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Every word you said is a fact.

Peter

I just watched the episode "Insheeption". They made fun of Zimmer. I wasn't expecting that. The only composer I remember them making fun of before was Randy Newman.

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-ep … nsheeption

"A Boy and His Dog" (1975)


I think it would be correct to say this is a product of the 1970's.

Don Johnson plays a young may in a post-apocalypse world after World War IV. It's 2024! (dramatic pause). Yeah, like that really mattered.

Anyway, I skimmed through about half the movie, which turned out meaning I didn't miss much.

This young man goes on the hunt for a woman to have sex with, apparently not for procreatrion but rather because he's horny.

Anyway, he travels along with his dog, Blood, who can telpathecly talk to him and he can talk to Blood that way, too. The dog has some kind of scanning ability like he was K.I.T.T. (there's even this terrible dated sound effect to go with it)

The movie is a real waste of time, so I'll go ahead and reveal everything.

The young man finds a woman, has sex with her a few times, she tells him she lives in the underground which, as Blood tells him, would be death if he went under there. Hey, what do you know? She wants him to go underground with her!

So, after some relunctance, he does so and gets caught. He's told by the elders, who have strict rules where you break three and you are sent to the "Farm" (which is a phrase for cracking your neck until you are dead), that living underground causes the genes to go bad, blah blah blah, and they need fresh blood. There's a minute where Johnson's character thinks he's hit the jackpot and he's going to knock up a bunch of girls. Next scene, he's trapped down and a device, under a bunch of cloths, is pumping semen out of him so they can use it to impregnate girls who are lined up to marry him.

The girl who lured him down break him out. She really lured him down there so he could help her overthrow the elders, one of which is her father, so she can run it and do as she wants. Her father and the other elders pass judgement quickly and he sends her to the "Farm". so she persuades Johnson to escape with her. They go back above ground where an injured Blood has been waiting too long and is starving and on the verge of dying. The girl tells him it's too late for the dog. She loves him, they can go anywhere.

I said it out loud before it even was implied minutes later: he killed her, cooked her, fed her to his dog, and they left together.

THE END. There, don't waste your time with it.


The score was by Tim McIntire. Nothing remarkable though some pieces might be interesting apart from the picture.

I'm reading this on my phone and I thought you gave Jack Reacher 7% and was about to agree.

I did like World War Z though, even if Brad Pitt isn't very believable as a family man. And the score is a lot of fun, if you like that sort of thing (which I do). I was listening to it while I was in a busy town square the other day and gave a very cool perspective on things.

I was pleasantly surprised by Oblivion, which kept surprising me with a good character development and little but unexpected twists, I give it 8 for the addition of amazing effects, a super cool look and a thoroughly enjoyable TRON like score

as for World War Z, I though it was a riveting experience that had everything on board a blockbuster needs + character development for once

I haven't read ( and never will ) the Jack Reacher novels but I have read that Reacher is supposed to be about 6,5 tall.

In that regard it's hard to imagine a more perfect, more succinct casting than Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher.

6,5 meter? They sould call it "Jack the Giant and his Slayer" or something!

It's a favourite film from my childhood, although I don't remember much of it anymore.

I really fancy seeing this.


Recent(ish) films I've seen are...

CLOUD ATLAS ....I'm not sure if I loved or hated this? A bit of both!? Loved LOVED the score.

HANSEL & GRETEL ....I was in the right mood and loved it. Crappy score though.

JACK THE GIANT KILLER ....Really good fun and a very fine score by John Ottman

There Will Be Blood. Now there's a good film. Bloody flawless.

Which movie are you talking about here?

It's a pity if you've seen CLOUD ATLAS before reading it. It would be hard to shake the film's curious choices while reading. The book really was a triumph.



Assuming 'many, many years' is a number greater than 2, does this mean we're finally free of hearing about how wonderful PROMETHEUS was from now on?

J/k. I'm looking forward to Cuaron's film. I wish it hadn't taken 7 years of his filmmaking career away, but nonetheless it does look like a treat.

Ah, Prometheus. A brilliant production of a terrible script with a few excellent scenes. I both like and dislike it. (Why is Damon Lindelof allowed to write movies? )