What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt2)
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butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow - first part of Theo Angelopoulos's planned trilogy on Greek history from 1919-to modern day (probably won't be finished as he's pushing 80 and this one took 6 years to make). Significiantly more mainstream than his previous work,but still glacially slow and obtuse and pushing three hours. Bit unsure about this one.
La bataille du rail - film made immediately after WW2 detaling the resistance/sbaotage work carried out by the french railway workers, very heroic and all that, but we now know the picture is false. Doesn't stand up to the Italian films from the same period and on the same subject.
La bataille du rail - film made immediately after WW2 detaling the resistance/sbaotage work carried out by the french railway workers, very heroic and all that, but we now know the picture is false. Doesn't stand up to the Italian films from the same period and on the same subject.
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
This weekend -
Kidulthood (or should I say the first hour or so) - absolute shite.
Badly written, badly acted and with nothing new to say at all, felt like I was watching one of my mate's student films (when he was trying to be all edgy and cool). Did I miss anything by going to bed just before they made it to the party?
Blazing Saddles - Pretty much what I remembered (first half great, second half a little dragging), but plenty of good (if in dubious taste) moments, which I guess is kinda the point
Some Big Bang Theory (Season 2), developing a little crush on Kaley Cuoco now
Kidulthood (or should I say the first hour or so) - absolute shite.
Badly written, badly acted and with nothing new to say at all, felt like I was watching one of my mate's student films (when he was trying to be all edgy and cool). Did I miss anything by going to bed just before they made it to the party?
Blazing Saddles - Pretty much what I remembered (first half great, second half a little dragging), but plenty of good (if in dubious taste) moments, which I guess is kinda the point
Some Big Bang Theory (Season 2), developing a little crush on Kaley Cuoco now
~I watched that in the midst of a pretty nasty bit of depression and really liked it a lot more than i felt I probably should've.
god it's awful. laughably so.
Augie March
blahem
Anvil. Which I watched on Friday night and yesterday. It really was that good.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
The sequel is far worse
My lass is currently obsessing over Withnail and I, so we watched it together last night (she's on about her 6th viewing now
)
I'd forgotten loads of it, and invented a scene that didn't actually appear in the film (am now wondering wtf it's out of now
). Was quite enjoyable watching it again after all these years 
Some of the Monty stuff though made me wince
)I'd forgotten loads of it, and invented a scene that didn't actually appear in the film (am now wondering wtf it's out of now
). Was quite enjoyable watching it again after all these years Some of the Monty stuff though made me wince
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Equilibrium - Rubbish
Renaissance - good but fell a sleep
Cos they is mentals, is why.
I found Renaissance to be good in the same way I find stuff like Ghost in the Shell good - beautifully realised, slightly inpenetrable story...
I had the good luck to have to watch all 6 episodes of 'Desparate Romantics', which I grudgingly admitted to enjoying by the 6th ep.
Also watched, and fell asleep cos stoned, Monsters Vs Aliens, which was shaping up nicely when I passed out...
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Thats a shame, I was quite keen on seeing renaissance but ghost in the shell is such a giant load of steaming turd that now I can't be sure that it will be worth watching.
Aparecidos/The Appeared
Missed it at The Cornerhouse and had it sat on my hard drive for ages waiting for subtitles to emerge.
"Pablo and Malena are travelling across Argentina when they discover a diary that details a series of appalling crimes committed 20 years ago. As they confront the past they have to decide what reality is. With a background that acknowledges Argentina’s ‘disappeared’, APARECIDOS manages to combine horror, suspense and politics in a thoughtful and refreshing way".
Not the great film my friend promised me but an interesting story with a few twists. I'd recommend giving it a watch.
Missed it at The Cornerhouse and had it sat on my hard drive for ages waiting for subtitles to emerge.
"Pablo and Malena are travelling across Argentina when they discover a diary that details a series of appalling crimes committed 20 years ago. As they confront the past they have to decide what reality is. With a background that acknowledges Argentina’s ‘disappeared’, APARECIDOS manages to combine horror, suspense and politics in a thoughtful and refreshing way".
Not the great film my friend promised me but an interesting story with a few twists. I'd recommend giving it a watch.
Biglittlefish
Active Member
Some one should sit Noel Clarke and quietly explain to him that he is a knob and maybe he should give the attitude a rest and make a decent film.
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
X Men Origins: Wolverine.
I liked it the best out of any of the X Men movies I've seen.
Which is all of them.
I liked it the best out of any of the X Men movies I've seen.
