Haven't listened to it yet. But why did you Americans rename it?

Are you sure it's a movie and not, say, an episode of a TV series like Outer Limits or Twilight Zone.

What about The Thirteenth Floor?

I thought Orion was now the MPCV, and Constellation was now Space Launch System?

Brian Cox is quite popular over here in the UK and he's had several TV series - Wonders of the Solar System and Wonders of the Universe being the best ones. I'm a big fan, he's similar to Carl Sagan in the sense that he clearly loves science and relishes telling people about it.

Thanks for the link - I'm not sure I entirely agree that many of these stories have the same beginning and end though, which makes the loop structure a bit of a flawed foundation.

I'm a fan of the long take, and a fan of Hitchcock's Rope too. It can be a very powerful tool to hold on an action or reaction for longer than normal. I agree that not all long takes are equal.

The Atonement clip works far better, putting you admist the action, than the Warrior King clip, which is a following shot. But then the two shots are out to achieve different things. Warrior King's is a demonstration of prowess and skill, a storm being unleashed upon some bad people by an emotionally unbalanced hero in search of his friend. It doesn't relent, doesn't breathe. He's unstoppable. Meanwhile, Atonement's is about the scene of chaos on the beach of Dunkirk, we feel like we're walking through this almost alien landscape following a man who wants to be somewhere else. He's with all these people, but somehow he's alone. Really powerful sense of isolation.

Yeah, I probably like Never more than something like Diamonds are Forever. It's a remake of Thunderball and isn't 'technically' a Bond film.

Saw Transformers 3 on the weekend. What a fucking trainwreck, one of the worst proper movies I've ever seen. It's nonsensical,  stupid gibberish with no redeeming feature. I am flabbergasted as to how the director of Bad Boys, The Rock and Armaggeddon seems apparently incapable to telling a coherent story. The acting is atrociously over the top, with almost everyone trying to outdo John Turturro in his "how I can turn this character into a  stupid annoying cartoon" approach to his role. John Malkovich, Alan Tudyck, that chinese guy from Community and Hangover, McDreamy from Grey's Anatomy, Frances McDormand! Why the hell are these guys appearing in the movie?

Again, the story is convulated and confusing in all the wrong ways. And once a-fucking-gain the climax is a clusterfuck of bad editing.

The only good thing about this movie is that it will net Paramount the funding for several fantastic movies in the next few years.

Now that's a nice combo - two great King/Darrabont collaborations (and the two Stephen King stories that have the best endings).

The season is over and already I'm sad. This was some great television, and you know what, I'm kinda awed by just how faithful it's been. Hope the bluray gets a release soon, hopefully in time for Christmas at least.

Except 2001 doesn't actually have a story, it's a series of ideas and images ending with a philosophical punctuation mark. It's incomprehensible because there's nothing really there to comprehend. Once you've looked past its technical merits or had some pseudo-intellectual prat try to explain it, you just think "and?"... and that's at the end after you've been thinking "ok, so what is going on?" for the previous 2 hours. On the other side, Riddick is incomprehensible because there's too much stuff going on and you're thinking "wait, what?" and "how does this fit with that?".

So you have a film that's severely underwritten to the point that there's no script, whereas the other feels like it's been made with scripts for different films on set. Both clearly have story problems. You enjoy both, and I would guess you'd watch Riddick over 2001 any day of the week, so why is one bad or so below average it makes a mockery of mediocrity and the other fantastic?

The last few episodes have been great. Definitely put this show into my all-time favourites. The wait for the second series is going to be agonising.