What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt2)
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Phone Booth - shite
Black Sheep.
Alan Arkin
the man's a god
the man's a god
foo
dirtysweet
Dubversion said:
he is isn't he.
i even kind of fancy him.
is that wrong?
maybe i just like watching and listening to him, and i'm mistaking this for fancying him. he's just so damn watchable.
i also like the woman who's Blank's 'girl friday'. she's gorgeous, and her expressions are brilliant but i never remember her name.
it's Joan Cusack, his sister. brilliant actress, totally underused
Punch Drunk Love
how did i manage to entirely miss this absolutely wonderful film? I assumed it was a piece of shit, Sigmund Fraud's comments about it 'redeeming' Sandler met me check it out but I still assumed it was a romcom or something.
But... wow...
how did i manage to entirely miss this absolutely wonderful film? I assumed it was a piece of shit, Sigmund Fraud's comments about it 'redeeming' Sandler met me check it out but I still assumed it was a romcom or something.
But... wow...
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Mr K took me to see that for Valentine's Day
dynamicbaddog
run for your life
I found this on amazon !
BEASTS!
it's a series of horror dramas from the seventies. I watched an episode from it last night, which was about a poltergeist in a supermarket and had a very young Pauline Quirke in it. Quite good but not as scary as I remembered, but then again I was only 10 when it was first on telly.
BEASTS!
it's a series of horror dramas from the seventies. I watched an episode from it last night, which was about a poltergeist in a supermarket and had a very young Pauline Quirke in it. Quite good but not as scary as I remembered, but then again I was only 10 when it was first on telly.
May Kasahara said:Mr K took me to see that for Valentine's Day
bless
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Dubversion said:bless
No, it was actually a really ace thing to do, because we got to see a good film which is really quite sweet underneath it all, but also freaky and scratchy enough that we could retain our anti-Valentine cool
Plus he'd got us balcony seats in that cinema in Hampstead, so we could recline and drink champagne while we watched. Very suave.
inspired by the recent flash gordon thread i watched the 80s film, which i hadn't seen since i was about 8
Interesting bit of trivia from IMDB: George Lucas wanted to do it in the first place, but the copyright was already held, so he came up with star wars instead.
Interesting bit of trivia from IMDB: George Lucas wanted to do it in the first place, but the copyright was already held, so he came up with star wars instead.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
I hear ya passenger 
Powerful stuff.
I, meanwhile, am enjoying a perfectly pitched double bill of films on Five - The Princess Bride, followed by The Addams Family. Big cartoony amusement is all my shrivelled brain can handle today.
Powerful stuff.I, meanwhile, am enjoying a perfectly pitched double bill of films on Five - The Princess Bride, followed by The Addams Family. Big cartoony amusement is all my shrivelled brain can handle today.
elevendayempire
Registered Loofah
Watched the Terminator films over the weekend.
Terminator: Still far and away the best; Arnie was never better than as the titular killing machine, I bloody love the plot, themes and the predestination paradox, and the cinematography is nicely lo-fi and gritty. It's an action movie with proper depth, this one. Oh, and I love the soundtrack. 10/10
T2: A bit shaky; the visuals are a bit too slick and processed-looking for my comfort, it doesn't look natural. Arnie's Terminator becomes a cliche here; all the iconic images of the character come from this film (and the catchphrases - which I hate). Still, there are some nice character dynamics running through the film, and Linda Hamilton and Robert Patrick turn in nice performances. The less said about Edward Furlong, the better. 8/10
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Surprisingly good for a TV pilot. A pity all the school-shooting stuff is going to be excised, since it worked pretty well in context. Surprisingly, you don't miss Arnie; partly because the notion of Skynet sending the same Terminator back every time was getting a bit daft. Lots of potential here, though I don't like Summer Glau's turn as Cameron; she's a bit too emotional for the character she's playing. 8/10
Terminator 3: The black sheep. God, I hate this one. All those catchphrases from the last film reach their natural conclusion here, with Arnie almost playing the role for laughs. John Connor's particularly thick, thinking this is the same T-800 he saw being melted at the end of the last film. There are some nice ideas in here (Arnie's Terminator being the one who assassinated Connor in the future, the ending of the film - and the knowledge that Judgment Day is imminent lends it a very different feel to the previous entries in the series). The TX is a bit of a wank idea (female Terminators are the last resort of the feeble-minded scriptwriter) and she feels like the scriptwriters upping the ante from the T-1000 rather than doing something a bit different. Kristanna Loken's actually pretty good, even if she's just aping Robert Patrick throughout. But overall this feels more like a TV movie than The Sarah Connor Chronicles - and ditching Brad Fiedel's industrial score in favour of Marco Beltrami's pedestrian orchestral work was criminal. Fortunately, The Sarah Connor Chronicles ignores this film, so we can too. Hooray! 5/10
Phew!
