'Alvin and the Chipmunks' and 'Dan in Real Life'
total suckfest.
total suckfest.
What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt2)
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lighterthief
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We watched Elling, a Norwegian film from 2001 - fantastic, funny, uplifting and completely unexpected. A real treat.
jeff_leigh
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Memories of Murder - Korean movie Directed by Joon-ho Bong same guy that did The Host
Watched the new Joy Division documentary yesterday at Manchester Cornerhouse. Absolutley stunning, very moving film. I want to see it again
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Quality - and I wasn't even a fan, but now I need to hear both albums and the comp End of the Century, and the Filth and the Fury - both excellent
May Kasahara
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Japanese Story. I have given myself a headache from crying 
Orang Utan
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Japanese Story. I have given myself a headache from crying
I watched whilst under the influence of medication - not a good idea.
Great film though. Toni Collette is a terribly underused actress
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Indeed.
Fictionist
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I Am Legend - this was absolutely terrible. It was over before it had even begun!
jeff_leigh
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Fearless Hyena - Jackie Chan Kung Fu 
CharlieAddict
nekomimi rocks!!!
ironman - loved it. nice little twist to stark's original comic book character.
the darjeeling limited - wes anderson has a certain style hasn't he? beautiful colours and cool soundtrack as usual. good film.
the heartbreak kid - i felt like i hated life for 90mins cos of this. shit don't bother.
the darjeeling limited - wes anderson has a certain style hasn't he? beautiful colours and cool soundtrack as usual. good film.
the heartbreak kid - i felt like i hated life for 90mins cos of this. shit don't bother.
Orang Utan
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I watched L'Enfer - pretty underwhelming - very French, despite being written by a Pole and directed by a Croat. Lots of ACTING. But it was all rather po-faced and stiff.
I also watched I Am Legend, which was much better than I expected, but rather a departure from the book. The CGI gazelles were crap though.
I also watched I Am Legend, which was much better than I expected, but rather a departure from the book. The CGI gazelles were crap though.
Reno
The In Kraut
Dario Argento's Mother of Tears. Jaw droppingly bad and yet preposterously entertaining. By abandoning the stylised Technicolor look of Suspiria and Inferno this doesn't even feel like it takes place in the same universe as the two previous and far superior entries in the trilogy. Despite that it's more fun than any other film Argento has made in the last couple of decades. Plenty of "what were they thinking" moments to laugh at and any film where someone gets strangled with their own intestines in the first ten minutes has something going for it.
jeff_leigh
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The Mist - Frank Darabont Movie of Stephen King short story pretty predictable
corporate whore
oh, thought you were dead
Watched The Vanishing the other day. Just seen The Assassination of Richard Nixon - thought Sean Penn was excellent.
Orang Utan
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I watched Repulsion last night - a nasty little film - not sure whether it is mysogynistic or purely misanthropic - I need to watch Rosemary's Baby and The Tenant now - I've only seen Bitter Moon and The Pianist - one is mysogynistic and racist, the other is pretty positive about humanity
Reno
The In Kraut
Polanski is one of my all time favourite directors. Up to and including The Tenant he made an almost uninterrupted string of masterpieces while from Tess onwards his films lost their bite. Bitter Moon and The Pianist are the two best of his later films, but they still don't compare to his earlier work.
I always thought of Bitter Moon as a black comedy about a deluded mysoginist rather than it espousing those attitudes. Polanski's films are mysathropic on the whole, but he does have compassion for its central misfits who are always displaced, be it in terms locality or emotionally and mentally. Rosemary's Baby, The Tenant and Chinatown are my three favourite films of his.
Last night I watched The Grey Zone, one of the better dramas about the Holocaust. Very odd that it only ever came out on DVD here when many lesser films get a cinema release.
Chinatown is a top rate film. Rosemary's Baby is good. I quite enjoyed his 'Frantic' with Harrison Ford. For sure, not as classy as some of his others, but a good action film IMO. Haven't seen the Tenant.
Pianist is excellent I thought.
Pianist is excellent I thought.
Reno
The In Kraut
There is a highly acclaimed documentary about Polanski making the festival circuit and hopefully it will come out here soon:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1157705/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1157705/
I'd also like to mention his version of Macbeth which IMHO is the best cinematic version of Shakespeare
corporate whore
oh, thought you were dead
Scared the crap out of me, though - and I dunno about nasty.
On the DVD extras they tell of trying to get it past the censor - a man who liked films but was as moralistic as the times. He consulted a psychiatrist, who said it was a fine representation of paranoid schizophrenia, so it passed.
Orang Utan
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Everyone in it has squalid motives - people are portrayed as petty, grubby, small-minded and malicious
corporate whore
oh, thought you were dead
With the exception of the guy who tries to woo her - he loses his rag with his mates in the pub when they're getting lewd.
The sister's lover and the landlord are sleazebags, though.
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