First it's comic book day, with lots of tasty issues being released

then volume 3 of Transmetropolitan came in the mail

then I got my first album review ever published in a local magazine

then I got free dinner

then Lost started

then Twitch came back, providing the supreme icing on quite the tasty little cake.

and it's not even my birthday.

EASILY.

Bronson is a nutjob who legally changed his name by deed poll to Charles Bronson because he liked the Dirty Dozen actors "style".

He's fucking insane. Frightening as well.

Interesting trivia, at one point he held the world record for 1 armed press ups in a minute.

Morning, folks.

It's a pathetic, tedious, badly acted, misconcieved load of horseshit with less tension than a clowns trousers. Fuck it was awful. 1/10

I had all sorts of good stuff in mind, mostly based around how I encourage my son (as a concerned parent) to experiment with the cock as much as possible, but then it turned 5 and I shot out the door like greased lightning.

I did record Cutthroat Island last night, though. Cutthroat Island! I reckon I might try to get through that piece of crap tonight.

I should also get Chopper Chicks In Zombietown (starring Billy Bob Thornton!).

That Franklyn does look pretty good. Even though he's been in absolute shit, I like Phillipe. He was good in Breach and Way of the Gun carries a lot of goodwill his way.

This isn't really important in any way, but it's an interesting side note and kind of added a bit of depth to my perception of the guy.

Avoid.

Munich was entirely blah in my opinion. Watched it once, yawned my way through it, and I've had no desire to ever watch it again.

Seriously, The beard has some real dreadful shit on his resume. Saving Private Ryan, WoW, Munich, Crystal Skulls and that's just recently. Good thing he turned out some great and pretty good thing earlier, he's still has a bit of goodwill built up but is disappearing fast.

I've always had a soft spot for him,

Serioously: The Lost World (crap), AI (crap, but some like it), Minority Report (crap), WoW (crap), SPR (Crap), Amistad (crap), Indy 4(Meh), Munich (quite good, bollocksed by last 3rd), The Terminal (crap),

This is not a good resume.

Ta

It's not bad, per se, like AI or The Lost World though, just a terrible crushing let down as an Indy film,

Sort of Dark Angel by Gaslight. Get as many Landan actresses to play hookers as you can, have Danny Dyer play an opium addled plod that gets killed by intergalactic drugs dealer and have some hard case British Actor kill the dealer by booting him into the Thames.

Would be gold.

Why is modern horror so poor?

After looking it up, apparently the reviews weren't nice.

From Wiki "The video run time of 96 minutes is thought to be a studio-ordered cut against the wishes of Michael Mann. His cut of choice is speculated to be in the three to four hour range."

3 or 4 hours? WTF?

". Cuza had a strange disease that made him look 30 years older than he was. This was convincingly achieved after five hours in the make-up chair. For 12 days in succession, I was aged early each morning but never called to the set to work. I began a nervous breakdown or at least the line-producer thought so, because I was flown home from wet and dreary Bettys for a week-end's recuperation back home in London."

Lazy bastard.

I'd cast Kelly Brook (even though she can't act) as a hooker and require her to be naked for her entire screen time.

There would be no love interest shenanigans in my version either. Fuck that.

What kind of fucked up work out routine is he doing?

Bullshit, says I.

Anyway, everyone knows that are interplanetary Lizard People overlords taught them to their favourite slaves.

I did yesterday in a moment of boredom, but will not be returning.

PURCELL HATE!

When he gets there, he will do SHRUGS!

That's just the kind of guy he is.

Tell you what you crazy bastard, I will talk to my friends in the CIA, The Tri-Lateral Commision, The Council on Foreign Affairs, Star Fleet Command, The jedi Council and the Tin Foil Manufacturers guild and see if they can't dial down the microwaves they are sending into your brain.

I think Purcell might be a Lizard person. Or maybe a potato person.

Nothing to do with Pangea or whatever it was called then?

Anyway, isn't Blade Trinity enough?

Still a ways to go before he beats the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Sex Cult thing though.

The next setting is a New York City news room. The main character, Tim (Purcell), is seen and he is looking at a TV and talking on his phone. Apparently he is waiting to see if his name is mentioned in connection with a case that he was working on. Not much is heard about this. His cameraman and best friend Steven is telling him maybe their boss, Roger, did not see or hear what was being broadcast on the news. Right when he says that Tim is asked to see Roger, which Steven says was really quick and jokes about being a cameraman for another reporter. Tim then goes to see Roger who in turn does not want to talk about his contract just yet but instead introduces him to a very attractive woman standing by another television set viewing a report about the woman who was seen previously with the creature. This is where Gustave is introduced. The woman's name is Aviva and she is a reporter that focuses on reports dealing with animals being killed or harmed, and she is interested in the crocodile who is known to have killed hundreds of people in Africa. Tim is more-or-less "forced" into going to Africa with her and brings Steven along to help capture this creature.

In Burundi they meet Harry, who is there to warn them about "The Bush," as he calls it, and the dangerous warlord who lives there, who has nicknamed himself "Little Gustave." They are to travel via riverboat to their destination, a small village, where they will set up their traps in attempts to capture Gustave. All attempts to capture Gustave fail. Their cameraman, while getting scenic video, catches on film Little Gustave himself executing the village people who helped the group. The guards that are sent with the group end up working for Little Gustave. Both of them get killed either by gunshot or Gustave.

Then a fast-paced series of events takes place. The group tries to kill Gustave with a hand grenade resulting in the death of their guide and their crocodile expert that went with them. A helicopter appears and it looks like the survivors are going to be rescued. But Little Gustave's men attempt to blow up the helicopter to stop them from showing the video of the execution. That results in the group getting separated. Steven gets separated from the group and Gustave chases him. We don't find out happens to Steven till later. The other members of the group come together to look for Steven but Aviva has to stay with the injured Jojo. Tim finds Steven's camera. Little Gustave (who is actually Harry) comes to get the video himself. That results in Aviva, Tim and Jojo getting captured. Tim attempts to trick Little Gustave by giving him the GPS locator that tracks Gustave by saying it tracks the suitcase that also has a copy of the video. Little Gustave declines and forces Tim to find the suitcase. That's where they finds Steven's body. Aviva splatters pheromones on Little Gustave and Gustave comes and kills Little Gustave. Tim, Jojo and Aviva escape to the range rover and Gustave appears and attempts to kill all three but they manage to escape. We see the group on a plane home. The ending states that the civil war ended and Gustave is still alive and killing.

He is one of AnimalBalls cronies though,

Anyone who argues otherwise is working with a brain atrophied as Dominic Purcell's calf muscles.

Besides, this also came from the Lizard people. Are you not keeping up?

Franklin, everbody knows wrestling was invented by Mean Jean Oakland, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Randy "The Macho Man" Savage and Barbra Walters, Duh!

