What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)

[100% masahiko]

Having enjoyed The Neverending Story as a child, and Where the Wild Things Are/ The Fall during adulthood, I found myself slightly overwhelmed (and surprised) with The Lovely Bones.
Yep it's not dark. And the not as gruesome or painful likethe book. Nor does it explore the internal conflicts of Susie's immediate family. It's a a kid's film. Unoffensive and light. Fantasy and not horror.
And if we did see Susie getting dismembered and raped, it would have ruined it tbh.

Pretty good overall.

 

[rollinder]

Doctor Who's Greatest moments - The Doctor (dvd version - some of the songs used got replaced by musak instrumental versions)
got a little bit choked up at some of the clips and missed Eccles and Ten a bit. /sadgeek

 

[gavman]

i've watched some dreadful films in the last week or so. last night 'carriers'...post apocalyptic rubbish featuring a bunch of awful, self-centered teens that just wind you up. thoroughly bleak and depressing. i fail to understand why filmakers populate a film with entirely unsympathetic characters that just piss you off?

in the same vein 'basement' with danny dyer. one of those films where you're shouting for characters to be killed off, just to stop the pain.
i know herr dyer isn't highly regarded round here, but i really enjoyed 'severance' and hoped this would be as good. it isn't.
the cast just stumble repeatedly along the same underground corridor like a scooby doo chase scene...clearly a film that began with a location...and never got any further

 

[nicksonic]

'run lola run'.

which was fucking BRILLIANT.

 

[gavman]

Pontypool - tense, clever take on the infected/zombie idea in which people in a small Canadian town are turned into cannibalistic lunatics by a virus contained in certain words in the English language. It has a couple of welcome pokes at US talk radio and the central performance (Stephen McHattie as DJ Grant Mazzy) is excellent, but somehow it's all a bit dull.

sounds like a good idea for a satire. i'll keep my eyes peeled for it

 

[gavman]

and just to further damage my credibility, i really enjoyed 'clash of the titans'.
well-done silliness, did exactly what it said on the tin. and the kraken was ace....

 

[rollinder]

just watched the first episode of Whose Line Is Anyway on 4od (looks like they've got every series!)
hilarious - Paul Merton was misrable and John Sessions had to sing in a reggae style about a telephone.

what was the recentish show that had a similar thing of people having to improvise a mini playlet in a room?

and ep 1 of Crapston Villas (also via 4od) been wanting to see that since 1995.

 

[Grandma Death]

Disgrace. I was expecting to be let down but I wasnt. It was really faithful to the source material-good solid performances but one big gripe...the ending wasnt faithful to the book IIRC. In fact I thought it was almost bordering on a hollywood ending and that annoyed me big time.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Kick Ass.

It was ok but not anywhere near as awesome as I was led to believe. Three stars.

 

[smmudge]

'run lola run'.

which was fucking BRILLIANT.

Love that film!

I watched Pontypool on Thursday. It was a nice concept (especially with it all being set in the radio station) but didn't really pull it off IMO.

 

[Badgers]

Dead Poets Society

 

[Badgers]

'run lola run'.

which was fucking BRILLIANT.

Excellent film.
10/10

 

[redsquirrel]

That Day French black comedy, about a serial killer who ends up in the house of a loopy heiress. Reasonable

Lady From Shanghai

 

[colbhoy]

Last two episodes of series 1 of Auf Weidersehen Pet, followed by episode 8 of series 4 of The Wire.

 

[jeff_leigh]

House of Voices - French movie about a Catholic Childrens Home, bit like The Others, bit like The Orphanage.

 

[butchersapron]

Night of The Pencils - fine film about the disappearance (i.e rape, torture and murder) of a group of low level school-activists campaigning for a bus pass in dictatorship Argentina. Based on very real events. Héctor Olivera had previously made what i think is the best radical drama i've seen - Rebellion in Patagonia.

Oh yeah, also Four Lions which was excellent.

