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[The Hobbit]

I like M:I 2 as well.

The Hobbit: I liked it. Saw it twice, in fact.
Jack Reacher: Really enjoyed this too. Not interested in the fact that the actor playing the lead character was not the same height as the character in the book. Apparently, Henry Cavill can't really fly and Sir Ian McKellen isn't an actual wizard.
Seven Psychopaths: utterly magnificent.
Brave: agree with TB and SM. Brilliant, beautiful and most importantly, empowering for your girls.

The Reacher books are risible, but I think some physical resemblance helps

Would you have been happy with Paul Giamatti as Dredd?

Jesus Christ are they real?

Yes, Azog is in the book. There's a whole sentence devoted to him

Similar to Radagast then.  Whereabouts?

Just in case we are keeping count like we did for Dredd, the showing I was at (2000 on Saturday night) was practically empty. About 50 people max.  One of the Odeoneers said that Hobbit had been really quiet and wasn't doing the business they had hoped (unlike, say, Skyfall which was mental and full for about a month).

It's done huge numbers here and in the US

I have my doubts about the trilogy's performance vs LOTR though, given the fact that The Hobbit cannot support three films and should have been done in one.

But we all knew that anyway.

I wonder if the weird-looking format will put some people off. It takes some getting used to.

MIB3. Really enjoyed it. Much more than I thought I would. Thought K was looking old though.

He is old

my anti-Who grandfather

Your grandfather is The Master..?

He likes Turkey. Or was it chicken?

I dunno about that. For some reason last night i had a quick toodle over to a major dr who fan forum- not the biggest, ive not been there for a couple of years, since i received a three-day ban for saying i didnt like patrick stewart's acting or face. There's a lot of people of the opinion that the series is firmly on the slide and no longer the 'jewel in the crown', with this year that being 'call the midwife'. Dr who now occupies the 'kid's easy entertainment' slot, which has had in it previously 'the grufallo' shorts and whatever cgi cartoon the beeb has bafflingly decided to broadcast, forgetting that everybody with kids owns them all already. A very good point was made that at least the RTD xmases were 'special', with huge stars, wild ideas and new doctors or doctors ending. Moffat has given us three dickensian, blue-tinted chocolate box mildly amusing 'box of delights'-style fantasies- the sort of thing for xmas eve perhaps, or boxing day, but blockbusters for the big day? I think not.

SBT

Ah yes, those child-friendly Dickensian episodes. As opposed to alien sword fights and Bad Santas with guns that are more obviously adult fare.

I bought a very expensive multi-region copy just recently, as it's one of my top five Carps. Havent got around to rewatching yet, as have been waiting for a cold-free, pain-free evening to do so. But yeah, itMoM is marvellous.

SBT

It's John Carpenter?

Oh the shame. I forgot/ didn't realise

Now, how can a horror/zombie film be any good if it's a PG-13? God, do I miss the 80's era of film making.

The Bride of Frankenstein, The Devil Rides Out and Hammer's Dracula all want a word with you.

Sorry, but I prefer my horror's post 1970's. Back when those films were made, times and audiences were a little more innocent and took little to shock them. I'm not disregarding them as good films, though. I still think The Exorcist is one of the scariest films ever made, but that's hardly a PG-13.

Correct. A pg-13 horror film is guaranteed to be terrible. Even if you remake a classic, you have to do it with the requisite amount of horror. See Dawn Of The Dead for how it should be done, if it has to be done at all.

Zombie films need blood and splatter and shocks and gore. That cannot be done with a child-friendly certification. Zombie films are *responsible* for certification. Thanks George!

It's A Wonderful Life

Shamefully, i had never seen it before. Absolutely brilliant. Very surprising and strange in some ways, too

It's not based on a specific Lovecraft story, as far as I am aware, though thematically it's been suggested it bears a loose similarity to 'Pickman's Model' (there is also a character with the surname Pickman in it.) Nonetheless, it is very Lovecraftian (and sort-of cribs its name from 'At the Mountains of Madness'.) The bit where Neill is chased by the Great Old Ones is utterly wonderful, and despite a few flaws, it's a great film. Some jaw-dropping set pieces.

Hmmm. The superannuated kid on the bike. The demonic children. The axe attack in the street.

Last time I watched it I was in the Ritz (don't ask) and I checked under the bed before I went to sleep. i was nearly 30.

is "in the mouth of madness" sort of lovecraftian?

the same neill film? really enjoyed that years ago.

For me Sappire and Steel are a peripheron.
I remember watching them but don't remember much about the show. The bit that sticks out for me was the WWI soldier whistling 'Pack up your Troubles' and being pinned in the barbed wire.





V

I was too young to really understand what was going on, but I do remember that episode. And some ....thing that had a big, blank oval instead of a face.

Creeeeeepy

A Trek trailer with a Blarn Hammer soundtrack?  There really is such a thing as too mainstream, you know...

A good point was made to me about the "mainstream" popularity and success of the reboot t'other day, and oddly not from a Trekkie: it is actually nothing new for Trek movies to make loads of cash and be really successful with non-Trekkies.  Wrath Of Khan made more money than previous Trek films and went on to mainstream success, Voyage Home made more money than previous Trek films and went on to mainstream success, Undiscovered Country made more money than previous Trek films and went on to mainstream success, First Contact made more money than previous Trek films and went on to mainstream success - and each of these films arguably followed real duffers that left the franchise dead in the water, too.  For all their faults, even Insurrection and Nemesis were full of quips and action scenes meant to make them more friendly to non-geeks - and they weren't quite as lowbrow and willfully stupid as the reboot is.

The JJ Abrams film is brilliant, and rescued the Trek film franchise from TV-spinoff oblivion.

The "new" Kirk, Spock and Bones have been brilliantly cast and the film was a deserved success. Looking forward to this sequel very much. Hopefully it will shake off all the remaining moaning trek anoraks, who can go back to the source material and brilliantly written fan fiction and leave the rest of us alone.

Just watched the final episode of Season 3

it's simply fantastic

This looks like utter shit