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

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A Serious Man - Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucking well jewish film, m8 but I was a bit let-down cos I went in expecting one of the best Coen's ever and it was just good. Not great, not a great Coen film but a good one.
 
so which is?



I watched the very first two episodes of Blakes Seven.

Wow. i never knew wood and cheese could mix so well.

currently it is 'a matter of life and death' but I'm working my way through the collection, Mrs21 bought a box set of all the films :)
 
currently it is 'a matter of life and death' but I'm working my way through the collection, Mrs21 bought a box set of all the films :)

excellant. Tho are you sure you mean all the films? Biggest box set I've seen only has 9 in, and they made 20.

My fave is Red Shoes, with Small Back Room being the best rarely seen one & Bluebeards castle being astounding considering its a Bartok opera and I hate bartok. Or thought I did.

You need Peeping Tom as well of course, the other Powell solo's are for fanatics only (so, yes, i have them all...)
 
excellant. Tho are you sure you mean all the films? Biggest box set I've seen only has 9 in, and they made 20.

My fave is Red Shoes, with Small Back Room being the best rarely seen one & Bluebeards castle being astounding considering its a Bartok opera and I hate bartok. Or thought I did.

You need Peeping Tom as well of course, the other Powell solo's are for fanatics only (so, yes, i have them all...)

There is a lot in this set , maybe 14? I'll check when I get home
 
excellent, Just realised if one includes 'An Airmans Letter To His Mother' (which is only five mins) there are actually 21 films, which seems appropriate
 
some of the extras on the Red Dwarf series 5 set: the Dwarfing USA documentary & the first two lots of deleted scenes (the fanbioys are right, Holoship does need an extended cut)
 
TBF I managed 4 episodes, so perhaps it got better on both levels.

After ep 1, I lost interest. Then tried ep 3 & 4. Still it didn't grab my attention. And then jumped to middle of season 2. It still didn't manage to keep me hanging.

It's a show that I'd be happy to skip and not waste more time on it.
 
Blakes Seven - with commentary. Vila, jenna & the producer all talking about it and trying not to piss themselves laughing at some of the incredible naffness.

Just how basic the set ups were was quite suprising, the cast would have only had a chance for one or two read throughs before they had to go and film their scenes, the cameras were static so they just had to hope everyne hit their marks first time of asking, and they couldn't work out any of the lighting in advance.

It'd be interesting to see how RTD/Moffatt would manage making a Dr Who episode like that.
 
I'm semi going through a hitchcock phase atm.
The Man Who Knew Too Much -
enjoyed it and appreciated the techniques applied in the old cinematography.
also realised the child in it was over acting.
 
Gamer. With a big budget, it might have been a new Blade Runner. As it is, it's probably just a cheap knockoff of the Blade Runner idea.

This is a bit of a spoiler, but it's so obvious that it's coming, that I'm not really wrecking anything.

For all you fps types, imagine what would happen if one of your CoDMW2 maps, was actually a bust-in into some giant party area in Second Life, and you could shoot the bystanders as well as the combatants...
 
i can now actually contribute to this thread!

sky really fucked up so i was left with a dvd only diet for 3 winter weeks...

so i watched...

the dark knight - i preferred 'batman begins' altho my downstairs neighbour interrupted the viewing and asked if i could turn the volume down. did that detract? i loved the whole scale of it.

dirty harry - realised i'd never seen this before.

magnum force - realised i'd only seen the last 3/4's before.

the enforcer - good altho me and a friend of mine got confused about harry driving into a glass fronted bank. anyhoo...

the three colours trilogy - what's left to say about them? made me feel warm when i had no heating. can anyone tell me about the 10 one hour plays the brothers (i think) did?

v for vendetta - excellent.

the dark crystal - incredible actual live action-puppetry.

and lots of old doctor who - the invasion, the trial of a timelord, earthshock, the caves of androzani, the black guardian trilogy

i've recorded 'taken' just because the U75 said it was so good. or so crap.

i'll decide =)
 
Les Maitres du Temps. I think the animation on this and the little sci-fi concepts and all the sound effects are fabulous, they all work together to make a beautiful film, as with Fantastic Planet.
 
Slade in Flame from 1975.

Nice idea of a film, and Slade weren't too bad as actors but they seemed to compress too much of a story line into a shortish film (90 minutes or so.)

Very dark in tone as only films made in the seventies tend to be.




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