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

[marty21]

4 episodes of West Wing, season 1, tempted to get all the others now, watched a lot of it when it was broadcast but missed plenty

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I got stoned and watched The Return of The Jedi. It was like being 8 years old again.

You got stoned when you were 8

 

[Orang Utan]

Aparelho Voador a Baixa Altitude - a portugese feminist re-reading of jg ballard's short story, 'low flying aircraft'. it's about a couple in a dying world who are about to have a baby, who they fear may be a 'zote' with severe birth defects as nearly all babies are born this way and then terminated.
it's a very good adaptation. despite the obviously low budget, it looks well ballardian - loads of empty beaches and empty high rises and the photography reminded me of stalker.

 

[sojourner]

^ sounds excellent


I watched Lock Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island last night on tvchoiceondemand. Shocking stats, very sad, and very interesting in a voyeuristic way. HBO, wouldn't ya know.

 

[DotCommunist]

Spartacus: Blood and Sand episode 3

It really is like a paupers Rome. Liking it though. More sex than violence this week. I prefer an even balance. Nobody said cunt either, which was a let down.

Still, next week looks good.

 

[Voley]

You got stoned when you were 8

I was more of a crystal meth bloke in them days.

Gonna watch Paranormal Activity tonight. Or Up. Or State of Play. Or 9. or A Scanner Darkly. Or none of the above, I haven't got a clue what half of them are about tbh.

 

[sojourner]

Gonna watch Paranormal Activity tonight.

Ooo I quite fancy that, especially after reading about all the French yoot who had panic attacks after watching it

I am going to watch The Time Travellers Wife this weekend, as daughter bought it.

 

[Zabo]

Che - Parts 1 & 2 Quite enjoyable. Part one was better because it had a much smoother pace. Del Toro is good.

 

[thriller]

Watched Hatchet last night. WOW. How gory was that!

 

[dlx1]

The Dead Pool, not the best Dirty Harry film

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

If you can believe it - I came in from the albert at about 3 am and watched Synecdoche, New York. Pretty darn good and nicely paced but I really shouldn't comment until I watch it without a skinful at decent hour.

 

[Fictionist]

Caprica.

I like.

 

[pboi]

final episode of Friday night Lights S4.

Love the show

 

[ViolentPanda]

First 6 episodes of "Life on Mars".

 

[Sunspots]

Bedazzled (-the original, of course), and on the I-Player a Series 3 episode of Mad Men (-so subtle, so good).

 

[belboid]

Is Anybody There?

A 'small' british film from last year that Mark Kermode recommended, with Michael Caine, the kid from Son of Rambow, and David Morrisey. The fact that MK was interviewing DM may have affected his positivity somewhat. A decent wee movie with good performances from them three and a castful of elderly brit character actors and some really nice touches, but also somewhat predictable and totally failed with a sense of time and place. Was meant to be somewhere in the north but was obviously south-east coast. Alright, seen plenty worse.

Followed by Cool Hand Luke. Haven't seen it for well over ten years, I'd forgotten just how good it is.

 

[Voley]

Paranormal Activity. Pretty good for a film with a budget of only nine grand or whatever it was but I didn't think it was anything amazing. It was genuinely tense in places, though, and I do like the idea of people making films that still manage to spook people without resorting to loads of special effects and big budgets.

 

[pboi]

 

[Sunspots]

Belle de Jour

(Deneuve, not Piper. )

I've watched a few other Buñuel films over the years, but somehow never got 'round to this one 'til now.

 

[pootle]

I saw Up! last night that I thought was just lovely.

My eyes were leaking in the first 20 mins or so though Unusual story arc for essentially a cartoon/kids film!

 

[belboid]

another four Curb Your Enthusiasm's, Season 1. Cracking, tho I do wonder where I saw that one random episode (number 8) that I had seen before.

 

[Part 2]

Paranormal Activity...Should've known better

 

[avu9lives]

The Triangle... Perfect late at night curled up on the sofa kinda film. Really enjoyed it!

 

[ilovebush&blair]

The Triangle... Perfect late at night curled up on the sofa kinda film. Really enjoyed it!

I just watched Triangle by the person who directed Severance which I watched last night. The Triangle is a 2005 film about the Bermuda triangle?

 

[jeff_leigh]

I just watched Triangle by the person who directed Severance which I watched last night. The Triangle is a 2005 film about the Bermuda triangle?

You just watched a movie and now you're asking the forum what it's about?

 

[jeff_leigh]

I just watched The Collector, Fucks me it was intense!

 

[ilovebush&blair]

You just watched a movie and now you're asking the forum what it's about?

No i was asking what the film called The Triangle was about, i just watched a totally different film called Triangle.

 

[marty21]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Mood_for_Love

In the Mood for Love - well it is Valentine's day, beautiful film, although fairly slow moving

 

[Upchuck]

Daybreakers - it was ok

 

[Reno]

Surrogates, which was Hollywood sci-fi by numbers, with a ding-dong-the-witch-is-dead ending that these type of things always seem to have.