Last Film You Watched

[Dahls]

Yeeeah, if you could just go ahead and stop forum-posting in your office hours, Ian, that would be great.
Oh, oh, and I almost forgot. Ahh, I'm also gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday, too...

Haven't we all had that type of boss

[fish]

But I wasn't always that type of boss.

Only sometimes.

[Ian]

Fish IS Lumbergh!

It captures the agonising boredom of office life with wince-inducing accuracy, doesn't it? From my own experience I could only smirk/wince in recognition at the bit where Peter gets to work and almost immediately starts checking his watch to see if it's time to go home yet....

[sydney]

(about Office Space) It is my stapler...

[Ian]

Saw Skyfall today. Very enjoyable. The best Bond movie in decades, I'd say, at least since The Living Daylights, if not For Your Eyes Only! Dramatic and stylish with a strong story, tons of action, great use of Judi Dench and a fabulously unhinged and creepy villain. I like that it had the more dramatic and 'real' tone of the other Craigs but was funnier too, and felt a lot more like James Bond than the other two did, really. I had not been spoilered at all, so all the surprises were just that. I didn't know what was going to happen at the end, though I had a feeling about the Ralph Fiennes character. Naomie Harris took me by surprise though lol! Really like the new Q too; let's face it John Cleese NEVER worked, but this is the kind of reinvention of the character that M enjoyed when they cast Judi Dench and very well done. Bravo!
First time I've been to my new local cinema too!

[Dahls]

Saw Skyfall in the premiere weeks ago, and I agree it's the best 007 in a very long time.
I like the vulnerability Craig brings to the character, makes him somewhat more human then previously Bond's, and is actually more true to the original books by Ian Fleming.
The whole francise seems to reinvent itself in this film, but they still play alot on nostalgia, which is pretty cool, and keeps the audience pleased I guess (for a second I thought they brought Sean Connery back, but it was just another old scotsman .)

[DMt.]

I hate the whole Bond brand, and the way they've so successfully made a fucking government killer into a hero, with glamorous product placement along the way, ever since Fleming's original books. He may in fact have invented PP, and I can't imagine that the exclusive brands he advertised [all in the name of literature, of course] were ungrateful; no doubt the same applies to the films, on a much more commercial basis - ie pay up, big time, if you want your goods featured.

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After Dancer in the Dark, I swore I'd never let von Trier make a quivering mess of me again; but after all, what is cinema for, if not to make us feel stuff? So when I saw a full version of Melancholia on Youtube this evening, albeit in the usual atrocious quality, I went for it.

As Dahls has already noted, Kirsten Dunst and la Gainsbourg, respectively, modulate the End Of The World depression and fear that von Trier has picked up from our collective feeling life, and both give world-class performances in the process.

Your DMt. is now Officially Very Disturbed, so I suppose he has succeeded; but I begin to wonder if, after all, he is not so much a film director as some sort of emotional terrorist.

[Dahls]

Yes, you have to be pretty stone cold to walk out of a von Trier film feeling indifferent.


You were absolutely right about 'Dancer in the dark', Dave.
Watched it earlier this week, and it had me in chokehold more or less from start to finnish.

emotional terrorist.

I for some reason belive he himself would be very satisfied with that title...

[DMt.]

Bjork inhabited that character to death, she loved her; and afterwards she swore she would never act again, for some reason

[Dahls]

Oh, yes, I was going to ask, but forgot, why the heck she hasn't been in more films...

[Ian]

Prometheus. I'd heard it was disappointing but wow, that was actually very crap.

[fish]

... actually very crap.

Noomi should stick to Rolling Stones' music vids. That was great.

[Ian]

To be fair, she was the best thing in it.

[DMt.]

I had noticed it heading towards the £3 bin at Tesco at high speed...how are the mighty fallen!

[Ian]

Still too much.