Which is all of them.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
shifty - excellent, if slightly uneven crime thriller - with mostly realistic events (apart from the end), acted very well. the scenes with the desperate addict in were particularly well done - will ring true if your nose has ever clogged up after a night of punishment.
it certainly shows guy ritchie up to be the charlatan that he is.
the magic christian,written by terry southern (easy rider): peter sellers and ringo starr in a surreal capitalism-bashing counter-culture satire - all rather obvious and farcical as was typical of that sort of thing then, but there are lots of funny scenes with 60s tv/film faces, including spike milligan, john cleese and graham chapman (who wrote the scenes they were in).
has a very odd scene in it with roman polanski being serenaded by yul brynner in drag.
has thunderclap newman and badfinger on the soundtrack, but we hear a dreadful paul mccartney song way too much.
it certainly shows guy ritchie up to be the charlatan that he is.
the magic christian,written by terry southern (easy rider): peter sellers and ringo starr in a surreal capitalism-bashing counter-culture satire - all rather obvious and farcical as was typical of that sort of thing then, but there are lots of funny scenes with 60s tv/film faces, including spike milligan, john cleese and graham chapman (who wrote the scenes they were in).
has a very odd scene in it with roman polanski being serenaded by yul brynner in drag.
has thunderclap newman and badfinger on the soundtrack, but we hear a dreadful paul mccartney song way too much.
Thats such a well made episode, the best depiction of the impact of a sudden death I've ever seen on TV.
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
Seconded, the lack of incidental music really focuses the attention on the acting, which is first rate (especially the entire sequence with Buffy in shock, vomiting, and then gazing outside at a world still going about it's business).
Sarah Michelle Gellar should have got an Emmy for that episode.
Michelle Trachtenburg who plays Dawn is also a very good actress for someone so young
And series 5 is just all about Spike
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I believe there were many awards for my favourite episode (the nearly all silent one with those horrible sound-stealing things)
e2a
also the one that was just Buffy and an ex-classmate turned vampire having a long dialouge
e2a
also the one that was just Buffy and an ex-classmate turned vampire having a long dialouge
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
actually made me cry when I first saw it. The fact that my mum had just died, quite suddenly, probably influenced that somewhat.
Just finished watching Teeth. Marvellously dark comedy. Easilly the best vagina dentata movie
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
hush got lots of nominations, but no wins. apart from sci-fi & teen awards, it only won anythng for make-up, iirr. SMG did get one emmy nomination
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
E4 of S3 of Heroes (which was actually pretty good, especially the end), and Wry made me sit through the first 'Twilight' movie...which was less a cinema film and more an extended TV pilot...not bad for what it is, just a little shit and tame for a vamp story...plus they can all walk around in low lumen daylight, which is shit.
100% masahiko
i is a professor and is magical like totoro
Fighting - A terrible...terrible mistake.
Knowing - that Nicholas Cage has not made a good film since Raising Arizona.
State of Play - Watchable. I liked it.
Knowing - that Nicholas Cage has not made a good film since Raising Arizona.
State of Play - Watchable. I liked it.
My dad lent me that the other week
Fucking TERRIBLE. He was surprised when he asked me what I thought of it, and got the reply 'fucking shit'
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
The Mountain Of The Cannibal God - yet another of the 72 'video nasties' that my flatmate is trying to get through for his blog: http://videonastyproject.blogspot.com/
i'm getting a bit tired of them to be honest - at least inured to the extreme violence of some of them. this is another of the countless italian cannibal exploitation films, but unusually has two big(ish) stars in it - ursula andress and stacy keach. it's quite well paced for the genre and has a discernible plot. the violent scenes are pretty extreme if you're not used to them, including a nasty bit of genital dismemberment (but it's ok, it happens to a rapist!) and there are some ethically unacceptable scenes of real animal cruelty, which seemed to be in fashion in these films. as usual, the soundtrack is superior to the film. still, it didn't really hold my attention
much more horrific and disturbing was Enron - The Smartest Guys In The Room - i started watching that in the hopes of curing my insomnia as it starts with detailed explanations of deregulation of the energy industry, but it was very absorbing. the executives' hubris is staggering. i didn't realise how complicit the analysts and banks were in this massive fraud and it's depressing how little the financial sphere seemed to have learned from enron's collapse.
i'm getting a bit tired of them to be honest - at least inured to the extreme violence of some of them. this is another of the countless italian cannibal exploitation films, but unusually has two big(ish) stars in it - ursula andress and stacy keach. it's quite well paced for the genre and has a discernible plot. the violent scenes are pretty extreme if you're not used to them, including a nasty bit of genital dismemberment (but it's ok, it happens to a rapist!) and there are some ethically unacceptable scenes of real animal cruelty, which seemed to be in fashion in these films. as usual, the soundtrack is superior to the film. still, it didn't really hold my attention
much more horrific and disturbing was Enron - The Smartest Guys In The Room - i started watching that in the hopes of curing my insomnia as it starts with detailed explanations of deregulation of the energy industry, but it was very absorbing. the executives' hubris is staggering. i didn't realise how complicit the analysts and banks were in this massive fraud and it's depressing how little the financial sphere seemed to have learned from enron's collapse.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Wild at Heart
Vampires Kiss
Hell I think I even enjoyed the rock and con air for the fluff they are.
jeff_leigh
What happened to Dubversion ?
I thought Leaving Las Vegas was pretty good
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