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I think I read somewhere that the director's cut could be something like 20 minutes longer - if that's true I'd be surprised if that bit doesn't make it in there. I hope it does, if only for the bit.

Yes! And I also despise that term. My husband and I took a vacation when I was 7.5 months pregnant, but we called it...gasp...a VACATION. The term doesn't even make sense to me, either - I mean, the honeymoon is time spent WITH your... honey, so to me a "babymoon" sounds like it should be, like, the time you take after the baby is born. Amy and Gina can be a good pairing when they do it right, that bit could be fun!

I caught that one a while back - agree, it's a terrific little film! First that comes to mind for me is Boy A, with Andrew Garfield, about a young man released from prison under a new identity after having been sentenced for murder when he was a child. Loosely based on, or more inspired by, the events around the murder of James Bulger. It's a real punch-you-in-the-gut kind of film, and Andrew Garfield is completely heartbreaking - this film is what made me take note of him and why I'm actually happy he's out of the Spiderman franchise now. More recently, Pride. I think it snuck under a lot of people's radar, but it's one of my most favourite films in a really long time. Gay and lesbian activists from London band together to support the locals of a Welsh village during the miner's strike in the 80s. Has Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, Bill Nighy and a whole bunch of less well known but wonderful actors.

My family wound up rewinding that scene four times because his line reading cracked us up so much. His enunciation and gestures just sold the hell out of it. To quote Jake - aww, samesies! *g* I laughed so hard at that. Amy beating everyone was telegraphed from pretty early on (I did notice that Hitchcock seemed to be doing some bad acting when he came barrelling into Holt's office, but didn't realise why), but I didn't mind because everything was so hilarious. Andre Braugher has done wonders with this character.

If this is referring to the casting of Mark, then yeah, that was me. *g* Unless someone else has said elsewhere, too. I wasn't hung up on him or anything during the movie, but I still felt Matt Damon, though good, wasn't quite right. If it had been ten or so years ago I probably would've liked him much better in the role - say, Ocean's Eleven era Matt Damon would have been pretty perfect. (ETA - ...except apparently that's like 14 years ago. Woah.)

My verdict after I came out was "Good, but not great." I thought the ending was an improvement, since the book ended rather abruptly; I liked how they did it here. Would've liked to see something about Mark's parents, more than the brief mention by Mark to Lewis, but other than that, most of the things they cut made sense. Although I also would've liked more of the science in how he created the soil he grew his potatoes. Loved the rest of the crew. I'm always so happy to see Michael Peña in stuff! I was really pleased about her being in this because I thought that was inspired casting, but... Well, they kind of wasted her, didn't they? She should've got to go much harder. Yeah. He was good, but I still feel he was a bit miscast - mostly I pictured him a bit younger and generally a bit goofier. He was still solid, though!

I remember seeing the trailer for The Holiday and thinking it seemed great, and really funny. And then when I actually saw that bloody film it turned all of the funny things had been in the trailer and the rest of it was terrible. (I probably shouldn't still be bitter about wasting those two hours of my life after all this time, but I've honestly never been so bored in the cinema and just thinking about that film brings back all the annoyance I felt, heh.) Oh, and I agree about Man of Steel, definitely.

So pleased to find there's a forum for Bake Off here! I think that's exactly what's been bothering me about Alvin. I'm pretty sure it's not a coincidence I finally felt like I was coming around to him last week when he was having a pretty good week and seemed a little more relaxed. It's like you say, even when things go wrong for the others they still seem to be able to look at the situation with a sense of humour (to a certain point, at least). Like, Mat and Tamal always crack me up with their comments and reactions - Mat's "I've made these a couple of times... Not really!" made me laugh - but Alvin's always just seemed so worried and stressed it made me nervous. I'm sort of relieved to see him go. Also, because I'm a nerd who follows Tamal on Twitter: the other sandwich was a meatball, caramelised onion and cheddar toasted ciabatta, heh! Which does sound delicious. (Also, Sandy, Nadiya and Tamal got together to watch this episode, how cute is that?) Already after the first episode I called Nadiya, Tamal and Flora as my favourites - very happy to have them all still standing and mostly doing well. I hope Flora being sort of told off about her extras will make her give them up, because a lot of the time they just seem to drag her bake down.

I recently got round to watch the Hungarian movie White God from last year, and... Well, in one way it's not really a movie for dog lovers, that's for sure. It's certainly not Homeward Bound or Lassie and it's very hard to watch in places, very violent, but oh man, the cinematography was beautiful and the "lead actor" dogs (apparently two brothers play Hagen the dog) are absolutely amazing. The story itself sort of drags in the middle and the people aren't very interesting - I kept wanting them to go back to the dogs - but it was definitely worth seeing. The dog version of a revenge fantasy, basically.

I think Brad Pitt might be my five movie marathon man: Seven, Twelve Monkeys, Snatch, Fight Club, Burn After Reading. And having just seen Burn After Reading recently, I actually think that could be my favourite performance of his. Just utterly hilarious. His face when he gets punched by John Malkovich is a thing of beauty.

Some of my favourite hilarious moments are unexpected, sort of low-key ones. Like in Inside Out, when they're in Imagination Land and Trophy Town where "everyone's a winner!" - Bing Bong scores a goal, wins 'first prize' and gets a bunch of trophies, and so does Joy without even doing anything, and then you see Sadness with just a little ribbon and she sighs, "Aw, participation award." I don't know what that was so funny to me, but it just made me literally cackle.

