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[stephanie familiar]

Just saw "Another Year". Fantastic movie about... well, basically about how tragic it is that even when you are happy, you can't do a thing when your friends and family are struggling just to get through the day. And as usually, a bunch of brilliant actors (Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen and Leslie Manville in the major roles, but the minor ones are no less good) used to their full extent. Man, I love Mike Leigh movies so much.

what did you think of the ending? the final frames were really impactful and heartbreaking. although i'm usually a fan of non-endings, i was disappointed that there was no resolve.

i didn't find it the easiest movie to watch. i absolutely despised the son's girlfriend, and Mary's hyperactivity or whatever you want to call it, drove me nuts.



ps- i really like jim broadbent as an actor.

[Rory Abel]

Pretty funny stuff. Of course, there's a reason why fights like this are staged so as to not be dangerous (and it's interesting that it really doesn't register consciously until you see it broken down like this), but it's still funny to see it laid out like that.

I never understood why people thought the fights in Phantom Menace were good. It all just Ray Park doing defensive moves while waiting for the other stunt men to catch up with him. He was so much faster and agile than them I kept just waiting for him to chop them to pieces.

Saw a screening of Intruders last night, the new film from Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. He was there and introduced the film, explaining that it was about fear but wasn't a horror film. Which was crap. It was a horror film, just not a very good one. Dull, chaotic and convoluted, it had many of the same problems as 28 Weeks Later, mainly character actions that made no sense, but managed to even less interesting. A terrible movie.

[Christian U]

what did you think of the ending? the final frames were really impactful and heartbreaking. although i'm usually a fan of non-endings, i was disappointed that there was no resolve.

I liked the ending a lot. I don't think there's any way this could have been resolved, either. The tragedy of the whole thing is that there is nothing you can do when you have a friend who is unable to make their life work, and unhappy. It just goes on and on.

i didn't find it the easiest movie to watch. i absolutely despised the son's girlfriend, and Mary's hyperactivity or whatever you want to call it, drove me nuts.

I thought the girlfriend was perfectly likable... but yeah, Mary was hard to watch. As was Ken, really. I was quite glad for all the quiet scenes with Broadbent and his wife you get to calm the nerves a little

[Arjan Dirkse]

Dear Comedy Central:

The shows "Dharma and Greg", "Melissa and Joey", and "Two Guys and a Girl" are not comedies. They fail to amuse me. They succeed only in making me upset and despondent, and they leave me with an urge to break things.

Please remove them from your programming schedule...

[Martin Smith]

Two guys and a girl was great (well fairly good). Nathan Fillion, Ryan Reynolds, various actresses I can't remember the names of - good stuff

[Arjan Dirkse]

Two guys and a girl was great (well fairly good). Nathan Fillion, Ryan Reynolds, various actresses I can't remember the names of - good stuff

I understand it isn't universally hated, but I don't understand why

That said, i think the concept is ingenious. You have two guys, and one girl, and they interact somehow, causing certain (allegedly) humorous situations...

They should rename all sitcoms in that way. Seinfeld would be "two guys, one girl, and a wacky neighbor." Friends three guys and three girls, etc etc There's about a million horrible sitcoms that would be named "two fat guys and their nagging wives" though.

[Martin Smith]

Well, I will agree that the name was stupid. It was better as Two Guy, A Girl and a Pizza Place.

[Arjan Dirkse]

Well, I will agree that the name was stupid. It was better as Two Guy, A Girl and a Pizza Place.

Well fair enough, I never really gave it a chance, I just saw a few minutes of it one time and thought it was horribly generic, unoriginal sitcom shlock. Maybe I just got a bad episode.

[Christian U]

They should rename all sitcoms in that way. Seinfeld would be "two guys, one girl, and a wacky neighbor." Friends three guys and three girls, etc etc There's about a million horrible sitcoms that would be named "two fat guys and their nagging wives" though.

Actually, "Friends" pretty much is a name like that, isn't it? So's Three and a Half Men.

[craggy]

The Adventures of Stupid But Jolly Fat Guy and His Hot Wife is one of my favourite sitcoms. Well...I see it a lot.

[Christian U]

Always thought that one was too unrealistic. I mean, come on. I know girls love a man who will make them laugh, but...

[Rory Abel]

Always thought that one was too unrealistic. I mean, come on. I know girls love a man who will make them laugh, but...

Doesn't he usually not make her laugh though? She's usually pretty shrewish.

Edited by Rory Abel, 22 March 2012 - 06:44 PM.

[garjones]

Always thought that one was too unrealistic. I mean, come on. I know girls love a man who will make them laugh, but...

He also always has a miminum wage job but a house that's just slightly smaller than Windsor Castle.

[Ricardo_C]

Just caught The Descendants and The Three Musketeers on video last weekend. From stupendous heights to unfathomable lows in a five-hour period.

[steveuk]

'District 9'.

It's been a while and I have to say that I feel pretty much the same about it that I did when it came out. A lot of it works but the mix of documentary and normal cinema is still a bit too jarring for me. Sharlto Copley is still amazing though.

Blomkamp's next film, 'Elysium', isn't out until 2013. That's a long time between movies.

[Christian U]

Hmpf. Have had the District 9 DVD for a loooooooong time now, and still haven't managed to watch it. I have to get rid of the wife.



Um, for a few days or so. So I can watch all the movies I don't get to because she doesn't want to see them.


I'm not talking about dismembering her with a hatchet or something. Obviously.

[steveuk]

I'm glad you clarified that Christian.

[Rory Abel]

Hmpf. Have had the District 9 DVD for a loooooooong time now, and still haven't managed to watch it. I have to get rid of the wife.



Um, for a few days or so. So I can watch all the movies I don't get to because she doesn't want to see them.


I'm not talking about dismembering her with a hatchet or something. Obviously.

Obviously. $10,000 I'll even say that I was there all weekend watching them with you.

Edited by Rory Abel, 22 March 2012 - 07:44 PM.