Gormsby season 2:
Quite different to the frist season with more focus on the tearchers, but just as excellent. Great ending too...but now I want a third season. 
Planetes:
Finally finished it. Brilliant show. Whatever I said in previous impressions x10.
District 9:
Yes, I watched something relatively new. And liked it. Whole thing was played with great humour. South Africans say fockin' in a rising, high pitched voice. And they say it a lot. What's not to like?
Inglourious Basterds:
Can definitely understand why people would hate this, but I loved it. Might be my second favourite Tarantino film in fact. Loved the slow pace with the only flaw being that possibly some scenes were well set up to have much longer shots than they already did. Was such an excellent ensemble cast of German actors with only a few notable exceptions. Bliebtrau anyone? Still, I'm not sure he would have fitted Tarantino's style. Would have been nice to see some people from Napola, though.
9:
I really liked that you had no idea what was going on until the very end. Also liked that it was short and succinct with hardly any exposition. Plus it looked fantastic. Couldn't stop tihnking of Oddworld while watching.
9:
Not a bad short film. Didn't use the medium particularly well I didn't think, but hardly any short films do. It did make me wonder what 9 would be like without dialogue, though.
travo said:Like "Oh shit, this movie is awesome!"?
Sort of. Has a neat ending.
Last night I watched a French slasher flick called "Inside".
I haven't been in the cheeriest of moods recently so it seemed a little masochistic to have chosen to watch a movie with very graphic depictions of violence, torture and gore, scissors, buckets of blood, mindfucks, pain, scissors, bloody pregnancies and forced labour, broken bathroom mirrors and have i mentioned scissors?
It was probably not the best idea to watch it last night. Great movie though.
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Tonight I watched Gus Van Sant's Milk, the biobic about gay activist and San Francisco city counsilor Harvey Milk. Really good film about the life of a great man and hero. It's one of those rare films everyone's owes to watch.
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Last night I watched the social network. From the point of view of someone who doesn't have a facebook account or has little interest in getting one, frankly I don't know what the fuss is about. But I realise I should talk about the movie, and not about its subject (though in this particular case it's hard to do that). Pleasant enough to watch, nowadays I'm so tired that any movie I can stay awake right through has to be decent at least. I didn't see anything great about it though. Performances are just run of the mill. And I didn't really get a better grasp as to why it is such a phenomenon. It gives a good insight into Zuckenberg's character but whether it's true or not I can't say.
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The other night I watched The King's Speech. As I said in reply to dvader's comment, I found it a thoroughly enjoyable film and a good account of a true story which certainly worth telling. Also has some very strong performances from most of the actors involved, especially Colin Firth. I can certainly see why it performed well on Oscar night.
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I'm not doing this intentionally but this week I seem to be ticking off movies from the Oscars nominations list. So tonight I watched "The Fighter". It's a decent movie, based on a true story about a boxer (Mark Wahlberg) from a small town in Massachussets and his efforts to make something of himself and his life, despite his crackhead brother (Christian Bale), his manipulative bitch of a mother and generally fucked up family background. Nothing very special. While it is well made enough it felt like a movie I'd seen at least half a dozen times before
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Watched a couple more movies in the last few days. Where the wild things are
It's a fun children's story about a lonely boy who behaves badly when he seeks his mother's attention and then escapes to an imaginary world inhabited by said "wild things" when told off. The story itself is pretty rubbish to be honest. The wild things' costumes are quite nice and I also really liked the soundtrack which comprises of original music by Karen O (of the yeah yeah yeahs).
Tonight I watched Winter's Bone
Another book adaptation. This is an excellent story and a very well made film. Set in the Ozark mountains of Misouri it's the tale of a teenage girl in her odyssey to find her father (or what happened to him) and in the process help her two young siblings and catatonic mother survive, by putting herself in grave danger since no one wants to be asked the things she needs to know. Very good film.
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I just watched How to Train Your Dragon. Awesome movie all the way through, and hands down the best animated film I've seen in a long time.
^ Yeah, I bought that one on Blu-ray a couple weeks ago, Steel. It is indeed an awsome movie.
Today I showed my nephew Alien and Aliens, he had never seen them. Alien is a horror classic, super slow paced so it almost put him to sleep. I respect the movie, I enjoy it but not my favorite.