 

[albionism]

I watched Harold and Maude last night, after my wife had been
bugging me to watch it for quite some months....Glad i did finally
watch it...It was a delightful film. Ended too soon....I love Maude.
I would have wanted to marry her too.

 

[gavman]

shank.
would have been a strong contender for worst film i've ever seen, but i couldn't sit through more than 20 minutes of it. from the team who made 'kidulthood'....it seems that each film they make has less of a plot than the last. words cannot describe how shit and vacuous this film was, with more musical montages than an entire series of baywatch, and less meaning. really just a totally amatuerish glorification of gang culture and chavspeak. how many more times will this bunch of inept lackwits be given the chance to make a film? none, i hope. they've remade kidulthood three times now, surely people will realise that they only have the one plot idea?
utter, utter shite

 

[andy2002]

American Grindhouse - thoroughly entertaining documentary that takes a whistlestop tour through the history of exploitation cinema. I'm now desperate to see The Tormentors which features a scene where Nazis chase Jesus Christ into an alley and proceed to smash his head repeatedly onto the bonnet of a car.

 

[Lea]

Watched Knight and Day. It was fairly entertaining. Cameron Diaz always does ditzy really well.

 

[Idris2002]

On the DVD of the third season of Mad Men, one of the special features is a documentary about the case of Medgar Evans, largely consisting of an interview with his widow. I'm ashamed to say that I'd confused him with James Meredith the lad who was shot trying to get into Ole Miss. As for the old Confederacy, on the strength of this I'd say we should withdraw and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

 

[Sadken]

Crumb - about Robert Crumb. Was excellent, just like him.

 

[Part 2]

Night of The Pencils - fine film about the disappearance (i.e rape, torture and murder) of a group of low level school-activists campaigning for a bus pass in dictatorship Argentina. Based on very real events. Héctor Olivera had previously made what i think is the best radical drama i've seen - Rebellion in Patagonia.

Sounds interesting. Have you seen Aperecidos?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0836683/plotsummary

 

[rollinder]

yesterday: the first two episodes or so worth of The Formators : The Last Starvenger
(budget dvd bootleg rip of a straight to video movie edit of a US version of a Japanese animation)
Large, stupid but incredible strong and always eating bloke becomes latest pilot of one of three craft, that join together to become a giant robot, in order to rescue a little boy (Joey), his remote controlled airplane and a melody angel a like. While also fighting a man controlled giant robot disguised w/ a rhino horn, belonging to some horned demons and a very worried man who quite possibly might be Hitler

 

[rutabowa]

double bill of A Serbian Film and Machine Girl... a serbian film was great, a bit liek a film version of that Aristocrats joke (someone must have already said that). also quite thought provoking about corruption. mostly it is just an old-style tragedy though. downsides were the horrible cheesy action film music on occasion. machine girl is like an ultraviolent live action manga, was entertaining enough.

 

[butchersapron]

Sounds interesting. Have you seen Aperecidos?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0836683/plotsummary

Nope - sounds like an original twist on the period! It it any good?

 

[Part 2]

My mate who's far more of film buff than I am loved it and recommended it to me.

It's definitely worth a watch but I probably missed much of the finer points.

Last night I watched Lorna's Silence, I love Dardenne Bros films. Albanian couple refugees in Belgium, dream of opening a cafe, she marries a junky to get her stay and money. Great film.

 

[DexterTCN]

Watched Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee, another gem by Meadows/Considine.

I have Thirst there to watch - should be a refreseshing take on vampirism.

 

[krtek a houby]

Amadeus - Director's Cut.

Hadn't seen the film in over 20 years. Tom Hulce is really weird in it, seems out of kilter with the movie and the times - 18th century and the 80s when it was made. Interesting. Great music, mind.

 

[teccuk]

The History Boys.

Dross. Expecting some sort of lottery funded british feel good bad-boys-come-good type affair. Which would of been bad enough. But it was all so much worse, in a different way. Just dull. Fucking dull.