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

[Frances Lengel]

Tower Block -

www.imdb.com/news/ni36683345/

For the first twenty minutes I feared it was going to be crap coz some of the characters seemed to be a bit corny cardboard cutouty types but it turned out to be alright.

 

[Fez909]

My mate has been watching series 2 of the Walking Dead over the last few nights and I've gotten sucked in. Didn't see series 1 but I don't think it's necessary. It reminds me of Lost but way less annoying.

Quite enjoyable, but a bit predictable/bland.

 

[Bruce23]

This movie is hilarious. Basically an American military officer of average intelligence is put in a hibernation chamber and wakes up 500 years in the future where stupid people have outbred smart people and the world is now populated by idiots.

 

[marty21]

Kill close friends and betray or let down everybody who believes in, loves and/or depends on you. Not sure that's a great master plan for anybody's life.

every plan has a flaw

 

[Greebo]

Much Ado About Nothing (Branagh version)

 

[Idris2002]

Also stars the gorgeous Veronica Lake.

It does indeed.

 

[Part 2]

4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days. Fucking hell that was grim.

 

[Voley]

Kill close friends and betray or let down everybody who believes in, loves and/or depends on you. Not sure that's a great master plan for anybody's life.

Sounds pretty much how mine's panned out so far. I'm enjoying the end of this first series now. It's good fun if pretty naff. I'll get the others. Second series was only three quid fifty on Amazon.

 

[r0bb0]

Battle Star Galactica's Blood & Chrome tonight!

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Navajo Joe - Burt Reynolds in Sergio Corbucci's United Artists funded spag-western.

Great Morricone score.....but overall the films lacks the bleak misery and vicious, violent action that help other Corbucci western's to stand out among the crowd.

Reynolds is very good in it.

Corbucci's next film was The Great Silence, so he found his feet again after taking the yankee dollar to make Navajo Joe.

 

[Voley]

Finished Series 1 of The Shield last night. Good fun, nothing amazing, occasionally really shit, some good plot twists. Ideal for when you get home after a draining day and your brain's stopped working.

 

[r0bb0]

Corbucci's next film was The Great Silence, so he found his feet again after taking the yankee dollar to make Navajo Joe.

"Great Silence" is well worth a watch!

 

[ringo]

Halfway though Roots, great bit of telly. Thought I'd seen it before but am now convinced I haven't. Was a bit young to have seen it at the time I reckon.

 

[Reno]

Prescription: Murder, the TV movie which was the basis for the Columbo series. It makes me want to watch them all again.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Prescription: Murder, the TV movie which was the basis and for the Columbo series. It makes me want to watch them all again.

It's great. He's not quite so scruffy, and comes across quite aggresive in it too. I have the box sets of Columbo.....always brilliant.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Keoma - a mid 70s spag-western with Franco Nero.

It's a great film and although it wasn't an official 'Django' it would have made a very credible sequal and stands up much better than other 'Django' films.

Also stars the mighty Woody Strode!

 

[Reno]

It's great. He's not quite so scruffy, and comes across quite aggresive in it too. I have the box sets of Columbo.....always brilliant.

I'm just watching another Columbo episode, the one with Faye Dunaway because I've never seen it. I have a friend who has the complete series on DVD and I'm going to borrow one after another now. I'd forgotten how much I love this series. Most TV dates pretty fast and I don't often revisit TV series, but that one is timeless.

 

[joe dick]

Wow. This is a great thread and I really have enjoyed some fantastic viewing thanks to many of the recommendations here. I come from Canada... I frequent 4chan's /tv/. What a relief to find no one posting pictures of their "waifus" or endless rehashes and reposts about how great "Blade Runner" is or how shit "Prometheus" is. To all who have posted here a big Thank You! Here are some of the recommendations I have checked out:

Dead Set: Just finished watching it. THIS IS ZOMBIE TV! I'll never be able to watch another episode of "The Walking Dead".

Utopia: Again... this is television of a quality that we just don't get here in NA.

Cockney's vs. Zombies and Inbred: Hilarious, over the top fun.

Kill List: WTF? I mean simply... WTF? Do you guys over the pond have hallucinogens in your drinking water or something?

That's a few I have pulled off of this great thread. I would also like to suggest a movie: Cloud Atlas. It is the movie that I enjoyed the most in 2012. Not because it is great art or a cinematic masterpiece. It isn't. It has many faults. However, it was a very entertaining film. Thanks again for this great thread!

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I'm just watching another Columbo episode, the one with Faye Dunaway because I've never seen it. I have a friend who has the complete series on DVD and I'm going to borrow one after another now. I'd forgotten how much I love this series. Most TV dates pretty fast and I don't often revisit TV series, but that one is timeless.

That's a good episode. The Johnny Cash one is great. The John Cassavettes one is fucking brilliant.

Patrick Mcgoohan always makes for a good murderer. he played the murdere 4 times in columbos.

 

[DexterTCN]

.....I would also like to suggest a movie: Cloud Atlas. It is the movie that I enjoyed the most in 2012. Not because it is great art or a cinematic masterpiece. It isn't. It has many faults. However, it was a very entertaining film. Thanks again for this great thread!

Natalie Portman gave Lana Wachowski a copy of the book while they were filming V for Vendetta, they've been working on it on and off since then. Portman was meant to be in it but was pregnant. (imdb)

 

[DexterTCN]

That's a good episode. The Johnny Cash one is great. The John Cassavettes one is fucking brilliant.

Patrick Mcgoohan always makes for a good murderer. he played the murdere 4 times in columbos.

So many 'stars' for want of a better word, surely Columbo has only been equalled in that regard by The Simpsons.

Played chess, apparently was an artist, pretty sure he had a dan in judo I saw someplace.

Steven Spielberg said, "I learned more about acting from him at that early stage of my career than I had from anyone else (wiki)

 

[Kidda]

Worked my way through the BBC drama 'State of play' today. Brilliant, weak in parts but overall pretty decent.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Yesterday/

Mr. Nobody.
Great first 30 minutes, then it settled down into watchable. Some great ideas but ultimately it went down the romance route more than the more philosophical one.

Just watched 9
Another let down. Nice jaunt, but focused too much on the soul.
. . . and they were supposed to save humanity right or something? Well either they all had to die and fall into the robot thing or they shouldn't have activated the robot thing and the whole jaunt was pointless (but not in a joke twist end like cube).

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Utopia: Again... this is television of a quality that we just don't get here in NA.!

Jesus, you think that's good quality?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Patrick Mcgoohan always makes for a good murderer. he played the murdere 4 times in columbos.

Yeah love that episode. Somehow I thought it almost felt like a columbo ep doing a columbo parody (if that's even possible).

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Battle Star Galactica's Blood & Chrome tonight!

A Jolly jaunt if you ignore the fact that it makes even more of a mockery of the BSG plot than the BSG plot did on its own (and the even stupider screw up the Caprica plot gave BSG)

 

[r0bb0]

I've gotta catch up on my BSG

 

[DotCommunist]

That's a good episode. The Johnny Cash one is great. The John Cassavettes one is fucking brilliant.

Patrick Mcgoohan always makes for a good murderer. he played the murdere 4 times in columbos.

theres 2 cash ones iirc. One with the dogs and the tape, and another I can't recall.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

theres 2 cash ones iirc. One with the dogs and the tape, and another I can't recall.

Pretty sure there's only one. With the plane and the maps and thermos flask!

 

[DotCommunist]

my mistake, its Shatner who was in two columbos