Due to the lack of threads I'm going to tell you all that I watched Gran Tourino last night.
It was nothing like I expected and I thought it was a really good film which surprised me.

Which films exceeded your expectations?
( Peej, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 15:58, 72 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

New Star Trek was very good.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:01, Reply)

indeed it was

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:03, Reply)

Quick say something smug, I've got an ascii picture to use.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:42, Reply)

my beard was clearly the best of those present at the bash at the weekend

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:50, Reply)

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(PsychoChomp, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:50, Reply)

Thanks.
Are there any pictures from the bash yet?
(PsychoChomp, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:51, Reply)

I absolutely love that
not yet, think Spakka took most, so will need to wait for him to get back.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:53, Reply)

Has he got lost or something?

(PsychoChomp, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:54, Reply)

I think most people were making more of a holiday of it
given the distances travelled.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:55, Reply)

There's some in the bash pool,
you all seem to be outside for some reason?
(PsychoChomp, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:57, Reply)

the first few in the rain are them waiting outside the Eden project for me to arrive
the next few are a short stroll we took before going to the pub.

interesting choices of time to take photos!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:59, Reply)

Skipping onto the next bash,
people seemed to have really made an effort for Dr Whens birthday. I'm trying to think if I've met him.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 17:01, Reply)

they do indeed
Mrs Joe Scaramanga reminds me a lot of some american comedienne. she's in sketch shows with english people...
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 17:03, Reply)

Rita Rudner?

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 17:06, Reply)

no
much more current than that. I can't think of the name of the show she is in.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 17:08, Reply)

I haven't seen any new films lately but I'm going this weekend to see The Last Song.
I read the book last week, which exceeded my expectations.
It was well good.
I cried loads.
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:01, Reply)

I think the movie is going to suck.

( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:01, Reply)

i accidentally started reading a vampire based book yesterday
it's largely porn and I will not be reading it in public
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:03, Reply)

ooh whats it called??

( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:04, Reply)

Ye doity beetch

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:04, Reply)

oooooooooooh yes I am
I'm off teh sex, must get my jollies some how
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:14, Reply)

Ah, fair play to you
Sauce is our friend
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:14, Reply)

lost souls
by Poppy Z Brite
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:07, Reply)

.rigby from /talk has been telling me about her
however, I haven't been able to go book shopping lately
but a book I've been waiting a year for comes out the 27th so I'm woah excited about that...maybe I'll pick something up by her as well
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:09, Reply)

ooo, what is it?
I'm still waiting on George RR Martin, but the last one was over 5 years ago, so I don't expect it will come out when Amazon advertise it to be out
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:13, Reply)

oh, I just checked, I've only been waiting six months,
it's called Simply Insatiable by Kate Pearce, and oh man I can't wait, I've also just found out my fave author's coming out with a new one in her series on July 1st, called Naked by Megan Hart.
Oh boy. It's going to be a long, hot summer.
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:16, Reply)

I thought Gran Torino
was about an old lady bullfighter, and was very disappointed to discover I was wrong.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:02, Reply)

I thought it was about cars
but I mistook the film title to be "Gran Turismo"
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:29, Reply)

Isn't a Gran Torino a vintage Ford car?
I thought it was about what happens to his car....is this wrong?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 17:28, Reply)

Sort of
But that's just a small part of it.
( Peej, Wed 7 Apr 2010, 10:00, Reply)

I was going to start a new thread
with this:
Apeloverage posted this link on the qotw www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/02/world/main6357321.shtml
my question is, could the Pope look more like an evil paedo goblin?

in answer to the films thing, Blades of Glory, which I watched some of for the second time last night, was shitloads funnier and less shit thane xpected.

edit: I've just noticed a couple of typos on the end, which has led me to my new insult "Shit thane"
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:02, Reply)

the eyes
the eeeeyyyyeeeesssss
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:04, Reply)

Thane of Cawdor?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:05, Reply)

indeed
and Glamis!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:05, Reply)

All hail McVyvian.
Thane of corridor
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:10, Reply)

My father is chums with the current Lady MacBeth.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:11, Reply)

You name dropper.
I don't know anybody of any consequence.

