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

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Moon.

Nice film but didn't quite cut it as the silent running / dark star type film that it seemed to be aiming for.
Could have done with a better ending. Good fun though and a good performances from Rockwell.

 

[Reno]

heimat - episode 2: the centre of the world
things are really heating up now!
my plans to blitz this, like i would any other tv series on dvd, were rather ambitious.

The first season takes about three or four episdoes to cast it's spell, but then it becomes really gripping IMO. I have to admit that I never made it all the way throught the second one. The rest has been on my "meant to watch" pile for over a decade now. That said, all three seasons are very different from each other and the first one is complete in itself.

 

[rutabowa]

oh did anyone see "Russian Ark" on TV over christmas? i'd never heard of it but it was one of the most amazing things i've ever seen! it is all done in one take with hundreds and hundreds of characters through this russian palace and it is actually impossible, everyone should watch it.

 

[Badgers]

oh did anyone see "Russian Ark" on TV over christmas? i'd never heard of it but it was one of the most amazing things i've ever seen! it is all done in one take with hundreds and hundreds of characters through this russian palace and it is actually impossible, everyone should watch it.

I love it, the extras are as good as the film.

Liked it so much I got as a present for my (Russian speaking) mother for xmas 2008 and she has yet to watch it

 

[rutabowa]

i want to see it at a cinema

 

[Part 2]

1st episode of Band of Brothers

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

i saw ichi the killer last night again. no buggery but plenty of other shenanigans. i enjoyed it better the second time, maybe cos it seemed a little more profound. when i first saw it i was just stunned and thrilled by the ultraviolence.

There is quite a lot going on in that film, it's so much more than the (rather silly) violence. The relationship between Kakihara and his dead boss is very interesting. His frustration and fantasy at the end creates one of my favorite film climaxes; and it doesn't need any huge set pieces, dialogue or crazy music. Speaking of music, I love the sound track. Love the trademark miike confusing / mystery epilogue too. I was hoping miikes audio commentary would clear a few of the odd things up, but I can only remember him taking about fishing and other 'non-film' related waffle.

Check out tokyo zombie for the guy playing kakihara in a totally different but but brilliant performance.

 

[Orang Utan]

There is quite a lot going on in that film, it's so much more than the (rather silly) violence. The relationship between Kakihara and his dead boss is very interesting. His frustration and fantasy at the end creates one of my favorite film climaxes; and it doesn't need any huge set pieces, dialogue or crazy music. Speaking of music, I love the sound track. Love the trademark miike confusing / mystery epilogue too. I was hoping miikes audio commentary would clear a few of the odd things up, but I can only remember him taking about fishing and other 'non-film' related waffle.

Check out tokyo zombie for the guy playing kakihara in a totally different but but brilliant performance.

aye - i think there's a lot of cultural barriers to my understanding of what was going on. there seems to be a lot of bullying in japanese films, doesn't there?

 

[pboi]

but those cultural barriers allow people who understand/fake understand whats going on to patronise others when explaining the movie!! half the allure of some foreign movies im sure

 

[marty21]

episodes 7 and 8 of Band of Brothers, I've seen it a few times before, it is still very very good

 

[Voley]

I watched all the Family Guy that I taped over Xmas. There was about 3 hours of it. The one where Peter gets diagnosed as mentally ill was my favourite.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

aye - i think there's a lot of cultural barriers to my understanding of what was going on. there seems to be a lot of bullying in japanese films, doesn't there?

I suppose so, though that might be down to the types of film we get to see. Yakuza films naturally contain bullying. The little guy bottling things up until he explodes does seem a common theme though. Or at least (in other non yakuza / sci fi stuff) the little guy / guys / girls making a win against the odds (swing girls, densha otoko, etc). Mind you thats also a common western theme.
Dunno. There are a few interesting films about battling against the odds and not winning like 'linda linda linda' (not what you expect from the box description) and (the so sad but brilliant) Nobody Knows

 

[Orang Utan]

but those cultural barriers allow people who understand/fake understand whats going on to patronise others when explaining the movie!! half the allure of some foreign movies im sure

i wish you would never post again

 

[pboi]

touch a nerve? sorry

 

[Orang Utan]

touch a nerve? sorry

not at all

 

[pboi]

ok good. now im off to watch some obscure manga with animals with tentacles grooming schoolchildren to become cosplayers

 

[Orang Utan]

don't come back!

 

[sojourner]

i wish you would never post again

Seconded

touch a nerve? sorry

No, it's just that you're a fucking idiot with nothing positive or interesting to contribute, ever, just a long-winded stream of vomit-stained garbage

 

[Boppity]

Really, really good film that ^ ^

Kinda gets overlooked in the genre next to Godfather/Scarface/Goodfellas/etc but I really rate it. Another one that springs to mind is Donnie Brasco

I really enjoyed it, I'd seen bits of it several times so I forced myself to sit down and watch the whole thing. Glad I did.

 

[Apathy]

Star Trek, really enjoyed it nowt too geeky, some of the aliens were daft tho, especially the green girl

 

[pboi]

its funny how its all the cunts with tens of thousands of posts who give a shit. cry more

 

[Part 2]

you go with that hard man posting style, using the c word liek its going out of fashion.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

its funny how its all the cunts with tens of thousands of posts who give a shit. cry more

you go with that hard man posting style, using the c word liek its going out of fashion.

get

over

yourself

hard man posting style.....total awesomeness dude

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Beat me to it

 

[pboi]

indeed! what a kerrazy day.

telling that you remembered.

 

[kyser_soze]

Star Trek, really enjoyed it nowt too geeky, some of the aliens were daft tho, especially the green girl

The hot green girl is an in-joke about Kirk shagging everything including the green bitches. (C) Eddie Murphy, Delerious.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I just watched 44 Inch Chest.

It certainly wasn't what I expected.....but it was good, with a poor ending. More like a play really.

John Hurt and Ian McShane were great in it.

Ray Winstone played it quiet.

 

[Orang Utan]

judging from the poster, it looks like sexy beast mk 2 to me - is it?

 

[Nanker Phelge]

judging from the poster, it looks like sexy beast mk 2 to me - is it?

It's really not.

Character wise they are from the same world....but it's more 5 blokes in a room effing and blinding.

TBH it doesn't work entirely, but some nice performances, especially John Hurt who really goes for it. Seeing him in this a week after seeing him in An Englishman in New York really shows what a talented actor he is.

It's an anti-macho film if anything, which is where Sexy Beast was coming from I suppose, but this is rooted more deeply in questioning 'being a fuckin' man!', what that actually means and what you get for subscribing to that ideal.

 

[A. Spies]

I just watched the Golden Compass and thought it was ace, a really good adaptation of the book, the people looked different to the way I imagined them but the dirigibles and bears looked the same and the buildings especially the Magisterium headquarters looked brilliant. I thought cutting off where it did was a good idea too. I'm quite looking forward to the next one now.