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

[belboid]

I watched Avatar all I can say is I gotta take my hat of to James Cameron, Absolutely loved it.

even on a 2D telly??!!

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Synecdoche, New York. (properly this time).

Starts great and has a great feel and pace. I was super loving it in the middle where he seems to really be going mad. (I was already going to the shops to buy my own copy in my mind). Then it really tailed off. The pace slowed and it became miserable and dull. Nothing seemed to resolve satisfactorily and there seemed to be no reason for a lot of the quirks other than being quirky (I still liked the quirks though). I had kind of guessed how it would end when it started to go downhill, it's a shame I wasn't pleasantly surprised with something more imaginative.
I feel the whole thing was a bit wasted, it was so cool and imaginative and kind of felt at times like Jacob's ladder but then it just didn't have a the punchy end. It fizzled out.

 

[METH LAB]

Inside Man

Coz it was on the tele last week and i liked it rememberd i had the DVD lurkin somwhere which ive never opened.

 

[stupid dogbot]

Hi, my name is stupid dogbot, and last night I watched... Rock N Rolla.

I feel... sullied.

 

[pboi]

boondock saints 2.

part abortion, part guns.

 

[Fictionist]

The Strange Case of Benjamin Button

Vacuous nonsense with no emotional or moral core.

At least two hours of life lost.

 

[jeff_leigh]

even on a 2D telly??!!

Yeah it was a 2D Copy

 

[TitanSound]

Cool Runnings

 

[Orang Utan]

notes from a scandal - a pretty trite business. dench and blanchett are great and it's spot on about a few things, but it just washed over me really

 

[Reno]

A Perfect Getaway, which is a reasonably entertaining B-movie style thriller by David Twohy (Pitch Black, the underrated Below).

 

[Orang Utan]

and now we know to look out for it

 

[Reno]

and now we know to look out for it

Sorry, I'll delete it. Mind, it's one of those films that mainly got promoted on behalf of.......that.

 

[rutabowa]

The Holy Mountain. loved it, it's mental. a bit silly though. i liked the bit where the invasion of mexico was acted out by chameleons and toads in little period costumes and then the birds flew out of their bullet wounds, amongst many other bits.

 

[belboid]

a bit silly??!! It's probably the daftest film ever made.

 

[Reno]

looks spectacular though.

 

[Voley]

i liked the bit where the invasion of mexico was acted out by chameleons and toads in little period costumes and then the birds flew out of their bullet wounds

That sounds like my kind of thing. I've never seen this but I like El Topo a lot so will try and track this down.

 

[rutabowa]

i'm definitely going ot watch a lot more of jodorowsky's stuff... think you need to be in the right mood though. there was a good dvd extra where he explains his theory of the tarot, he is properly crazy, i would like to end up sat next to him at a bar late one night some day.

 

[Voley]

I heard he's making another film atm. 20 years since his last or summat.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Tell No One - excellent and interesting to see a French take on what in the hands of Hollywood may have become a rather formulaic thriller.

 

[belboid]

watch El Topo. Skip the rest. They might look fantastic, but they're utter bollocks too.

 

[butchersapron]

i'm definitely going ot watch a lot more of jodorowsky's stuff... think you need to be in the right mood though. there was a good dvd extra where he explains his theory of the tarot, he is properly crazy, i would like to end up sat next to him at a bar late one night some day.

Don't waste your time.

 

[Reno]

i'm definitely going ot watch a lot more of jodorowsky's stuff... think you need to be in the right mood though. there was a good dvd extra where he explains his theory of the tarot, he is properly crazy, i would like to end up sat next to him at a bar late one night some day.

Santa Sangre is probably his most accessible film and it's also one of his best.

 

[Voley]

From Wiki:

In an interview with Premiere Magazine, Jodorowsky said his next project will be a gangster film called King Shot. Marilyn Manson will play a 300-year-old pope, he said, and Nick Nolte has also expressed interest in working with the director. Both are also listed as executive producers for the film, which has a projected release date of 2009 [8]. David Lynch is also rumored to be a producer. In the interview, Jodorowsky also said he wanted to make a sequel to El Topo, but couldn't raise the funds. In a recent interview by Viceland, he also indicated that financing for King Shot was proving to be difficult[

I like the sound of him working with David Lynch.

 

[Voley]

watch El Topo. Skip the rest. They might look fantastic, but they're utter bollocks too.

El Topo's utter bollocks but I still really like it.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Is that by-the-numbers bad or engaging enough for a Sunday evening?

Oh definitely engaging enough for Sunday evening, enjoyable but forgetable really.

It's just about watchable and I agree wit QueenofGoths that the premise is potentially intriguing.

I mainly watched it because I quite like both Radha Mitchell and Rosamund Pike, who are good actresses. Mitchell is largely wasted in a nothing role as Willis' sidekick, but as Willis' grieving, surrogate addicted wife, Pike has a couple of scenes which hint that this could have been a much better film.

At 89 minutes it's very short for a Hollywood blockbuster and I wonder if they just lopped out most of the character stuff to make it more action based.

Yes I thought it was a shame that Radha Mitchell didn't get to do more, infact I would have been interested to know more about her life. I did like the way they made Rosamund Pike look so doll like when she was playing her surrogate.

 

[Reno]

I did like the way they made Rosamund Pike look so doll like when she was playing her surrogate.

Yes, that was good casting. She looks like a porcelain doll already.

 

[rutabowa]

Don't waste your time.

not even if i liked the one that i saw?

 

[rutabowa]

El Topo's utter bollocks but I still really like it.

yeah that's kind of what i thought about the holy mountain.

 

[Orang Utan]

yeah that's kind of what i thought about the holy mountain.

el topo bored me but sante sangre and holy mountain are deranged fun

 

[DJ Squelch]

From Wiki:

I like the sound of him working with David Lynch.

It's listing has disappeared off IMDB and it's website hasn't changed in 2 years. I doubt this will happened now.