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Oh, definitely. The dialogue was mostly terrific and Bogart can deliver those lines like no one else. It breaks down with the female characters, and even if you get past the misogynism, the female characters break the illusion of this being a real place. Instead it's a place where beautiful book store employees and taxi drivers (never seen a beautiful taxi driver in a movie before) are dying to bang weasely detectives they've known for less than three minutes. And they're damn obvious about it too.

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In fairness, if Bogey suddenly came out of nowhere and started talking to you, how would YOU approach him? :shifty:

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Like the rest of my alcohol-induced hallucinations.

So pretty much like the movie.

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Yeah, I was once in a screening for a Film Studies Course, and I heard someone mutter, seemingly without a hint of self-awareness, 'Aw, it's a black and white film?' and sigh broadly.

I love that moment, though, because by the end they're usually saying, "that was pretty good, actually".

Anyone ever see Becker? It's not a ground-breaking sitcom by any means, but the writing is just so damn good. The show's setting and characters could be set in any run-of-the-mill drama, or even a subpar sitcom, but what I've seen of it so far (the first season and a good chunk of the second) has been of a consistently high quality. Check it out. It's got Ted Danson as the titular character, if that's incentive.

My ex was in that, so I got to watch it being filmed and then walk around the set afterwards. As far as "likeable assholes" go, I prefer BlackAdder to Becker, but Becker definitely had some good moments.

I saw The Big Sleep. I wasn't so taken with it, really, probably because of the high expectations I had going in after Kroms' praise. It's a clever detective movie pretty much like The Maltese Falcon, but it's no Casablanca. And I can't believe you complained about Ilsa and then praised The Big Sleep considering there isn't a single woman in the movie who doesn't start spouting porn movie dialogue as soon as Bogart enters the room.

You see, if you'd started with "Ugh, it's in black and white is it?", you'd probably have enjoyed it a lot more :)

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Well, I've got one episode to go of Season 4 of The Wire (looking forward to it, although this season has so many balls up in the air at this moment, I've no idea how it can be satisfyingly ended. Time will tell.)

Also, I finally finished Buffy! All done, and what a great show that was. Now I've got Angel 4 and 5 to watch and I'm done... until I get the comics for Buffy Season 8.

Then onto Dollhouse. And Season 5 of The Wire.

Woop.

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Well, I've got one episode to go of Season 4 of The Wire (looking forward to it, although this season has so many balls up in the air at this moment, I've no idea how it can be satisfyingly ended. Time will tell.)

Also, I finally finished Buffy! All done, and what a great show that was. Now I've got Angel 4 and 5 to watch and I'm done... until I get the comics for Buffy Season 8.

Then onto Dollhouse. And Season 5 of The Wire.

Woop.

Then the Angel: After the fall and Spike: After the fall comics...

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The Informant... kind of, pretty interesting. It wasn't really what I expected but I found it pretty comical, this horrible little spiral and all the while I was trying to figure out the guys game and was pleasently surprised.

Kind of seemed almost coen bros-esq and has a really good cast, though probably the most under used collection of comedians; which made it all the more odder.

thunderpeel: trust in the wire, it may, in the end, be one season to long, but Ive watched the series twice and never noticed.

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Years ago I saw an very good thriller with Walter Matthau in, and forgot the title. It was Charley Varrick, repeated on TV the other night, and is a really excellent film. The main antagonist is an eccentric mob assassin.

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Years ago I saw an very good thriller with Walter Matthau in, and forgot the title. It was Charley Varrick, repeated on TV the other night, and is a really excellent film. The main antagonist is an eccentric mob assassin.

They should remake it with Denzel Washington.

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I watched Mary Poppins the other night, for the first time since coming of age. I never noticed before how atrocious Dick Van Dyke's cockney accent was. Here's the 26-year-old-me's summary of the movie: it is a story about a magical narcissist and her insatiably sycophantic posse of enablers.

:wtf:

I also saw Labyrinth a little while back and for the first time recognized the Humbert Humbert/Lolita overtones of the story. It is still a pretty amazing movie.

:tup:

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Anyone watch the new episode of Caprica?

