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    Ok, so as well as catching Two and a half men, I'm watching The Apprentice and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares when it's on. Started Chuck too which seems a bit weird.

    When I'm on the tube or bus, or at lunch I watch a SouthPark episode on my iPhone. In a month I've got through about 5 series, I'm upto Ginger Kids.

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      Bully the Larry Clark film. I expected to hate this as I did all the others of his I've seen, but actually it's pretty good. Maybe because it's loosely based on a true story, and the handling of the kind of group psychology was done well.

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        I watched 'London to Brighton' last weekend. What a nasty little shit of a film that is. It's 'underclass porn' designed for safe middle class types such as myself to watch and think 'what nasty horrible scummy people these are. I'm glad my life isn't like that'.

        Rank.

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          I watched Appleseed: Ex Machina over the weekend. It's a CG-anime film produced by John Woo based on the manga by the same guy who wrote Ghost in the Shell and directed by the same guy too, I think. It's better than the first Appleseed film. The dialog is a bit stiff, but the giant robots/mech suits, flying machines, shoot-up sequences and overall visual look of it is really sweet. Did I mention the mech suits?

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            I've been actively avoiding "Only Sitcom in The Top 10" Two and a half men for, what, three or four years now. It looks like a train wreck. Two '80s has-beens and a kid. If there's anything I hate more, I can't think of what it might be.
            So, the other night, of the 600-odd channels on our satellite, there's just plain NOTHING on. I end up watching 2 1/2 Men. And you know what? It was funny. Not Seinfeld funny. Not ironic The Office/CYE/Arrested Development funny. No; genuine, plain-old laughs funny. The kid is surprisingly good, and the larfs aren't as cheap and obvious as I figured they might be. So now I've got a fair bit of catching up to do.

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              I think you might get tired of it pretty fast. It's basically one joke. Well, two jokes (one of them's uptight, the other one's irresponsible).

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                Also it seems based on the idea that Charlie Sheen is irresistibly attractive to women, rather than a slightly simple looking bloke with no lips and a weird chin.

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                  The Eye - the new remake that is. I actually quite enjoyed this, for what it is, it'snot bad at all.

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                    Camping Sauvage I liked this; it's really lovely to look at, in total contrast to the content; it's weirdly romantic though, too.

                    Iron Man what an odd odd film. At first I thought it was poiltically very dubious - then it totally reversed that - but what an odd mixture of comic superhero and commentary on US foreign policy.

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                      Having spent my Easter break on a fast-paced 'Battlestar Galactica' dvd marathon, I'll soon be able to read the thread on it without fear.

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                        Desperate Housewives. How will Gabi dump Carlos ?

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                          Dunno, but last week I watched Desperate Housewives for the first time since the first series.

                          There was a scene in it that was so similar to my life it was spooky. One of the Housewives (the one married to the guy from Fargo in real life) came down the stairs dressed like a slutty cheerleader and said to her husband - 'Are you coming to bed now?' To which he replies - 'Not quite yet, I'm got to change my Fantasy Football team.'

                          All exactly like my life every Friday night (except for the slutty cheerleader bit).

                          By the way, Lyra - I'm impressed you could slip in the fact that you'd seen Iron Man so casual, like. I'll be starting a brand new thread when I see it - as shiny as his armour.

                          And - grrrr - when are you going to sort out Current Watching into 2 seperate threads? Is it only me who is annoyed by it?

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                            The last two weekends, I've been downloading films that I either haven't seen for years or that I've never seen before. Yesterday, I had the curious double bill of "Death Race 2000" and "Manhattan". They were, I thought, both great.

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                              The Shield, season 3.

                              Still brilliant. If The Wire is better than this, I can't fucking wait to get stuck in to it.

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                                Only rank amateurs make fantasy football transfers on a Friday, without the benefit of Saturday morning's team news.

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                                  On old OTF, there was a thread about cultural phenomena that has passed you by, and I don't think that I was the only person to say "Star Wars". So, I downloaded all six of the "Star Wars" films last night, and I'm planning to watch them over the course of Friday night and Saturday morning. Should I be watching them 4-6, and then 1-3 (ie, in chronological order), or 1-6?

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                                    4-6, then smash the hard disk to pieces with a hammer.

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                                      I'm almost certain that my concentration will start to wane after I've seen Darth Vader's big old head at the end of, ummm, whichever one of them that is.

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                                        Jon, I don't know, no one else seems bothered, and actually I quite like the interplay between films and TV... I think since people watch both on DVD anyway these days it becomes less of a divide anyway.

                                        Like for example, the new X-Files film! I am SO over the top excited about this already.

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                                          I think mixing film and TV is stimulating more discussion of both than there ever was before.

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                                            I watched 'London to Brighton' last weekend. What a nasty little shit of a film that is. It's 'underclass porn' designed for safe middle class types such as myself to watch and think 'what nasty horrible scummy people these are. I'm glad my life isn't like that'.
                                            Really? It's a while since I watched it, but I remember thinking it was fairly good. I didn't think the people were particularly 'scummy'. The bad guys were bad, sure, but the others were sympathetically drawn, weren't they?

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                                              Ae Fond Kiss the other day.

                                              Hmm. I always think with Loach that if we didn't have him someone would have to invent him; he does seem to fill a necessary kind of gap inbetween Mike Leigh and Shane Meadows and after Alan Clark etc etc. But I'm never *surprised* by his films in the way that I want to be. They're safe in their territory, I suppose. That's not to say they can't be funny and affecting and interesting and moving, but they just don't quite do it for me and to understand why I'd have to analyse a bit more how I feel about Shane Meadows and the Dardennes and Pavel Pawlikowski and so on.

                                              Anyway the subject matter of this - Pakistani Muslims and their settlement in a Scottish community in Glasgow - is something that touches my own experience and films about this always reduce me to a weeping wreck anyway (see also My Son The Fanatic in particular). And I also often feel that trying to avoid stereotypes isn't what these films should be doing so much as attempting to analyse where they come from. In that respect this didn't do too badly, and even the character of the strict dad was rounded; and he was emotional in the way that I think Pakistani-English men of his age often actually are, which is kind of what I mean about stereotypes.

                                              But in the end, I couldn't love it the way I love My Son The Fanatic. Could this be because Hanif Kureishi and Udayan Prasad really do understand what they're doing in a fundamental way that Loach can't? Normally I would reject this kind of thought, but here.. I don't know. Probably too personal for me, anyway.

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                                                I watched 88 Minutes (Al Pacino) last night.

                                                Flee.

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                                                  You, the Living. The new Roy Andersson film. Unbelievably brilliant. Så fantastisk.
                                                  It's just as good as Songs from the Second Floor, which I also loved very much. Amazing film.

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                                                    I'm really pleased I stuck with Dexter. Absolutely cracking stuff. David off Six Feet Under is clearly better at choosing his projects than Nate off Six Feet Under. Dirty Sexy Money? Yeeurch!

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