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Bkeela said:
Didn't the sight of Tom, so depressed he walked to a convenience store in his dressing gown make you laugh? Have you never felt like that?

You've obviously never done karaoke with drunken mates either.
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Well here is the thing, I guess I found the dressing gown scene a bit like reality for me, I've had two kids and somedays with a newborn you can have a bad day where you feel so tired and rundown you can spend all day in your pj's and you certainly can end up in the milk bar buying milk or bread wearing them (and wishing you were buying a bottle of wild turkey and sucking on that). And with the karaoke thing, I've done plenty of it and so that scene was nothing new.
 
Rewatched Knocked Up 6/10 i never really enjoyed this film as much as everyone else seems to do.

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist 5/10 doesn't really go anywhere, not much chemistry between Cera and the stunning Kat Dennings but it was nice seeing New York at night.
 
soniaheartsbb said:
Rewatched Knocked Up 6/10 i never really enjoyed this film as much as everyone else seems to do.

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist 5/10 doesn't really go anywhere, not much chemistry between Cera and the stunning Kat Dennings but it was nice seeing New York at night.
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I can't stand the lead actress in that. And for some silly reason thought it was Jenna Elfman who played Dharma in that TV show and in that movie "Keeping the faith" I think.
 
Ahh well I'm very slow at getting to see things, but I finally saw District 9, and I've got to say that it was pretty fricken good.

I loved how the Hero of the story is a petty incompetent racist prick of a bureaucrat. And he stays that way for most of the movie. Even after you think he's due for his big cathartic moment where he should do the Big Emotional Change and become a good guy, he still pulls a selfish prick of a move. And somehow he still ends up as someone you feel for in the end. I thought that was quite daring of the writers.

Anyway, I know there's the odd logic problem (why are the Prawns on one hand so pathetic, but still capable of making super deadly weapons? And did the South Africans really expect to get the signatures of 1.8 million Prawns?) but the feel of it was brilliant. Third World Aliens digging through rubbish tips in search of cat food. A unique film.
 
Well most of the prawns were just a worker type class, drones, not the intelligent educated like the main smart prawns. The weapons and everything were just left over from their ship. It was just showing how in desperate circumstances, no matter how technologically advanced you are, everyone can revert back to such a state. Which is shown in these camps around the world.

I think people tend to think of this as a plot hole, when it was central to the themes of the film.
 
Cool.
I guess without any direction they're frittering away what resources they have. Ripped off for booze/catfood.
 
I don't buy that. People can be ingenious under desperate circumstances. People can be courageous, and I think of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. I think of our POWs, as depicted in films like The Great Escape.

I think of the Fremen in Dune, who are severely underestimated, and who rise up to triumph over their adversary.

But hey, if aliens obsessed with cat food rock your world, I can only wonder about it.
 
Ahh well. I thought the cat food was a nice little parallel with exploiting vulnerable societies with booze.

A movie where the Prawns bravely rise up and overthrow their oppressors would be a fine story. It's an obvious theme done many times over in the past. The fact that they didn't do that, IMHO, made this a far more interesting movie.
 
They were people with out hope they. They were stuck in a foreign place, no chance of getting home, no chance of having or returning to a normal life. An uprising, uprising to what means? They had been there 20 something years by the point of the film.
 
ChocolateLovingEntity said:
I can't stand the lead actress in that. And for some silly reason thought it was Jenna Elfman who played Dharma in that TV show and in that movie "Keeping the faith" I think.
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Katherine Heigl was probably the worst thing about this movie although i didn't like anyone except for Paul Rudd, Jenna Elfman was great before she turned into a stupid scientologist she's currently trying to force her co-stars on some movie she's making to study scientology.

Tonight i'm finally watching Watchmen after reading and being a huge fan of the comics.
 
up_all_night said:
They were people with out hope they. They were stuck in a foreign place, no chance of getting home, no chance of having or returning to a normal life. An uprising, uprising to what means? They had been there 20 something years by the point of the film.
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True...None of them from what I have seen could have fixed the ship or got them home.. I guess if there's a follow up movie it may deal with this. I wonder what the authorities do when a huge ship or two come to collect their fellow prawns..

Themes remind me of what white men did to the aboriginals with booze and religion
 
I think they said for the follow up they don't plan to do what people are expecting from the end of the first one.

My guess is they'll aim to follow that up in a third.
 
Heima - a film by Icelandic band Sigur Ros.

This takes the meaning of "live DVD" to a whole new level. In fact, this film is more focused on depicting the stark natural beauty of Iceland than it is on showcasing the band's actual performances. As such, in many respects Heima (Icelandic for "Home") is more of a documentary than anything else. Some of the outdoor locations that Sigur Ros play in are just unbeleivable, and you can't possibly watch this film and not want to travel to Iceland. In making this film, Sigur Ros also succeeded in obtaining the record for the largest concert in Iceland's history, with an audience of 25,000 people (this means that around eight percent of the country's population was in attendance).

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhLZP6Cz2dA[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZYIfUdIyfs[/ame]
 
I saw Shorts, a kids movie by Robert Rodriguez, who did Sin City. Needless to say, Shorts was a bit different - though it was sufficiently post modern and non-linear to make it different. It also has an excellent young female character with the great name Helvetica Black. It also had a good adult cast, including James Spader and William H. Macy - as well as the unfunny one from Two and a Half Men.

For anyone here with kids to amuse, it's a cut above the usual kids' movie.
 
up_all_night said:
I think they said for the follow up they don't plan to do what people are expecting from the end of the first one.

My guess is they'll aim to follow that up in a third.
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Good. The obvious sequel, as I said is "Independence Day", but that would go against the point of the first movie. I'd love it if a huge invasion fleet came, and with a lucky shot we knock out their leaders again and the world is stuck with tens of millions more feral ghetto Prawns.

But that might be too obvious as well.
 
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