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Thread #108718   Message #2267555
Posted By: Grab
20-Feb-08 - 12:48 PM
Thread Name: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
Strange - I'm sure I posted on this yesterday.

"Little Miss Sunshine" is now on DVD.

Also just saw "First Blood" for the first time on late-night TV the other night. And wondered how a fairly good film about PTSD and small-town prejudice with a Rambo-inflicted bodycount of zero managed to turn into that Hollywood trash kill-em-all franchise. Ho hum.

I also caught that pilot of "Being Human" on BBC3 the same night - a vampire, a werewolf and a house sharing a house. If you didn't see this, find it now and then petition the BBC to make the series. The trailers presented it as a comedy - actually it's about as much a comedy as early "X Files", so there's some funny interplay between the characters on top of a very creepy scenario. Unlike "Blade" and the like, there's no CGI and no special effects - just great writing and acting. And for those who saw it, you'll probably agree that the few lines between the ghost and vampire characters about the nature of the afterlife or the werewolf talking about the taste of carotid arteries are worth any dozen Hollywood creature-features.

Graham.