-December or else it's coming out on DVD for purchase or rental tomorrow (11/09). Of course PBS, showed slightly edited versions as per their usual bs so I am thinking I may have to get my paws on the BBC dvds. Can't WAIT until PBS airs Series Two and am hoping they don't make us wait a whole year or anything.

Was this a mini-series? I'll definitely have to look into it. (I'm sold on Freeman playing Watson! - He's one of those British actors that always has some awesome parts, the original "Jim" from the Office, Arthur Dent...)



I personally enjoyed the Guy Ritchie movie... was really surprised just how accurate to the source material it was.

 

[canucklehead]

Saw Winter's Bone the other night (not a porn), and it was pretty good/interesting, though a bit slow/dry. it's definitely not for everybody.

 

[bookjones]

Was this a mini-series? I'll definitely have to look into it. (I'm sold on Freeman playing Watson! - He's one of those British actors that always has some awesome parts, the original "Jim" from the Office, Arthur Dent...)



I personally enjoyed the Guy Ritchie movie... was really surprised just how accurate to the source material it was.

Well a mini-series to us in the US I guess but you know how it is, the Brits have no problem considering 3-6 episodes a whole "season" of a show---LOL! Series One is three 90-minute films---the first being "A Study in Pink"---heh.



http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/sherlock/index.html





I'd have to agree with the general concesus that has it running an average 5-Stars out of 5 in user reviews at Amazon, hee!



http://www.amazon.com/Sherlock-Season-One-Benedict-Cumberbatch/dp/B004132HZS/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1289252927&sr=1-1

 

[Ymono37]

Well a mini-series to us in the US I guess but you know how it is, the Brits have no problem considering 3-6 episodes a whole "season" of a show---LOL! Series One is three 90-minute films---the first being "A Study in Pink"---heh.

A Study in Pink? Sounds like a porno.... any relation to the "A Study in Scarlett?"



And generally, it's one of the things I like about British Television - they know how to end things and not drag it out for the sake of advertising or for the sake of dragging it out... like The Office.



Of course, they also do things like Christmas Specials (which initially made it very hard for me to figure out when the Doctor Who "reboot" seasons ended/began).

 

[bookjones]

A Study in Pink? Sounds like a porno.... any relation to the "A Study in Scarlett?"



And generally, it's one of the things I like about British Television - they know how to end things and not drag it out for the sake of advertising or for the sake of dragging it out... like The Office.



Of course, they also do things like Christmas Specials (which initially made it very hard for me to figure out when the Doctor Who "reboot" seasons ended/began).

BINGO! But does it own new and very distinctly contemporary version of it while referencing it.





Yes, we are of like minds when it comes to The Office. I have never watched the US version because I knew instinctively that American Big-3 network television completely misunderstood one of the fundamental aspects of the original series which is that by doing even one full traditional 22-episode season you lose the ever increasing and palpable desperation of Ricky Gervais' David Brent and the mounting tension about the viability of the Slough Wernham Hogg plant. D'uh! That's why Gervais was so genius throughout both series and the Christmas Special---because Brent starts to unravel right in front of the camera and you are witness to the spectacle, lol. So even though I knew the US pilot got glowing reviews and such, I knew if it became a "hit" that American TV would drag the series out infinitely longer than the original. Obviously in the Brit version it's made clear that the Wernham Hogg employees know they are being filmed cinema verite style because a documentary or some such is being made as they break the 4th wall as a common device---only in the US would a series have the same exact conceit but then 5, 6, 7 season or "years" later the characters are STILL being filmed by some anonymous crew and breaking the 4th wall to address the camera. For what? The world's longest documentary project? Leave that shit to Apted's "Seven Up" series, lol. Ridiculous. I don't know, I just feel the immediacy of the orig. series went RIGHT OVER the American producers heads even though they clearly loved the original enough to want to adapt it which is a compliment of the highest order and all but still.



I loves me some brief UK television series! Spooks (MI-5 in No. Amer.) is not only one of my favorite shows ever it's also perfectly compact clocking in at a delightful 8-11 episodes a series season (which leaves you wanting more!) same as Dr. Who, Torchwood, Traffik, (Inspector) Lewis, Wallander, etc. American cable networks at least understand this notion. I feel that the shorter series/seasons focus the mind of the creative staff which in turn focuses the mind of the audience.

 

[Ymono37]

BINGO! But does it own new and very distinctly contemporary version of it while referencing it.





Yes, we are of like minds when it comes to The Office. I have never watched the US version because I knew instinctively that American Big-3 network television completely misunderstood one of the fundamental aspects of the original series which is that by doing even one full traditional 22-episode season you lose the ever increasing and palpable desperation of Ricky Gervais' David Brent and the mounting tension about the viability of the Slough Wernham Hogg plant. D'uh! That's why Gervais was so genius throughout both series and the Christmas Special---because Brent starts to unravel right in front of the camera and you are witness to the spectacle, lol. So even though I knew the US pilot got glowing reviews and such, I knew if it became a "hit" that American TV would drag the series out infinitely longer than the original. Obviously in the Brit version it's made clear that the Wernham Hogg employees know they are being filmed cinema verite style because a documentary or some such is being made as they break the 4th wall as a common device---only in the US would a series have the same exact conceit but then 5, 6, 7 season or "years" later the characters are STILL being filmed by some anonymous crew and breaking the 4th wall to address the camera. For what? The world's longest documentary project? Leave that shit to Apted's "Seven Up" series, lol. Ridiculous. I don't know, I just feel the immediacy of the orig.series went RIGHT OVER the American producers heads even though they clearly loved the original enough to want to adapt it which is a compliment of the highest order and all but still.



