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didnt know where to post this........ fuck

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kmt   Taxi Driver's straight left the cake in the oven too long hard.   You guys are crazy.

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Guess is depends what you are looking for really. Horror? Go for Asian films 'Dark Water' Dark Water is a 2002 Japanese drama-horror film directed by Hideo Nakata, the director of Ring and Ring 2. D

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Amazing Grace on itv3 - 11:20pm

plot below for those who aint seen it

Amazing Grace is a 2006 US-UK co-production film, directed by Michael Apted, about the campaign against slave trade in the British Empire, led by William Wilberforce, who was responsible for steering anti-slave trade legislation through the British parliament. The title is a reference to the hymn "Amazing Grace". The film also recounts the experiences of John Newton as a crewman on a slave ship and subsequent religious conversion, which inspired his writing of the poem later used in the hymn. Newton is portrayed as a major influence on Wilberforce and the abolition movement.
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just watched crazy stupid love, typical romcom, was ok, but emma stone and marissa tomei sold me :Y: :Y: :Y:

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The Adventures of Tintin: The secret of the Unicorn – review

Steven Spielberg's ghostly Tintin is best left on the page

Two out of Five

When the Belgian animator Hergé died in 1983, he left behind one last, unfinished Tintin adventure. Entitled Tintin and Alph-Art, the story hinged on an evil scheme to abduct Tintin and encase him in liquid polyester. The gallant boy reporter would therefore become a "living sculpture", beautiful but dead. "Your corpse will be displayed in a museum," the villain (according to Hergé's notes) would cackle. "And no one will suspect that the work constitutes the last resting place of Tintin."

Three decades on, this dastardly plot may just have been completed. Out of the blocks comes The Adventures of Tintin, a rip-snorting Indiana Jones-style romp from directorSteven Spielberg, darting from the cobbled streets of Paris to the bazaars and hill towns of north Africa in search of buried treasure. On the face of it, all is well. But look closely at the film's protagonists, with their strange vestigial features and blank, marbled gaze, and one comes to suspect that here, at last, is the version of Alph-Art we assumed would never see the light of day.

Officially speaking, The Adventures of Tintin is a conflation of three antique Hergé tales (The Crab with the Golden Claws, The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure), with the ambiguities ironed out and the emphasis on the action as opposed to the comedy. It shows how the boy reporter (played here by Jamie Bell) plucks a model ship from a bric-a-brac stall and immediately finds himself targeted by all manner of gun-toting goons. The ship, it transpires, contains a rolled parchment that points the way to a long-lost stash of gold and jewels. Along the way, Tintin hooks up with Captain Haddock (Andy Serkis), the turbulent, whisky-sozzled descendant of seafaring nobility, now kept as a virtual prisoner aboard his boat.

In one superbly executed sequence, Tintin, Haddock and Snowy the dog must steal into the cabin to pluck the keys from the hand of a sleeping sailor as the ship rolls and pitches in a heavy sea. Except that once inside, Haddock keeps groping for an elusive bottle of whisky and Snowy for the uneaten sandwich on the upper bunk. Only Tintin – as ever, an emblem of resolute virtue – has the presence of mind to go straight for the keys.

Yet while the big set pieces are often exuberantly handled, the human details are sorely wanting. How curious that Hergé achieved more expression with his use of ink-spot eyes and humble line drawings than a bank of computers and an army of animators were able to achieve. On this evidence, the film's pioneering "performance capture" technique is still too crude and unrefined. In capturing the butterfly, it kills it too. What emerges is an array of characters (puffy, moribund Haddock; opaque, inexpressive Tintin) that may as well be pinned on to boards and protected by glass.

Viewed from a distance, The Adventures of Tintin stands proud as freewheeling, high-spirited entertainment. But those close-ups are painful, a twist of the knife. There on the screen we see Hergé's old and cherished protagonists, raised like Lazarus and made to scamper anew. But the spark is gone, their eyes are dusty, and watching their antics is like partying with ghosts. Turn away; don't meet their gaze. When we stare into the void, the void stares back at us.

In cinemas from 26 October

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/oct/16/tintin-adventures-secret-of-unicorn

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just watched crazy stupid love, typical romcom, was ok, but emma stone and marissa tomei sold me :Y: :Y: :Y:

Saw this last week. Was pleasently surprised can't lie.

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Just watched the Machinist, mad seeing Christian Bale so skinny.

watched this a few months back

actually fucked up how skinny he is in that film. 6' and 8 stone :blink:

apparently the director didnt even request it he just did it and they told him a weight they thought was sufficient then he went 20lbs below that. still wanted to lose another 20lbs after that aswell, some fucked level of dedication.

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Just watched the Machinist, mad seeing Christian Bale so skinny.

watched this a few months back

actually fucked up how skinny he is in that film. 6' and 8 stone :blink:

apparently the director didnt even request it he just did it and they told him a weight they thought was sufficient then he went 20lbs below that. still wanted to lose another 20lbs after that aswell, some fucked level of dedication.

all he ate was a can of tuna and an apple a day to get like that

apparently when he showed up for the Batman Begins meetings the production team was like wtf?

he told em he'd be back in shape for the first day of filming

turned up on set overweight

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Just watched the Machinist, mad seeing Christian Bale so skinny.

watched this a few months back

actually fucked up how skinny he is in that film. 6' and 8 stone :blink:

apparently the director didnt even request it he just did it and they told him a weight they thought was sufficient then he went 20lbs below that. still wanted to lose another 20lbs after that aswell, some fucked level of dedication.

all he ate was a can of tuna and an apple a day to get like that

apparently when he showed up for the Batman Begins meetings the production team was like wtf?

he told em he'd be back in shape for the first day of filming

turned up on set overweight

lol yeah i remember reading about that

quite impressive how much work he did between the two films though, huge weight loss then huge weight gain and all the workouts that must have been necessary for both.

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