Movies you've recently watched

[Habsburg]

The Orphanage.  Spanish horror film from a couple of years back.  Very good, genuinely rather scary and it provoked a good degree of argument.

Geraldine Chaplin. 

Belen Rueda

[The Brain]

Oh no. Right now Taxi is on TV. First I thought OMG not that piece of crap. Then I realized that IT'S THE AMERICAN REMAKE! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Whew. I managed to reach the remote and switched to the Open Channel. Some Somali guy is playing songs on his guitar in glorious mono. This is SO MUCH BETTER. Seriously.

[The Brain]

Ooh! Rising Sun is on TV! Back when people worried about fucking Japan.

Switching channel yet again. How long can I keep running?

[The Brain]

No!! Collateral Damage!

[jimmy olsen]

 The Brain is on a roll.

[The Brain]

The Quiet American! I don't know if it's great or not but I could see myself watching this. Michael Caine is God. Except that I would want to see it from the beginning. Moving on.

[The Brain]

I've returned to the Open Channel. I will settle for an African gentleman in a suit haranguing an invisible crowd. TV on mute. No subtitles.

[The Brain]

OK one last chance. Taxi should be over by now. Checking that channel.

Sphere has just started!! That's it, switching to PS3.

[Admiral Yi]

Rewatched Father of the Bride.  The daughter was the most insane hotty, yet I only saw her in one more flic, the one about the summer camp.  Did she turn into some kind of whale, like Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

[Sheilbh]

Bright Young Things.  A disappointing adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies.  Needed more style, less attempted substance and a lot more despair.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Bright Young Things.  A disappointing adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies.  Needed more style, less attempted substance and a lot more despair.

yeah I finally watched that the other week. mildly amusing, less panache than it should have had given the talent involved. a misfire.

[Sheilbh]

yeah I finally watched that the other week. mildly amusing, less panache than it should have had given the talent involved. a misfire.

Yeah.  I think the problem is that Fry was trying to build a need coherent story out of the novel.  The novel's pretty episodic and Waugh said that while he was writing it he wasn't interested in plot or character but the style of writing.  So it's quite an innovative novel and that's what carries it through.

Fry, in my opinion, over-emphasised the character (I think he had too many good actors) and tried to build a plot.  I think the way to film it would be to go for a very stylised episodic film.  First half happy but somehow empty, second half despairing and still empty.  The film should have resembled what it was depicting in the way the novel does: a glitzy good looking world with nothing at its heart.

[sbr]

Rewatched Father of the Bride.  The daughter was the most insane hotty, yet I only saw her in one more flic, the one about the summer camp.  Did she turn into some kind of whale, like Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

Nope married country singer Brad Paisley and pumped out a kid earlier this year but still looks pretty good

http://www.chickipedia.com/kimberly-williams-paisley/photosgallery/

[Admiral Yi]

Nope married country singer Brad Paisley and pumped out a kid earlier this year but still looks pretty good

http://www.chickipedia.com/kimberly-williams-paisley/photosgallery/

Well fuck.

[sbr]

Nope married country singer Brad Paisley and pumped out a kid earlier this year but still looks pretty good

http://www.chickipedia.com/kimberly-williams-paisley/photosgallery/

Well fuck.

At least she isn't fat.