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

[TruXta]

I watched that for 1.5 seasons because a friend insisted I should stick with it. I thought it was the opposite from The X-Files. I found the overall story arch episodes intriguing, but thought the "monster of the week" episodes were mostly threading water. With season 2 I lost patience. I was hoping it would properly explore the alternate universe, but it went back to reset, with more filler "wacky thing of the week" episodes. I can see why people like it, it's good for what it is, but it's not my thing.

Still better than Lost where I lasted four episodes.

It got a lot more into the alternative universe in later seasons.

 

[Reno]

It got a lot more into the alternative universe in later seasons.

I only have so much time and I'm not watching 70 hours of telly till a show till it gets good.

 

[TruXta]

I only have so much time and I'm not watching 70 hours of telly till a show till it gets good.

I didn't say it got better (altho it does). Season 2 was by far the poorest IMO. I've seen up to the first 5 of S4.

 

[DotCommunist]

there was a really good one about luminous maneating beetles. shit, there were loads of ace ones. the big plot with the aliens and coverups and black goo and mulder's missing sister got a bit tedious after a while

they were flies and they came from the inside of an ancient redwood that got cut open.

I also liked the one one where a silicon lifeform infects people and grows aspike out of their throat.

and the cockroaches one

 

[Orang Utan]

they were flies and they came from the inside of an ancient redwood that got cut open.

I also liked the one one where a silicon lifeform infects people and grows aspike out of their throat.

and the cockroaches one

there were some really lame ones too like the alien baseball player one.
the most creepy episode i remember is the one with the limbless woman who lives under a bed and has mutant kids from incest with her own sons

 

[Reno]

there were some really lame ones too like the alien baseball player one.
the most creepy episode i remember is the one with the limbless woman who lives under a bed and has mutant kids from incest with her own sons

That one was great and was called Home. It was The X-Files doing The Texas Chainsaw Massacre/The Hills Have Eyes.

I liked the alien baseball player one. I thought it was quite funny and its generally well regarded.

 

[DotCommunist]

Syzgy is not only a very funny episode its also a great scrabble word!

Just re-watched Iron Sky for the lols, theres a great downfall parody in it. A parody of a much parodied thing. I mainly make this face during that scene

onwards to Juan of the Dead

 

[Orang Utan]

syzygy

 

[ViolentPanda]

I didn't say it got better (altho it does). Season 2 was by far the poorest IMO. I've seen up to the first 5 of S4.

Season 4 is very good, kind of goes in a somewhat unexpected direction in the last handful of episodes.

 

[TruXta]

Season 4 is very good, kind of goes in a somewhat unexpected direction in the last handful of episodes.

Excellent, need to get back on that horse.

 

[Garek]

The Pawnbroker

One of the best acted, written and directed films I have seen in a long time.

 

[Thimble Queen]

Last night I re-watched Good Will Hunting. Don't really like Matt Damon but he's pretty good in this. And fell asleep to Doomsday which I've also seen before. Its like three films in one, so bad its good!

Rewatched The Edukators this morning. Good film, great soundtrack. Although Sunday mornings aren't the best for subtitles :/

 

[Mephitic]

Looper ~ Pretty good, providing you ignore the huge holes in the plot it's well worth watching.

 

[DotCommunist]

Robocop

Good as ever.

Onwards to Surf Nazis Must Die

Its a feast of highbrow entertainment at chez commie

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Pretty dull Troma.

 

[killer b]

Bande a part

Although, its actually on now.

 

[Mephitic]

The Watch ~Kinnda funny, but not hilarious. Decent cast, some good one liners but it should have been better.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Inbred. Pretty good. Nice to hear an Oldham accent as well.

 

[Belushi]

Watched the original Producers this afternoon for the first time in a couple of decades. Some great laugh out loud moments and a couple of great performances by Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel.

 

[TruXta]

Just finished Head Hunters by Morten Tyldum. Great fun, well acted, very nicely shot and all round good times. Exactly what I needed of a Sunday evening.

 

[Reno]

Inbred. Pretty good. Nice to hear an Oldham accent as well.

This one gets my vote for worst film of the year.

 

[Frances Lengel]

At least it's not in space though.

 

[Reno]

At least it's not in space though.

Oh right, that was you ! It's all starting to make sense.

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Watched The Lost Boys with my mum yesterday. She said it was shit, 'like that Goonies film we watched a while back.' Me? I'd forgotten about Tim Capello. Kind of wish it had stayed that way.

 

[DotCommunist]

sacked surf nazis off for being shit and watched Jumper, the Rats of Nimh. Both made loads of sense

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Told you it was shit.

 

[Thimble Queen]

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. OMFG Gary Oldman looks proper well erm old now! Can't say much about the film because I lost concentration. The boy enjoyed it and we.normally like fairly similar stuff so might give it another go at some point...

 

[Reno]

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. OMFG Gary Oldman looks proper well erm old now! .

He plays a character older than himself, so he also got aged with make up.

 

[Thimble Queen]

He plays a character older than himself, so he also got aged with make up.

That makes a lot of sense! I just presumed he looked old from being ravaged by drug abuse :/

 

[trabuquera]

The Squad - low (very low) budget Colombian sort-of-thriller. Bunch of Colombian army chappies must explore and hold a spooky deserted old base, wreathed in impenetrable fog high up in the Andes. Deserted except for a creepy woman captive in chains, that is. can you guess what happens next? Yes, they all go quickly round the bend and meet a variety of sticky ends.

Basically it's every single "lost patrol" movie you've ever seen (K Point, Dog Soldiers, etc etc) but without the gore or much of the suspense. However, might be of marginal interest to some because of the Colombian subtext (racial tensions between the men, dilemmas of fighting a guerrilla force embedded in the population, army pyschos vs army conformists, the only 'caring' characters saying 'look I'm sick of the whole thing, I'm going home' etc.). And quite well-controlled visually.