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Uncle Spellbinder · Postby **Uncle Spellbinder** » 07 Apr 2006, 13:00

Excellent film. Rather disturbing view of prejudice and racism in America.

Penk! · Postby **Penk!** » 07 Apr 2006, 13:05

The Right Scarfie Profile wrote:
Penk is the Drug wrote:
Black Books

Endlessly rewatchable.

Spaced aside, it's great to see a comedy that finally made proper use of Bill Bailey's talents. He took his time, didn't he? Certainly his brilliant stageshows' mix of esoteric surrealism and oddly childlike naivite is pretty difficult to translate to screen (as witnessed in his first attempt at a sketch show), but I think that show really 'got' the point of him. Manni was a great character for him, I love the episode with Fran's blind piano teacher (cue: Manni stuck inside the grand piano tapping the keys with spoons).

Another nice feature of the show is its wilful contempt for humanity, in a very nice, friendly way of course. I mean, we'd all like to be like Bernard once in a while, wouldn't we?

Essentially though it's Father Ted in a bookstore in terms of its dynamics- unsurprising, considering the people behind it. Great, great show, each season was as good as the last. I've got the 3-Disc "complete set," scarcely a duff moment in it.

It's great to have a comedy like that where, as you say, each series is just as good as the others - even now I can't think of what my favourite episode would be, because there are so many: Bernard and Manny creating a new kind of wine, Manny overdosing on The Sweeney, the childrens' book fiasco, the carnivorous sofa, Manny's brief foray into beard porn...

Tactful Cactus · Postby **Tactful Cactus** » 07 Apr 2006, 15:33

The Three Buriels of Eric Estrada.

Very good film, I thought. Sort of like an American road movie where one guy finds himself.
Tommy Lee Jones was brilliant. Its all in the eyes really, he didnt have to say a word.

I missed the first ten minutes though, so the ending made a little less sense than ir probably should have.

Maxwell's Golden Pickaxe · Postby **Maxwell's Golden Pickaxe** » 07 Apr 2006, 15:51

Tactful Cactus wrote:The Three Buriels of Eric Estrada.

Very good film, I thought. Sort of like an American road movie where one guy finds himself.
Tommy Lee Jones was brilliant. Its all in the eyes really, he didnt have to say a word.

I missed the first ten minutes though, so the ending made a little less sense than ir probably should have.

Yeah, i thought it was great too.

you didn't really miss much in the first 10 minutes, it wasn't exactly a straight chronological narrative.

The Slider · Postby **The Slider** » 07 Apr 2006, 17:43

The Sopranos - Episode 1 of the 6th Season.

(Trailer here)

It doesn't exactly flag, does it?

marios · Postby **marios** » 08 Apr 2006, 07:28

Influenced by David Lynch and Jacob's Ladder, no doubt.

The director also did Monster's Ball and Finding Neverland, two films i didn't like, but i think i liked this one. I wanna see his first film (Everything Put Together) now. The writer also worked on The 25th Hour, the Spike Lee film, which i kinda liked.

The cast was good, but i'd prefer someone else playing the role of Sam. Ewan McGregor just seemed a bit out of place to me.

Great use of Massive Attack's Angel in one scene of the film. And parts of The Guess Who's These Eyes playing in the background during some key scenes...chillingly haunting.

It's one of those films that either stay with you for a while after you've seen them or you instantly dismiss them as crap and move on. It was a case of the former for me.

Madrugada · Postby **Madrugada** » 08 Apr 2006, 17:23

My name is Spaulding · Postby **My name is Spaulding** » 08 Apr 2006, 21:54

A bit of Spanish "indie" cinema, and very nice it was too:

Diamond Dog · Postby **Diamond Dog** » 09 Apr 2006, 13:33

Sod the football and the golf (although my £2.50 each way on Tim Clark at 50/1 is looking pretty cool now... 8-)

), I'm watching this:

on Sky. The best animated film I've seen - magnificent.

