http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eREiQhBDIk is a good incentive. 

It's quite touching. Also, cynical and very accurate.

Sorry for not making a more meaningful post but I just wanted to emphasize Spirit's recommendation. :( 

for the first time, funny that. meant to mention it. very enjoyable, pretty much for the reasons stated 

It is a top class film.

Unlike Skyline, which is bollox. Mildly entertaining in places but surprisingly low-budget-looking for a blockbuster. The shot of them waiting in the flat and the coherence of the main dude's fate being the decent bits. 

I forgot to mention that I started watching Give 'em hell, Malone yesterday and only endured that awful smut for 15 minutes. 

definitely has a plot and almost all the shit that seems random ties into it. The explanations are just scattered around in time.
I didn't get it until someone explained it to me immediately after the theater. Everything clicked into place perfectly!

That later overlong disjointed movie, inland empire, went over my head even worse than mulholland drive. I haven't heard anyone cracking it yet, and the way it was made, I wonder if he was just winging it... 

I like it, and feel like there is a stronger sense of cohesion than it's typically given credit for. Generally though I think it is a sort of thematic cohesion though, instead of being cohesive re narrative. I think, in fact, that if you look at a number of Lynch movies there is a thematic idea of disjuncitons of personalities, and the shattering of social illusions. Blue Velvet for example tinkered with both - the decay and ugliness that can exist right under the surface of the american dream - it's a typical trope, but done better than usual.
It's been a while since I saw mulholland but I believe it's similar.
Still though, touches of randomness and tangential stuff to effect mood. I love the part with the dumpster monster, that really stuck with me.

blablabla 

Doesn't make it a good film tho. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snhiofL2Rh4 

Despicable Me (2010)

Great feel good animation movie about a super villian and some girls. Steve Carell does the main character. Skip Up and watch this. 

Really not a fan of Steve Carell getting all these comedy roles, he just isn't good enough.

Compare Jim Carey's character to Steve Carell's character in Horton Hears a Who.... there's no contest, Jim steals the show and Steve is just annoying.

Get Smart, Date Night, 40 year Old Virgin - all would have been better with someone a little funnier and less annoying. 

 

But he flails his arms around and makes silly faces! Clearly comic genius. 

but Jim Carrey at least has Eternal Sunshine to his name. 

+ steve carrell was hilarious in anchorman. LOUD NOISES!

speaking of funny actors though... leslie nielsen. RIP :/ 

rj Surely you must be joking! 

and don't call me shirley! 

:( Leslie Nielson 

and almost on topic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioKyxGkBRro&feature=player_embedded

has this been around forever and I just found out? Anyways, I love this. 

not sure what to make of it. weird, but not headfuck weird.. just a little bizarre. still watchable though and quite intriguing, i think the soundtrack made it.

also watched identity and the number 23. identity had a cool concept but i'd have preferred it if they didn't dump it on the viewer 2/3 of the way through as a 'twist' - made it feel cheap and ill-explored as a result. the ending was just a bit silly too.

23 wasn't much better either... again interesting, but all the 23 stuff seemed kinda irrelevant once the true story was revealed, at which point it just got a bit boring & tenuous, with a few annoying red herrings.

also, can't wait for this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS4Mrct-_mk 8) 

wached synecdoche new york. or rather, attempted to watch it... i got 45 mins through it and couldn't be arsed finishing it. it's all focused on one guy whose life is going downhill and at no point did i give a shit about him whatsoever. just boring with nothing going for it 

Super tense movie, really depressing though. Seems like every new bomb situation the stakes get higher or the situation more convoluted - a simple bomb defuse into a car with a hidden detonator into a bomb sewn inside a dead child into a remote detonated oil tanker, etc.

The main character has a death wish more or less and seems completely involved in the war in Iraq, while his team mates can't wait to get home and are afraid to die. He 'forgets' his gloves down near a remote detonation site of explosives and drives down to get them before his team detonates, and in hind sight makes it look like he wants his team mates to blow him up. etc, etc

Probably meant to show how the soldiers are getting fucked up by the war all in different ways. Was a good ride, but yeah it left me depressed in the end. 

Inception

might be spoilers below.

very cool, dramatic music playing all the time (worked well to create tension), felt quite rough and unpolished, hard to follow sometimes and blatantly obvious at others. i am currently watching 3rd rock from the sun so arthur was super distracting hey little tommy. ending went too fast. way too many idiotic action sequences that added absolutely nothing to the story (or even ridiculed it). character development/introduction was almost non-existant for some key characters and thus it felt rushed and unrealistic (how could the girl agree to join in without knowing shit about it all).
cheesy pretentious bits like the shore of your subconcious, dear god...
how on earth do you give a movie with such a disturbing view on our reality a rating for "12 year olds"?

overall I like Matrix better. 

Yeah I just watched The Number 23 as well rj. Was pretty decent for a thriller, though I did pick who wrote the book before it was revealed, but yeah the weird number 23 thing suddenly took a backseat by the end and left a fairly big loose end, as it was never explained where this number 23 going after people came from or why it existed. It just did.

Still, the cinematography was really good, Joel Schumacher did a great job there, which I wasn't really expecting after rubbish like the last 2 Batman movies before the Nolan reboot, and Phone Booth.

And the best thing was finally seeing Jim Carrey in a good NON-COMEDY role. He needs to do more of these.

Saw Machete last night... pretty average. The trailer they showed at the start of Grindhouse was better.

Saw Fright Night 2 yesterday as well, some good old 80s vampire horror. Slightly above average , on par with the original. 

Joseph Gordon Levitt is actually a really good actor, someof his indie stuff is really good. Check out The Lookout for a fun ride.