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

[ilovebush&blair]

the director has a new one out called black death - medieval action horror. my flatmate gave it the thumbs up.

that does look good, will check it out

 

[Biddlybee]

Up

 

[marty21]

Up

I have that and still haven't watched it, will it make me blub ?


Just watched 'Juno' quite liked it , very funny and sweet.

 

[Biddlybee]

I was almost in tears after the first 10mins, but it's good

 

[PacificOcean]

Marley & Me.

I cried like a girl.

I thought from the trailers that it would be some shit slapstick film with a dog.

But the other half decreed that we watched it - it was nothing like I thought.

A touching, sometimes dark film that made me cuddle my lab for ages afterwards.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

I was almost in tears after the first 10mins, but it's good

Both Mr. QofG's had a good blub at "Up" - after about the first 20 mins then again about 15 mins from the end. And then when we were talking about it whilw walking home

It is a lovely film though

 

[Orang Utan]

Marley & Me.

I cried like a girl.

I thought from the trailers that it would be some shit slapstick film with a dog.

But the other half decreed that we watched it - it was nothing like I thought.

A touching, sometimes dark film that made me cuddle my lab for ages afterwards.

i loved the way owen wilson pronounced the word 'dawag'

 

[butchersapron]

Reykjavik-Rotterdam - decent enough but very formulaic 'one last heist' film. Notable more for director Baltasar Kormakur (Jar City, Little Trip to Heaven etc) playing the lead. Didn't hang around (hour 20) - worth a go if you like the Icelandic voice. I know some people do.

 

[Idris2002]

Flame and Citron.

I regretted missing this one in the cinema, but it wasn't what I was expecting. Rather than a tale of manly derring-do among the Danish resistance, it's a story of betrayal and counter-betrayal in which the good guys finish last. And the violence is hard to watch in some places. The line - even if you're fighting in a just cause, if you pick up the gun there's a good chance you'll end up killing innocent people.

 

[100% masahiko]

The Book of Eli - Well shot shite.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

"Watchmen" - really liked it

 

[DotCommunist]

I watched Doctor Who again and still don't get how amy managed to bring the TARDIS back but hey, she is hot.

 

[avu9lives]

Malice in Wonderland! What a crock o shite$ Danny Dyer does his im a cockney geezer ! Innit, govner, {insert your own cockney phrases} Makes you wonder how the feck sum films get made.. AVOID!!!!!! [Edit] The bird innit was pretty fit though.,/;

 

[internetstalker]

The Wire Season 2 episodes 3,4 & 5

 

[belboid]

Waltz With Bashir.

Been meaning to for ages, finally got round to it. What a cheery film. And what a bunch of fucking cunts.

 

[rollinder]

watched the Going Down To South Park documentary on video (wonder if it ever made it onto dvd), haven't seen it since it was on ch4 Weird seing Isaac Hays talking about playing Chef & Trey and Matt mentioning that he has his own ideas about the show...

 

[andy2002]

Thirst - craziest fucking vampire film I've ever seen by the director who did Old Boy. In it's own perverse way, it's every bit as good as Let The Right One In.

 

[ilovebush&blair]

just watched fish story amazing

 

[butchersapron]

Die Beischlafdiebin (translation: Sex thief?) - early Christian Petzold TV film. Pretty good, nowhere near his later films though - as to be expected i suppose. Usual well handled interlocking narratives, motivations, actions etc

 

[Biddlybee]

Whatever Works, watchable.

 

[marty21]

The Damned United. Finally got around to watching it, Michael Sheen is brilliant as Clough. I can just about remember the events portrayed in the film, enjoyed it.

 

[Zabo]

I watched the Austrian "The Bone Man". It would be unfair to compare it to the Coen's "Fargo" because it didn't have a yakking woman in it going "Ya" all the time to spoil things. The photography was outstanding in that it wasn't intrusive. Likewise the sound. There was a disco scene but instead of the gain going straight up - much beloved by some - it was mixed in perfectly. A damn good story which I won't spoil - and some equally fine acting. Quit a few darkly comic moments. Unfortunately the writer and director have fallen into the same rut as others by having adding an Eastern European sex traffic segment. Please no more!

So far that's two good Austrian films I've seen, this and Revanche.

 

[butchersapron]

I watched the Austrian "The Bone Man". It would be unfair to compare it to the Coen's "Fargo" because it didn't have a yakking woman in it going "Ya" all the time to spoil things. The photography was outstanding in that it wasn't intrusive. Likewise the sound. There was a disco scene but instead of the gain going straight up - much beloved by some - it was mixed in perfectly. A damn good story which I won't spoil - and some equally fine acting. Quit a few darkly comic moments. Unfortunately the writer and director have fallen into the same rut as others by having adding an Eastern European sex traffic segment. Please no more!

So far that's two good Austrian films I've seen, this and Revanche.

The Bone man is part of a number of 'Brenner' films directed by Wolfgang Murnberger - the other films being Come, Sweet Death and Silentium. Both these two are better than the Bone Man, great though that is.

 

[DotCommunist]

I watched book of eli again, god knows why it was as uninspiring as the first time around. Fellow (christian) watcher said it was beautiful and that gary oldman was like the catholics using the Word for nefarious power-grabbing ends.

 

[Fedayn]

Been watching Boys from the Blackstuff the last few nights, I wasn't allowed to stay up when it was on telly. Excellent stuff from Bleasdale, easy to see the influences in his later stuff.

And which makes the appalling GBH even more loathsome.

 

[Zabo]

The Bone man is part of a number of 'Brenner' films directed by Wolfgang Murnberger - the other films being Come, Sweet Death and Silentium. Both these two are better than the Bone Man, great though that is.

Sincere thanks. I'll look them up. Thank You.

 

[butchersapron]

Death of a Corrupt Man - bit of a vanity vehicle from Delon (scripted by Jacques Audiard's old man). An attempt at a paranoid poltical conspiracy thriller, you know the type. Never really comes off - mainly i think due to the lack of any politics in the film whatsoever, in fact it's pretty laughable when put up against Costas-Gavras and Petri etc who he/it was trying to follow.

 

[The Octagon]

A random episode of that Spartacus: Blood and Sand.

It's fucking ridiculous in the best possible way - the blood, the sex, the Roman politics.

When a topless Lucy Lawless orders John Hannah to "split the [servant] girl's arse while I watch" you know you've gone down a weird road....

I may have to watch the rest for the lols.

 

[Lea]

Watched Eclipse (Twilight Saga) over the weekend. It's OK if you are a fan of the books and have seen the first two films.

 

[rutabowa]

saw Babylon on tv by chance, wow it is an awesome film! it's about a guy in a reggae sounds system in brixton in the late 1970s. such a good ending, so much weirder than i expected.