The best thing I've seen in the past few months is Archer. Is anybody else into this? I love it!

I saw Tarantinos last movie, Django Unchained, yesterday. Typically Tarantino; lots of violence (and some of it was incredible brutal), but that's not the main attraction, so it's quite good! I liked it very much, not close to Pulp Fiction of course, but still recommended!

I have been wanting to see Prometheus for a while, but now I won't prioritize it...

jkhamler wrote:

The best thing I've seen in the past few months is Archer. Is anybody else into this? I love it!

Aah, I love Archer! So excited that it's back for a new season!

Just watched "Der Himmel über Berlin" by Wim Wenders from 1987. Only 26 years ago. But you won't find the places, because some little things happened afterwords in this town.

The plot: Angels watching people without the ability to change things only to give a little quantum of solace to the afflicted. One of them falls in love with an artist in a circus and changes sides only to make the acquaintance of an other guy who changed sides some years ago.

Among the angels: Bruno Ganz, Otto Sander and Peter Falk, the artist: Solveigh Dommartin

This movie gives a nice chance to dream and to awake.

If you like the subject shorter, watch the 8:35 min movie "Spin" by Jamin Winans ...

Just saw The Hunger Games... Great movie, but ugh so horrible!

Last weekend I saw District 9 and Invictus — both great movies, and it was a nice Apartheid related movie weekend!

I loved District 9, quite an apartheid approach to little green men.

I saw an odd, but very interesting, Korean film called "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring." It takes place on this small, very small floating zen temple on a small lake. An old monk lives there raising an orphan boy, the boy grows up, leaves, comes back a murderer, leaves with the police, then returns as the monk after prison and the old monk's death. Beautiful movie. Not much dialog.

Watching the mess that the series Spartacus has become, it's getting old. What happens in the slave camp is not at all interesting, it's like watching the rowdy footballers at the local pub act like animals, not very interesting, just more of the same. The Romans are much more interestingly portrayed, but sadly they don't get as much attention in the show. Interesting depiction of Marcus Licinius Crassus though, last episode had him decimating his men for cowardice. Heavy scene, done the proper way, draw lots, and the 9 who didn't get picked take clubs and beat the 10th to death. When Crassus says that the troops showed they feared the enemy more than him, said something like "an error this night I intend to see corrected, and to cast fear upon proper name of Marcus Licinius Crassus" it was a scary pronouncement. But watching the slaves act like barbarians, meh.

Still haven't seen The Hunger Games, but have it on the DVR.

Ww have been watching the light froth of the Emil Zola novel transformed by the BBC - it is not obvious as to whether this is Paris or London, or Galleries Lafayette versus Harrods .... but all the accents are English with the odd Scotsman - but most people have French (like) names !

None the less it is relaxing nonsense that precedes our catch-up of the Swedish version of Wallander - they have way more episodes that the English equivalent and I really like the style of acting, direction and production. 

PS the first series I mentioned is called "The Paradise"

elephant wrote:

with the odd Scotsman - but most people have French (like) names !

In my experience, most Scotsmen are a bit odd...

And I too have to get back to Wallander, easier now that I have a TV that streams Netflix and such.

It's been an interesting week for movies, 3 new ones and an old one rediscovered. 

Dark City - an old one, but quite interesting. Aliens have taken humans and built an ever changing city to study us, they can change reality by thought and want to understand if the soul is distinct from memories. So they extract everyone's memories, mix and match them, and reapply, to see if, say, a man becomes a serial killer if he is imprinted with the memories of a serial killer. Very moody atmospheric movie, the city is surreal, an off scale mix of a number of different conflicting times and styles. 

Safety Not Guaranteed - quirky love story about an intern at a magazine who falls in love with the subject of an article she's helping with, a man who advertises for a companion for time travel, safety not guaranteed. Funny and sweet. 

Sleeping Beauty - very odd tale of a young woman who gets caught up being a sleeping beauty, allowing herself to be drugged to sleep naked in a bed, for a lot of money, while old rich men fondle her. Thought provoking. 

After Fall, Winter - very ultimately sad but at times touching and darkly funny story about a failing but once popular American author who goes to Paris, meets a young woman and they fall in love. Both are very damaged people, she works as a dominatrix, but isn't into it, he is into BDSM, but it plays out not in a way you'd think. Ultimately very tragic but worth watching, the actress playing the young woman, who's name escapes me now, is an extremely talented actress. 

We are watching Game of thrones - season two. We baught it on Bluray. A very good series, ainchent time, peolpe and demons fighting about the throne of the 5 kingdoms. The series are very good - and the scenery in the series are awesome. Look at it! :) 

Jeff wrote:

After Fall, Winter - very ultimately sad but at times touching and darkly funny story about a failing but once popular American author who goes to Paris, meets a young woman and they fall in love. Both are very damaged people, she works as a dominatrix, but isn't into it, he is into BDSM, but it plays out not in a way you'd think. Ultimately very tragic but worth watching, the actress playing the young woman, who's name escapes me now, is an extremely talented actress. 

Thanks for reminding me of the title - we watched it months ago and it is a strange tale.

Afterwards my wife likened it to Romeo & Juliet (star crossed lovers), but there is a difference I think - for Juliet and Romeo the tragedy comes from without - brought on by a dysfunctional society.  In this story the dysfunctional forces are within the couple.

It does contain a scene of Paris gypsies and a scam ... one that we were subjected to but escaped !! 

Anyway, the reason I came on today was to relate that in the latest Swedish Wallander ("The Ghost" with sub-titles) there is a BS 3000 (or 3200) on the wall of the luxury home the detectives walk into.