I was taking the piss out of you with the Pangea comment.

Especially as we now know that THE LIZARD PEOPLE (or possibly MAN-CATS) are behind everything.

Christ almighty nutbag, you realize you need certain things that the ancient egyptians did not have in order to refine the coca plant into base right? Christ the original coca plant which is basicaly a weed in Columbia has been refined into the cocaine bearing plant of today sometime around the end of the 18th century.

Mrs. Jarv was hilarious about it the other day,

I hope somebody offs Kate soon, she's annoying. Juiletts Cans looked good and the red haired chick looks like she has down syndrome but I'd throw a hump in her anyways. Sun looked great and very bad ass.

That's my personal review. Oh yeah the story was good also. Many questions answered and new questions posed.

Who the hell wants that? That's just mean.

MM says so many dubious things that on occassion facts have to be brought up. Mostly I just try to work in every word I know that means crazy when dealing with him.

Media Messiah, I saw your message a bit late.Sorry. Good to see you again. I was not involved in any conversations of Palin or UFOs and wasn't paying a heckuva lot of attention to any others on those topics.

I missed "Lost" last night (unbelievable!!!). I need to go find it before I trip over an accidental spoiler.

Have a great day everyone.

2. He's involved in some sort of lame research project at the community college he attends part time.

3. The straps on his helmut are way to tight and are pushing down on the soft part of his head.

4. He's actually a cybernetic organisim from the future sent back in time by the aliens of Zeticula Nebula IX.

Proof of this you ask? It's a well known fact that Nebulan cybos, as they are known, overuse the exclamation point when posting loony tune conspiratard theories on the interwebs.

I'm all in favour of you having crazy opinions, MM (belive what you want - what do I care?), but don't throw around a phrase like "scientific and medical fact" when it isn't appropriate. All that does is reveal your own ignorance and make you sound like those Christian idiots who say "Well, evolution is just a theory, not a fact".

You don't want to be like those assholes, do you?

Let me guess, you buy extra small and tight sweatshirts then cross your arms inside the sleeves because it gives you that safe feeling you got from the straight jacket, right?

That is the kind of crazy we like here.

Dude you're insane. Stop reading shit like www.tinfoilhatsahoy.com It isn't doing you any good.

Please, I'm begging with you, fuck off. You're an idiot, and I always end up feeling dirty when I argue with idiots.

That was really heartfelt.

On that note, I think winehouse may be a Lizard person. It would explain a lot about her appearance

Really, son, I'm starting to feel bad for you again and the state of the chemicals roilling around in that head of yours. Please seek some help. I know those darned psychotropic drugs can make you feel bad but working with a skilled physcian the side effects can be minimized and the upside can be really good.

Like for instance you won't feel compelled to grovel to scriptgirl on those TB asking for a job. See, things would look up right there.

He's David Icke!

Or, at the very least, he's as worringly gullible and misguided as David Icke (these kind of DNA tests are only 87.6% reliable).

So far, no other scientists have disagreed with this revolutionary new theory, therefore proving it to be fact!

QED and whatnot!

IT'S A FACT!

Mind you, he's a complete fucking tube so it's no wonder he's trying to get a job with her.

They're such teases, those saucy, scaly minxes...

Media, what's wrong with you?

on the other hand you you gave me some drivel and hookum from fucktarded psudoscince web sites.

Getting info from "the Web" is the last place I'd go, but then again, I'm skeptical and have the ability to use discernment and judgementwith with web "info" so I'd be okay. It's that whole Occam's razor thing. It's a concept that seems Alien, pardon the pun, to you.

Here's the problem with gleaming your "facts" from the web, they aren't usually facts but somebodies opinion or flat out BS.

I could have somebody build me a website that says Lost Jarv was the gunmen on the Grassy Knoll and he killed Kennedy. Never mind that he's not old enough to have done it, some numbnuts will believe it. Especially if I lie, spin, obfiscate and cherry pick what I want known correctly.

In two friggin weeks I'll have a book and "documentary" deal in place from some scam artist out to fleece the gullable and credulous masses like yourself. You know what? We'll be laughing all the way to the bank.

Twitch is our starting place, and then we move on to other subjects.

Congratulations on "beating us", by the way. Did typing that give you a boner, being "first" and all?

The Lizard People gave me a time machine and ordered me to do it. I feel bad about it now.

Moron.

Anyway Shinjuku Incident looks awesome.

On another note my brother was in Belmarsh Prison with Bronson, he's apparently a nice guy, only a tit with some of the screws, hates authority, shit like that, and all he wants are his pineapple chunks.

Very funny.

Todd, have you heard of a movie called The Divine Weapon? I came across it last night and was surprised that I had never heard of it during it's theatrical run overseas. It has the always entertaining Jeong Jae-yeong and those purty period customes so it should be up my alley. Also, have you heard of Truck? The reviews are calling it one of the better Asian thrillers to come out in a while?

Lastly, what's the word on The Last Princess? So far I've read mixed reviews but I'm always up for Japanese fantasy.

Oh wait, my phone is ringing. *pillow picks up his stapler and stands on one leg* "what is thy bidding my master?"

2)Don't know and don't care

3)Don't know and don't care.

4)WE HAVE REFUTED YOUR IDIOTIC COCAINE MUMMIES THEORY- AND I JUST TRASHED YOUR SUPPOSED NEW YORK TIMES SOURCE.

How is this a clear win for you?

So I watched The Express last night. You know, I enjoy these "based on a true story" sports films as much as the next guy, but at this point they really are starting to become indistinguishable from one another. It was still fresh with Rudy and Remember the Titans, but at this point we've had too many We Are Marshalls, Glory Roads and Friday Night Lights to make even a true story feel unique.

Franklyn looks like the British are returning to form. And Fireball promises to be the ultimate drinking movie.

And the idiot fascist apologists are back.

Everbody demolished your dumb fuck mummy nonsense several times over. But hey if it makes you feel any better you cut and paste with the best of them champ!

Not quite sure what string theory and realitivity have to do with this discussion, oh wait yes I do. When everbody blew up your cockamammie mummy theory you grasped for any life line you could find and started flinging shit out on to the webs like a monkey in a zoo.

Not to wory there nutter, I realize that everytime you get schooled like a fool on a TB you always fall back on the nobody answers my questions gambit and claim some sad internet victory. You need new material son, this stuff is old and used up. Although I guess it's your go to/signature move so maybe you can't.

I'm hoping it's the second one.

Frost/Nixon

Milk

The Reader

Slumdog Millionaire

Hysterical.

Interesting.

What colour shell suit are you wearing today?

ok, there was your (geekily) valient attempt at a turn of phrase involving sexual inuendo. If you were going to turn the 'action figures' into sex toys, you need to modify the wording. It was estabolished that you are a geek who talks to his action figures. So, we knew we were talking about action figures, so, no need to call them action figures. What you needed to do was come right out and call them toys, which would segue much better when you flip it to 'sex toys.' Poor example: 'I don't talk to toys, i fuck your girlfriend with them.' That would have been better. The key is it uses less words and sounds more agressive.

