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Just finished:

24-VII
Lie to Me
Dollhouse
Castle
The Mentalist
House V
30.Rock III


Still on:

The Unusuals
Chuck II
The Simpsons XX


About to Hit:

Lost
Jekyll
Mr & Mrs Smith

Any ideas on how I can lay my hands on these old programs? Particularly the NTA -made/produced stuff?

'Mad Detective'? Hmmm.

@ToH: Kings is just a re-interpretation of 'Kings' the historical book.

@max: In CR, the relationship was true to type. 'Mother-ing' a '00'? for whatever reason doesn't come in. When in Goldfinger, Jill Masters is painted gold to death, there was no hand-holding and that is a much IMO true to type reaction from a superior in a covert organisation. And that was what the problem with a female 'M' when Judy Dench was first cast and that was why she clearly outlined that she had no problems sending a man to die and she wouldn't be 'soft'. If it added an extra-dimension to the M-Bond dynamic it would be good to see but as it is right now, it's a plot device that I find out of turn.

Best Bond? methinks, a scottish brogue is missing in that statement.

Connery fits the books more because he looks attractive and evil, Craig is more like a bouncer-look, no smoothness, all grit.

Una talk well; me I'm more concerned about how that ties into the Deadpool movie.

P.S. Wolverine's beenn halved before and he still 'Voltron'-ed himself back together again.

and I doubt it but was it that Lagos is supposed to have been a stand-in for Black Panther's native land? As in Wakanda?

Kings

Castle

24 - VII

30 Rock

The Unusuals

Time Warp

Better Off Ted

House - V

Heroes - III

Chuck II

Lie to Me

Saving Grace

Samantha Who

Once started a thread on Nigeria being portrayed in US movies and on TV, this is like in that vein.

I just recently watched Castle (a pretty potential-laden new TV show that you should at least check out), and the episode was about Nigerians, juju (called voodoo in the episode) and immigration issues.\


Aldis Hodge (recently of Leverage - another fine show) did the most ridiculous Nigerian accent I have ever heard. Anyway it had Nigerians in focus and had several 'Nigerian' characters including a 'killer' who kills people with and for 'jazz'. Add that the 'Wolverine Origins' mission to Naija, I think I've seen enough Naija portrayals to last me the rest of this year,

Using vesc's list to get up and running


Please! My Eyes! No More! (Franchise Award):

The 'Movie' Franchise (date movie, disaster movie,epic movie,etc)

On Oliver's Behalf, We Ask For More (Franchise Award):

The Bourne Franchise

Christopher Nolan's Batman Franchise

Best Badass Award:

Matt Damon- The Bourne Ultimatum ("kill Bond now!"    )

Christian Bale - Batman & John Connor

Best Comeback:

Robert Downey Jr (no contest!)

Best Child Actor:

Haley Joel Osmet- The Sixth Sense

Keke Palmer - Akeelah & The Bee

Dakota Fanning - War of The Worlds

Best Television series:

Lie to Me

24

Kings (please watch this!)

House, M.D.

Worst Television Drama Series:

Supernatural

"Dr Who" (haba vesc! you honestly think David Tennant as Dr Who is razz?!)

Best Action Score Ever:

The Bourne Ultimatum

Mission Impossible

Mr & Mrs. Smith

Best Trailer (2009):

Terminator 4: Salvation
Up!

Best Comedy:

O Brother Where Art Thou



Worst Comedy:

Disaster Movie

Meet The Spartans

Meet Dave

Best Visual Effects:

The Matrix

War of The Worlds

The Bourne Ultimatum

Jurassic Park

Worst Visual Effects:

Catwoman

Best Action Movie:

The Matrix

Die Hard

The Bourne Series

Worst Action Movie:

Catwoman

Batman and Robin

Max Payne

Best Theme Song (TV Series):

'Serenity' - Firefly

'Teardrop' - House M.D.

