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I actually enjoyed this a lot.

The sotry of a young girl Lyra who is given the 'golden compass' which is a kind of instrument for sensing truths. It's full name is an Elithemometer(spelling) and it is quite cool.

the introduction spoken by Nicole Kidman tells us of Lyra's world which is a parallel Earth to our own, which is but one of many such Earths as the opening scene shows a modern Earth street on Our Earth. It's quite a beautiful world with big airships driven by plasma balls and antique carriages that drive themselves. I quite liked all that. I wish we still had big airships.
Lyra embarks on a big adventure with talking ice bears and a cowboy in a flying airship of his own. In lyra's world people's souls don't live in their bodies, but alongside them in the form of animals called daemons. Rather a cool concept I thought. As she is a child however Lyra's daemon hasn't settled on one form to talke. Her father has gone on an expedition to prove the existence of the other worlds, which are all connected through the universe by particles called "dust."

Enter Nicole Kidman as Mrs. Coulter who seems nice at first but is quite evil in her intentions. She wants people to be seperated from their daemons so they won't ever be affected by dust and more docile, and controllable. It's because everyone has a daemon in their world that the effects of dust can be sensed by some, and the authorities of Lyra's world of which Mrs. Coulter is part of want to put a stop to all that, and at the same time extend their power to those other worlds......

it's a great movie I enjoyed it lots

6/10


You really should read some Steampunk stuff, CLE, I think you'd like it :)
 
Just saw Gran Torino, it was amazing, Clint Eastwood is such a cool old man, but i had to laugh at the end in the credits were it just had his vioce and him singing 'my...Gran Torino'

But yeah it was great, brilliant direction and acting.
 
Twilight - quite a good watch, there was plenty of holes in the film, I'm sure the teenage girls loved it. I hope the next one they make is better.
 
Memento
Total mindf**k but absolutely amazing. It's such a brilliantly unconventional way to tell a story, having two aligning narratives, one in chronological order and the other in reverse chronological order and then having them both converge in the end. I need a brain-melt emoticon to fully express my thoughts on this film. So amazing.

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One of the most mind f$cking films I ever saw was the first "The Butterfly Effect" with Ashton Kutcher. We have "Memento" on dVd but haven't watched yet.
 
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Actually had a lot of funny moments in this.

I could not believe the wife was Kate Beckinsale.. She's so versatile..

Also had a couple of sad moments the dad dying, and later Sandlers character dying, so this touched a chord....

Not a bad movie, by no means perfect and a bit long but not bad

6/10
 
I watched Challenging today...With Angelina Jolie, it's based on a true story. Extremely sad but a good watch if your into true stories.
 
Speed Racer
Not a great film, but the special effects were amazing. The over-saturated colour palette was
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I wonder what it would be like to watch whilst on acid. Trippy.
 
I watched Challenging today...With Angelina Jolie, it's based on a true story. Extremely sad but a good watch if your into true stories.


Sounds alright.


The Changeling would also be good as that's a true story and also has Angelina playing a mother who is put into a mental home and how the authorities tried to lie to her about her missing son, were possibly involved in that.
 
Time Code

Haven't seen it recently, instead I saw it at a film festival in the early part of the decade. But it's a wonderful, intriguing and totally different movie.

Still, I love Stellan Skarsgard (can't even spell his name) and also Jeanne Tripplehorn, and they're both in it.

The rather creative aspect of it is the format. You have four captions (squares) with totally different action playing at once during the movie, but only one of the squares has the volume on it.

So, look up the movie, it's worth it.
 
Sounds alright.


The Changeling would also be good as that's a true story and also has Angelina playing a mother who is put into a mental home and how the authorities tried to lie to her about her missing son, were possibly involved in that.

Yeah I want to see this. Eastwood is a fairly good director and I'm interested in anything set in the US during the 20s or 30s.
 
13 Ghosts

Wasn't really that scary...

The house reminded me of the Cube from the movie "Cube" which is a fantastic movie.

And the babysitter the family employed is the most annoying character. I wanted her to be got by the ghosts. She was annoying.

Overall meh.

4/10
 
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