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

I felt it did, it has alot of the stuff you'd expect to find in an indy movie:

Car chase with fist fights
Uber strong bad guy who just won't go down, till he meets a particularly grizzly end
Booby-trapped ancient ruins
Snakes!!

It's not the most amazing film ever, but its highly enjoyable if you're after a good quality popcorn movie.

If you're after a multi-level deep thought provoking melodrama, don't bother.

oh and warning to parents the 12A certificate is deserved, there's a cople of grizzly bits that might upset little-uns. If they can watch the face melting in Raiders they'll be okay though.

I used to be scared witless of the face melting bit as little -un
there are indeed some not for the liitle folk bits in the new film, can't say too much more about as I fell asleep for a gopod part of it..till I got kicked a couple of times for snoring by the previous poster anyway

"Juno" (2007). Pretty good, my wife & I give it a 7/10, not as high as IMDB or some of the critics. Feel good, coming of age, etc. Ellen Page is pretty good as the lead, and the support is good, also.

Juno MacGuff: You should've gone to China, you know, 'cause I hear they give away babies like free iPods. You know, they pretty much just put them in those t-shirt guns and shoot them out at sporting events.

I enjoyed Goya's Ghosts when I finally watched it.
Nothing spectacular, the make up on Portman was fantastic as the crone. It was interesting to see Javier Bardem in a different role, after his star turn in No Country for Old Men.

Plot wise it revolves around the changing fortunes of various society types living in Spain during the French Revolution and the reversal of power roles amongst inquisitorial church monks.

/ 5

I've just watched the new Indiana Jones film.

Yeah, it was OK, although I thought a lot of it was rehashed from the earlier films. There wasn't much that was new, even if it was new to IJ movies...I mean, that bit with the ants was surely from The Mummy?

I didn't mind the grand climactic ending bit as much as some people seem to. I *did* mind the schmaltzy wedding scene.

RF

Clive,
I was mistaken about the film Goya's ghosts. I was thinking of Goya in Burdeaux, by Saura. The light is in charge of Vitorio Storaro. He has worked with Saura in other films like Flamenco. Image,atmosphere, are most important in many Saura films.

I have bought 'PS I Love You' and recently seen 'What Happens in Vegas'

I've just come back from watching "Sex in the City" and I'm off for a cold shower

"The Number 23", (2007). My wife liked it more than I did. A suspense/thriller sort of in the "Sixth Sense" tradition. Jim Carrey and Virginia Madsen do good jobs in dual roles. Lots of visual effects, to the point of distraction. Although ... one sequence was pretty good, a LONG travelling shot back into the protagonist's life, going through lots of houses, stories, etc. in a continuous shot. I don't know if it added to the movie, but I admired the technique (I try stuff like that myself, on a much smaller scale, in short animations).

QUOTE

[last title card]
Title card: Be sure your sin will find you out. - Numbers 32:23

END QUOTE

Indiana Jones. Funny, I'd pictured the skull as being crystal studded, Damian Hirst stylee, rather than made of quartz. Hmmm.

An enjoyable romp, loved the bike bit, and Cate Blanchett's icy sword-wielding classy baddy.

I saw Stoned recently , not bad just can't believe it was murder or /and I didn't hear about it in the press

Indiana Jones was good, I thought, but I was sitting there towards the end thinking "Aliens? Really?". I know they've done supernatural stuff before (Ark of the Covenant, Holy Grail etc) but that was based in religion and mythology, this just felt silly. The bit with the ants was disturbing.

I enjoyed Sex and the City too. Thought it was pretty funny although some bits were quite graphic so I was surprised it was a 15.

Huh. Yeah, interesting point. I apparently feel that aliens and religion are in the same fantasy realm, and therefore felt no disjointedness at all about the ending of IJ. Who'd uv thunk it.

I watched The Mouse on the Moon this afternoon (on Film 4)
Brilliant, Margaret Rutherford and Terry Thomas. Pity though, I thought Peter Ustinov was in it too.

I also re-watched Disney's Robin Hood yesterday. I absolutely loved that as a child so I was worried that it would match up to my memory of it - but it pretty much did.

Maid Marian was a *fox* in that version.

I watched A Series of Unfortunate Events, which I liked although I don't think people should be allowed to subtitle babies for comedy effect without legal repercussions.

I also re-watched Thirteen Ghosts, which I remembered as being quite good, I must have been incredibly pissed the first time because it is rubbish of the most second rubbish kind (daredevil comes first).

I've just seen Star Wars for the first time.

DH saw it on original release - but not since, so that's a 30 year interval - and the kids have recently got into Lego Star Wars on the PS2, so the time seemed right.

And it turns out that, thanks to my obsessed siblings, I *have* seen Star Wars before, almost in its entirety, just *not in the right order*.

It makes more sense when you watch all the scenes in the right order, and consecutively, rather than in a random order over 30 years.



Mol

But how fab is it?

I haven't seen it for ages, I think I'll have to rent it and watch it with the Gruesomes.

We watched Zoom today - Tim Allen and a bunch of kids with superpowers. Fantastic.

Oh and I watched The Queen.
Blimey, Helen Mirren is fantastic.

Oh, yes, I loved The Queen, and Helen Mirren (HM - ) was brilliant.

Have to say I found Star Wars a bit slow, up to the point where Luke started zooming around in the X-wing. But I think it was the slowness of having seen it all before (even though I hadn't).

Mol