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

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I like the sound of him working with David Lynch.

I don't like the sound of David Lynch ever working again after seeing Inland Empire.

 

[butchersapron]

not even if i liked the one that i saw?

Yep

 

[Orang Utan]

pontypool - this was really good - a nice twist on the horror genre - i need to watch it again cos i'm not sure what happened

 

[krtek a houby]

Apocalypto - bloody!

 

[Orang Utan]

it's a got a lot of running in it, hasn't it?

 

[Reno]

More of the first season of Fringe. I bought this on a recommendation from a friend and while it's certainly well made, its not really my thing. I would like it if a sci-f/horror/fantasy show came along that is on the level of Mad Men, The Shield or The Sopranos, but this isn't it. Likable cast, but it just seems like The X-Files with less exciting "monsters of the week" and every episode has the same "solve the mystery" structure.

 

[kyser_soze]

I was really dissapointd with Fringe. Primarily because I was hoping that JJ could move beyond his patent meta-story of 'mysterious organisation does stuff and the whole series revolves around something almost happening'. Agree there's a gap for someone to do a proper job on the genre to.

 

[Cm7]

Nine - gosh, I couldn't stand the singing.

New York I Love You - following Paris je t'aime, I had high expectation from it. It didn't disappoint and was rather interesting and kept me intrigued. And I was pretty pleased with the part directed by Natalie Portman.

 

[Sadken]

The Hurt Locker - Fucking magnificent. I loved it and I really cared about the characters.

Precious - A LOT funnier than I expected, in that I was not expecting it to be funny at all. Also, Mo'Nique MUST win the oscar for her perfomance.

 

[Cm7]

Precious - A LOT funnier than I expected, in that I was not expecting it to be funny at all. Also, Mo'Nique MUST win the oscar for her perfomance.

But was it depressing though?
I haven't seen it but watched the trailer.

 

[Sadken]

But was it depressing though?
I haven't seen it but watched the trailer.

It was and it wasn't. It reminded me of my job, tbh. A lot of people might think there is no way that any kind of humour can come out of those circumstances but the human heart's a resiliant thing and there's black humour, gallows humour, sarcasm, cynicism...I LOL'd about 5 times and so did the person I went with. It IS bleak but it captures my experience of people in those situations very adeptly and gives the best rounded depiction of what it's actually like to be a person in a situation like that that I think I've ever seen in a film before.

 

[DotCommunist]

Seven. For the forty billionth time and only the fact that it was on someones HD tele and that that is a novelty to me, I would have been a trifle bored

 

[DJ Squelch]

2001: A Space Odyssey - one of my favourite films, amazing that this still looks so good when it was made in the mid 60s.

2010: The Year We Make Contact - if this film had no connection with 2001 it wouldn't have been a bad little sci-fi film but as you can't watch it without making comparisons it just seems shit.

 

[marty21]

Another Thin Man - Powell and Loy in good form

 

[DexterTCN]

Up. Magnificent, What can you not like about a film where all the goodies are circles and squares and the baddies triangles? Got a little choked somewhere in there, too. Seemed to be a large RoadRunner/Wil.E.Coyote homage in there as well.

The Vampire's Assistant. meh

 

[100% masahiko]

500 Days of Summer -

And Summer was a real fun and cool character. Charming.
Nice touches throughout. Enjoyed.

 

[100% masahiko]

The Hurt Locker - Fucking magnificent. I loved it and I really cared about the characters.

Bloody excellent film.

 

[Sadken]

Isn't it? I could watch it all again tonight and I only saw it first time on Monday. Jeremy Renner (James) turns in a fucking amazing performance. Everyone does, tbh - honourable mention for Anthony Mackie (Sanborne) too.

 

[Fictionist]

Up.

I cried after the first ten minutes. A very sweet film.

 

[Cm7]

It was and it wasn't. It reminded me of my job, tbh. A lot of people might think there is no way that any kind of humour can come out of those circumstances but the human heart's a resiliant thing and there's black humour, gallows humour, sarcasm, cynicism...I LOL'd about 5 times and so did the person I went with. It IS bleak but it captures my experience of people in those situations very adeptly and gives the best rounded depiction of what it's actually like to be a person in a situation like that that I think I've ever seen in a film before.

That does sound depressing...

 

[Cm7]

The Beat My Heart Skipped -

Recommended by Urban. Thanks!
It was great.

 

[Sadken]

Kind of is, kind of isn't, Cm7.

 

[Cm7]

It sounds like one of those films that would make me really angry and upset.
I have to be in the right mood to watch it.

 

[Sadken]

Honestly though, some of the dialogue and characters are very funny.

 

[IanJ]

The Runaway Jury - standard Grisham fayre, a mildly entertaining 6/10

 

[The Octagon]

The Runaway Jury - standard Grisham fayre, a mildly entertaining 6/10

How odd, I literally finished reading that last night

 

[IanJ]

How odd, I literally finished reading that last night

strange thing is the book is about a cigarette company, whereas the film is about a gun company. Hardly seemed worth changing it

 

[Reno]

The people trafficking indie drama/thriller Frozen River, which is watchable enough due to a good lead performance and a couple of tense scenes, but it's also one of these earnest, emotionally manipulative "issue" movies they love so much at Sundance. It even has one of these twangy semi-Roy Cooder guitar soundtracks they issue with every movie about poor, trailer-living folk.

It's the type of film that doesn't trust the audience to get anything themselves. It all has to be spelled out. You can't just see the poverty stricken kids of the (anti-)heroine getting fed nothing but popcorn, it has to be mentioned several times in the dialogue and of course the two women divided by race and culture will learn life lessons and become friends.

There is at least one of these films every year and the even less subtle Precious was this years model.

 

[The Octagon]

strange thing is the book is about a cigarette company, whereas the film is about a gun company. Hardly seemed worth changing it

Really? Yet to watch the film, I'm not a fan of Grisham adaptations (especially since they butchered A Time To Kill and The Rainmaker).

Is it one of the better ones?

 

[sojourner]

Daughter bought The Time Travellers Wife on dvd, so I watched that last night.

Okay viewing after a couple of spliffs