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Oh...do they like it then. Must be good if they're still playing it.

It's only three days old!

[Deadpool]

Deadpool - Loved it, great fun. I'd worried that the character would grate over the running time, but thankfully that wasn't the case. It's a movie where every single line has a joke of some sort, and while I can't say I chuckled at them all enough of them hit for it to keep me laughing throughout (there was one scene where the laughter in the cinema was so sustained that it felt like a stand-up gig, been a while since I saw a cinema lose it like that). Reynolds is fantastic in it and born for the role, the action is great and (didn't expect to be saying this) it's got a lot of heart and a great love story at its core.

Crimson Peak - Missed this in the cinema but being Del Toro I knew it'd be worth a purchase. Wasn't disappointed, it looks absolutely stunning. Have seen criticisms about it being too long and slow, but I think if anything I would have liked it to have been a bit longer and have taken more time over some elements. The romance and some of the reveals and shifts felt like they could have used more room to breathe and a bit more flesh on their bones, and the film was so nice to look at and sink into that I'd have been more than happy to watch it take more time over those. Definitely one I want to watch more of, have a feeling I'll get more out of it on further viewings. Forgot how grim the gore in a Del Toro movie can be as well, it's disturbingly graphic in places.

I have no problem with the cast being women. I just wish they were actually funny women.

I'm not familiar with their stand-up, but McCarthy and Wiig have been perfectly decent in the films I've seen them in. I don't think the performances will be much of an issue; the writing's an unknown to me, since I've not seen anything Katie Dippold has penned.

Maybe I'm alone in this, but I find both Wiig and McCarthy very unfunny. I have no idea who the other two are. I didn't even consider the writing.

Given the cast there probably won't be very much in the way of writing. I find Wiig very funny (although I don't think Bridesmaids is the masterpiece a lot of people seem to) but anything her or McCarthy are in always seems to be from the 'just put them in a situation and point the camera at them, the improv will do the rest!' school of modern comedy which sometimes works great and sometimes not so great.

I don't particularly have a problem with the casting, and to be honest I'd somehow managed to avoid the fact that Wiig is in it and that's given me a bit of hope I might get a chuckle or two out of it. McCarthy I find much more hit and miss, and not familiar with the others.

Jackie Brown is one of my favourite Tarantino films!

Maybe I owe it a second chance. It's the only I'd say I don't like at all but I haven't seen it since its original cinema release.

Been meaning to revisit it too. Been listening to the Kermode and Mayo podcasts and Mark Kermode often cites Jackie Brown as by far the best Tarantino movie, which makes me think I need to give it another go as it's the only film of his I only watched once.

Just booked tickets for Puscifer in Manchester in May! Been a while since I've seen Maynard live and have never seen Carina Round live in person (swoon). Shame there's no Glasgow gig but we've got friends in Manchester so will be able to squeeze in a visit to them too. Road trip!

Also got probably my 700th Therapy? gig next week, playing Infernal Love from start to finish which will be lovely. First time I ever saw them was on the Infernal Love tour so will be pretty nostalgic!

[RoTJ has aged...not so well.]

RoTJ has aged...not so well. ... I know people tear into the prequels, but I reckon I'd place episodes 2&3 above RoTJ on my scale of orsum. Certainly 3.

I rewatched them all over Christmas and had completely the opposite reaction.

Think this viewing might have convinced me that RotJ is the second best Star Wars film. I've always thought the climactic showdown in the throne room was amazing. The darkness and sudden flashes of light jumping off the screen and the intimacy of the personal drama juxtaposed with the awesome space battle raging outside the window. Our introduction to badass Luke has grown on me over the years and this time I even liked the Ewoks, so fuck it. Force ghost Christensen remains an abomination.

In conclusion: SW >> RotJ > ESB >>>>>>>> TPM >= TFA(provisional) >>>> RotS >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> AotC

Fair enough! I think part of the problem is that I like Empire so much that rolling straight into Jedi it immediately feels a bit...lesser (to me at least). It's still a ton of fun and I do love it.

It turns out I'd also never seen the special edition of RoTJ. During the musical number Bea shook her head and said 'ill-advised' and I had to agree. That probably counts for most of Lucas' post-release tweaks mind you, of which Empire seems to have suffered the least.

I will say that I have never, and will never, hate the Ewoks. They're cute and fun, never had a problem with them.

[The Revenant]

Went to see The Revenant and thought it was amazing. It looks absolutely incredible, and the sound design and interplay between the music and images, just a fantastically absorbing watch.