How about 1985's Real Genius? Does that qualify for this category? To be fair I haven't watched it in quite a while now, but it's one of those movies I always go back to. It's so ridiculous, but I don't know, it just... I love it.

*snort* The sad thing is, I *am* skånsk, right on the Swedish side of the bridge, and should be able to make it out better than I can. I didn't notice about 'begæres' - you're right, that's a bit stronger/different than just 'want' and it makes sense for her to use.

That is a pretty fine Nic Cage impression he's got there, I must admit!

I adore that one, although I wouldn't really call it a romantic comedy as such - I feel like the romance is more of a subplot.

I've never gotten the impression that he enjoys 'monitoring' anyone, woman or otherwise. To my eyes he never seems to take any pleasure at all in what he does, he just... does it. Sometimes because it's his way of connecting to people - the completely wrong way, obviously, but the only way he seems to have - and sometimes because something "scratches that part of his brain", like he said in the pilot. I don't think it's something he enjoys. (Have we ever seen him enjoy anything, for that matter? Outside of that one time he actually seemed to enjoy his Starbucks because he'd decided to do so?) I really want the Wellicks to go down. Scott Knowles seems like a bit of a dick, generally speaking, but I'm totally rooting for him against Tyrell.

I liked that as much as Elliot scoffed internally at Gideon's advice to find someone to be honest with, it seems like he ended up deciding trying to do just that. I'm interested to see how Krista reacts - I'm hoping she doesn't throw him out, because he really does need help (if he's finally willing to actually work on it). Was there a point to the bits with Elliot wiping his computer and later at the vet with Flipper having eaten a chip, I wonder? I noticed both those scenes came straight after scenes with Mr. Robot interacting with other people and wondered if that mattered somehow, like they were meant to throw us off. Maybe not. With this show you never seem to know! I got the impression that Tyrell didn't intend to murder Mrs. Knowles; that he just snapped. He seems to be losing it. If it was planned it was very sloppily executed.

It's funny - I've been reading through this thread going, "Oh, I hate that one. And that one. Ugh, and that one," and then I see She's All That mentioned and go "Aw, yeah." I think I may judge those 90s teen comedies in a different way because of nostalgia, because as silly and cliché as it is, I have a weird fondness for that film. Same with Ten Things I Hate About You, although that one's much better. In general though, romantic comedies really are just not my thing. I don't know why, but I tend to have the opposite reaction to what the film is trying to give me. The Holiday? Love Actually? All those old Sandra Bullock and Meg Ryan ones? I just sit there squirming with annoyance. There are exactly three that I genuinely really like; Just Like Heaven (you know, Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo), Notting Hill and Knocked Up. (And I do sort of enjoy 27 Dresses, too, I suppose.)

Yep! Not unusual, either - Swedes and Danes are generally pretty good at understanding each other and able to carry on a conversation speaking their own languages. (Not me, though. When I go to Denmark I speak English. The wife could be saying something completely different to what they're captioning and I'd never know.)

Tyrell is speaking Swedish and his wife Danish. Martin Wallström who plays Tyrell is a Swedish actor. It's funny, actually - I've noticed that the captions sometimes embellish on what they actually say. (Or on what he says, at least; I'm terrible at understanding Danish.) Like in this episode, when the wife says that what he did may actually have helped them, the caption has him saying "How on Earth did it do that?" when he literally just says "How?" Elliot finding Shayla was hard to watch. I thought Rami Malek played it as if Elliot was really, really hoping it wasn't real, but one of his hallucinations - the way he looked at her and then turned away, slowly looking back at her again like he was hoping she wouldn't be there this time, looking away, looking back again, and every time she was still there he lost it a little more. I'm so happy that Rami Malek finally has work that allows him to show off his chops again. I've been keeping an eye out for him ever since The Pacific.

Yeah, that was my first thought, too. It's been a while since Real Humans, but if I remember it right Flash was a sort of nanny-hubot, right? On a related note, I preferred how there was a limited amount of different models in the original show. That made sense. One thing I find interesting/a bit weird is the change in having the Pete character (Roger in the original) be a policeman. The change from having William Hurt's character be related to the others, I can see why they chose to do that, but this not so much. It kind of takes away from his story a bit - in the original you could almost (just almost) sympathise a bit with him and his being replaced by hubots both in his already dead-end job and at home. Actually, I think everything about that part of the story was better in the original, like the development of the wife's relationship with their hubot and their son's reaction.

In Return to Paradise, Lewis' death messed me up pretty badly. I was fourteen and naively kept expecting someone to suddenly come forward and stop the execution, right down to the last second, but nope. Joaquín Phoenix is just heart-wrenching in that last scene. (That movie and her character in it ruined Jada Pinkett-Smith for me.)

I'm not even sure. I think part of it is that in every interview I've seen with Sebastian Stan he comes across as a total dork (in the best way), pretty similar to how Mark sounds and describes himself, so it was so easy to see him in that role. And he seemed more appropriate age-wise, too, because Mark came across as relatively young to me. I'm sure Matt Damon will do a great job, though. It's just gonna be weird to see the film after having had such a clear image of someone else in the role.

I just finished Andy Weir's The Martian, and I gotta say, I'm pretty excited for this film. While I was reading, the thought "Yeah, this could be really great on the screen" kept popping into my head. I had one problem, though. I knew the film cast going into the book, and I still couldn't picture Matt Damon as Mark Watney - instead I kept thinking that I wished they'd cast Sebastian Stan in that role, because he was who I pictured. He's completely perfect for that part, and having him in the film playing someone else just seems wrong now.

High five on the Phone Booth love! I really like that one, too, and Colin Farrell is great in it.