you're saying the Big Lebowski isn't revered amongst the college population? if anything it's more popular... i dont know how testosterone fits anywhere into W&I either, in terms of writing it is far and way the more theatrical and dare i say it gayer of the two. honest

let us never speak of this again

Pan's Labyrinth is a movie I've been wanting to see for a while.

I though Withnail & I wasn't quite as good as The Big Lebowski, but then again BL is one of my favorite movies of all time so it's hard to beat. I'd still recommend to anyone who likes comedy of any sort.

In terms of story it's very much the gayer of the two. Seeing as one of the characters is gay...

yeah Monty's just a perv though, there are pervs in lebowski aplenty... '8 year olds, dude'

He's also the only negative character so I wouldn't really jump to calling it gay-er or gay friendly...

As for Lebowski being college asshole material, I agree, but thankfully it's also much smarter, has a much wider appeal and is better written and by much more talented people than Bruce Robinson, as his post-Withnail career has clearly shown (The Killing fields was pretty crap too).

But to each their own. :|

But that entire sequence where he sneaks into "I"'s room is actually one of my favorite parts of the movie. It's so hilarious.

Has anyone else seen The History Boys? The guys who plays Monty plays another old gay man who's into even younger men and it's pretty funny.

Nah, Withnail and I is simply slower and much more paced. It's from a completely different era of cinematography and cannot be watched with the same mindsight but it's by no means less clever or more poorly written. I can understand that someone who isn't English may not appreciate to an extent the characterisations and will cede that the appeal is narrower but you're definitely selling it short in your synopsis.

I remember watching that. Isn't that the man that plays Uncle Vernon in Harry Potter ?

Gave in to the hype and watched 'Paranormal Activity' to avoid working. Utter balls. Sloppily written, failed to capture the realism it was so desperately groping for, one cliche after another... Tried to rip off elements of B-Witch and Exorcist unsuccessfully. There were a couple of moments of tension (some of the sound/visual effects were nifty), but the makers obviously had no idea what to do with it. I was too busy hating it to be scared.
The extremely annoying photogenic couple living in their affluent suburb you just want to die writhing in agony from the get-go... let's just say I stuck with this for the boredom and the expectation of a pay-off - it never arrived.
Whereas Blair Witch tore your nerves to shreds when it first came out, PA just leaves you and wondering how popular standards have sunk so low, then realizing it's because of sh*t like this and wanting to go on stabbing spree

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Gonna watch a few of these tonight. It's a series of short horror flicks directed by, appropriately enough, all the 'masters' of the genre, including John Landis, John Carpenter, Stuart Gordon, Takashi Miike and so on, and I've just found a stream of them all online.

Should be interesting.

I've had so many movies sitting in my Netflix Instant Queue for months, and finally got around to watching a few of them this past week. Last night I watched "Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles". It's a 3 and a half hour long french foreign film, made in the 70's; very experimental, but overall worth it (for me at least). You've got to be very patient, because the scenes are painfully dry and for the most part, silent. Watch the "trailer" and it just about sums it up.

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hye alex was masters of horror any good?

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JCVD—Not as good as the hype would have you believe but still pretty enjoyable and definitely the best Van Damme movie I've ever seen.

He can be awkwardly good-looking sometimes.

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^ That was the second time I watch that movie, and I still don't know what it's about. But I just love it, so much better than all the Italian Neo-Realism (e.g Fellini's Roma) I find it much more real. That movie is so subtly crazy, each scene is by itself a classic leading to a climax. I just watch that movie and see what influenced Lynch, Burton, Almodovar, Scorsese, Kubrick ... and so many others that name Frederico Fellini as one of their major influences.

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Saw this the other night after a long time of hearing it was great. I definitely thought it was good, and the acting was fantastic. Jack Nicholson is one of my favorite actor, and everyone else did a great job as well. Well written with and interesting plot

I saw Paranormal Activity yesterday ..

I do not think it deserves the hype. If you don't find it scary, the movie has basically nothing else to offer. It only works on one level. It's a pity, I suspected it might be like that, but I love a good ghost story so I watched it hoping I would get one. There's no real ghost story here and by that I mean there's no real explanation to the stuff that goes on. The harassing entity has almost no substance and no background - it's just there and it does stuff. As a horror film buff, I did not find it particularly terrifying - it is certainly not the scariest film ever made. Far, far, far from it.

