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Now this is a fantastic film! Disney Animations have outdone themselves, and it's better than some of the stuff the Pixar crew have done. Some genuine laughs as well. "Look, a guard!" - "I'll snap his neck" says the tiny hamster. And the Italian pigeons were awesome! Even the ending seemed kind of "dark" for a Disney movie which was cool.

Powell's score is incredibly good and easily the best he's produced this year. Seeing the movie and hearing the score in full really does make you notice how trashy the CD and Dan Lerner's editing is. I want that promo or even better, a complete, more than ever now. It wouldn't be hard to place this as the finest Powell score since Cody Banks. He's written better "musically" since, but in terms of his own style this is spot on. Bravo! The old-school Powell is still in there!

4 out of 5!

Oh now we have RV Part 2? I failed to keep track of the previous thread...


It has Disneyness a lot, really? That's GREAT! I was afraid if John Lasseter Pixarized it too much and Walt Disney Animation Studios lost their charm. I love most of Pixar films and their talent, don't get me wrong, but I want Pixar to be Pixar, and Disney to be Disney.

And I LOVE Disney, not because of their big success in business or their marketing strategy. It's because of the people working under its name, and their works.


(But I still want to see Chris Sanders' original American Dog, which pixar guys rejected because of its "quirkiness"... )

My main problem was that Kung Fu Panda was not funny.

I'm debating today between The Reader and Revolutionary Road.

Well, we all know Brits don't proper have humor so

A recent definition of hell came to my ears: Italian efficiency, German humour and British cooking.

Re-arrange to find yourself in heaven.

Well, the responsible person in question here would be Roy Disney, Walt's brother who was heading the nature department. James Simon, who did principal photography, was the culprit.
It's never been established Walt ever knew about this.



There are some films that, even though everyone says they're really good, surprisingly turn out to be really good!

Unfortunately, for me Titanic does not fit that category.
Not that it was a bad flick, but I found it eminently forgettable on every level. I've seen it twice and I can't remember any scene that touched me or suprised me.
And I honestly can't see where it's a masterpiece on any level (even with the not inconsideable talents of the wonderful Kate ).



Agree with Anthony.
I was moderately amused by some of the gags, but it was all rather "pie-in-the-face-ish". I thought the best joke in the film was the panda's father being a goose.
All the slo-mo fighting really got annoying at one point.

It probably didn't help I'd just been watching Dumbo...



Oh I dunno.
I thought Ulysses poking out the eye of an innocent, sleeping and unsuspecting cyclops after stealing and eating its herd of sheep was pretty funny...


RV: Battlestar Galactica Season 3
Well, there's a series going down the drain pretty damn fast.
After a glorious first two seasons that that just oozed with darkness, moral ambiguity and tension (yet alternated with some of the best -mainly aerial- action sequences
in sci-fi today), the third season utterly seems to lose its footing.

Starting off promisingly with an "enemy occupation & resistance" storyline that sets up some interesting moral situations, the focus unfortunately shifts to dreadful soap opera relationship developments that are very predictable and not very interesting to begin with, but develop in utterly unbelievable directions...and just go on and on and on and on...

But the really annoying thing is that among a GREAT (in the sense of interminable) babble about Special Destinies, every episode seems to contain three or more "prohecies" from "seers", mystics or piests, who conveniently help the plot along. Nobody takes decisions any more, they're all "guided", which -I guess- covers up a lot of plot holes and helps to explain a lot of actions reasonably-thinking people would normally NOT do.
Lazy, lazy, lazy...

The low point comes at the trial of traitor Gaius Baltar -which should have been a major plot point but is now rushed through throughout part of two episodes- where a sheer emotional and logically very flawed appeal apparently is enough to sideswipe about three tons of evidence.
And the viewer is supposed to swallow all that as admiral Adama gravely intones "the defebce made its case. The prosecution didn't".


I know this isn't Law & Order, nor does it need to be, but I would have appreciated some more intelligent writing. This just felt stupid and condescending towards the viewer's intelligence.

The follow-up TV movie Razor is a lot better, even though it's still plagued by the "prophecy plot syndrome". But there are some killer action sequences, and some proper insight in characters' motivations.
Annnnnd as an added bonus, we get to see "classic" Cylons in action!
BY YOUR COMAND!

Humans also evolved from Africa.

Um. No.
The word "humour" is a derivate from the ancient Greek medical science of humourism which hypothesized that the body's workings were based on the interaction and balance of four 'humours', or bodily fluids.

That notion however has very little, if indeed anything, to do with "a sense of humour" as used today.

*sigh*

COULDN´T AGREE MORE!

That's the Hippocrates theory?

The more I think about CCBB the more I'm convinced that it shouldn't have been made into a film. It was an outstanding short story from Fitzgerald and would have been best served if it had been left alone. Very difficult story to tell.

Actually, I would like to say that it is.