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

[Dubversion]

(but a total waste of Chloe Sevigny).

you think? i just thought she occupied her small role really well, played the part to perfection. Would have been odd to extend the role somehow.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Friday we watched "Series 7: The Contenders" which was excellent - great performances and a very believeable story - loved all the "Police: Camera:Action" style voice overs

Then last night we wanted a bit of visual popcorn so watched "Night at the Museum" which was great fun, completely undemanding, funny and sweet. Ben Stiller is a very personable actor and Owen Wilson and Steve Coogan were a good double act. Why, though, do people keep employing Ricky Gervais in films 'cos he's shit. He was brilliant as David Brent and is good in "Extras" but that is all he can do. He was woefully miscast and was rubbish!

 

[Pie 1]

you think? i just thought she occupied her small role really well, played the part to perfection. Would have been odd to extend the role somehow.

Actually in hindsight, I guess there wasn't much call for her character's role to have much more involvement given the timeline of the story - so yeah, you're probably right.
I just like seeing her on screen

 

[May Kasahara]

Friday we watched "Series 7: The Contenders" which was excellent - great performances and a very believeable story - loved all the "Police: Camera:Action" style voice overs

That's an ace little film

Lately I've been mostly watching my other half play Bioshock - as exciting as a well made action film, with all of the rubbish buddy/emoting dialogue replaced by a constant stream of homegrown expletives as he fights off Splicers and Big Daddies

 

[Dubversion]

Actually in hindsight, I guess there wasn't much call for her character's role to have much more involvement given the timeline of the story - so yeah, you're probably right.
I just like seeing her on screen

can't argue with that

 

[JTG]

The Last Emperor

DVD version I have has no subtitles so I found it hard to follow. I hate it when that happens

But yeah it was OK

 

[QueenOfGoths]

That's an ace little film

Lately I've been mostly watching my other half play Bioshock - as exciting as a well made action film, with all of the rubbish buddy/emoting dialogue replaced by a constant stream of homegrown expletives as he fights off Splicers and Big Daddies

Sounds like my husband playing one of the "Resident Evil" Games! "Bioshock" is supposed to be great - we don't have an X-Box360 though - but I am working on it!!

 

[elevendayempire]

Stardust. Bit... blah. Not as good as the book.

SG

 

[CharlieAddict]

wild hogs - a disgrace. what a fucking disgrace to film making.

the sentinel - fell asleep.

it's a boy girl thing - why i rented out a teenage girl comedy i do not now.

half nelson - brilliant.

 

[Dubversion]

wild hogs - a disgrace. what a fucking disgrace to film making.

to be fair, did you really not see that coming?

 

[CharlieAddict]

can't wait to see this

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay

 

[corporate whore]

Watched Kinsey, which was OK, and Double Jeopardy, which is high-quality nonsense, and made me wonder when Ashley Judd is going to ask Angelina Jolie for her career back..

 

[CharlieAddict]

fracture - think columbo, judge judy and hannibal. stupid and entertaining. worse combo for brain rot.

 

[Yetman]

I watched The Holy Mountain – on a load of MDMA, 2CB and Ketamine……



Fucking amazing film, some of the individual moments in it are astounding in their own right (the old man giving his eye away) and some just plain mental (the guy with leopard heads for tits squirting milk all over that other fella) but all in all an incredible psychedelic whirlwind, done in such a way that the perfectly arranged visuals confuse your brain without the need for special effects.

I lost the story (well…didn’t get it in the first place) a few times but got the general gist of it and the brilliant ending (which was improvised as the writer of the book it is based on died before he completed it) wraps it up perfectly.

Absolutely nuts, but on an epic scale. Will have to watch it again sober to get the story I think, but a great film to stick on while tripping

 

[Yetman]

Jan Svankmajers Alice in Wonderland - too dark for its own good, doesnt capture you

 

[no-no]

First half of Clerks, then fell asleep. Never seen it before, loved it but totally knackered.

37?!!

 

[Dubversion]

Knocked Up - unevenly paced (much like 40 Year Old Virgin) and pretty conservative really, but very very funny in places. And with some great performances.

 

[Badgers]

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Really like this film and Jim Carrey is great all the way through.

 

[sojourner]

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Really like this film and Jim Carrey is great all the way through.

I took my lass to see this at the cinema and she complained loudly all the way through (she was a BIG fan of the books )...'well THAT didn't happen, and they've missed out THAT, and she looks nothing LIKE that'!

 

[corporate whore]

The Searchers - really odd one.

Hired it 'cos I really liked The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, but didn't feel this lived up to its billing - disjointed, no clear indication of time passing, the serious mixed with bits that looked as if they were shot for shits and giggles.

Looks amazing, though. Monument Valley in Technicolor

 

[Dubversion]

The Searchers - really odd one.

Hired it 'cos I really liked The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, but didn't feel this lived up to its billing - disjointed, no clear indication of time passing, the serious mixed with bits that looked as if they were shot for shits and giggles.

Looks amazing, though. Monument Valley in Technicolor

eh?

amazed you think that. I reckon The Searchers is a work of genius, one of the greatest ever westerns

 

[foo]

i have no idea why (possibly because i couldn't sleep) - i watched American Dreamz.

yes i did.

 

[corporate whore]

eh?

amazed you think that. I reckon The Searchers is a work of genius, one of the greatest ever westerns

I understand that's a widely held opinion, and expected to be suitably impressed.

It was mostly the pace of it. I didn't get the sense that so much time had passed until they catch up with Debbie and suddenly she's Natalie Wood. Also thought Martin was a poorly drawn - and fairly badly acted - character.

I'll have a look at Stagecoach next. Wagons ho!

 

[bellator]

300, I thought it was well done if not a tad too long.

 

[May Kasahara]

Not on DVD, but I just half-watched Friday The 13th for the first time ever, can you believe it, on TCM. It was hilariously shit

 

[jbob]

Watched In The Mood For Love for the nth time. It may well be my favourite film ever. In fact, it now is.

 

[Grandma Death]

The Grudge 2. Poor follow up to the the first which I quite enjoyed.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Flags of our Fathers.

Letters from Iwo Jima is cued up for tomorrow.

 

[jeff_leigh]

Pirates of the Carribean 3

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

The last episode of series 1 of Dead wood. Immediately downloaded series 2