Moon? 

The young victoria is meant to be good too, and sort of fits with the King's Speech :) 

Never Let Me Go (british cast, americsn director though)

Atonement

The Damned United

The Queen

Control

Gosford Park

The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Sherlock Holmes 

thanks guys, have relayed some of the suggestions!

i thought of damned utd :) moon too but wasn't sure if that was british enough (as in.. you wouldn't realise from watching it)

with atonement i'm not sure how well "in my dreams i kiss your cunt, your sweet wet cunt" would have gone down.. hehe 

I found the The Other Boleyn Girl to be much more entertaining than The Kings Speech. Kings Speech was quite overated imo, though i'm in the minority on that thought. 

I thought it was quite good as period version of Rocky, but I saw many better films last year.

Young Victoria is good too. 

In Good Company (2004)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385267/
Kinda depressing but decent, kinda predictable but entertaining. Worst soundtrack ever, most of the time the music sounded like someone's smartphone ringtone or the latest Ubuntu launch sound. Was ok, 6/10. 

kind of predictable but decently acted and entertaining (as you said). 

I liked it. Not sure what the fuss was about the last episode, gave more answers than I thought it would and was in the same vein as all that had come before. 

Well I think it's more that the island and everything about it, the good vs evil was all left unexplained. Instead we get the surprise purgatory twist, which to be honest was the #1 theory right from season fucking 1, so it wasn't exactly an original twist. Except that it was the survivors that left the island that were in purgatory, not the island itself.

Anyway if I found out the last year of my life I was actually in purgatory and my entire world didn't really exist, then I'd sure as hell stick around in it and do whatever I want. At the very least, say goodbye to everyone, not just turn up at some wanky building ready to fuck off to hell or heaven.

It was still a really good tv series overall, but wouldn't be in my top 5. 

Speaking of which, what is everyone's top 5 tv series of all time? For me it's:

X-Files
Full Metal Alchemist
Seinfeld
Heroes
not sure on #5

Anyone else love Full Metal Alchemist? Only series i've ever seen which doesn't wank me around with pointless subplots every second episode (Lost), and instead sticks to the main plot. 

The island is purgatory theory, which has been around since season 1, isnt the same as the end IMHO.

The end is after the island (and also more like limbo than purgatory).

As for the island itself, there is plenty there to allow you to interpret what you think it is, and I am fine with that without needing a definitive answer. FWIW, I think the island was a physical embodiment of hell (that you could get physically get to without having to die).

Having said all that, I do think the initial plan was that the island was purgatory but I think that was changed once too many people clued on too early. 

I have to break it down into comedy and drama.

Drama

The Wire
Deadwood
Carnivale
Mad Men
BSG/The Sopranos
Breaking Bad/Twin Peaks
X-Files

Comedy

Arrested Development
The Office UK
Seinfeld
The Simpsons (the first 9 or so seasons)
Slings and Arrows 

Not in any particular order:

Dr. who
House
Bones
Monk
Athf
king of the hill
Something else on adult swim I forgot. 

But I somehow forgot always sunny in philadelphia. 

What nitin said. The purgatory doesn't start before the atom bomb goes off - that's the point where we start to have two realities, one of which is the off-the-island purgatory where everyone has to remember their greatest love.

Also, nitin: Interesting that you have Carnivale up there. I would put that in my top five also. It's a great show which was cancelled too soon. 

I would have loved to see the 5 planend seasons of Carnivale come to life.

Also re: Lost, I must admit my impression was that the flash sideways wasnt an alternative reality related to the bomb going off but something that followed once Hugo became the caretaker of the island and changed the rules (from Jacob's rules). 

Well yeah i'm aware that the ISLAND isn't purgatory, or limbo, whatever you want to call it. It's when certain characters return to the real world and get off the island. Well, most anyway... some of them we never got to see how they really died so maybe they did get back to America, ie Hugo. But it's still the same concept of "they're in purgatory". Which isn't really that original for a twist.

Unfortunately they had this storyline set right from the first episode. It's good but if I was a writer I wouldn't have bothered with that, and instead explained the damn island. The subplots for each character once they were back in America were boring anyway. Each episode that did that (and the first season suffered the same thing) was another "fuck sake just go back to the island plot I don't give a shit about Jin and his daddy woes! and that every second character is a murderer in their past". Still a great series though, if you string the 'island-episodes' together. 

I preferred the charcater stuff rather than the plot stuff, so aybe thats where the different reaction is coming from. 

 

 

Pirates of the Caribbean: Strangers Tide whatever.

120+ minutes of rubbish. Save yourself the time and do something worthwhile instead. 

Stop watching crap movies and complaining about it here. Seriously, either you're a masochist or you're really bad at judging which movies you might like. 

not have a good morning poop? 

i appreciate the bad reviews. it's nicer when they are a little more descriptive than simply "rubbish" though