h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Watched an illegal copy of "The pursuit of Happyness".

I was simultaneously happy and depressed. Nothing interesting happens in the film, nothing funny happnes in the film, there is no suspense, nothing much happens at all.

If I wanted to know about someone going to work and being poor, Id pay attention to my own life.

It was awful not just because Will Smith was in it either it is just a really bad film.

What made me happy was that someone was criminally intent on cheating Will Smith and all the people who habve a legal right to earn from people seeing this film out of their money which in my opinon is letting everyone concerned with the production of such rubbish off far too lightly.

0/10

I watched Syriana on DVD last night.

I'd like to sue the makers for those two hours of my life. Utterly pointless. Just when you think it might start to go somewhere...roll credits.

RF

mmmnnn i'd have to agree with you RF

i have an infant, so i can't really go to the theater much anymore. but i did get to see tenacious d: the pick of destiny. but none of you probably care at all. they're coming to my city in a month, but i din't find out until it was too late and their sold out. pity.

hi saphirenjade.. its really hard to keep up with films with kids especially an infant.. just look back a few posts and i complain of the same thing, although i can go to 12a with my 10 yr old..

luckily shes a good kid who'll sit still and watch a film, has done since much younger... she sat thru all the lord of the rings 1 2 and 3.

for the age limit thing i have to wait for dvds and its really hard as i LOVE horrors, but as i said anything over a 12a rating we can't just go and see.. anyway how did you rate tenacious d.

it was great! it you're a tenacious d fan. it follows their usually story line, a bit. i don't know what country you're from, but here, if you're the parent, your child can go to any movie with you, unless it's given a NC17 (which is what they give a porno).

i'm in wales... we can only take a child into a 12a as long as we are with them.. they would not get in on their own... we can't see a 15 or 18 film with her, which are the juicier films, and all the horrors.. where are you from?

i didn't realise tenacious d was a series, first i've heard of it is the recent jack black film.. is it a comic book thing?

saw nacho libre recently with jack black... mad and quirky film which we enjoyed a lot

Miss Potter. A really quiet charming film - I warmly recommend it.

Watched La Belle Et La Bete last night. Not quite as surrealist as it was pitched to be but still some very haunting imagery and gorgeous chiaroscuro. The beast's french is very entertaining, this grizzly version of the lion from the Wizard of Oz saying "Errggh, ne regardez pas les yeauuuuxx." Everyone enjoyed it and the debate afterward ran the gamut from post-Freudian to post-occupation. I just thought it was very weird and very cool. Classic fantasy.

Next week, Persona (Bergman, 1966)

Just watched Sam n Joon again I really like that film .

Pan's Labyrinth. Very good indeed. The story was moving and the special effects were, indeed, special. Though it has it's own stamp, it reminded me very much of a Gilliam film.

And that faun could kick seven shades out of Mr Tumnus Until later....
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Am still waiting to see that.

Heard it's up for some Oscars too.

We were crushed into the local arthouse's smallest screen - but this was it's second run here - and even with that it did not feel like it's running time.

I have not seen most of it's competitors so I do not know if it deserves to win (but then again since when has 'deserved' had anything to do with winning at the Oscars), but it is an excellent film and I find it hard to think of anything in its league that I have seen it quite a while Until later...
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I watched Fahrenheit 9/11 the other day, steaming pile of propaganda that it is. There was some things in it that people should be aware, but it certainly took some cheap shots. Didn´t seem to let anyone on the pro-Bush side speak either. But I guess preaching to the choir is where the money is.

Moore has never claimed it is balanced - it's called a polemic.

There was hardly a shortage of people putting the Bush point of view all day every day at the time.

I think he really shot himself in the foot with that one though. Being forceful about a specific point of view is fair enough, but F9/11 was utterly jaundiced and probably for a lot of people put him in the same camp as Bush in terms of frothing rhetoric.

I like Moore, but have to admit his standards have slipped. I think part of his problem is that like many people he was utterly disillusioned with the last Democrat campaign and just got...shouty about a lot of stuff.

I don't know if he is still working on his planned film about Blair and the 'Special Relationship' but it would be interesting to see.

What's Eating Gilbert Grape? yesterday. Truly very moving, I was close to tears. And very impressed by Leo De Caprio's performance.

Then I caught the remake of Dawn Of The Dead, for something less unsettling. Body count!

Saw Persona last night. Most were of the opinion it was pretentious, self-indulgent and trying too hard to be clever. I couldn't argue with that; and I loved it. I've never seen a Bergman film before but if this was one of his lesser efforts I'll look forward to seeing something like The Seventh Seal. It was very loopy, often chilling and pretty inventive for 1966.

Next week it's Repulsion (Polanski, 1965)

I watched "Blood Diamond" the other night. For me it only had a three of dodgy spots and as they were necessary to drive along the plot of what was an overwhelimng ly fantastic film its very easy to overlook them and call it a truly great film.

For me it is easily as good as Spartacus. I ws left feeling intimate with the characters and the GF who knows nothing about the world that isnt featured in the pages of heat is now having second thoughts about buying diamonds ever again.

A brilliant film that is inteliigent without needing to turn to clever twists has frightening actions scenes and conveys a lot of emotion through the perfomances and plot.

10/10