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[Queequeg]

I watched some Swedish vampire movie with my wife.  It's shocking how inferior the Swedish people of the 80s were.  No wonder they're the stunted race that they are today.

One of the best movies of the decade.  Let the Right One In.

[Neil]

I watched some Swedish vampire movie with my wife.  It's shocking how inferior the Swedish people of the 80s were.  No wonder they're the stunted race that they are today.

One of the best movies of the decade.  Let the Right One In.

I wouldn't go that far.  Then again, I don't hate my own people the way that you do.

[katmai]

I watched some Swedish vampire movie with my wife.  It's shocking how inferior the Swedish people of the 80s were.  No wonder they're the stunted race that they are today.

One of the best movies of the decade.  Let the Right One In.

I wouldn't go that far.  Then again, I don't hate my own people the way that you do.

Sure you do, the reason you go on with this non sense about ethnic albertans schtick.

[Neil]

I watched some Swedish vampire movie with my wife.  It's shocking how inferior the Swedish people of the 80s were.  No wonder they're the stunted race that they are today.

One of the best movies of the decade.  Let the Right One In.

I wouldn't go that far.  Then again, I don't hate my own people the way that you do.

Sure you do, the reason you go on with this non sense about ethnic albertans schtick.

I don't know.  I don't gush over foreign shit because it is free of the taint of the Great Western Culture.

[merithyn]

In honor of Neil, Max and I watched Me Vie en Rose last night. It's a Belgian film in French about a seven-year-old girl born in a boy's body. The family and neighbors don't handle it well at all, and in typical seven-year-old fashion, the child doesn't understand the chaos s/he's creating.

I'm not ashamed to admit that by the end I wanted to torture and kill the mother. Great movie... difficult to watch.

It's everything Neil would love.

Also watched Van Helsing & Wild Hogs. Van Helsing was worse than I remembered; Wild Hogs was fan-fucking-tastic.

[Neil]

It's a Belgian film in French about a seven-year-old girl born in a boy's body.

It's not like there haven't been films about gays before.

Still, you can't be a girl and be born in a boy's body.

[The Larch]

Saw the St Trintians (sp?) movie last night. Quite meh, although it makes up for it with plenty of eye candy in schoolgirl uniform. It's funny that they casted the international top model as the geeky and bespectacled girl with l33t computer skillz. Plenty of big names for a crap-ish film. I guess Stephen Fry, Colin Firth and Ruper Everett needed the money to pay the bills or something.

5 (being generous) cross dressing headmistresses with past secret affairs with the Minister of Education out of 10.

[The Larch]

And for the record, I f'ing love Spaceballs. It's not a good movie, but it's great fun.

[Josquius]

I watched some Swedish vampire movie with my wife.  It's shocking how inferior the Swedish people of the 80s were.  No wonder they're the stunted race that they are today.

One of the best movies of the decade.  Let the Right One In.

I really don't get why so many critics are saying that.
It is pretty good but not up there as a best ever.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

I watched some Swedish vampire movie with my wife.  It's shocking how inferior the Swedish people of the 80s were.  No wonder they're the stunted race that they are today.

One of the best movies of the decade.  Let the Right One In.

I wouldn't go that far.  Then again, I don't hate my own people the way that you do.

Sure you do, the reason you go on with this non sense about ethnic albertans schtick.

I don't know.  I don't gush over foreign shit because it is free of the taint of the Great Western Culture.

That doesn't have to be the reason to love a foreign film. there is crap cinema from every country. Also great cinema. You could just be a fan of Film as medium and appreciate both Hollywood, and Foreign films as I do.

[Savonarola]

Red Cliff and Red Cliff 2

In the United States John Woo's latest movies were condensed to a single two and a half hour extravaganza.  This weekend the Detroit Institute of Arts showed both movies back to back in their complete five hour glory.  The story is set in the collapse of the Han dynasty at which time the prime minister travels south to subdue a couple rebelling provinces.  The provinces band together in order to give speeches about loyalty and brotherhood and in order to partake in a violence opera.  (That might not have actually been their stated objective, but this is a Woo film, so that's what happened.)  The film is a wonderful epic much in the mold of Lord of the Rings; there's even a warrior-princess in it.

[Cerr]

I watched some Swedish vampire movie with my wife.  It's shocking how inferior the Swedish people of the 80s were.  No wonder they're the stunted race that they are today.

One of the best movies of the decade.  Let the Right One In.

I really don't get why so many critics are saying that.
It is pretty good but not up there as a best ever.

Yeah I really don't get the hype about it either.

Saw The Road last week. It was great but very grim.

Nowhere Boy. Film about John Lennon when he was a teenager.  A pretty good drama.

Sherlock Homes. Much better than I expected, a fun buddy action movie. Looking forward to the inevitable sequel.

[Malthus]

I'm amazed so few here have seen Smurfahontas (a/k/a Avatar). 

[Barrister]

I'm amazed so few here have seen Smurfahontas (a/k/a Avatar). 

I thought almost everyone here had seen it.  The movies just had its own separate thread is all.

[Cerr]

I'm amazed so few here have seen Smurfahontas (a/k/a Avatar). 

I saw it but didn't bother mentioning it. I agreed with the genral consensus that the visuals were very nice but the story and characters were very derivative.

My eyes were a little sore and I had a bit of a headache from watching it in 3d.