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[Nicholas Taggart]

Watching some of Rio Bravo. One of my favourite movies.

[Chris D]

And unlike Cabin in the Woods, which despite its humor, takes its plot very seriously

I never thought it was taking itself that seriously. I mean, it didn't always make a complete joke about it's plot but

Spoiler

this is a movie that had a group of grown men crowding around monitors hoping to see some boobs, then later that same group throws a huge party while the protagnist is getting brutalized in the background by a hillbillie zombie, and then you have a dude getting impaled by a unicorn, and in the very end you've got your survivors getting high while joking about the end of the world

. So I felt that it was pretty constantly aware of how ridiculous it all was. Nor did I ever feel like it was trying that hard to be scary. Certainly it remained aware that it's playing with horror movie tropes and was therefore a horror movie, but I never felt like any particular moments hinged on being scary. Just entertaining. Which it I thought it was.

That said, I can see how it wouldn't work for a lot of people.

As for Detention, I've never heard of it, so that probably goes some way into explaing the empty theatre (not that I'm the be all, end all of movie knowledge, but I usually have an above average awareness of movies that are being released). Sounds like a movie I might enjoy.

[Rory Abel]

I never thought it was taking itself that seriously. I mean, it didn't always make a complete joke about it's plot but

Spoiler

this is a movie that had a group of grown men crowding around monitors hoping to see some boobs, then later that same group throws a huge party while the protagnist is getting brutalized in the background by a hillbillie zombie, and then you have a dude getting impaled by a unicorn, and in the very end you've got your survivors getting high while joking about the end of the world

. So I felt that it was pretty constantly aware of how ridiculous it all was. Nor did I ever feel like it was trying that hard to be scary. Certainly it remained aware that it's playing with horror movie tropes and was therefore a horror movie, but I never felt like any particular moments hinged on being scary. Just entertaining. Which it I thought it was.

That said, I can see how it wouldn't work for a lot of people.

As for Detention, I've never heard of it, so that probably goes some way into explaing the empty theatre (not that I'm the be all, end all of movie knowledge, but I usually have an above average awareness of movies that are being released). Sounds like a movie I might enjoy.

Those moments were played for laughs but were never about taking a piss out of the film itself. There were several moments in CitW that were all about building traditional horror movie tension as well as throwing in several traditional jump scares. Detention was just complete lunacy and was laughing at itself with you the entire time in a way that CitW never did.

Here's the trailer for Detention but honestly it does the film a disservice because it makes it looks far more traditional than it actually is and gives very little indication of how insane it really is.

[jleal]

Still deep in Sons of Anarchy season 3, and I think it might have finally jumped the shark..I'm talking mostly about episosde 3.11 "Bainne", directed by Adam Arkin...And it's Arkin's direction that completely failed this otherwise good show. From the pacing to the incredible leaps of logic to camera angles to the script..this whole episode is a mess.

Can anyone else agree with me on this?

[Rory Abel]

Still deep in Sons of Anarchy season 3, and I think it might have finally jumped the shark..I'm talking mostly about episosde 3.11 "Bainne", directed by Adam Arkin...And it's Arkin's direction that completely failed this otherwise good show. From the pacing to the incredible leaps of logic to camera angles to the script..this whole episode is a mess.

Can anyone else agree with me on this?

You'll have to remind me what the episode was about.

[jleal]

You'll have to remind me what the episode was about.

The one where Jax finds his son in Ireland and watches the new parents shop with the baby.
This is also the one where Tara manages to slice one of her captors necks open and then, with a gun in her hand, manages to let herself be taken hostage again by the Mexican.
It's on netflix streaming now..just watch that one episode and see how awkward the whole thing is.

[Christian U]

Detention looks like a lot of fun.

[Russell H]

I said the same thing after I first saw The Breakfast Club.

[Robert B]

I said the same thing after I first saw The Breakfast Club.

I somehow missed The Breakfast Club until later in life, and was disappointed by the lack of breakfasts. That's false advertising, is what it is.

[Steve Sensible]

I somehow missed The Breakfast Club until later in life, and was disappointed by the lack of breakfasts. That's false advertising, is what it is.

Really though, how much better would it have been with breakfasts?

[Robert B]

Really though, how much better would it have been with breakfasts?

Depends on the breakfast!

[David Meadows]

I somehow missed The Breakfast Club until later in life, and was disappointed by the lack of breakfasts. That's false advertising, is what it is.

I have never seen The Breakfast Club, so thanks for spoiling that for me

[Steve Sensible]

I have never seen The Breakfast Club...

Yeah, a 27 year-old movie old is a bit too modern for you.

[David Meadows]

We didn't have breakfast when we were kids! We had to walk 22 mile to work in t'pit, and if we were lucky we could find a bit of twig to chew on the way.

[Chris D]

Those moments were played for laughs but were never about taking a piss out of the film itself. There were several moments in CitW that were all about building traditional horror movie tension as well as throwing in several traditional jump scares.

Okay, I get what you mean now. In any case, it obviously worked better for me than you. Definitively going to have to check out Detention at some point.

[Rory Abel]

Okay, I get what you mean now. In any case, it obviously worked better for me than you. Definitively going to have to check out Detention at some point.

Yeah, it's not a bad film. As I said, I thought it was fun but deeply flawed.

[steveuk]

'Beautiful Minds' on BBCFOUR.

A fascinating story told simply and professionally. I'm very tired but hanging on until this ends at midnight.

[Ogul]

Watching the new Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon. It's REALLY horrible. Probably the worst comic animated series since Fantastic Four.

The art style does it zero favors, there's nothing distinctive about it at all, they're all just super-generic versions of each character, when compared to Spectacular Spider-Man or the recent Iron Man Armored Adventures that had very distinctive looks. He also looks a bit "old" in the costume, he doesn't have the wirey big-headed look that he did in the comics. There's a TON of banter, but almost none of it is funny, and they do a bunch of little cartoon insets and stuff that are equally unfunny. The first episode is also buried in exposition, since instead of starting at the beginning, they start in the middle, and yet insist on introducing his entire back-story and supporting cast, mostly through time-freeze monologue. There's just nothing to recommend this series, it's miles behind the almost flawless Spectacular Spider-Man. Why can't we just get a season three of that?

[Martin Smith]

I uh actually agree with Ogul about Ultimate Spider-Man. Was incredibly annoying.

Did anyone else watch Dara O'Briain's School Of Hard Sums on Dave last night? Bit rough around the edges (and I'm not wild about David O'Doherty) but fairly interesting and got my brain working, which was nice.

[Paul F]

Yeah, I enjoyed it, though I usually like O'Doherty. Hopefully the rest of the guests will be okay.