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

[upsidedownwalrus]

i know the second movie got made as Two Jakes, but the third didn't. Did it really end up partly getting included in Who Killed Roger Rabbit?

You know, when I saw roger rabbit as a kid, I didn't really appreciate it because I didn't get the references. I watched some of it a few months ago (seeing if the toddler liked it) and I couldn't believe how great it was, now that I've seen stuff like chinatown. Unfortunately he got bored and I had to turn it off.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

The Mist, the new Frank Darabont/Stephen King film. Not bad, old school monster movie with the usual bunch of King stereotypes (played by a stellar cast of character actors) barricaded in a small town supermarket as a strange fog rolls in, containing various nasty beasties. The DVD I got had both a colour and a B&W version and I watched the B&W one. The film stays very close to the Stephen King story (one of the best things he ever wrote) apart from a real downer of an ending.

Can't wait to see this. Darabont's King adaptations so far have been superb.

 

[Orang Utan]

No they haven't!

 

[d.a.s.h]

Watched Mean Streets with a friend night before last. It's a great film.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

No they haven't!

I think we've already been over this one several times!

 

[Reno]

No they haven't!

I didn't like them either and I'm still not sure how I feel about The Mist, though it's certainly better than the other two.

 

[Orang Utan]

Well they weren't horror films for a start - it's been a while since there's been a decent King horror movie.
King's non-horror stories are embarrassing - Darabont's saccharine adaptations of The Green Mile and Rita Hayworth & The Shawshank Redemption heightened King's worst faults as a writer. The only decent adaptation of a non-horror King story is Stand By Me, though it is a tad schmaltzy.

 

[Yetman]

Got Sliver and Poultrygeist for the weekend. I loved Black Sheep so hopefully will love these too

 

[Reno]

Got Sliver and Poultrygeist for the weekend. I loved Black Sheep so hopefully will love these too

What does Black Sheep have in common with a crap Sharon Stone "erotic thriller" and another zero budget Troma abomination ?

 

[Yetman]

Slither
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439815/


Jesus christ its a lot more like Society than Black Sheep but its fucking brilliant

Narsty. Not as funny as Black Sheep but darker. I loved it.

 

[Reno]

Sorry, Slither
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439815/

And poultrygeist is another black comedy involving man eating animals. No?

I thought Slither was considerably better than Black Sheep, but if Poultrygeist is like any other Troma film then the only good thing about it is the title.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Lol!

 

[Yetman]

I thought Slither was considerably better than Black Sheep, but if Poultrygeist is like any other Troma film then the only good thing about it is the title.

Dont know any other Troma films, I'll give it 20 mins though

And that makes me happy, Black Sheep was brilliant.

 

[dlx1]

Brother (2000)

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Black Sheep is an excellent film

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Anyway, I've finally got round to watching 24. On series 1. It's very good

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

No Country For Old Men.

A near-perfect movie.

 

[Annierak]

Went to see The Orphanage at the cinema yesterday. It wasn't bad, watchable. I'm a fussy fucker

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Finished series 1 of 24.

Trots off to dl series 2.

 

[jeff_leigh]

Sharpshooter - usual stuff goverment agent persuaded to take on one last mission blah blah blah

 

[zenie]

Blood Diamond - terrible accent from Leonardo DiCaprio

Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus - an absolute fuckin travesty, this film's made me really angry

 

[sojourner]

The Squid and the Whale

Not a bad little film

 

[foo]

Black Dahlia (i think it was called)

so dull and so shit that i don't even know what happened in the end. i turned it off and read a book.

 

[Belushi]

Black Dahlia (i think it was called)

so dull and so shit that i don't even know what happened in the end. i turned it off and read a book.

Havent seen the film, the book is excellent.

 

[El Jefe]

Land of the Dead.

Absolute fucking travesty. What the fuck was Romero playing at?

 

[Badgers]

Sopranos....

Well, I started watchin but fell asleep on the sofa.
Not because it is crap but but because I was tired

 

[Ranbay]

Trainwreck : my life as an idiot... fucking great film, and a true story also..

 

[Yetman]

Time Bandits. Fell asleep.

 

[corporate whore]

Derailed, which is diverting.
The Good Thief, which is excellent.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Donnie Darko. Stretches of averageness broken up by moments of brilliance. It's the role Jake Gyllenhall was meant to play: I like him better now. He seemed to suck in the other things I've seen him in.

The guy who was in, and wrote Superbad, is in it.

Watching that one scene where the girlfriend comes to the door of his houseparty while his parents are away, I thought: 'is this the first major media introduction of the hoodie?'