Abhimanyu
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Too bad Charles Dance is too old for the role now.
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You are dead to me.
What Lou said.
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OK, I just watched the movie and Slinker is right - the problem of 350k apes vs. all of human civilization is dealt with quite well.
Also, it's a good movie so why not just watch it. No masterpiece but it fits perfectly with the original Planet of the Apes and it features another jawdroppingly great bit of motion capture performance from Andy Serkis. Excellent summer flick fun, I thought.
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I see what you're saying about the Planet of the Apes movies but can't quite agree when it comes to the zombie movies. How are, say, the Romero Dead movies so implausible within the constraints of their universe? Or at least any less plausible than pretty much most movies in the horror genre. Also, zombie movies aren't a homogeneous bunch. How would you rate 28 Days Later on the implausibility scale? What about more overtly cartoonish zombie movies like (the amazing) Return of the Living Dead?
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Mickey Eye looks like Paddy Considine in that picture. Paddy Considine in a bag.
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Andrew Garfield strikes me as quite the wisecracking, charming type. I'm sure he'll channel that in the movie.
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Hanna is not original or groundbreaking, but still quite engaging. The lead actress does a splendid job, as does the (almost always) great Blanchett. Worth a look, if you want well-made action/thrillers. B
I really liked it too. And actually thought it was extremely original. I've never seen a spy/action thriller anything at all like that. The whole fairytale/hallucinatory vibe combined with Hollander and Blanchett's amazingly twisted villains made it quite the standout viewing experience for me.
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I'm with Lou. This movie really doesn't need to exist.
I'm so sick to death of origin stories. And this one looks to be going EVEN further back.
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I'm guessing you probably knew that but this one's a fake. That's scenes from other movies spliced in with the previous two Batman films.
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What I take from that teaser is that Tom-Hardy-as-Bane is going to be fucking terrifying.
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I kinda loved it. It has problems, as Mark said, but overall I thought it was one hell of a movie. In fact, it was Spider that bored the living shit out of me (though I did watch it very long ago and might like it a lot more now - rewatch time). Spider was one of the few Cronenberg movies I didn't love. That dude's a genius.
I'm not sure what movie you were watching, Lou, but it felt to me like exciting shit was happening throughout!
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I enjoyed Michael Caine's books too. And I agree with Avaunt about his incessant namedropping but the thing is - anecdotes about famous people is part of why people buy these books and Caine knows it. Can't really hold it against him. Also, he actually has some interesting stories to tell about those famous people. No dirt though. He's very very complimentary about practically everyone.
If we're talking autobiographies, Richard E Grant's With Nails is a great read. The man's a witty and engaging writer and tells a lot of hilarious stories. Of particular interest is his description of the transition from struggling London actor to LA stardom.
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Falling Skies is really starting to grow on me - it feels slightly out of time, more 80s or 90s than something from 2011 but that just adds to its charm really.
Yeah, I'm enjoying it too. Though the inevitable nod to the religious demographic annoyed me a bit in the last episode. For once, I'd love to see a scene where the atheist character convinces the rest not to pray in the face of adversity and just put faith in themselves as opposed to this endlessly recycled bit where no one has faith but the one religious person opens their eyes. Hopefully, Verheiden won't turn this show into a Godfest the way he (and the other two) did on Battlestar Galactica.
Still. A minor quibble for now. It's been definitely been fun. That Pope guy's been a high point.
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My favourite online critic/performance artist Walter Chaw vomited out a perfect bit of vitriol about Transformers 3 also:
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Good one, man. Congrats, Rogan!
Also, those of you complaining about your receding hairlines should see mine. Or rather, you shouldn't. At this point, I'm fast approaching full-on bald and I'm not even 30! Am already at Obligatory Bald Man's Buzzcut stage :(
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19. I did guess quite blindly for a couple of the questions though. I should get that lucky on standardized tests.
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Wow, you guys watch a lot of UK TV. Any comedy recommendations? I haven't picked up on any new UK comedies since Rev. (which was awesome).
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Lucy Punch is awesome. Patric a little less so but we'll see how he does.
I was hoping the rumours about Kyle Chandler playing Walker were true.
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The plot points you mentioned are exactly the bits I was referring to. It's really just beyond ridiculous. Even the CSI level police shows wouldn't stoop to that kind of patently idiotic plotting.
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Wow, the latest episode of Luther is pretty ludicrous.
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I hope that we soon get a new Joker, one that I'll enjoy more than Ledger or Nicholson (who I actually love).
I really don't. I feel no urge for yet another remake of Batman.
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I really don't think we need yet another reboot/remake at this point.
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Holy crap, what a douchebag.
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OK. the finale to The Killing is the biggest, most insulting slap in the face to the audience that I can recall a television show ever having delivered.
It wasn't really, you just didn't enjoy it.
The internets reaction to this has been hilarious.
It's certainly true that the internet's reaction has been excessive. Hate mail aimed at TV producers is pretty moronic. However, there is plenty wrong with that finale. I know there have been endless debates about whether or not there are objective standards by which to judge art/stories/entertainment and none of them can be resolved to anyone's satisfaction but there are some unspoken agreements that a showrunner makes with an audience. Veena Sud broke most of them. Bit too busy right now to break down my argument but it is convenient that many TV critics have already said what I would've said. Here's someone who articulates my thoughts perfectly (Spoilers galore for the finale, obviously).
Talking to a snake made of socks - Alan Moore
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Adding my admiration for 1969 to the thread.....everyone's pretty much said I wanted to. A cracking read through and through.
Sean, Moore did say - in an interview with Newsarama - that he intends to work in references to The Wire and Homicide: Life on the Streets. I'm sure it'll end up happening. He's been pretty open about the fact that he knows a lot less about contemporary pop culture than he does about that of the Victorian/Edwardian/50s eras and it's been pretty widely reported that The Wire is one of the few recent TV shows that he really loves. Seems unlikely that he'd pass up a chance to reference it. I hear Malcolm Tucker is also going to make an appearance.