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Just watched this on Netflix HD...liked it....I too wonder about his motivation Ceetar....I think that scene where he beats the guy to pulp and there's as moment with the girl, that's the real him. What was he before he showed up at Shans auto shop five years ago?

Saw it in the movies and watched it twice on DVD over the weekend.....great family fun.

Yeah, when I looked at his IMDB I was surprised at all the movies he was in...... http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000474/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Excellent write up btw....thanks.....fair to say he got the very best out of Keaton? Why did that success never translate for Keaton? Pacific Heights was excellent IIRC.

I thought he was born in England.......just learned something new.

Who's who? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1745862/

sharpie wrote: Best Film of 2012. wow......will have to look for it.

A five star review http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/dec/12/django-unchained-first-look-review

It was on recently on cable, watched it with Lorcan, I loved it as I remembered..........he loved the Marshmallow Man payoff....I didn't know until the latest viewing that Akroyd and Raimes were the writers. Love the song too, so 80's.

I've seen it maybe ten times with Lorcan.....it's fun, well made although the kids voice got very irritating after the fifth viewing.

A rave review by A.O. Scott in the NYT. Looking forward to seeing this one.

Ceetar wrote: metirish wrote: The early books were good, James Patterson long ago jumped the shark on the series I think. He was just pump9ing out drivel that his large fan base gobbled up. I can't remember the last Cross book I liked....perhaps it ws The Big Bad Wolf. Totally agree with Cooby on MamaNana and the kids.......good call. I have zero interest in seeing this movie. I clearly should've seen 6 assassins or whatever that movie was, but the selection of watchable flics wasn't high and they had power. LOL.....not giving you a hard time for going to see it........

The early books were good, James Patterson long ago jumped the shark on the series I think. He was just pump9ing out drivel that his large fan base gobbled up. I can't remember the last Cross book I liked....perhaps it ws The Big Bad Wolf. Totally agree with Cooby on MamaNana and the kids.......good call. I have zero interest in seeing this movie.

Edgy DC wrote: What a disappointing decade. Of topic but, often as I am driving and land on the 90's station on Sirius I think that very thought, popular music in the 90's was awful, at least what they are playing on that station.

Silence of the lambs?

Agree on it lacking something.....and like you not sure what. Maybe Jake Gyllenhall didn't carry it all that well?, although I think I am being unfair there....the script?, the premise is great and I was satisfied with the ending.... overall, enjoyable.

Liam Neeson tries to lead a group of oil riggers out of the wilds of Alaska after their plane crashes.......but grey wolves are hunting them.... some good moments .....

I gave it Higher Love I liked it , dragged a bit but the performances of the main cast I thought were great, especially Gosling and Carell , also the babysitter was very good, and Robbie too. Remember when his friend came to meet him at the bar(babysitters dad) and said his wife told him he couldn't be friends with him anymore?.....I never want to be that guy.

Finally watched this after it being on the DVR for ages...............I agree with all that has been said.....Edgy's points are well taken....train crash scene was spectacular, I cared about the characters it's just that it became very predictable .......I do like the whole E.T. Wonder Years vibe it had going on........still trying to figure out why the alien kidnapped the people , hung them upside down but left some of them live?

A stop-motion zombie animation that really isn't about zombies.......Norman is different......he sees dead people, he gets bullied and ridiculed even by his own family.........an execution of a witch in the very town 300 years ago is now haunting the town and people.....enter Norman some other misfits and shenanigans.... We really enjoyed this , I thought maybe Lorcan would be scared but he mostly laughed throughout the whole movie. It has the look and feel of an old B horror flick......lot's of laughs with some intense moments ....... we also got a real Bronx experience during the movie with people screaming at each other because of a child crying.......hilarious

Article in the Irish Times yesterday about this, the critic then gave his own Top Ten http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/screenwriter/2012/08/02/vertigo-takes-the-title-the-irish-times-reveals-its-favourite-films/ Top 10 Films: Critics' Choice 1 Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) 2 Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) 3 Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953) 4 La R�gle du Jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939) 5 Sunrise: a Song for Two Humans (Murnau, 1927) 6 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) 7 The Searchers (John Ford, 1956) 8 Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929) 9 The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer, 1927) 10 8� (Federico Fellini, 1963) Top 10 Films: Directors' Choice 1 Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953) 2 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) 2 (joint second)Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) 4 8 (Federico Fellini, 1963) 5 Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1980) 6 Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) 7 The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) 8 Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) 9 Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1974) 10 Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948) Donald Clarke's Top Ten 1. BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (James Whale, 1935) 2. STALKER (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979) [29] 3. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1943) 4. SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957) 5. THE APARTMENT (Billy Wilder, 1960) 6. THE SEVENTH SEAL (Ingmar Bergman, 1957) 7. REPULSION (Roman Polanski, 1965) 8. THE GHOST AND MRS MUIR (Joseph L Mankiewicz, 1947) 9. ERASERHEAD (David Lynch, 1977) 10. THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928) [9] In the letter that Nick James, editor of Sight & Sound, sent out to voters, he made it clear that we could interpret �greatest film� pretty much any way we wished. This was both helpful and unhelpful. On the one hand, there were few rules; on the other, well, there were few rules. It seemed reasonable to do one�s best to come up with films that, after applying a critical slide rule, could be scientifically proven to be better than the competition. Then again, one couldn�t entirely ignore the eccentric, individual obsessions that fire one�s cultural synapses. James Whale�s Bride of Frankenstein brought, for me, those two mildly conflicting drives together. The picture appeals to my love of windy, camp gothic. But it is also acts as a rather brilliant cinematic demonstration of how high art (all those expressionistic sets) and low art (Ernest Thesiger�s music-hall leers) can be merged without passing through the dreaded middle-brow interzone. It figured nowhere in the top 50. Oh, well.

Looking at the cast here http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120738/ I guess I remember Hurt a bit, not Oldman at all.

I know I saw it but have absolutely no recollection of it....

Haven't seen it but I imagine Billy Connolly's voice grates after a while? Is this similare to "How to train your dragon"?

A scathing review in the Irish Times http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/theticket/2012/0615/1224317938823.html