I agree with you 100% on Zohan, Harry. It was one of 10 movies I watched this weekend and I enjoyed it way more than I should have.

However, it's goofy fun and would have been great in the 80's. I loved the hell out of it.

Are there any more nude scenes in "Body Heat?" Or "Sleeping Beauty?"

Harryhausen is magnificent!

Boy, we've never fallen for that before, have we?

It could be the best drinking game movie ever though. Take a shot when Wahlberg has a dumbfounded look on his face, or take a shot when Zooey Deschanel says something goofy, which is practically every line of her dialogue. You'll be passed out long before the conclusion.

Gotta love the corpse bounce tho...even if it's fake...it's totally awesome.

Example

Elliot Moore: [to house plant] Hello. My name is Elliot Moore. I'm just going to talk in a very positive manner, giving off good vibes. We're just here to use the bathroom, and we're just going to leave. I hope that's okay. [Elliot touches leaf] Elliot Moore: Plastic. I'm talking to a plastic plant. I'm still doing it.

AND, as a cannibis advocate, i am obligated to tell you that this is one of the greatest films you will ever see stoned. the rabbit mythology and social commentary, mixed with the fantastic animation and that fucking awesome giant owl seen will reel in your head for days on end. great, GRRRREAT movie to watch high.

oh, and i'm starting to think the blu-ray people have harry on the payroll...

jk big guy...jk...

Its not surprising, if a guy can watch Stardust 5 times in a given week, he has no time to watch any of the excellent series (that excel a lot of movies) that dot the tv landscape.

"Pitty" me all you want, you illiterate fuck.

Or, in Indy speak: I wan to mack sweat luv to yous alls knight long.

I tend to believe the expression was "whoa, what the fuck was that".

There ARE scenes that are effectively staged like the construction workers and the passing of the cop's gun from victim to victim. And there were much worse major studio releases this past year. But to say the movie purposely makes fun of itself, but wants to taken seriously also (I'm sure M Night's pro-eco message is sincere), is trying to have it both ways. The script and performances are so bad in places it verges on the surreal. Again, I'll watch it again tonight and see if it has improved with age, so to speak.

Maybe this well help sell you the awesomeness of the show, one of the episodes is a parody of Amadeus! Also Alec Baldwin. Come on how could you miss it.

Anyway, if you knew what hd (whether HD-DVD OR Blu-ray) was like on a decent system, you'd understand the disappointment every time something cool comes out - and isn't HD. You can't blame Harry for that. As for the supposed Sony-shilling, no... Blu-ray stuff comes from all sorts of different studios and manufacturers (fees are paid no differently to regular DVD). The idea that Sony are the evil overlords that suck up every bit of the profit is pretty ignorant. I think even HD-DVD fans would admit that it was pretty much the other way around as far as hardware at least (and so ironic that they became the Sony/Beta of the noughties). Tosh/MS were the only ones producing players, and subsidised them so damn much in the name of winning the war that it backfired on them because no other manufacturers wanted to produce stuff they were going to lose money on.

Anyway, if Harry shilled for anyone it was at the start of the war when MS/Tosh "sent the boys 'round" (HD-DVD evangelists) with all the free swag and Harry posted that infamous thread where he sang it's praises and stated incorrect info on the competition without bothering to check it's inaccuracy. That's internet journalism for ya! But like I say, don't blame the guy for loving HD content in general. It IS that much better! Having said that, DNR is the devil and must be defeated.

Just bad, bad, bad.

Gil, Digital copy is a lame IMO marketing ploy where if you want to view the film on a NON high-def player or drive, or your iPod or a car/portable player etc. etc., they give you a standard def disc you can rip to iTunes or whatever. Although if you bought it in HD there's a good chance you'd RATHER watch it in HD. And if you bought the regular SD DVD you CAN play it in most of those devices (and ALL if you rip the thing). But they don't give you a choice with a version that includes it and one that doesn't, because then they couldn't charge you FIVE dollars extra. It's the same sorta ploy as HD-DVD "combo" disks.

Anyone get the sweet Forbidden Kingdom t-shirt?

Sad for an Aussie to say because sometimes we get the short end of the stick too, but at least we don't have to wait forever for movies to come out at the cinema and then have them be horrendously expensive on home video. You guys get fucked both ways!

Of course it was awesome importing U.S. stuff while the Oz dollar was at 95 U.S. cents a coupla weeks ago. Not so much now it's at sixty fucking five. I know their economy is fucked up, but I don't know what WE did to be dragged down with 'em!

Usually we get movies either the same day (well actually 2 days before when it's a simultaneous worldwide release because of the international date line and our stuff opening on Thursdays,,,) or a couple of weeks later. But every now and then we get stuff delayed for months for no discernible reason. And obviously Buena Vista in Oz is peopled by fucknuts who don't WANT to make money, because the last few Pixar releases have been delayed for MONTHS. It's not a 2nd-run print thing either. We have school holidays a few weeks after these Pixar films open, but they MISS those and delay the film 'til the FOLLOWING term break. I think it started with Nemo, so they couldn't exactly plead risk or anything as that one was a licence to print money. Of course it's finally changing just in time for their next film - which actually WILL be sorta uncommercial. At least I won't have to ban myself from the interweb spoiler arseholes again...

Dreadful crap. Although, in fairness to Melville, he was forced to co-direct with Cocteau.

Bob Le Flambeur is not much better. Sentimental and wet.

However, something amazing happened to Melville in the 1960s - maybe it was his studio burning down - but he started making great movies: Le Samouri (a template for Scorsese, Woo, Mann) - featuring Alan Delon as the coolest hitman in cinematic history.

Then "Cercle Rouge" - the coolest crime caper movie ever - at that point - and a model for the "Ingenious Heist" movie. Steven Soderberg was an obvious student - see his "Ocean's" movies.

"The Army in the Shadows" (forget the French title - L'armee Ombres?) - a brilliant, scary movie about the French WWII Resistance - of which Melville was a member, as an Alsatian Jew. Boredom, terror, dread, doubt and intense moral dilemmas. Starring the great Lino Ventura

I think the last movie he made was "Un Flic"- starring Delon - maybe more style than substance in that one.

Fantastic to see Melville/Grumbach finally getting recognition.

Harry, please keep proselytizing for this guy - maybe the most underrated director (and most influential - amongst good directors) of the 1960s.