Rickman is my favorite actor, throw in Depp

and I'm really looking forward to Alice in Wonderland /biggrin.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':P' />

depp as mad hatter

I'm looking forward to District 13 and the stop animation 9 (which might be another Tim Burton project). There are trailers for both on the al gore's internets.

**edit, actually both projects are 9s….it's district 9 and the stop animation feature is called "9", my bad

Rickman is my favorite actor, throw in Depp

and I'm really looking forward to Alice in Wonderland /biggrin.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':angry:' />

You probably watched Snow Cake? I thought he was great in the film.

Remember first seeing Rickman in Die Hard.

He looked so much like Pete Townshend then, the beard.

During the movie I kept thinking, why is Pete in this movie. /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':P' />

That's when I became a Rickman fan. /biggrin.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D' />

Just caught "The Haunting of Molly Hartley" on DVD. This movie sucks, all the way around. I mean it really was horrible, and this coming from a guy who loved such B list movies such as white noise 2 and lost voyage. Bad acting, lame plot, irrelevant character development, cheap scare devices and lack of direction made this one leaving me at a loss for a hour and a half. By the way, with "haunting" in the title you would think there would be a ghostly element, but…nvm. It sucked, lol

Andy

Just caught "The Haunting of Molly Hartley" on DVD. This movie sucks, all the way around. I mean it really was horrible, and this coming from a guy who loved such B list movies such as white noise 2 and lost voyage. Bad acting, lame plot, irrelevant character development, cheap scare devices and lack of direction made this one leaving me at a loss for a hour and a half. By the way, with "haunting" in the title you would think there would be a ghostly element, but…nvm. It sucked, lol

Andy

That's too bad, because "The Haunting of NINA Hartley" was fantastic!!!!

I think we're going to watch Let the Right One In. Mindy reviewed it in the mag a while back.

It's a 2008 film based on the 2004 vampire fiction novel by Swedish writer John Ajvide Lindqvist.

"The story centers on the relationship between a 12-year-old boy, Oskar, and a 200-year-old vampire child, Eli, of indeterminate gender. It takes place in Blackeberg, a working class suburb of Stockholm, in the early 1980s. The book focuses on the darker side of humanity, dealing with issues such as bullying, drugs, theft, pedophilia, prostitution and murder as well as the obvious supernatural themes."

I'll report back later.

Sounds a little like the Michael Jackson story…just kidding

Speaking of District 9 it's the new Peter Jackson project (LOTR director, King Kong, Frighteners etc), have any of you seen PJ lately? Good Lord is he ill or did he have gastreo intestinal by pass surgery?? He looks completely different. He lost at least 100lbs…being lazy and don't want to google…lol

Upon further review, he placed himself on a very strict diet and cut out alot of unhealthy stuff…amazing!

so he says. could be the gastric bypass but he doesn't want to admit it.

Well that could be, but Kiwis are not cut from the same cloth as most of us. I heard a report that down in New Zealand (where he's from) there was talk of passing legislation about citizens weight. As a country that has socialized medicine, they deduced how much money was being spent taking care of people with weight related issues and decided to begin a "wellness" campaign aimed at helping it's citizens acheive a healthier life. I know, personally, that it IS possible to lose that kind of weight naturally as I've done it in the past. It takes alot of restraint and desire but it can be done. It's not rocket science and people know what it takes they just don't WANT to do it. Basically I cut out all the crap I KNEW I shouldn't be eating/drinking. No fast or junk food, no soda or beer. My knees were tore up from injuries and aggravated by years of being overweight. The only regular excersize I could do was walking. So I would "power" walk 4 miles every day and 8 miles on Saturday & sunday. Crappy weather, didn't matter. The weight came off quickly and after a while i was able to do the 4 miles in 45 minutes so timewise it became a non issue. The secret is desire to lose the weight or at least it was for me. Obviously everyone's case is different people have various and sundried health issues, but you can't give up hope. The way I looked at it was I didn't get fat overnight so the solution wasn't going to be an overnight thing either and the surgery just wasn't an option. I got tired of the snide comments, not being able to shop in a normal store (at normal prices) and feeling ill all the time. For me, it boiled down to being honest w/myself and stop making excuses. I'm not going to use the Nike slogan or cable guy catch phrase, but at the end of the day it was all about just getting out there and doing it and seeing it through.

i'll try not to take that personally.

as someone who has tried VERY hard to lose weight, it isn't easy.

at least not for me. i've used restraint, i have desire and i certainly

do know what it takes, you're right it's not rocket science. but it

doesn't mean that it's going to happen. i've been lucky enough

to have lost quite a bit of weight over the last 6 months, but i feel pretty

crappy that apparently i must not be restrained enough or have

enough desire since i cant seem to lose it all. i've hit a plateau

and no matter what i do i've become stuck.