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Only shows ive been keeping up with are the walking dead and Haven.

started 30 Rock last week, can't believe I'd never watched it before. Not quite as good as Arrested Development but not far off

and Sizzle, best thing about Gotham is Penguin

Boardwalk Empire finale was pretty good. Impressive end to the show all round!

30 Rock was great. Eventually ill get around to Boardwalk.

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

I like the originals

not brilliant but enjoyable

saw season 1 of Boardwalk, don't get me wrong i thought it was brilliant but because it's not on Netfix I haven't bothered to continue with it

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Spazzle just summed up himself

Anyone seen gone girl? Strange film.

No. Sounds alright, will probably see it eventually.

Drive rescore was fairly pointless as expected. Issues were:
- Lost the 'Real Human Being' aspect which ties in with the plot
- The new songs weren't as good as the original ones, plus there was the disadvantage that they were created by different artists so didn't really have the same uniformity
- The new songs just didn't fit any given seen anywhere near as much
- The placing of the new songs was slightly off in places; there were some awkward silences created during dialogue scenes, while more high-octane moments had more music added (not such a bad thing)
- The new songs were largely unambitious, the electronic instrumentals especially were just not up to the quality of the Cliff Martinez score

The lift scene was the only one which had as much power as the original. Surprisingly it was a Laura Mvula song.

Sounds like there was money to throw around and musicians who didnt mind taking it.

If you want to see and odd film try Bad Boy Bubby, an Ozzy film about this guy held captive by his mother from birth. She wears a gas mask out the house pretending it isn’t safe, she sh @gs him all the time and he’s not really developed mentally; he inherits the voices for particular phrases he’s heard other people saying etc.

One day he escapes and at 30 is out in the real world and independent for the first time….he has no idea about traffic danger etc. and eventually gets picked up by a punk band who install him as their lead singer.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106341/

Yeah the Drive re score was pointless. Had already seen the film twice and loved it but changing the music does change how you look at the film and I didn't enjoy it so much this time around

Was that the Zane Lowe thing on last night? I’ve not heard of this sort of thing before, strange concept. I put on the rescore for a bit and switched back, problem is I’m not familiar enough with the original score to make a fair comparison at any one point and pressing the red (or was it blue last night) button takes a fair few seconds to load so you can’t just A/B them against each other seamlessly.

Yeah the switching thing takes ages to load so just watched it as a rescore. The track Real Human Being is one of the main aspects which make the film so good. Should've chosen another film

'- The new songs just didn't fit any given seen anywhere near as much'

'Seen' Cretin

'problem is I’m not familiar enough with the original score to make a fair comparison'

The Drive soundtrack is one I can put on and enjoy at any time, even the instrumentals. Lovely vibes. Retro/futuristic, mechanical and ethereal. Fits the film perfectly, I noticed the prolonged silences and staring scenes especially benefited. Watching the rescore emphasised how good the original is tbh, even more important than I thought.

Kavinsky (Nightcall artist) was supposed to appear as a radio DJ in GTA V. That game is heavily influenced by Drive, the radio stations and original score are similar in places, it's set in a glammed up LA, there are plenty of getaways and you can buy a suspiciously similar jacket to the driver's. You could swap soundtracks and they'd fit pretty well.

Last night when I was watching the film and I was trying to breakdown how they produced this film so that it didn’t come out cheesy, of course over all it is a million miles from that ridiculous car film franchise (name escapes me, not ‘Need for Speed’ but something idiotic) but certain scenes and moments in the film could be confused for one another yet one is a brilliant film and the other just terrible.

Of course the franchise has bad acting, a poor scrip, no story etc. but I think Drive just works because it is just so understated, it hasn’t even really got any amazing photography but I think the score is just so important and also casting the right protagonist, someone intense enough to pull off a performance with such a stripped back dialogue.

Apparently ryan gosling only said 169 words throughout the film.
Bluedroog you mean fast and furious?

Agree. The first few viewings were particularly good, the first 10 minutes blew me away a bit. I think that was one of the aims, or at least that's how it turned out, that it looks like it could be 90 mins of car chasing and action but it's very minimalist and paced brilliantly. The lack of heavy dialogue is quite refreshing with so many films creating universes that need lots of explaining or conversations that just wouldn't happen in reality. The sharp spikes of violence later are so shocking because of it.

'that ridiculous car film franchise'

R.I.P. Paul Walker

Not seen the Need for Speed film but I find it weird that Aaron Paul went for that after BB. Suspect it veers more towards Fast and Furious than Drive.

That would be the one.

I’ve done a bit of film making myself and actually worked for a production company many years ago so know getting a film to take on a certain rhythm isn’t an easy thing to do. I love the way they can such you in and almost dictate the way you even sit as you watch it. Without going too far in my praise as I think he’s a bit overrated and his films quite self indulgent and pretentious but Aronofsky nails it in Requiem for a Dream, I think the film is flawed in ways but the rhythm is stunning, the recurring soundtrack is a large part of that and it almost has a feel like one of those Greek folk songs that gets pacier and pacier as it goes and you really get drawn in, you don’t even realise how tense you are till the film finishes (I can’t actually remember how that film finishes but usually they cut to black very suddenly at an appropriate moment) and it is then you exhale a breath and sit back in your seat that you first acknowledge how tense you previously were.

Requiem for a dream was class...drugs are bad mmm Kay

Just love that inevitable junkie car crash of buying a load of gear and making money on it, “yeah, we just need to test it”. “Oh feck, what have we done?”

My cousin did that as a youth, just with a load of green. Got hold of a silly amount on tick then smoked the lot with his brothers and mates over a summer with nothing to show for it.
Knock at the door from a local gangster looking for his money, my uncle opened the door and had to pay the debut. It didn’t go down well.

Gotham is rubbish

I see Thor Dark world the other day!

It was good