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

[Sadken]

he will be playing lost little boy roles into his 40s won't he?

Basically, yeah, but he has a long way to go before using up his arrested development credits with me yet.

I also saw Up in the Air, which I thought was excellent.

 

[kyser_soze]

watching VHS is like that now - i can't bear to watch it anymore. i have about a thousand VHSs that i need to chuck out as i can't see myself watching any again

Have you ever watched a VHS that's been digitised into avi? They're great to watch for about 5 minutes to make you realise just how appallingly shite it was.

 

[Orang Utan]

Have you ever watched a VHS that's been digitised into avi? They're great to watch for about 5 minutes to make you realise just how appallingly shite it was.

yeah, well i've dubbed vhs onto dvds and it looks horrendous

 

[Reno]

Tidal Waves, a Korean thriller on gigantic tsunami

Hmm... it was alright.
Some usual Korean humours and universal cliches on human behaviour at last moments of life.
Could miss it.

and why Korean women love to yell so much in films?

I watched this a few weeks ago. It was hilarious ! Lot's of inappropriate slapstick like out of a Chuck Jones cartoon during scenes where people are placed in mortal peril and endless scenes of characters getting to say tearful farewells before they are swept away/electrocuted/squashed.

Terrible film, but interesting to see what goes down well in Korea with this type of film.

 

[pboi]

tbh I am the sort of person that once noticed I wont ever be able to go back!!

may my ignorance continue!

 

[DotCommunist]

first two episodes of Spartacus: Blood and Sand

A poor mans Rome with some cool slo mo fight scenes and loads of tit.

I shall continue to watch as I am a sucker for violent roman drama

 

[Nanker Phelge]

first two episodes of Spartacus: Blood and Sand

A poor mans Rome with some cool slo mo fight scenes and loads of tit.

I shall continue to watch as I am a sucker for violent roman drama

Me too - despite the iffy dialogue I really enjoyed the first episode.

 

[pboi]

its stylised some of the time, and a bit cheap the rest of the time!

 

[stupid dogbot]

I'm a fussy bastard. The stuff looks lovely providing it's well lit and not too much is moving, but oft times I've seen random blacker pixels, or pixel groups, in dark scenes etc (for example, I dled a 4.6 gb HD of The Bourne ID and there was ghosting all over the shop in the first scenes, where there's lots of shadow and camera movement.

10% of the (potential) size of a BluRay, innit...

 

[butchersapron]

its stylised some of the time, and a bit cheap the rest of the time!

These facts are not in opposition.

 

[pboi]

there is no spoon

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I saw Bombon El Perro the other day...it was a very quiet and unnasumming film, and I enjoyed it alot. A really reserved lead, not sure if he was an actor or not, or just some quiet, old man drafted in to look as lost and impotent as his dog.

Some nice bittersweet humour and not a good looking character in sight - very refeshing really.

Patagonia looked desolate and miserable.

The dog was sad and funny.

 

[Voley]

Just watched The Battle Of Algiers, a film I've wanted to see for years. It lived up to my expectations. Really powerful in places; brutal but also weirdly beautiful. It'll stay with me for a while this one and I expect I'll watch it again in a week or two.

 

[marty21]

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. Never seen it before, always thought it was a farce,and that I wouldn't enjoy it,I was wrong on both counts, excellent film, really enjoyed it.

 

[Reno]

Rogue, which is an excellent 70s style monster movie by Greg McLean, the director of Wolf Creek. I'll never understand why the other Australian giant crocodile movie, the rubbish Black Water, got a theatrical release here, while this much superior effort never did.

 

[Orang Utan]

Q - The Winged Serpent - the best new york monster movie with a giant flying dinosaur. the monster almost doesn't matter though, as michael moriarty steals it with his rather peculiar acting, making a very odd yet engaging protagonist. it's well cheap but that doesn't limit it in any way. i must watch more of larry cohen's films as he's made a lot of notorious b-movies.

 

[butchersapron]

The Third Generation - fassbinders fuck you to the idiot terrorists. Brilliant.

 

[Reno]

Q - The Winged Serpent - the best new york monster movie with a giant flying dinosaur. the monster almost doesn't matter though, as michael moriarty steals it with his rather peculiar acting, making a very odd yet engaging protagonist. it's well cheap but that doesn't limit it in any way. i must watch more of larry cohen's films as he's made a lot of notorious b-movies.

Larry Cohen is great. I particularely like his three It's Alive movies (the second one, It Lives Again being my favourite) and God Told Me To. Q - The Winged Serpent is like a Bert I. Gordon style giant monster movie if it had been directed by John Cassavetes.

 

[Reno]

edit: i was drunk, tired and emotional

 

[Dillinger4]

Just watched The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call, New Orleans by Werner Herzog.

Wasn't what I expected at all.

 

[pboi]

good or bad?

 

[pboi]

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/aww3l/possibly_the_greatest_movie_poster_of_all_time_pic/

 

[sojourner]

I saw Bombon El Perro the other day..

I loved that film

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Just watched The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call, New Orleans by Werner Herzog.

Wasn't what I expected at all.

I thought for a bit it was gonna be ok....and then.......

 

[belboid]

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. Never seen it before, always thought it was a farce,and that I wouldn't enjoy it,I was wrong on both counts, excellent film, really enjoyed it.

Tis another masterpiece indeed.

I've just taken delivery of a dvd of Espionage, mid-sixties TV plays about, mmm, spies. These episodes being otable for being the three directed by Michael Powell himself, with a few old stalwarts involved too, including Roger Livesey in a 'light-hearted take on the war between Britain and America' - so that's tonights viewing sorted.

 

[Cm7]

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, a Japanese anime

A bit girlie in a teen rom-com kinda way. But like it 'cos of the sci-fi bit.

The time travel storyline isn't complicated and doesn't have the problem like other time travel movies where you'd meet your old self in the past and have to end up killing them like in Primer.

 

[Sadken]

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, a Japanese anime

A bit girlie in a teen rom-com kinda way. But like it 'cos of the sci-fi bit.

The time travel storyline isn't complicated and doesn't have the problem like other time travel movies where you'd meet your old self in the past and have to end up killing them like in Primer.

I was really really let down by it, actually.

 

[butchersapron]

Tis another masterpiece indeed.

Underselling it somewhat.

 

[belboid]

true dat.

I still keep thinking 'can I be arsed to watch a three hour film' when it gets put on, but as soon as it is......simply flies by. aaah, Deborah, Deborah, Deborah

 

[butchersapron]

Not sure about the mel gibson remake planned though.