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Watched You Don't Mess With The Zohan today. Ever so slightly different from the normal Sandler formula with hints of Hot Shots style humour. It's taken some slating by critics and what not, but I liked it.

For some reason in Dream Warriors my favortie bit is the Edgar Allen Poe quote at the beginning.

"Sleep. Those little slices of death. How I loathe them."That line creeped me out as a kid.Edit: I'm really in the mood to watch it now, despite seeing it not too long ago. A tad inconvenient that I've only got it on video and my VCR is recently naff.

A Nightmare On Elm Street Part 3: Dream Warriors:

 

After an amazing introduction to Freddy in the first film and losing the plot in the sequel, Part 3

needed something special to keep the series from becoming a slowly-dying trilogy, thus resulting in an 80s equivalent of the other Wes Craven brainwave, Scream.

 

Thankfully, it had it.

 

A good aspect of Dream Warriors that's either lacking or absent in other horror films is that of a storyline to fill in-between people being killed. Granted, any kind of plot often comes second to the main focus of horror, which is to scare, gross-out and leave a disturbing impact on people. Too many deaths, mind, leave for very little expansion on the story, if any [see Friday The 13th Part V...actually don't]. Substituting any kind of plot for a high death count also leaves for little scope in the imaginative death department, as well as the inability to care when someone is decapitated.

 

Dream Warriors gets everything right as far as a horror sequel goes; A villain that

Watched the entire Bourne Trilogy today. First time I've done such a thing with a series of films, and wouldn't mind doing the same again. Each one was decent in it's own right. It's just a shame that whenever the camera focussed on Bourne after an action scene, all I could hear in my head was "Whose house? Run's house!" or "Matt Damon" Team America style.

Anybody know who that "Jamieson" guy was in the WWF in 1991?Did he do anything of note after his WWF run? Thanks.

Andy Kindler.

He played the character "Andy" a fellow sportswriter and friend of Raymond on the TV show "Everybody Loves Raymond"

Wondering what happened to someone who I think I haven't seen on TV in nearly 20 years, just to find out I've been watching the bugger in a recent show on an almost-regular basis.*Head explodes*

has ruined Short Circuit 2 for me in the best way possible. One of several episodes.

Hogan goes goofy.

 

A disturbing 'Taker tribute.

I forgot about it myself at first. Even seeing Anthony Hopkins didn't make me twig that it couldn't have been so old. It wasn't until Elphick appeared that I questioned it and remembered the actual year.

Just caught The Elephant Man bar the first 30 minutes. A damn good film with some unexpected appearances. Michael Elphick played a bastard so well, to the point that I was almost glad he's dead. I'm not though, so no telling off.One thing that really struck me was how well it had been filmed/edited to give the feel of a really old film (it was filmed in black and white in 1980). Had I not known who any of the actors were, I could've sworn the film was made a good 50 years ago, at least.

just watched This Is England for the first time - did they forget to write an ending for it? The most anti-climatic experience that wasn't a wank I've ever experienced..

It was a bit like wasn't it. I loved the film, and it's not even something i'd usually watch, but the ending left much to be desired, SPOILER - Highlight the black box to read
even to say whether or not milky would be ok or not, anything really.

you clearly wasn't paying much attention...Shaun's mam tells you how Milky is. i don't really see what you've missed from the ending? i loved it. What kinda ending was you expecting? Shaun to go after Combo with an uzi and getting some sweet ass revenge?

Yeah but like she doesn't say enough in my opinion, you don't see him either, you just know he's alive. Considering the massive shit kicking he took, you'd expect a bit more than "he's alive" or whatever similar non-descriptive thing she says.

It's not "Free Willy". You don't need a huge 'Whoohoo! He's alive!' scene.

Think maybe he was after something on the lines of either "He'll be back to normal in a few weeks" or "He's alive, but he got twatted to the extent that he has to re-learn how to tie his shoes".

Caught up on some unwatched DVDs over the weekend:

 

Eastern Promises: Good from start to finish. Even though I feel sorry for Viggo Mortensen whenever somebody compares this to A History Of Violence, it is far more likeable. And the fight more than makes up for Viggo being in his birthday attire. Spoiler, kind of:

 

 

 

 

Oldboy: Good glory, just watch it.

I'll put this bluntly: What's happened to Kurt Angle's face? I've not watched TNA for a few months, but it looks slimmer and his eyes look like they're about to pop out. I know he had his neck worked on (which would explain the slimness) but it looks like he's had some cosmetics done. Am I just seeing things?

How about Lidl?You could give it a middle name or two so the initials spell something decent.Sadly mine spell "CAR".

Iron Man: Ace.

 

Last Days: Arse.

The Orphanage:

 

I was quite intrigued by this as I'd heard/read from a few sources about how frightening it was, potentially being the best horror in years (not difficult, mind). The thing that clinched it for me was the missus telling me one of her mates stopped watching after ten minutes. While not the pant-shitting horror I expected, it's definitely creepy as heck and has it's stand-out moments. Worth watching, and had something I didn't expect:

 

SPOILER - Highlight the black box to read
I could've cried like a bitch at the end.

Rambo: First Blood Part II: Not amazing, not bad. It had was I was expecting from the first one in terms of deaths, one in particular I found hilarious:

 

 

The Mask: I watched this at the weekend for the first time in a decade. Some of it hasn't aged well, but it does retain bursts of goodness. Jim Carrey still looks a tad creepy to me in certain scenes, such as peeling himself from the road and coughing into the camera, though that might be due to having no ears.

 

Rambo: First Blood: My mates were shocked that I'd never seen this before, being in my twenties and all. Since the trilogy is going quite cheap I decided to see what I was missing. Seeing the emotional twist in it was a nice surprise, as I had it in my mind that it would be an all-out bloodfest. Will hopefully get round to watching Part II tomorrow.

 

Predator: Had only ever caught the end of this when I was a kid, despite owning the sequel. Hell of a film, even with the dated yet funny/excusable Preda-Vision.

Congratulations dear. Now celebrate by watching Alien.

Five years old but it's still a goodie, the

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A few decent mash-ups on this guy's MySpace page, particularly Crank Dat Brain Stew.

It's yet to come out, but for the love of shit, no...

I don't watch that many films so this year I'm watching 1 a day. So far so good, although I watched 1408 last night and the less said about that the better. Almost definitely one of the worst experiences of my movie watching life. Avoid it.

You're just upset that, regardless of what hotel you go in and despite your hopes being raised, you'll never be attended to by Samuel L Jackson. :(I watched The Thing yesterday, not bad at all. The effects were pretty damn good and the paranoia between the characters was brilliant. John Carpenter + Kurt Russell = Goodness.

Poor bugger.

if it was spurs fans on 1 arsenal fan, theyd kick him in, which just aint right

MVP/Matt Hardy.