Anyone seen the new trailer for the Animatrix dvd? It's a chunky download (104Mb) but looks sooooo cool.

and what do we think Miss Havisham or Thursday would make of the Matrix?

They would probably realize that the characters are too one-dimensional for them to interact with, and that the plot was nothing like as original as many fans seem to think. What's more, the story lacks internal logic, as well as displaying an appalling lack of even basic scientific knowledge. Fancy stunts do not alone make a film, especially if you've watched wire-fu fantasy movies from Hong Kong and seen that sort of thing before (albeit rather more low-budget).

ooh dear. I appear to have hit on a nerve there. my apologies.

I'm still fairly giddy about the new movies. I have the ability to suspend my disbelief at will whilst watching movies, no matter how bad they are...

Right. List time. Favourite films anyone?

The Princess Bride is mine. True Love, giants, revenge...


hang on. Haven't we done this? Heck, lets do it again for the latecomers.

In no particular order:

Philadelphia Story (Cary Grant, Kathrine Hepburn)
Princess Bride
Amelie
Notting Hill (yes, Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts)
Pride and Predjudice (The BBC version with Colin Firth...HUBBA HUBBA!!)
Bridget Jones's Diary
While You Were Sleeping (Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman)
Stargate
Moulin Rouge (Kidman. McGregor)
Legends of the Fall (Brad Pitt, Sir Anthony Hopkins....AMAZING cinematography!!)
My Fair Lady
On The Town (Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra)
The Parent Trap (Haley Mills original version)
Office Space ( A great one for those of you who work in cubicle jobs!)

too many more to list or we'll be here for decades. Suffice it to say, I LOVE MOVIES! So much, we had to get a progressive scan DVD player and a 53" widescreen HDTV projection monitor. (My husband loves me cuz I'm the one who buys the toys! LOL)

I love good romantic comedies. And pretty much anything but horror is great. I can suspend my belief for nearly the whole time, but with horror movies, I just keep thinking, "You stupid idiot, don't go in there alone!" Not to mention, they're just too predictable.

Moulin Rouge - on the big screen only, however, although the soundtrack is brilliant for housework (turn it up LOUD!)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - a great way to escape into a different world, with great cinematography and plot.

Being John Malkovic - c'mon, mess with my head - I like it!

I don't watch as many movies as I should. Nevermind...



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'The Princess Bride' is a great favourite around here because it was filmed locally. Two of my friends are in it as extras.
Chris' favourite recollection:
Christopher Sarandon appears on balcony of Haddon Hall to proclaim
"Tomorrow, my dear people.....I shall remember my lines."
Exit one actor.

Other personal favourites:

Yellow Submarine - what were they on ?
Good, Bad & Ugly - scenery, Spanish horses, the cast, black humour, music...
Once Upon a Time West - scenery, Spanish horses, music, Charles Bronson, Jason Robards.
Carry on Up Khyber - "Dear me, I believe I'm a little plastered."
Casablanca - Everything, especially Claude Rains.
Golddiggers of 1933 - wit, the Depression, songs & Busby Berkley
The Italian Job - sheer joy, and never better than in the cinema
Gone With the Wind - the frocks, Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh
Can't remember title of favourite James Cagney gangter movie, but enjoyed most of them
Arsenic and Old Lace - fantastic black farce with Cary Grant.

That's enough for now.

Yellow Submarine - how could I forget! I've got the DVD, and it kicks ass. Strange fact - the voices are dubbed by actors, as the Beatles didn't sound enough like the Beatles. It has all the best Beatles' tracks on the soundtrack, too.



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Some Like It Hot - Best Film Ever
The Front Page - Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell
Life of Brian
Blazing Saddles
Casablanca
This is Spinal Tap
The Italian Job
Duck Soup (the Marx bros)
The Ladykillers
Henry V (Olivier version)
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (bar that soppy song)
Singin' in the Rain

....ooh that's enough.



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Allegedly, the ending of The Italian Job came about as they ran out of cash mto film a 'proper' ending, and it was criticised at the time for being a (bad pun alert) cliff-hanger.

Life of Brian is a scathing satire, and has a better plot than Holy Grail, but I prefer the latter as it has better individual scenes, even if it is all a bit daft. "I can still bite! Coward!" and "African or Asian?" and "I fart in your general direction"...

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Ooooh.... lots of lovely films :)

I'd have to say that Monsters Inc is rapidly becoming one of my favourites. Plus all the Star Wars early stuff (I scorn the new films entirely. Though I am going to enjoy all of the death scenes in the next one...)
Dracula Dead and Loving it is such good fun, as are a whole load of the other Mel Brooks films :)
Blade Runner
Moulin Rouge - yay! :)

Plus basically anything with a decent amount of Comedy or good sci-fi and I'm happy



I drink to drown my sorrows. Unfortunately they've learnt how to swim.

'For the Birds' - the short at the start of Monsters Inc. - has to be the funniest cartoon I have ever seen. I'm giggling now just at the thought of it. It's the eyes and squeaking as they peck at the feet of the stork, and the way they react when they realise what's going to happen.

Oh dear, I think I'm starting to worry the girl sitting next to me. Not in the sense that dogs worry sheep, you understand, just in the way I keep bursting out laughing...



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OOH I forgot ....

Toy Story and Toy Story 2! To infinity and beyond!



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I cna no longer claim there isn't any dumbing down. I've just seen that the library here now has a copy of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter. I really hope it isn't destined for the Biology section...



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That was all very weird. The girl I was scaring logged off, and then logged on to at least three other computers, came back, logged on again, logged off, stared at me for three minutes and then disappeared. Is this normal?



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I guess I should join in. I like most of the above. What exquisite taste we have !! My list

Casablanca - My Top Film
Some Like It Hot
Arsenic and Old Lace
Alec Guinness Ealing Comedies Man in a White Suit, Ladykillers, Lavendar Hill Mob, Kind Hearts and Coronets
Toy Story
Moulin Rouge (What's happening with Chicago winning Oscars ?? Moulin Rouge was much better.)
Get Carter
Brassed Off
Hear My Song (for surprise value - knowing nothing about it, I saw it at the cinema and really enjoyed it)
To Kill a Mockingbird

Just remembered.

The Usual Suspects

Which reminds me of a time when I went to see Casablanca at the cinema and they cut the end. It stopped before the 'round up the usual suspects' line and didn't have the 'This is going to be the start of a beautiful friendship' scene at the end. My girlfriend of the time thought I was mad when I kept harping on about how they'd ruined the film and wouldn't believe me that they'd cut the ending.

We once told somebody that at the end of the credits for Armageddon Bruce Willis came back. She made her boyf sit right through all of them.

Oh how we laughed (and oh, how he didn't speak to us for weeks)



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They filmed some of Brassed Off in my village (the brother's house features). And Yanks, too, if anyone remembers that - several scenes shot in my local. And that's as much fame as we want, thanks .... we can be very Royston Vasey round our way.

(I used to live in Royston Vasey aka Hadfield ... it's very nice really).



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Tremors - the girl on the pogo stick...

And the Beatles were dubbed in 'Yellow Submarine' because they didn't have time to read the parts themselves (or couldn't be bothered). When they saw the film, each one said that the actors had got everyone right, except himself.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off - where you should sit throught the credits to the end.

Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town - even better than it sounds !

Anyone else seen 'Adventures In BabySitting ?"
(No, it's *not* smutty).