Then it was my film pick for Valentines day so wanted a bit of a light romcom, so put on Man Up. I'd seen it a couple of times but Bea hadn't so was nice to see she got a bit weepy at the same places. Sounds silly, but something about that film really touches me and I've had a bit of a cry each time. First time I watched it was on the plane back from honeymoon and I was a blubbering mess. Takes a bit of time to warm up and has some very cheesy moments, but the script is sharp, Simon Pegg and Lake Bell are great in it and it's sentimental enough to tug the heartstrings and warm the cockles but while still portraying relationships in a way that lines up with our own life experiences a bit more than your average hollywood love story. Love it.

We watched Empire Strikes Back and Return of The Jedi over the last couple of nights too which was fun. Empire has aged brilliantly (and is still probably the best of the bunch), RoTJ has aged...not so well. Looks oddly cheap in comparison to the others, and the script and acting is more Phantom Menace than Empire. Still love it, and unsure how much of that is childhood attachment (because it really is very rough) and the fact that some of the sequences are so cool (the speeder bikes and the Tatooine stuff is still great). I know people tear into the prequels, but I reckon I'd place episodes 2&3 above RoTJ on my scale of orsum. Certainly 3.

Welcome aboard the board!

I'm glad it's doing well, I have a soft spot for Tim Miller, who runs Blur Studios (They do a ton of CGI cut scenes for games) and had been trying to get into doing features for years.

Didn't realize he was a Blur guy, they're cutscenes are some of the most incredible looking out there. The ones they did for the Halo 2 XB1 version are genuinely the best looking CG scenes I think I've ever seen.

They also did the infamous trailer for Dead Island (infamous because the trailer was fantastic and got a ton of buzz but the game wasn't so grand).

Going to catch Deadpool on Saturday, but already great to see it doing so well given the certificate. Bodes well for future attempts at similarly off-beat comic book properties.

Prog is a bit weird for me just now, as it's not quite firing me up from cover to cover the way it generally does.

The highlights are Dredd (absolutely loving this story and the art is cracking) and Kingdom (it's just a big chase/fight, but damn it's a great chase/fight and again the artwork is gorgeous).

Elsewhere though just not feeling it for some reason. I enjoyed the first series of The Order but I have to confess to not really having much grasp (if any) of what's going on with this one, and I don't think I have the nostalgia for Ro-Busters that is maybe necessary to get into that strip (the whole ABC Warriors history has become a bit of a blob to me, what with every story these days being Hammerstein 'remembering his time as...' etc.).

Strontium Dog is pretty fun though, and looks great.

Probably just a taste thing with the other strips not clicking with me, but it means at the moment I'm buzzing for Dredd and Kingdom and then the rest of the prog takes a bit of a slide for me.

Wife and I are big fans of The Flash, so I'd recommend it. Took a few episodes to click but it's fantastic fun, and a more bright and colorful take on superhero telly/films than you generally get these days.

Not sure if you watch Arrow but it does cross over with that on occasion but generally not in a way that you'd need to see both (although we do watch and enjoy both).

[KILL BILL Volumes 1 & 2]

KILL BILL Volumes 1 & 2
The decisions to go to cartoon for O Ren's origin and then, in the Crazy 88 sequence, to switch to Black&White and then to Elvis-vision are cute but again protect us from "too much gore".

Interestingly (at least, I found it interesting to find out) the switch to black and white wasn't in the original cut and was done for exactly that reason, because the censors rejected it in colour (they find violence a lot easier to handle when they can't see red flying about, Evil Dead 2 used various different colours for its blood for the same reason). In regions where it passed without a problem they left it in colour, which I always thought was a shame because it's a really nice moment when it switches there.

As far as stitching them together, I think some of the structure was quite different back when it was one movie (one example I heard of was that the [spoiler]scene that closes Vol.1 where we find out her daughter is still alive was created when it got halved, originally the audience weren't supposed to know that until Beatrix finds out herself in the finale, it got added as a bit of a cliffhanger. Not sure how many other things were changed though!)[/spoiler]

I've always loved both films, and probably more or less equally.

Ecca Vandal has put an EP out - the singles had been fantastic and this doesn't disappoint. An album and a tour can't come fast enough.

https://t.co/9kufW9Azt3

Mine is Superbeasto if anyone wants to add! Not a huge multiplayer guy but the occasional online game does grab me.

Yeah, Rogue Trooper sounded great. I'll second the Deus Ex mention too, that was lovely.