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Thanks. Took me a couple of weeks to watch them all. Only episode I missed was episode 17, season 1. Wondering whether I should watch it.

Only characters I didn't really like were Charlie, Claire, Kate, Daniel and Charlotte. Other than that I fell for them all. Not that they were all great actors, but they had alot of charisma.

Btw, the number of babies born in this series must be around 10 or something. They kept spewing them out all over the place. Emotional manipulation at its finest. I'm a sucker though; I get tears in my eyes every time the baby is handed to the mother.

Peter

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At the cinema.

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Seeing how D hated it obviously, it should be a movie for me then...

I liked too. People are overreacting. It's a war movie.

Last night I watched Ridley Scott's ROBIN HOOD

oh dear oh dear oh dear, this film is just so damn bad and I don't mean good bad, just bad bad.

WHY did Russell Crowe speak in a ( very bad ) "Oirish" accent?

WHY were most of the main characters Irish?

WHY did the French have WW II style D-Day landing craft?

WHY did Ridley Scott make this ( curiously bloodless? ) film?

WHY did I watch this version which was 16 minutes longer than the cinema release?

.....I could go on

The GOOD...

...erm??? About half of the score was okay and then that bane of modern film scoring showed up, the wailing middle Eastern women giving it large in medieval England

I can't think of anything else good to say except that I'll never watch it again.

Don't bother, watch something good instead, surely there's a multitude of older, great films you've not seen?

As for Ridley, his next film is an ALIEN prequal, I think it's called PROMETHEOUS? Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

I can't help but have high expectations for it.

"Hearing good things about it"

Ridley Scott doing an Alien backstory/prequel movie is enough for it to be good news. We will see if the resulting film meets the expectations.

What crap? The 4 films I posted? Because they're anything BUT crap. They're all pretty much sublime.

Two exceptional, one very good and the other was Gladiator. I think Gladiator has some great set pieces but it's such an uneven film, I'd give it 3/10.

Seriously, that's not the general thinking on this film... I remember when it came out how everyone and their dog wanted to go see it, and loved it. It revived a long lost genre in such a way I believed we would see a lot more of those heroic tales. But that didn't take off.

Whatever your opinion is Tim, Gladiator for me is real filmmaking art. To transport me to that world and era, to make me cheer at the good guys, and make me loathe the bad guys. And to make me feel emotionally devastated when the end credits appear, and amazed by all the majesty that came before it. It's a real masterpiece IMO, and this isn't my bad taste talking... a lot of people actually see it that way. Oh and the score's one of Zimmer's best, so that aspect certainly did some good in my book.

A massive hit, because the film did connect to many people, and still does... You can't deny the acting and character dialogue which are first rate, though?

Not as annoying as Claire constantly screaming "My baby!!!". That chick had hysterical fits in half of her scenes, and the worst thing is that she wasn't really a good actor when she was playing highly emotional scenes.




I thought it was very good. I got emotionally attached to the characters and interested in the story. It's very rare to get a show where the characters are complex and 3-dimensional, instead of the good/evil dichotomy found in most film and TV productions these days. I thought Locke was a fascinating character, and the way he speaks and acts is very addictive. I could say the exact same words about Ben. Seeing them and hearing them talk is like a drug. I also liked Jack. When I saw the first episode I sarcastically thought "Oh great, another no-talent, prettyboy typical of american TV productions", but I really started liking him after a few episodes. Oh, and Sawyer's nicknames were hilarious ("Jabba" and "Eyeliner" were favourites). And the gorgeous Juliet and her unintentionally smug smile I found highly addictive to look at.

I liked some of the twists as well, for instance when it's revealed that [spoiler]Locke was dead and that the smoke monster had taken on his form[/spoiler]. I got a bit tired of the flashbacks at some point though. In the beginning they were important to get to know the characters better, but after a while they just started to become distractions from the main storyline. And I loathed the stories about Charlie and his band with that godawful song. Kate as a hardcore criminal seemed too far-fetched as well. About the ending I loved it. Very emotional stuff. [spoiler]With all the favourite characters together again, and when Jack was dying and the dog came to lie down next to him was very memorable and affecting. I kinda missed Michael at the end, but considering what he did it was understandable that they didn't include him.[/spoiler]

Peter

It's just a goofy video with a lot of points that I agree with. Come on, you must have chuckled when you saw reason number 1

Lost ,for me, had one spectacular season (season 1) a few solid seasons (2 and 3) and then got absolutely ridiculous from season 4 til the end. Season 5 sucked me back in but once we got into the alternate universe stuff in season 6 I had enough. The ending was weak and the long list of unanswered questions in unforgivable.

-Erik-

Really? Bitch? Was that necessary, D?

-Erik-

Yes