wondering if reed liked the prisoner.

Really? I’m two hours away and we get it. Skip the prisoner and wAit for frank darabonts walking dead series on AMC

Another great episode, glad to hear Greg back on the show even if he won’t shut up about Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. P.S. Don’t ever play anything by Drew again

Greg can go on about “Cloudy…” all he wants because he’s right. its good. It has the same people behind it as Clone High so you should have an idea what the humor is like.

I hated Clone High.

“But is it Oscar-worthy?”

more than some things in recent years, but to me really it has a better chance simply by nature of its box office success. :/

@Mrespony you’ll be happy too know i’m sending in ANOTHER theme song next week

On Spielberg:

I think the major issue with his films for me is just that they’re shallow. Like, I can think of no character in any of his films that seemed to breathe outside of whatever plot they were involved in to tell a story.

To throw up a comparison, Inglorious Basterds is a film that I would call shallow, but even that manages to bring in characters that seem to have their own universe. Bridget Von Hammersmarck when she comes into the film seems to bring an entirely different world with her, she exists somewhere else in this universe, and you feel that when she comes on screen. She isn’t just a plot device made up (she is, but the disguise works because of good writing in my opinion), she has her own character. In a Spielberg movie it would just be Bridget Von Exposition coming along.

I don’t like Jean-Luc Godard either. I have never had a problem with Steven Spielberg being style over substance though, I’ve just had a problem with his substance being boring. I think his shallowness is also what makes his sentimentality seem so overwrought and toe-curlingly embarrasing.

For some reason his movies just aren’t very interesting to me. He is like the epitomy of Hollywood, and he does have some cool shots here and there, but he lacks insight in the human condition (his films speak in clichés and platitudes). That takes him down quite a bit for me, and lessens his films, while I will admit that for children they are excellent, and some hold up for adults as well (in my opinion Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List hold up).

Calling him a hack seems like the wrong criticism. He is not a bad director in that sense. He knows how to chop together a movie without ruining it. He just doesn’t have anything interesting to offer emotionally or intellectually, so he will never mean much to me. But I understand why people love him.

Well, character driven doesn’t equal depth in my opinion. Deep characters equal depth.

I did not see Munich.

Jay – that’s exactly how I feel re Up. Although I lost it long before talking dogs. Here’s an older gentleman who requires a walking cane (which by the way has freaking tennis balls covering the feet for no reason other than so that he can throw one later to make the (talking) dogs chase..fr1kn elle)..and yet he has the strength to drag a house around?

Also..my youngens had no idea what happened when they received certain news in relation to kids..they also said ‘where’s his wife’ after that orsm opening. It is orsm to everyone everyone except children who have no idea what’s going on. All around the cinema adults were explaining to youngens why they were upset, and why the wife isn’t with him.

And of course the alpha dog has his voice interpreter broken so he speaks in chipmunk

bah

@Bugsyoz
What’s “orsm”?

@swarez — Fair enough, but let’s say ‘new’ as in the past 10-15 years, especially when the term ‘animation’ these days means dishing out stuff like “Space Chimps” and “Fly Me to the Moon”.

@zzzzzzzz: Sean is indeed correct in that I haven’t seen The Prisoner mini-series. I haven’t even seen all of the original series with Patrick McGoohan. For me, it was “intellectual,” but boring.