However, there is a built in pitfall to this 'sex toys turn of phrase'...you see, if you were a real man who has had sex with a real woman, you'd just fuck her yourself...what man worth his salt in bed needs sex toys, not counting anniversaries, birthdays, valentines days, new years eve, hell, even christmas? it seems to me like the only one being pleasured would be the girl, and i get it, sometimes you do throw a girl a gift like that (see above list of special occassions), but it's not good trash talk material. Personally, i've never used a sex toy on anyone i've slept with...i'm too selfish.

So you're already on wobbly ground, but then you lose me: 'and by the way, i talk them, the sex toys, i mean' I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and not attack your wording there, probably a typo...however, talking to sex toys??? unless i've missed some new pop culture something or other, talking to sex toys makes no sense...what were you thinking?

Basically, in sex trash talk, you want to stay short, quick, and to the point, (coincidentally, the opposite of how you want to perform in bed) and you want just the right amount of vulgarity.

I could go on forever, you've given me so much to work with, but i'll finish up.

For reasons i believe i've made moderately clear above, i have deduced you must be a virgin. But the last thing you want to be is a virgin AND a pussy. You see, Your apology really hurt your case. Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES do you ever take back trash talk. This is even more true when you're online. But when you talk shit, you gotta be ready to stand your ground. Not doing so, especially online, makes you come off as a huge pussy.

I hate to break all this down for you, but this is really the shit you should learn from an older brother, or a friends older brother, or one of your older friends or one of your cooler friends that is your age...seems to me like you need a more alpha male influence in your life to show you the ropes.

Moral of the story? don't talk shit if you're a virgin, pussy, action figure geek, or not willing to stand by it.

Wxmmm FOR THE WIN.

and this is the best TB outside of a Scriptgirl/watchmen/avatar TB, I really love reading MM's posts

Come to think of it, where the fuck are In Bruges' nominations? It was the best film of the year. The Reader? Fuck off! Kate Winslets statue chasing is starting to get on my fucking nerves. She should not have been nominated of for Rev Road. Michael Shannon as supporting actor? Yes, definitely. He was brilliant. But Kate Winslet can fuck right off.

Where the fuck is Jason Butler Harner's nom for Changeling? The guy was awesome. As much as I like him, Downey Jr can fuck off as well. Tropic Thunder was okay, but his role was a fucking gimmick, not a character.

Frost/Nixon? Fuck off! Langella maybe deserved a nom. Maybe. But the flick was average at best.

Presumably, Heath's nominated?

It's an orgy of back-slapping and marketing opportunities anyway. Has anyone ever tried to watch the Oscars all the way through? Fuck me, it's boring.

I almost feel sorry for him.

A useless cunt.

Exhibit "A":

"I love the Indian people, but Hollywood is major in need of financial investment due to the economic crash, and they want, and need, Bollywood and the Indian people watching the Oscars en mass...and with it, they are hoping to win favor and more investments by Indian Billionaires in Hollywood productions and studios like Dream Works, by giving Slum Dogs those nominations...and despite my love for Benjamin Button...the Hollywood elite are crooked enough to fix this thing so Slum Dog wins best picture over Benjamin Button just so they can get that cash!!! "

That's demented. Even by his standards

He gets home with his freshly procured wrap, opens it up only to find that the dastardly swine has filled it with paper.

(Actually, I was at a party where this happened to someone- he was pissed, especially as he'd paid £50 for it)

Christ, you're dim.

Doesn't make them true. You fucking donkey.

In fact, the more outlandish the theory, the more intriguing it is.

There's conspiracies and then there's obvious horseshit

"I'm like the Red Baron of talkbacks...shooting down my critics with ease."

You're a tool. Fuck off and take your stink with you.

That there is funny as hell. I get it now. You're not really a deluded loon - you're just taking the piss, like when I do my 'concerned parent' bit, right?

It all makes sense now.

So fuck off.

Answer the question, asshat, on the basis that Bollywood is not represented at the oscars, and they don't give a shit about them, how is it a conspiracy to give a best picture award to a British film about India? What do you think the Academy are hoping to gain from this.

You're a fucking idiot.

Steven Seagal on guitar.

Casper Van Dien on bass.

And, what the fuck, let's hope they get top-heavy freak of nature Dominic Purcell on keyboards.

This is a tiring day, I'm dealing with the unfettered lunacy of Media Messiah on this thread and the evil right wing cabal on the other one. I feel sick.

P.S. On saxophone, they should get that bizarre, shirtless, over-muscled sax player from The Lost Boys.

What the fuck was that guy about?

They'd sell literally dozens of records.

Ah, well.

It's this Nazism= Left wing thing that pisses me off.

I skimmed the headlines yesterday and was wondering if this OneBuckFilm, I think, is AnimalStructres new handle. I snapped to the capitalized letters in his handle.

I think we've lucked out a bit on the varying titles so far partly due to location. Why argue with a working system? :)

Why does the president stop the hoist to kill the Duke of New York- he knows Kurt is on the timer thing. What a twatty thing to do- Snake would have been well within his rights to knock the fat old twat into the middle of next week

Christ, I hate them.

PS- although I enjoyed TDK, it wasn't best film material.

The Changeling, Zed, on the other hand sucked.

Saying that, I'll give you a free shot...

I watched Zack and Miri Make a Porno last night and quite enjoyed it. Sure it's essentially a formulaic romantic comedy, but there were some decent laughs.

"She frosted me like a fucking cake!" Disgusting, but genius.

Now I want to watch Escape From New York again.

P.S. Morning, all.

I know most people on the AICN are down on Kevin Smith, but I still like him.

I hated the Changeling. Really hated it. Mostly because of Jolie's staggeringly inept Oscar begging performance.

And TDK wasn't best film material- despite what the geeks are screaming.

Winslet is a fucking good actress- but she's a bit of a "serious" drama whore- she's much better in things like Eternal Sunshine than she is in more "weighty" films- it's almost as if she's trying to hard in them.

Almost everything she's been in is crap.

The thing is, she has been good in things and in some good films, but the shite far outweighs it.

I don't know what the fuck is wrong with me over these movies.

Not interested at all.

It does have Rhina Mitra, though, and the prospect of her in skin-tight PVC for two hours will most likely mean I'll give the film a look eventually.

Curse my never-ending attraction to sultry brunettes!

I seem to remember her getting her norks out in the sequel, which was a bright spot in an otherwise unmitigated shitstorm of awfulness.

I like Smodcast, too, which has occasionally had me laughing like a hyena while walking to work. I must look like a right nutcase.

