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[steveuk]

Looks interesting.

And strange, and a little short of cash in places.

[Christian U]

The latter is a bit of a shame, then... but still, any movie that makes the effort to establish a coherent aesthetic for itself is worth a look.

[steveuk]

Well I'm not sure I'd call it consistent. The bits that work look great though.

[Paul F]

I'm rewatching The Pacific. Excellent stuff. The beach landing scene in the fifth episode is brilliant.

[Martin Smith]

I am watching Snagglepuss and Yogi Bear shorts on DVD. Not laugh out loud funny admittedly but nice, charming comfort viewing. It's reminding me that I've still not around to getting the Huckleberry Hound Show DVDs or those Looney Tunea Golden Collections. Should rectify that at some point.

Edited by Martin Smith, 31 March 2012 - 08:48 PM.

[stephanie familiar]

'Wu-Ji' (The Promise). This is one loopy movie. The closest comparison I can make is something like the work of Tarsem or maybe Zack Snyder. There are a lot of real locations but the art direction is very exaggerated and deliberately artificial.

The trailer makes it look more comprehensible than it is, it's a fairytale, but its a Chinese one.

i really want to see that.

[Jake]

I just watched the first episode of BSG for the first time. I think I'm really going to like this one.

[Johnny Henning]

Watching a little Dara O'Briain at the Apollo. He've very funny. Last night, I watched Stewart Lee who's also funny in a very different, darker way.

[steveuk]

I'm watching a re-run of 'Top Gear' where they're tearing down a bunch of old council houses in my home town. One of them may, or may not, be my Gran's old house.

[Adam Balson]

Watching a little Dara O'Briain at the Apollo. He've very funny.

I love Dara O'Briain, he's great in everything he's in be it panel shows or his own stand up shows. His DVD 'This Is The Show' is really good.

[brucegray666]

Great stuff. Love the amount of time spent on the "wake up" dialogue. Saw him a few years ago and seeing him again in a few months time. Well looking forward to it.

[garjones]

Watching a little Dara O'Briain at the Apollo. He've very funny. Last night, I watched Stewart Lee who's also funny in a very different, darker way.

Stewart Lee is very dark. Try out his recent BBC show which features Alan Moore briefly, he very much questions what is funny and whether he is funny or keeps going on with the same joke for 30 minutes. For those that like him the answer is both - he is funny and goes on with the same joke for 30 minutes.

[Dave Wallace]

O'Briain and Lee are both great, in very different ways.

I saw Lee a couple of years ago and there's no-one better at capturing the audience's attention and demanding that they come with him on his exploration of some very interesting ideas, even if they're not ideas that the audience feels completely comfortable exploring. Very clever stuff, and funny with it. I don't know if there's another stand-up better than him working at the moment.

O'Briain is great in his own way, though - very quick, very sharp, and his delivery is perfect. His audience interactions are frequently highlights of his shows, and I'm hoping there are some good ones when I go to see him in a couple of months time.

I'm also seeing Jerry Seinfeld in May at the NIA in Birmingham, which is a bit of an odd venue for comedy, but I'm excited to see him nonetheless.

[steveuk]

'The Falklands Legacy with Max Hasting'.

Its his personal view of the political effects of the war in 1982 and since then. He's a professional historian and he's being pretty fair so far.

[Martin Smith]

O'Briain and Lee are both great, in very different ways.

I saw Lee a couple of years ago and there's no-one better at capturing the audience's attention and demanding that they come with him on his exploration of some very interesting ideas, even if they're not ideas that the audience feels completely comfortable exploring. Very clever stuff, and funny with it. I don't know if there's another stand-up better than him working at the moment.

O'Briain is great in his own way, though - very quick, very sharp, and his delivery is perfect. His audience interactions are frequently highlights of his shows, and I'm hoping there are some good ones when I go to see him in a couple of months time.

I'm also seeing Jerry Seinfeld in May at the NIA in Birmingham, which is a bit of an odd venue for comedy, but I'm excited to see him nonetheless.

I saw O'Briain live a few years back now and he was brilliant. I watched the same show when it came on TV and it was about 40-50% different because of the audience interaction. Close tie with Adam Hills for best comic I've seen live (Hills used a lot of material I'd seen on TV, but I was on the front row and he spoke to my friends and I lot, so that made it quite special).

[Johnny Henning]

Stewart Lee is very dark. Try out his recent BBC show which features Alan Moore briefly, he very much questions what is funny and whether he is funny or keeps going on with the same joke for 30 minutes. For those that like him the answer is both - he is funny and goes on with the same joke for 30 minutes.

He seems a bit obsessed with Russell Brand as well. Generally I think Brand is a bit light even as a satire of celebrity but I haven't seen much of what he does in the UK. Only his US imported act

[Dave Wallace]

He's not much different in the UK to be honest (a sometime-standup-cum-actor who'd probably like to think of himself as a modern-day dandy) - but he's high-profile enough to make him the sort of figure that's useful to Lee in those routines.

[craggy]

He's not much different in the UK to be honest (a sometime-standup-cum-actor who'd probably like to think of himself as a modern-day dandy) -

I've never even seen him eat a cow pie!

[Dave Wallace]

[Rory Abel]

Checked out Waiting for 'Superman,' which while interesting often came off as anti-union propaganda. It's obviously hardcore pro Charter schools but leaves out some important facts about why Charter schools do so much better than regular public schools. So while it did have some good points, more often than not I just found myself getting annoyed at the film.

College Inc was a frontline documentary on for-profit colleges. Interesting and pretty non-judgemental/biased but also not particularly informative. It was more of an introduction to the situation than any real investigation of it.

Rewatched Let The Right One In last night since my wife had never seen it. I still enjoyed it but on second watching felt like it was needlessly slow and could have fared better with some judicial cutting.