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The Man Who Wasn?t There is my favourite Coen movie, after that Barton Fink and Big Lebowski.

Barton Fink was the first one I saw. I think it’s highly underrated.

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Sorry to hear your news. But sometimes these things can turn out for the best, right?

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Re Seb’s list: yes, yes and yes.
Well worth watching, or re-watching as most of these haven’t been shown for years.

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> Keep pressing him and you?ll get a spanking.

promises, promises

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Is it too much to ask for us to hear something, anything, by now?

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Solaris
Alien
Badlands
Cabaret
Star Wars
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Dog day afternoon
MASH

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this amused me for, oh, at least three seconds
http://io9.com/5122922/when-did-doctor-who-start-to-go-downhill

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*sigh*

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but he has wisdom beyond his years ;)

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> It?s funny some of you say you haven?t heard of him, but in the Movie thread, you mention in Bruges. He played young Harry.

I honestly don’t remember him.

> Funny on certain forums they are saying he is too young when Davison was only a couple of years older

He’s not “too young”, it’s just that I would have welcomed a more mature actor.
Someone said earlier in the thread that’d they’d like to see another grandfather figure, and I agree. Far more interesting.

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I have absolutely no idea who the guy is, hence I have no opinion at all.

Although I’m rather disturbed that they’re going for younger and younger doctors.

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> Withnail and I

I can’t believe I forgot Withnail

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So, are we keeping the twinkly Christmas tree banner?
Or shall we expect something new and dynamic for 2009?

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it gives me nightmares

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> Surprise of 2008 for me, just as with quite a few people, was the really rather excellent In Bruges.

absolutely my favourite of 2008, too

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Amadeus
Brazil
Blade Runner
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Das Boot
Cinema Paradiso
Jean de Florette
Local Hero

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Further proof that the people who compile these lists haven’t a fucking clue what they’re talking about.

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> only instead of taking them home it takes them to the wrong universe each time encountering parallel counterparts along the way

I know I shouldn’t, but I quite like this.
But I’m not keen on them just recycling old characters – characters like Duane and Ace have well and truly run their course. What would be interesting is to see some new alternative versions of the crew.

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>http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9K5ADWkxclE

I gave up on it after ten seconds. I take it I didn’t miss anything?

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I have been boycotting Den of Geek for a long time now. ‘Nuff said.

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http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/459ZgBD16CkPAtVj#

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Phil, do you know that you can clearly see a difference between the white background on your icon, and the white background to your text?

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I thought it was supposed to look like that.

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Very nice.

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Well, I liked it. :P

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http://www.friendface.co.uk/

No, I wasn’t sad enough to google for this. Honest.

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> but I bet there weren?t any zombies behind the till

Yeah, 27,000 zombies that are now out of a job.
Wish them Merry Christmas while you’re at it, why don’t you?

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> it?s strictly a duration problem

Nothing to ashamed of. A lot of guys have that problem. ;)

.
> Today?s TOS update is currently 65 minutes late.

It’s Christmas. They’re pissed.

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Still, it would be nice to hear *something*, rumours on wiki notwithstanding.

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> Had to find a way to cut a third out of a film script.

> Just cut out the middle. That?s where all the crap usually resides.

Nah. I’d just cut out every third word. More interesting by far.

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> There is an amount of awful TELLY amongst these Christmas traditions?

that’s because

41. Awful telly

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*Are* we emotionally rollercoasting?
We’ve not heard anything since Bobby had his head cast, so there’s still time for it all to go tits up – like a certain movie I could mention.

OK, maybe that’s overly pessimistic, but the lack of any news at all is preventing me from getting too excited.

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> Who’s panicking ‘cos they can’t get Dave?

Not me. *smug*

I’m sure that someone somewhere will upload the whole thing to tinterweb.
Not that I advocate such behaviour in any way, of course.

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Class. Pure class.

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> I?m going to add it to Wikipedia so that it?ll come true.

Ah, so that’s how it works.

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Haven’t seen half of the films on that list (thank gods) so difficult to comment.

I work at erasing the worst movies from my memory completely. I find it’s better that way.

Best movie: In Bruges

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9. Movie/TV marathons – select the TV or movie series of your choice and watch for an unfeasible number of hours whilst consuming vast quantities of food and alcohol, until a) you fall asleep, or b) your brain melts.

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> the two actors bouncing off of each other would be delightful, no matter how wrong they got it.

You’re right, of course. That would be lovely.
And Karl’s right about the chemistry.

OK, I’m in too.

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I can’t see them doing an improv show. Bobby, possibly; Craig, at a push; Chris/Danny, no.
But I could be wrong. Maybe they’d be great. What do I know, anyway?

Neither can I see them doing old scenes purely from memory. There’s no way that I’d be able to remember the details of a job that I did 10-20 years ago, which is what you’d be asking them to do.
They could just give them the old scripts and ask them to do it without any rehearsal, but I can’t see that being particulary different or exciting – and different/exciting, if I remember correctly, is what was originally implied.
So there has to be more to it.

It seems more like someone’s posting the barest snippets of info to prompt us into a frenzy of speculation.

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> but I think that Douglas actually not caring would have been far more interesting than the mishearing reveal

Agreed. It would have been great character development, but as it was it told us nothing about Douglas that we don’t already know. The mishearing seemed a bit of a too-easy way to resolve the story.

Not that I didn’t enjoy the ep – I did – but it feels like a bit of a lost opportunity.

> For some reason I found the punch up disturbing.

Me too. I find very difficult to watch male-on-female violence (even when it’s not *supposed* to be a woman)

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Yeah, disappointing. The Douglas plot started and ended well, but seemed pretty predictable otherwise. And the other stuff seemed almost sidelined.

However, the Internet was lovely.

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I thoroughly approve of this thread. Great idea

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> its mean?t to explain the absence of everyone?s favourite Goth

I hope so. He has been sorely missed.

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Just watched it again, and it definitely improves on a second viewing.

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> I loved Moss?s ?Happy Place? being signalled by the Windows startup tone

the best moment in a meh ep

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Yeah, well it was 2am and I was very drunk, thus accounting for the lack of elucidation.

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Fuckin hate i-anything.
Wont buy ’em on principal.

Just sayin.

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Alan Bennett is a comedian? Bizarre.

Actor, author, playwright, screenwriter, and director he may be, but *comedian*?

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Last nights ep could quite possibly be one of my all time favourites.

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> apparently they?ve still got jobs until 2009

So that would be, erm, at least four weeks then…?

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