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

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Yep

There was, as per usual, fuck all on the telly so I bought it, at a criminal cost of £3.75 off the telly, and have to say, it was well worth it

Really interesting take on the story. Had me in all sorts of feelings

Ooh sounds good. I watched a Korean 'Little matchstick girl' - it was one of the silliest films ever made ending in a more fucked up than the matrix gun fest that made no sense.

 

[dlx1]

on telly.
1st time see Snake on a plane &

 

[Orang Utan]

the children - very impressive creepy brit horror with kids instead of zombies
little children - less impressive american melodrama with kate winslet in a red bikini. stupid, superfluous and annoying voiceover, but saved by jackie earl haley in an excellent as a local paedo. his performance is almost sympathetic.

 

[Biddlybee]

That Benjamin Button film... it was painful we only kept watching because we thought it would end soon, but it kept going on and on and on

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

2 episodes of Outlaws which Jefe recommended. Superb stuff, looks like being yet another diamond of a programme which the BBC somehow, umm, criminally underpromoted.

(It's a comedy/drama about criminal lawyers, starring Phil daniels, and he's superb in it no matter how cheesy he might have been in Eastenders)

Torrent of it here:

http://thebox.bz/details.php?id=7901

(Need to register but it's open registrations)

 

[Bingo]

Where can i get starfleet off the net? Was it called summat else? Haven't watched it since about 1982!

 

[Structaural]

That Benjamin Button film... it was painful we only kept watching because we thought it would end soon, but it kept going on and on and on

We switched it off after an hour of boredom. I dunno how Bradley Pitts convinced everyone he could act.

 

[mwgdrwg]

A couple of films over the weekend....

The Day The Earth Stood Still - Crap

Quantum of Solace - Disappointing

 

[kyser_soze]

Finished all of Farscape, and I have to say pretty decently wrapped up in Peacekeeper Wars it was too!

Have endured 2x90 minute eps of Lexx...ernernerner...dunno...it's a bit shit really...

 

[DotCommunist]

Have endured 2x90 minute eps of Lexx...ernernerner...dunno...it's a bit shit really...

stick with it it is cool. First series peaks towards the end and then first 3-4 eps of srs2 are geek epic. Then begins the decline...


oh and don't treat it to srsly. It's quite knowing kitsch and silly. Wait long enough and zev get her kit off as well.

 

[kyser_soze]

Where can i get starfleet off the net? Was it called summat else? Haven't watched it since about 1982!

AKA 'X-Bomber' - you should be able to find all of it on PB or another torrent site...I dled them all recently and watched them b2b...as much fun as I remembered it, and I finally got to see the whole series in chronological order!

 

[ViolentPanda]

The Counterfeiters (again).
The Dark Knight (Ledger good, Bale boring, Eckhart as plastic as usual, but a watchable film).

 

[Structaural]

i watched the first 7 or 8 episodes of Deadliest Warrior. What a laugh, loved the 'sophisticated software' - its Excel. Brilliant stuff, if only for the smack talk between the adversary advocates.

Best one was Knight vs Pirate. aaarrrrrrrrr.

 

[Yetman]

Boudicca - Warrior Queen.

The mrs loves all this stuff so I got this for her. Was bloody good actually, it was the Nat Geographic documentary rather than the film, which is meant to be shit

 

[Lionman]

I had the misfortune of watching 'The Spirit' last night. It was a Will Eisner comic & had been adapted for the screen by Frank Miller. It's got Samuel Jackson in it, as well as Scarlett Johansson & a plethora of other very attractive ladies. I hadn't read any reviews or anything so thought I'd give it a go.

How was I to know that it was going to take pride & place at the top of the 'worst films I've ever seen' list (and I've seen a lot of shitty films). It's just awful! I couldn't work out if it was supposed to be a comedy & we were just missing the jokes or if was supposed to be serious but failing. It was like a terrible imitation of Tim Burton's Batman via Sin City. Horrible dialogue from everyone with the character of The Spirit doing these horrible thinking out loud monologues that were totally uncalled for, what's wrong with a voice over? Towards the end he even breaks the 4th wall (as I believe it's know as) by talking directly to the camera! I don't have a problem with that as such but it's the kind of thing that should be all or nothing.

