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Wasn't she pregnant some time around the start of S6?

I dunno. I stopped watching right around the middle of the first episode.

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I watched the pilot of How I Met Your Mother. Cannot believe how freakin' young they all look.

Now you should go back and watch the first episode of Freaks and Geeks.

The Australian Open Tennis women's final.

Athletic girls in tight, sweaty clothes leaping about and grunting. It reminds me of my 20s.

You mean, when you were in your 20s you were a sweaty, grunting athletic girl who wore tight clothes?

No. It reminds him of his £20 Elgar notes. It only cost him two per girl.

He remembers his Elgar notes fondly. They're no longer legal tender.

For most men.

Finally getting round to watching Ep3 of Sherlock. Somebody tell Negs that Benedict bloke is on the telly.

I watched about 5 minutes of 2012 with John Cusack's camper being sucked down into an earthquake, then him miraculously climbing out while clutching a map in one hand, then running and catching up with a plane that was trying to take off. I laughed and laughed. Then I changed the channel.

The best way to watch 2012 is to say to yourself, "Out of nearly seven billion people, there has to be at least a handful of folks who so miraculously and consistently escape death that it would seem utterly implausible without visual confirmation. The cameras just happened to follow a few of those very folks."

Not really. It's all just too goddam ridiculous to believe.

Like all Emmerich films it is just one set piece after another, linked by FX money shots, with a bit of talking to get from one to the next..... nothing more.

Which is enough for me, as long as some major cities buy it. Cheeeesy goodness. 

Benedict Cumberbatch is also in "War Horse," but that is no reason to recommend it.

You kinda have to admire anyone who has the audacity to create a scene that has Vegas falling into a chasm and throws a frigging aircraft carrier at the White House. Sheer lunacy but fair play for giving it a go.

I caught up on House of Lies yesterday. that's a damn fun 30 minutes a week.

I am watching new Spartacus. Just as batshit insane as ever.

I'm currently watching the 1st season of Spartacus. Lucy Lawless was just on Live With Kelly Ripa and they kept saying it's now the second season of Spartacus. I thought it was the third season, with the second season being a prequel type. Am I right?

Yeah, there was the prequel thing when they thought that guy would recover from the cancer if given time. So sad.

 Hangover II.

Took me a while.  Now I see why.  Fuck me, people call this a comedy?  Maybe if you are 9 years old.

It definitely felt more like an action movie to me.

I saw Sideways for the first time last night. I'll be damned if there was ever a movie that was more geared towards snobby white people.

Then again, I may have misunderstood what the movie was about.

Yeah, the movie I just saw was geared towards fucking stupid white people. I saw Little Man a few weeks ago, that had some laser targeted demographic shit going on too.

I went to see The Woman in Black last night. Meh.

Once again, I have to refer to the quote from Rotten Tomatoes: "Traditional to a fault, The Woman in Black foregoes gore for chills -- although it may not provide enough of them for viewers attuned to more modern, high-stakes horror." Whoever wrote that assessment of the movie either has no idea what "traditional" means in relation to horror films or they just didn't pay attention, because if there's anything this movie isn't lacking it's the so-called "chills."

Here's my biggest gripe with The Woman in Black. It has plenty of scenes with setups for creepiness and chills, but the one device it keeps coming back to is the demon-face, jump-scare nonsense that every horror film of the past decade has been using. There's literally a 30-minute stretch in the movie where Daniel Radcliffe spends the night in the haunted house and goes from the ground floor to the upper level to the yard, back and forth, being scared by ghosts jumping out of the shadows. That's fucking all that happens for like a half hour - there's not even any dialogue, just the occasional "creepy" noise given off by twisted Victorian wind-up toys.

The plot is actually fairly engaging in the beginning and in the last 20 to 25 minutes, but there are large portions in the middle where the movie feels like it's dragging and like they had actually run out of things to put in, so they just kept repeating the same shit over and over.

I want to watch the S4 premiere of Being Human, but it's coming at like 6k/sec. Bastards.

I didn't even know it was on. No advertising at all over here. Nothing, not a sausage!!

Jesus. I LIVE ON ANOTHER CONTINENT and I knew about it.