*jealous*
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:15, Reply)

You know me, don't you?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:17, Reply)

A bit, yes.
and I can't say I'm totally happy about it.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:54, Reply)

That's a shit story,
this is a good news story
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8582353.stm
(PsychoChomp, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:05, Reply)

that is thoroughly excellent

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:06, Reply)

Boondock Saints 2
I was so worried it'd be crap, but it's actually ace!
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:04, Reply)

I thought it was both
crap and ace
( Peej, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:23, Reply)

Crace?

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:23, Reply)

easy
District 9 and let the right one in.

Had heard good things about both, but was a little wary, both however are awesome films
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:21, Reply)

Let The Right One In is genius.
I'm just gutted I've only got a dubbed version, would much prefer subs.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:23, Reply)

I wasn't taken by District 9
But I loved Let the Right One In
( Peej, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:25, Reply)

Righto
I'm off. Time to actually do some work
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:21, Reply)

Trah

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:23, Reply)

I watched Harry Brown last night
Which is a bit like Gran Torino, as in pensioner takes on gangs, but with far more viloence and far less morals.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:24, Reply)

I really enjoyed that
I was expecting it to be crap but it was moving and violent in the right amounts.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:55, Reply)

None recently
I saw "Kick Ass" on Friday and thought it was silly (which is probably the point of an action comedy).
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:24, Reply)

I'm struggling to think of one,
and my expectations of enjoying pretty much any film are really fucking low these days. They're just not aimed at me and that's fair enough, so I don't bother with them. For the same reason I don't go to football matches or whatever.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:36, Reply)

haha
A couple of mates and I decided to go to the Abbey yesterday to watch Cambridge United, who have been universally shoite all season and we were all fearing the worst for a dire attritional game, and ended up watching an absolute cracker! sending offs, penalties, terrible refereeing decisions and we won, then went down the pub for a swift half and fell out 5 pints later
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:46, Reply)

I feel this way about TV
but there's only so much you can read and you can't go down the pub every night.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:51, Reply)

I recommend illegally downloading
stuff.

I've also got one of those new fangled tv recording devices, so can pick and choose the few half decent things from among the massive heaps of shite on tv.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:54, Reply)

I have a friend who downloads the new Lost episode every week
it's become a weekly event for us
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:58, Reply)

I do this
I have the latest to watch tonight. I'd got a bit behind, so only watched the previous one last night, or the night before.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 17:00, Reply)

I like this series
it's a bit slower than some of the previous series, but that's more than OK with me (it can't all be gun battles and monsters). I like the alternate reality story thread where we see how their lives panned out without the island.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 17:03, Reply)

it is different to the others
things are being explained (after a fashion) which is great. I'm pleased I've stuck with the whole thing. Never really done that before with a tv series (I mean making sure I watched every episode before the next)
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 17:06, Reply)

I get the feeling that there will remain some unanswered questions at the end just to be annoying

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 17:07, Reply)

and that will most likely get people going "I told you so, they didn't have any answers"
I'll be content if it wraps up nicely. I don't necessarily need to know everything. I'm happy for things to happen just because.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 17:08, Reply)

This weeks 6/10
new one tonight from Canada!
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 17:04, Reply)

que?

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 17:05, Reply)

The last episode was ok, not brilliant

Jin and Sun's alternate story.

i find new torrents every Tuesday from CTV in Canada
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 17:06, Reply)

ah, that was a rating
the Richard one was quite enlightening
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 17:07, Reply)

Indeed, I didn't know they had masquara in 19th Centuary Spain

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 17:08, Reply)

or that people who have taught themselves English by reading a Bible
speak it fluently and with an american accent
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 17:09, Reply)

I do this with Flash Forward
even though it's on Tv on Mondays, no one twlls me when I have to watch stuff!
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 17:05, Reply)

I'm watching Flash Forward
but I can't say i'm that taken with it. It's certainly no Lost.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 17:10, Reply)

I do quite like it, not as engaged as lost, but i do want to know what caused the black out
and Dominic "Hobbitt" is quite good as an arrogant Englishman
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 17:13, Reply)

To my mind there's not only so much you can read.
But then I also play a musical instrument, fuck about on the decks and research music online as well as read - I too think TV is almost wholly awful, things like 'Lost' hold literally no appeal whatsoever for me. I watched three episodes and when I tired of laughing at that fat cunt it was all over.

Garagepunk.com has some brilliant podcasts to check out, this is my latest discovery. The forum is really good, there's a great discussion about whether The Clash were punk or not, so I've registered and am pending approval so I can rant away to my heart's content. The poor buggers.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 17:18, Reply)