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Nice to hear. I want to watch it asap!

If you think back at it, there were less moments with the usual graphic Tarantino violence than, let's say Pulp Fiction had. But I agree that the violence it did have, was not easy to watch at all!

I thought the opening scene was excellent too. Calm but with an underlying edge-of-the-seat tension until[spoiler] culminating in the shooting.[/spoiler] Brilliantly performance by Christoph Waltz.

I am sure Pitt's accent wasn't a decision he took on his own.

And talking of accents how can I forget Sean Connery's Oscar winning turn as an Irish cop in THE UNTOUCHABLES

Yessshh, He doesshhh.

I think you must be kidding.

Exactly! MGR Starrer. My friend told me that he saw that film Captain Blood, and he was shocked how beautifully copied by Tamil filmmakers. However, i should give some credit to filmmakers because i say that was good adaptation from the original one.

Agree. Not in the same league as The Big Lebowski, which is their ultimate comedy. But I loved Clooney's character and Pitt was totally on the ball.

I saw yesterday: Changeling

Another very good Eastwood film. Angelina Jolie's tour de force acting is duly noted. But then who wouldn't wanna play such a hopelessly battling against the corruption and tormented mother searching for her little kid who went vanished all of a sudden. With his last few films (Million Dollar Baby, this one and Gran Torino) Eastwood has become one of THE storytellers in Hollywood that succeeds to create intelligent and deep emotional films.

Anyone watch Daredevils: The Human Wing on Channel 4 last night?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efs2zdQp0RE

Quite spectacular seeing them against the landscape to highlight how fast they go. The footage of the guy "doing" the Matterhorn (not shown in the YouTube clip) was

Titanic

This one has been broadcast on Sky, Five and Film4 quite a lot recently, so it was inevitable that I'd end up watching it again.

Certainly far from a masterpiece, but it is quite an entertaining film with ever-watchable special effects. Horner's score does suffer from some bad edits and quite mixing, but it still works for me. (Though perhaps not the synthy parts. On album it's nice, but in the film it feels a little misplaced at times.)

I'm glad Cameron is returning to sci-fi though, let's see how Avatar turns out...

A number of specials/documentaries on The History Channel and "The Discovery Channel.

Watched on the history of ice cream, how it's made, shops that sold it in the early days, ice cream innovations, and even a tour of the Ben & Jerry plant. They even talked about how they had a Bring a Flavor Back to Life (or whatever they called it) contest to bring one flavor that was killed off. They have an actual, physical graveyard with tombstones with hte name of evr dead flavor. They brought the winning flavor back to life. It sold poorly, a few months later disappearing from the shelf again.




Watched a harrowing special on two or three families during a 1938(?) East coast powerful hurricane they never thought would happen. When an astute forcaster noted the hurricane WAS going to hit, his superior refused to believe it and declined to send the warning. Thusly, everybody was hit without a warning.
One family had their neighbor's son rush in and he said they were all gone. His entire family had been sucked out to sea -- only he was left.

Another family...
The previous day, the father had a heart attack and was under orders to stay in bed and rest. About 12 hours later the hurricane struck. The storm surge was large, and the bottom of the house flooded, so the father, mother and kids went up stars. The house starts falling apart underneath them. Eventually it falls out completely, and a large part of the wooden second story floor, a iron pipe sticking up, and a small part of ceiling -- which they are all clinging to for dear life, is sweap out to sea. Guess he never had a chance to recover from that heart attack.

For hours they were pounded on the raft, gripping it, trying not to be ripped off or drown. Finally, it washed ashore. As soon as the last one climbed off, it slipt in two.




Watched a special on the history of Rome, it's crazy-assed leaders (and sane ones) and how their civilization worked, what amazing buildings they built and how they did it, back stabbing, concuring -- it basically covered everything.

It reminded me of a fact I had forgotten -- for a long time after, and even during -- Rome was the only civilizatrion with RUNNING water. They even -- perhaps foreshadowing the future -- charged citizans for the running water in their homes.

Damnit, you convinced me of killing those 18 euros for tickets to Inglorious Basterds!