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Quote: Pingl @ November 25 2012, 11:02 AM GMT

mystery

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Mistery is a good word. Stars used to have a mystical or mythical aura to them. Today "stars" are a public good. You see how they are discovered in those shitty shows like American Idol, you see how they get humiliated by the jury, how they have nervous breakdowns and you see how they piss and eat insects in the jungle. Even real stars are shown in their "private" environment, either caught by paparazzi or deliberately. I don't want that. A Star is a star because of the mystery. I don't need to see a "star" taking a shit I can have that at my home. A star has to be special, even if its an illusion.

Quote: Gordon Bennett @ November 25 2012, 11:38 AM GMT

Mistery is a good word. Stars used to have a mystical or mythical aura to them. Today "stars" are a public good. You see how they are discovered in those shitty shows like American Idol, you see how they get humiliated by the jury, how they have nervous breakdowns and you see how they piss and eat insects in the jungle. Even real stars are shown in their "private" environment, either caught by paparazzi or deliberately. I don't want that. A Star is a star because of the mystery. I don't need to see a "star" taking a shit I can have that at my home. A star has to be special, even if its an illusion.

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Such a powerful narcotic that people are willing to be humiliated to gain something that in most cases doesn't answer the queations or solve the problems they thought they would. Nothing that hollow can truly satisfy.

Quote: Harridan @ November 25 2012, 9:43 AM GMT

I detest these abbreviated names for couples. As if people cease to exist as individuals once they start going out with someone.

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It is very strange, thankfully it only seems to be in the media. If I'm going to see friends who are in couples I would say I'm going to Alice and Bob, not Bolice.

Feed. Australian body-horror serial killer thriller about a man who feeds women to death on the internet. No actual tension, but plenty of gratuitous shots of a half-naked morbidly obese woman being fed cakes on a bed.

Eagle vs. Shark. Oddball romantic comedy starring the big one from Flight Of The Conchords. Top notch, and only 83 minutes long. It's hard not to admire a film that gets everything done and dusted in under ninety minutes. Although I am also quite a fan of big meaty 3 hour films.

Cockneys vs Zombies. F**king awful, even before the closing titles Chas & Dave track.

Dolan's Cadillac. Bog standard adaptation of the Stephen King short story. And as much as I love King, it is one of the most ridiculous and least convincing revenges ever.

'Ted'.
Undoubtedley hilarious in parts, but strangely torn beteween taking the piss out of Rom-coms, and actually being one.

Just caught up on the latest series of Dexter, was a bit worried because I thought they jumped the shark a bit in the last series. Still brilliant writing and acting, but it seems to be lacking something this time round - the villain is too sympathetic and there is a genuine lack of threat.

Writing Dexter must be the easiest job in the world.

'What will happen in the new series?'

'Dexter will chase down a serial killer as someone in the Miami PD suspects him of murder.'

'So the same as all of the previous series then.'

The Constant Gardener. Cracking thriller with a really touching love story at the heart of it. Ralph Fiennes has a very fetching wounded quality.

Quote: chipolata @ November 30 2012, 10:29 AM GMT

The Constant Gardener.

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"Mr Simpson, this is the most blatant case of false advertising since my suit against the movie The Neverending Story."

Skyfall. It was confusing, best of the Daniel Craig Bond films but a bit miffed about it.

Maybe they want you to go and see it again.

Quote: zooo @ November 30 2012, 6:17 PM GMT

Maybe they want you to go and see it again.

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It's not that I didn't understand it. It just made no sense in it's own world, when was it meant to be set?

Bloody nothing its foggy out there