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

[Orang Utan]

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.

there won't be a next one

 

[QueenOfGoths]

"Tarantula!" - great 1950's science gone mad B movie

 

[butchersapron]

Fiorile/Wild Flower - brilliant piece of old fashioned moralistic story telling from the Taviani bros.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

there won't be a next one

I wondered about that. It's been a while. Shame in a way because it is obviously not a stand alone film. Not such a bad thing though because it wasn't a great film.

I watched

Monsters Vs Aliens
Not great at all. Some really cheap jokes that were face slappingly unfunny but a couple of minor laughs. No not a great film. I disturbingly found the 50ft cartoon blonde girl alluring at times though. Time for a trip to the doctors.

 

[DJ Squelch]

Death Line (1972) (released as Raw Meat in the US) - pretty terrible UK horror about cannibals living in the tube tunnels near Russell Square who can only communicate by saying "mind the gap". I think Creep may have be a re-make or at least inspired by it. Only made watchable by a fantastic over the top performance by Donald Pleasance as a police chief & a cameo from Christopher Lee.
The long tracking shot showing the bodies in various stages of decay around the cannibals lair with a slow drip, drip, drip noise in the background was quite creepy though.

 

[pboi]

Dark Knight .

enjoyed it much more second time round

 

[butchersapron]

The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach - early-ish Schlondorff, an attack on the heimat style of film (bucolic peasantry living in harmony with the lords - not the film heimat) that had been popular in Germany. Some very funny moments in fist half but some terribly heavy handed polemical points in the second. Sundtrack (Klaus Doldinger) veers from amazing to embarrassing.

 

[Reno]

Monsters Vs Aliens
Not great at all. Some really cheap jokes that were face slappingly unfunny but a couple of minor laughs. No not a great film. I disturbingly found the 50ft cartoon blonde girl alluring at times though. Time for a trip to the doctors.

I lasted 40 minutes with that yesterday. I was hoping DreamWorks Animation films had improved after I read a few positive reviews, but it's the same old rubbish that is so inferior to Pixar, it's embarrassing. As always their human character designs are ugly, they just don't look and move right (over-animated and it looks like the bones in their heads are made of rubber) and the constant need to inject as many obvious pop culture gags and cheesy songs as possible as always gets in the way of plot momentum or relatable characters.



After I gave up on Monsters vs Aliens I watched King of the Hill, a Spanish Deliverance/Hills Have Eyes style thriller where a couple of characters get lost and stalked in a hostile environment which was pretty good, until a now over-familiar reveal of who the shadowy killers are.

 

[DotCommunist]

from the recc of this thread 44 inch chest. John Hurt is funny as fuck, Ray Winstone not so good. Quite a bit of over repetition and somehow it felt very much like a play not a film. Still, I laughed.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Blades of Glory, I think there was one thing I laughed at but I can't remember what it was.

 

[pboi]

Cirque de so lame?

Mind bottling?


those two got me!

 

[Orang Utan]

Death Line (1972) (released as Raw Meat in the US) - pretty terrible UK horror about cannibals living in the tube tunnels near Russell Square who can only communicate by saying "mind the gap". I think Creep may have be a re-make or at least inspired by it. Only made watchable by a fantastic over the top performance by Donald Pleasance as a police chief & a cameo from Christopher Lee.
The long tracking shot showing the bodies in various stages of decay around the cannibals lair with a slow drip, drip, drip noise in the background was quite creepy though.

i think that's class - really quite endearing in a way

 

[Voley]

Dorian Gray. Total load of old cock.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

from the recc of this thread 44 inch chest. John Hurt is funny as fuck, Ray Winstone not so good. Quite a bit of over repetition and somehow it felt very much like a play not a film. Still, I laughed.

that cast on stage would have been fantastic.

Not much of a finish was it?

...but, to see those guys on film, delivering some of those lines was still a good way to waste 90mins.

 

[Dillinger4]

I think I might go and watch Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and get a bit of grit in my eye like a wanker.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

i think that's class - really quite endearing in a way

Me too.

Low budget....but still a decent little film.

 

[DotCommunist]

that cast on stage would have been fantastic.

Not much of a finish was it?

...but, to see those guys on film, delivering some of those lines was still a good way to waste 90mins.

I thought I was going to have a heart attack with lols at some points. Lovejoy asking Hurt id he wanted his bony arse spanked? fucks sake. I was in stitches.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I thought I was going to have a heart attack with lols at some points. Lovejoy asking Hurt id he wanted his bony arse spanked? fucks sake. I was in stitches.

Hurt and McShane were great.

I want to see them in another film doing a bank job.

Ray was very subdued.

 

[Badgers]

Still going with Mad Men.
Halfway through season two now and it keeps delivering.

 

[Reno]

edit

 

[Biddlybee]

Finished off series two of Breaking Bad.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Coroline.

I liked it I think, looks very nice and does what is expected of it. It's definitely a kids film even if it's a slightly dark one. I don't really understand all those people who say it's not. I also don't understand all those adults that say it's unwatchable because it's just a kids film.

I know the whybe fella wasn't in the book (which I have not read), I know they stuck him in to help the story in a film format but I can't really see how. The beginning where you first meet him is really clunky and I don't see any point for him (other than the mention of his gran).

 

[QueenOfGoths]

This Island Earth - classic sci fi and very enjoyable. Especially the big foreheads and painted sets!

 

[pboi]

Glee


bloody awesome

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I watched the last episode of season 1 of Homicide in which Bayliss goes from being a moralistic puritan who slams any suggestions of kinky sex, claiming sex is only about love, into a cruising the red light district looking for cheap thrills and all because an S&M queen buys him a leather jacket

Otherwise it was a perfectly good episode.

 

[ViolentPanda]

i wish you would never post again

Why? He's only projecting his own practices onto others.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Seconded


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

Yeah, but doing that helps him maintain the delusion that his life has value, so you should think of tolerating his shite as an act of mercy and charity.

 

[dlx1]

Taxi

In Marseilles (France), skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can't drive, on the track of German bank robbers

not the shit one with Queen Latifah

edit: VP Posts: 46,520

 

[ViolentPanda]

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

That's right, dufus, it's a conspiracy by the high post count monothought clique.

Alternatively, there is a much simpler explanation: That you're a worthless meat-sack whose "contributions" have all the quality of a putrid arse-boil.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Solaris (the original, not the Clooneyised version).