Exhibit B: Underworld Evolution- even worse.

Exhibit C: Die Hard 4.0.

The prosecution rests.

It's enjoyable. I liked it. And I haven't said that about a Kevin Smith flick for a long fucking time.

I'm still looking forward to seeing the film, though, even if it does let me down.

Thanks for that one, mate.

Jesus, I suppose that guy thinks he looks all sexy and whatnot, blowing into his sax and wiggling his muscular ass about, but he just looks creepy.

At the very least, he must be related to Dominic Purcell.

Olyphant was about as menacing as being savaged by a duck.

Crap- although having said that, I did quite enjoy it on first viewing. It was only when I saw it again that I didn't like it.

I did laugh at Kevin Smith.

He makes me laugh, plus he looks like a friend of mine so there's probably a bit of transferrence going on.

But Die Hard 4 isn't totally dreadful, It's like Indy 4. By the standards of the genre it's "meh", as a Die Hard movie it's pish.

Except I recall thinking that if you replaced Bruce with Keifer, you'd have a pretty solid 24 film.

Such a shame.

At least Die Hard 2 is consistently okay. Starts okay, carries on okay for a while, ends okay.

What is it about Friday? Talking on the AICN on Fridays always makes me want to buy DVDs. Now I'm thinking about getting that dirt cheap Die Hard Quadradingdangdoodly box set they have at Zavvi.

It is shameful that I don't at least own the first one.

Neither are actively bad films, but by the same score neither are good films. Certainly, they are atrocious entries in their pasticular series.

The problem comes in that people are very fond of the series, so take these entries as personal slights which result in an unwarranted level of vitriol aimed at them.

Harsh, but true.

sure, we know its real.. but we can only show evidence.

you can say that since evolution is proven to exist for insects there is evidence with us, then it exists for us [and you'd be right] anyhoo, thats just a technicality.

oh, mummies on cocaine is a great punk band name.

Order goes DH1>DH3>DH2>DH4.

still, the worst is definitely die harder.

Did I say something about evolution that upset you?

As for "He's better than gross-out humour." He's always been about gross out humour.

"Mawkish sentimentality" He's always been about mawkish sentimentality.

Every one of his films contain these aspects. That's what a KS film is. You're expecting something from him that he doesn't do.

Anyway, we'll agree to disagree. I've put more thought into this film than is necessary.

and I'm responding to other people's arguments from a while ago.. nvrmnd.

he ain't crazy, SHE is.

I was trying to draw a parallel between that kind of flawed thinking and Media Messiah's insistence that a marginal and largely ignored theory about cocaine and mummies was just as valid the opinions held by respected archeologists. It's not.

Instead, it kind of drifts off to nowhere, first to the boat and then to Canada (because of a bottle of pills, for some reason). It's just not very satisfying, and the other ending has the same problem - it's more of a coda than anything else.

Even the boat wasn't bad.

If you accept that the premise of Die Hard is 1 man trapped in X location (Building, Airport, Manhatten) you absolutely have to start and finish the film in that location. This is another weakness with DH4- he seems to traipse all over America. Which is not Die Hard.

If they had, Die Hard 3 would have been a pretty fucking great sequel.

You would think Bruce Willis would have enough money by now.

The Runaway dude is definitely channeling Van Damme. The ughs and screams are down pretty pat.

I'm pretty sure half the movie was filmed in my office. 97.4% sure.

I've never seen a warehouse filled with so many empty boxes.

Having said that, barricading oneself with said empty boxes will not stop the dino puppet from eating you. Nor will empty boxes thrown in the path of a cyborg (who eerily looked like a hard rock zombie to me) will slow him down much.

One part is a blatant ripoff of the terminator, along with very similar music that accompanied the cyborg.

Worst acting goes to sister Ann, since she was really given the "meat" of the story. She's also supposed to have been some sort of bad girl. Sure.

She also knows "people" to get weapons. Happily after her episode of puppet dino killings, she still takes her vows. The Church is really modernizing me thinks.

There is most definitely not a coherent story or shots that really make sense. It's no Space Mutiny.

Oh, and the beginning of the movie launches you into the action right from the get-go. But who dies? The lone black man. What's even more amazing about this scene is...they show it again towards the end of the movie! That's right, they go back 4 days from this opening scene.

In short, this movie is balls. Sweaty balls from the gym. In short, see it. You'll never look at puppet dino's the same again. And I haven't even mentioned their 'self-destruct collars'.

Fuckers.

But I think I'll have to watch them all again soon.

After DH2 I always wanted a DH on a cruise ship. On a cruise to repair his relationship with Molly. I had the image of McClane swinging down from the top deck on a life ring and shooting at the bad guys on the lower decks as he swings past.

But then they made Under Seige and Speed 2 and I came to my senses.

You have shamed yourself, and you have shamed the art of web-based film reporting!

The Last Seduction did terrible things to an adolescent Jarv's expectations of women

She's not a nymphoid, the Dinosaurs look like the chewitt monster but are actually Aliens anyway.

How is that not funny?

This film is a must! It is utterly crap and absolute genius. It is the kind of movie that ranks alongside eternal classics like Plan 9 and Tarantula. There is a fight between two reptile Dinosaur type beasties that is straight out of the Chewits ad of the 80's with the monster eating the leaning tower of Piza, the Taj Mahal and the Empire State Building. It is so shit that you simply must see it."

And that's positive!

Stapling a zombie's mouth shut!

Or "I'm the dyke. Blow Me"

hehehehehehe

"This movie had everything, Drama, Comedy, Action, Romance, Motorcycles, Lesbians, a Musical number, Mad Scientists, Midgets, Zombies, Blind Orphans, and most especially, CHEESE! Lots and lots of cheese!"

It's got it all, including a (lost) Billy Bob Thornton.

If I watch a shit movie, I feel I need someone to share the pain.

Come forward!

Stupidly cheap.

That's me sorted for the weekend.

That's just a potpourri of awesomeness.

Fucking netflix letting me down with this one. Fuck!

I could have done without the Burma stuff, though. It seemed a little tasteless to set a film like that in a real country with real problems.

For this I most definitely deseve to be head-butted by the massive-necked Second Stage Guildsman we all know and love as Dominic Purcell.

I've had it with that fucking cesspool of left and right-wing assholes. Fuck 'em.

You must love Mad Max 3.

Creepy muscle dudes in a fight to the death!

MorbidObesity and Cuntlin drive me up the fucking wall. It's so frustrating

NOT READING IT.

Best Picture noms for 1996

Braveheart (this won)

Apollo 13 (Very good flick)

Babe (WTF? Nice little flick but fuck off!)

Il Postino (never seen it. not really interested)

Sense and Sensibility (WHAT THE FUCK?)

Heat is far superior to at least three of those films. I'd personally say its superior to ALL those fucking films.

Anger... subsiding...

