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I'd like to see this Blackadder show you refer to. It's a style of comedy - comedy that fills you with rage and grief - that I'm very interested in. A lot more than Joyeux Noel from the way you've described it. How available is it on DVD?

For WWI stories that move me, I think very highly of Stanley Kubrick's PATHS OF GLORY, Gilles Mackinnon's REGENERATION, Peter weir's GALLIPOLI and, definitely, THE GRAND ILLUSION.

I´d highly recommend the whole series, from 1 to 4 (plus the specials: "Blackadder's Christmas Carol" and "Blackadder Back & Forth").

Maybe. I thought that the final sequence at the end of the series was a bit too "in your face" with their message.

The Four Horsemen

I have been watching this on and off during the past few days. It's a fantastic casual discussion between famous atheist writers Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris, filmed in 2004. Highly recommended - Steven, you will probably like this.

Part 1
Part 2

I haven't seen it.

I'll be watching this later, thanks Lee

RV: The Biggest Fucking Lightening Storm Of My Entire Life! Mother Nature

It's passed over us now, but it's still lighting the sky. But holy crap, when we were in the eye of the storm, it was like War of the Worlds! Loudest thing I've ever heard!

No, actually there was a shootout going on between God and Ceiling Cat.

Actually, I'm not convinced God has as much of a problem with illegal downloading as our fellow men do.

I might be a Sun worshiper, but gimme that any day! (Hellstones and all. )

I've always loved lightening storms, even as a kid I never got scared by them (as far as I can remember?). This one last night was awesome, me and my brother drove out to the river front we live nearby to get a proper 360 panoramic view of it, and it literally lit up the whole sky. It was amazing! Definitely reinforced my love of meteorology.

That's brilliant and I wholeheartedly agree with you, nothing quite like mother nature really letting rip and filling your entire being with vibrancy and life!

Like you I've always loved lightning storms from childhood and was never scared but I wasn't kidding about the Kashmir story, even the locals said they'd never experienced one quite like it, within minutes of it starting the city of Srinigar blacked out and we had the thrill of seeing the mountainous peaks illuminating like huge sentient gods but after half an hour or so it really intensified with lightning and thunder that had no gaps, just continuous forks and thunderclaps that lasted over two hours, it was biblical in every sense and I've never been unnerved by a storm before or since then.

Ceiling cat was wearing snow leopard spots that day.

Alien vs. Predator: Requiem

What can I say about this movie: it's loud, it's full of action, it's suspense-free, it provides no satisfaction at all. This comes from a fan of both franchises, I even liked AvP. The directors clearly wanted to give as many tributes as possible to the series without actually creating an interesting storyline or characters that make sense. It's like they just shot some random action scenes, glued them all together and decided: this is a sequel in one of the most beloved film series ever. And what's up with the darkness: most of the time you can't make out anything of the brutal fights. They shouldn't have bothered at all. Fox should never have greenlighted this, with a script that's stupid, and directors that clearly don't know how to create suspense or make a cohesive story.

It wasn't horrible, but I could've watched the weather instead, which was much more interesting over here (non stop thunderstorms and rain )

Rating: 1.5 out of 4

Jurassic Park

Not as cheesy as I seem to remember it being. Although that stupid girl putting her computer ''hacking'' skills to work at the end was stupid.

Tonight is Jurassic Park 2 which I've never seen!

I say Samuel L Jackson comes back in JP4 - fights the dinosaurs with one arm and a stick.

JP 2 is stupid, Spielberg on autopilot, but still great fun when the dinos are on screen and it has the best score by far.

Yes, the story is hilarious. The film is Spielberg on auto-pilot but like we say about Williams, Spielberg on auto-pilot is better than most of the crap we get today. The action sequences are a lot of fun including the first big one. A good popcorn flick!

And I'm the only one here who absolutely LOVES JP3. Beside the cruddy ending, IMHO, it's far more enjoyable than JP2. And the effects seem to get better and better. The CGI dinos have never been beaten.

-Erik-