I found the acting poor for the most part (Brody in The Pianist is about the one exception), and the technical craft to be pedestrian at best (and in some instances, laughable—especially in Rosemary's Baby). I thought the pacing and narrative was uninteresting in most of them (I guess Frantic was a cut above the…

Whelp, this has come at a bad time—I've already got the Eurovision tomorrow and the last premier league match on Sunday. Monday night it is, provided it lasts that long.

I understand the appeal of adapting it to TV—plenty of attractive student-age actors buckin'—but I found it to be a horribly empty and vapid book—and I understand that this was the point, but unlike his more overtly satirical works there was too thin a line between mocking a culture and just being a dyed-in-the-wool…

Am I meant to be reading this to the tune of London Bridge Is Falling Down?

Hey, Morrissey—go back to making better music while also being a tool.

My brother does that black-and-white thing and it irks me to no end. He's even admitted he'd not like his current favourite films (Jaws and Die Hard) in black-and-white, even if it were the only change made to them.

If you're going to act like you've never called a film "terrible" then I hope for your own sake the view from up your own ass is pretty nice.

Ok, throw her in the hole.

Yeah, it's a tricky line. I thought the ones for Looper and Final Destination were the best ones for that, in that no matter what stage of their animation you first looked at, they looped back to that frame seamlessly. Essentially I think you just want something that's almost like a lenticular image only done through…

Yeah, like I say it plays out so well on the screen that you can suspend disbelief that little more, but it just seems like a little more dialogue ("that grassland is the only way through this gorge!" or something) would just have made it a little more understandable. I don't think it's as much about going bigger and…

Yeah, I understand contextually why it's in there, with Godzilla around the corner and all, but in a vacuum it's a jarring let-down. I'd like to see a fan-cut that tries to end the film on the island, I'd be surprised if no one's attempted it.

I watched it, through experienced and adult eyes, and had it dissected by a lecturer, so I understand what's lauded about it, but I just can't find myself agreeing with it. I hear the words used but I don't see that they apply to the film. It's like, I guess, explaining creationism to a biologist. Sure he hears what…

The way that scene is handled cinematically is great—but every time I get to it I struggle to find the narrative sense to it. It plays out well enough to get past that but there's always this thought in my head that whispers "go around".

If that film was any more disappointing it would have gone door to door handing out thunder freely.

I think the thing that separates these into great and terrible is whether they loop or not. The ones that don't are just a little too jarring, but the ones that loop smoothly are fantastic. A cinema with a large monitor in the lobby displaying something like that would be pretty cool.

Although I've come to evaluate it a lot more highly over the years, I definitely don't think The Lost World is the better film. I saw it several times when it first came out, then maybe once or twice more as an older child—and for my teenage years, when I was still happy to rewatch Jurassic Park at a moment's notice,…

So because other folk like it, I have to forgo my own opinion of it? I don't think it's a well made film. I don't think it's enjoyable or meritorious as a piece of cinema.

Yeah but we don't really have much of a highly built-up military over here. I'd basically have to hide inside the balls on the Falls and hope for the best.

Never watch Shawn of the Dead then.

Now, then, forever