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[katmai]

Forgot to watch Terminator Salvation last night. Probably a good thing.

It was best of the summer action flicks (Transformers/Gi Joe) for what that is worth

I guess we'll give it credit for being sort of unpleasant, as opposed to being legendarily bad.

[The Brain]

Smurfahontas/Smurfs In The Mist/Dances With Smurfs 3D. Writing was slightly better than I feared and the sights were nice. Was nice to see Cameron's low-tech SF military stuff again. I was entertained.

If Peter Jackson had made it it would have been unwatchable.

[Malthus]

I saw the new Sherlock Holmes movie. I was hoping for a stupid and fun adventure movie. Unfortunately, it only lived up to the first half of that.

I was looking forward to that one until I saw the trailer and realized they had made just another run of the mill action comedy out of our beloved slightly disturbed detective. At first glance Downey jr seemed like an inspired casting choice but Jude Law just looks ridiculous...

I thought it was great fun.  And I thought their deviations were within the spirit of the books.

I didn't care for the banter between the two leads - what I thought was that it removed all traces of subtlety, where the subtlety was the strong point in the original. A fanwank version of Sherlock Holmes, making the latent homosexual tension of the relationship explicit rather than implicit and making an explicit sexual relationship between Holmes and Adler. It is much as if someone got the "bright" idea of filming a "slash" version of the Kirk-Spock duo.

The plot was beyond redemption. I mean, how many times must we see "secret society tries to take over the world"? The Simpsons did a better version, with the "stonecutters".

Thing looked good, I'll give it that. 

[Savonarola]

Pygmalion (1938)

British film directed by Anthony Asquith and adapted for the screen by George Bernard Shaw.  Leslie Howard stars as intimidating Professor Higgins; and does a good job despite being short and thin.  Wendy Hiller is Liza, and makes a more believable guttersnipe than Audrey Hepburn.

George Bernard Shaw won an academy award for his screenplay; and is one of two people to have a Nobel Prize and an Oscar.  The other is Al Gore.

[Neil]

George Bernard Shaw won an academy award for his screenplay; and is one of two people to have a Nobel Prize and an Oscar.  The other is Al Gore.

Shaw won his back when they both meant something.

[Admiral Yi]

George Bernard Shaw won an academy award for his screenplay; and is one of two people to have a Nobel Prize and an Oscar.  The other is Al Gore.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

again forgot to watch T4 last night after watching Canucks game. came home and read comics. Parallax is back, really? Leave Hal Jordan alone!

[The Larch]

George Bernard Shaw won an academy award for his screenplay; and is one of two people to have a Nobel Prize and an Oscar.  The other is Al Gore.

Hey Sav, another piece of Oscar trivia for you. What do Charles Chaplin, Orson Welles and Sylvester Stallone have in common, oscar-wise?

[Sophie Scholl]

Winning Oscars for movies they wrote and starred in?

[Savonarola]

Hey Sav, another piece of Oscar trivia for you. What do Charles Chaplin, Orson Welles and Sylvester Stallone have in common, oscar-wise?

No idea; they all were nominated for best screenplay for films they starred in; but as far as I know only Welles won.

[derspiess]

Watched Glory in blu-ray last night; it was on Amazon for $9 & change.  I was a little skeptical as to how much they'd be able to do with a 1980s movie, but they did an excellent job with the video transfer, and the sound is awesome in 5.1.

They were able to take a great film & make it even greater

[katmai]

Decided this place was as good as any to post this

Charlize Theron and director David Fincher are developing Mind Hunter, a new crime series for HBO about the investigation of serial killers, Variety reports.

The show is based on John Douglas and Mark Olshaker's book Mind Hunters: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit, which details Douglas' experience as an FBI investigator of serial killers and rapists, and his profiling techniques.

Dexter executive producer Scott Buck will write the pilot. Theron and Fincher — no stranger to serial killer thrillers with Se7en and Zodiac under his belt — will executive-produce with Buck and Jennifer Orme Erwin.

[MadImmortalMan]

Why are crime investigation shows so popular anyway? There's a ton of them.

[The Larch]

Hey Sav, another piece of Oscar trivia for you. What do Charles Chaplin, Orson Welles and Sylvester Stallone have in common, oscar-wise?

No idea; they all were nominated for best screenplay for films they starred in; but as far as I know only Welles won.

Woops, I messed up my references, I thought that Sly was also nominated for Best Direction the same year. 

[Malthus]

Why are crime investigation shows so popular anyway? There's a ton of them.

There are also tons of documentary-style true crime shows.