SG
Terminator: Still far and away the best; Arnie was never better than as the titular killing machine, I bloody love the plot, themes and the predestination paradox, and the cinematography is nicely lo-fi and gritty. It's an action movie with proper depth, this one. Oh, and I love the soundtrack. 10/10
T2: A bit shaky; the visuals are a bit too slick and processed-looking for my comfort, it doesn't look natural. Arnie's Terminator becomes a cliche here; all the iconic images of the character come from this film (and the catchphrases - which I hate). Still, there are some nice character dynamics running through the film, and Linda Hamilton and Robert Patrick turn in nice performances. The less said about Edward Furlong, the better. 8/10
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Surprisingly good for a TV pilot. A pity all the school-shooting stuff is going to be excised, since it worked pretty well in context. Surprisingly, you don't miss Arnie; partly because the notion of Skynet sending the same Terminator back every time was getting a bit daft. Lots of potential here, though I don't like Summer Glau's turn as Cameron; she's a bit too emotional for the character she's playing. 8/10
Terminator 3: The black sheep. God, I hate this one. All those catchphrases from the last film reach their natural conclusion here, with Arnie almost playing the role for laughs. John Connor's particularly thick, thinking this is the same T-800 he saw being melted at the end of the last film. There are some nice ideas in here (Arnie's Terminator being the one who assassinated Connor in the future, the ending of the film - and the knowledge that Judgment Day is imminent lends it a very different feel to the previous entries in the series). The TX is a bit of a wank idea (female Terminators are the last resort of the feeble-minded scriptwriter) and she feels like the scriptwriters upping the ante from the T-1000 rather than doing something a bit different. Kristanna Loken's actually pretty good, even if she's just aping Robert Patrick throughout. But overall this feels more like a TV movie than The Sarah Connor Chronicles - and ditching Brad Fiedel's industrial score in favour of Marco Beltrami's pedestrian orchestral work was criminal. Fortunately, The Sarah Connor Chronicles ignores this film, so we can too. Hooray! 5/10
Phew!
SG
Grandma Death
Reconfiguring & Reconstructing
Dubversion said:
Superb film. I take it you've seen PT Anderson's other movies Dub?
fear-n-loathing
drinking mouthwash
2 days in the valley, very strange film and not too bad either
watched these on the plane:
sunshine - stupid and never explains how that psycho survived a sun blast.
harry potter - always forget what the story is after watching it.
invisible - missed the ending but it's pretty dumb.
knocked up - missed the ending also but very funny.
sunshine - stupid and never explains how that psycho survived a sun blast.
harry potter - always forget what the story is after watching it.
invisible - missed the ending but it's pretty dumb.
knocked up - missed the ending also
but very funny.no-no said:
I loved it
Grandma Death said:
yeh - but the stench of Sandler was enough to put me off even with Anderson's track record
Grandma Death
Reconfiguring & Reconstructing
Dubversion said:yeh - but the stench of Sandler was enough to put me off even with Anderson's track record
Totally agree-when I first went to see it I was so prepared for one of the usual run of the mill Sandler films that I just don't get. I was so wrong. I thought he beautifully underplayed his normal typecast role. Its a great movie-quirky and off the wall. I love it.
The Hill a b/w film from 1965 with Sean Connery.
I've watched it over 5 times and it still a fantastic film
The direction by Sidney Lumet is just groundbreaking for its time.
I've watched it over 5 times and it still a fantastic film
The direction by Sidney Lumet is just groundbreaking for its time.
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