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[Requiem for a Dream]

Gutted Snowpiercer ain't as good as it looks - I was looking forward to that!

Meanwhile... Requiem for a Dream is a turgid mess of moralistic pretentiousness that I've never been able to get on side with. It is so overbearingly simple it's likely how very privileged people view addiction - which is fine but really this just aches of "film studies fodder with no actual meaning" to me. Like all of Aronofsky's films with the exception of the The Wrestler.

A special feature on the DVD - where Ellen Burstyn talks with the late writer Hubert Selby Jr who had coped with lifelong addiction and depression makes her look so staid and patronisingly worthy and he so profoundly and funnily honest it starts to make a mockery of the entire films po-faced outlook. His impassioned comments are more inspiring than the repetitious speedy cuts and (almost funny) grindingly bleak ending could ever be.

Theroux has a unique perspective on the man and said it wonderfully - very, very interesting read cheers for posting that Pops.

Surely it's only Langley and Davis that have really been doing it? Although Staples one looks more like Bisley!

Langley uses photos of himself for most protagonists though. The right time to bring out this old chestnut - his take on Anderson.

Thought I'd start a new thread for this as I just found quite an obscure Moebius "Young Blueberry" comic for  €9 in Madeira's only comic shop!

Also I once got a bundle of random 2000ads for cheap on eBay that contained rare prog 1208. Much wow.

Those are literally the only two jammy events that have happened to me ever. But has anyone else got charity shop/obscure jammy finds stories?

[HERESY!]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly unremarkable film.  I'm not even sure if I got to the end. 

Agree, agree, agree.  I still prefer the TV version.  Still, the kids love it, and it has a cracking opening tune. 
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The years have softened my outlook on the HGTG film - principally because it'll never get the sequel it was so desperately angling for, so it'll remain a fairly curious experiment and nothing more. I disliked it fiercely at the time being an enormous fan of the radio/tv/written versions of the story - but looking back it's an awkward but wildly imaginative affair with some cracking design. The Hammer & Tongs team were responsible for some of the most interesting music videos of the last two decades and have inventiveness in spades - the score by the League of Gentleman's Joby Talbot is very good - Rockwell is fantastic and Mos Def is very charming. I'm still not a huge fan of Martin Freeman (he definitely works his grumpy realism schtick better as Bilbo - and I had always imagined the lanky and awkward and Simon Joneslike Jack Davenport in the role so I was biased) and Zooey Deschanel is singularly crap in pretty much everything she does. Nice fringe though.  However once you realise a lot of the new things were written BY Adams and that he had insisted that the Arthur/Trillian thing should have been more intense on screen to make up for how shy he was at writing it out in the book - it forgives it some of the schmaltz. Not all though some of it is deeply uncomfortable - and the "please everybody" ending never sits right with me. Still, bygones and all that. It's a nice attempt at a go at it - there have been far worse adaptations of things I reckon.

I'LL NEVER READ THE EOIN COLFER BOOK THOUGH. HERESY!

Yeah, I've reinstated the first one, just for the hell of it. Still don't like it, but meh.

Nah. I'm keeping it out Jon - stick with your first decision - or second one. What if you change your mind again, eh?

Two entries splits yer vote anyway.

...this goes on and on and on and on....

WELL FUUUUU I guess I got 6 days then   Is it due end of day March 30th or like, beginning?  Not that I have any time....but I'll MAKE TIME

You have 'til midnight GMT on Sunday 30th - so that's... like 4 pm on the west coast if you're there!

Ag. That's a pain Mardroid - I would say make him aware that you've lost the cheque but don't ask for another just say that you're keeping your eyes peeled (which you are) - then the ball's in his court! If he wants to write you another he can, but at the very least he knows about it!

In terms of Geoffery's toe - (and she's very grateful for the kind words!) things aren't looking nearly as bleak as we thought. There's a lot of walking-lite travel and a good transport network and she's fairly mobile on a set of crutches the hotel gave us so it's not a dead loss! She's just annoyed about the swimming - I've tried to convince her she can put a plastic bag over the bandages but she won't have it...

Hope you guys had fun tonight - ! Wish I could have been there

First day of a week away in Madeira and the missus breaks her toe pretty severely when exiting the pool....

so now its trussed up and she's not allowed to walk. or swim.

[SKD]

The Land of the Young by SKD

[BUMP!]

BUMP!

Only 1 week to go!!

I'm getting one just for Smash Bro's 4. Yes, im that kind of gamer.

This is my feeling towards it too - the only console game I yearn for is Smash Bros!

Yes alright Hawk we all know how you feel on the matter but repeating that you hate him in every thread doesn't change anything.

There are plenty of other individuals to be focussing on instead. Those, for example, who are alive and pretty much responsible for spreading homophobic rhetoric throughout Uganda and Russia. From the looks of the comments he likes to debate it as well - so you'd even likely get a response out of him! Better than just digitally dissing some dead guy who was ostracised by his own cult anyway.

On another and far more relevant subject - here are some collected tweets about the death of Steve Moore. Someone worth remembering - http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/03/19/steve-moore-1949-2014-rip/