Costume drama set in Welsh mining town: Llego

That's a great idea - they could just film all the scenes in "Hopscotch" as lego animation and let it go at that.

Act 1, Scene 1: Elsinore. A platform before the castle.

A man, a plan, a canal - Suez.

In summary
Able was I, ere I saw Elba.

That's strange - but not a stranger.

Ok, I agree with the "up to Captain Fantastic" cutoff, and I do agree that that's a greater run of albums than 90% of the world's musicians can claim. But I still wish someone would have suffocated him in his sleep before he recorded "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues".

Apply directly to forehead.

Ponyo will be at least "good". I'm hoping for "great". If it turns out to be "bad", I will lose what remaining will I have to live.

Goodby Yellow Brick Road was a great album; the rest, not so much.

I did forget Tarintino - I hope Inglorious Bastards (sp?) will be awesome.

Maybe we're confusing too many issues here. I don't think anyone is arguing that Hughes should be *prevented* from relying on lazy stereotypes, just that it is offensive and is consequently not funny. On the other hand, if Hughes were to not hire black people to work on his movies because he thought black people…

Films to look forward to
Some of my favourite filmakers have movies coming out - Miyazaki, the bros. Coen, Jonze and Gilliam. If we could only reanimate the corpse of Kurosawa it would be perfect.

First of all, I think that you will generally find that "cheap jokes based on racial stereotypes" falls well within the definition of "racist". It would certainly be grounds for a legal discrimination case.

What's wrong with being offended by racism? All forms of hateful stupidity are offensive. And using stereotypes like that isn't just stupid, its lazy and uncreative, its telling the audience "hey, you'll laugh at anything, so we'll just throw some shit up on the screen".

Bentheone, all I got out of it was growing up and leaving it behind. Maybe I was cheated.

Feck, you got it in one. But we didn't get weed; because of reasons of economics we only got hash. But it was great hash.

I think I have to agree with Nabin. Gotta say that, as a member of the generation that his teenage movies were aimed at, I found I had absolutely no connection to his movies. Possibly it was because my experiences of that time were more "Rivers Edge" than "Sixteen Candles".

mmy, the insurance company pays the bar owners after the fire - its win-win.

A New Hope? Failed forthies.