I remember him. A very small, but quite memorable part.

He was the biggest thing in his scene.

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Right - so it was WALL-E tonight!

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I had to google that one...I like cartoon shows...I wonder how soon I can find a DVD copy at a garage sale......Ben

I saw Sunshine last night and quite enjoyed it. It was a bit silly towards the end when they introduced an incongruous and unneccessary plot development into what had, until that point been a very reasonable hard science fiction flick. Still... very pretty with a couple of nice performances. A little more work, with some more attention to creating some memorable sci fi iconography (think 2001 - Hal and the Monolith) and a little less of the incongruous and unneccessary plot development might have made this a great sci fli flick instead of an enjoyable but ultimately disposable one.

Brought to you by the director of Trainspotting and 28 Days Later.

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I sat through this film with the JDK, but I must say that I was less than impressed to be honest. I just couldn't take the plot seriously at all... I still don't understand why the mission needed to be manned, and if for some reason I've not thought of it had to be, why send bunch of 7 people with psychological issues to do the job?

I sat through the film in the vauge hope that Cillian Murphy might take a bit more of his kit off... but he didn't

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I'm with you on this one Kazz - I thought it was predictable and poorly executed. I sat through it to the end in the hope of a twist... there wasnt one...

Psynopsis please!

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Psynopsis please!

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The Longest Day is probably one of the most famous films ever made about the D Day landings in Normandy. It's got (from memory) Richard Burton, Sean Connery and, I think, Henry Fonda in it. I haven't seen it for a while. I would imagine it's pretty high on Steveo's list of great movies, too!

Last night I finally got around to watching Amelie last night. Great movie - I think we've covered it here before though.

The Longest Day is a superb film..and it also has the longest cast..cant think of a film with more big names..(sean Connery, John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton etc, etc)

Some other notible WW2 films in my collection that are well worth a visit:-

The Thin Red Line
Saving Private Ryan
Kokoda (aussie war film)
A Bridge too Far
Stalingrad (german film)
Cross Of Iron

I would also mention Band Of Brother but thats not really a film.

Tom Hanks 'Pacific' is currently being made in Australia which is a similar format to B Of B's. Should be very good as its based on reality.

Quentin Tarantino is currently making 'Inglorious Bastards!' his on spin on the world war two genre.

And just a final word on this that will put the American and British war effort into perspective, three million germans soldiers were killed in WW2. The Russians killed 2.7 million - according to Max Hastings anyway..dont mess with the russians!

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I imagine Tarantino's film will stick rigidly to documented history and have very watered down language and violence in it. It'll probably be more of a child friendly documentary than a war movie.

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Quite right - in fact I think Disney are distributors

I've just realised that I quite forgot to report back after a girly afternoon spent watching Mamma Mia. Now, obviously I didn't go expecting a gripping & complex plot & ground-breaking cinematography, I was mainly going for many Abba songs, liberally coated with extra cheese. What I hadn't anticipated was laughing more than I have at any other film, to the point where I was in grave danger of falling off my seat on several occassions. The advantage of the famous, & possibly suprising cast is that they can really get away with hamming it up & the film makers thankfully realised the film would only work if it didn't take itself seriously. It's funnier than than being surrounded by a field of dancing badgers in drag. Please buy me the dvd for Christmas.

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 It's funnier than than being surrounded by a field of dancing badgers in drag.

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 impossible!

But... Badgers... in drag...

Catfish and I saw The Lady In The Water the other day. It's another film by the improbably and unpronouncably named director of The Sixth Sense and The Village.

It was okay. Paul Giamatti gave his usual excellent performance - the rest of the cast were adequate. The story was a bit ropey - it was basically laid out for you at the beginning in a little animated sequence. The characters were a little quick to accept the weird stuff that was going on and, as you would expect from one of Shyamalan's movies, there's a twist near the end. Unfortunately the twist is obvious and... well... not very good. It's not one of those twists that changes the film entirely, like in the 6th Sense of the Village. It's more of a little, slightly predictable plot hiccup.

Still, overall, it was quite watchable and had a couple of amusing moments in it. I'd recommend watching it, but don't go out of your way. Wait for it to come to you!

End of the franchise? How out of touch are you?

Given that the franchise has been running for about a decade now, I'd have thought that it would have run it's course, but it's apparenly still getting the viewers!

I never really got into Stargate, although I did start watching it when John Chri... I mean Ben Browder and Claudia Black turned up in it cos they were awesome in Farscape. But I still didn't get into it. I did try though.