I felt the same, I actually think you need to know about Fellini's life to really appreciate the film which shouldnt be a criterion (it's mainly autobiographical).

I did think it was brilliantly shot though. 

did you love any of fellini's other films, nitin? 

but quite liked I Vitelloni, The Nights of Cabiria, La Strada and Il Bidone.

La Dolce Vita I found to be in the same category as 8 1/2.

Going by my understanding of your tastes, I would recommend I Vitelloni and Il Bidone. 

Hehe I don't even understand my own tastes. I'll probably watch all those above eventually though 

Fellini is an acquired taste I guess. I thought 8 1/2 was brilliant. 

do you own many movies? If so, do you have a list up anywhere? Would love to check it out. Our tastes seem to be generally similar. 

Not really I'm afraid. A friend of mine who is really into films used to run a cinema society at my uni. That's where I first saw Battle of Algiers, Stalker, Three Colours trilogy and stuff like that.

For fun we also used to have a semi-regular noir night too, since it was a reliable way to have a great film but a bit more casual and relaxing :p

I can always ask him to suggest a list for you. He's seen waaaaay more than I have. 

For those who don't live in the USA or know about that whole Mexican border bullshit, basically this whole movie is based around the issue of illegal immigration, which is a pretty hot topic in America today. Why? Because Americans are stupid or something.

Anyway, the movie itself isn't RR's best work. It's not as fun as Planet Terror, and I don't think it carries that well in the long run like Planet Terror does. Even though it IS fun, and there are lots of tits and action scenes and gore and wacky bits, it just seems to drag near the end imo. Still, worth a look, but obviously I would prefer Planet Terror over Machete.

Also, no Alba/Michelle/Lohan makeout scene. Disappointing, but not unexpected. 

i just watched Machete too... agree with zwiffle's review; it's entertaining at certain moments but overall kind of weak. 

that Taken was a pretty good portrayal of CIA-type stuff: be really self-righteous, totally amoral, totally selfish, totally self-contradictory, totally ruthless, and the average American thinks you are a "morally admirable" "badass" 

Yesterday: Dinner with Schmucks
Laughed so hard, highly recommended if you like Steve Carell. Rest of cast were fillers. So many great scenes. 9/10!

Today: Sex Drive
I really can't stand Clark Duke. Weird and rather bad movie. Could have been great if they either went full comedy or fully serious. Too many stupid things. Guess I am far from the target audience. 

there's a director's cut of sex drive... although i'm not sure if it's actually called that. it's probably the most ridiculous comedy i've ever seen, and it knows it too, which makes it rather fun. although i spent most of the movie salivating over amanda crew so can't really comment too much on the finer points 

no dont worry about that, just thought I would browse through if you had a list handy. Mine's here if you're interested:

http://nitin.dvdaf.com 

Nice collection :) I should start watching stuff regularly again :E 

well this is quite possibly scarier than The Wire but its just as compelling and worthwhile. I am not sure I could have handled more than 7 episodes, 7 alone got me quite angry. 

Bleh. Fappable, though. 

We have most of the internet for that... 

Great, really enjoyable, good balance of being nice and watchable and intriguing too. Some speechs made me smile too. Ending was weak and soppy though and the concept doesn't bear to deeper scrutiny.

Elise was very good and I utterly adored her in the early scenes. 

I am looking for forward to seeing that. Also Rango is high on my list. 

finally started this, only through episode one of the mini series and I can already tell this will be great stuff! 

You are in for a treat =)

Favourite tv show of all time! 

but after that it turned into gimmick of the week, seems like. I never finished season 2 maybe sometime I'll go back to it.

caprica seemed to show some promise with the terrorism/mafia/fbi/scifi/forthcoming doom angle, but it was cancelled. too different from BSG I guess. plus some of the female characters were a bit annoying. 

But it got a lot better towards the end of season two and the first half of season three is awesome awesome stuff. Then it remained awesome until season four, which is meandering a lot.

But all in all I have to agree with DaZ, it's my fave show of all time. It kept me on the edge of my seat like no other show, and it has had moments that literally made me jumpt out of my seat and go "YEAH" as well as moments that made me sad. It makes you care about the characters a lot. 

Is great, but only because there are so few good Scifi shows really... Still, definitely worth watching.

Tronym, Caprica? Seriously? It was horrible from the first few seconds of the opening, I don't know why I even watched the whole first season... Wasn't surprised in the least that it was canceled.

The BSG guys tried starting some other show called Virtuality at one point after BSG finished (the pilot is findable online). Was a bit early to say, but I quite liked it, seemed interesting, I'm sad it never went any further than that. :( 

was really boring, unfortunately. The basic concept was interesting, but not very well executed. There is going to be a prequel show called "Blood and Chrome" however that is more like BSG and tells the story of the first Cylon war from the perspective of young Adama. Could be cool.