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

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Watched The Rabbit-Proof Fence. Quite enjoyable and disturbing movie about Australia and how they dealt with the "half-caste" problem in the 1930's.
 
last night - Tideland. A brave and interesting movie that was just too long and it never really went anywhere. But the visual style, the ideas, the phenomenal lead actress, all good.

Tonight - first couple of eps of Generation Kill. As expected, chaotic and hard to follow at first, but we got to grips with it quicker than the wire (perhaps, ironically, because we've watched the wire).
 
Tonight I watched Demons by Dario Argentio/Lamberto Bava

It started off rocky and looking very bad, it then transcended and become awesome, rocking 80s mini-bike samurai goodness, 10/10
 
Hunger.

It was very good and I kind of regret not seeing it on the big screen now. But I did think that the dialogue, what little of it there was, especially the scene with the priest was quite stilted and contrived, which seemed to jar with the tone of the pictures.
 
I watched that last night, was pretty ridiclulous how many guys did that guy have in his gang?. :D

It wasn't a gang, it was some kind of multi-national criminal organisation. The guy was some kind of "godfather" figure.

The bollock-squashing scene made me wince! :eek:
 
Rope

It was good, but not great. They was a making of feature on the DVD during which the writer explained that Hitchcock had bottled it by filming the scene with the murder at the beginning. The original script was supposed to keep the possibility of a murder as a mystery right until the end. That would have worked better.

The writer also explained that a lot of the gay stuff was supposed to be more explicitly done and getting Jimmy Stewart in really did away with a lot of the undertones between the schoolmaster and the ex-pupil. Again it would have worked better with more of that in but it's still pretty surprising that Hollywood made such a gay film at that point in time.
 
2 more eps of Generation Kill. Pretty flawless stuff, and very very funny. Guess it will never connect in the same way as the Wire because the palette of characters to draw on is inevitably smaller, but still totally compelling
 
Wanted with Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie and Jame McAvoy. Totally mindless unrealistic action with a shit story but I loved it!!
 
"The wrestler" (Micky Rorke)

I really liked it although it was absolutaly nothing like i expected (i thought it was gonna be a comedy type rocky film lol) ... an exellant portrayal of the sad and sometimes shady world of wrestling, and in perticuler the ones who have nothing.

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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - was thinking it was a bit meh and then the ending came along!!!
 
re watched some eps of The Thick of It.

Ollie on the phone trying to explain Malcolm shouting in the background:

"No, no. It's not Malcolm. Um, I'm in a restaurant - some Scotish guy's shouting at the waiters - I think they've under fried his Mars Bar or something"

:D
 
Wanted with Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie and Jame McAvoy. Totally mindless unrealistic action with a shit story but I loved it!!

I watched exactly the same thing last night. Some of the stunts/action sequences were pretty far fetched but good fun :)
 
Two of the very best:

Encounters at the end of the world. Stunning doc from Werner Herzog set in Antartica.


Surfwise. Astonishing doc. Extraordinary story, great music, fab editing, awesome narrative.


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