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I saw 'Doubt' starring Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Streep was excellent but I think she carried her performance from The devil wears Prada. Hoffman played a convincing Nonce. I wasn't expecting it to end like it did though.


Saw Death defying acts with Guy Pearce and Catherine Zeta-Jones and it was gash.

Sean, can you clarify; this week or last week?


Not seen either of those but could go down on the Lovefilm list in the CitED household.

I had the misfortune of seeing "No Country for Old Men" at the weekend. Well made, brilliantly acted, some fabulous photography and as morose as buggary - but oh how unrealistically distressing. There were more murdered people than living ones. Left me with a distinctly unpleasant taste in my mouth.

Right I know they're not films but I have to give these two BBC series a bump.


1) Edge of darkness


A master piece from Troy Kennedy Martin, creator of the Italian job. This political thriller delves deep into murky areas the establishment/government would prefer to be left alone. It's set in the mid 80's and follows a Yorkshire police officer Ronald Craven (Bob Peck) who is hunting the killer of his daughter (Joanne Whalley) and along the path of his investigation gets involved in Nuclear politics and various other agencies out to get him.

Bob Peck's grieving performance blew me away. When I was younger my father tried to get me to watch this as I was doing my A-level history coursework but I wasn't interested in it. I wish I had. It came up in conversation a while back and I agreed to watch the box set and I was transfixed and watched the whole 6 hour series back to back. I thoroughly recommend this to anyone interested in the cold war or thrillers in general.


Apparently there's an American remake scheduled for realease next year and I'm not happy about this. Ray Winstone has treacherously accepted a role and should be knifed like a fish!


2) Bleak House


This Dickens adaptation was on a few years back and includes an all star cast. Gillian Anderson and Charles Dance stole the show and Johnny Vegas was a surprising compliment to the series. Gillian Anderson's Lady Deadlock was a sublime piece of acting that carried poise and surpressed guilt that was a stark contrast to Carles Dance's Mr Tulkinghorn who was 100% ice cold manipulator of peoples secrets.


I have the entire DVD box set of Bleak House and will lend it to anyone who can make me a reasonable offer, Spliff or a six pack will do.

Saw Terminator Salvation on Saturday. I'm a great fan of the first three movies in this franchise along with the made-for-TV spin-off The Sarah Conner Chronicles. Sadly, this film is not in the same league. It was a big disappointment given the potential inherent in the back-story.


The plot was weak and muddled with virtually no humanity or humour. Nor any acting dynamic between John Conner (Christian Bale) and Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington as the cyborg): they hardly ever appeared together on screen and when they did, they mostly just screamed at each other. The special effects were contemporary-standard CGI.


I read that Bale had hijacked the original screenplay requiring an on the fly rewrite during filming that raised his supporting role to rival that of the lead character - the cyborg. A friend described it as 'Dumb action with lots of explosions [and] disappointingly little nudity'. In my view, it was a clusterfcuk.

The Bucket List. Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson. Very sh1te. Sentimental crapolla. Probs good if you have a terminal illness.


Can't believe it has an higher IMDB rating that Starship Troopers, which is an awesome film. Apparently it is supposed to be satirising American Imperialism but the just thought it KICKED ASS MAN.


Anyone else love Starship Troopers?

Starship Troopers is indeed a classic. At somehow raised above daft nonsense by having tongue firmly in cheek. Could never understand why they'd send huge starships across the universe to battle bugs with ancient popguns. Why didn't they just start battles with big explodey things? But some films just rise above holes in plots!!

bigbadwolf Wrote:

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> I saw The Reader with Kate Winslet and she

> certainly deserved her Oscar for it. Oh and just

> in case you were wondering lads...yes...she 'gets

> em out' but sadly they're not as firm as they were

> in Titanic.


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Which is nice........

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