Never saw, ever - that's right - (not to you but to whoever makes reputations aka his) - the reason for dicken's acclaim.

He's nothing. He's 19thC bourgeoisie wuth a conscience. Woohoo.

Hate to be so contemptuous but seems justifiable here.

Those who dive into 19thC should, in my view, forget the language and start hardcore into the relevance (and every damn film will be with subtitles, rather than actors speaking in "old" english accents) - and that relevance can leave "dickens" behind and launch straight into dostoevsky.

pukes over those middle class spewers. 

maybe what I meant was

at the end of the day I may be as banal, horrible, white-walled, carpeted, clean, middle-class-guilty, sad, white... etc... kid rock is the devil's slut, and I have many ways of brain disintegration lined up 

I'll defend him, although I'll also defend dostoevsky.

btw, just saw the new Bourned film. FFS, if you're going to spend so much money on action scenes, why edit them into oblivion? 

FUN FILM FACT OF THE DAY - 7th January 2009
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I am the only person in history to have watched all 6 American Pie movies. Even Eugene Levy refused to watch either American Pie 6 - Beta House or what many consider the nadir of the series, American Pie 5 - The Naked Mile.

Full reviews of all films to follow, with detailed deconstruction of the many themes explored and the powerful yet nuanced symbolism used. 

there's six of them :) 

Haha, that's my response too. There are 6 American Pie movies?! 

just checked imdb to see if there's a 7th and couldnt find anything, but eugene levy is starring in Night at the Museum 2 : Battle of the Smithsonian :) 

I salute your decision to plunge in those shallow depths.

BTW, I have a request, I caught about fifteen minutes of American Pie: Band Camp on TBS a while back, and I recall the female lead was a major little hot tamale. If you could report back on the
existence/absence of any nude scenes with her (and preferably with the minute/seconds) I would be much obliged. She may not be Helen, but even B movie, 3rd string celebrity skin provides a cheap thrill. 

sorry, no dice. Band Camp is definitely the American Pie with the least boobs in it. She's a hottie though, you're right there. 

That nearly breaks my heart. I really hate it when a pretty girl gets discovered before she has done the proper amount of work in the trenches of soft porn b-movies. One of my great disappointments was with the actress who played Candy on Two and a Half Men, Alan's second wife. One of the most vivacious red heads I have ever seen. I looked up her profile on IMDB only to find out Two&1/2 Men was her first gig straight out of college. [Capt Kirk shakes fist, screams to the sky] Charlie Sheen!!!!!! 

....nitin had seen this, and hoping he had:

Slumdog Millionaire (2008) - Danny Boyle's latest is a contrived but excellently executed piece of work, aided tremendously by its very impressive visual style and soundtrack. Boyle also manages to capture India from the inside, which is not an easy thing to do, and also incorporates aspects of bollywood without having them clash with the film's more western elements. The script could have used a bit more polish, particularly some of the dialogue, but on the whole this is extremely high quality entertainment.

7.5-8/10

I tend to concur, particularly with the positives of that review. Just got semi-dragged out to see it and was rather well entertained. I did find the ending rather soppy (not just the very final bit) and I also thought that some of the cinematography could have been improved. Although the latter is partly because there was some noticably good cinematography, a high point in several places but not all.

Definitely agree with the excellent soundtrack, and managing to add a contemporary feel to an Indian film without it clashing horribly (a bit like fusion cooking - easy to make a pointless mess, but great when it actually works). I also liked the subtle portrayal of modernisation, and the increasingly converging storyline (although perhaps that's what you find contrived).

Good stuff. 

7.5-8 / 10

I make that approx 7.75 / 10


Nitin you need to start marking out of 40 then ;) 

8's a truly great film for me and this was almost there but not quite. But it was better than 'excellent' which is usually my 7.5 :)

The ending was very bollywood, although it didnt grate me as much as your regular bollywood film so that was a plus IMHO.

ps : saw heaps over holidays, reviews in bits and pieces soon. 

one of the best humor film i saw i last years 

Australia

Oh my God it's long. It has some good bits and some bad bits and so on but it's really so very long. How do people do this to themselves? This could have been a really pretty impressive 1.5 hour film, but instead Baz got hung up on the idea of an epic and we got this instead. Worth the watch though. 

So I raided my mates dvd collection a few days ago and took everything I hadn't seen without discrimination :)

This film is bleak, eerily realistic and quite touching in places. If you haven't heard of the name its about a near future (20 years) world in which every woman on the planet has become infertile and mankind is in its last days, and has in general gone completely down the shitter. its set in England and definitely feels like a British movie, as people are actually English and not the "American English" we all laugh at in Hollywood films these days.

Don't want to give away much about the story so I'll stop there, but its definitely a worth while watch.

Special mention goes to some very clever camera work and a few scenes where I wondered how they did that without cutting to a different shot. Also, this film is very unforgiving, brutal, and dirty in its delivery and setting. It almost felt like a post-apoc film set *just before the bombs went off* :)

This has not been the most coherent review I agree, but I am tired and really can't be arsed to spell long words right now or generally think of things to say, apart from this totally useless ending message, which is getting rather long now so I suppose I will stop. 

I thought it was a good film, I liked the part where they all stop shooting because they hear the baby. :) 

I agree that that was a very touching scene. It was very well done and could easily have been over the top, but wasn't. All in all a solid film with good performances, esp. from Clive Owen. The beginning reminded me of half life 2 for some reason ;-) 

Oh yeah, I get a huge Half-Life 2 vibe from Children of Men. Very cool movie. 

Babel

A bit like Australia, good in many ways, but just a bit over the top and up itself. I think Inarritu should have a few cream pies thrown at him and be given a spliff or something. 

was not good in any way in my opinion. I sat in the theatre staring at the screen in disbelief about how bad that movies was. There was nothing good about it, the story was dull and boring, the acting was bad, the child character was annoying as hell, even the nature shots looked like they were digitally created or altered... and it was way too long. I thought that the movie should have ended after the second act and kept wondering why it continued. Oh, and don't get me started on the dialogue! Oh god...

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind romantic movies if they are well done, but this one was a complete disaster. I wish I could erase the memories. And I wasn't the only one who thought so, the people in the theatre started laughing at the corny dialogue after a while, too! 

yes its pretentious but Innaritu is one of my current favorites.

Children of Men is classy too, got 3 films from good mexican directors around the same time (Pans Labyrinth being the other one). 

Note for Brits; Simon Pegg's newest will make you weep tears of blood (I'm fairly sure it's bad if you not from the UK too, just it's not quite as painful a sell out...) 

Oh yeah, I get a huge Half-Life 2 vibe from Children of Men. Very cool movie.

Totally, I guess I really am tired :P 

I found the last two below par. But I don't even remember what How to Lose Friends & Alienate People was about (not even after looking at imdb, I don't remember any scene from it) so that makes it even worse that the fat boy movie.

I watched Black Books ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262150/ ) recently. Pretty nice series with "acting" actors instead of "cinema realism". Ups and downs, but I liked it. And every encounter with those other people like Pegg or Jessica Hynes was great fun.