I saw the shining afterwards which for me is scarier and has an interesting story. That's a good film .. Paranormal Activity was ****e compared. :rolleyes:

don't make me get out the dancing leotard gif

Sure you've seen the first one, but have you seen the second one? :D

YTMND - *NEW* Van Damme dance

lol. I WANT THAT SONG

edit. one of the most awkward scenes ever committed to film was in a JCVD film (was it Bloodsport?) where the guy who's training him gets him drunk in a bar full of cronies (so he can get into a fight with them obviously) and there's like five minutes of that weird-ass dancing. love it

nah it was kickboxer and here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J28s1t4Fqe4

I only managed to watch a few of them, and they varied in quality. Some of them were a bit flat and cliche, some were pretty damn good. Worth watching if there's a night in on the cards tonight.

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Ryan Reynolds can act shocker! A philosophical tale brought together in 3 acts of many of the lead actors playing different roles who criss cross each tale it is a little boring in parts and confusing but it is well realised and asks as many questions as it provides answers. Well worth a watch and staying with.

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Well it is Halloween after all! Still bloody brilliant. Tame as a teddy bear in terms of gore but masterful in it's direction.

Ryan Reynolds is too chiselled to sympathise with, i just keep thinking of that Party Liason film whenever I see him

Halloween is still THE film for this particularly silly time of year. Would sooner watch that again than pay to vomit; would sooner pay to vomit than be writing an essay on DW Griffith :banghead:

JH can you watch 'Paranormal Activity' if only so you can do a withering review of it? Myself and Tore both thought it was crap but most of the world appears to disagree

Reynolds will change your mind with this film seriously! As for Paranormal Activity-never even heard of it- can't be that good can it? ;)

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between reading the description at the library and watchingi t i have no idea what this movie is about

In the spirit of Halloween:

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^Really good movie, I don't know why I couldn't get past the first 20 minutes 2 years ago, I was so bored. It did feel like a really ridiculous movie then ... weird.

Really nice watch, maybe the storyline wasn't that consistent, but when was it in these kind of movies... I might even get the sequels.

I watched Braham Stroker's Dracula Tonight, an amazing movie completely ruined by Keanu Reeves and Wynona Ryder

True in a way, but I think Gary Oldman works so well as a redeeming factor that it's well worth the watch :p: I think he is absolutely brilliant in that one.

Yes and yes. I don't know what kind of drugs it takes to make someone think Keanu Reeves would be a good choice to play a stuffy english gentleman but they should definitely be outlawed.

Probably the same dude who casted Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt as the Brothers Beefcake in Interview with a Vampire

Let's not forget Anthony Hopkins

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I ended up getting drunk and watching JFK alone in the dark last night.

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The Fury (1978)—Once again Brian De Palma stuns me with his amazing gift for ruining an interesting premise by filling a movie full of pointless scenes and poorly developed characters that I don't care about. Hopefully someday I'll learn to just start avoiding his movies. On the plus side the final scene made laugh even though it was apparently supposed to be serious.

lol. there are worse ways to spend the night imo =)

Fantastic Mr Fox

lol, with my daughter, its actually a cool little movie

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I'm currently watching Octaman which is absolutely the best thing ever. I wish I had the suit for Halloween.

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I have been wanting to see this movie for a while and gutted that I missed an airing last night but managed to catch it on BBC i Player tonight. Love the urban soundtrack and pleased that it was UK based. The urban speak (innit,sket,blood etc) drove me up the wall but it was a decent attempt at capturing the youth culture at this time regarding social problems.

I have no idea why I bothered watching Kidulthood. I think I started watching it and then became so consumed with hatred and rage that I felt compelled to sit through its entire running time beating my television with a plimsoll. There's enough of these tossers sitting on the backs of buses and drinking in parks without giving them a feature length film.

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That's what I last watched. It was pretty poor. It was difficult to get behind Ali when the film seemed so adamant in making you believe he was a complete and utter arsehole.

Well that is what the film was pertaining to. It's a natural way of life to be that way and whether we find the characters deplorable or not, the absence of glorification was a plus point. It was much better than I thought and I think that you should have given it more time. My own son is is the same age so I wanted to watch it with that in mind.

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I know, I know. But it was actually pretty good, and the end always makes me cry.

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One of my favorite movies!

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Ok...so I saw this on TV and decided to give it another go. I still think it sucks, but I will say the shooting spree at the end was pretty kick ass.

Great flick! I need to watch that again soon.

I think I'm the only person in the world who liked this movie a lot. It was just so... entertaining. Ridiculous? Yes. But so very entertaining. And it really filled me full of nice Chicago nostalgia.