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

[Ranbay]

The Fall, how has i never seen this?

Awesome

 

[llion]

In the Loop - Couldn't believe how funny/mad this was. Especially Peter Capadli's slightly unhinged performance as the Alistair Campbell-type character! Quite liked Steve Coogan's cameo as well. 'We must climb the mountain of conflict'!

 

[Biddlybee]

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - was ok, didn't think any of the actors were that great (apart from maybe the mother, and I quite like David Thewlis); but also didn't expect the ending, until right at the end.

 

[kyser_soze]

E7 of Mad Men & Gossip Girl S2E2 (wry loves it, and it's one of my secret shames, along with Ugly Betty)

 

[The Octagon]

But then the two Faith / Buffy body swap episodes from Season 4, which are excellent

Oddly enough I watched these at random the other night.

Nothing to do with Sarah Michelle Gellar slutting it up as Faith-as-Buffy, no siree bob....

"I'd ride you at a gallop til your knees buckled and you popped like warm champagne. You know why I don't? Because it's wrong"

 

[Yetman]

The Fall, how has i never seen this?

Awesome

The Cell has a better storyline and better acting (despite Jennifer Lopez being in it) but the photography in The Fall is amazing

I watched Panic In Needle Park. Pretty good, shows the cycle and ruin of heroin addiction pretty well but the film does show its age.

 

[El Jefe]

Oddly enough I watched these at random the other night.

Nothing to do with Sarah Michelle Gellar slutting it up as Faith-as-Buffy, no siree bob....

"I'd ride you at a gallop til your knees buckled and you popped like warm champagne. You know why I don't? Because it's wrong"

heh

Buffy did a much better Faith than vice versa, but then I guess Dushku has a very mannered style - lots of twitchy body movements and the like - to mimic

 

[girasol]

We watched 'Anvil, the Story of Anvil' this weekend, it was so unexpectedly touching and enjoyable I had to watch it again...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1157605/

p.s. I don't even like heavy metal much, but it's not really about the music...

There is a moment in Anvil! when the band arrives at an important gig already expecting it to be almost empty. Lips' voice-over combines his almost trademarked acceptance with the tiniest glimmer of hope – a hope which has never been totally extinguished in 30 years. As they walk through the tunnel to the stage there is a genuine surge of adrenaline and a moment of real emotion. As a viewer you desperately want things to work out for Anvil, just this once, and you will it to happen. That level of connection is rare in dramatic films and practically unheard of in documentaries but Anvil creates and holds that tension in a perfect cinematic moment.

from the imdb review page...

 

[Pieface]

That sounds brilliant!

 

[Orang Utan]

it is! it's SO SO SO good. i want to watch it again now.

 

[El Jefe]

That sounds brilliant!

we have it, i tried to get you to watch it the other day

 

[Sadken]

It is a really great film, yeah.

 

[Sadken]

Also great is KING OF KONG - about 2 completely different characters competing for the Donkey Kong world record. Mad how seriously that whole world is taken - people talking about defending the integrity of the competition with their dying breath etc. Fucking nutcases! The guy you're supposed to root for seems lovely though.

 

[rutabowa]

Cannibal Holocaust and The Best Of GG Allin, though i had to have a recreational break halfway thru cannibal holocaust and fell asleep after 20 minutes of the gg allin one.

 

[El Jefe]

The Best Of GG Allin, though i had to have a recreational break halfway thru cannibal holocaust and fell asleep after 20 minutes of the gg allin one.

how could it be longer than 3 minutes?

 

[Strumpet]

Mannequin

 

[Sadken]

Mannequin

 

[rutabowa]

how could it be longer than 3 minutes?

there is a fair bit of repeated footage.

 

[100% masahiko]

District 9 - I dunno why the Nigerians were complaining as all humans/race were represented poorly.

 

[Pieface]

I'm going to watch Anvil! asap

 

[Part 2]

Got Anvil on download.

Just watched Awaydays. Not the typical football hooligan film, still not good though.

 

[Part 2]

The Anvil film is brilliant.

All the usual heavy metal cliches but really heartwarming stuff, Lips seems like a top fella.

Any ideas whether they would've done better out of the film or the album they were making?

 

[Orang Utan]

Any ideas whether they would've done better out of the film or the album they were making?

what do you mean?

 

[Part 2]

Either in money terms, or numbers of viewers vs listeners.

 

[Orang Utan]

that still doesn't make any sense

 

[belboid]

did they make more money from the album, or from the film. I presume.

 

[Part 2]

that still doesn't make any sense

It does to me

I think it's probably the film

 

[rubbershoes]

Paris is Burning

i love this film. It's funny but with a sadness at the heart of it.

and getting ready for work this morning i thought.... executive realness or town and country

 

[butchersapron]

Mother - bloke who did Memories of Murder back on similar sort of terrain after The Host. Same dark cynical tone in this one, but isn't quite as successful, could have done with 20 minutes cut out of the hour-long set up, still very good.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Also great is KING OF KONG - about 2 completely different characters competing for the Donkey Kong world record. Mad how seriously that whole world is taken - people talking about defending the integrity of the competition with their dying breath etc. Fucking nutcases! The guy you're supposed to root for seems lovely though.

Yes anvil is gooooood.

I forgot about the king of kong. I really want to see that.