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

[jeff_leigh]

I enjoyed that - you should check out Martyrs mentioned above.

Cheers BA I'll check that out

 

[Pie 1]

1st of the Red Riding Trilogy - 1974.

Fucking superb.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

That 4th Futurama film. Best of the bunch I reckon. Shame about the rather sudden and very much played down Fry and Leela get together.
Kind of feels like they are heading off into a new direction if the series is re-commissioned (which it has been hasn't it?). Shame, I like the current set up and this (possible) new idea could kill it like red dwarf.

 

[MightyAphrodite]

Burn After Reading

"Osbourne Cox? I thought you might be worried... about the security... of your shit."

Brad Pitt actually makes me laugh in that film.

 

[sojourner]

Girl with a Pearl Earring - was on the telly, and I've read the book and enjoyed it

Was alright actually, although a mate rang JUST as it was starting Had to tell her I'd ring her at the weekend!! I fucking hate it when people just ring/call round with no warning. I'm DOING STUFF

 

[El Jefe]

Burn After Reading

"Osbourne Cox? I thought you might be worried... about the security... of your shit."

Brad Pitt actually makes me laugh in that film.

yeh, it was one of the "smaller" Coen Bros films, but still very good fun

 

[Orang Utan]

i was very disappointed by it

 

[Sadken]

One night soon I'm going to watch Bronson just to kill a bit of time as much as anything else.

 

[Sunspots]

J'irai Comme Un Cheval Fou (I Will Walk Like A Crazy Horse)

 

[butchersapron]

Excellent choice - not his best IMO, that would be Tree of Guernica - but still...

 

[Sunspots]

*music nerd*

Excellent choice - not his best IMO, that would be Tree of Guernica - but still...

One of the weirdest scenes for me (-in what is undeniably a film utterly abundant in weird scenes) was when Marvel (-the desert man) proceeds to perform a fine rendition of the intro to ...

Apparently, it's actually Hindewhu singing/whistling, but the film and Herbie Hancock's album were both released in 1973, so I can't help wondering whether one inspired the other, or if it's just pure coincidence...

 

[butchersapron]

- you should def check out the rest of the trilogy, i.e Tree of Guernica and Long live Death - LLD was the first as was pretty bloody weird but by the time he'd reached Crazy Horse he was...gone...dissapeared over the horizon...

 

[Sunspots]

I've definitely heard of Viva La Muerte, but never seen it. Cheers for the nudge.

The obvious comparison is with Jodorowsky (-I realise they've worked together); the imagery in Crazy Horse seems just as visceral/grotesque/surreal. I found the symbolism was actually a bit easier to follow in Crazy Horse than in Jodorowsky's films though.

 

[El Jefe]

The Watchmen. I was very pleasantly surprised how good it was. It's 20 years since I read it so i was mercifully relieved from fanboy nitpicking.

 

[Orang Utan]

nosferatu - great stuff, wish i'd seen it before the herzog version cos the herzog version flummoxed me. it makes more sense now. max schreck's dracula is certainly one of the most striking, iconic movie characters. what an odd looking man. would like to find a shot of him without the make up.

 

[butchersapron]

White Night Wedding - Kormákur's follow up to the excellent Jar City (currently being remade in the US) and he's gone back to his quirkier earlier style - eccentric lovable (bleurgh) characters on a tiny Icelandic Island with a tragedy in their past. Totally cliched and not all charming, in fact it's quite offensive in its obvious attempts at manipulation. So dissapointing after Jar City. Bill Forsyth this is not.

 

[Voley]

The Woodsman.

Disturbing but compelling viewing. Not a big fan of Kevin Bacon normally but he was excellent in this. Really genuinely creepy without being OTT. The will he / won't he scene with the little girl was almost unbearably tense. I liked the way that you simultaneously felt sympathy and repulsion for him. A difficult topic but handled really well.

 

[Orang Utan]

i didn't like the way it seemed to be saying that a gay paedo was worse than a straight one

 

[6_6]

Persona by Ingmar Bergman.

Odd but interesting.
Great cinematography.

 

[6_6]

Right Midnight -

About a jazz musician.
Story was inspired by Bud Powell's tragic life.
Heart breaking.

 

[Dillinger4]

This film is an absolute phenomenon.

In the US they have parties where people go and watch it.

Apparently on Adult Swim on the cartoon network in the States they played it on repeat for April Fools day this year.

Reading about it is quite interesting
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20246031,00.html

I would recommend it - its hilarious.

I just cant recommend this film enough.

 

[Dillinger4]

Oh gosh I am just going to have to watch it again now.

 

[Upchuck]

Rambo last night, Rambo II tonight

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Ponyo.

Let's forget about Gedoskenki eh, things are back in track. Not the the film I was expecting though.

 

[butchersapron]

Fear Me Not - Danish existential thriller, bit like A History of Violence writ small. Questions about aggression and violence and how society and individuals informally deal with it, how people adapt etc. Looks like going somewhere rather too obvious in opening 15 minutes but doesn't. Very good at creating atmosphere and good perfomances -very enjoyable film.

 

[El Jefe]

where do you source all these movies, butch - downloads?

 

[butchersapron]

Yep, off k**garga mostly. Thank fuck for laptops and not being able to get to sleep at a decent time as well.

 

[El Jefe]

karagarga fucked me both times I used it. I just couldn't keep up the ratio, unless you get the latest seed you don't seem to stand a chance

 

[butchersapron]

karagarga fucked me both times I used it. I just couldn't keep up the ratio, unless you get the latest seed you don't seem to stand a chance

Really? A few people have said that to me, but i've got to admit i find it pretty easy. Maybe because i use it as my main tracker. I have a massive advantage in that i've grabbbed 3.5TB of stuff from there and there's always someone wanting something i've got that no one else is seeding. I do remember it being quite hard when i first joined.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

karagarga fucked me both times I used it. I just couldn't keep up the ratio, unless you get the latest seed you don't seem to stand a chance

I am going to be having this problem soon. Nobody wants the stuff I have downloaded. Mind you so far it's been non subbed rare miike takashi films mostly (and a non subbed Ponyo).

I guess I will have to download something popular. Do you think they have 'the girl on death row'?