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

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No country for old men

I found it rather disappointing. The final confrontation between Moss and Chighur is off screen . Maybe it's just me being dumb but i expected more.

It looked great though
 
Just watched The Notebook.

I blubbed. :oops:

ooh the notebook! my friend said at the end....'are they dead?' i was like, no, they're just having a little sleepy...:rolleyes::D

i just watched 'the strangers'

it was like they forgot to make it scary co they thought sticking the killers in scary doll masks was enough.

'hey director, you know, nothing has really happened for a while...'
'yeah.. but look at the spooooky masks....'
'fair enough'

and it was all tamla's fault really. where the fuck was she? god she's so flaky.
 
Days of Heaven.

Very languid and beautiful film with a host of great performances. Whatever happend to Linda Manz after this? I hope she didn't burn out straight away like a bunch of other child actors because she was great.
 
Buffy Season 6 Episodes 4 and 5 - 'Flooded' & 'Life Serial'

Not stand-out episodes, but some good moments in both: Namely Giles / Willow arguing over magic in the kitchen and the house getting wrecked once more.

Forgotten how funny the 'Trio' could be too - "stop touching my magic bone" *snigger*.

Up next - 'All the Way', 'One More With Feeling' and 'Tabula Rasa', all good episodes (if memory serves).
 
Watched a film called the Mirrors at the cinema at the weekend. It's a paranormal thriller with Keifer Sutherland and I thought it was quite good and atmospheric.
 
My Life Without Me

On the minus side, too self-consciously quirky and ridiculously glib. On the plus, nice cinematography, winning performances and a lovely soundtrack.
 
My Life Without Me

On the minus side, too self-consciously quirky and ridiculously glib. On the plus, nice cinematography, winning performances and a lovely soundtrack.

I think I went to see that at the cinema - is it about a woman dying of cancer? It was really bad, I think we walked out after about 1/2 hour.
 
I saw John Waters' This Filthy World - it was just Waters talking about his films and sharing lots of scurrilous but hilarious andecdotes. There's not much to it really, but it's very entertaining - a souffle made from dog shit.

Redacted - Brian De Palma's take on the war on Iraq - Battle To Haditha did it better and De Palma just rehashes the plot to his earlier, better Casualties Of War, but with the gimmick of all the action being filmed by in fake documentary style in various media like TV news, terrorist combat videos on YouTube, soldiers' wives messages on webcams etc. It doesn't work though - it looks like De Palma is just insincerely using the war to show off his technique.

Hillside Cannibals - dire Hills Have Eyes rip off
 
The Bank Job - Superior crime caper tosh.

I had to turn that off after about 4 minutes. As soon as I heard the first cock-er-nee accent I leapt across the room. Don't know what I was expecting really and I inadvertantly broke a kitten's back. Is it worth persevering with then?
 
I also turned off Get Smart after 22 minutes when he shot himself in the foot with a crossbow. Nowhere near as funny as it sounds.
 
I had to turn that off after about 4 minutes. As soon as I heard the first cock-er-nee accent I leapt across the room. Don't know what I was expecting really and I inadvertantly broke a kitten's back. Is it worth persevering with then?

I did that too. The first time I watched it I think I lasted about 20 odd minutes. To be fair the first whole of the first half hour is rubbish. Saffron Burrows' acting is piss-poor and it seems to take them ages to clumsily set the characters up.

But as soon as the actual bank job swings into action it picks up speed and clips along at a nice pace through a well plotted storyline. In the end it was really entertaining, so yeah it is worth persevering with.
 
Some sick fucking snuff movie I downloaded from a Taiwanese website. It was fairly full on for the first half but tapered out toward the end. Raised interesting moral questions such as ‘can a corpse consent?’ and ‘if you cant tell, then find out it was a man after all….does that make you gay?’. The main actor, Zu, was brilliant but the plot let this one down, I just hope it doesn’t dent his employability in future, slicker movies where he can really shine. 6/10
 
Saw Trevor Nun's version of Twelfth night. Dont normally like Shakespeare on screen, but this movie is very watchable, and cheaper than going to the theatre of course.
 
Tropic Thunder which I thought was excellent. Never expected it to be quite as clever in taking from other Apocalypse Now, RDJ was the obvious highlight and the cameo was good considering.

Adulthood, which I didn't really like.
 
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