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

[DotCommunist]

Weeping Bill Adama is relatively funny.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

the penultimate two episodes of Battlestar Galactica.

Damn it's exciting (if rather abusrd, to say the least). Won't be going out tonight til it's done I imagine

Get ready for some incredible disappointment. You sound like you have been building this up more than I did.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Oh and I watched the last two episodes of four to doomsday - Dr Who (Davidson). I enjoyed it I think, but I know this was almost certainly down to alcohol.
Anyone know what happened to Nissa in the next episode?

 

[zenie]

Ingloroious Basterds - was good

also watched

The Return http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376968/ which was beautiful and very sad.

 

[kyser_soze]

Is it worth sticking with Zenie? I was awed by the first 10 minutes with the Jew hunter dude, then thought 'Hmmm' at the next bit...

 

[Orang Utan]

Is it worth sticking with Zenie?

i reckon so

 

[ViolentPanda]

Burn After Reading. Made me chuckle.

 

[wiskey]

having watched no films for yonks this week I've watched

Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
Narnia: prince Caspian - both better than expected but had to endure the annoying kids.
Righteous Kill - DeNiro and Pachino but it didn't hold my attention.
Layer Cake
51st State
O Brother Where Art Thou
Human Traffic - four films of pure silliness
300 - Thoroughly enjoyable loved the animation style
The Painted Veil - reasonable, very pretty
Robots - better than some of the animations I've seen in a while
The Last King of Scotland - not as emotive as the book

that will prolly do me for a while.

 

[heinous seamus]

Is that Beta House, Naked Mile or Book Of Love?

Basically teen soft porn (not that there's anything wrong with that)

Yeah, Book of Love. I couldn't believe there was a 7th. Eugene Levy is the only one who's been in all 7

 

[Voley]

The latest Indiana Jones movie. It was ace.

 

[belboid]

Get ready for some incredible disappointment. You sound like you have been building this up more than I did.

gawwd, you have such a bloody downer on modern sci fi, never good enough for you, not like in the seventies, eh?


I hate it when you're right

To be fair - the first hour was great, the last three minutes spot on, and I'll just pretend that the other half hour actually took no more than five minutes, christ that bit was crap.

 

[Reno]

Lovefilm yet again posted my low priority discs which I only put on there so I get my number up to the required ten items.

Doghouse -Worst film I've seen in quite a while. Actually switched it off half way through. Not funny, not scary, looks ultra cheap, Danny Dyer.

Then I tried A Haunting in Connecticut which sent me too sleep. Tried three times and snoozed off every time.

Got my best mate coming round tonight for a DVD allnighter. I'll fire up the HD projector and we'll watch something decent.

 

[Deareg]

episodes 2, 3 and 4 of american gothic, i only saw half of the original series and most of those, i have since found out, were shown out of sequence, no wonder i couldn't make head nor tail of what was going on

 

[pboi]

latest two eps of friday night lights.


epic

 

[Orang Utan]

Lovefilm yet again posted my low priority discs which I only put on there so I get my number up to the required ten items.

Doghouse -Worst film I've seen in quite a while. Actually switched it off half way through. Not funny, not scary, looks ultra cheap, Danny Dyer.

Then I tried A Haunting in Connecticut which sent me too sleep. Tried three times and snoozed off every time.

Got my best mate coming round tonight for a DVD allnighter. I'll fire up the HD projector and we'll watch something decent.

blimey, i have the opposite problem - i have over 1000 DVDs in my queue and they only ever send me the ones that i can't remember ordering or why i have ordered them.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

gawwd, you have such a bloody downer on modern sci fi, never good enough for you, not like in the seventies, eh?


I hate it when you're right

To be fair - the first hour was great, the last three minutes spot on, and I'll just pretend that the other half hour actually took no more than five minutes, christ that bit was crap.

Am I? I loved BSG until it suffered from being 'made up as it went along'. I feel a bit cheated. What was that plan that the cylons had then? Was that to blow up all the humans and chase who was left? Ugh. Someone please just write a cool story and stick to it from start to finish. When we were wondering who the final 5 were so were the writers.

Good modern sci fi? Firefly, futurama, and quite surprisingly I think, 'lost' is back on track.

