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

[Reno]

I also tried to get into a film called Grace which was just some middle class film graduates attempt at a scary film about er...dead babies...which was boring and crap. The theme wasnt intended I can assure you

Middle class filmmakers ? Who would have thought ? Whatever is the world coming to!

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Kick Ass is great

Seconded.

 

[Reno]

Kick Ass is great

It starts out alright, but then it becomes just as monotonous as the type of films and comics it sets out to parody. Pixar's The Incredibles did the whole superheroes/real world thing so much better.

 

[Grandma Death]

The last three episodes of Spartacus: Blood & Sand. Overall, I thought it was a superb series - well acted and meticulously plotted. But I wonder whether the wall-to-wall nudity and over-the-top violence actually worked against it - made it seem far more 'lowest common denominator' than it actually was.

Its bloody awful

 

[rollinder]

recent viewing = I'm Alan Partridge - Watership Alan plus the bonus clips on the video

and some of the extras on the Reservoir Dogs 2dvd edition :
Reservoir Dolls (the ear slicing scene reenacted w/ action figures )
and the (audio) Gerry Rafferty interview - he admits to not reading the script properly when he aggreed to the use of Stuck in the middle with you, and not really liking violent movies
+the recording session for the Super Sounds Of The 70s radio links

 

[andy2002]

Its bloody awful

Because...?

 

[Reno]

The Clash of the Titans remake which wasn't great, but also not nearly as bad as the reviews suggest. Perfectly watchable Hollywood fluff and probably improved by the lack of wonky 3D.

I also watched Case 39, a horror film that starts out promisingly but looses it in the second half when the cat is out of the bag. An ever more gerbil faced Renee Zellweger on a career dwon spiral, overacts like crazy adding to the overall sense of camp. It's still quite entertaining in a ludicrous sort of way and I always have time for a killer moppet horror movie.

 

[Orang Utan]

i've read about that case 39 - sounds well dodgy considering recent cases of child abuse eg victoria climbie - i hope the film-makers treaded carefully
i watched shakes the clown, described as 'the citizen kane of alcoholic clown movies'
i thought it was great, one of a kind.
the clown world it's set in is delightfully absurd, with rival gangs of 'party clowns' and 'rodeo clowns', with mimes at the bottom of the pecking order. bobcat goldthwait is ace as shakes, and tom kenny (the voice of spongebob) is well over-the-top as the villainous clown.

 

[marty21]

Who still watches DVD's ?

plenty of people still watch videos - of course loads watch dvds, I believe they still sell very well, and rental sales are still quite high

 

[Nanker Phelge]

The Episode or Rome where Vorenus and Pullo take on the Gladiators.....bloody and fantastic.

That poor Caesar. I never saw that coming.

 

[Reno]

i've read about that case 39 - sounds well dodgy considering recent cases of child abuse eg victoria climbie - i hope the film-makers treaded carefully.

Not sure how much publicity the Climbie case got in the US and yes, it's slightly dodgy but then horror films often are. It doesn't really dwell on the child abuse angle and as a plot twist reveals, it wasn't the kid who got abused. It would be offensive if any of it could be taken seriously, but its on the far end of the silly horror movie spectrum.

 

[Crispy]

Purile fanboy catnip.

This is why it's so good

 

[Reno]

This is why it's so good

That's what every second Hollywood is like though. Seems like people never get bored of the same old crap.

 

[Yetman]

White Diamond - Herzog. Brilliant

 

[DotCommunist]

True Blood season 3 finish- good stuff.

 

[Bajie]

The Dancing Outlaw

Dont mess with Jesco Whites eggs!

Quite a tragic story really seeing how it all turned out for him

 

[TitanSound]

I watched Iron Man 2 and The Expendables yesterday.

IM2 was rubbish and Expendables was entertaining but not *that* action packed. The scence with the shotgun was pretty memorable though!

 

[Bajie]

Matewan, a film about a coal miners strike and battle of Matewan in West Virgina in the 1920's.. The most moving and well produced film I have seen about American trade unionism and the war aginst working people in that period of time in America.

In many way West Virgina did and still does have have similarities with a colony, where outsiders exploit the natural resources and the people there, but the area itself stays dirt poor.

Anyway, a great and very moving film.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

The 9th Company. A Russian-made film about the Soviet Army in Afghanistan. It's long... like Dr. Zhivago; but without David Lean. Sort of like a Russian Platoon; but without Stanley Kubrick.

 

[Bajie]

What did you think of it? Say contrasted to the similar genre films about America in Vietnam.

Edit to add: Kavkazskiy plennik (Prisoner of the Mountains) is Russian war film with a more human approach i.e. that it shows the 'other side' as human instead of Orcs, based in Chechneya and drawn loosley on a Leo Tolstoy novel. The main message of the film as with all good war films, is that war is a fundmentally dehumanising and would be comical if it was not for people loosing body parts.

 

[avu9lives]

Just watched Wild Target which was okish! A few laughs here and there i think? or was it complete shite.. Not sure really these tramadol are messin wiv me head

 

[Bajie]

Ghost Dog, I love this film, must have seen it loads of times over the years. Though I need to watch Le Samouraï, the film it is based on.

 

[DotCommunist]

Black Sheep- very silly but a good enough horror comedy.

 

[Grandma Death]

Because...?

The acting is diabolical. Its needlessly violent and pornographic. Its like something a 14 year old would watch with his pants down. The 30 mins I did watch to its credit made me laugh out loud on more than one occasion.

 

[Grandma Death]

I watched Bruno. Close to the knuckle but very funny in parts.

 

[Orang Utan]

l. Its needlessly violent and pornographic.

lol! no, seriously!
i genuinely laughed out loud at that for more than five seconds. several times. in fact i'm still laughing.

 

[Orang Utan]

The 30 mins I did watch to its credit made me laugh out loud on more than one occasion.

so why did you stop watching it?

 

[Grandma Death]

so why did you stop watching it?

Because it was so bad it was unintentionally funny. That type of programme making has a limited shelf life-in this case 30 minutes.

 

[Grandma Death]

lol! no, seriously!
i genuinely laughed out loud at that for more than five seconds. several times. in fact i'm still laughing.

Glad to humour you.

Seriously....a ten minute fight sequence where limbs are being hacked off...then images of the crowd cheering on when it happens to be raining and it resembles a wet t shirt competition.

 

[Orang Utan]

exactly, utter brilliance! so over the top.