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

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

You mean you didn't like it?

I refuse to believe you think something's shit, especially something that is generally accepted to be one of the best films of last year.

You're usually so enthusiastic about quality tv and film

It's silly, it's got too much rammed into it, it's laughable, it's too long and it's just fucking daft.

Actually it's only really below average, you can't make a daft comic caper serious and it was mildly entertaining in places. I did stay in my seat until the end (mind you I was on a plane).

 

[pboi]

the prisonners dilemma was unecesary.

was better second time round

 

[Nanker Phelge]

it's got too much rammed into it,

All 'superhero' films do this.

disclaimer: I know Batman has no superhero powers

 

[bonjour]

Gonna be watching Azumi, In The Mood For Love and Code Unknown tonight. Anyone seen?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Gonna be watching Azumi, In The Mood For Love and Code Unknown tonight. Anyone seen?

I've seen Azumi and In the Mood for Love.

Azumi is crazy and a lot of fun even if the set up and methods set out by the 'master' at the beginning don't make a heck of a lot of sense (actually this adds to the marvelous bonkersness of it all).

Mood for love is good but not really my cup of tea, I preferred 2046.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I loved when he talked his ties.

'People ask me for my initials and I tell them they aint lookind hard enough'

The world needs more Steve Wiebes - quietly pushing forward and keeping on through the shit.

I know it's only Donkey Kong, but I had quite a lot of admiration for his determination and patience.

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Aye Weibe was also the perfect hero, he never lost his temper even when surrounded by annoying idiots who were obviously being total dicks to him. He also led what seemed to be a normal life, and came across as an all round nice guy.
I really felt for him when his son wanted his 'butt' wiping.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

All 'superhero' films do this.

disclaimer: I know Batman has no superhero powers

Doesn't excuse it.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Doesn't excuse it.

No - I'm not sure why they do it. Always gott be loads of bad guys, loads of back story, love interest, plot twists, big ending...all gets too much.

But film aint comics I guess.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I really felt for him when his son wanted his 'butt' wiping.

That was funny

 

[rutabowa]

Gonna be watching Azumi, In The Mood For Love and Code Unknown tonight. Anyone seen?

i've seen code unknown... i can't remember a single thing abotu it except it is definitely good.

i watched the orginal Last House On The Left last night, it was really excellent... a proper bleak horror film.

 

[Reno]

Messiah of Evil, which is an obscure but interesting early 70s horror film which finally got a decent R1 DVD. This was made by the writers of American Graffiti at the same time as when they were working on George Lucas' only good film. Like so many young filmmakers at the time, they got some funding, providing they would make a low budget horror film.

The film has a dreamlike logic and atmosphere as a young woman goes on a search for her missing artist father and it looks as if Antonioni had remade The Night of the Living Dead. It's a bit pretentious at times, but it looks absolutely beautiful in a pop art sort of way and a couple of sequences are absolutely brilliant. In one very effective scene a young woman goes to see a midnight show at an empty LA cinema and as she watches the film, the auditorium behind her slowly fills up with ghouls.

I've been wanting to see this ever since I saw an intriguing clip in the excellent documentary Los Angeles Plays Itself about how that city gets represented in American films.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Just watched Johnny To's Vengeance - great stuff.

Starring Johnny Hallyday, Anthony Wong, Simon Yam, Lam Suet.

HK Kong crime flick meets L'samourai via the dollars trilogy with a spoonful of Memento for good measure -I really really enjoyed it.

Cool and bloody - Recommended

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Messiah of Evil, which is an obscure but interesting early 70s horror film which finally got a decent R1 DVD. This was made by the writers of American Graffiti at the same time as when they were working on George Lucas' only good film. Like so many young filmmakers at the time, they got some funding, providing they would make a low budget horror film.

