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

[Maltin]

Dairy of the Dead. Not great but not too bad either. I just wish Romero would now move onto something else. The zombie stuff is well rinsed and since 28 Days/28 Weeks/Dawn of the Dead remake his zombies just dont seem as scary now.

Is that the one about the zombie cows?

 

[Fictionist]

Master and Commander, which is a mighty fine film excepting the rather odd choices regarding the soundtrack.

 

[oddworld]

Pathology , starring Heroes Milo Ventimiglia.

Great thriller, twisted.

 

[Part 2]

Watched Cronos this afternoon. As good as the many urbanites said it would be.

Just watched Le Fils (The Son), on the recommendation of butchersapron after seeing L'enfant last week. Don't know what to say really, but it's an amazing film.

 

[Pie 1]

JuneBug.
Nice enough.

Although I must confess that I'm starting to get a little bored of this rather formulaic - lets call it the 'Sundance Formula' - approach that US indies seem to be constantly following. Y'know, lots of 'nice' & 'quiet' & kooky/lost people finding simple joy or redemption etc (Station Agent/Little Miss Sunshine/Winter Passing/Juno)
All good films....I dunno, maybe it's just me.

 

[Badgers]

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire last night.
I quite enjoyed it

 

[QueenOfGoths]

"Robocop 3" - for completist reasons having watched the original and the second one recently

It was rubbish! Absolute rubbish - avoid at all costs and pretent it doesn't exist

 

[ringo]

Originally Posted by ringo:

All The Pretty Horses just arrived, don't have high hopes.

it's wank

Not as bad as I thought it would be, but only because I knew it would be nothing like the books. There were only a couple of moments when the director captured the essence of McCarthy's writing which to me is his poetically beautiful descriptions contrasted against the brutal cruelty ingained in human nature. The love story was wank though.

 

[Yetman]

(You probably know) Delicatessen?

Ah yes, heard about it several times but never bothered with it. Will check it out. Nice one

Watched Y Tu Mama Tambien on the plane a few weeks ago, they have this personal screen with over 3 hundred films to choose from!

Trust me to choose a film with a hardcore muff diving shot that was happening as the (slightly middle aged and not at all open minded) hostess offered me some coffee shouldnt fucking have them on there then should you love. Its art ffs

Well.....still nipped off to the lavs but it COULD be art

But erm yeah, good film.

 

[Leica]

Now Voyager, with Bette Davis and Gladys Cooper.

 

[Grandma Death]

30 Days of Night-for the second time. Fair play with the exception of the last five minutes this is IMO on the best vampire flicks ever made.

 

[jeff_leigh]

Lords of Dogtown

 

[El Jefe]

East is East. Forgotten what a good movie this is.

(and it comes from the absolutely lush 25 Years Of Film Four boxed set Treebeak got me for my birthday (Trainspotting, East Is East, This is England, Sexy Beast, My Beautiful Launderette, Rita Sue & Bob Too, Last King Of Scotland, This Is England, Secrets & Lies and My Name Is Joe in a lovely bound package )

 

[Orang Utan]

wonder where she got that

 

[Part 2]

'Threads'.



eek:!)

Bloody hell.

Innit just. My little un always asks what's the scariest film I've ever seen, I know what to say now.

 

[rollinder]

some hyper youth comedy thing about snowboarders making a commercial and serbian terroists on ch4 @ 3/4am

 

[sim667]

the entire first series of peep show

Im working my way through to make sure ive seen them all.

 

[Badgers]

Harry (not Hari) Potter again...

Nearly done them now and then back to LOTR or something

 

[jeff_leigh]

Charlie Wilsons War

 

[Sadken]

That film pissed me off quite a bit. Charlie Wilson was made out to be a loveable rogue but it totally glossed over the "total cunt" aspect of his personality.

 

[Orang Utan]

City Of The Living Dead - dreadful Fulci horror - memorable only for the gut spewing and head drilling scenes, but mainly for the Fabio Frizzi score

 

[Yetman]

Rita Sue & Bob Too

I fucking hate that film. Not that its a bad film or anything I just hate it. I hate the morons in it with their eighties mullets, embassy no.6's and constant bickering over who's turn it is to get a fucking jump off bob in the front seat of a clapped out ford capri. NOR ITS MAA TURN FOOK OFF GIZ ANOTHEE JUMP THAR BOB

I know, I know, but I dont give a fuck. I just hate it.

 

[no-no]

30 Days of Night-for the second time. Fair play with the exception of the last five minutes this is IMO on the best vampire flicks ever made.

You've got to be kidding!!

First off the head Vampire looks like Neil Tennant out of the petshop boys.

Second they aren't too clever,it takes them all night to kill everyone.

Third, that klingon speak they keep doing is just sooo passe.

Finally, you're dead right the last five minutes are the ridiculous, even the writers got bored of the script and just wrapped it up so they could get out early and have a Friday drink.

Anyhow, Watched Son of Rambow the other day. What a great film and two brilliant little actors!All finished off with a nice cure song and the missus in tears what more can you ask?

 

[Part 2]

I fucking hate that film. Not that its a bad film or anything I just hate it. I hate the morons in it with their eighties mullets, embassy no.6's and constant bickering over who's turn it is to get a fucking jump off bob in the front seat of a clapped out ford capri. NOR ITS MAA TURN FOOK OFF GIZ ANOTHEE JUMP THAR BOB

I love it!

And No6 were Players

 

[The Octagon]

The Notebook

Now, normally I'm fine with a lot of films otherwise known as 'Chick flicks' or 'weepies', there's usually something going on that I enjoy, but never have I been forced to sit through such a mind-numbing, manipulative emotion-grasping film in all my life -

He's from the wrong side of the tracks, she's a good girl, they can't be together, etc, etc.....
Now there's a war scene in which he loses a friend....
Now he's obsessed with the house they first shagged in...
And all throughout she has a terrible affliction...
They end up dying together (seriously?)

Can only have been written by a 14-year old girl with no romantic experience whatsoever. Wank of the highest order.

 

[Annierak]

Walk the line

 

[Grandma Death]

First off the head Vampire looks like Neil Tennant out of the petshop boys.

Unless you hate Neil Tenant I fail to see your point?

Second they aren't too clever,it takes them all night to kill everyone.

Since when has Vampire intelligence been relative to how well a film has been made.

Third, that klingon speak they keep doing is just sooo passe.

It doesnt even remotely resemble Kilngon speak

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Lars and the Real Girl.

It's about a socially retarded guy in a small town who gets one of those Japanese sex dolls, and thinks she's a real live girl. He introduces her to his brother and his wife, for starters.

It's a really good movie. You start out laughing at him, and at the absurdity of it all, and then slowly, the movie starts to draw you in. It becomes a movie about the things unspoken, about the things people will do to help other people.

By the end, it is a touching and emotional movie that had tears in my wife's eyes.

 

[Diamond]

The Parallax View, Gattaca and The Deer Hunter all in the last week or so and all ever so slightly disappointing. Good movies nonetheless but I just expected a bit more.

 

[Pie 1]

Got sucked into The Rock which was on a tv channel.
It's actually so bad it's really quite mesmerizing. You can almost see the big stars wincing as they say their lines .