Just wanted to say thanks to whoever it was that recommended Treme season 1, that was fantastic =) 

Underground (1995)
By Emir Kusturica. I love Black Cat, White Cat and I love the soundtrack to Underworld. So what could go wrong?

Well, Underground turned out to be a highly disturbing, depressing and weird movie. Perfect to read a book to and interpret why that horse ran through the scene at that point when that happened. Fuck.

Ultra-unrecommended unless you are an artsy-fartsy person who likes movies like 2001 and anything by Wes Anderson.

But if you like Balkan music, the soundtrack is ace (Goran Bregovic!). I especially like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm1WvshPE8I 

i love 2001 and i'm not at all artsy fartsy. :P
well, i did need to watch a youtube video to understand the ending sequence. 

will check it out :) 

is going to be awesome, I'm pretty sure. fuck the backlash against nolan he rules. 

easily the best commercial director going around at the moment. I cant wait. 

I guess the dark knight wasn't as good as batman begins? I saw half of batman begins again the other week, it really is a very very good movie, although it probably has a bit too much going on. 

TDK was better than BB even though thats a top film in itself. 

That is a subject of hot debate. I would personally err on the side of BB myself. But what's not in question is that are both excellent films and current pinnacles of the action / superhero genre. It's "awesome" vs. "awesome + a bit". 

Stylistically, BB was better (I like the mirrors and hot tub ;), plot/'film' wise I prefer TDK (they make good storage media) 

batman begins had a better car chase sequence with cooler music. the joker/tunnel chase was good too, but batman looks like a bigger badass in begins. 

^ do i sense irony there? :P

i preferred batman begins too, but that may have been down to the insane amount of hype behind TDK in comparison 

... I prefer Superman :P 

superman is a dick 

lawl. But yeh, Superman is a pansy, seriously. 

Altho tbh, Spider Jerusalem would kick both their arses 

it was good. not GREAT, but good. i enjoyed it and would love to watch it again but can't say i was totally blown away by it

the concept was intruiging and explored really well. it keeps you thinking without ever being too confusing or high-brow. some neat ideas and fascinating visuals.. and plenty to talk about when we left the cinema too

on the other hand, some of the action scenes felt a little too strung out, and the main character's sub-plot seemed to interfere a bit too much and wasn't all that satisfying. ellen page's character seemed to only exist to help explain to the audience what was happening (although i have to admit i was grateful for this in places)

definitely worth a watch, particularly if you like nolan's other stuff, but don't expect it to be teh bestest filum evar, although i would probably rank it as my favourite so far this year 

I generally agree - it is by far the most ambitious film I've ever seen in theatres, and it doesn't succeed 100%, but it is really awesome, the degree to which the concept is explored is impressive, and a lot of the action scenes were good. DiCaprio was good as the main character, I liked the stuff about his character though (SPOILER HINT ALERT) after seeing Shutter Island only a few months ago, it seemed almost too similar. Anyway, I enjoyed it a lot and I'm going to have to see it again. When Peter Jackson made Return of the King, the studios let him do whatever he want; he made "King Kong." Nolan's financial license from TDK seems to have been used for better purposes with this film. 

he must really like em.

I loved the movie, but it is bound to be over-rated, and I've heard a couple people say it's 'the new matrix'.

I kind of agree in that I enjoyed the parts before everything started exploding more.

ps - king kong is kind of awesome. 

Maybe you guys can help, as you've been very helpful in the past! =)

What I've seen recently

BSG
SG-U
The Wire
Treme
The pacific

Now I'm twiddling my thumbs trying to find something worth watching again, any suggestions? 

Don't have a TV but at bird's house recently have been watching Misfits and find it quite entertaining and a bit different, good dialogue too. 

Deadwood and/or Carnivale is done I take it?

Otherwise, I love Mad Men (although it may not be your type of thing) and Breaking Bad is also excellent. 

Oz?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz_(TV_series)


(and yeh, I'd second the Deadwood/Carnivale too) 

The only things I'm watching currently are True Blood and Justified, both of which are very good. 

Breaking Bad, True Blood, Justified, but also a new show called Persons Unknown