Arguing with them is impossible and really annoying- it's like trying to explain to a retarded child that he shouldn't eat his own shit, when you know that it's pointless as he loves the taste and as soon as your back is turned he's going to start stuffing his mouth again.

Frustrating and pointless.

I've never understood why people get so hot under the collar about it. Each year, the Academy offers a marketing boost to whichever film they like best, that's all.

Crash, Shakespeare in Love (although I do like it), Gump, Titanic, Braveheart, Million Dollar Baby etc were by no stretch of the imagination the best films of their years.

Snide backhanded compliment. Outlander is totally changian, and not for reviewers that kiss Paris Hilton's talentless ass.

I enjoyed the shit out of Beowulf that movie is what 300 wanted to me, awesome.

I accidentally posted this in the Academy Awards nom thread...oops.

It is mighty tempting.

AvP:Rectum is an abomination unto the lord and has been known to cause cancer in small rodents.

The concept of Aliens and Predators fighting in a supermarket sounds bloody awful, but who knows...

Maybe I will think it's mint.

In fact, I only need to say one thing to you to confirm it's suckitude:

PREDALIEN

Therefore I don't want my fond memories of it anally violated by the AvP shitstorm.

That sounds like an exercise in misery to me.

What will I be like when I come out the other side?

Will I think Alien Vs Predator: Requiem is mint?

Who knows...

I feel like I need to buy some themed snacks to compliment the experience, but I have no idea what they would be.

Any suggestions?

AvP does not exist.

What is this AvP you speak of I've never heard of it.

And I disagree with Jarv on this one, while both blow big wads, AVP:R I find less horrifying than AvP. Why you ask Frankie? Simple. While the Predalion drives Jarv nuts (I think it's a horrendous insult, however I find the following more insulting), the chick being honored by the Predator in AvP AND be given a staff by the head Predator...UGH!

Plus the people were I think dumber in AvP:R, so more grisly kills.

The problem with doing it this way, is that Predator starts you well, you've then got the shit to put up with (at least they're short), Predator 2 sort of puts you back on your feet- but the best 2 films may be soured by 2 of the Weakest 3 and you may not want to see them.

I'm totally with David Fincher as far as that film is concerned.

AvP is horrific bollocks, totally agree, and Anderwank is a complete twat, but AvP:R has a fucking PIZZA DELIVERY CUNT in it.

It blows.

I equate this to the Hulk wars.

We all lose.

I haven't seen it in a long long time, but i remember it was so stupid and ridiculous it was very enjoyable.

Ebert says this...

"You've gotta hand it to "Terminal Velocity:" This movie may be dumb as a box of shredded wheat, but it has the damnedest action sequence I've seen since Arnold Schwarzenegger blasted the bad guy with the missile in "True Lies." Nastassja Kinski is locked in the trunk of a red Cadillac, which is taken aboard a cargo plane. Charlie Sheen pursues in another plane, walks on its wing, hauls himself aboard the cargo plane, and then finds himself, Kinski and the Cadillac all falling through the air - with a villain on the hood shooting at him. This is an assignment for Houdini."

Genius.

TO be fair though, you're right. We lost. Big time.

Fuck fox.

I'll have to try to find that screenplay and read it, because there can't be much of it left it in the film.

It's from where Ryder turns up having been shot to the end that sucks.

Droid is spot on about that scene. It's embarrasing.

Shit, I have to stop slagging these films. I'm supposed to be watching them all this weekend and I need a more positive frame of mind or I'll never get to the end.

That's some mighty fine viewing.

It doesn't make me like the film any more, but it's still pretty cool.

It's all or nothing, I reckon.

"I mean to have you, vaguely dog-shaped Alien, even if it must be burglary."

And the alien scarpers.

If I don't return, say a prayer for me.

Please excuse me while I vomit in my assistant's mouth.

Anyway- MARSHALL for Alien 5. This MUST be done.

SHAME ON YOU LANCE.

Mr "Weyland" in the first film and Miss "Yutani" in the second make me want to feed puppies into a wood chipper.

Anyway, it isn't a new twitch. It's this one again,

I pretty much work (well, erm, pretend to work) on my tod.

I've honestly got a theory about Alien 3 hate- it's because Fincher killed Newt and Hicks, isn't it?

He says it himself- Fox told him what they wanted, he put it in his style and gave it to them.

I really don't get the hatred for Alien 3. Never mind

I bet he has never cried in his life.

some downright shitty special effects, which is very distracting in this type of movie...

the awful ending with Ripley jumping and catching baby alien..and

reappearance of Bishop.

That being said, I do still like the film, just not nearly as much as the first two.

avp was so bad it does not exist. avp:rape i never saw, i thought it was a fan trailer someone made on youtube, with the joke that it was avp but r-rated.

doing a marathon of starwars 1-6? that takes a lot of strength. i fell asleep in the theater while watching episode 1 with my friend. i gave sw2 a couple of chances but gave up. sw3 was worth it just to see how fucking stupid it was.

the keep was interesting. it goes in a bunch of directions at once, and does feel a bit like a mini series.

as for twitch. i'm tired of high kick girl already. that 10s teaser was too much. franklyn looks good but i'm getting an ultraviolet/aeonflux vibe from it.

Amazingly, the Muvico Egyptian not too far from us just got Outlander, so tomorrow night my wife and I are gonna check it out. Never actually thought I'd see that movie in a theater.

Mori, Huzzah to you wherever you are right now. You were petitioning for a release, and even if it aint a big one, it's got one.

Echo have fun at that crazy ass Egyptian theater, and don't be late for Medieval Times afterward.

You'd think in the year in which almost silent movie starring a Robot is the biggest cartoon movie of the year, that people would be jumping on the bad wagon to put out a bunch of Sci-Fi while the kids are still interested in it? And why isn't John Hurt a fucking known name? Ever time I complain about Krystal Skull its mainly about his character and I always have to say the old guy because no one knows who he is? Also is it that hard to say Ron Perlman star of Hellboy (co-starring John Hurt!), or starring Jesus Christ? JESUS CHRIST why isn't James Caviezel a star yet? I've liked a lot of his AD stuff. It has to be something that he doesn't want to be known as THAT GUY. I don't know just pisses me off. Nothing good showing this weekend and Let the Right One In doesn't come to our art theater (for one weekend) till next weekend.

Goddamn is Rhona Mitra a fine looking gal. She can't act or emote worth a damn but I don't care. I'd pay to watch her sound out big words from the dictionary if she wears skimpy clothes.

oleg is a living weapon.

oleg is your biological father.

oleg shot the sheriff, the deputy, the bailbondsman, the judge, the mayor.

Repo was a piece of crap, and Series is right. Somehow Anthony Head is almost easily the best singer in the film. I sat almost, because Sarah Brightman is in the cast. The worst? I don't know, because outside of the two I've mentioned almost no one actually sings their lyrics, more like cackles croons, or in Paris' case mutters. Could have been intriguing, but it's just further proof of the lack of the talent and creativity of the Saw. director.

