James

Anyone know a site that could trick the BBC site into thinking I'm accessing it from a UK IP? I'll need this to watch Doctor Who on the iplayer, since the connection in this hotel is too shitty to actually torrent things. Even comics. Grah!

According to imdb, he's got two films in production for 2008 - LA Gothic and The Prince.

But seriously, his last great film was The Thing in 1982. There are a couple of okayish blips after that - Prince of Darkness and They Live - but they are both massively flawed.

And Big Trouble in Little China was fucking shit, I don't care who says otherwise.

Made an article for Second Life. Don't think we have to be neutral, but stuff should be sourced so it isn't libel.

Oh hush, that's no fun.

Don't turn this into wikipedia with your "fairness and accuracy" bullshit. The internet isn't the internet without spurious nonsense.

Smiley smiley etc.

My flight-to-Dubai triumverate:

Stardust - Smash.

1408 - Trash.

Rush Hour 3 - Gash.

I've thoroughly enjoyed almost everything* I've read by Norwegian artist Jason. In particular The Left Bank Gang, which puts James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway and other authors in a crime caper, is excellent.

*The exception being "The Living and the Dead".

Surely it's because Fergie is a complete munter?

Have not seen the Wire

You must correct this at once!

Then there is Peter Stormare of course.

As whom?

For some reason, Stormare always reminds me of John Tuturro, who would make a fine Frenchman (assuming he can do the accent).

A list of comics that Ellis is "writing", off the top of my head:

Planetary

Fell

Desolation Jones

Doktor Sleepless

Anna Mercury

NewUniversal

Freak Angels

Astonishing X-Men

He might only have two or so issues of any of the above coming out in any given month, but that's enough to keep him comfortable. Plus he'll make money off the new Gravel series even though he doesn't write them any more, and get royalties from his creator-owned trades like Transmet and TV work like his JLU episode.

Additionally, he writes for various other media, including a monthly column in SFX magazine and some Second Life thing that he was doing a whlie back. He was also doing a column for Suicide Girls last year. He flits to and from these things with astonishing regularity.

So it's not like he has one massive source of income, but I'm sure it all adds up.

That's just playing to the cliches.

Would be more convinced by that if it subverted or played with them in any way whatsoever.

And Mark's right again about the pathos being deliberately played against absurdity.

Does it say that in the director's commentary or are you just living up to the forum's new title?

Whatever the intention, I don't think the execution worked.

Were we? It's been a while since I saw it, but I seem to recall several scenes playing both of those things for laughs (the big melodramatic confrontation between the two brothers was instantly undercut with the most explicit sheep-shagging gag we'd seen up to that point, for example).

You've still got stuff like the sheep going over the cliff, only for it to be revealed that it's the same cliff the hero's dad fell off (or jumped off, I forget). There were scenes like this all through it.

Good suggestions, St Apathy, although...

Bill Butcher - Vinnie Jones.

I would have said Ray Stevenson (Titus Pullo from Rome). Jones's range is limited and he doesn't have the smart eyes that Butcher needs.

MM - Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje or Idris Elba.

Adewale's a great choice, but if you're digging around in The Wire's cast, what about Chad L Coleman, AKA Cutty?

I love Elba, but his physique is a bit too wiry for the role, I think.

The Frenchman - Benoît Magimel.

Surely Jean Reno? Benoît looks a bit too handsome to me; Reno looks plausibly weathered. If he's a bit too old these days, I reckon, François Cluzet from Tell No One could do the job well.

Love Sausage - Billy Connolly.

Good choice - but if we're going for Scots, Robbie Coltrane has the girth - er, I mean, the waistline - for it. And he's done both Russian accents and big beards a few times before.

Precisely.

Not comparing it to Dog Soldiers, that'd help.

Blame the reviewers, not me.

And I think the accusation of "unironic characterisation" would cause a feeback loop paradox in Alanis Morissette's brain.

What I meant by that was the way we were expected to genuinely care about the hero's relationship with his brother and him overcoming his fears when the rest of the film was so utterly absurd. If they'd treated those scenes with the same irreverence that they treated the "horror" elements then it might have meshed a little more convincingly.

Before anyone brings up Shaun of the Dead, it worked there because the zombies are a genre staple and were mostly played straight.

Black Sheep - not particularly funny, nor particularly scary. Some nice gore towards the end, but that didn't make up for far too much poor-quality, unironic "characterisation" or a dismal lead actress. Or, to be honest, a plot that wanders around like one of the film's uninfected sheep, unclear on where it's heading and occasionally stopping altogether. Vaguely watchable, but not worth a rental unless you're really desperate. Pales in comparison to Dog Soldiers, which does the whole ironic horror movie thing far better.

Grade: C-

Primer- Am going to have to watch this again, too much not understood.

LOVE that movie. Check the imdb comments section for some explanations that seem to make sense (though I still don't understand

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Edited the posts for spoilers. Try to keep a lid on this stuff in future, chaps. I knew about this already, but I can understand why some people might be annoyed.

 

I remember that, wasn't that an episode of Different Strokes? Arnold visits the set of Knight Rider or something?

 

Speaking of unnecessary cross-overs; did they really have to cross-over with Las Vegas? Apparently the casino Mike is gambling is featured on that show. With all the exterior Vegas shots and the casino scene I thought they switched programs on me.

I guess the makers of Vegas had some spare scenes and sets.

Same thing happened in the first season of Heroes. If you've got the sets, why not?

The last season still had a family being butchered in a hotel room. But yeah, nothing quite hits the episode with the swallow tattoo for "holy Jesus fuck, that's horrendous".

BEYOND AWESOME.

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Joe (you know, from Wolverhampton, came to Bristol a few times and now lurks on these boards like a spectre - hi Joe!) saw it and said it was shite. I'm visiting his house this weekend, so might get a chance to watch it then. Saw all of about 30 seconds and was surprised to see that the interior of Carl Weathers' house looked like some crappy little semi in Milton Keynes. Was that part of a joke, or just the non-budget showing through?

As I recall, it was actually Matt who picked it up and I just sent it on.

Saw Juno yesterday, and absolutely loved it. Great cast (Jennifer Garner is particularly excellent, which I wasn't expecting), funny dialogue, and endearing, believable characters. A bit too long, perhaps, and the soundtrack is fucking heinous - filled with the sort of faux-naive, twee indie-folk which sets my teeth on edge

On the other hand, it also has The Kinks, Buddy Holly, Belle & Sebastian (twice), Sonic Youth, Cat Power and The Velvet Underground. And, er, Mott the Hoople (although the song, "All the Young Dudes", was written for them by Bowie).

I'm guessing that your sole complaint is with Kimya Dawson, who has six songs on the album, plus a track from her band The Moldy Peaches.

Although I'm not sure why I'm saying this, because I haven't seen the film yet (89% on bittorrent, though!).

I think that could actually work.

At the top of the screen, click "My Controls". On the new page, click "board settings" on the left-hand side (under the options section). You should then have the option to change your time zone from GMT to Eastern Time (GMT minus 5 hours).