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That White Bear episode was utter shite. Risible, cliched, unbelievable bollocks that didn't work on any level at all.

It was like a bit of 6th form creative writing that some moron had decided shold be turned into a TV drama.

The Walking Dead is an ace comic, and a very ace TV show.

It's fantastic telly.

I watched the very grim and bloody "Inside" starring Beatrice Dalle as an unwanted houseguest who gets very stabby.

Very stabby indeed.

The Dark Knight Rises, which wasn't anywhere near as rotten as some of you lot lead me to expect. It's just Batman Forever with ideas, but I thought Bane was the most hilarious villain I've seen on screen. The disparity between how he looks and how he speaks is endlessly entertaining, and I can't stop doing the voice and quotes. I'm glad Nolan finally took the stick (halfway) out his arse and made something as funny as the character's Sixties screen incarnation.

Gosh how very knowing and modern!

Except Bane wasn't supposed to be funny, Nolan didn't make any attempt to inject silly, camp humour and it's nothing like Batman Forever.

But you knew that already

Wow... JJ Abrams really is the guy you go to these days when you can't afford Joss Whedon, isn't he?

I can't even tell if this is supposed to be a joke

I bet everyone's already mentioned them, but my favourites are:

For A Few Dollars More
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Unforgiven
Once Upon A Time In The West
The Proposition
Open Range
High Plains Drifter
The Outlaw Josey Wales
3.10 To Yuma
The Wild Bunch
The Magnificent Seven
Tombstone

French horror film "Frontiers".

Pretty shit.

What is it about that psycho's heavy breathing that freaks me out so much?!

Its the way he wears his coat too 

He looks like James Corden, that's why.

no he doesn't

Watched the first and last in the Matrix trilogy. Excellent films. I never rewatch the second one, as it's fucking pretentious and boring.

So the chances of a sequel are now 1 in 100,000 rather than 1 in 1000,000.

The home video sales are a good start, nothing more nothing less, and my guess is that it'd have to shift many millions of units to make the chances of a sequel (or TV spin-off) even remotely closer.

Try to see the strong sales as a nice bit of recognition/vindication for the folks who made the film (and yet further great PR for the Dredd comics and 2000ad) rather than something to pin your sequel hopes on...

It's still quite gratifying, if nothing else. I'll have to buy one now

There's no way it can make that all that money back via just subs, syndication and DVDs

I think it probably can - add to that merchandising and spin-offs...

There's a hell of a long tail too - Band of Brothers must have been shifting serious units on home video for over ten years now.

There's also the fact that it acts as a hook in the hope that viewers get involved in some of the other HBO properties, bit like with console hardware sold at an initial loss and the deficit (hopefully) being made up with longer-term software sales.

Sort of like that. A bit anyway.

You have to wonder if someone somewhere is looking at Dredd's DVD sales and rising, slow burn cult status and thinking about that TV show idea.

HBO have done War, Westerns, Horror, Crime Drama and even Fantasy - they MUST be actively looking at Sci Fi properties.

Ideally the film would act as the pilot, and supernatural elements would be kept to the fringes, in a similar way to Game of Thrones.

Yeah, probably even less likely than a cinematic adaptation, I know!

I'm still really smarting about Dredd tanking so badly. It did OK on a baking hot launch week in the UK, and I had hopes for the US to at least show some interest...sadly, wasn't to be. And it seems almost impossible to imagine that anyone would fund a third cienmatic stab at Dredd following the first two disasters. It's box office poison now.

As for a TV show, Well, I don't think it's likely, but there's no such thing as impossible. I'd love anything that allowed Dredd to extend beyond the comic format, as long as it was good. And the DNA film was certainly that.

As for Game Of Thrones, can anyone explain how they can afford to make that show? Where's the profit?
There's no way it can make that all that money back via just subs, syndication and DVDs, unless it maintains its insanely high interest level across the world - is that even likely? Few niche shows stay on top that long - which is why I fear it may struggle to finish/ catch up with the books.

So there's less chance of an equally lavish Dredd on TV, which lacks GOT's huge installed user base from the best-selling, world-famous books.

"I Saw The Devil" which stars the fella from Oldboy (execellent as ever) as a sadistic serial killer who is captured and then released multiple times by a vengeful, if rather stupid, government secret agent hard bloke.

Unsurprisingly violent, some lovely cinematography, rather absurd, but very watchable indeed

Could they have cast a more typical 'comic book guy' do you think...not sure if I buy into that dude.
*Sigh*

A fat asocial nerd? Have you never been to Forbidden Planet?

[Plot:]

It out on C4 at 10pm tonight, 6 parts series

Plot: Utopia will follow a group of people who find themselves in possession of a manuscript of a cult graphic novel. The tome is rumoured to have predicted the worst disasters of the last century and the group soon find themselves targeted by a shadowy organisation known only as The Network.

I quite enjoyed it, the bloke from Kill List was very good, as usual.

Although I do hope the shadowy "Network" and links to the graphic novel are a bit more interesting than the hokey old "Evil Pharmaceutical Company Invents Horrible Disease In Order To Market The Cure, And Then Kills Everyone To Cover It Up"

I want Illuminati, aliens, the New World Order and all manner of supernatural jiggerypokery.