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

[Reno]

More buffy.

I'm sure this is no original insight but Dawn really is the scrappy doo of this show. SUCH an annoying bint.

That's the point though, isn't it ? She is supposed to be the annoying little sister to be a more down to earth challenge for Buffy. Younger siblings are frequently experienced as irritating. She changes as she grows up over the next couple of years too.

I really like the whole idea to plant her at the beginning of the season without explanation and how the mystery is slowly revealed. This was the plot point that finally got me hooked and made me get into the series properly. I started to watch the earlier seasons after that.

 

[rutabowa]

Great film that

Have you seen Sympathy for Lady Vengeance yet, or is that next?

nope.... good?

 

[rutabowa]

Amazingly 3 years later at the age of 26 Du-na Bae (the girl) was playing a 16 year old high school girl in Japanese film Linda Linda Linda. Then two years later she was a high school girl again in the Host.

i a bit fel lin love with her character i think.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

what was good was i didn't have a clue what to expect but it still managed to not be what i expected all the way through somehow.

Perfect title though. I was just looking for my copy of Lady Vengeance and I can't find it. Bwaa. It's not as good, brutal or amusing but it looks nice.

 

[sojourner]

nope.... good?

Very

So good we ended up buying it, not often that happens

 

[sojourner]

Perfect title though. I was just looking for my copy of Lady Vengeance and I can't find it. Bwaa. It's not as good, brutal or amusing but it looks nice.

There are some really surprising, and funny, moments though. And that's all I'm saying!

I liked it more than Mr Vengeance tbh

 

[Bassism]

i watched SPUN might watch it again because of all the interuptions.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Very

So good we ended up buying it, not often that happens

Have you seen the original fade to B&W? Well maybe not the original but lets say how it was originally supposed to be seen.

 

[sojourner]

Have you seen the original fade to B&W? Well maybe not the original but lets say how it was originally supposed to be seen.

Ummm...dunno

I was gonna watch it again soon anyway. I will make a note in my non-existent diary and get back to you on that

I lent it to my mum and dad. They didn't like it. It confused them

 

[DotCommunist]

That's the point though, isn't it ? She is supposed to be the annoying little sister to be a more down to earth challenge for Buffy. Younger siblings are frequently experienced as irritating. She changes as she grows up over the next couple of years too.

I really like the whole idea to plant her at the beginning of the season without explanation and how the mystery is slowly revealed. This was the plot point that finally got me hooked and made me get into the series properly. I started to watch the earlier seasons after that.

If it's the point then it's done very effectively

I saw all of the buffy stuff when it was all first coming out, but I must have forgotten how annoying Dawn is. And how creepily fixated Spike is. A sex robot? Grim.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I lent it to my mum and dad. They didn't like it. It confused them

*face - Tofu*

I watched the full colour first but have the B&W because (I was a purist a the time) I bought the Korean first edition (which has both). I have only watched it once so should really get around to watching that B&W.

I need to watch SFMV again though too.

 

[Reno]

And how creepily fixated Spike is. A sex robot? Grim.

That's something I'd forgotten about.

I always mean to watch it all again, but then there are always new shows and films to watch. There never seem to be enough time to rewatch an entire show.

 

[belboid]

Gran Torino.

Why on earth did any rate that load of old shite? Dull direction, bad acting, appaling script, cliched and bloody obvious from the first word.

 

[butchersapron]

Army of Crime - Robert Guediguian's fine film about the the real life FTP-MOI, a group of immigrant communist resistance fighters in Nazi Paris. Bit of a departure for Guediguian though he does keep it low-key, taking it's cue from Army of the Shadows.The title isn't an allusion to Meliville/Kessel btw it's what the group were called on a poster put out by the french state for the nazis as propaganda just before the group were executed - though there is a direct allusion towards the end of the film. The french collaboration, low level and high, everyday and extraordinary, is dealt with very well and without bludgeoning the viewer with the fact. For those that know french communist/international communist history during he inter and post-war years you'll recognise a number of well known names. And Lucas Belveaux appears at the end for a few seconds. The groups leader was Missak Manouchian, an armenian survivor of the genocide a few decades earlier, which leads me onto...

The Lark Farm, the Taviani brothers film on the Armenian genocide. This has generally received bad reviews, but i thought i'd give it a go considering their body of work. I'm afraid it was a total mess - shockingly so considering who was behind it. It didn't even have the top notch soundtrack normally accompanying even the least successful of their films.

 

[The Octagon]

And how creepily fixated Spike is. A sex robot? Grim.

Sarah Michelle Gellar's acting as the Buffybot makes that whole storyline lol-some

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Watched nick and noras infinite playlist the other day.

Looked like Hollywood machine pap attempting to pretend to be cool and independent. Crap . And I love that arrested development chap.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Cloverfield. I needed to take two aspirins after an hour and a bit of low light and jerky camera.

