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

[Sunspots]

Watched Blood Diamond, the night before last. Was quite a good watch, but something about it left me feeling quite hollow, perhaps the lack of development of Solomon. Was suprised to find it got 8/10 on IMDB!

Somebody lent it to me a few weeks ago, but I still haven't worked up the enthusiasm to watch it yet...

 

[cliche guevara]

Somebody lent it to me a few weeks ago, but I still haven't worked up the enthusiasm to watch it yet...

Visually it's stunning, it's very gruesome in places though.

 

[Sunspots]

Visually it's stunning, it's very gruesome in places though.

Rightly or wrongly, I'm put off by the possibility that it might be a bit too much of a cack-handed Hollywood attempt (-albeit a well-intentioned one) at dealing with A Big Important Issue.

-Maybe that's really not the case at all, though. I'll still give it a watch; it's on the pile...

 

[cliche guevara]

Rightly or wrongly, I'm put off by the possibility that it might be a bit too much of a cack-handed Hollywood attempt (-albeit a well-intentioned one) at dealing with A Big Important Issue.

-Maybe that's really not the case at all, though. I'll still give it a watch; it's on the pile...

For a big Hollywood movie, I thought it dealt with the issue quite well. It's definately worth a watch.

 

[Sunspots]

For a big Hollywood movie, I thought it dealt with the issue quite well. It's definately worth a watch.

Thanks for the recommendation; I think I've been swayed.

 

[Part 2]

My Neighbour Totoro. Watched it with the kids. I got the feeling they weren't that arsed and finding it a bit boring but when the bus stop scene came they were pissing themselves laughing. My 7 year old is keen to watch more Anime as a result.

Just watched No Country For Old Men, off to the spoiler thread to find out what the fuck the end was about. Some great characters in there, loved the trailer park woman.

 

[El Jefe]

Some Black Books.

never fails to make me laugh

 

[Orang Utan]

Hostel.

It was really quite funny. Had no idea it was played for yucks...

I watched Hostel 2 - it's better than the first and definitely played for laughs - I don't know what the fuss is about

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Still watching Curb... Now on series 4

 

[Ranbay]

Life of Brian on Blu-ray... looks way much better than i thought it would.

 

[cliche guevara]

My Neighbour Totoro.

What an awesome film

 

[sojourner]

Some Black Books.

never fails to make me laugh

My daughter liked Bernard so much she actually started talking and acting like him

 

[Orang Utan]

My daughter liked Bernard so much she actually started talking and acting like him

I want to open my own bookshop but fear I'd end up like him

 

[Sunspots]

I want to open my own bookshop but fear I'd end up like him

For a time, when I did shop work in my youth, the fuckwit customers I used to have to deal with every day gradually made me every bit as foul-mouthed and misanthropic as Bernard...

 

[Orang Utan]

For a time, when I did shop work in my youth, the fuckwit customers I used to have to deal with every day gradually made me every bit as foul-mouthed and misanthropic as Bernard...

I worked in Waterstone's Kings Road and loved every minute of it, despite fuckwit/rude/posh customers.

 

[El Jefe]

My daughter liked Bernard so much she actually started talking and acting like him

i do try very hard to remember specific phrases and mannerisms. He is fucking cool.

Last night we watched the episode where Bernard is looking for his 'summer girl' and the way he described her was just fantastic

 

[Orang Utan]

i do try very hard to remember specific phrases and mannerisms. He is fucking cool.

Last night we watched the episode where Bernard is looking for his 'summer girl' and the way he described her was just fantastic

"I've got to get a girlfriend, just for the summer, until this wears off. She'll be a summery girl. She'll have hair. She'll have summery friends who know how to be outside. She'll play tennis and wear dresses and have bare feet, and in the autumn, I'll ditch her, because she's my summer girl!"

 

[sojourner]

i do try very hard to remember specific phrases and mannerisms. He is fucking cool.

Last night we watched the episode where Bernard is looking for his 'summer girl' and the way he described her was just fantastic

Apparently, everything I say and do is Manny

Am still not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing

But we can't make toast in our house without singing 'jam jam jam'

 

[sojourner]

I want to open my own bookshop but fear I'd end up like him

I would LOVE to run a bookshop like that

 

[Orang Utan]

I would LOVE to run a bookshop like that

Let's go into business then!

 

[sojourner]

Let's go into business then!

I want part of the shop to sell music too though, so I can be sneery, rude, and unapproachable about both

 

[May Kasahara]

Apparently, everything I say and do is Manny

Am still not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing

But we can't make toast in our house without singing 'jam jam jam'

"Right now I'm eating scrambled egg, with a comb, from a shoe!"

 

[Ranbay]

Next - was good in places but all in all rather poo. i like some of the action bits and stuff.

 

[sojourner]

Grizzly Man

I spent almost the entire film thinking it was some kind of spoof - the only thing that saved me from completely thinking this was the footage of the bears.

 

[Orang Utan]

Herzog has the best voice for docs ever

 

[Sunspots]

the only thing that saved me from completely thinking this was the footage of the bears.

-C'mon, those bears were obviously robots!! Any fule could see that...

 

[sojourner]

-C'mon, those bears were obviously robots!! Any fule could see that...

Have you seen the film?

 

[sojourner]

Herzog has the best voice for docs ever

Have you seen it OU? Am I on my own with my suspicions? I believe it was actually a serious thing now, having read a Rotten Tomatoes review - but by the christ, it had me going for a while

 

[Sunspots]

Have you seen the film?

Yeah, a typically powerful documentary from Herzog.

I was only joking about the robots.

 

[Orang Utan]

Have you seen it OU? Am I on my own with my suspicions? I believe it was actually a serious thing now, having read a Rotten Tomatoes review - but by the christ, it had me going for a while

Yeah, I saw it - it didn't occur to me that it wasn't serious. It's a fantastic film.