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Just seen "Hulk" on ITV2.

At the time it was panned and to be ohnest no one I know likes it.

However I think it is really interesting, and much the best of the modern "Superhero" movies.

I am probably gonna be in a minority of one on this one though I suppose!

Hulk is alright - but everythign after Nolte freaking out just looses me. 100% CGI endings are not good.

Still haven't seen it, but I'll give it a try if I can find a rental. I did watch one of the A&E "Hornblower" movies again, anybody know if there are more on the way? The lastest I have are "Loyalty" and "Duty", sold as a DVD pair.

Hello all

Not really a 'film' in the strict sense - but we just watched 'The Thornbirds' (8hrs spread out over a week).

Great TV! Not my usual style, but gripping stuff.

Kind of the film equivalent of what Mummy Doodles refers to as a 'holiday read' - not surprisingly, I suppose, given that it is a straight page-to-screen adaptation of the Colleen McCullough pot-boiler.

I watched "The legend of the 7 golden vampires" last night. Classic Hamm(i)er horror!

pleasantly surprised at YOU ME AND DUPREE actually much better than i thought.. prefer it to wedding crashers...owen wilson is just excellent as always.. its almost as if he doesn't have to act seems like its the real him...

wonder what hes like a real life? anyway 7/10 but my daughter gives it 9/10.

Watched about 20 minutes of 'Runaway Jury' last night.

What brain addled idiot came up with that idea? Gene Hackman should be ashamed of himself.

As should Will Smith for appearing in a film with a mis-spelt title. Which I won't be going to see as I can't ecven see the title in question without wanting to put a brick through the screen.

Thank god. I thought I was the only one.

What is really saddening is that they showed the trailer on t''pub tv the other day and I went into a huge , upon which several people looked at me and said 'whaddya mean it's mis-spelt?'

You have to despair sometimes.

I've just read the reason for the spelling. Fetch me a bucket, I'm going to be

According to a post on imdb:

>>Why is "happiness" spelled wrong in the title?

>>It was the misspelled name of the son's daycare. Will Smith's character refers to it several times during the movie, one of which was right before he and his son share their nicknames and the meanings of those nicknames. Also, the name is painted on the front window of the daycare and can be clearly seen at times.

So, the answer seems to be, as the film is a biopic, that the word was mis-spelt in reality, and that the real-world mis-spelling has been preserved in the film. So the word is mis-spelt, they acknowledge it is mis-spelt, but it was the spelling accurate in the sense that it's the spelling the owners of the daycare centre used (though they were, of course, wrong).

Dunno if that makes any difference.


Geggs

The explaination I found was slighly different, and more twee:

"the word "Happyness" in the title has been taken from a mural children have painted on the Chinatown daycare center where Chris Gardner takes his son. The mural reads "Fun Joy Happyness."

When Chris points out the mistake, the daycare lady replies that it is not important to the children how the word is spelled, only that they have happiness."

Bucket!

So we've either got some really cloying writing, or an accurate description of a really cloying event.

I don't know which is worse.


Geggs

Make that two!

My film course starts next Tuesday - the first film is The Golem. Any experience, opinions?

" ... the first film is The Golem"

I haven't seen it (assuming its the 1915 film), but the reviews at imdb are good. It does remind me of a good prize-winning (2001 Pulitzer) novel "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay", which opens with a "Golem" sequence. Sounds like quite a legend, one that I was not familiar with. More here:

http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/09/24/reviews/000924.24kalfust.html

Are there any good films out on general release at the moment? I don't want to watch Apocalypto, and I've seen Perfume and Déjà Vu...

RF

hi RD looking at my local[ish] cinema for light and inane entertainment we have EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH, has a high score, might be ok..how about MISS POTTER? another yank pretending to be british but she does a good job as she did in bridget jones diary... or for a scare night WHITE NOISE 2 THE LIGHT...

i'd probably disregard employee just for now.... but the others according to mood seem ok. i see you liked perfume i'm undecided about wether to go and see it...

the digi channels have some goodies on though.. i watched GIRL INTERRUPTED on film 4 the other night, ist viewing of it, quite impressed, sort of a one flew over the cuckoos nest feel...

No, they all look like a pile of horse poo to me. I'll wait to see what comes out next week.

RF

mmmnn know what you mean although i'm sure miss potter will be a good film but reckon i'd have to be in the mood for it... comes across as a womens film, might organise a girly night out for it...