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Heh, looks like they might be killing off Jon Favreau's character as well.

http://cavemancircus.com/2013/02/02/dad-takes-awesomely-creative-photos-of-daughters/ lols

I play my PS3 more than my 360...because I have been watching blu-rays more than I have been playing Halo 4. Seriously, though, I won't care about new consoles for a long while.

Ha, I remember one Christmas when I was helping my cousin (18 years my junior) with LEGO Indiana Jones. I know your pain.

For relevance to the thread, you should all be playing LEGO LOTR. Nooooowwwwww!

Cool, thanks. I watched that film so many times, including all the commentaries, not long after I first got it (ill at uni without most of my stuff or even internet) and I seemed to recall it being mentioned. Just couldn't remember if it was made obvious.

Started playing some LEGO Lord of the Rings. Was only going to play a little, but once you get in that world and hear that music... It has been pretty good so far. Really cool seeing Middle-Earth and getting to roam around peacefully, unlike LEGO Batman 2 where there were constant spells of enemies popping up. Plus, when you collect things it doesn't freeze you in place while it autosaves. The levels have been pretty interesting, too and there's some nice attention to detail. For instance, during the Pass of Caradhras level, where there is deep snow through which smaller characters have to be carried by bigger characters, Aragorn can trudge through whereas Legolas walks right over the top of it, as alluded to in the books (and sort of included in the film?)

Wooooaaaaah.

Do you mean opponents? I like that they list Seinfeld as an Actor rather than Comedian or Actor/Comedian, though there's probably nothing to it. Maybe it's a hit-list.

Stumbled across this. I really like it.

Amazing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTLySbGoMX0

You never existed to me!

You're dead to me.

I don't think A Clockwork Orange lost to a bad film. Certainly not like losing to Chicago or Forrest Gump. And if it isn't obvious from the previous page, I much prefer No Country For Old Men to There Will Be Blood. Also, Saving Private Ryan wasn't great, it just had that opening and Tom Hanks; the rest is Hollywood cliche. I would've picked something like The Truman Show, and actually I think many feel The Thin Red Line to be the superior (war) film on the nominee list.

Huh? The Oscars are a joke. If you're as fond of film as you sound, I'd highly encourage reading Mark Kermode's 'The Good, The Bad And The Multiplex' (it will make you hate). The reason those 'British' films win is usually down to some big American producer, usually Harvey Weinsten, buying the Golden Globes committee (whose picks usually carry through to the Oscars). It's why you get crap like The English Patient winning Oscars, and Judi Dench receiving an award for a performance that had eight minutes onscreen. Hollywood loves Queens and all that idealised British history tripe. Fortunately, British film sees a lot more diversity and talent, just that 'the Academy' doesn't recognise a lot of foreign films. Of course, this year, it's a lot of 'patriotic' American stuff. Though, to be fair, I think only Argo is untempered.

Well, I'm not bothered with who wins what, I just meant that I don't quite get the hype.

Zero Dark Thirty. While I'm not quite onboard with the 'film of the year' claims, it's a good procedural. I guess maybe it has a more cathartic feel for Americans, which is what's causing the high praise. It does an admirable job of balancing the tone and atmosphere, without going overboard into patriotism (though, it does use some quietly heroic themes at one point), and focuses on the Maya character as its throughline. As for the 'pro-torture' debate, I feel they play it as non-partisan as they can. They certainly don't glorify it (how could they?), but there's no denying that torture or the threat of it, did secure key parts of the puzzle. There's a brief moment where a couple of prominent characters appear to almost lament the end of 'the detainee program', which would've been OK except one of them is Maya, who seemed like the shining example of how to 'crack a case' with painstaking investigative work and a little ingenuity (plus, the usual pissing off your superiors with your tenacity). I think the film tries to offset that by having the larger breakthroughs come from the carrot rather than the stick, but I think more could've been done to connect the negative side to the characters. Either way, I still think perception plays into it, which leaves something up for debate and discussion amongst viewers.

FYI: Unlike Trilogy, Quadrilogy is a newly-coined term. That's why it sounds so stupid.

No Country For Old Men. Can't believe I waited this long to see it. Absolutely amazing film, and even though I don't put too much stock in the Oscars, they were surely deserved. I can see why they wanted Javier Bardem for Skyfall (though, he's clearly far better with a Coen brothers script). The dialogue is a lot less verbose than the usual Coen's fare, but really on-point and the suspense rivals Hitchcock..even if it does use some 'cheap' editing tricks. And it really makes me want to read some Cormac McCarthy sooner than I anticipated, because the adaptation is more of a compression, so the book (and other writing) must be really dense with other details. It's certainly a film to mull over, if not watch again, soon afterwards.

Drugs are bad, mkay.

About the enemy waves, Yeah, it was pretty intentional. I even looked up how many soldiers are in a battalion.

http://youtu.be/A6XUVjK9W4o

In case anyone hasn't seen them. Ciaran Hinds as Mance Rayder? Nice. http://www.themarysue.com/game-of-thrones-season-three-character-pics/

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