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Just try and keep me away (from IFC Same Day as Theaters).

Has anyone read the novels?

The Shropshire Slasher never gets his due.

I missed it myself(though it's downloading as we speak)but this was a mega hit over here,it aired on CH4,who back in the day where almost our HBO and to this day are one of the only channel to still air the hbo shows at decent times an not the vague post 12am slot.
All I heard where good things and i can wait to sit watch it in my own time.
And for the record,Paddy Considine, or, The Robert De Niro of the North,is only underappreciated in the US. We know what we've got. You Yankee doodles or something

Yeah, I saw Red Riding. It was pretty solid, however, each part (even with its own visual style and narrative) stayed firmly in the realms of "good, but not great." Whereas Zodiac was great (in my opinion).

The only problem I had with Zodiac was I found Jake Gyllenhaal a bit off-putting (i.e. miscast) but that's probably again down to personal opinion.

PS: while I'm slinging my (often unreliable) opinion around, Paddy = one of the best actors we'll ever see on screen and if you haven't seen Dead Man's Shoes, you're missing out on not just one of the greatest movies of the last decade, but ever.

emotionalpedant - I had the same problem with Jake he bought the tone of the whole thing down, not enough that I'd turn off mind you but enough for me to be dissapointed.

Nadine:
I understand your anger having been so close to the situation, but why shouldn't criminals have their side of the story told? That is the entire basis of an ethical justice system isn't it? While there are evil bastards out there, most people don't just go out and kill without something in their background having forced them to the act outside the extremes of what society deems acceptable. That's not to say they should get a slap and be released, but surely the only way we can stop these horrific things happening is to stop the behaviours that churn out children who become evil? And to do that we have to acknowledge that there are backstories to criminals.

My only question is, what happened to Andy's mustache?

Paddydog, great point, but the issue is how ch4 goes about it, they're somewhat smug and about how they present the shows and stories and opinions and it often feels like a bit of an FU to the victims. There was on they did where a father sexually abuses hi daughter several times, was arrested, served time, then was sent to a rehabilitation clinic similar to the one you have in the states, clinics which noblongerbeziat in the uk. At the end of the film he was reunited with his family, including the daughter he molested. It ended with a narration about the clinics bein closed as if it was so sad. See I'm very of the opinion that if you touch a kid sexually, you have your hands, dick, vag, what ever, removed or rendered useless, and i would straight up murder anyone who touhed a child,sibling cousin or young friend of mine. But that's just me :)
I don't min hearing the criminals side of things but it's how it's done that gets me, ch4 are very liberal and forward thinking and that's great, but whe it comes to child killers and baby rapers,fuck them right in their fucking mouth. They had another one recently where in an alternate realisty the death penalty was brought back in the uk and gary glitter was
to be the first man executed. Like in the one with the dad and his daughter, they went to great lengths to make a paedophilr a sympathetic character and I can't swallow that medicine.
Freckles...marbles up the bum eh? Would know hat I meant by radiator pants .....?

Saw them over the weekend on 4OD. Absolutely brilliant. The first one being the weakest of the 3 and the 2nd one close to perfection. Wouldn't have minded to see them in the cinema at all.

See, this is what pisses me off. It looks amazing and is (by reader accounts) an incredible series of films. Why the hell remake them? It's unlikely the new versions can pack the same punch as the original, and anyone who knows about the originals will surely watch those instead. Ugh. Hollywood, you can suck it.

They're not remaking them!! Redistributing. Read the article.

Nadine: Okay, your comment makes a lot more sense now (more like the Nadine I'm used to). Apart from those shows though, I can never stop loving the channel that gave us Letter to Breshnev and My Beautiful Laundrette.

i'm cautiously optimistic about these. the books are utterly phenomenal, though the lack of '1977' is really confusing to me. the books are heavily connected, but it more or less works like this:

1974 and its direct sequel 1983
1977 and its direct sequel 1980

like i said, they're all heavily interconnected, but that's pretty much how it works. i can't recommend the books enough, though. i've read the whole of the series three times now and am still cracking the true mystery of the it. i'm curious to see how they'll manage to preserve the density and ambiguity of the story.

See I am a weeee bit leary to watch this if only because Sean Bean is a wife beating douchbag.
The again, I'm pirating the shit out of this so while kick ass legends like Paddy suffer...Sean Bean makes no money from me...yesss

I watched the first ep and got bored. Just didn't click for me. Not sure why. I'm sure everyone in it is great and everything (especially Andrew Garfield and yes Boy A was fantastic). I think maybe I was expecting something different.