Vito

I'm expecting someone to whinge about me holding conversations with her in TWO threads. Scandalous.

You appeared within minutes of MAT mentioning your name. You never talk to me anymore, IT'S NOT MY FAULT I DON'T HAVE TITS

No, no, no. We don't need a repeat of that again.

 

(loltiming)

Wow, that's uncanny. Almost like summoning a Genie.

Again?

Worst DVD Bonus Feature ever.

Oh Jesus, please don't encourage them.

The Bloopers were hysterical, but I think that the commentary track was a little too much.

 

You should have been here when she was selling the DVD, that was a crazy week. Great production values though.

I friend of mine, who seems to have an exceptional talent for giving you exactly what you didn't want as a gift, brought me John Cena's The Marine for Christmas. Seeing as I'm a nice chap I didn't immediately batter him to death with it, quite the contrary, I decided to give it a chance. I could waffle on about things like:

 

The hammy acting.

 

The daft plot.

 

The inexplicable moment when Cena decides that instead of beating a bad guy with his fists, like every action movie star in the history of ever, he'll lure him in and then surprise him by sticking a big knife into his chest cavity.

 

The fact that Cena spends a significant portion of the movie being smashed in the face by anything lying around, thus making him the most punchbagiest hero since Thomas Jane in 2004's The Punisher.

 

The stereotypical Black man who hates being treated like a criminal despite being, y'know, a criminal. This guy was so stereotypical that I expected him to pull a Bargain Bucket out of nowhere and start chowing down on it at any moment.

 

In fact, that only good thing about this film was the scene where Cena throws a woman in front of a bus. I laughed my arse off, although I don't think it was supposed to be funny. So to summarise; if you want to see John Cena get beaten up constantly, you're entertained by women getting smacked about and you enjoy hinted-at-but-not-explicitly-stated stories about sexual abuse against children then The Marine is the film for you.

Think I'm probably going to buy a game of some kind tomorrow - which Lego game is the best? Star Wars, Indiana Jones or Batman?

Which one did you get in the end?

 

They're all essentially the same game anyway but I'll be damned if they aren't the most addictive games I've played in years.

EquilibriumAnother awesome Christian Bale flick. Ive never been in the mood to watch it before (too many comparisons with the bloody Matrix series). Really good though, the premise is excellent... plus Im sure there is some deep, hidden critique on society somewhere in there! Weird thing is it looks a bit dated and its not that old... may be that was the plan?

Equilibrium is strongly influenced by George Orwell's 1984" and Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World", you should read them if you ever get the chance as they're both excellent books. There's a film version of 1984, but it's not very good.

I brought the Vengeance Trilogy a few weeks ago and finally got around to watching Oldboy and Lady Vengeance this afternoon. I caught the ending of Oldboy a few months back when it was on TV so I already knew about the swerve but overall it was pretty good, the fight scenes were more realistic than most films and the plot was both compelling and engaging. Lady Vengeance was a lot more depressing than I was expecting, the scene where the parents were shown the tapes of their children being murdered was particularly sobering and disturbingly realistic. It was interesting to see a vigilante character who was more cerebral and calculating as opposed to the stereotypical glass-eating badass. Great stuff, I'd recommend it.

This quite literally moved me tears a few minutes ago and is therefore my song of the day. The track is called "Hello, I'm Benn" and it's by The Flashbulb. Enjoy.

I watched The Big Lebowski for the first time today and I really don't understand what the fuss is all about.

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Self harming for 90 minutes would be more enjoyable.

Being sodomised with a traffic cone would be more enjoyable.

Firefly was a fourteen episode TV show that was canceled after its first season. The movie, Serenity, was made to tie up all the loose ends and bring the series to a close.

Serenity is the end of the Firefly story.

I re-watched Serenity again after my first tired viewing and I thought it was quite good.

I may end up watching Serenity now, if I get the chance.

I'd assumed that he meant that he was going to watch Firefly after re-watching Serenity. Unless his plan was to re-watch Serenity again.

I may end up watching Serenity now

Did you perhaps mean Firefly?

He probably meant Serenity. We're not the U.S. you know.

Eh?

I may end up watching Serenity now

Did you perhaps mean Firefly?

Surely the fact its made from outtakes from the firm tells you that its going to be utter shite.

I don't think Tom Cruise has a sense of humour.

Wake Up Ron Burgundy

Has that been made already? I thought it was still at the planning stages

Wake Up, Ron Burgundy is an alternate movie based on outtakes from the first film. It's been out for ages in America but as klown said it's only just been released over here as part of the three disc box set. I thought Anchorman was really funny but this was just terrible, you'll understand why a lot of it was cut if you ever watch it.