i prefer the more harsher bleaker Bullet in the Head, also by John Woo but The Killer is alright

i especially love Iggy Pop and Tom Waits' dialogue, the Wu parts are also good

Yeah Iggy and Tom's conversation is the highlight of the film for me. Rza and Gza with Bill Murray is hilarious.

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Better than I had thought it would be. Far from original but enjoyable. A small but very, very funny part from Steve Buscemi was more than welcome too.

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Great to see Pegg and Frost together again on screen. I laughed quite a lot throughout.

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Just got back from finally seeing this. I thought it was really good, but I'm not sure it deserved best picture. Colin Firth was incredible as always, so was Geoffrey Rush. The chemistry between them was great to watch. Also, his final speech to Beethoven's 7th was really powerful.

yep. it was a very solid film. there wasn't anything brilliant about it. if it were up to me, I'd have given best actor to Bardem and best picture to Black Swan.

me too, and Best Original Screenplay to "Inception"

fixed

I agree with you on Bardem though.

Swan Lake (1968)

Got it because of Black Swan fever. It's a Russian production. Pretty good although I disagree with the choice of the guy playing Siegfried, they shoulda used the Court Jester guy, instead, as he dances more supple and agile. Was the guy chosen as Siegfried because of his chiselled features? He still looks gay-ish to me, though and he doesn't really dance that well. The costumes are outrageously daring, the White Swan's pubes are visible, the Black Swan has half-exposed breasts. The performances are fab, the White Swan is tender, soft and supple, the Black Swan aggro, terse and passionate. My main gripe with this is trying to make it into a movie, with split screens, dissolves, special effects, superimposition. And the film production is horrible, some out of focus shots, inconsistent lighting, choppy editing and use of different film stock giving different hues and saturation within one movement. They should have shot it as it appeared on stage.

My ratings - as a movie - 5/10. as a performance - 10/10. highly emotional and sexually invigorating. as Holly Johnson of Frankie Goes to Hollywood once said - "ballet is a just a highly stylised form of sex".

The Party-Peter Sellers...a classic

Agreed. I think Darren Aronofsky is one of the best and he really deserves some recognition.