What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt2)

[Grandma Death]

Sideways (again)....sheer brilliance.

The scene where Virgina Madsen and Paul Giamatti discuss his love for Pinot gets me every time.

 

[corporate whore]

The Dark Corner, which ticked all the right noir boxes.

Notable for Lucille Ball being sassy as fuck, and for the use of "shagged" to mean "followed", thus:

"I seen ya pal, you've been shagging me for two days now."

"Listen, buster, if I catch you shagging me again I'll ram those keys down your throat."

Marvellous.

 

[Sadken]

Jesus is Magic by Sarah Silverman. It has a weird feeling to it and veers between painfully unfunny shock for the sake of it bollocks and very funny indeed.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Humm I wanted that but I'm not sure after your review.

 

[matrix_22]

Finished watching Donkey Punch and it is the most movie I've seen all year

 

[Sadken]

Humm I wanted that but I'm not sure after your review.

Might be because I'd wanted to see it for so long and wanted to see it so much that it couldn't match my pretty high expectations. "Chris Rock live" syndrome, I've come to call it. I couldn't really see any way I wouldn't love it before watching it which I really ought to learn is a sure sign I'm not gonna love it.

 

[Sadken]

Finished watching Donkey Punch and it is the most movie I've seen all year

Have you seen Teeth?

 

[matrix_22]

Have you seen Teeth?

No - forgot about that movie - worth seeing?

 

[Sadken]

No - forgot about that movie - worth seeing?

If you like followed by disappointment then yeah

 

[matrix_22]

If you like followed by disappointment then yeah

probably why I forgot about it then - from what i remember didn't hear good stuff bout it

 

[Sadken]

probably why I forgot about it then - from what i remember didn't hear good stuff bout it

It's going for feminism points but, fuck me, it's being pretty optimistic in doing so.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Finished watching Donkey Punch and it is the most movie I've seen all year

I thought it was pretty rubbish. Pretty boring really. The only tense bit is waiting for the donkey punch (because you already know the set up for the film).

 

[Orang Utan]

Rashomon - never seen this before so didn't know what to expect - well good - Toshiro Mifune is brilliant ('ahahahahahahahahahaha') - looks amazing too.
Saw a bunch of Kurosawas in The Skunk Years but can't recall a thing about them, so looking forward to seeing some more - Yojimbo and Throne Of Blood next up.

Oh, and The Devil's Backbone as well, which is fantastic.

 

[maya]

Dark Passage - immediately rushes to the very peak of my favourite films list.

- Another Bogart film I haven't seen yet! ...Thanks a million!

*prepares shopping list*

 

[Orang Utan]

Yojimbo - this fucking rocks - I knew Fistful Of Dollars was a remake, but I didn't realise how much the Western genre, indeed Western cinema owes this film. Leone even nicks the joke about the coffin maker. Didn't expect it to be so funny either. Toshiro Mifune is such a badass.
(ps - did Lynch use the opening scene of the dog with the hand in one of his films? Wild At Heart? Or am I thinking of another film)

 

[sojourner]

Garage

Great little film set in Ireland - "ultra-minimalist drama about a sweet and gentle man named Josie (Shortt) who works in a garage in rural Ireland and is treated, sometimes affectionately and sometimes brutally, as the village idiot by all and sundry"

Really enjoyed this, and loved the ending

 

[Sadken]

Rashomon - never seen this before so didn't know what to expect - well good - Toshiro Mifune is brilliant ('ahahahahahahahahahaha') - looks amazing too.

LOVE that film.

 

[Grandma Death]

Over the last three days I've watched:

The Diving Bell & The Butterfly (Excellent)
Rec (Formulaic but it certainly has it's moments)
In Bruges (Very funny indeed-loved it)

 

[Orang Utan]

Rec (Formulaic but it certainly has it's moments)

There's 3 proper jump-out-of-your-seat moments in that

 

[Part 2]

I watched In Bruges on Friday, enjoyed it not what I was expecting. Mrs fell asleep 20 minutes from the end.

Saturday tried to get her to watch Into the Wild, she fell asleep again.

I'll never learn

 

[Sadken]

Saturday tried to get her to watch Into the Wild, she fell asleep again.

Watched that when it came out and loved it but it was so draining I've been building up to watch it again.

 

[corporate whore]

- Another Bogart film I haven't seen yet! ...Thanks a million!

*prepares shopping list*

I'm having a Bogart-fest lately. Got another to watch this week. Dark Passage is right up there with the best of 'em.

 

[narcodollars]

I'm having a Bogart-fest lately. Got another to watch this week. Dark Passage is right up there with the best of 'em.

That's the one where Bogart's character gets a face lift, I've seen that one.

Lauren Bacall is luscious....

 

[matrix_22]

This is England - recorded from the other night

 

[Yetman]

Children of Men - top fucking film, loved it. Good camera work as well.

Volver - finished watching it, took a while to get into and didnt seem very exciting but once the whole story comes together it does touch you and you do feel for the characters. And again, Penelope Cruz is amazingly gorgeous.

 

[CharlieAddict]

REC - good film. love the leading lady.

Kekexili - Mountain Patrol - beautiful film about a bunch of vigilantes and deer poachers in tibet. fuckin' awesome. and i like the relationship/show of differences between the chinese and tibetan characters.
so recommend this.

 

[Sunspots]

old stuff

Johnny Cash: Live At San Quentin
(-even better than I remember)

Meshes Of The Afternoon
(-even stranger than I remember)

"-Here Come The Belgians!": The Very Best Of It's A Knockout
(-just as daft as I remember)

 

[Orang Utan]

Videos?

 

[narcodollars]

I'm watching a DVD that accompanies the 10th Anniversary album of the French electronica band AIR. It's called Eating, Sleeping, Waiting, and Playing - by Mike Mills. The documentary is shot in black-and-white, and it has subtitles in French. I've been looking at it nearly every night ever since I bought it in June this year. It's very creatively produced, with a minimalist style of editing, so it's an unassuming and "unplugged" film about the band on tour in '98, after they made their noteworthy debut in the States.

 

[Ranbay]

^^ love that, got it some place