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For my sins I frequented a few Losts boards when it was still on. It's quite astonishing how intense some of the romance wars got for a show like that.

I too was wondering how Holloway fared in this, and how much screen time he had. Sawyer was the only character I liked on Lost.

When I remember how often I went to movie as a teen I'm stunned I could be so undiscerning in my choices. I lived in quite a boring town but still... so much money wasted on mediocrity.

I'd say it's geographical. I live in London and can practically predict how rowdy any given cinema audience will be based on the area's 'affluence'. The type of movie makes a difference too I guess.

This sounds trivial but I actually think it's a very real problem that puts off a lot of adults going to movies these days.

I wish I'd had the guts to make a club for Sherlock, it's opening is just what I thought it'd be given the good but not great reception of the first film and the extremely tired marketing.

Budgets should be lower anyway, recession or not. For a supposed 'industry', It's absurd how expensive some blockbusters are.

Ouch for Young Adult. Diablo Cody's name being an asset to a production are long-gone, good reviews or not.

Movies won't become extinct anymore than music has become exinct, but the business model definitely needs re-examining. The internet will and is having a huge impact. I have friends who haven't bought a single DVD in a couple of years.

I'm very curious to see how this film does.I just want 3D to either die, or be so good in a film for once that I actually like the format.

Yeah, why the hell is that amongst this lot. It made enough money, don't let's pretend it's award worthy too.

This hits home how mediocre... or should I say confused the award noms in general will be this year.

I could never be sad about a bad film performing badly.

Man, I haven't watched this in a long time. I quite like the audacity of the sci-fi/fantasy final act, as divisive as it was. Apparently Tesla really did destroy a number of his inventions that never saw the light of day...... though whether one of them was a cloning device remains to be seen.

Shame.Especially if it were Michael Fassbender's kid.

On paper, Oscar bait directed by Eastwood starring Leo should threaten 100m - but admittedly I didn't realise its budget was so low.

I haven't followed box office for the past few weeks, but it's interesting to see that J Edgar's take is in line with it's critical reception.

The last scene of Chinatown really shocked me as a teen. Not just what happens, but the almost detached way in which its depicted.

Huh, didn't realise Mulligan is nude in the film too. Another reason to see it.

I liked the book as a teen, but after broadening my literary horizons I realised Easton Ellis is really a bit of a hack who happened to find a niche. David Foster Wallace sums it up:"If what's always distinguished bad writing--flat characters, a narrative world that's clichéd and not recognizably human, etc.--is also a description of today's world, then bad writing becomes an ingenious mimesis of a bad world. If readers simply believe the world is stupid and shallow and mean, then Bret Easton Ellis can write a mean shallow stupid novel that becomes a mordant deadpan commentary on the badness of everything."The film sees the funny side, at least, and Ellis himself has acknowledged it works well as a 'greatest hits' of the novel. It's also still Bale's best performance.

NVM

Chalk up another one for TDKR here. There probably some indies I'm anticipating too (like Shame) but I can't be bothered to make a list right now.

His characters in Drive, Lars, Blue Valentine,Half Nelson and Crazy, Stupid Love were absolutely nothing like one another.

Gosling. He already has a filmography seasoned actors twice his age would kill for.

The only film that comes to mind that I wish had done better was Drive. It wasn't nearly as 'slow' as some said and should have had a ton of mainstream appeal.