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[Bobby Isosceles]

do you write for a living?

Watch him talk about Huey Lewis and the News before he kills you.

[Drygioni]

Good review, except you mentioned Sean Bean as being 'of LoTR fame' which does the great man a massive disservice I cannot brook.

[greenkoolayd]

Good review, except you mentioned Sean Bean as being 'of LoTR fame' which does the great man a massive disservice I cannot brook.

maybe as far as he is concerned, thats what sean bean is famous for?

[dejavroom]

greenkoolaid, no, I translate boring shit for a living; also, yes, my bad on the 'LoTR' thing - but wasn't this at least the biggest movie he's been in? I seem to remember Sean bean vaguely from an assortment of action flicks, too, but nothing more vivid comes to mind...

[Drygioni]

Ha sorry I was being flippant, that is indeed probably the only thing he has ever done that's registered on an international scale.

He's a bit of a famous son of Sheffield though and we like to pretend he is a lot better than he really is.

"(Whilst filming Lord of the Rings) he was reluctant to take the helicopters out to remote mountain locations while filming for The Fellowship of the Ring. After a particularly rough ride, he vowed not to fly to a location again. In one instance, he chose to take a ski lift into the mountains and then hike the final few miles, all in full costume." That is pure Yorkshireman right there.

Sorry dejavroom, continue with your excellent motion picture assessments.

[theinevitable]

I like The Apartment a lot.

[bluemoon72]

I will be watching "An American Werewolf in Paris" with my love soon.  Is it very scary?  I don't want to read anything about it so as to not spoil the drama/suspense.  I get disturbed by movies that are too horrifying, with "Blair Witch"being about the dividing line between "okay for Jennifer's brain" and "will haunt my waking and sleeping moments for months".  (Specifically, all of BW was fine 'til the final scene, which stills sits unwell with me.)

[greenkoolayd]

I will be watching "An American Werewolf in Paris" with my love soon.

not scary at all.  cheese-y.

[wombat]

I am finally watching District 9. It is very, very interesting so far, a little more than half way through. I have been waiting for it to disappoint me and I think it might have just started.

[theinevitable]

I got that movie for christmas, my roommate and I are going to watch it eventually.

Humpday was disappointing. There is a certain category of movies that my roommate loves that I do not like, and this is one of those. He got mad at me for saying I didn't get why these guys felt the need to fuck each other.

[littlefallsmets]

On the one hand, D9 is a very good movie.

On the other hand, I have not appreciated the months of nightmares about transforming into an alien creature.

[Drygioni]

I am finally watching District 9. It is very, very interesting so far, a little more than half way through. I have been waiting for it to disappoint me and I think it might have just started.

A film of two halves to be sure but I enjoyed both. The switch from faux-documentary social study to man-on-a-mission action film went smoothly for me and perfectly reflects the situation of the character. Normality, everyday life to uncertain chaos etc.

Only thing that I really didn't like was that the main character sounds like a scouser whenever he does a swear.

FOOCKIN CRAYYYCHURS MAN LA

[theinevitable]

apparently my good friend's girlfriend has a "scouse" accent. I am excited to hear it.

also, this is the Baader-Meinhopf effect, because I had never heard the word Scouse until yesterday.

[Drygioni]

apparently my good friend's girlfriend has a "scouse" accent. I am excited to hear it.

also, this is the Baader-Meinhopf effect, because I had never heard the word Scouse until yesterday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRCp8lId2k8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDaTTVR2JXY&feature=related

Truly a beautiful accent

It's very good on women in certain circumstances

EDIT: Sheffield accent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkWvImeSsaM

[wombat]

A film of two halves to be sure but I enjoyed both. The switch from faux-documentary social study to man-on-a-mission action film went smoothly for me and perfectly reflects the situation of the character. Normality, everyday life to uncertain chaos etc.

The problem for me wasn't just that it went from a movie about an average man in an extraordinary situation, to basically a cheap video game with guns and blood and *****s. It was that the last half hour depended on a completely implausible and idiotic action on the part of the main character, when he turned on the only person who had the means to help him. And there had really been enough shooting and blood and guts and chasing immediately before that to satisfy anyone, so why was that neccessary?

But then the very end was surprisingly satisfying, when that was something that it would have been so easy to screw up. It's a complete mystery to me how they could do everything else so well and yet think they needed the half hour immediately preceding the end to be part of this movie.