Be Excellent To Each Other

I three Lucy Liu.

Watched Tintin tonight. Bloody great! I knew it would be, though. Not sure why it took me so long to see it.

Sexy fishnet bottom.

Oooh, they're doing a sequel to X Men First Class.

Good.

X Men Second Class?

Special Delivery.

X-Men: Sorry You Were Out

Hah

Fixed.

Hugo was good!

A decent article on Cracked today.

I'm particularly glad to see that Ed Harris really is batshit crazy.

http://www.cracked.com/article_20172_th ... acter.html

Prometheus: Gorgeous. Some really stupid moments and characters, but in the end it really paid of just for being so beautiful to look at.

Oslo, 31 August: Simple and honest film about an ex-addict trying to recover but really wanting to. All in the course of one day. Recommended.

Seems that Del Toro got Valve's permission to ask Ellen Mclain to voice the computer in the trailer as a nod to Portal.

Watched Dungeons & Dragons: The Book of Vile Darkness, the effects have got better but at the expense of the acting and plot.

Also watched Dredd, not that impressed, once again they have defined part of the plot and many of the shots around charging people more in cinemas for 3D. Shame really as if you know the comics well like I do, you can see a lot of the graffiti on the block walls that pays homage to comic book characters. So at some levels they made an effort.

And, bizarrely, failing. For reasons I listed in't review. I remember being dead excited about Super 8 before it came out. Utter disappointment it was. It just hadn't been baked near long enough, and nothing was earned. I've been reading an excellent biography on Spielberg which is pretty even handed. (It rips into Raiders somewhat, incredibly, and Pete-Fond War of the Worlds, but defends his popcorn angle.) The stuff in there explaining why Close Encounters of the Third Kind works, with all the thoughtful grounding that's done is fascinating. Basically each encounter is heralded by shots of the commonplace. Toys scattered on the floor. A McDonald's sign. The grid of light that is area tract housing from afar at night. And then they prove the visual foundation of what the aliens interfere with in low key - but gripping - spectacle. It earns each level of upping the spectacle.

And there's a lot of self in Spielberg's movies. ET was his brooding for children. Close Encounters was not only born from his own fascination with life out there but from the trauma of his parent's divorce. Both achieved the religious feel-good heights because they didn't have a villain (the government men are misguided, but they are still for us) and the people in it were normal, average people you strongly identified with. Elliott in ET is the average boy, written with great care.

The children and characters of Super 8 are cardboard loudmouths who trade in quips. Abrams (and I do love his Star Trek stuff) has none of the instinctive emotional grasp and care of Spielberg. TCH.

We saw "John Dies At The End" the other night. I thought it was a much more likeable homage to stuff I saw as a kid.

Terrible corrupt Terrorist, drug dealing, kiddie fiddlers have made available from online retailers the latest Brook Bond and Stumpies go for a walk films.

This awful development no doubt coincides with the DVDs that are sent out to voters for the self congratulatory circle jerk Hollywood inflicts on everyone each year...still the quality of both 'releases' isn't bad at all (in fact they're pretty excellent).

What's the name of the book? I can see a couple of biogs on Spielberg.

Steven Spielberg a Biography by Joseph McBride. Alas, it doesn't cover that time he added Ewoks to Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Just watched Django Unchained. It's pretty great.

I shall be cinemaing that at the earliest opportunity.

Thanks, must order myself a copy.

Wait, is Django Unchained out yet?

The 18th! You dirty pirate! You're missing out by not heading to a big screen to see Tarantino.

I know but I saw that there were DVD screeners out there and I couldn't help myself.

i saw Safety Not Guaranteed today. It's got april from parks and recreation in a lead role. It's about some magazine people doing a story on someone who placed an ad about going back in time. It's sweet and heartwarning but nothing out of this world. It's more a film about relationships than anything else. Worth renting or streaming but don't make an effort to see it.

Say what now?

I'm 4 minutes into The Expendables 2 and it's already the greatest film I've ever seen.

WHOAH! Where did Charisma Carpenter get those from?

Is the only other film you have ever seen The Expendables?

I don't think it ever lets up. It's jaw-dropping.

I'm looking forward to this and to Spielberg's 'Lincoln'.

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Yep! And Gatsby interests me! Also, that Wall Street film with DiCaprio - directed by Scorsese. Most exciting year for film in a good while in my opinion. Big year for DiCaprio as well actually!

I'm assuming she's had kids since then. They're about twice that size in this.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much.

Them are some exceptionally brown nipples.

Watched Sherlock Holmes - A Game of Shadows last night. Enjoyed it, but it does make Sherlock out to be some kind of psychic superhero, particularly the scene on the train.

Yeah, it was a bit overdone. It was too long, as well. And generally not as good, either in plot, pace, or characters, as the first one.

Finally watched End Of Watch last night.

Holy shit! That's jumped onto the Grim...'s Top Ten Films of All Time list, then.

Yeah it's pretty great. You should check out the TV show Southland, End Of Watch reminded me of that more than anything else.

How many films are on that list? Other Dave's top ten songs ever famously contains about eighty songs.

Probably around fifteen

I can't look as I'm at work, but if they're from her Playboy shoot, she was preggers at the time*. Hence the brown nips.





* nothing to do with me. Sadly.

Well, let's see if I can remember them all:
Alien
Aliens
The Expendables
End of Watch
Titanic
Kung Fu Panda
Sunshine
Event Horizon
Kill Bill
The Lion King
Ghost In The Shell
Face/Off
Serenity
The Omen
Some Kind Of Wonderful
Mask
The A Team (depending on what mood I'm in)

No Bill & Ted???

I just assumed they were a given.

Why isn't Taken on that list.

Because I've not seen it.