3041

Watching Hemlock Grove here too. I tried to like it…I thought it was going to be like the American Horror Story on FX. I endured 3 episodes before giving up. Wife is still watching it, I think it sucks though.

3042

Lately I’ve been watching “24.” We only watched the first few seasons when it was released, and it’s perfect for marathon sessions. I’m in the 7th season now (the one that starts with Jack as an unlikely volunteer in Africa). The show really was a hoot when it first came out, but I can see it just drifting off into some alternate universe as it goes. One would think that after basically becoming a heroin junkie and deposing a sitting president that Jack could write off further government work, let alone the highly secret kind. yet there he is, saving the world like Harry Potter, except with a pistol instead of a wand.

3043

Haha! Thats how 24 season 7 starts? It sounds like a bad joke… I gave up on the series after watching a few episodes of season 2, and seeing his daugther was able to be kidnapped 7 times in the span of 4 hours or something close to that made me rather annoyed.

3044

I enjoyed the whole run, and I thought they did a pretty good job of making situations where they flat out know that Jack is a liability and the worst possible person they could be forced to deal with, and yet they find themselves entangled in a mess where Jack’s involvement is either desired by some party, or Jack himself has a reason to bully his way into everything.

For me, the real strength of the show is what so many other shows seem to refused to do and that is wrap up most of the threads at the end of a single season. I’m very tired of shows that spend 80% of the season adding new characters and plots and subplots and you get toward the end thinking “How are they going to wrap this up in just a couple episodes?” With 24, the last couple hours are usually chock full of closure and wrap up and action. On other shows, they simply don’t bother, maybe they solve one plot/mystery (if that!) and then promise the rest will come next season…

3045

it was a decent SNES title, sort of like the star wars platformers mixed with a little metroidvania / bionic commando. Never saw the cartoon though…

3046

I never did get the chance to watch the Bond movies again, and now they’re gone from Netflix Instant Watch again. Sigh. Next time they come back, someone post in this thread please. I’m definitely going to try to jump on it at the next opportunity, if life is a little less hectic next time it happens.

I do miss watching them every year on TBS.

3047

Hokey smoke, they got Cabin in the Woods. And it’s the really real one, not like, “Cabin with James Woods” or something. Although that might be good too. Obviously recommended, if you like horror movies at all, or if you’re a Whedon fan, in which case you’ve probably already seen it so nevermind.

3048

Joe, I think there’s an infiltrator in CTU… open up a socket.

3049

Not a fan of horror movies. But I’ll check it out anyway. Thanks for the recommendation.

3050

Oh, I haaaaaaaate horror movies, and I loved Cabin in the Woods. Totally recommended.

3051

I always figured the only way to properly end it is for Jack to simply, at long last, fall asleep.

Trouble is, I’ve seen every episode except the very last one!

No, don’t tell me…maybe…some day…

3052

now there’s no reason for people not to have seen this

3053

I have it at home now. I’m trying to get the wife to watch it with me. She flat out refuses. Even after I told he what you wrote. Thanks anyway, Brian.

3054

Seriously man, horror movies give me near heart attacks, but I loved this movie. Tell her that.

3055

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/War_of_the_Arrows/70225528

War of the Arrows - decent action film made in Korea. Recommended.

3056

I never did get the chance to watch the Bond movies again, and now they’re gone from Netflix Instant Watch again

Move to Britain. They’re on free to air TV all the time. Like one a week. At least two every bank holiday.

have it at home now. I’m trying to get the wife to watch it with me. She flat out refuses. Even after I told he what you wrote. Thanks anyway, Brian.

If it would help, tell her it’s not remotely scary. There’s a couple of mildly gory bits, but the movie is very much played for laughs.

3057

For a movie that you’re saying isn’t remotely scary, the title card for Cabin in the Woods is, uh, a bit aggressive. :)

-Tom
3058

“That’s ze joke!”

3059

i saw The Missing this weekend, which wasn’t worth watching except that it’s telegraphing Jaws through the whole movie. and fat val kilmer has a cameo in it

3060

I watched “John Dies at the End”. I know it’s a Coscarelli film, but it really felt like a love letter to Cronenberg in general, and Naked Lunch in particular (while being about a zillion times more light-hearted). I quite liked it, but if it has a fault, it’s that it is very obviously adapted from a longer book, and there is stuff missing (unless the book just doesn’t make much sense either). For example, it opens with a bookend that never closes.

Anyway, light hearted, fast-paced horror-comedy with high weirdness and stop-motion-style monsters (probably done with CG though). Thumbs up.