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 

the illusionist (2006)
pleasantly surprised by this given the negative reviews further up. not as good as the prestige but a cute little story in its own right; nicely directed & shot with a mysterious air and token surprise ending

pitch black (2000)
if you're randomly crash-landing a team of badly-acted misfits on a planet full of flesh-eating aliens that only come out at night, then surely it makes sense to NOT do it on a planet with two suns that has one night of darkness every 22 years! but nope, as luck would have it that night is mere hours away and all the monsters are ready & waiting, despite having not eaten or even seen the outside world in 22 years. in essence it's kind of a poor man's aliens, but with too much stupid to even enjoy on a popcorn level. it's even badly shot (daylight is ridiculously over-saturated and the shakycam is nauseating in places)

the thin red line (1998)
really enjoyed this up until the point where they take the japanese camp; magnificently shot and convincingly acted. seemed to lose momentum after that though and got a little too caught up in flashbacks and 'poetic' philosophical ramblings, without really developing the characters (witt & tall were the only ones i ended up caring for). not sure i'd have the patience to give it a second viewing

the beaver (2011)
if you can get past mel gibson donning a glove puppet, putting on a ray winstone impression and demanding everyone address him as 'the beaver' then this is actually quite a touching study on mental illness and its effects on family. my only problem was that the subplot with the older son didn't really have much connection to the main story, but on the whole good

angel heart (1987)
unsure how i managed to go so long without even knowing about this, let alone seeing it. loved it.. dark, disturbing & mysterious, totally my kind of movie. that said, the 'reveal' with de niro's character at the end could have been a lot more subtle and allowed the viewer to piece together the clues to his identity themselves.. which would have probably elevated it to a 10/10 in my book

blitz (2011)
very standard 'gritty' british police/murderer thriller with jason statham playing dirty harry. it was barely okay. fun in places but a bit naff in others. not sure i'd recommend it

last, and definitely least:

your highness (2011)
seriously, anyone in two minds about seeing this cos it looks like a fun pineapple express type stoner comedy, don't. it's an amateurishly cobbled together humourless mess of wanking and sex references aimed squarely at schoolboys. there is literally nothing good about it (save for a few boobs maybe? if, like me, you were tempted by that shot of a scantily clad natalie portman in the trailer, just watch the trailer again. that's the only time you see her like that) 

regarding Your Highness, Angel Heart and The Thin Red Line - disagree regarding Illusionist (boo) and Pitch Black. I have a total weakness for cheesy sci fi horror action stuff though. Then again, haven't seen Pitch Black in years... 

I've always subscribed to the theory that the island is the Empyrium, though not in the strictly Christian sense.

The purgatory theories, the flash-sideways, the afterlife fall in line nicely following the original premise. 

is cool, very atmospheric.