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[Martin Smith]

I'm watching Clockwork (or is it Clockwise? I can never remember) a largely over-looked 80s comedy with John Cleese. Seen it before and liked it, so I'm hoping it holds up.

[garjones]

I'm watching Clockwork (or is it Clockwise? I can never remember) a largely over-looked 80s comedy with John Cleese. Seen it before and liked it, so I'm hoping it holds up.

It's Clockwise, I remember it being okay but not a classic.

[Steve Sensible]

"Quaint" is the word that springs to mind when I think of Clockwise. And not in a good way.

[Martin Smith]

Yeah, it's not fantastic, but it's got a decent cast (lots of 'oh, it's hims!') and enough jokes to work. Shame the actress that played Laura didn't do much else.

[Christian U]

I'm watching Clockwork (or is it Clockwise? I can never remember) a largely over-looked 80s comedy with John Cleese. Seen it before and liked it, so I'm hoping it holds up.

Yeah, it's Clockwise. Not quote up to Fawlty or his Pythons work, bit I always liked it.

Edited by Christian U, 08 April 2012 - 05:09 PM.

[Carlos Mancilla II]

Watched Waltz with Bashir the second time and it still holds up just as strong as when I watched it the first time, very powerful movie

[Ben the Obiwomble]

Watched the Family Guy Jedi mick-take on BBC3, complete arse - good job I didn't buy the DVD when it came out a year or so back.

[brucegray666]

Yeah, the Family Guy / Star Wars things are definitely a case of diminishing returns.

[Mike]

Clockwise was the Christmas Day late evening film the year I got my first own telly in my bedroom I think - remember watching it after everyone else had gone to bed.

Watched the Gunther van Hagens documentary on his crucifixion artwork made using his plastination dissection technique this evening; interesting themes of art and science, and on his own reflections on mortality as he faces likely death in the near future.

[Steve Sensible]

Saw Shame last night.

It irritated me at first because it's one of those films where the protagonist does an indeterminate job where he can get away with watching porn all day and still earn enough money to afford a swanky minimalist apartment overlooking the city, where he only listens to music on vinyl - because CDs are so uncool. But once you get past that, it's strangely compelling, despite the fact that it's hard to sympathise with Fassbender and his middle-class woes.

It's brilliantly acted of course, and really nicely directed apart from a couple of self-indulgent moments. And there are a couple of sex scenes where you realise the line between acting and doing porn must be a fine one indeed..!

[Martin Smith]

Watched the Family Guy Jedi mick-take on BBC3, complete arse - good job I didn't buy the DVD when it came out a year or so back.

I don't know, it's not terrible. I like the 'special edition' sock puppet thing. And I was laughing uncontrollably at the 'dig your own graves, wear his face as a mask' bit. I think the relative lack of quality in the source material didn't help matters though.

[Rory Abel]

Watched a bunch of documentaries of grindhouse/indie filmmaking.

Machete Maidens Unleashed can be summed up in two sentences: A lot of low budget American films were made in the Philippines. They were all terrible.

American Grindhouse was a bit more interesting and informative, talking about Grindhouse's early roots.

[Rory Abel]

Oh and I also checked out the newest episode of Community since everyone's been raving about. I find the show fascinating as, for me at least, it survives purely on the strength of it's satire/homage episodes. I find it almost unwatchable most of the time and only check it out at this point when they do one of the homages/satires.

[stephanie familiar]

i've watched a weird hodgepodge of movies over the last several days, including True Grit, That Thing You Do, No Country For Old Men, and A Room With a View.

[Russell H]

I've been on two long plane rides in the last couple of weeks.

On my way to the US, I watched Anatomy of a Murder (Brilliant), Sunset Boulevard (Pretty good) and The Wild One (Utterly abysmal, don't bother). On the way back, Harold & Maude, Top Secret and Young Frankenstein (all hilarious).

In-flight movies are getting a lot better.

[Christian U]

i've watched a weird hodgepodge of movies over the last several days, including True Grit, That Thing You Do, No Country For Old Men, and A Room With a View.

That's not a bad hodgepodge.

[Owen Baker]

Watching 'Homeland'

Thought i'd just try out the first episode the other day and ended up watching four in a row. It's brilliant.

[David Meadows]

My friend's son bought I Robot on DVD so we all had to sit and watch it last night.

It's a much better movie than I remembered. I think I was grumpy about it back in the day because it wasn't an intellectual courtroom drama or something like that (which an actual movie of I, Robot should be). But it's a well made action film with a reasonably intelligent plot. Plus Will Smith being Will Smith is always watchable.

We did note that it has an awful lot of cussing for a "12" certificate. That's the kind of thing you don't notice until you're actually watching it with a 12-year-old.

[Christian U]

Yeah, "I, Robot" was okay. Not great, but okay.

[Steve Sensible]

The most annoying thing about the movie was that appalling piece of product placement for Converse.