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

[Nanker Phelge]

Spartacus: Blood an d sand.

It just gets more violent, sweary and naked by the episode

Doesn't it! Fucking great filth and fury!

 

[stethoscope]

Glastonbury (Julien Temple)

 

[Bajie]

Watched one of the new star wars films (Attack of the Clones), but had to turn it off after abour 35 minutes, what a load of shit it is! even my son thought it was rubbish.

 

[DotCommunist]

Doesn't it! Fucking great filth and fury!

'There is no greater glory than victory in the arena!'

I'm really starting to like Batiatus. In the same way you like a magnificent bastard like Lovejoy from Dead Wood, the geezer is a proper schemeing nasty arsehole who puts on this great Roman Patrician front.

 

[krtek a houby]

Stardust. Better than expected.

 

[Jackobi]

Glastonbury (Julien Temple)

I want to see this, apparently there is a clip of me in it.

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Watched that Mongol film. Thought the relationship between him and his girlfriend was quite touching, but other than that, a bit crap really.

 

[Zabo]

I watched: Frygtelig lykkelig - Terribly Happy

Synopsis:

Temporarily reassigned to the provincial Danish town of South Jutland after being accused of professional misconduct in Copenhagen, a by-the-books policeman begins to sense that the flowery facade of this picturesque hamlet masks something truly sinister in this dark drama based on author Erling Jepsen's novel of the same name. Constable Robert isn't used to life in the country, so when he's first confronted by the small-town customs of South Jutland he begins to feel as if he's drifted into some kind of all-too-quaint alternate reality. But perhaps his suspicion that everything here is just a little too perfect isn't just the result of simple culture shock, because the more Constable Robert gets to know about his new surroundings the more convinced he becomes that the community of South Jutland harbors a disturbing secret.

Now imagine fusing together the Coen Brothers Fargo and any one of Kaurismaki's films along with the photographic style of Wenders then you have the feel of the picture. Lots of cold blue, wide open spaces covered by bleak skies and a town that looks like its died. There's nothing rushed about the film but its not mind numbingly slow. It seems that the Nordic countries have this genre well covered.

If you've ever lived in an insular and parochial village you will identify with this film. No need for a Hitchcockian style soundtrack (and it has Hitchcok elements in it) the drama is in the surprises and the camera angles.

Recommended.

 

[Reno]

Flame and Citron, a Danish war film about resistance assassins in WWII, which was quite good and half an hour of Angel-A which reminded me of why I hate Luc Besson's films so much.

 

[Orang Utan]

i quite liked angel a though i can see why it might inspire loathing. i thought it was quite endearing - the two leads are very sweet.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Stardust on the telly.

It was ok, far far better than any of these other fantasy cgi bollocks. I liked de niro. "we always knew you was a woopsie"

 

[Reno]

i quite liked angel a though i can see why it might inspire loathing. i thought it was quite endearing - the two leads are very sweet.

It's exactly the way Besson works overtime to make these characters appealing that I find so off putting. (Jeunet does the same). I have never encountered a recognisable human being or emotion in any of his films and I find the overdone whimsy in his films vomit inducing. Besson and Jeunet represent the very worst of French cinema, but depressingly enough their films are successful, because like Hollywood films their characters and plots lack any shading or complexity.

 

[Reno]

Stardust on the telly.

It was ok, far far better than any of these other fantasy cgi bollocks. I liked de niro. "we always knew you was a woopsie"

Many people didn't seem to like De Niro in this, but I thought he was great. I liked how he slightly underplayed the character instead of going all out camp, which would have been the obvious way to go.

 

[Fictionist]

The Watchmen.

Terrible acting, terrible script.

 

[Orang Utan]

It's exactly the way Besson works overtime to make these characters appealing that I find so off putting. (Jeunet does the same). I have never encountered a recognisable human being or emotion in any of his films and I find the overdone whimsy in his films vomit inducing. Besson and Jeunet represent the very worst of French cinema, but depressingly enough their films are successful, because like Hollywood films their characters and plots lack any shading or complexity.

a friend of mine said about jeunet's latest: 'its just like the sort of film the parisien tourist board would make if they were all absolutely rushing on garys'.

 

[Dillinger4]

last night I watched (500) Days of Summer which was as disgustingly twee as I thought it would be, and Crash (the 2006 film)

 

[Badgers]

Where The Wild Things Are
Was fine but really nothing there for adults, even adults that loved the book as a kid.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Many people didn't seem to like De Niro in this, but I thought he was great. I liked how he slightly underplayed the character instead of going all out camp, which would have been the obvious way to go.

Indeed. I actually thought the dressing himself up was maybe going a bit too far but I guess he needed to be 'caught'.
Might be my second favorite De Niro part after Frank Tuttle - heating engineer.

 

[spawnofsatan]

Kandahar, beatiful film, but very sad.

 

[DotCommunist]

LEXX series 3 episode 1. it were allright.

oh and latest Caprica. A weak episode featuring annoying blond woman and dodgy priest lady quite a lot

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

LEXX series 3 episode 1. it were allright.

Is that the one where they are on heaven and hell?
I was strangely addicted to series 2. LEXX episodes moved so slowly and usually resolved simply because stan did what he should have done in the first place. Series 3 is like one already over long 45 minute ep stretched over an entire series. It's got Jimmy Summervile in it too.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

oh and latest Caprica. A weak episode featuring annoying blond woman and dodgy priest lady quite a lot

I was going to download it and take it to Japan with me but I don't think I will bother watching it again, I can't sit though another episode with annoying blonde lady in it unless she dies.

 

[pboi]

she is especailly bad the latest episode

 

[sheothebudworths]

'Hannah takes the stairs' and 'Me, you and everyone we know', which was sweet, I thought.

And I'm just about to watch 'Waitress'.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

she is especailly bad the latest episode

That does it. I am cutting my eyes out just in case.

 

[ilovebush&blair]

Kandahar, beatiful film, but very sad.

Is that the Iranian film set in Afghanistan during the rule of the Taliban?

 

[marty21]

The Prestige

Too long, dull, didn't enjoy it.

 

[ilovebush&blair]

I just watched Adventureland.

 

[jeff_leigh]

Indigènes - Movie about men from the French Colonies fighting the Nazi's

 

[spawnofsatan]

Is that the Iranian film set in Afghanistan during the rule of the Taliban?

It certainly is.