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[ImperialSnob]

Smith has a line in I, Robot that kills me every time -

Robots building robots...now that's just stupid

I don´t see why it would be stupid. After all, humans "build" humans too, right?

It's a Will Smith line don't think about it and just "NOD YO HEAD"

[mALX]

The Godfather marathon (all the sequels included)

I've never seen 2 nor 3,I've only seen the first.

Are 2 and 3 bad or are people overreacting?

After watching the original Godfather, they went into Godfather #2 - it began with Vito's early childhood and coming to America from Sicily - that was pretty good, watching his rise to power. They showed Michael, Santino, and Fredo growing up as little boys, etc. That part was good.

Then (and I'm not sure if this was a different sequel or the same one) = they suddenly started flickering back and forth between the past and present, showing out-takes of the original Godfather, and ...

(still not sure if this was the next movie in line or the same one) = suddenly Michael became a total butthole. Everyone was turning on everyone - it lost its appeal.

In one of them Michael kills Fredo, probably the butthole one.

I think if they took the early Vito stuff, then the brothers growing up, then went into the original Godfather (and cut out everything else completely) it would have been much better.

Anyway, I got bored and watched it from the next room while playing on the PC (meaning didn't see anything unless I heard a line that attracted my attention).

Were they worth it = not hardly the same impact as the original Godfather. Not at all. It was Hollywood trying to jump on the theme while it was hot to the public; if that tells you anything. One of the reasons I'm not big on sequels after a great movie. They get excited, then over-excited, then desperate to milk the living crap out of the theme.

[Kiln]

Smith has a line in I, Robot that kills me every time -

Robots building robots...now that's just stupid

I don´t see why it would be stupid. After all, humans "build" humans too, right?

It's a Will Smith line don't think about it and just "NOD YO HEAD"

Funny, I just watched MIB2 last night.

[SubRosa]

I have been watching Vietnam: A Television History. Its a very good documentary about - you guessed it - the war in Vietnam. It starts up at the end of World War 2 to lay the groundwork, which is important because by doing so it reveals the goals of the Viet Minh/Cong/North Vietnamese, which were not simply communism, but nationalism. It makes an effort to portray both sides of the conflict without showing favoritism, and lets the viewer make up their own mind. Though one thing it does make eminently clear is the impossibility of a U.S. victory in a war of attrition against an enemy that would literally suffer any losses to win (3-4 million dead Vietnamese, Laotians, and Cambodians vs 58,000 American dead). Yet at the same time there seemed no way out.

One of the things I found interesting was President Johnson's own doubts about the war from early on. But as one of the talking heads pointed out, the last domino in the domino theory was the White House. In 1964 a president who looked soft on communism was not going to win election. So one of the first things Johnson did was reverse Kennedy's plan to reduce the number of American advisors in Vietnam and instead start massively building up. As he said himself: "But if I left that war and let the Communists take over South Vietnam, then I would be seen as a coward and my nation would be seen as an appeaser and we would both find it impossible to accomplish anything for anybody anywhere on the entire globe."

It makes a good companion to Fog of War and the Trials of Henry Kissinger. Neither of those are as unbiased, but one can read between the lines of each. Fog of War gives a much more indepth view of what the White House strategy was in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and Trials of Henry Kissinger of it during the Nixon years.

[ImperialSnob]

TOP GEAR SEASON 10!

[ImperialSnob]

Total Divas....I'm ashamed to say it was great....

[McBadgere]

Still going through Magnum PI on the tele...Damned excellent series...

And this evening we watched that last Dark Knight film...Not the greatest superhero film I've ever seen...Nowhere near as good as Superman or The Avengers...But a decent watch nevertheless...

[SubRosa]

Watching Raiders of the Lost Ark. Even after all this time, it is still a damn good movie. I bought the collection of all four Indiana Jones movies on blu-ray today.

Interesting thing I noticed watching it this time around. Some of the score sounded exactly like pieces from Star Wars: A New Hope. Not just inspired by, but practically note for note. Some of the sound effects were taken from Star Wars, like the blaster fire sound. You might say George Lucas' fingerprints were all over it.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Aug 19 2013, 01:21 AM

[McBadgere]

We saw that new Disney/Pixar thing the other day - Planes...

Well, I was already ill when we went...(But we promised the kids etc blah blah)...

Aaamywho...The bits I saw between the bouts of falling asleep were really pretty good...

I noticed that Val Kilmer and Anthony Edwards had cameos as Carrier-bound jets, which was pretty cool... ...I likes me Top Gun... ...

Not as good as some, but I really enjoyed it...What I saw of it anyways... ...

[ImperialSnob]

Total Divas...I'm both ashamed and not.

[McBadgere]

The Great British Bake Off...I love Sue Perkins...*Sigh *...

[Darkness Eternal]

Naked and afraid: Raw. Seeing nude people survive in the wildnerss is fascinating.

[SubRosa]

Just watched the first episode of Season Three of the Borgias.

[Rohirrim]

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Brilliant. Martin Freeman and Zooey Deschanel are great, and the metaphors contained within are hilarious and superb. Also, the Vogon's and Vogsphere remind me of Tim Burton's claymation work.

[McBadgere]

*Sigh*...Zooey... ...

When I were a lad, we had a couple of epic Jap-anime series that ran for weeks and weeks...Actually, there were a couple that were French made...But anyways...

I sat and watched the latest Beyblade thing with the boy last night...Fighting spinning tops that have a psychic connection to their owners/friends and...Zzzzzzzzz...*Snore*...*Drools from the corner of his mouth*...Oh dear...Sorry, did I fall asleep again?... ...They don't make them like they used to...Battle of The Planets anyone?...Ulysses 31?...Inspector Gadget?...He-Man?...Ayyyyyy..

[ImperialSnob]

The anime I watch is Bobobbobobbo....I don't know what the writers/animators/anyone who worked on it were on.

[mALX]

The anime I watch is Bobobbobobbo....I don't know what the writers/animators/anyone who worked on it were on.

Acadian used to write sketches for BoBo, but probably not the same one

[McBadgere]

Last night we watched the Jack Reacher with Tom Cruise in it...

It was pretty good really...Nothing too taxing or anything...Pretty much like any Tom Cruise Action Movie™ really...But that said, he always seems to do good Action Movie™...We enjoyed it...

And today we saw that City of Bones thing with Lily (daughter of Phil) Collins in it...I wasn't looking forward to it at all...And so was pleasantly surprised by how good it actually was...Fair dues... ...

[Kiln]

Just watched the newest episode of Breaking Bad. Just wow. Plot twist out of nowhere.

[SubRosa]

I just finished season three - the final season - of the Borgias. Fantastic. François Arnaud is excellent anti-hero as Cesare. The guy is practically evil personified, but the great thing about him is that everything he does is to protect his family, and is what he feels is right. He does it so well that you cheer for him as he murders his brother. In retrospect, the entire series can be seen as his evolution into a Dark Lord worthy of Sauron or Vader.