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I didn't know it was the first time, I was being funneh. Although the film is fourteen years old, so I think it's outside the Spoiler Moratorium period. SPOILER WARNING! Kong dies at the end.

I spoiled Cool Hand Luke in a different thread (a 42 year old film), which I thought it doesn't matter it's 42 years old, but then I thought (afterwards) that I would hate to have known what I said before I'd seen it. So sometimes it doesn't matter how old the film is. If you haven't seen it, then you haven't seen it.

Malc

We should list all the films, games and TV we have seen in our sigs to prevent this from ever happening again.

I knew that 3pt font would come in handy.

3px font

Aye, I realised my mistake as I pressed submit, but couldn't be arsed to change it.

You shallow bastard.

Saw Tropic Thunder over the weekend. It's... OK. The best bit is the spoof trailers right at the start, and here and there it raised a smile but in general it's just not really funny enough. Despite what the writers seem to think, just having Tom Cruise say "fuck" isn't actually funny in and of itself*.

* - Actually it is, a bit. Although he was swearier and funnier in Magnolia, obv.

I did think that Cruise was the only good bit in that film.

I watched Transformers 2 last night. It was every bit as bad as everyone said.

No, it was worse. It is not possible for it to be merely as bad as what anyone says, because it is worse. In fact if there's one word to describe it, that word is "worse".

Tropic Thunder has huge stretches of not funny broken up with patches of quite funny.

Overall: Sunbaked turd covered with bluebottles.

I still haven't seen Transformers 2 yet, I know it'll be cack but I still want to watch Megan Fox it.

ZOMG! WTF!

I guessed the next message from you or Grim... would contain spoilz so I never checked my phone till it finished

I've been off work with Fresher's Flu all week and have been bored. Therefore, I've watched a bunch of films I haven't seen before.

Death Proof - Tarantino's Grindhouse segment. It had some of his typically smart dialogue and some moderately cool car stuff but it was really, really boring in parts. It looks like they had fun making it, but the film is a mess. 4/10.

Prince Caspian - Watched on Nervous/Angry Pete's reccomendation. He was wrong. Granted, it's about a gillion times better than the childish prequel, but I cared not for the leads. And Aslan is a prick. 5/10.

How to Steal a Million - Slight, whimsical romcom with Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole. It's funny, silly and contains a cool heist. I'm a sucker for a good heist. Yep, a good film. 7/10.

The moral of the story? Old films are better than new films.

I started watching Plan 9 from Outer Space the other day! It's great!

I'm 30 minutes into Patrick Swayze/Charlie Sheen 80s-fest "Red Dawn". It is, quite literally, not very good. Europe bows before the USSR, and Reds invade the US, starting their invasion, as one does, by landing paratroops in a school playing field in a dusty wee town somewhere in the State of Butt-end, before murdering all the civilians they could see. Obviously a bunch of high school American football players evade the highly trained paratroops by the cunning plan of running two feet in front of the soldiers, jumping in Swayze's truck and driving off, before getting all guerilla on they asses. Unless Swayze's character turns out to be the President undercover, smuggling a nuclear bomb and the launch codes, but falls in love with Charlie Sheen before he can complete his One Man Mission From God, goes on a suicide mission into the Red Camp to rescue Charlie after he gets captured by the Reds after going on a comfort-hotdog raid in town as a result of a lover's tiff over who gets to carry the nuke, I can't see this ending well.

True, I quite like this film, but Aslan is indeed a prick.

Less of a prick than Yoda, true, but still a prick. (Adds 2 to the score.)

Haven't seen it, but I found the trailer hilarious. Especially the bit of the curly black haired nerd running very slowly away from equally slow running Russians down a main street. Tell me, did he ever outdistance them in their too-close-to-call marathon?

I switched off a film the other night, before it had finished. This is quite a rare occurrence for me, but the film was rubbish on every level other than successfully blowing megabucks on incomprehensible pretentious shite.

It was called The Fountain. Yes. That. Self indulgent sixth form bollocks on a $40m budget.

It was no Requiem for a Dream or Pi, but still good. Glad Aronofsky went simpler with the Wrestler though. Curious too see how Black Swan will turn out (Mila Kunis...yummy )

I loved the fountain. I think it's one of my favourite films.

Yeah, but you're own sex life is incomprehensible so you could probably see nice pothead analogues in it

Visuals aside it was an incomprehensible load of portentous rubbish that dragged out a simple high concept that would only be engaging if you smoked a metric fuckton of skunk.

I found it incredibly dull, if I'm honest.

Disagree. I watched The Fountain before I stopped being a stoner and didn't understand it or particularly enjoy it.

The music is very pretty too.

OK, LSD then, perhaps?

Couple of good action movies on TV tonight.
I'd record Dog Soldiers (C5, 10pm) and watch 16 Blocks (BBC1, 10:45).

I think you might actually be kind of right to be fair. I do remember liking the music and the imagery in the film, just not really liking the film. I doubt you'd have the concentration on any other drug to watch it, sadly I'm a grown up now and will never find out

Seconded, though I have the former on DVD and have seen the latter. It's still watchable even though Mos Def uses a voice throughout the entire film like he's auditioning for the muppets or like someone is holding his gonads very very tightly indeed.

Ooh, Dog Soldiers is great. I've not seen it for years. Still remember buying it on video at sainsbury's on a tape with Resident Evil (embarassingly shit) and 28 Days Later (30% rather great, 70% toss) six years ago. For three quid. I remember when all this was grass.

Oh jesus christ, yes. What the fuck was he thinking?

I'm not convinced that Mr Def got to chose how he spoke.

You mean that Mr Willis was holding onto Def's gonads very very tightly throughout filming?

It's how he says hello.

Problem The Second with that film is that the Ever Buff Mr Willis isn't believable as a paunchy speccy hasbeen.

Problem the third is that it's just not a good film.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/42587

The link is to a five minute trailer for Emmerich's 2012 film. Has he created a new genre of film; Desctruction Porn?

I thought that was already Michael Bay's oeuvre?

Michael Bay's thing is "becretining"

I didn't even know Michael Bay liked eggs.

That's what it is then - so many people came out of Transformers 2 saying they didn't like it because the film turned them into cretins! That makes sense now.

Haaang on. That would suggest that people who *weren't* cretins went to watch Transformers 2 after having seen the execrable first instalment. And that just can't be true.

He likes teaching yo Momma how to suck them.

I spent a lot of last night teaching yo Momma how to suck me.

Did he just drive that limo through a building?
Fuck yeah! I'm bouncing up and down just watching it at work - hahaah this is awesome!
I love me shit like this!
The whole fucking city is falling apart! YEAH! Motherfucker this looks great!

I saw the trailer for 2012 when we went to see District 9. It looked brilliant. I have *no* idea what it's about, but loads of shit blew up and it looked great - and that's what counts.

...Grimm in the office, today.

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