The Spy Who Loved Me


Ah, I do love the Moore era of Bond, and this might just be my favourite. Equally, it has my favourite Bond Theme in it.

The Inbetweeners Movie

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A movie length episode as I was expecting and it follows the usual blueprint of the show with a few of the colloquialisms removed to appeal to a wider audience. The series had a bit more style to it and this comes off as just another American Pie styled "dick and fart" comedy flick. Still it made me laugh my ass off in parts which is the main reason for throwing on a comedy movie.

The Art Of Getting By

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A random selection that backfired on me. Angsty teenager rubbish. I just wanted to reach into my television and shake everyone while yelling "GET OVER YOURSELVES!!!". I guess I'm in the wrong age group to appreciate this one but it had none of the sharp satire or bite of say Pump Up The Volume. Bland in every way and had me questioning why the fuck did I even bother.

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Fuck the remark in the review on the main page pissed me off:

:rolleyes:

Source Code.
Checked all the boxes for decent sci-fi, pretty solid all-round.

Re-watched 'My blood valentine: 3D'.

Saw '30 minutes or less' for the first time, which was alright. It was a little short. It's tough to take any movie shorter than 90 minutes seriously, imo, let alone one shorter than 80 minutes.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - brilliant! Really funny and perfect for this time of year.

Same goes for Bad Santa which I always watch around Christmas. Hilarious!

Yeah with everyone saying it's the worst of the series I'll watch it wasted for a laugh if I get round to it.

The Ruins (2008)I was disappointed that there wasn't a lot more to the story of this. Howerver it is very gory and I was in the mood for gore. So don't expect much in the story department but gorefans will enjoy it.

Hatchet 2. It wasn't as good as the first one. I thought it was filmed by a different director. The movie just felt off. I wasn't expecting the new actress either for the lead character.

I liked it a lot more than the original.

In the days of the double bill, most "b-movies" - the ones that showed after the first or "a-movie" were all around 60-75 minutes in length. If you're a good director you can tell a story well in a short time. In his early days Woody Allen said the perfect length for a comedy was 87 minutes- and if you look at every one of his films up to, I think Annie Hall, they're all exactly 87 minutes long.

Hmm I knew movies used to run shorter, but I didn't realize run times that short were that common-interesting.

My favorite movie of the last ten years, 'Children of Men', is only a hair over ninety minutes. It also meshes with what you said about needing a Director who's worth his salt, which Alfonso Cuaran is.

I guess they did something right with '30 minutes of less', as they left me wanting more, so the director and writer did their jobs.

That being said, 83 (counting credits)minutes still feels a little short. I'm having a tough time thinking of another decent comedy from the last 5-10 years which was that short. Does anything jump out in your mind?