I loves me some brief UK televiosn series! Spooks (MI-5 in No. Amer.) is not only one of my favorite shows ever it's also perfectly compact clocking in at a delightful 8-11 episodes a series seasons (which leave you wanting more!) same as Dr. Who, Torchwood, Traffik, (Inspector) Lewis, Wallander, etc. American cable networks at least understand this notion. I feel that the shorter series/seasons focus the mind of the creative staff which in turn focuses the mind of the audience.

BINGO!



I don't dislike the American version of The Office - I think if anyone could even attempt to re-create that uncomfortable-ness that Gervais did, Steve Carrell could and did... However, I've had the same thoughts as you - what kind of long ass documentary is this? Just because something becomes successful doesn't mean you have to bleed the well dry. This year, when Steve Carell leaves the show... time to end it, NOT replace him.



Of course, I've always thought it was funny that NBC tried to make an American version of a British version of an American show (Coupling/Friends).



And MI-5 is one of those shows I always forget to check out... they might be available on Netflix. Another show from the Brits I haven't seen many episodes of but have enjoyed what I've seen is "The IT Crowd." And who could forget Spaced?

 

[TSD]

I watched this british movie. I cant recall the name, but it was basically a revenge fantasy, it had gillian anderson as the female lead.



Basically this couple gets in an accident, and the guys in the other car brutally beat her husband then rape her.



They figure out who the guys are and exact vengeance. Only one of the guys raped her, and he got the worst of it.



Gillian anderson fucks him in the ass with a shotgun for awhile, then pulls the trigger.

 

[MassHavoc]

BINGO!



I don't dislike the American version of The Office - I think if anyone could even attempt to re-create that uncomfortable-ness that Gervais did, Steve Carrell could and did... However, I've had the same thoughts as you - what kind of long ass documentary is this? Just because something becomes successful doesn't mean you have to bleed the well dry. This year, when Steve Carell leaves the show... time to end it, NOT replace him.



Of course, I've always thought it was funny that NBC tried to make an American version of a British version of an American show (Coupling/Friends).



And MI-5 is one of those shows I always forget to check out... they might be available on Netflix. Another show from the Brits I haven't seen many episodes of but have enjoyed what I've seen is "The IT Crowd." And who could forget Spaced?

MI-5 is on Netflix streaming, i've watched a ton, they have at least 4-5 seasons I believe. I haven't watched them in a while, but might need to check back into them. Spaced is still in the que. And I actually didn't like the IT crowd.

 

[bookjones]

BINGO!



I don't dislike the American version of The Office - I think if anyone could even attempt to re-create that uncomfortable-ness that Gervais did, Steve Carrell could and did... However, I've had the same thoughts as you - what kind of long ass documentary is this? Just because something becomes successful doesn't mean you have to bleed the well dry. This year, when Steve Carell leaves the show... time to end it, NOT replace him.



Of course, I've always thought it was funny that NBC tried to make an American version of a British version of an American show (Coupling/Friends).



And MI-5 is one of those shows I always forget to check out... they might be available on Netflix. Another show from the Brits I haven't seen many episodes of but have enjoyed what I've seen is "The IT Crowd." And who could forget Spaced?

Hee! I LOVED the BBC Coupling! They had some really short seasons even by BBC standards. Much to my mother's chagrin I have often been vehemently anti-British half-hr. sitcom (Fawlty Towers and The Office notwithstanding NATURALLY, heh). HATE them! So it was with great surprise that I even found myself tuning into Coupling when Channel 11 first starting broadcasting it several years ago and even greater surprise that I loved instantly. SUCH good ensemble work! BTW, Coupling's creator and predominant writer Steven Moffat who also went onto the Dr. Who revamp is one of the two creative forces behind Sherlock---just thought I'd share that nugget.



As for Spooks/MI-5 (god I hate the North American re-name) there are just not enough good things I can say about it. Every time I rave about it to someone who doesn't watch and pester them to give it a look-see they always become crackiliciously hooked to it's awesomeness! While being pretty damn brutal with the audience's emotions instead of coming off as cool and alienating as a result, their brutality has the opposite effect and you care and invest that much more. Tricky rabbits. Plus the characters are just so fucking BADASS it's hard not to like. As well, I like the little digs they get in at the expense of U.S. ego, hubris, and geo-political imperialism, heh.



My friends love The IT Crowd but I just can't feel it ya know---that whole pesky being annoyed by the sensibility and style of British sitcoms thingy again---Fawlty, The Office and Coupling have to-date truly been the exceptions for me, lol.

 

[Ymono37]

Hee! I LOVED the BBC Coupling! They had some really short seasons even by BBC standards. Much to my mother's chagrin I have often been vehemently anti-British half-hr. sitcom (Fawlty Towers and The Office notwithstanding NATURALLY, heh). HATE them! So it was with great surprise that I even found myself tuning into Coupling when Channel 11 first starting broadcasting it several years ago and even greater surprise that I loved instantly. SUCH good ensemble work! BTW, Coupling's creator and predominant writer Steven Moffat who also went onto the Dr. Who revamp is one of the two creative forces behind Sherlock---just thought I'd share that nugget.

I was aware of Moffatt's involvement with the Doctor and totally forgot that he was involved with the Sherlock Holmes show... he must be a busy guy (I am really enjoying his plot and story direction of Doctor Who and can't wait to see what he unleases on us next season).



Coupling was fucking brilliant (up until Jeff left). My buddy and I can't say the word "naked" without attempting to give it that Jeff pronounciation. And you're not ready for the giggle-loop!



And since you and Mass recommended it, looks like I'll be adding MI-5 to the queue.