'Somebody Save Me' - Smallville

'I'll Be There For You' - Friends

Worst  Successful Actress Award:

Jessica Alba

Carmen Electra

Coolest Villain Award:

Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the Lambs

Heath Ledger - TDK

Gert Frobe - Goldfinger

Alan Rickman - Die Hard

Retire Already! Lifetime Achievement Award:

Robert De Niro

Al Pacino

Best Movie Soundtrack Ever:

Extreme Ways - Moby (Bourne Ultimatum)

'Elevation' - U2 (Tomb Raider)

Can You Feel the Love Tonight - Elton John (The Lion King)

Best Science Fiction Movie Ever:

The Matrix

E.T- The Extra Terrestrial

Best Oriental Movie:

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Drunken Master

Leg Fighters

Above the Law


Most Surprisingly Under-rated Movie

Akeelah & The Bee

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Mr & Mrs Smith

Wall - E

The Incredibles



See, vesc I didn't even mention Frank Capra once!

And in the Bourne vs Bond thing, Bourne wins! Fatality!!

@max: One major problem with QoS was that as you pointed out and as portrayed in the earlier Bond movies and mostly underlined in 'Goldfinger', Bond is a civil servant. A 'nothing' if you will but in QoS, the 'relationship/banter' between Bond and M was so blaise that they might as well have been mates or maybe M even reports to Bond. Not Ian Fleming's Bond and definitely no boss/subordinate relationship is portrayed with any consistency and coherence in QoS.

Jason Bourne doesn't even know the full extent of his capabilities. I know 1-on-1, he'll kill Bond and if you take the 'train-station' scene in Ultimatum, I dare all the Bonds working together to pull that off.

U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind, The Joshua Tree & Achtung Baby

dc Talk - Jesus Freak (arguably far ahead of it's time and the unacknowledged precursor the 'rap-core' & 'rock/rap' revolution)

Mars ILL - Pro*Pain (hip-hop done right and more quotable lines than . . . )

Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (Scariest album to any self respecting hip-hop afficiando or artist)

Michael Jackson - Thriller

dc Talk - Free At Last

Acappella - Set Me Free (without instruments and this good?)

TY Bello - Greenland

'Bad Boys' Original Soundtrack Album

Tom Inglis - We Are One

Jennifer Knapp - Kansas (gotta love a rock chick with a guitar)

Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Through This

Acappella Kids

GRITS - Grammatical Revolution . . . & The Art of Translation

P.O.D. - Satellite

Creed - Greatest Hits

Best of the 80's & 90's Compilation Album


and I left out a few choice ones

I miss 'Third Eye' (Olu Jacobs/Yomi Adeyemi-Wilson)

On some levels, I'd rather the kids today had more educational tv definitely not 24hours sha.

I wonder if NTA know how much money they'd make if they make their archives available.

Based on all the furor over Roger Friedman reviewing 'Wolverine' and getting fired, I expect the final cut of the movie to be very different. Still, the mini-review I'll post is:

If you like/liked the X-Men trilogy, you'd be satisfied with 'Wolverine Origins'. It is closer in tone and even style to X-2, which I consider the best chapter of the three and even has a remake/re-imagining of one the 'Wow!!' scenes in X-2. The pacing is brisk and there are lotsa cameos and 'fan in-jokes'. On the Lagos, Nigeria part; it was Igbo being spoken (kinda like in 'Ace Ventura 2'-sense) and they had 'Colonel Dubaku' as the head honcho (24 Season 7 fans/watchers know him!). It mainly consisted of aerial scenes, a building scene and a few outdoor scenes though chances are you'll be too busy trying to process the 'efizi-ies' to complain.

It has a lotta set-pieces for action/slo-mo and a few bombastic scenes as well that finally show the Wolverine of the comics come to life. The childhood-backstory has changed a bit from the comic-line as it does alter Sabretooth's origin a bit while aligning to the overall comic-'verse. I'm trying to keep from leaking storyline details but I can tell you that Gambit does indeed features as well as Emma Frost, the Blob and some very familiar X-Men.

The movie is not all action-y as it tries to add emotional depth but how that works out to the viewer will largely be dependent on how attached you get to . . . . either way if you're a X-Men fan you could probably guess most of it though the path the movie-makers take is no big cop-out.

Tempted to do like Vesc and edit a list and post for the noms. . . . .

downtime I guess. I'm really sorry about it though, do pardon me.

Your soul's probably already taken so that's out, I'll doing the celibacy-of-sorts-thing so butt-kissing's of the table

You have a trust fund? Nice, I guess that means I have a trust-fund now abi. . . ?

