"28 weeks later seemed sort of pointless to me in a way, lacking a central theme."

I disagree. The overall idea, re-habitation of the contaminated zone, was very cool. They just sort of dropped the ball on executing it. Still a cool movie, though.

"Shaun of the dead is just a romp :)"

For me, that movie is a series of obvious jokes and stupid gags. I just don't like that in a zombie movie. Zombieland was way better for humor, IMO, and had more interesting characters. 

I love Shaun and am looking forward to watch Zombieland. 28 days later was scary, completely different and went downhill once they arrived at that house. 

Yeah, Shaun must require being a UK citizen or something. Most of the humor didn't click at all for me. 

Case in point, Benny Hill. I rest my case. 

Benny Hill? What is it with American's assuming that is typical of UK humour? Seriously? It's cheese light entertainment from 40 years ago. Try The Goon Show, try Monty Python, otherwise I'm gonna assume the standard american 'humor' is fart jokes, nut shots and pro wrestling. 

serious? There is no humour there :)

Btw, I must qualify my Shaun of the Dead statement, I was only trying to say that I much preferred that for zombie humour over Zombieland. On the whole, I still only find Shaun of the Dead to be above average, it does like Willem says have plenty of stupid gags that think they're way cleverer than they are. Hot Fuzz was a much smoother and funnier film from the duo. 

In the UK, Benny Hill doesn't get mentioned or shown at all. I've heard it referenced and seen it parodied far more by American comedians, etc.

It's probably some weird case where it was the only british comedy US networks could get at some point, or the humour actually worked much better over there. Either way if you find that shit funny, shame on you. 

anything's funny if you play Yakety Sax over it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj4JqZcx34Q 

This is true. The most recent PES has a career mode where you play as one player and therefore have to watch games from the bench for much of the match early in your career (albeit at 2x speed). My former housemates and I found the tedius experience vastly improved by playing the Benny Hill theme over the top of it... 

Fistful of Dynamite

Super disappointed. I expected another western but got a weird mexican (?) war movie with very boring slow pacing, unconvincing character development, awful music (not as bad as in My Name is Nobody though), EXPLOSIONS! and a mexican who talks about his huge cojones.

And now let's have another slow motion scene with that stupid juan-john-chanson. Let's make it 5 minutes of fluff that does not succeed in making the bland characters any stronger.

Might be less bad if you feel attached to that war or know anything about it. The enemies are generic/bland and there is no feeling of war or danger or oppression at all.

nitin's review: http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=3545&start=2156&end=2156 

thought it was quite fun and found the characterisation quite well developed. but definitely not your usual Leone western. 

 

pilot episode is very cool. 

It gets pretty annoying pretty quickly if I remember right. 

the next 2 eps have been underwhelming, seems more like CSI crossed with X-Files but unfortunately more CSI.

Still, will keep watching a bit more because that killer pilot ep cant be totally wasted. 

I haven't made it through the first half of the first season, but I hear it gets a lot better later on. 

Watched up to about half way through season 2. Good overall plot stuff, but way too much filler and it gets kinda cliched 

if you like crime dramas, check out this new aussie flick. Excellent stuff.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1313092/ 

nowhere near as bad as I thought it would be and despite moments of Ritchie over-direction, its quite enjoyable thanks to the performances.

And a couple of nice action scenes even though they're in the wrong movie. 

Treme is god damn amazing. Up there with The Wire/Deadwood/Oz/etc.

Seriously, truly amazing. 

 

It's a series set in New Orleans 3-6 months after Katrina. Follows the lives of various people (mostly musicians) in the treme district of the city as they rebuild their lives after the destruction.

By the same guys who made The Wire, with several of the same actors and the same feel/style as that series (ie, very much a character piece).

And it's absolutely fantastic, series 1 just finished, cannot wait for series 2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treme_%28TV_series%29 

will check it out when it hits dvd. 

Clips from the thankfully cancelled US remake of Spaced:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDsdBB1LUto 

Thankfully cancelled indeed.