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I saw most of it. I wasn't familiar with any of the actors but I thought it was very well done. The actress playing Elizabeth was good but it's hard to match Cate Blanchett.

I never understood why Liz wore the thick white makeup til seeing The Virgin Queen and the smallpox episode. Elizabeth was a complex character who ran the gamut from victim to powerful monarch. It's one of history's great dramas.

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My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.

Anchorman - The Legend of Ron Burgundy

6/10

Se7en

8/10

Brazil (restaurant scene)

10/10 (one scene only)

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What are you saying? Are you saying he was faking it? Are you saying that wasn't a real hump? My illusions are crumbling!

*sobs into hankerchief*

No, seriously tho, what are you saying? It's a put on? They staged the round-table improvisations? Say it's not so - restore my faith in the florid whimsy of actors.

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War of the Worlds (I loved it.)

Walk the Line- 3/5

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire- 4.5/5

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"Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." -Patton 1970

Weeelllllllllll.....I dunno, it's just a feeling I got - don't have any information either way.

It wouldn't spoil the film one jot for me though if things turned out not to be quite what they seemed.

I'm also a cynical old bugger...

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"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how the Tatty 100 is done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves." - Brendan Behan

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, Ang Lee)

5/5

A modern classic. If you haven't seen it....you're silly.

How could you mistrust ol' Al? His whole face is made of earnestness .

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Alright, not exactly a film, but did any Brit-siders catch the first installment of Attenborough's latest nature series Life in the Undergrowth?



It's an insect-sploitation extravaganza in the mould of Blue Planet. An hour of camera-miracle micro-wonderment it was. I never thought the sight of hermaphrodite-slug-sex could be beautiful, but it freaking was. Swinging from a strand of slime n'everything. Bizarre man, thoroughly beguilingly bizarre .

I am sold. And now I go about tracking it down...

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Bugger. I forgot it was on.

Thought you'd like the idea . They've gone to the same lengths as b4. No cephalopods, and not a huge amount of sea-scapery o'course, but i wouldn't be surprised if they somehow unearth a soil-squid or two along the way .

And hey, who can argue with foot-long bat-eating milipedes and the cutest little head-butting mites that you ever did see .

I've got a feeling it's gonna get better as it goes on. This first one was kind of a scene-setter, with a couple of repititious themes. They've got some classy slow-mo flight stuff coming up in the next one, and I know they've done some innovative sound work in the later eps which should be cool - moth larvae 'singing' in a way that makes ants care for them and things of that sort .

The Day the Earth Stood Still - what delicious 50's camp! Patricia Neal was lovely, all the acting was perfectly suited (even Pinnocchio Marlow) and the message is respectable, even today. It's a classic for a reason.

Harold and Maude - 5th time though and I still blub, though now at different places. I also laugh at different places, finding new things, more subtle things. More on this tomorrow in Austruck's thread.

In the Company of Men - indegestible tripe. The central characters are so disgustingly detestable that the only way this could end satisfactorily would be a double homicide. Sadly, everyone lives.

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Review: Cabin in the Woods 8/10

So good!! The photography was amazing. That shot of the millipede unfolding was incredible. It looked so alien. Attenborough is a LEGEND. Love that man. I also loved the little bugs head butting eachother for sex.

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Pumpkins scream in the DEAD of night!

Sounds like a nightclub I used to frequent in my mis-spent 20s.

The bouncers were throwing people....in.

LOL!!!!

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Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons.....for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.

Don't Look Now-

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Bad Santa-

Batman Begins (2005 - Christopher Nolan)

It was entertaining.... I'll probably see the sequel.

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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".

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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.

Grosse Point Blank - it was on, and it's good. Love the script, love the acting. (And the music ain't bad either ).

i watched this the other night too. I enjoyed it. More or less destroyed any image of Santa being nice and good for me ever again, but also increased my fondness for Mr Bob Thornton. He plays a good drunk.