The weekend movie jamboree got off to an entertaining start last night with The Boogens(lame 80s crap that while laughable, isn't enjoyable at the same time you are alughing), Night of the Creeps (a great little horror comedy that gives off the 80s production vibe like nobody's business) and Razorback (a beautifully shot, odder than I remember, giant pig running amok in the Outback movie; I liked it, but it needed more Razroback, less aussie nutjobs).

Also Joan Jett was in there as well.

You mean the Oscar nominated 80's movie starring Mel Brooks?

NO YOU IDIOT! The Oscar nominated original from the 40's!! It was very entertaining. But I will be watching that Mel Brooks update later this week.

Did you see anything else?

OHHH WHY Yes I did! I saw the Ringer.

What did you think?

MEH. If you saw the trailer then you saw the movie. I was surprised though as too which characters were actors and which weren't. My mother is a special education teacher and she loved it, so I guess its a very safe movie that everyone can love. Unlike that horrible Tropical Thunder.

Wow that's awesome what are you up to tonight?

OH you know, the usual thing someone with bad bronchitis or good phenomena does on a cold Saturday night. Watching rerunes of the PJ's and Smallville. And if I'm lucky I'll get around to watching that ever to handsome Spike Feresten.

Oh well you've been a lovely guest tonight, I hope you enjoy your stories. This is late night talkback see to next midnight or later.

High-LAAAAAARIOUS!!

Good to see you, Jonah! ;)

Memo to the producers and director of JCOM, please reject the impluse to hire Hugh Jackman as John Carter. I know this will be hard and on the surface he's tempting no doubt. I was on board briefly, but upon further review he's not a good choice.

Jackman is a likeable fellow and a servicable actor but he lacks that sense of danger and death that John carter has. It's really what hamstrung him as Wolverine. So please consider somebody else in the role thanks.

Sincerly, Xiphos

JCOM and Doc Savage are basically contemporaries in the literary world so they share a lot of the same ideas and writing styles of the pulp world. If you have a chance some time read A Princess Of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It's the first book in the series. Damn fun read. Also, if you have the time read Tarzan the Apeman first book in that series. It shows just how badly every Tarzan project in Hollywood has sucked.

I report to Quantico next week for a course I have to take.

Did you think Mosley would beat Margarito?

No I haven't heard of chess boxing, what is it?

I think the biggest problem is that there aren't that many movies to argue about anymore because hollywood has firmly embraced mediocrity and that mediocrity has spread to teh internet.

Plus you add in the diffusion effect of so many websites to bitch on and that everything has a shelf life the, and I hate to use this word, feeling of AICN has changed immensely.

And I was glad that all the yahoos got killed by the monster. That made me happy.

The best part of this game is that I think it will actually be a game for once. Mostly superbowls are stuporbowls, but this one I think will be good.

You guys have a great day and evening. Go team! Rah, rah!

Varsity Blues, which was a very thinly veiled knock off of Friday Night Lights, even though it came out before the movie and TV shows of the same name. It was a highly fictiioniled version of the book.(good book btw)

I like this movie,. even though it's goofy as hell The Dawson kid from Dawson's Creek, Paul Walker, the fat linemen and James Caan's kid all did a good job. I might cut this movie some slack becasue I've lived in small towns and played on big time football programs. aAl in all a not to bad sports movie.

Was it stupid? yes but as far as the action goes it was by far the best of any of the Underworlds. The Lycan raid on the Vampires Castle was pretty well staged and the CGI wasn't for shit.

Rhona Mitra still can't act worth a damn but who cares when she looks like that?

Carlito's Way- I fucking love this movie. Even if it is a bit bleak.

Die Hard with a Vengeance- better than I remembered.

A Scanner Darkly- confusing mess.

The Dark Knight- OK, we've all been over it 1 million times, but: At the end Gordon says that Dent killed 5 people, 2 of them plod. However, He only kills 3 people and 1 of them is a cop. What the fuck is Gordon talking about. Latina rat girl gets let off, and the three killed are bent cop, Moroni and Moroni's driver. This makes me wonder if that end wasn't truncated by about half an hour- where 2face goes on a proper rampage. Or if it's from an earlier draft that they forgot to change. And Gordon's fake death sucks a fat one. What a prick. I still like the film overall, but it's losing it's lustre

Last and very much least: Indy 4. I said I'd have to rewatch it and I have now. I was wrong. It is actually bad. Mrs Jarv hated it with a vengeance. Thinking about it, the big problems are: Unnecessary and fucking stupid CGI, some unbelievably boneheaded moments, a lacklustre ending (putting it mildly), no real villainous presence, Some horrible performances, nuking the fridge destroys all tension for the rest of the film, gross inconsistencies, and worst of all the fucking score- the motorbike chase should be exciting etc and the score should add to that. However, there's some god awful plinky-plonky piano shite backing it that actually diffuses the action. It isn't the worst film ever made, it isn't even the worst film Spielberg has made, but it is a bad film and a fucking dreadful Indy film. Seeing it on the big screen actually hid a lot of it's flaws.

Alien - Great

Aliens - Great

Alien 3 - Missed opportunity

Alien Resurrection - Some good parts, some awful parts

Predator - Great

Predator 2 - Mediocre but enjoyable

AVP - Mediocre but NOT enjoyable

AVP 2 - Staggeringly awful

Morning, everyone.

Monday - Die Hard

Tuesday - Die Hard 2 (Die Harder)

Wednesday - Die Hard With A Vengeance

Thursday - Die Hard 4.0 (Live Free Or Die Hard)

Friday - Tears Of The Sun (the script almost became Die Hard 4 at one point)

I'm especially looking forward to Die Hard 4, because the DVD box says it's the 'Harder Cut' and contains 'More Action, More Attitude!', so maybe it'll be less cartoony than the one I saw at the cinema. Probably not, but I choose to keep hope alive for that one.

It was like Balinese shadows puppets!

It was a mostly enjoyable weekend of film slacking, actually.

What a load of shite.

Am I being clear here Franklin? because I'm wondering if I'm holding back to much on how bad that fucking wretched pathetic fucking movie is.

Doesn't it have Monica Belucci in it? That's something, right?

I've had two ideas so far:

The All Robot Weekend (all 3 Terminators and all 3 Robocops)

Friday 13th - An Epic In 10 1/2 Parts

That Friday 13th would be hard, though. Some of those films are really bad.

More ideas from you kind people are needed.

The Keep – A complete fucking mess. Confusing as fuck. Half of its slo-mo. The electro 80’s music is just completely wrong for a film set in WWII. Even if it was hacked to death by the studio, I have no idea how Mann would’ve made it work. I won’t see it ever again, even if he releases a DC.