Acting was mediocre at best from all involved & the soundtrack was horrible. In it's defense it was quite striking to watch & as I mentioned before there's a lot of eye candy but these don't make a good film. It wasn't even enjoyable in a shit way just straight up rubbish, all in all it felt like a big old waste of time.

0 out of 10 Avoid at all costs.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Ah yes, the Spirit is absolutely awful.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I thought it was ok. My biggest problem with the Spirt was that the city didn't feel very big in the cinematic sense. The dialogue and cheese were all part of the genre. Not going to be watching it again in a hurry but it's far higher up the list than daredevil and electra. I can't stand Johanason but I think she was at least bearable in this rather than a pouting moocher.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

AKA 'X-Bomber' - you should be able to find all of it on PB or another torrent site...I dled them all recently and watched them b2b...as much fun as I remembered it, and I finally got to see the whole series in chronological order!

How did you ever see it out of order? It was never repeated.

I still have them on my mac, I'm finding it really hard going. No childhood excitement for me. Maybe I need to see the robot ship.

Thank god I didn't buy the Japanese X Bomber box set (£110) a few years ago, I was really tempted (and tempted again a year or two ago when I saw it in a second had shop for £90. Obviously its the (different) Japanese cut with different music and no cuts but oddly it had an english dubbed 'film version' cut that was 90 minutes with Japanese subtitles. This version (and the reason for it being made) wasn't explained.

 

[Orang Utan]

drag me to hell - dunno why but i had high hopes - it was crap

 

[electrogirl]

I preferred the sound of 'Drag Me To Hull'

 

[tufty79]

harvey last night
and fell asleep to donnie darko in the next room..


about to start watching a taste of honey and hopefully fall asleep before the end

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I thought it was ok. My biggest problem with the Spirt was that the city didn't feel very big in the cinematic sense. The dialogue and cheese were all part of the genre. Not going to be watching it again in a hurry but it's far higher up the list than daredevil and electra. I can't stand Johanason but I think she was at least bearable in this rather than a pouting moocher.

Oh for heaven's sake? You thought the Spirit was 'OK'?

 

[Badgers]

Wire then Buffy

 

[Yetman]

One episode of The Inbetweeners - liking this

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Oh for heaven's sake? You thought the Spirit was 'OK'?

It's just 40s 50s style comic book noir junk, and if you don't like that style you won't like the film. Like I said, i'm not a big fan of it and I am in no way in any hurry to see it again.

 

[kyser_soze]

stick with it it is cool. First series peaks towards the end and then first 3-4 eps of srs2 are geek epic. Then begins the decline...


oh and don't treat it to srsly. It's quite knowing kitsch and silly. Wait long enough and zev get her kit off as well.

I can't treat anything that features a bell-end shower nozzle srsly, or indeed, seriously (and Zev's already had her kit off...yeah, she's a hottie, altho I was gutted that Wist is kilt in Eating Process), but there was a substantial improvement betweeen E1 and E3...

My main problem with it isn't the sets, or bad acting - it's the general pacing. There's never a sense of time present; the characters just wander from scene to scene, never injecting any tension which is the really unforgiveable thing for me.

How did you ever see it out of order? It was never repeated.

It ran, on and off, for 4 years on Anglia in the early 80s, and was shown out of sequence...

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Sullivan's Travels

 

[andy2002]

Wanted - probably the most unrelentingly stupid film I've ever seen. It makes The Hottie Or The Nottie look like Citizen Kane.

 

[sojourner]

about to start watching a taste of honey and hopefully fall asleep before the end

One of my all time favourite films that

Why would you want to fall asleep before the end?

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

It's just 40s 50s style comic book noir junk, and if you don't like that style you won't like the film. Like I said, i'm not a big fan of it and I am in no way in any hurry to see it again.

It's just the number of really good things you say are shit, and then you say the Spirit is ok.