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[steveuk]

That sounds like some shoddy principle photography then, if they can't provide clean material to make the swaps with.

Yep.

Not unusual though.

I'm resisting the urge to get really detailed on this because it would just bore people silly, but there is still a real communication gap between some clients and the vfx companies.



WARNING:
Some bad language.

[Steve Sensible]

Inside Men, a new BBC drama series.

The opening 10 minutes definitely grabs your attention, with a convincingly done robbery in a cash counting facility. Then you're taken back a few months to how we got there, setting up the characters and their motivations (not terribly imaginative - they're mostly just short of money in recession-hit Britain) but then there's a nice turn of events towards the end and we're nicely set up for the aftermath next week.

I'm not usually a fan of Steven Mackintosh, but his natural edginess works well here. All in all, a pretty good way to spend an hour, and I'll definitely be tuning in again next week.

[David Meadows]

Dear god, prog rock was garbage.

Fighting talk

[Steve Sensible]

Fighting talk

Sorry, David - it's everything I loathe in music.

( I did rant some more, but I decided to edit myself. )

[steveuk]

I just watched 'The Wrestler' again.

75% of the film is still very good and really moving. The rest is just there to get you from one (better) section to the next, but overall the film really stands up.

[Carlos Mancilla II]

Just got back from watching Shame, absolutely loved it..

Very powerful and intense.. Bravo to Fassbender for taking such a role in a performance that I believe does deserve him an oscar nomination.. Still odd to me that he isn't..

[stephanie familiar]

Just got back from watching Shame, absolutely loved it..

Very powerful and intense.. Bravo to Fassbender for taking such a role in a performance that I believe does deserve him an oscar nomination.. Still odd to me that he isn't..

i'm looking forward to seeing that. i never heard of Fassbender before i saw A Dangerous Method, and before i heard of Shame. regarding the oscar nod or lack thereof, apparently Jonah Hill is a better actor.

ha!



currently watching Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. i really hope Lisbeth beats the shit out of that filthy weasel whose dick she had to suck.

[Christian U]

In Bruges is up next.

You're in for a treat, then.

Just got back from watching Shame, absolutely loved it..

Very powerful and intense.. Bravo to Fassbender for taking such a role in a performance that I believe does deserve him an oscar nomination.. Still odd to me that he isn't..

Fassbender has had an insane year. He's turned in fantastic performances in Shame, Dangerous Method and Jane Eyre (and a good one on X-Men First Class). He probably could've been nominated for any of the first three, but, you know. He's a young guy (I can't believe he's so much younger than me and looks so much more grown up and manly... fuck that guy!) and he's just getting started. He'll have his first Oscar inside the next five years, and he'll get more than one in the long run.

[stephanie familiar]

You're in for a treat, then.



Fassbender has had an insane year. He's turned in fantastic performances in Shame, Dangerous Method and Jane Eyre (and a good one on X-Men First Class). He probably could've been nominated for any of the first three, but, you know. He's a young guy (I can't believe he's so much younger than me and looks so much more grown up and manly... fuck that guy!) and he's just getting started. He'll have his first Oscar inside the next five years, and he'll get more than one in the long run.

fassbender was in jane eyre? hmm. i saw that, but i don't remember him from it.

[Christian U]

Are you serious? Like, this year's Jane Eyre? I mean, I know he had a beard and everything, but he was the male lead, after all!

Edited by Christian U, 05 February 2012 - 10:55 AM.

[stephanie familiar]

Are you serious? Like, this year's Jane Eyre? I mean, I know he had a beard and everything, but he was the male lead, after all!

haha, honestly i don't remember him. i couldn't even tell you who played jane without googling it.

[Christian U]

Well, I don't remember her name, either (haven't seen her in anything before), but I do remember they way she looked and acted very well. With Fassbender, I knew him from Inglorious Bastards, so I paid attention. And... well, he was Rochester, you know. If you don't remember him (and Jane, either!) that pretty much means you don't remember anything from the movies except maybe for the landscapes

I did pay a lot of attention to him, mind you, because I thought he was a fantastic Rochester. There was a sense of real danger to him, unlike the gruff-but-romantic-at-heart Rochesters you usually get in Jane Eyre adaptations.

[Paul F]

Well, I don't remember her name, either (haven't seen her in anything before), but I do remember they way she looked and acted very well.

Mia Wasikowska was Jane. She was previously in Burton's Alice in Wonderland (which I didn't hate) and The Kids Are All Right, but her best work is in the first season of In Treatment. She was fantastic in that. She's good in Albert Nobbs too.

[Christian U]

Huh. I've seen none of those... but I may be taking a look at In Treatment, at some point. It did sound interesting.

Anyway, I thought she was a brilliant Jane Eyre.

Edited by Christian U, 05 February 2012 - 11:25 AM.

[stephanie familiar]

Well, I don't remember her name, either (haven't seen her in anything before), but I do remember they way she looked and acted very well. With Fassbender, I knew him from Inglorious Bastards, so I paid attention. And... well, he was Rochester, you know. If you don't remember him (and Jane, either!) that pretty much means you don't remember anything from the movies except maybe for the landscapes

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yeaaah... i saw inglorious too.. doesn't ring a bell.

[Christian U]

You're messing with me, aren't you! I'm on to you, missy!

[stephanie familiar]

alright, so the girl with the dragon tattoo. the movie itself was alright, but i found the scenes without lisbeth salander to be kind of boring. i am so totally in love with her character, who is at the same time fierce and vulnerable. if rooney mara doesn't win an oscar for her portrayal, something is amiss. she was pretty fearless in that role, and i found her rather remarkable. i had put off watching it because i heard it was incredibly disturbing and someone mentioned they had to leave the theatre during a scene, but i was unfazed, probably because she got her revenge in the end. anyway, i'd recommend the movie for the characters of lisbeth and mikael alone. i really want to pick up the second book now.

[Arjan Dirkse]

Watching Inland Empire. I think it's Lynch's best work...of course it doesn't make a lick of sense, but the dreamlike free association storytelling style works great here, somehow.

[Robert B]

I watched the new Studio Ghibli film, The Secret World of Arrietty. It's wonderful, of course.

[Paul F]

The Sunset Limited. Based on a Cormac McCarthy play, it's just a long conversation between two unnamed characters, played by Samuel L Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones. If you like McCarthy's stuff, it's well worth watching.