The Films Thread

[styles]

Wall E is brilliant

[harv]

All of the Pixar films are brilliant, I love them. I've always liked anything animated, but I prefer stuff that's done the old fashioned way with models and stop-motion rather than stuff that's in cartoon or CGI form. The Harry Harryhausen films were always my favourite when I was a kid. Sinbad, Jason and The Argonauts and Clash of The Titans. Love that stuff

[Momo]

Savages..........Excellent
Lawless...........Excellent, Oscar material possibly, with a brilliant soundtrack to boot.
Prometheus.......Very good.
Total Recall.........Total gash.
Ted.........Hmmmm, a bit disappointing for Seth's normal high standard.
The Dictator.......Typical Sacha fare, a few good chuckles here and there.
Wild Bill......Very surprised this gem never got much exposure, what a great wee movie, some strong acting performances here, highly recommended.
Get The Gringo.......Liked this as well, thought it would be poor but pleasantly surprised, worth a watch.
Brave.........Mince.
Ecstacy.........Irving Welsh adaptation, if you are expecting a Trainspotting calibre movie forget it, this is dire. Everybody involved in this should be shot, or even worse made watch it till the end.

This XBMC app for the ipad is the baws, with a HMDI cable fired into the back of the telly makes for tremendous entertainment. Best app ever, lovin' it.
Sky can take a hike. 

[Dragontao]

Watched Prometheus earlier this week.

To my eyes, though, this was definitely a prequel to Alien.

Definitely a prequel. Enjoyed it but also thought it was quiote predictable.

Prometheus 2 is being made.

[Dragontao]

Ted.........Hmmmm, a bit disappointing for Seth's normal high standard.

Thought it was good, excellent cgi on the bear.

Think there needs to be a zombie sequel: Day of the Living Ted. 

[styles]

What's xbmc momo?

[Late]

It's a media player/interface that lets you play your films etc. - a sort of home theatre player, because it's designed as something on your big tv that you can control from a sofa.
Youtube best explains it.

I really need to get me some XBMC. I currently play most of my files through a small media player device, but the interface is as basic as they come. What I have works fine, but XBMC is so pretty and gives you loads of extra info etc!
Until recently, most people ran it on small form PCs under (or attached to the back of) the telly, but lately there are a lot more options. As Momo says, you can plug tablets into your tv. You can also buy small devices to plug into the telly which put xbmc on there and can be controlled using your tablet or mobile phone.
I might wait until the OUYA comes out next year. Primarily an android games console, but has been announced as having xbmc.

XBMC wiki

[jman]

Dont see the problem with Windows Media Center myself... one of the best and most used features on the 360 for me.

If they added Kinect support to the 360 WMC (like they have with windows) that would be pretty cool, streaming and playing films without the use of a control pad nor remote control.. with voice recognition to give extra fast searching of stuff you want to watch or listen to.  Im quite excited by what Microsoft are deciding to do next with Kinect.. so much potential.

[Late]

I don't tend to use the 360 for anything other than games. Even with the latest model it's just too damned noisy.

I'm now toying (once again) with getting a Raspberry Pi, and sticking xbmc on.
About £30 for the Pi, and a few quid each for a case and usb wifi. Already have micro usb power cables, hdmi cables, SD cards, so it should be a pretty cheap exercise.

[bealec]

http://www.getreading.co.uk/sport/football/readingfc/s/2120850_tom_hardy_and_christian_bale_lined_up_to_play_robin_friday

Looks like this film is really happening. I know I'm going to be the only person on here excited about this (Well Kenny may be too) but I can't wait for this. Will be good for the town an all.

[Late]

[Insert joke about Bale being relegated from playing Batman to playing Robin...]

[jman]

http://www.getreading.co.uk/sport/football/readingfc/s/2120850_tom_hardy_and_christian_bale_lined_up_to_play_robin_friday

Looks like this film is really happening. I know I'm going to be the only person on here excited about this (Well Kenny may be too) but I can't wait for this. Will be good for the town an all.

I live in Reading too...

although you were right in the first place... your the only person on here excited about this 

[styles]

Confession time. This past week i have been in Scotland on a training course for sky. Starting on Monday I'll be flogging sky door to door. Not sure how long I'll last as Im a lazy bugger but the pay is class, i get a motor and free sky tv and so far they seem to be a great place to work for.

Obviously one of my tasks will be converting people from virgin, bt etc so anyone who wants to tell me why sky is better than those companies then Im all ears.

[Late]

UK call centres?

[harv]

They're all a pile of old pants as far as telly is concerned. And Virgin Media has the fastest internet speed too so don't waste your time trying to convince a Virgin Media customer to switch their broadband.