I'll IM you via yahoo! I believe we can sort out transfer details through that.

I've seen it. Not bad at all, if you take it in the light of the X-Men movie annals. Had some really neat tie-ins and fan/crowd-pleasing moments. . . . . and enough mad cameos.

will.i.am? hmmmmmmmm, ,

@iice, 'skills' as in?

@vesc, I'm sorting through your list now, will let you know how soon you can get them.

I'm in Lagos, Nigeria right now. Sorting you as in getting the movies across to you. can you like list the ones you're looking for lemme cross-check if I have them?

On the Naruto thing, I'll pass for now but maybe when I've a little more time,

Hola.

Hi iice, been a while.

Hmmmm. vesc we do have to sort your oldies problem, are you in nigeria now or elsewhere? I second your comedy tastes though for me that'd depend on who's delivering the comedy. Naruto's like really nice abi?

In addition to 'The Adventures of Jack Bauer', Heroes, 30 Rock, The Mentalist, 11th Hour, The Simpsons and Chuck, I'm currently evaluating Kings, Saving Grace, Castle and Dollhouse and about to start on Missing, Jekyll and The Beast

Hmmmm. For Grammys sha I really didn't expect a Coldplay sweep anyway but it's nice to know they had a chance. I guess their problem is that U2 existed and still exists.

Finally saw Slumdog Millionaire yesterday. Nice. That makes 3 Danny Boyle films that have risen to the top of my estimations.

vesc, you're into Katt Williams? Did you get the oldies you wanted? Did you go through the Marvel/DC skits?

Be you.

'Unknown' with Jim Caviezel had a slightly off ending.

'Minority Report' has the most off-the-wall ending in Spielberg's annals.

I must admit that I have yet to see Transporter 3 though I've seen and liked the first two quite a bit.

On the Oscars, my views have not changed since the nominations were announced. It was a missed opportunity up till then.  I have the ceremony but I've yet to watch it. As for the ceremony itself I wasn't in the least bit surprised, not because I knew the results but because I'd explained to a friend the paths I saw the Oscars having to take. It was either they had a fraudulent ceremony and live down another blunderfest ala Saving Private Ryan v Shakespeare in Love or they do a LoTR, save face and hope for the best which they did by showering everything on Slumdog Millionaire. Not that it was undeserving but then why were all the others; Frost/Nixon and Doubt in particular even nominated at all when the simple inclusion of WALL-E and TDK would have spiced up proceedings no matter the results. It would have shown that the Academy could think outside genres and it would be mirror what happens at the Grammys where nominations are used as a reward system.

M.I.A. - Paper Planes
Grits & ManCHILD - We Don't Play

hey Vesc, how you? I've been alive you? I've been growing old and lazy o! Nothing to account for the time away. What's new with you?

DR, I really can't say without doing the spoiler thing, but one thing I can say is that it's truly the graphic novel brought to life as the guy replicated almost all the iconic scenes faithfully. That said, I can see why it's not #1 anymore.

World of Goo
Warioland - Shake it!
Tatsunoko vs Capcom

Waiting of PES Wii 2009!!, sorry Gamine, had to add that just to see the expression on your face.

'Cut me off at the waist, you can't be half the man that I am' - ManCHILD

NOT IN ORDER

ManCHILD
DMX
Nas
Tupac
B.I.G.
Lauryn Hill
Mase (for good or ill, he's the poster-boy for bling rap and lazy flows!)
Eminem (and I'm not even a fan)
Ahmad Jones
-

I'm leaving a blank spaces for whoever's up next. . .

Months late I know but here's the link to the 'I'm A Marvel vs I'm a DC' skits.


http://www.youtube.com/ItsJustSomeRandomGuy


Do follow the sequence, it's a blast!!

What was wrong with the ending of 'War of the Worlds'? It's pretty faithful to the book. It made sense.

And at least nobody needed to upload Windows into the invaders' computers. . .

Hi! Glad to be in again.

Saw 'Watchmen'. TDK is very safe and secure. No contest.

How've you all been?

@ vesc: hi, I'd say maybe Nigeria is known enough to matter or easier to point to as an "African country"? Maybe South Africa is too developed to be so "African",

have you seen any episode of Leverage?

Shark jumped!