Thief – I was so sickened by The Keep, I felt I had to redeem Mann. Thief is fucking genius and Caan is awesome in it. Great stuff.

The Reader – Yes, I watched it. And although I wanted to hate it, I have to say it was pretty good. Winslet was pretty good (not oscar worthy though).

The Arrival – Charlie Sheen as a nerd getting involved in a conspiracy by aliens to terraform our planet? Ron Silver as the villain? How can you go wrong? Genius B-Grader.

Milk – This is a very good film. Penn was very good. Out of those nominated for Best Pic, I would give it to this. Best Actor would go to Rourke or Penn. Do not watch it if you are remotely homophobic. There is one woman character in it and she’s a bull-dyke.

Australia – Well, this is an interesting one, because there is so much in this film that’s good. But so much that’s just completely ill-conceived. If you can get through the first hour, then you will enjoy it. The first hour is a complete load of shit. Baz gets everything wrong. And there is so much forced, panto-style humour it’s sickening. But after about an hour it almost completely drops the humour (like it realised how shit it was) and becomes quite involving in a melodrama kinda way. Good Sunday arvo movie (which is when I watched it).

Doubt – Good film. Very well acted. The actress (think she was the same one who played Mr.Glass’ mother in Unbreakable)that plays the boys mother has a ten minute scene and is fucking amazing. She acts circles around Streep in that scene. Which isn’t easy to do.

Navy Seals – Amazingly, I’ve never seen it before. And it’s absolute garbage from start to finish. It’s the type of flick I should automatically love. But it’s total shite.

And that’s it!

All Robot is a bad idea because of the suck of Robocop 2 and 3.

Sergio Leone weekend?

The Thirteen Days Of Friday 13th!

All ten and a half films - then something to fill in the one empty day that schedule will give me - culminating in the Friday 13th remake on Friday 13th. It's too perfect to ignore.

I have to do this!

Robocop 3 is the one that puts me off the robot idea, though. That film is garbage.

DIfferent versions of Red Harvest would be a good one. There's fucking hundreds.

etc etc

Also, I don't know what to watch on the 12th day.

Damn. This idea is too great/stupid to pass up.

It might be too easy, though, and I now have a bee in my bonnet about this Friday 13th idea.

Man, I can't let go of that idea. It's too good!

All 10 Friday 13ths and all 6 Elm Streets culminating in the unholy waste of Katherine Isabella that is FvJ

Halloween 1= mint, 2= OK, 3=hysterical, not seen 4, 5=shit, H20= not that bad. 7=dogshit, Zombie's remake= worse than dogshit.

Also, did you know there 8 Hellraisers? 8! I thought they stopped after the third one.

Mr. Z- I hate to break it to you, but Daredevil was a festering load of old hairy bollocks.

All 10 Fridays, all 7 Nightmares, Freddy Vs Jason, AND the Friday remake on Friday 13th? Can one human being take all of that?

Avoid all later Hellraisers, most of them started out as something else, and then some genius just tacked pinhead in to sell it as Hellraiser.

That's 10 Fridays, 7 Nightmares, FVJ, Friday remake, then into a bunch of remakes (TCM, The Omen, The Fog, etc.) over the weekend, and if I end with the Halloween remake I could segue again into The 9 Days Of Halloween.

There's got to be a pretty fucking solid combo score for linking that lot together.

"You are immature in the way you speak...as well as your attacks. My choices in cinema and television are solid. What agenda could I have against Nolan, other than the fact that he makes weak films? I don't know that man, or anything about his life. He is not controversial, I just find him to be a pedestrian filmmaker. His Batman films are weak, as wasThe Prestige...and what I saw of his first film. But back to Batman. When you can be bested by Batman cartoons, you know there is a problem??? Those Batman cartoons that came out in the 90s are brilliant...and a very good filmmaker should have been able to either equal, or best them, given the format of film, and the budget, instead...we got Batman Begins and TDK. Look at TDK...cut out all the Batman scenes, and just focus on Bruce Wayne, Alfred, Rachel, Dent, Commissioner Gordon, and you have nothing of a movie. It is horrible dramatically, and just plain badly written. Bruce Wayne spends the entire movie in a suit muttering things about justice...and saying Rachel, "I care about you?" He is standing around, or sitting, in a business suit, and doing much of nothing else. Most of the scenes aren't even complete scenes, but rather, red herring filler scenes, placed in between the action. What the hell is that??? This is the laziest movie ever written."

This overexaggerated hatred actually makes me like TDK more.

There's quite a lot of shit in there.

FvJ= crap,

Friday 13= bound to be crap,

The Omen= offensively awful

The Fog= Dreadful

TCM= Crap

THe Hitcher= complete shite

The Wicker Man= at least amusing,

Amityville= crap, but the original was crap.

Halloween= abomination.

1)mint

2=OK

3=crazy fun

4=Return and shit (I thought return was 5, and forgot all about Revenge)

5=Revenge not seen

6=curse, crap

7=H20 not as bad as made out

8= Busta Rhymes and dreadful

9=remake and worst of lot.

So you have Casablanca, Halloween, Ring, Hitcher, any amount of things like Flubber, etc.

I'm still curious to try the all-shit all-Eddie Murphy weekend idea. Nutty professor 1 & 2, Dr Doolittle 1 & 2, Norbit, Meet Dave, Daddy Day Care, etc. What would that do to a person?

Scarface, Assault on Precinct 13, The Thing, The Fly, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (I think this is a remake), and some more.

Here's an interesting idea - Original Vs Remake Double Features. Two films a night for however long it takes, the original followed by the remake.

* clue from Jarv- it's not Casablanca

I don't remember it too well, but I'm sure I remember Pammy saying something about Casablanca being an influence on the story.

It's fucking horrid.

Chocolate sweeties all round.

That is all I remember about Barb Wire.

Most of them are good-great with only a few stinkers.

He's in a persistent vegetative state but he's still typing.

What he means is Name me a successful communist country?

There isn't one.

Most of Europe (not Britain) is socialist, but elected and just centre-left. More Liberal than socialist.

HE's a dick

I'm guessing he's Basil Fawlty in the flesh.

Horrific.

Basil Fawty was at least funny.

Skip Fast Company, Dead Zone, M. Butterfly, Spider - a bit off-topic.

But throw in History of Violence and Eastern Promises for dessert.

The guy is a legend. Wipes the floor with Spielberg as a Sci-Fi director.

Sadly, he handed "Total Recall" to Paul Verhoeven. He said the result was migraines like needles sticking in his eyes.

Not the Lone Ranger there.

I didn't understand that part.

They're way off in the future, they have intergalactic space ships, laser guns, hypersleep whatnots, little cubes that turn into whiskey - what the hell are these technologically advanced folks going to learn from what is, essentially, a vicious animal?