It's starting pretty slowly, but it seems to have potential. What the hell is up with the polygamy stuff though? It's like Syfy is trying to do a mash-up of successful HBO shows. "If you liked Big Love and The Sopranos, you'll love Caprica." :erm:

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thunderpeel: trust in the wire, it may, in the end, be one season to long, but Ive watched the series twice and never noticed.

I'm a huge fan of The Wire, but it was quite surprising to see how much was left unresolved at the end of Season 4... I'm presuming that Season 5 finishes it all off, though.

Also, having read Homicide (the original David Simon book), I'm very surprised that they haven't done anything to do with the Courts/Jurys, yet. There's some really shocking wake-up calls about how lame the average jury is... I don't know why they haven't explored that yet.

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And Buffy: Season 8 comics... :tup:

You had already mentioned those, though I still want to pick them up.

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Has anyone watched The Road yet?

I'm going for that tonight. I haven't read the book and I've heard the book is better, like they usually are, but the movie is apparently also pretty good.

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Has anyone watched The Road yet?

I'm going for that tonight. I haven't read the book and I've heard the book is better, like they usually are, but the movie is apparently also pretty good.

Yeah, I watched it and enjoyed it. If you're in the mood for a Cormac McCarthy adaptation where not much happens but it's full of atmosphere and tension, then you'll be in luck. Amazing acting by Viggo and the kid, too.

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I've been going to the University's Cinemania thing on Monday nights this year. Basically it's a free screening of a movie that has left theaters but isn't on DVD yet for students. The Road is coming up in a couple of weeks and I'm pretty damn excited for it. My theater was doing some Cohen Brothers double features the last couple of weeks (A Serious Man paired with, in order, Raising Arizona, No Country for Old Men, and next week The Big Lebowski) and I just saw No Country again on Sunday, so now I'm psyched for some more McCarthy.

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Yeah, I watched it and enjoyed it. If you're in the mood for a Cormac McCarthy adaptation where not much happens but it's full of atmosphere and tension, then you'll be in luck. Amazing acting by Viggo and the kid, too.

It was great!

Viggo and the kid were really good in the roles. No wonder that there was even talk of Oscar nominations, which in the end didn't actually happen for Viggo.

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Off to see the 'Princess and the frog' or 'The frog princess' or something along those lines tonight. Looking forward to some 'old school' 2D animation again. Bought 'Sleeping Beauty' or 'The Beauty Sleeps' or something on BluRay last year and it was truly a beautiful experience...high hopes then!

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Oooh it was goood. The scenes with The Shadow Man (voiced by Mr Is It The Frank or Is It The Beans - that drove me nuts until I IMDB'd him just now) especially and at times they seemed to be showing how much of a 3D-like effect you can get out of classic animation. The use of lovable animal characters felt comfortably nostalgic and the story was sweet enough. The songs weren't as poppy/catchy as previous Disney outings, but had more class which fit the film's sense of style imo (at the expense of a sing-a-long at the pictures and hum-a-long on the way home). Some great bursts of Jazz however and the musical numbers thankfully never out stayed their welcome (never been my thing). Overall it felt a little empty, but what was there was very enjoyable and great to see on the big screen. With only about 50 people in the Empire Leicester Sq I can't see it making much money in the UK sadly...

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Saw Sherlock Holmes. Found it enjoyable action movie stuff. Downey Junior just keeps getting more and more watchable. Jude Law on the other hand was so flat as to be almost non-existent. No wonder they needed Rachel McAdams there in order get some actual chemistry between some characters.

The film as a whole reminded my a great deal of the Young Sherlock Holmes movie. Which says a lot.

Also they carried on the great screen tradition of Holmes' deductive reasoning actually being inductive reasoning. Made me giggle every time.

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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! (etc)

I just met Anthony Stewart Head on the tube. Yes. That's right. Giles from Buffy. The show I've been going on about for ages... and have only just finished watching. I met him. On the tube. Right now.

I may faint, please bear with me.

No, I'm good. Wow. That was amazing, and what a jolly nice fellow he was! He thankfully found my idiotic, fan-induced bumbling rather amusing and kept laughing. What an incredibly nice guy! I can't believe I just met him. Wow.

Ok, I think I really am going to faint now.

Who needs someone dull like Brad Pitt? Give me a Buffy cast member any day of the week! :tup:

That's definitely brightened up my week... one of the most exciting moments of my life!

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