Then there is Aliens, this one and T2 are my favorite Cameron movies and two of my all time favorites. I hadn't seen Aliens in many years so it hit me again like a ton of bricks. What a fucking movie!! Its a movie that grabs you by the balls and doesn't let go till the final moments. The action flows so well and its all good gripping action not a bunch of shit happening on screen action. The special effects were incredible, if this movie was done today it would have a cartoon fight at the end, this was done with giant ass puppets that were REAL. Of course almost every sci-fi action movie/video game borrows elements from this movie as it basically invented the space marines we all know and love. Its a masterpiece, my favorite kind of movie, that big action packed adventure kind of movie in a sci-fi setting to top it off.
Game Over, Man!
SteelAttack said:I just watched Inception. Shit.
Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit was my impression too, my mind was blown, incredible movie. 
phantom_leo said:Game Over, Man!
I told my nephew that I was gonna introduce him to Star Wars this summer.
travo said:I told my nephew that I was gonna introduce him to Star Wars this summer.
Can I be there for that.
Dvader said:travo said:I told my nephew that I was gonna introduce him to Star Wars this summer.
Can I be there for that.
Absolutely. I considered waiting for the Blu Rays in September. The boy is nearly seven and hasn't seen them. Shame on my sister.
Seen tons of movies, can't really comment on them all.
Will start with a few DC original movies.
The guys who made this emmy award winning 90s tv series:
Moved on from TV series into making original movies based on DC graphic novels or original movies based on DC comics characters.
I have seen the following:
1.1 Superman: Doomsday
Is an okay movie, a bit of a damp squib storywise it's based on the bestselling Death of Superman story. The first half an hour is Superman just fighting Doomsday with not story. Then he "dies" and comes back. That's about it.
1.2 Justice League: The New Frontier
This is good, it goes back to the 50s or 60s I think and in a world where politicians have forced restrictions on superhero activity. The art is very nice, aping the comic book and it's one of the better DC animated movies. A must for justice league fans.
1.3 Batman: Gotham Knight
Is a series of short stories in the batman universe. 2 out of 6 stories are very good, they let japanese anime directors go wild with it and there is some very Nolan-ish batman iconography. It was actually made between Batman Begins and Dark Knight as a lead in to the second movie. Some is good, some okay.
1.4 Wonder Woman
You would think it would be crap but you would be SO wrong. They have made wonder woman a bad ass who decapitates people. It's visceral action and a fun story. Good stuff, I want an animated wonder woman series after this.
1.5 Green Lantern: First Flight
Is okay, quite enjoyable but it drags in the middle.
1.8 Batman: Under the Red Hood
Very good Batman movie, it could stand to lose a couple of the more fantastical elements but otherwise if you like Batman you will like this a lot.
Last night I watched The Illusionist. It is a most beautiful and wonderfully moving animated film by the creator of The Triplets of Bellville.
Not to be confused with the mediocre period drama with the same name with Ed Norton that came out some years ago (and which I watched on a flight somewhere). It tells the story of a touring illusionist trying to make a living with his acts but being perhaps a bit too old and not so much "with the times". He winds up in Edinburgh where he meets a poor girl who was working (as a cleaner) in a pub where is was working for the night, and they sort of team up after he was kind to her. Then he tries to make enough money for the two of them to get by by putting his act on in theatres and the pub cicuit and doing other odd jobs etc. The film is without any real dialogue. It's a wonderful story and the animation is brilliant as well. Without a doubt one of the best new films I've seen so far this year.
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bugsonglass said:Last night I watched The Illusionist. It is a most beautiful and wonderfully moving animated film by the creator of The Triplets of Bellville.
Not to be confused with the mediocre period drama with the same name with Ed Norton that came out some years ago (and which I watched on a flight somewhere). It tells the story of a touring illusionist trying to make a living with his acts but being perhaps a bit too old and not so much "with the times". He winds up in Edinburgh where he meets a poor girl who was working (as a cleaner) in a pub where is was working for the night, and they sort of team up after he was kind to her. Then he tries to make enough money for the two of them to get by by putting his act on in theatres and the pub cicuit and doing other odd jobs etc. The film is without any real dialogue. It's a wonderful story and the animation is brilliant as well. Without a doubt one of the best new films I've seen so far this year.
I am sure the movie is great but that description bores me so much.
Like "Oh shit, this movie is awesome!"?