Sometimes I worry that Finding Nemo and similar films give a very inaccurate image of nature (i.e. that animals would just get along in -- a possibly divinely designed -- harmony without man), and other times I worry about being a killjoy... 

I watched the Animals of Farthing Wood as a kid.

Was hilariously bleak looking back at it. Still had a kiddy story about animals working together but it has a hilariously high body count as creatures get picked off left and right.

Probably messed me up a bit at the time tbh :p 

Kids need to watch things like Animal Farm for an accurate representation of nature imo. 

Kids need not to sit infront of a screen but experience nature in reality imo. 

 

Dan in real life
Not a Steve Carell comedy as I expected it to be. Instead a very emotional sad happy love movie. It was quite nice! Music scenes were kinda annoying. Now where's that hanky. 

It's her pulling out threats of legal action and that sort of bullshit just because she isn't getting her way that made her a bit unlikable. And the whole negotiation with the horse trader was frustrating, I'd just tell her to get the fuck out of my store.

It was great acting though, the chick playing Mattie put in a great performance. I love the line at the end when she yells 'stand up tom chaney!' before she shoots him, you can hear the excitement in her voice. 

realisitic, probably not, but highly entertaining. 

that the original was much, much better? 

I wonder about that. Mostly because I can't stand coen pretentiounism but a friend wants to see it. I thought it had not much to do with the old movie, just nicked its name? 

The original version had more story at the beginning of it but tended toward the Disney side of things. The latest version had more story at the end of it and tended toward the darker side of things. I am not sure if the hanged man sequence was in the book but it felt very Coen ;) 

Bt then again, the jvalue judgements are highly subjective. 

no it most definitely was not. 

Excellent Korean war movie about some student soldiers fighting for South Korea in the Korean War. 9 out of 10 from me, very powerful, good resolve. Anyone here a fan of war movies? Watch this :) 

heard good things about that one although it got compared to Taekugki which I wasnt a huge fan of. 

I saw both versions directly after another, and in this scenario, the first one shat all over the new one. It might have to do with the audience knowing all about the story at that point and how easy it is to just concentrate on the differences between the movies...

but seriously, the old one was charming, laid back, with lots of western clichee style, but still not boring; the new one was just a freak show compared to that, everything felt so overdone and contrieved... it was kinda awful. Not a single moment did the characters feel realistic to me. The "kid" has (almost) no childish moments at all (the old movie is very strong in portraying her as a kid with certain strengths/strong will, in the new one she feels just like a bitchy old woman in a child's body), and the marshal cannot be taken seriously for a single moment, while in the old one it was quite interesting to see him balancing at the border between skilled and lousy, eventually failing.

Interesting enough, almost everyone i spoke to after that screening felt the same way. But yeah, I have to rewatch (because i have a lot of respect for the coen brothers).

Maybe your view is flawed because the old movie isn't commonly seen in cinemas? 

My view can't be flawed, as whether or not i liked the old movie or the new movie more is a subjective value judgement. 

I think we can agree to be cinematically relevist here.

I haven't seen the new one - but I know a surprising amount of people who feel the remake was 'wrongheaded,' 'unnecessary,' etc. I think some negative feedback is coming from that typical thing with remakes - don't try to recapture the magic etc (which is not something I agree with at all but meh).
to sum up: everyone is right, and nobody is wrongm, ever. hahahaha 

for Wayne's oscar and I'm usually in the anti-remake camp, but I dont think the old one is even a good film (saw it first about 2-3 years ago), let along a better one in comparison. 

Not sure if I liked this one. It's good ol Nolan though, so it's got the atmosphere and quality you'd expect, but the secrets that get revealed, at least to me, seem hokey and downright Soap Operaish in nature. I will admit the little tells led me to think what I was supposed to, but the revelations of both magicians' tricks was pretty lame, it just kind of left me in disbelief.

I was expecting a more down-to-earth sort of show down, but instead got wacky cartoonish plot twists. I dunno. Other than that I was pretty into it. 

Dr. Strangelove was great. 

 

i liked the prestige twists - particularly jackman's character's - although i can see how some people wouldn't. i think it depends on how well you can suspend disbelief when it comes to the supernatural; there is part of me that wants to believe that stuff is actually possible and that tesla did actually achieve similarly crazy results before he went insane and died. his disappearance in the film - together with a lack of scientific explanation as to how the machine worked - imo did a good job in leaving things relatively shrouded in mystery, which i found much more satisfying than - for example - guy ritchie's sherlock holmes, where similar illusions of magic are all debunked and brought down to earth with a clatter.

actually watched it for the second time only a week or two ago, knowing the ending, and enjoyed it even more than i did the first time. has that typically excellent nolan feel but with a much more subtle, mysterious feel which made me prefer it to inception/batman movies 

Probably my favourite movie ever :) 

Yep, easily the best comedy of all time.