 

[Reno]

Cloverfield. I needed to take two aspirins after an hour and a bit of low light and jerky camera.

That's the thing to say about fake-documentary shaky cam films on forums. Well done !

 

[DotCommunist]

The thing about Cloverfield, IMO, is that when a giant monster from the prehistoric deeps of the ocean lays waste to New York I want to see it do so properly. In a cinematic way not in a hand-cam rubbish way. What is the point? It wasn't a shit film, don't get me wrong. But I was a bit disappointed.

 

[Reno]

The thing about Cloverfield, IMO, is that when a giant monster from the prehistoric deeps of the ocean lays waste to New York I want to see it do so properly. In a cinematic way not in a hand-cam rubbish way. What is the point? It wasn't a shit film, don't get me wrong. But I was a bit disappointed.

Sorry, but then you are missing the entire point of the film. Many of the best monster movies keep their monster off screen for as much as possible because they recognise that what you imagine is always worse then what you get to see (remember Jaws or Alien ?). By applying the Blair Witch lo-fi aesthetic to a Godzilla type monster movie the film found an ingenious way to make a ridiculous premise credible by giving it a "this is really happening" feel.

The fact that we can't ever quite figure out what this thing is until the end kept me intrigued. I feel many people just want everything handed to them now, they don't want to have to engage their imagination anymore. Without the docu gimmick Cloverfiled would have been just another Godzilla movie and there are plenty giant monster stomping on city movies out there already if this was a bit too offbeat for you.

 

[DotCommunist]

I was told it was a film about a monster killing New York. Aces, thinks I, I'll get stoned and chuckle as new york gets pwned.

Disappointed. It wasn't what I wanted but by the time I realise this it's to late. Others in the room have already got hooked in.

I'll give it one thumbs up though. I despised all the New Yorker socialites in it and the film satisfied me by killing them all off.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

My only issue with Cloverfield was that I was happy to see all the main characters dead!

 

[DotCommunist]

spooky synchronicity

 

[Orang Utan]

My only issue with Cloverfield was that I was happy to see all the main characters dead!

this is the drawback of many disaster and horror movies - especially slasher movies - all the characters are so dislikeable, you are happy to see them dispatched.

 

[jeff_leigh]

Inglourious Basterds - In spite of the negative reviews well enjoyed it.

 

[moonsi til]

Watched Bridge To Terabithia with my partner & his 8yr old son and we all enjoyed it, then just me and his son watched Coraline which midway through he said 'this film is quite scary'. I got worried about his dreams as it was near bedtime.

I really enjoyed Coraline but got a bit lost when she started to find the eyes so easily. I reckon I should read the graphic novel and also Watchmen as that confused me as well. I just thought that it would have taken too long film wise to explain the story.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Avatar. One of the best things about it, is that it's one of the few movies to come out lately where the CG is creative, beautiful. It goes so far beyond Decepticons etc.

The story's a bit of a hokey love tale, with the indigenous/eco theme superimposed. Sort of Pocahontas with blue people instead of red ones.

Reminded me of Little Big Man also, and of the fact that you don't need to go to outer space: the exact same thing is happening in Nigeria, right now, today.

But it's encouraging to see that a movie like this is such a huge draw. It means that the mood is changing. It has to be, or else Hollywood wouldn't commit to such a large project. Maybe the pendulum is beginning to swing back.

 

[belboid]

what, back to utter shite? it's a dire movie, it looks pretty, but as a film it's total drivel, infantile crap.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

what, back to utter shite? it's a dire movie, it looks pretty, but as a film it's total drivel, infantile crap.

Welllll.......yeah, but Hollywood plays to the lowest common denominator. This movie seems to strike a chord with people. That's the good thing, not necessarily the movie itself.

 

[Reno]

My only issue with Cloverfield was that I was happy to see all the main characters dead!

This is another thing I keep reading again and again about Cloverfield on forums, but I didn't have a problem with the characters and thought they were OK. Never understood why people took against them, though many people seem to feel that characters are hateful simply because they are rich and/or privileged, which I don't really subscribe too.

Something that distinguishes this lot is that their motives are actually quite honorable. They go into the eye of the storm to save one of their friends. This also is a good ploy in terms of the plot because it gets the camera into the middle of the action. The characters here actually do grieve for the people they loose along the way unlike characters in a lot of other horror movies.

I was told it was a film about a monster killing New York. Aces, thinks I, I'll get stoned and chuckle as new york gets pwned.

Disappointed. It wasn't what I wanted but by the time I realise this it's to late. Others in the room have already got hooked in.

I'll give it one thumbs up though. I despised all the New Yorker socialites in it and the film satisfied me by killing them all off.

BTW., did you watch a bad download of this ? I saw this first at the cinema and then on Blu-ray and I felt thought that the effects work of a devastated New York and the monster were spectacular and you did get to see plenty of both well. Or maybe you were just too stoned ?