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

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answer me this, honestly: i've set myself the challenge of NOT watching Angel.

It is just a poor spin-off, isn't it? Please tell me it's a poor spin-off
 
OOO, you're going to meet Glory soon!!

I, somewhat stupidly, watched Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

I don't think I've seen such a bad film - even by Michael Bey standards - for years. It was signature Bey, but while in the first one stuff like his 'swooping' camera style was fun, playful and engaging, in this it was just shite. And whomever approved the script needs fucking shooting. 'The Matrix of Leadership'!! I mean FFS!!!! :mad: Even the fight sequences are largely shite. I mean how can you make a fight between giant robots shite?

Transformers 2: Revenge of The Fallen.

It was shit apart from Megan Fox and giant robots.

TBH, I thought even the robots were shite :(
 
answer me this, honestly: i've set myself the challenge of NOT watching Angel.

It is just a poor spin-off, isn't it? Please tell me it's a poor spin-off

I haven't seen enough to comment; I've seen a few eps from the later seasons and they're pretty good. Plus it's got Cordelia in it.
 
Kinda

Spike appears as a ghost cos he's already done his big self-sacrifice thing in Buffy by the time he appears in Angel IIRC

That's just from general reading on a Buffy wiki about Spike...
 
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Spike appears as a ghost cos he's already done his big self-sacrifice thing in Buffy by the time he appears in Angel IIRC

That's just from general reading on a Buffy wiki about Spike...

oh BOLLOCKS> i thought that was just an Angel spoiler :mad:
 
answer me this, honestly: i've set myself the challenge of NOT watching Angel.

It is just a poor spin-off, isn't it? Please tell me it's a poor spin-off

It's really very good (although patchy in places).

Basically, Season 1 sets it up and is mainly stand-alone, but has some great episodes.

Season 2 and 3 are very, very good (and fucking dark in places).

Season 4 probably has the highest number of good episodes, but the overall arc is a little weak.

Season 5 goes off on a completely new direction, but is great nonetheless.

The character development is probably better than Buffy, but it's a lot less 'fun' for the most part (but if you like a more 'grey' approach to morality, it's superior).
 
Trust

A Hal Hartley film, which I can only imagine I put on my rental list because I was looking for stuff with Edie Falco in

Fucking ace, really enjoyed it. As it started, I ALMOST switched off because I thought it was going to be total shite. Fucking glad I didn't :cool:
 
Trust

A Hal Hartley film, which I can only imagine I put on my rental list because I was looking for stuff with Edie Falco in

Fucking ace, really enjoyed it. As it started, I ALMOST switched off because I thought it was going to be total shite. Fucking glad I didn't :cool:

a fantastic movie, my favourite Hartley. But there's a theory that your fave Hartley is always the first one because they're all pretty similar.

Can I recommend Simple Men, Amateur and The Unbelievable Truth too? All ace.

Get ropey after that, although Henry Fool is quite good.

Martin Donovan is fucking cool too :)
 
Eddie Murphy - Delirious

Some dubious jokes about aids and homosexuality, but very much of the time.

Going through a 'stand up' phase with Nanker Jnr - he also made me sit through a Russell Howard live dvd - it was like watching your nice cousin, who's a bit funny.
 
I watched Delirious again a couple of months ago, and yeah you have to grit teeth re: the AIDS & gay stuff, but once he gets onto his family stuff it had me howling...again...
 
a fantastic movie, my favourite Hartley. But there's a theory that your fave Hartley is always the first one because they're all pretty similar.

Can I recommend Simple Men, Amateur and The Unbelievable Truth too? All ace.

Get ropey after that, although Henry Fool is quite good.

Martin Donovan is fucking cool too :)

Ooo cheers!! I'll stick them straight on now. I kept going 'heh', and 'wow', and 'ooo interesting' all the way through it last night, best film I've watched for ages :cool:

Oh, and yeh, he is

Watched the interview afterwards and was really impressed with how HH directs - total control
 
answer me this, honestly: i've set myself the challenge of NOT watching Angel.

It is just a poor spin-off, isn't it? Please tell me it's a poor spin-off

I'd give Angel a go - not a patch on the best of Buffy but it definitely has its moments.
 
Burn After Reading.

humour was twee.........female characters "ambiguously" stereotyped.......male characters were even more two-dimensional.....fucking frustrating post-modern ending (surely that kinda thing is out of fashion by now?)

still, fairly enjoyable despite that...had moments
 
Wat? S6 is 70/30 good/shite for

having the geek boys as the main baddies is a bit pants, however you've got the Anya/Xander thing and the best season climax of the lot with Willow going bad with the dark magic after Warren shoots Tara

So how you can say teh quality slides after S3 is beyond me.

tssk tssk. you are totally wrong with the first comment. They are great, in there own way, and are vital for the set up of Normal Again - one of the very very greatest Buffy episodes, quite possibly my absolute favourite. Tht episode tells you exactly why they (the people refererd to in Kysers comment) are there. And it's right.

Your final comment is spot on tho - the way 'bored now' is utterred is phenomenal, and really rather sexy.
 
Also great is KING OF KONG - about 2 completely different characters competing for the Donkey Kong world record. Mad how seriously that whole world is taken - people talking about defending the integrity of the competition with their dying breath etc. Fucking nutcases! The guy you're supposed to root for seems lovely though.

Top recommendation. Everyone other than Steve and his family comes across as complete loons, or at least have some very obsessive behaviours.

It verges on being unbelievable, the phone calls being filmed and loads of scenes look like they might be staged. Info on IMDB suggests there's a strong element of fiction behind the main rivalry and also that another player was in contention.

All the same I thought it was a great film.
 
Watched Garden State for the first time, was actually pretty good - I had heard very mixed reviews about it and on balance was better than I expected.
 
Watched three documentaries from the John Pilger box set 'Reporting the World'. All from the seventies, and they're the perfect antidote to any nostalgia about that decade. The three I watched were all about different issues in Britain, including one about child poverty which was really shocking. Filmed in 1975, but the housing conditions shown, like Pilger says himself, look more like something from the 1930s. Watched another very interesting one about the government's use of conspiracy laws to target and imprison activists and union members etc e.g. Ricky Tomlinson and the Shrewsbury pickets.
 
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