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

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I have Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia, The Tin Drum and Triumph Of The Will to watch, but I can't seem to get around to watching them. I guess neither are very Christmassy. I guess I should go for the Riefenstahl cos at least it's got singing and big crowds in.
 
Started watching Sean Locks stand up DVD and...well....its a bit shit :hmm:

Tropic Thunder t'other night was fucking ace though :cool:
 
Hero, with my 8 year old. It wasn't as good as I'd told him. Which means he got lost somewhere in between the retelling of the stories. I did tell him he'd probably need to watch it a few times to get it.

Child's Play, just happened to be on when the little un went off to bed. I've never seen it before. Bloody rubbish IMO, except for the little kid who wasn't so bad at acting. Did controversy help to hype the Child's Play films or were they already credible with horror fans?

Zack and Miri make a Porno. With the teen, warned him it better not be a shit stoner film but it was okay, a few laughs, mostly down to Jay, the fella who only works with Kevin Smith.
 
Wanted

Bought it off the tellee cos daughter wanted to watch it. Not as excruciatingly bad as some action movies, and I actually laughed a couple of times. Like when the car went into the train :cool::D
 
Pandora's Box - GW Pabst's tale of sexual obsession leading to ruin - Louise Brooks is possibly the most naturally alluring screen stars ever - she doesn't really seem to act here, but just smoulder innocently as men ruin themselves over her until eventually she is ruined herself, starving in a draughty garret, on the run with her disgraced paramour and sleazy pimp/father, only to fall prey to (presumably) Jack The Ripper. Beautiful expressionist photography of smoke, shadows and strangely lit eyes betraying everything from lust to shame to guilt to horror. Best listened to with Vladislav Delay as the soundtrack.
I can't quite believe my dad gave me this, esp after my mum gave me a book about avant-garde 20th century music for Xmas. I believe that my parents and mine's tastes are beginning to converge, or maybe we've only just realised that we've had something in common all these years.
 
There will be blood......


Not very impressed really. They went over board on the sound track, just didn't really get into it.
 
one of the most awesome brain-assaulting tour de fources of recent decades - I feel for you if you didn't get it
 
oh ansd I watched Speed Racer - tis truly a unique and bizarre movie, in fact I;m not sure it is a movie. Brillliant to watch on ket.
 
Slow steady shovelling through season two of the Wire.

It's an ok show. I liked the second season better than the first. A bit more meat on the plot.

But I wish the actors would step up their game, and the writers too, while we're at it. Like I say, mostly ok, but sometimes the dialogue goes to pieces in a way that makes you want to gnash your teeth.

Same with the acting: this isn't vaudeville: it isn't necessary for a panoply of emotion to wash across an actor's face the way it would if it were Bernard Fairfax tarted up with greasepaint.

Come on McNulty, less is more! :D
 
Cass - a football hooligan story that wasn't all about 'striping' innit.

Actuallly I told myself I'd give it 10 minutes, but sat through the lot. There's probably a much more human story about this character to be told, but the filmakers clearly needed to keep the football factory fans happy, so at times it was just a thug film. I'm not a fan of football, but neither, it seems, were the ICF.

I'll give a 6 out of 10.
 
Watched Little Dieter Needs to Fly the other day. What an amazing story! LTC plugged it some time ago, definitely worth the 90 minutes of anyone's time.

Watched Hunger on Xmas Eve, also a must see. My mate had seen it at the pictures and told me the shocking shit and piss stuff but the brutality and what must have been extreme boredom were the things the film brought home for me. Also felt it was a much less biased film than I'd previously been given the impression. Probably worth a re-watch already.


Got up yesterday to Spiderman 3, quickly passed that one up.

Austin Powers Goldmember in the afternoon followed by Ask a Policeman, Will Hay classic. Quality not that good although its a proper Dvd, wondered how we managed to watch em on a little portable. Good fun all the same.

30 days of Night in the evening, seen it already, shoulda got off me arse to put something different on.

Started The Wire rewatch at 11pm and got a couple of episodes in.
 
The Golden Compass

My lass got it for xmas, so we watched it yesterday, and still can't get over that stupid fucking ending :mad:
 
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The Golden Compass

My lass got it for xmas, so we watched it yesterday, and still can't get over that stupid fucking ending :mad:
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It didn't end did it? There's going to be second part which I ain't going to watch it. The first one is stupid enough.
 
Speaking of stupid ending, watched 007 Quantum Of Solace last night and it just felt unfinished. My thought was huh was that it? Great actions but seems too much, and so little acting.
 
Just watched The Orphanage. Lots of twists and quite scary in places. Really good film. Would've liked to see more of potato sack boy but maybe he'd be less scary then.
 
JFK

That is a truly shite film. I don't know why I didn't give up on it. Suppose I thought it might get better in the third hour. I was very wrong.
 
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Just watched The Orphanage. Lots of twists and quite scary in places. Really good film. Would've liked to see more of potato sack boy but maybe he'd be less scary then.
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I liked it too........it looked beautiful as well !
 
i watched all of dead set :cool:

it is awesome- near perfect. anyone who disagrees knows nothing about anything :p

[/brooker+zombiefilm fanboy]
 
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