 

[kyser_soze]

New eps of 30 Rock and Misfits (which I'm really starting to love)

 

[Reno]

blimey, i have the opposite problem - i have over 1000 DVDs in my queue and they only ever send me the ones that i can't remember ordering or why i have ordered them.

I used to have loads in my queue, but there just isn't that much out right now that don't own or that I haven't seen and still want to see.

 

[Orang Utan]

i have a lot to see! i tend to get obsessive and want to watch all of a particular directors films, cos they do tend to send those in batches. i also found a list of all the films moviedrome ever broadcast on bbc2 and ordered all the available ones. that was a couple of hundred. ridiculous and unmanageable. the list never shrinks. i will never get to watch all the films i want to watch!

 

[sojourner]

Just watched the last 2 episodes of Six Feet Under, S4




this series has had me in big tears all the way through, without being in the slightest bit schmaltzy. *sob*

 

[andy2002]

Inglourious Basterds - it's all over the place and maybe too long but still a return to form for QT after the disappointments of the second Kill Bill film and Death Proof.

 

[jeff_leigh]

Burn after reading - Excellent movie, but somehow just didn't feel like a Coen Bros movie

 

[Orang Utan]

ren & stimpy - it was funny when i was 19 and stoned but it's just shit now

 

[dlx1]

Romper Stomper

one of the best line in a film ever...
We came to wreck everything and ruin your life... God sent us

 

[Reno]

Had a friend round and I showed her Synecdoche, New York, which is a great film to re-watch, because on a second viewing there are so many new things to notice. One of my favourite films of the year.

We also watched Just Another Love Story, basically a classic film noir, set in modern Denmark. Starts off as rather disorientating with too fancy editing and camera work (my friend nearly made me switch it off and I had to convince her to stick with it), but once the characters are established and the story starts to twist and turn it's great fun.

Ended the night with Coffin Rock an Australian thriller which I hadn't seen before. Kept us awake till at 3am, but was not that good.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

A movie called Panic, with William Macy, Neve Campbell, Tracy Ullman, and Donald Sutherland.

Lots of angst, but Campbell is good as the neurotic patient at the psychiatrist's office. Irresistible!

 

[belboid]

Am I? I loved BSG until it suffered from being 'made up as it went along'. I feel a bit cheated. What was that plan that the cylons had then? Was that to blow up all the humans and chase who was left? Ugh. Someone please just write a cool story and stick to it from start to finish. When we were wondering who the final 5 were so were the writers.

Good modern sci fi? Firefly, futurama, and quite surprisingly I think, 'lost' is back on track.

naah, completely wrong agian. Lousy comparators too. firefly only got one series, so didn;t have enough chance to turn crap. futurama is a series off one offs, it doesnt have or need to same overall story arc, much easier. lost, I gave up long ago, but as you've just said, it was shite for at least some of its run. BSG was consistently well written, reasonably plotted, both long and short -term, and only a little bit too schmaltzy.

Just had a shitty ast episode

 

[rutabowa]

Matador, an Almodovar film from the 80s, it was pretty good, quite straight for him though. i think it one of Robert Rodriguez's 1st films. then a bit of "Tal Para Cual" a Mexican film, but there were no subtitles so i got bored. then the beginning of 35 Shots Of Rum, but the subtitles weren't working on this either, i could follow it at the start anyway but i though it might get more complicated later so i stopped it. then the end of "Epic Movie" on TV, which is no doubt the worst film i have ever seen any part of.

 

[Voley]

Just watched American Dog, a documentary about James Ellroy. It didn't tell me a huge amount that I hadn't already read about but it was good to hear about his obsessions.

For the record, they're:
Female murder victims
His dead mother
Voyeurism
Sniffing women's pants.

Not many authors tell you stuff like this. I was quite surprised to hear that the LAPD had given him an award, though, considering he routinely portrays them as brutally corrupt. Originally made for French TV, I think. Worth watching if you like his stuff.

 

[sojourner]

ren & stimpy - it was funny when i was 19 and stoned but it's just shit now

I still like Ren and Stimpy. Have just ordered first 3 series for my lass for xmas. We've ordered each other a fuckton of stuff that we both like