If some modern day weapons designer said, "Hey, we've got to capture a shark or a lion and see if we can use it in our weapons development!" wouldn't someone else say, "We have nuclear bombs, you idiot, what the fuck do we want animals for?"

I didn't understand that part, either.

How does its DNA get mixed up with Ripley's?

Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, Screamers, Paycheck, Minority Report.

Admittedly, I'm "meh" about Scanner, and hate Minority Report, But there's plenty of mileage there.

Tropic Thunder wasn't that good. There was some laughs, don't get me wrong, but no consistency to them for me. I will agree that Tommy was pretty fucking funny, and I think half squat is a perfect name for a kid, but...really, comedies are fucking hard to find great ones. An overall very disappointing weekend into the comedic territory with Forgetting Sarah Marshall and this one.

However, with Prince Caspian, I thought it was much better than the first one. Considering it's by Disney and whatnot, at least they had the kids killing a bunch of people in this one. Even the younger brother is much less annoying in this one, though he did have much fewer lines I think. But he did actually do something in this one.

Proper insomnia is, for me, periodic and buggers off after a couple of months.

And a lot of the rest are shit.

I'm sure Mavra is grateful, honest, but do the rest of us a favour and bugger off.

I am deeply saddened by this development.

Anyone seen the Final Cut? Is it worth a few quid if you don't own any other version of Blade Runner?

Total Recall is genius.

Paycheck is indeed a dumbhouse classic. Absolute shite. But I enjoyed it. Woo has made a string of dumbhouse classics like Hard Target and Broken Arrow! Face/Off was the only genuinely good american film he's done.

Now please bugger off- reading your gibberish makes my eyes bleed.

I'm really quite demoralised by this heartbreaking turn of events.

The Boogens-It’s a lame monster movie from 82, whose plot involves a mining town being invaded by spooky turtle-things that have crept out of their slumber in the local mine. The movie has creepy old man, horny teens, obnoxious dog, leering yokels and puppet monsters and wastes them all. Worse yet, even though reviews seem to suggest otherwise, no one ever used the term “boogens.” At least that I heard. The audio was pretty muddled, so it’s likely I’m mistaken. No bright spots in this one.

Night of the Creeps –This film made up for the lameness of The Boogens. Tom Atkins as a smartass suicidal cop helping some teens battle an infestation of alien slugs that get inside your body and incubate. Lots of great slug death. Tons of in-jokes and odd bits hiding in character names, background shots and props. One of the best lines from the cop: “Good news, ladies. Your dates are here. Bad news is, they’re dead.” Death by flamethrower, lawnmower, axe, slug, zombie dog, etc. It’s a great little movie, far better than it’s imitator Slither, and in need of a dvd release.

Razorback- Russell Mulcahy’s first big film, I think. Not surprising it’s shot like a Duran Duran video. The giant killer pig is cool. The outback cinematography is stunning. The old razorback hunter is a gem. The marring factor is that it spends too much time trying to show every aussie living in the outback as a demented, criminal freak and cheats us from any sort of satisfying showdown between the hunter and the boar. Less time on the human swine, and more on the pig would be appreciated. But for horror fans, it’s still a good time of 80s cheese. Needs a proper U.S.dvd release as well.

The Fall- I’m pretty sure now, that this is my favorite movie of 08. Just gorgeous and well-acted at the same time. I was engaged as much emotionally by the end, as my eyes were visually throughout the duration. Jarv, give this one another chance.

Pushing Daisies Season 2- Still wonderful well up to the point where it got cancelled. I hear there are a few episodes left. I want to see them. If anyone can use some of that same mojo that saved Family Guy or Jericho, let’s see it now, because this show deserves it.

Outlander- Well, this was it, wasn’t it? The determiner by which the movie weekend would be a success or a bust. The theater was half-full when we went. The movie: Marvelous. I talked my wife into coming, and we both figured she wouldn’t enjoy it. But it was a great 80s action fantasy movie, and we both loved it. She was pleasantly surprised. One of the best, with one notable exception: it wasn’t made in the 80s. The Moorwen is a cool designed beast, taking bits from The Relic, the Beast of Gevudan, the Cloverfield beastie, the Tatapoulus Godzilla and meshing them into a far more fearsome critter. Caviezel was actually very good. John Hurt got to be more than the frail old man. He fights a bear in one scene. A bear! Perlman bellows with gusto and his parting scene in the film was an excellent moment. His dual hammers are also quite good. Best surprise of the film is while the plot is predictable, the execution is solid and takes the time to develop the Viking culture, and the dynamic of the tribes and the outlander. A good bit of it reminded me of the Edoras scenes from Two Towers. It turns out to be the most faithful adaptation of Beowulf to date(once you accept the spaceman and the Moorwen, and their respective roles in the story) and the most entertaining, though I did enjoy the Zemeckis Beowulf, the Butler Beowulf and Grendel, and of course, 13th Warrior. This one takes the cake,and is sure to please the COC. Can’t wait to hear Danny’s response to this.

How about a "bruceathon"? He's made some shocking bollocks but you've got some real gold.

Face/Off is the closest thing to an intelligent film as Woo has gotten in america. Not to say it's that intelligent. Just moreso than Broken Arrow et al.

I might go for that one around the time My Name Is Bruce comes out on DVD.

I might have to change my tune if its that good.

The only one of those I've seen is Bubba Ho-Tep.

I might put those together with the Evil Deads and make a weekend of that lot.

The Bruce-athon idea has cheared me up a bit. Cheers, Jarv.

You can also add Escape from LA, Starman, and Christine.

I never have gotten around to watching Dark Star.

Thats a pretty good list right there. You could take it to 2000 and include The Gift. You just have to disregard For Love of the Game.

Fuck off, you ignorant peasant.

Jason X is hilarious.

Of the rest 2 and 3 aren't too bad, 6 is quite amusing, 4 and 5 suck, 7 sucks, Jason takes Manhatten also sucks, and Jason goes to hell blows.

Worth a look.

It's an interesting curio with some great moments. It does not suck. Ghosts of Mars sucks for example.

It doesn't sound remotely like Dark Star, either.

On a related note, there's also a Monsters HD version of Monster Squad available, the quality of which blows the official release out of the water -- even though it's a single-layer 4.5 gig DVD.

Shame how the movies fail to capture the paranoia of his books.

Hope nobody takes a crack at "The Man in the High Castle".

Carpenter's "Ghosts of Mars" was kinda tragic - considering deathless masterpieces like "Escape from NY" and "The Thing" -but it's always diverting to look at Natasha Henstridge. Acting? who gives a shit.

Adding to the long PKD movie casualty list.

Waiting for Godot in Space= good. Media Messiah= ignoramus.

That's a bold, borderline crazy, assertion.

Hopefully, The 5 Days Of Die Hard will not end on too sour a note.