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

[May Kasahara]

Oh yeah that's pretty good. I forgot about that bit, I used to be obsessed by the two songs. "LOVE ME!!!"

I still quite often trill the magic words, complete with finger-snap: Julie Andrewwwwwws!

 

[Orang Utan]

The Wrestler - competent but standard sentimental hollywood tosh - mickey rourke is great in it and face is all funny, but i expected more from aaronovsky
Dean Spanley - peculiar little film about an academic played by sam neill who remembers his former life as a dog every time he is plied with a certain type of sherry. his friend's dad (peter o toole) begins to realise that it is his much missed dog and this helps him begin to mourn his other son killed in the boer war. it's well acted but it's a syrupy tear-jerker.
The Abominable Dr Phibes - outstanding! vincent price at his best, carrying out elaborate murders of doctors who he blames for his wife's death. the art deco sets are amazing and the murders imaginative and price looks cool frantically bashing his organ. the clockwork orchestra is mental too.
Bride Of Frankenstein - such an awesome film - a camp classic, with a fantastic performance by ernest thesiger as dr praetorious, the archetypal mad scientist. the sets look great and the camerawork is incredible (all murnau-esque crazy angles and shadows). it's surprisingly moving in places too and there's a weird sequence involving tiny humans in bottles dressed as historical figures which has to seen to be believed.
Sex Drive - standard american teen road trip comedy - made me laugh, but mainly cos it has amish folk in it.

 

[Biddlybee]

About half of the first series of Six Feet Under.

 

[Sadken]

Sex Drive - standard american teen road trip comedy - made me laugh, but mainly cos it has amish folk in it.

Seth Green ftw!

 

[kyser_soze]

Half the first season of Dollhouse.

Eliza Dushku is still a hottie and it's surprisingly good stuff...much quicker to get into than Firefly, still got lots of smart writing. And amazingly, for a Whedon series that isn't Buffy, it's been commissioned for a 2nd Season! Yay!!

 

[Sadken]

1st Series of 15 Storeys High. Was good and I liked it but it wasn't FANTASTIC like I had been led to believe. I'll watch series 2 though.

 

[Yetman]

One of the most overrated films ever. Shite.

I only watch films that you say are shite

 

[llion]

He's not that into you - Awful, awful film. Like some twisted homage to all the crappiest of crap Bratpack shitfests a la St Elmo's Fire. An 'all-star' cast of washed up hasbeens like Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston and Drew Barrymore. Just bad on all levels.

 

[butchersapron]

Silent Resident - great looking sort of sci-fi/dystopian view of stuff going on in self contained 50 000 population commieblock, filmed at the amazing looking Alterlaa in Vienna. Film a complete mess.

Property is No Longer Theft - fantastic savage satire on money and its corrosive role on society from Elio Petri. One of Morricone's best soundtracks too.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Sex Drive - standard american teen road trip comedy - made me laugh, but mainly cos it has amish folk in it.

I was expecting a low rent, low on laughs american pie road movie but this is far better than that. I don't feel I wasted my evening on it.

 

[The Octagon]

Dollhouse - Season 1, Episode 10: The show is really hitting it's stride now, there's some fairly dark themes being woven -

Spoiler: Dollhouse Episode 10

Ballard playing rough with 'Mellie', even though he knows she's a victim herself. He's being brought right down by the Dollhouse to a bad place.

The Life-after-Death angle being opened up, I'm sure that will be used (hopefully not too much) in later episodes.

Adelle's acknowledgement that people need to feel like their work matters, specifically Topher (I love the fact that he didn't even choose a doll himself, it didn't matter to him which sex it was, he just wanted company).

Good stuff.

 

[belboid]

first half of Series 4 of Weeds. hmm, probably gotten too silly now, tho there are lots of Mary thingies boobs on show this time...

Then a couple of episodes of Blakes Seven (series 2). Which was actually painful in places

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Transformers 2. I liked it better than the first one. But: how did they bimbify Megan Fox like that? Her face looks like it has some sort of weird implants. She's like roboskank.

 

[tufty79]

blood simple.
i'd not seen it before.

i ♥ the coen brothers.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

blood simple.
i'd not seen it before.

i ♥ the coen brothers.

I think that might be their best movie.

 

[stupid dogbot]

Kung Fu Panda

Entertaining.

 

[100% masahiko]

The International - so banks are corrupt and finance civil wars in the third world so that they too can be in debt (like the rest of us). End of story.

Tell us something we don't know. Shit film.

 

[mentalchik]

Just watched V For Vendetta.......

really enjoyed it i have to say !

 

[Dirty Martini]

Another Melville, L'armée des ombres (Army of Shadows). Another fucking masterpiece.

I'm beginning to think he might be one of the best directors that ever lived.

 

[butchersapron]

Told ya

 

[Badgers]

More Twin Peaks, reckon we have a weeks worth still to go but still liking it.

 

[Me76]

I watched some of the Marathon Man. I switched it off after about an hour and a half as it was boring me senseless.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Crank High Voltage.

This movie is a modern classic.

 

[butchersapron]

Angel's Leap/Cobra/Operation Cobra - fairly boring genre piece from Yves Boissset, sort of like a poor mans Get Carter and with a horrendus performance from Sterling Hayden, reaching places even Ali Macgraw feared to tread.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Mars Attacks!

 

[rubbershoes]

Changeling

It says it's based on a true story. A bit shocking if it is

 

[DJ Squelch]

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - made me think of a munted Sunday we once spent in Hackney trying to find somewhere to have a quiet pint.

 

[manifold]

Once Upon a Time in America. It was epic. If it wasn't nearly four hours long I'd be going straight back for a second viewing.

 

[mentalchik]

Watchmen - quite enjoyed it i have to say !

 

[Upchuck]

The Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner I love borstal and prison movies

I would give it 5 stars for a solid plot, keeping true to the book, and gritty realism