Saw Borat - the most pathetic footage shot in the name of film ever. I've no idea what was that whole (million page) discussion in here was about (i avoided it completely back then). Couldn't laugh at one joke (were there any??), the film and the character were miserable - the only reason i sat thru the shitpile was hopin there must be some cryptic message that the whole world went bonkers over once. Damn, i've never felt more pissed with myself. This beat Napolean Dynamite hands pants everything down in being the most pathetic hollywood film ever.

Gonna watch Grindhouse now to redeem myself.

p.s. also saw 7 yrs in tibet finally a few days back - though the film's not very hard hitting or impactful while watching, it left me feeling very nice, the shots of tibet were gorgeous, and it kinda definitely left an aura hovering in the air for a few days - i am definitely going to tibet in the next one year - always wanted to, now i'm fucksure!

Also got tickets for Spiderman for tomorrow - damn, I'm hearing bad reviews from all quarters, but am still hoping it's worth the cash i doled out at least, if not the hype. Anyone seen it yet?

Hey wow i only saw borat last night too. I thought it was mostly pathetic. It's one of those things where a comedy segment works great for 2 minutes in Ali G, but is shit for any longer.

I'm gonna see spidey 3 in 2 hours! Yay!

I watched "Breakfast on pluto" by the same guy who directed The Crying Game, Neil Jordan. Pretty good overall, dragged a bit in places but overall a really good feel-good film - provided you aren't homophobic...

Yes yes ive seen it to.

Wicked film. I think Cilian Murphy is brilliant in that film. It gave me a lump in my troath!

Yeah, he is just so perfect for the part! Didn't think it was quite as good as The Crying Game, but still worked really well with the violence of the Troubles just going on in the background.

Yeah i thought Cilian Murphy was wicked ( and SOO hot !! ) in 28 days later - but i dont really rate any of his other films. Than i saw this film and i was really blown away!

A beautifull feel-good film.

Another feel good film i recommend is Little Miss Sunshine. Ive never laughed so loud in a cinema.

Oh , and another film i saw the other day wich left me breathless was "La vita e Bella" ( Life is Beautifull ). It made me cry - its about an italian family in the 2nd world war and they way a father survives with his son - its not a depressing film because the fathers caracter is played so well , but still it is about the 2nd world war so i really left me blown away.

I thought Borat was brilliant !

Saw Spiderman 3 2 days ago. I liked it, but I think the scenario is so lame... Way too many clichés...

Yes but Ben-J , its made from a comic book. You should not forget that when you watch the film , you watch a re-make of a comic book!

I just saw the film , and i thought Sandman and Phenom were very well made. Really scary , too!

Enjoyable eye-candy film.

Life is Beautiful is a beautiful film - have seen it long back, but it was very nice.

Saw Grindhouse. Will post my thoughts later. Liked Tarantino's fit of pure mad scientist eccentric whim in the name of a film section more than Rodriquez zombie flick. Folks expecting a film film avoid this - this is just for fanboys.

Going to get Little Miss Sunshine in the next week or so, have heard good things from others too :)

I enjoyed Borat tremendously. I liked the concept a lot, these slices of Americana. Sure a great deal of it was over the top, offensive to those who had trouble seeing the humor and some of it (like the hooker he took to be his wife in his home country at the end and the thing with Pam Anderson at the Virgin megastore signing) was staged. But Sasha Baron Cohen has brass balls the size of grapefruits and it took a lot of guts for him to so what he did without getting himself lynched. For instance, the rodeo scene was both painful and telling. Also telling was the car dealership scene, the drunk road trippin jocks and when Borat walked into the gun shop looking for the best gun to kill jews. What had the world talking was that he exposed some assholes for what they were, and then the assholes got mad because they were embarrassed for being exposed as assholes. More power to Cohen. I also enjoyed the more friendly encounters he had with people too - like the driving instructer, the gay pride people, the kids teaching him how to talk and dress street, the little jewish couple at the bed & breakfast - those were telling as well, in a positive way. Just slices of American done up mock documentary style

We saw Spiderman 3 yesterday. It was pretty good, a lot darker than I expected, and very bittersweet. Loved the cameos and the fights were good and of course watching Spiderman flinging himself through the city on webs is good eye candy.

Jack, I hoped you liked Grindhouse. I really liked Death Proof. It had one of the best car chase scenes I've seen on film in a while and I was realy rooting for those girls. The end of Death Proof was great - ended where it should!

-whirly

just got back from spiderman and i gotta say it's pretty bad. some inspired action sequences but overall a terribly overstuffed story. they should have left out venom entirely as there were too many villains and coincidences. some people walked out of the theater. while i don't think it was THAT bad, it was a huge let down from spiderman 2, which i really liked.

Jeanie I know that but still :)

Spidey 3 expanded list:

GOOD:

-the first fight with the "new goblin", tight fx very fast and kinetic with peter fighting in his street clothes and being thrown through fucking buildings, that whole fight sequence probably cost 50 million by itself.

-the sandman learning how to form itself.

-"Not those pills"

-"What's that smell?""It's Brock, sir. Edward Brock Jr."

-whistling for a fountain pen on a silver platter.

-"I am French"

-"It's SOOOO GOOD!"

-Bryce Dallas Howard looks EXACTLY like gwen stacy = HOT.

-Connors. he doesn't do anything, but he's still there.

-Ursula's cookies

BAD:

-Emo-Peter's haircut.

-Mary Jane's THREE "singing" scenes.

-Aunt May's THREE important speeches.

-Harry's butler. there is not enough WTF in the internet.

-Gwen Stacy not really doing anything.

-Pelvic thrust.

--"I like being bad. It makes me happy."

-Where's WE.ARE.VENOM

For the end of the current trilogy this was okay I enjoyed it but I didn't love it.

The French restaurant scene is awesome (especially for a French :)) I saw the movie in English. In the French version, it's an Italian restaurant, it loses all its fun

"Not those pills" hahaha :D it was a great moment too

hahaha, mx, stash and I were commenting on Emo Peter! I agree with Diggler that it was an overstuffed story - Spiderman 3 could have been stretched into 2 decently fleshed out movies. And we would have probably gotten more Ursula. I liked Ursula!

Mary Jane singing sequences didn't bother me all that much (afterall, she did get canned because she didn't cut the mustard!) but I thought Peter's gonna-make-her-jealous pelvic thrust/busting suave jazz moves at the club were a wee bit cheesy. The one thing that really bugged me about the film were the opening credits, how there were clips of scenes from the movie. I know it's minor in the grand scheme of things, but I thought the opening credits were god awful.

I liked the story of friendship, through thick and thin and the power of forgiveness. It did offer the bittersweet factor and a dark side to Spiderman 3 that was less prevailant in the first 2 films (which I enjoyed a lot more).

As far a previews go, at Spidey I saw a trailer for Across the Universe that I want to see (I like movie musicals). I hope it's good, not a butchery of Beatles tunes.

-whirly

And I want to add, I found the movie Life Is Beautiful to be an incredible film.

It's on my "made whirly cry" list. I cried, like a baby, at the very very end right before the credits rolled. I found it depressing because of the circumstances and scenario, yet uplifting and life affirming because it portrayed optimism, sacrifice, hope, a father's love and overall courage in the face of adversity.