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

if you'd said she used to snog the face off him, then I would have been jealous. But I don't like children...

She used to get a lot of inside info though

"if you'd said she used to snog the face off him, then I would have been jealous. But I don't like children..."

But these would have been Gerard Butler's children. The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree.

The Hunger Games - the day after I read the book, so it was all fresh in my mind. Excellent film and a really good book-to-film transfer. My daughters had told me the plot before I read the book (which is why I didn't read it or watch the film for so long) but although I did find it emotional, it wasn't unbearably distressing.

Mol

I cried buckets in the film and the book. #1 didn't even blink. She is obvs heartless

I saw "On the Road" yesterday. All the performances were great -- Garrett Lundgren as Dean Moriarty, Sam Riley as Sal Paradise, Tom Sturridge as Carlo Marx, etc. Sal is based on Kerouac, Carlo on Allen Ginsberg, and Dean on Neal Cassady. The events portrayed on the screen don't seem outrageous by today's standards, but in the late 1940s/early 1950s they were almost unthinkable by most of the American public.

The Raid.

Whoa what an amazing, exciting, visceral film.

Not one for those who dont like violent cinema mind.

FB

Airplane!

And you know, it's *still* funny *and* we got to share it with our daughters

Mol

The other night I saw "The Sapphires," based on a true story about four Australian girls who entertained the servicemen in Vietnam in the early 1970s. The girls came from aborigine stock, so when it came to time to shape their act, their manager tried to coax them away from the Country music they were singing. Since their skin was dark, he thought they should be singing soul music.

Django Unchained. Loved it - some great performances, schlock violence and loads of lols

"The Raid.

Whoa what an amazing, exciting, visceral film. "

Excellent, isn't it?


I've not seen action / fighting put onto film with such craft in ages.

It gets the golden popcorn kernel of excellence.

Toy Story 3. Yes, I know I'm a few years late. And yes I cried at the end.


Geggs

I hope to see "Scary Movie" soon, but I'm too busy to see it this weekend.

Only at the end, Geggs? It's the bit that they *think* is the end that I remember choking me up (still does it even now, just thinking about it). It was the expressions and the actions of the characters that did it, rather than the peril, and I'm still not sure how computer drawings of plastic toys can actually achieve that.

My film consumption is about to nosedive - not only is it sunny, but Endeavour has started and we're still working through the Lewis backlog.

Mol

"My film consumption is about to nosedive" [Mol]

How will you ever survive being cut off from movies?

same here - totally loving Endevour

Last night I watched Hard Candy, about a girl who meets a paedophile on t'interwebs, goes back to his house and tortures the hell out of him. The way she executed the capture and mental torture was brilliant (the 'castration' scene being especially fraught) and strangely enough I actually found myself rooting for the bad guy at times. The ending was a bit flat, but the two main characters were fantastic in their roles.

"yikes"

I don't think I will be watching that one.

Was taken to see the Evil Dead remake this afternoon. I don't normally do horror/gore (my choice of film was Promised Land) but this wasn't too bad. I had to ask my mate if it was supposed to be a parody because I really couldn't tell. Fun enough though with some really nice touches: I suspect if you like this kind of film you'll get more out of it than I did.

Not a patch on Cabin in the Woods though.