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I've been slacking on the reading front of late , but it would be nice to start another thread which is so popular and enlightening.

This might not be that thread , but you never know.

I very rarely watch television , but I watched the following DVD's last night :

"Zoo York. City Of Killers" : It's the Zoo York's skateboard team on a world tour and there is some stunning tricks and loactions in there. The quality of some of the material is debatable , but it's probably worth the £10 I payed for it.

It's not a patch on "Hot Chocolate" which is the "Chocolate" skateboards tour of The States. "Chocoloate" are the sister company of "Girl" which is part owned by Spike Jonze and he was heavily involved in directing and producing this , which is the follow-up to "Yeah Right" (a DVD I can't stop watching). In one section "Flaming Board" (part two of "Magic Board" from "Yeah Right !") , the team use a skateboard quite clearly on fire and have a whale of a time doing tricks and stunts. It may seem very juvenile , but it makes for great viewing !

What about you ?
 
Waterfront .. about the US porn star Jon Holmes.
Good film IMO.
And ... The Football Factory ... well made and good acting overall ... but not quite right for some reason. Worth watching though. :)
 
Starship Troopers 2

Absolutely shite, avoid at all costs if you enjoyed the original.

Shit! :mad:
 
i watched Return Of The King on Monday. lord alone knows why - closure, i guess ;) - and it was toss. honestly - i'm not just being iconoclastic but it just didn't know when to fucking end. :( it could have easily been an hour shorter (i have nothing against long movies as the content justifies the footage)..

wank.
 
Watched a video of 'North by Northwest' in bed. I fell asleep during the bit on the train and I'm sure my last thought before sleep was "Cary Grant eh, don't make 'em like that anymore". I did awaken briefly to switch it off during the cropdusting scene.

The previous night I watched a borrowed dvd of 'O Brother where art thou'. I'm a massive Coen brothers fan but this will need repeated viewing (I couldn't understand the strong deep south accents for a while). The one line that I do remember went something like "thank god your mama died giving birth, if she'd seen ya she would've died o' shame""
 
Dubversion said:
i watched Return Of The King on Monday. lord alone knows why - closure, i guess ;) - and it was toss. honestly - i'm not just being iconoclastic but it just didn't know when to fucking end. :( it could have easily been an hour shorter (i have nothing against long movies as the content justifies the footage)..

wank.
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Thank fuck somebody has finally agreed with my opinion of return of the King . IMHO the last half hour pretty much ruined the entire trilogy for me :( Peter Jackson should go back to making good films like Bad Taste and Brain Dead :D

And last night I watched Gangs of New York !
 
rorymac said:
And ... The Football Factory ... well made and good acting overall ... but not quite right for some reason. Worth watching though. :)
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yeah ; agreed. The casting in the film is very good , with Danny Dyer ("Moth" from "Human Traffic") playing superbly , but it seems patchy in places.
There is no actual football featured in the film , but with the content within, this is hardly surprising. I belive they shot a load of footage at Stamford Bridge , but Chelsea pooh-poohed them showing it. I don't know if this is the same as in the novel , but I'm sure with a lot of hardcore football hooligan's , football isn't the main concern , is it ?
Decent soundtrack though...
 
The Pianist, about how the Jews were treated in Warsaw by the Nazi's during the 2nd World War. Utterly heartbreaking film, makes it all the harder to understand what the fuck is going on in Israel today.
 
La Reine Margot, which was ok but not out of this world.

Originally posted by Bob Marleys Dad
The Pianist, about how the Jews were treated in Warsaw by the Nazi's during the 2nd World War. Utterly heartbreaking film, makes it all the harder to understand what the fuck is going on in Israel today.
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What did you think of this?
I was a bit disappointed tbh. I think I expected it to have a more Polanski-ish feel. I don't think you could tell it was one of his movies if you didn't know about it, unlike all his other films where his mark is definitely present.
 
redsquirrel said:
La Reine Margot, which was ok but not out of this world.



What did you think of this?
I was a bit disappointed tbh. I think I expected it to have a more Polanski-ish feel. I don't think you could tell it was one of his movies if you didn't know about it, unlike all his other films where his mark is definitely present.
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Yeah I know what you mean, it's almost like the subject matter was so sensitive that he balked at putting his stamp on it. It's a shame really as the tiny bits that his directing did shine through in were the best parts of the film imo.
 
having finally got my dvd order....twas the one episode of Black Books that I'd missed before (series 2 episode4 fact fans), and the first episode of Buffy.

Lordy, she loked soooooo young....
 
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"Chocoloate" are the sister company of "Girl" which is part owned by Spike Jonze and he was heavily involved in directing and producing this
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didn't Spike Jonze direct a whole load of skating films for Girl? like 'Mouse' and a few others? i've never seen them, but i'm desperate to see what his early directing skills were like, even if they were only to do with skateboarding. i don't know why i'm so attracted to skateboarding - it's the world's dumbest sport, unless you're brilliant at it - but i am nonetheless fascinated by it. and guys who skateboard. yum. :D

i watched Taxi Driver for the first time last night. what an amazing film! and i never realised that robert de niro could be good-looking.

oops, i sound a bit obsessed...
 
Originally posted by Bob Marleys Dad
Yeah I know what you mean, it's almost like the subject matter was so sensitive that he balked at putting his stamp on it. It's a shame really as the tiny bits that his directing did shine through in were the best parts of the film imo.
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I suppose that it was very close to the bone for him -family taken to concentration camp and killed, left to wander round Warsaw as a child.
 
little loaf said:
didn't Spike Jonze direct a whole load of skating films for Girl? like 'Mouse' and a few others? i've never seen them, but i'm desperate to see what his early directing skills were like, even if they were only to do with skateboarding. i don't know why i'm so attracted to skateboarding - it's the world's dumbest sport, unless you're brilliant at it - but i am nonetheless fascinated by it. and guys who skateboard. yum. :D
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Exactly. I don't know what the "Mouse" one you mention is , but "Yeah Right !" and "Hot Chocolate" must be the two most recent ones he directed (?) There are loads of older ones about , but I think they are a bit more difficult to get hold of.

I take it you saw the "Spike Jonze. Director's Series" DVD ? Great stuff...
 
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I take it you saw the "Spike Jonze. Director's Series" DVD ? Great stuff...
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no, i didn't even know such a DVD existed! brilliant! i'll try and get hold of it. it would be fascinating to see some of his earlier work. i'm such a huge fan of the guy. thanks for telling me!
 
I watched The Kingdom - Lars Von Trier's mini-series that the shite Stephen King version is based - it is of course immeasuarably superior - but I think I have only half of it - anyone got the second half?
 
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Amores Perros, probably one of the best films I've seen in years, its kinda City of god meets Pulp Fiction.
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amores perros is one of my favourite films! i think it was better than 21 grams, although 21 grams was also great, despite the fact that i had no idea what was happening for the first forty-five minutes or so.

i've never seen confessions of a dangerous mind, but i know it was written by charlie kaufman - how could it be boring?! :eek:
 
little loaf said:
i've never seen confessions of a dangerous mind, but i know it was written by charlie kaufman - how could it be boring?! :eek:
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I thought it was shite too - it's George Clooney's fault I reckon
 
Orang Utan said:
I thought it was shite too - it's George Clooney's fault I reckon
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It's that moody tache for one thing ; why do they have them in so many films ?

Also ; Sam Rockwell ; where the fuck did he come from all of a sudden ? I think he's a poor actor.
 
Oh dear. "Sleepless In Seattle" on VHS. I watched it as I went to New York for the first time last month and had to see the Empire State Building scene again.

I think I'll leave that one for a while now...
 
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