The film has a dreamlike logic and atmosphere as a young woman goes on a search for her missing artist father and it looks as if Antonioni had remade The Night of the Living Dead. It's a bit pretentious at times, but it looks absolutely beautiful in a pop art sort of way and a couple of sequences are absolutely brilliant. In one very effective scene a young woman goes to see a midnight show at an empty LA cinema and as she watches the film, the auditorium behind her slowly fills up with ghouls.

I've been wanting to see this ever since I saw an intriguing clip in the excellent documentary Los Angeles Plays Itself about how that city gets represented in American films.

I'd like to see both the film and the documentary.

Is Messiah is Evil in widescreen or 4:3

 

[Reno]

I'd like to see both the film and the documentary.

Is Messiah is Evil in widescreen or 4:3

Messiah is Evil was shot in 2.35:1 widescreen. So far it has only been available on a couple of very poor cropped 4:3 DVD releases which looked like bad VHS tapes and as the main thing this film has going for it is it's cinematography, it would be pointless watching it like that. A few months ago they finally brought out a decent DVD of this in the States.

Unfortunately Los Angeles Plays Itself isn't out on DVD because they never managed to clear the rights for all the film excerpts the documentary consists of. It has been shown at the ICA and the BFI every so often. It's one of the best documentaries on film I've seen, as it explores the architecture and history of LA entirely through the films that were shot there.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Messiah is Evil was shot in 2.35:1 widescreen. So far it has only been available on a couple of very poor cropped 4:3 DVD releases which looked like bad VHS tapes and as the main thing this film has going for it is it's cinematography, it would be pointless watching it like that. A few months ago they finally brought out a decent DVD of this in the States.

Unfortunately Los Angeles Plays Itself isn't out on DVD because they never managed to clear the rights for all the film excerpts the documentary consists of. It has been shown at the ICA and the BFI every so often though. It's one of the best documentaries on film I've seen, as it explores the architecture and history of LA entirely through the films that were shot there.

I've found the doc via Piratebay. Did you buy the R1 DVD of MiE? I might have to chase down a copy.

 

[Reno]

I've found the doc via Piratebay. Did you buy the R1 DVD of MiE? I might have to chase down a copy.

Oh cool ! Yes, I bought the DVD of MoE on Amazon Marketplace.

 

[andy2002]

The last three episodes of Breaking Bad season two. It's been brilliant for the most part but it's going to take me a while to decide what I think about that peculiar ending...

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Beer Day.

Hilarious in parts, just like the tv show. Worth watching.

 

[kyser_soze]

E12-15 of Alias Season 1.

 

[belboid]

Damned United.

Still bloody great.

 

[rutabowa]

i jsut found this DVD in my record box, Horrible High Heels http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117464/
it says on the front "A CHINESE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE". i bet it is really shit.

 

[marty21]

2 episodes of the shield season 3 and 2 episodes of deadwood season 1

 

[butchersapron]

We Want the Colonels - Wonderfuly funny Monicelli attack on the Italian far-right in the years following the collapsed Borghese coup and the Generals coup in Greece. Like a cross between an elio petri or Rosi film and confessions of a window cleaner - great stuff.

 

[Badgers]

Sppoks season 6 which was entertaining but has gone a bit awry since the first couple of seasons

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Oh my god, I watched 'She's the man'

It's like 12th night high school - Well they all had the same names and stuff.

 

[DotCommunist]

MoreBuffy. Pisshead Giles is great.

 

[Part 2]

Little un was poorly so we watched Monsters vs Aliens

Not as good as cloudy with a chance of meatballs.

 

[bonjour]

HAHAHA I am watching the Golden Child.

Classic.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I watched Up in the Air last night - I was very impressed....and surprised.

 

[N_igma]

My Cousin Vinny

Absolute gold.

Judge (to Vinny who is sleeping and missed the opening statement of the DA): Mr Gambini your opening statement please?

Vinny (pointing to DA): "Everything that man just said there now is bullshit."

Swear to god nearly pissed myself laughing at that.