Tactful Cactus · Postby **Tactful Cactus** » 10 Apr 2006, 09:46

Inside Man.

It was Ok, pretty good. Not a typical bank heist movie, though it did sort of start out that way. Anyone else getting a bit tired of Denzel Washington? He's a great actor, of course, but he really can't go beyond that one character (who always seems to have a supermodel wife/girlfriend), can he? Its getting a bity old. Jodie Foster couldn't really handle the "magnificant cunt" character, but Clive Owen was great, and Christopher Plummer too.

So-so.

lemon · Postby **lemon** » 10 Apr 2006, 13:07

Just my sort of film, though Peter Krause was annoyingly underused. And the ending was a little poor.

But good apart from that.

nathan · Postby **nathan** » 10 Apr 2006, 15:24

The whole time while watching this I could have sworn I have seen it before. Basically it's Seabiscuit that's been redone using boxing and not horses. I like horses though and Seabiscuit was so much better. It's always fun to play 'Spot The Clint' during a Ron Howard film. It's cute how he always gives his extremely unattractive brother a small role in all of his movies. Grade-A pifflespit, this was.

This was a neat little movie. Nothing more and certainly nothing less.

It took me about an hour before I even started caring and then when I finally did it just failed to engage me. And I'm not one to quibble but if you are going to make a movie where a lot of the characters are icons, wouldn't you at least try to get people that look even a tad like who they are portraying? I was getting tired of going 'who is this jackoff?' and then seeing that it said Elvis on his guitar, so I had to pretend it was Elvis. Very distracting and very um, fucking retarded.

And boo hoo, you had an unapproving dad. I wish I had a nickel for every movie... I almost dislike Johnny Cash even more now than I did before seeing this movie. It basically had the same effect on me that that Doors movie had. And they kept playing Hank Williams on the soundtrack too, and I was desparately wishing I was watching a movie about him instead of this douchebag. Or hell, even Waylon Jennings or Merle Haggard would have been more enjoyable. At least they knew they were assholes that got lucky.

Snarfyguy · Postby **Snarfyguy** » 10 Apr 2006, 16:54

nathan wrote:

I have a policy: never see movies about boxing.

nathan · Postby **nathan** » 10 Apr 2006, 17:15

Snarfyguy wrote:I have a policy: never see movies about boxing.

*thinks this over*

You're right. Boxing movies blow.

Now kickboxing movies on the other hand...

marios · Postby **marios** » 11 Apr 2006, 00:11

and

am i the only one who thinks that the woman on the cover DOESN'T look like Tea Leoni at all?

Mr Maps · Postby **Mr Maps** » 11 Apr 2006, 00:56

nathan wrote:
Snarfyguy wrote:I have a policy: never see movies about boxing.

*thinks this over*

You're right. Boxing movies blow.

ahem...

You guys both hate this? I know, I know it's not really about boxing....

marios · Postby **marios** » 11 Apr 2006, 01:13

And Robert Wise made a couple of good boxing films too.

the masked man · Postby **the masked man** » 11 Apr 2006, 01:17

Also on a boxing tip, John Huston's "Fat City" was worthwhile too - its low-key approach was far preferable to the questionable mythologising of "Raging Bull".

Snarfyguy · Postby **Snarfyguy** » 11 Apr 2006, 02:32

nathan wrote:
Snarfyguy wrote:I have a policy: never see movies about boxing.

*thinks this over*

You're right. Boxing movies blow.

Now kickboxing movies on the other hand...

Oh, right, I forgot about your Chuck Norris obsession.

I haven't seen Raging Bull in maybe 15 years, and I did think it was good, but generally, boxing movies always seem like they're going to be bad in that hackneyed "triumph of the sprit" way.

Bungo the Mungo · Postby **Bungo the Mungo** » 11 Apr 2006, 07:51

am i the only one who thinks that the man on the cover looks like the biggest tit in the world?

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