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[Paul F]

I'm now watching Glengarry Glen Ross, which I probably should have seen before now.

[Adam Balson]

Anyone here watched One Man's Grave?

What am I on about? It's called Dead Man's Shoes. Don't know why I keep calling it One Man's Grave when I'm telling people about it.

[Ogul]

I'm watching The Voice, the BBC's new 20 million pound Saturday night show. It started with Jessie J, Tom Jones, Will I Am and some Irish guy I've never heard of (even though the voice-over informed me he was one of the most influential people in music) doing a cringe-worthy version of I Got A Feeling.

Do you guys get the US version? That one has Christina Aguilara, Cielo Greene, Blake Shelton, and the lead singer of Maroon Five. It's a pretty good music show, definitely better than Idol.

[Johnny Henning]

Woody Allen on the Dick Cavett show. Quite interesting, but mostly due to the marked difference between this and today's variety/talk shows. Dick Cavett's entire career revolved around an ability to carry on a conversation. Strange.

[jleal]

Just finished season 1 of Sons Of Anarchy, and despite never really being into the biker genre, I loved this show. I was looking for something gritty and manly to hold me over since The Shield wrapped, and this might be it.
I am now in the process of de-sleeving all my jackets.

[Adam Wednesdays]

Woody Allen on the Dick Cavett show. Quite interesting, but mostly due to the marked difference between this and today's variety/talk shows. Dick Cavett's entire career revolved around an ability to carry on a conversation. Strange.

That's the problem with all those old fogey shows: too wishy-washy. How am I supposed to know who the hero is if they're not shouting my own opinions back at me over the turned-off mikes of their enemies?

[John Paul Fitch]

Just finished season 1 of Sons Of Anarchy, and despite never really being into the biker genre, I loved this show. I was looking for something gritty and manly to hold me over since The Shield wrapped, and this might be it.
I am now in the process of de-sleeving all my jackets.

The guy who created the Shield created SAMCRO. Great show, season 2 is a knockout, season 3...not so much before a return to form in S4.

[Johnny Henning]

Now watching Jerry Lewis on Dick Cavett. Fella's smokin' like a chimney. Of course, he's still lived to be about a hundred, right? Prostate cancer, diabetes and heart disease notwithstanding.

Reminds me of the scene in Woody Allen's Sleeper where doctors in the future talk about how everyone in the 20th century was crazy to think that cigars, cigarettes and fatty meats were bad and instead, they were killing themselves with all that so-called "health food."

My theory is that we all should eat the worst food, smoke and drink, pollute the air, irradiate the water and so on. That way the people who aren't affected by that sort of thing will not only survive but thrive and pass on those immunities in the inevitable future environment we're creating (or the opposite) for ourselves.

Evolution, people! Use it or lose it!

[Stephen G]

Just finished watching 2 of the last 4 episodes of Battlestar Galactica. It really is super intense, all around. Loved rewatching through it.

I'll finish watching tomorrow, with a big, 3 episode (including the extended finale) to-do, tomorrow afternoon - probably after a nap, of some sort.

[Johnny Henning]

How...

In the hell...

Did this get made?

[brucegray666]

What am I on about? It's called Dead Man's Shoes. Don't know why I keep calling it One Man's Grave when I'm telling people about it.

Watched it when it first came out. As far as I can remember it was pretty good, if a little bleak.

Do you guys get the US version? That one has Christina Aguilara, Cielo Greene, Blake Shelton, and the lead singer of Maroon Five. It's a pretty good music show, definitely better than Idol.

We don't get it though I'm glad to see it also has a "that guy from that band" panel member.

[Christian U]

It's too late tonight, but something for tomorrow I think;

You know, I was a bit disappointed with Strangedays when I saw it in the theatres back then. Maybe I expected to like it too much, I don't know. But in the end, I thought they didn't do a lot with the concept... in the end, I thought 1983's Brainstorm did more interesting things with the idea.




Saw Take Shelter yesterday. Very good movie, very intense.

Spoiler

The ending was weird, though. I sort of expected that it might end with the storm actually coming, but... I mean, it's fiction's prerogative to turn the madman into a prophet at the end, but of course nobody's buying that, really, the account of a mental illness is just too clear in the way it's staged over the whole movie. And if they'd wanted to do the kind of ending that'd turn the movie on its head, they'd have ended it with him taking his family to his shelter as the storm his coming. But at the same time, the last shots can't be explained away as hallucinations, either, so... I don't know, I am not sure what the ending is supposed to tell me.

Edited by Christian U, 25 March 2012 - 07:51 AM.

[Ogul]

We don't get it though I'm glad to see it also has a "that guy from that band" panel member.

Yeah, his name's Adam Levine, but I didn't know that before the show (and to be honest I didn't know Blake Shelton either, but he doesn't have a band to be listed as the leader of). Adam's actually the coolest guy on that panel, he seems like a really good guy. The thing I love about The Voice is that they took a lot of the things that made XFactor interesting (relative to Idol), added a lot of spice of their own, and then released it before the US version of XFactor came out, so by the time it did, it's thunder had been stolen.

[Dave Wallace]

How...

In the hell...

Did this get made?

As a fan of the original, I've always avoided the remake. I hear it's quite good fun in a so-bad-it's-good way, though.

[steveuk]

As a fan of the original, I've always avoided the remake. I hear it's quite good fun in a so-bad-it's-good way, though.

The original is flawed gem. VERY flawed but still a gem.

The only way to remake it is really to play it straight and make a paranoid thriller. I don't get the impression that the remake did that. It tried to be quirky.

But I do believe the director when he said some of it's meant to be funny, its just that I don't think that was a good choice either.

[GordonM]

The remake is indeed so absolutely awful that it becomes a comedic gem. The section where he goes around punching people so he can take their stuff is hilarious.

The Rifftrax for this is worth getting too.

[Carlos Mancilla II]

Watched The Hunger Games last night, had loads of fun watching it.. I felt like it was a little long but they did make use of most the time without too much filler

[garjones]

Watching 'Putin, Russia and the West' which I downloaded a few weeks back on the recommendation of Steve. It's excellent.

Best but is when the ex Russian PM revealed a Taliban delegation came to them in 2001 and invited them to team up and attack the Americans he said 'we responded with that universal English saying: f*** off'.

[Arjan Dirkse]

Watching 'Putin, Russia and the West' which I downloaded a few weeks back on the recommendation of Steve. It's excellent.

Best but is when the ex Russian PM revealed a Taliban delegation came to them in 2001 and invited them to team up and attack the Americans he said 'we responded with that universal English saying: f*** off'.

Yeah it's a good documentary.

Sad how Western diplomats (or the Bush administration, I guess) missed the boat wth Putin.

[Dave Hudson]

For some reason I watched Jennifer's Body, it's meant to be a sexy horror-comedy but it's not funny, scary or sexy in any way.

And if you thought the one role Megan Fox could manage convincingly is a vapid teenage airhead - you'd be wrong!