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

[Part 2]

Just watched the Aardman film of The Pirates in an Adventure with Scientists. Very disappointing.

 

[89 Til Infinity]

God Bless America.

If you hate reality TV then this is the film for you. Hilarious movie!

"On a mission to rid society of its most repellent citizens, terminally ill Frank makes an unlikely accomplice in 16-year-old Roxy

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1912398/

 

[thriller]

Lock out with guy pearce. tis was ok. nothing i'll ever revisit ever again.

 

[DexterTCN]

... The point was that he thought he was super cool, but he was emotionally immature and really a bit of a twat. Where it counted, like being there for his girlfriend when she needed him, he was a total loser. He was at the age where kids think that the things they like is what makes them the person they are. He constantly tried to show off to the girl about all the cool stuff he knew and was into, which of course is not cool at all. ...

aka normal teenager

 

[Yetman]

The Hunger Games - very good! Few plot holes and a bit of an out-there concept but worked quite well I thought. Sort of like a modern running man but with kids and more sadness.

The New World (only the first half, my TV fucked up and wouldnt play it after that Damn smart TV's and their shit media players) - again, very good. The story of Captain Smith and Pocahontas but told in the way that Terence Malik often prefers, in that he lets the visuals do most of the talking, and the visuals are excellent. I like this director and look forward to more of his works (especially one due out next year about the birth and death of the universe)

 

[rubbershoes]

Dead of Night

great series of horror vignettes from 1945. Michael Redgrave is excellent

and the one set at the children's party is based on truth

 

[Reno]

Dead of Night

great series of horror vignettes from 1945. Michael Redgrave is excellent

and the one set at the children's party is based on truth

The nightmarish end when all the stories merge and the ventriloquist's dummy comes to life, still gives me the heebie-jeebies.

 

[rubbershoes]

i dont think he does come to life. he just takes Michael Redgrave over

 

[Mephitic]

Births, Marriages, & Deaths. ~ 100%

 

[rubbershoes]

the TV show?

 

[Reno]

i dont think he does come to life. he just takes Michael Redgrave over

The dummy does come to life, in the hallucinatory scene at the end, when all the stories merge into one. It's the scariest part of the film IMO.

 

[Reno]

I finally watched Eyes Wide Shut in my mission to work my way through the Stanley Kubrick films that never appealed to me that much. I actually quite enjoyed it now that I've finally watched it all the way through. It's not among his best films and its ideas about kink are dated in a 60s sort of way and possibly rather sexist but it has an interesting atmosphere and the scene of the masked orgy is quite eerie and suspenseful. The first time i tried to watch it I saw it in the US where much of it was censored by inserting digital characters to mask any naughty goings on and its all so tame anyway.

 

[DotCommunist]

Lockout. Good fun, although I think kurt russels replacement overdid the nonchalance a bit.



Spent ages trying to work out if lead baddies rapey brother was eli dingle from emmerdale

 

[Reno]

Spent ages trying to work out if lead baddies rapey brother was eli dingle from emmerdale

It was Woody from This is England (and Rudy from Misfits).

 

[belboid]

the scene of the masked orgy is quite eerie and suspenseful.

Thats the only scene that stuck in my mind - not for beng particularly eerie, but more because the actual orgy scenes were utterly unerotic, and everyone watching looked bored - which is probably how it would be.

It was Woody from This is England (and Rudy from Misfits).

same person

 

[Reno]

Thats the only scene that stuck in my mind - not for beng particularly eerie, but more because the actual orgy scenes were utterly unerotic, and everyone watching looked bored - which is probably how it would be.

same person

They are wearing masks, so they look inscrutable rather than bored and what makes you think a good orgy would be boring. The eerie part was that it looked more like a black mass than an orgy and that a character keeps warning him that he is in grave danger.

...and yes, i know they are both played by the same actor, that's why I mentioned both roles.

 

[belboid]

They are wearing masks, so they look inscrutable rather than bored and what makes you think a good orgy would be boring. The eerie part was that it looked more like a black mass than an orgy and that a character keeps warning him that he is in grave danger.

Cruise n wotsername might have been, I thought quite a few of those sitting around werent doing. they all sat in a manner which indicated a lack of enthusiasm to me, anyway.

...and yes, i know they are both played by the same actor, that's why I mentioned both roles.

same as Eli from Emmerdale, I meant

 

[Reno]

same as Eli from Emmerdale, I meant

Uh, OK, never seen Emmerdale.

 

[Orang Utan]

I might watch Spartacus tonight.
Not sure
If
I
Have the
Att. span tho

 

[Orang Utan]

Uh, OK, never seen Emmerdale.

YOU
ARE MISSING OUT!

 

[ringo]

Terrible Bosses. I can't work out how this got on my Lovefilm list. The worst kind of dull rom-com crap I can imagine. Lasted 15 minutes before taking it off.

Rum Diaries - Maybe if this had been made 20 years ago when I read Hunter S Thompson and found it exciting I'd have enjoyed this more. Maybe the book is much better. Perhaps also the style just seems hackneyed now but was fresh and raw when he wrote it. Maybe.

 

[Yetman]

Watching Weekend now - I thought it was going to be a film about old school raves. Its so far just a gay love story

 

[thriller]

Just finished Treasure Island. Pretty failthful to the book and a very good cast: Oliver Reed, Charlton Heston and a very young Christian Bale. It's all available on Youtube if anyone wants to watch it

 

[Mephitic]

Gob Bless America ~ A tad rambling at times, but an enjoyable yarn nevertheless.

 

[Reno]

Watching Weekend now - I thought it was going to be a film about old school raves. Its so far just a gay love story

You've got the better film though.

 

[Frances Lengel]

After becoming aware of it on this thread, I thought I'd give The Cabin In The Woods a go. Buzzing film.

 

[jeff_leigh]

Rum Diaries - Maybe if this had been made 20 years ago when I read Hunter S Thompson and found it exciting I'd have enjoyed this more. Maybe the book is much better. Perhaps also the style just seems hackneyed now but was fresh and raw when he wrote it. Maybe.

I've got this on my ready to watch list, I've also got the book on my ready to read list. Book first you think ?

 

[ringo]

I've got this on my ready to watch list, I've also got the book on my ready to read list. Book first you think ?

I think I'd always prefer to read the book first. I would guess so here, but I haven't read it

 

[imposs1904]

On the second season of Breaking Bad.

Please tell me that, with the birth of his daughter, Walt see the error of his ways and applies himself more as a schoolteacher and volunteers with the New Mexico chapter of 'Just Say No, Kidz'.

 

[Frances Lengel]

I've got this on my ready to watch list, I've also got the book on my ready to read list. Book first you think ?

Not seen the film, read the book though - I wouldn't bother, HST's appeal has always been a bit of a mystery to me.