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[Neil]

That's a reasonable take on that movie Neil. Yeah it tries to be too many things at once, and ultimately fails. But the ideas were cool. It could in good hands be a decent Heinlein-esque or even if you wrote while high a Dick-ish SF novel perhaps, at least the controlling others part.

Yeah.  And because they added some of those cool ideas, the movie failed as an action movie.  That black guy that was supposed to be the badass killer was only in the movie for maybe a minute, and so seldomly that we really didn't know anything about him, or care.  Leonidas is the only constant in the movie, and his story simply isn't very interesting.  If another action movie uses 'honest family man with a history as an elite special forces soldier is screwed over by some corporation', I think I'll abandon the genre entirely.

[The Brain]

Below. WW2 yank sub takes aboard survivors. Extra relevant today with the women on subs debate.

I have seen worse movies.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Below. WW2 yank sub takes aboard survivors. Extra relevant today with the women on subs debate.

I have seen worse movies.

You should watch Operation Petticoat. 

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Sunshine dir. Danny Boyle.... For some reason i avoided this when it came out. Having watched it, the crits I recall from people make sense. the last part with the ex machina villain is under developed and changes the tone of the film into something that doesn't sit right. You can't create a new situation that defies the pseudo science that they've let you believe. Looked great on Blu ray. good start, weak finish. The end felt like they needed a grownup to write it. The shrink should have been the villain, maybe, instead of a red herring.

6.5 cross dressing Irishmen dancing on the surface of the sun outta 10

[CountDeMoney]

Sunshine dir. Danny Boyle.... For some reason i avoided this when it came out. Having watched it, the crits I recall from people make sense. the last part with the ex machina villain is under developed and changes the tone of the film into something that doesn't sit right. You can't create a new situation that defies the pseudo science that they've let you believe. Looked great on Blu ray. good start, weak finish. The end felt like they needed a grownup to write it. The shrink should have been the villain, maybe, instead of a red herring.

6.5 cross dressing Irishmen dancing on the surface of the sun outta 10

Yeah, I was looking forward to it as well, and found the villian sub-plot-turned-into-plot contrived.  I did like the cast of the crew, though.  Not all of them were straight from central casting. 
I would've wrapped Martinus up in the aluminum foil and punted him into the sun.

[Sophie Scholl]

Watched the first 8 episodes of Spartacus:  Blood and Sand, the Starz/Netflix on Demand joint venture thing.  It started out with awful, awful cgi blood everywhere, but by the 3rd episode or so they cleaned it up a bit.  Not bad for entertainment purposes or eye-candy purposes.  Everyone but The Brain should find something to look at.

[garbon]

X-Men 1

I noted in class the theme of penetration.

[DisturbedPervert]

Watched the first 8 episodes of Spartacus:  Blood and Sand, the Starz/Netflix on Demand joint venture thing.  It started out with awful, awful cgi blood everywhere, but by the 3rd episode or so they cleaned it up a bit.  Not bad for entertainment purposes or eye-candy purposes.  Everyone but The Brain should find something to look at.

I watched the first episode of that, but it was so awful I never bothered with another

[barkdreg]

Black Snake Moan.

Great movie with a wonderfull soundtrack. Christana Ricci

[DisturbedPervert]

Black Snake Moan.

Great movie with a wonderfull soundtrack. Christana Ricci

That movie is just as good with no sound at all

[Sophie Scholl]

Watched the first 8 episodes of Spartacus:  Blood and Sand, the Starz/Netflix on Demand joint venture thing.  It started out with awful, awful cgi blood everywhere, but by the 3rd episode or so they cleaned it up a bit.  Not bad for entertainment purposes or eye-candy purposes.  Everyone but The Brain should find something to look at.

I watched the first episode of that, but it was so awful I never bothered with another

It definitely was.  It picks up immensely after the third episode more or less.  No more horrid, horrid cgi blood or homeless looking main character.  If you get the time, I'd suggest you give it another go.  I think it's worth it.

[Darth Wagtaros]

I watched Star Trek Generations on Hulu.  Kinda meh. 

[Grey Fox]

Watched the first 8 episodes of Spartacus:  Blood and Sand, the Starz/Netflix on Demand joint venture thing.  It started out with awful, awful cgi blood everywhere, but by the 3rd episode or so they cleaned it up a bit.  Not bad for entertainment purposes or eye-candy purposes.  Everyone but The Brain should find something to look at.

I watched the first episode of that, but it was so awful I never bothered with another

It definitely was.  It picks up immensely after the third episode more or less.  No more horrid, horrid cgi blood or homeless looking main character.  If you get the time, I'd suggest you give it another go.  I think it's worth it.

That gives me hope, only add time to watch the first ep & it was very weird, almost too much like 300.

Also, it should have been called Spartacus : Blood & Boobies.

[Josquius]

This Sporting Life- In short a late 50s/early 60s version of the movie 'Goal'.
Some guy manages to get himself a trial with a professional Rugby League Football club by starting a fight with one of their star players in a club. He turns out to be awesome and is soon signed for the grand sum of £1000.
At home he is lodging in a typical working class terraced house with a widow and her kids, even his awesome career doesn't change this. Truly a differnet time. Though he does buy a Bentley. Otherwise though he remains just a typical working class guy.
Except...well he's a freak.
He has big aggression problems and has a thing for the widow who is more than slightly nutty and hasn't gotten over her husband. And other things of course.
The film...well its alright. The protagonist though is just too much of a freak for me to comprehend. Wheras with Friday Night, Saturday Morning I could fully understand the situation of those guys only transplanted back into a even more bleak and hopeless pre-Wilson time. This guy though is just a stupid twat who only knows how to play rugby. Which yes, is the point of the film. But still....

What I did find very interesting in the film is that though its set in Yorkshire a lot of the characters sound pretty damn Geordie. I have heard the range of the Anglian way of speaking has been in retreat but I never knew so recently they sounded so similar to people in the north.

[PDH]

What I did find very interesting in the film is that though its set in Yorkshire a lot of the characters sound pretty damn Geordie. I have heard the range of the Anglian way of speaking has been in retreat but I never knew so recently they sounded so similar to people in the north.

If you don't start speaking english, you will get no cheesesteak.