Can't remember what I wrote exactly, but I think i agree with you guys about the character, but I disagree that the movie glorified him. I don't think it glorified him much. Seems to me that the movie painted him as being a troubled, misguided character whose self-righteousness was unjustified. Though it obviously sympathized with him as well, and celebrated his adventures for as long as they lasted. 

The book is interesting, especially if you have an interest in the outdoors. I should watch the movie... 

Hitchcock; innocuous family vacation turns into international political intrigue; rest of movie involves parents running around London trying to find their kidnapped child.

Not his best work imo, but it did bring the suspense in a couple key areas, and the very end was classy, but I just felt most of the movie was fairly drab and boring, and the political intrigue wasn't all that hot either.

I mean I'm not complaining, but compared to Hitch's best and most memorable works, this one comes off as fairly average. But that doesn't mean bad! I just want to make that clear. Just not :O kind of good. 

enjoyable but not his best.

I also like the earlier 1934 version which is a bit nuttier but also a bit more creakier in execution. 

very good film but you can tell the source must be something special.

Would have benefited from an extra 1/2 hour IMHO and a different actress than Keira Knightley playing Ruth (who at least in the movie is not a particularly likeable character).

Still, Carey Mulligan knocks it out of the park (as does Andrew Garfield in the second half) and it has enough superb moments to work nevertheless. 

9 - Superb animation and concept art, plotting and characterisation are much weaker though.

Play it on a home theater system though and its pretty enjoyable and quite a spectacle, and its short length papers over most of the cracks.

6.5-7/10 

book is awesome 

perfectly decent but... enh 

The Sniper (1952)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045161/
Dark, calm and very nice film about a women murderer. Great acting, good story. I thoroughly enjoyed it apart from gur ratvar juvpu jnf gbb noehcg sbe zr. Highly recommended if you think this might be something you could enjoy. 

Yep, really good. A little better than when I was a kid because I got a lot more out of it than my first time through.

Spoiler
Although I'm not sure why Thorwald just kept his eyes open while Jimmy Stewart kept blasting him with bulbs. Or why he would stop to rub his eyes. Seems a little like a video game boss in that respect I suppose, but I admit it added the tension Hitchcock was going for. 

spirit,

I've been meaning to get that for ages along with Nightfall and The Lineup. Thanks for the reminder :)

Btw, a noir I saw recently that was enjoyable was Crime Wave, worth checking out.


Zwiffle,

Rear Window is awesome. Have you seen Notorious? Probably the second best Grant-Hitch collaboration behind North by Northwest. 

...What?

My brain, it fell out 

A film which illustrates why not to mix LSD and mescaline. 

although parts of it are hilarious. 

Another movie where, though I really like it, the book was simply better - and where the celebrity actors really distracted/detracted from everything else... not always of course - I really enjoy Benicio and johnny depp is far from terrible.

tbh the movie just reminds me of eating mushrooms and watching it in my friends basement, and being bummed out and bored because I just wanted to be outside. 

would like to hear your thoughts on why you found Black Death poor and unfulfilling.

Just finished it and although it had a few issues, overall I thought it was quite good. 

finished it, loved it, great stuff.

Minor nitpicks, I hope they go somewhere with the Helo/Sharon storyline because every time they cut to that, it went down in quality.

Favorite characters so far, Baltar and Starbuck. 

It gets better and better. Just suck up the filler in S2 (there's less of that in S3/4).

And yeh, Baltar is an amazing character. 

Can't remember clearly but it was definitely bad. Having watched The Orphanage the night before and liking gritty fantasy/medieval stuff it was disappointing. I vaguely remember it being wildly inconsistent, having a lot of loose threads, losing the sense of purpose fairly readily, not living up to the early potential, and possibly some naffness as well. 

have the whole set so yeah definitely going to make my way through it all. Eventually :) 

Hey, somehow I've been living in a hole, because Takashi Miike has a new samurai epic coming out this week (in the US) called 13 Assassins, which I hadn't even heard of before today, plus Hobo With A Shotgun is coming out next week, which I had been following but then forgotten about. 

Movie tie in game!
http://hoboshotgungame.com/ 

Loved it, it's like it was written by a really awesome 12 year old. 

I raved about the dialogue in The Social Network.

This morning I saw Sweet Smell of Success and the dialog in one of the last great film noirs makes Aaron Sorkin's brilliant script seem like an amateur effort.

Easily one of the all time great dialog scripts and combined with some of James Hong Wowe's best camerawork and two amazing performances from Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis, this is cinematic magic.

9/10

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051036/ 

King's speech worth watching if you are not into historic drama?