you're saying the Big Lebowski isn't revered amongst the college population? if anything it's more popular... i dont know how testosterone fits anywhere into W&I either, in terms of writing it is far and way the more theatrical and dare i say it gayer of the two. honest

let us never speak of this again

Pan's Labyrinth is a movie I've been wanting to see for a while.

I though Withnail & I wasn't quite as good as The Big Lebowski, but then again BL is one of my favorite movies of all time so it's hard to beat. I'd still recommend to anyone who likes comedy of any sort.

In terms of story it's very much the gayer of the two. Seeing as one of the characters is gay...

yeah Monty's just a perv though, there are pervs in lebowski aplenty... '8 year olds, dude'

He's also the only negative character so I wouldn't really jump to calling it gay-er or gay friendly...

As for Lebowski being college asshole material, I agree, but thankfully it's also much smarter, has a much wider appeal and is better written and by much more talented people than Bruce Robinson, as his post-Withnail career has clearly shown (The Killing fields was pretty crap too).

But to each their own. :|

But that entire sequence where he sneaks into "I"'s room is actually one of my favorite parts of the movie. It's so hilarious.

Has anyone else seen The History Boys? The guys who plays Monty plays another old gay man who's into even younger men and it's pretty funny.

Nah, Withnail and I is simply slower and much more paced. It's from a completely different era of cinematography and cannot be watched with the same mindsight but it's by no means less clever or more poorly written. I can understand that someone who isn't English may not appreciate to an extent the characterisations and will cede that the appeal is narrower but you're definitely selling it short in your synopsis.

I remember watching that. Isn't that the man that plays Uncle Vernon in Harry Potter ?

Gave in to the hype and watched 'Paranormal Activity' to avoid working. Utter balls. Sloppily written, failed to capture the realism it was so desperately groping for, one cliche after another... Tried to rip off elements of B-Witch and Exorcist unsuccessfully. There were a couple of moments of tension (some of the sound/visual effects were nifty), but the makers obviously had no idea what to do with it. I was too busy hating it to be scared.
The extremely annoying photogenic couple living in their affluent suburb you just want to die writhing in agony from the get-go... let's just say I stuck with this for the boredom and the expectation of a pay-off - it never arrived.
Whereas Blair Witch tore your nerves to shreds when it first came out, PA just leaves you and wondering how popular standards have sunk so low, then realizing it's because of sh*t like this and wanting to go on stabbing spree

http://www.dreadcentral.com/img/dvdg...hvol1ukbig.jpg

Gonna watch a few of these tonight. It's a series of short horror flicks directed by, appropriately enough, all the 'masters' of the genre, including John Landis, John Carpenter, Stuart Gordon, Takashi Miike and so on, and I've just found a stream of them all online.

Should be interesting.