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

Ashes & Diamonds.

Cinematically, by far the best of the trilogy (tho the death scenes still all lack a certain something), although it could never be quite as gripping and tense as Canal.

Probably the only trilogy where every part is genuinely brilliant. Well, that and Toy Story.
 
Andrzey Wajda's war trilogy - check the last three films I watched!

Or I could just tell you: A Generation, Canal & Ashs and Diamonds.


I suppose the Doctor Mabuse, Apu and Mick Travis trilogies could be up there too.
 
currently watching one episode of The Wire each night , on series 5 and seriously worried about what i am going to do when it has finished , this is my second time so may be just go back to the beginning for a third , ssshhhhhhhheeeeeeeeet..............................
 
Andrzey Wajda's war trilogy - check the last three films I watched!

Or I could just tell you: A Generation, Canal & Ashs and Diamonds.


I suppose the Doctor Mabuse, Apu and Mick Travis trilogies could be up there too.
Cheers! Hadn't heard of them.
Haven't seen the other trilogies either! Or the Three Colours trilogy.

I think I may have seen a Wajda film though. Did he make a film about the French Revolution/Bloody Terror, with Gerard Dippitydo?
 
currently watching one episode of The Wire each night , on series 5 and seriously worried about what i am going to do when it has finished , this is my second time so may be just go back to the beginning for a third , ssshhhhhhhheeeeeeeeet..............................

Sheeeeeeeeeeeet indeed.
You can just do what my husband does and just watch them all again, permanently, ad infinatum :D

Last night I watched Never Let Me Go.
Really odd.
Might have to watch it again to see how I really feel about it.
 
The Hobbit.
Great visual effects, but stretched time wise and a bit daft and incredulous even for a Tolkien film.
Didn't seem to have as much gravitas as LOTRs.
 
Bedrooms & Hallways - Mediocre british romantic comedy, a couple of good scenes but nothing special overall.

Evil Sexy Genius - decentish US indie film, nothing that hasn't been done before but it's done well enough to be quite enjoyable.
 
Grey Gardens (1975) Brilliant documentary probly best have seen fer a while mind you ive always had a penchant for women in dirty white shoes plus shabby chic's in innit.
 
Snow White and the Huntsman. Actually not bad as these fairy-tale-goes-LOTR films go. There are some nice individual sequences and the film does a decent job putting a goth spin on the fairy tale while sticking closely enough to it. Kristen Steward isn't hugely compelling in the lead, but Charlize Theron has fun as the evil step mother and it took me ages to figure out that that's Ian McShane as a dwarf. It's another film that rips off the scene with the spirit of the forest from Princess Mononoke.
 
Kill List. Enjoyed this but don't think it's as good as is generally made out. Starts off good as a hitman story but goes a bit daft as everything rapidly goes all Whicker Man. I liked the director's style, though. I'm looking forward to Sightseers.
 
Kill List. Enjoyed this but don't think it's as good as is generally made out. Starts off good as a hitman story but goes a bit daft as everything rapidly goes all Whicker Man. I liked the director's style, though. I'm looking forward to Sightseers.

The hammer to the paedo librarian's head scene.
 
The Hobbit.
Great visual effects, but stretched time wise and a bit daft and incredulous even for a Tolkien film.
Didn't seem to have as much gravitas as LOTRs.


it won't have, the book itself is far more of a childrens story

agreed on the length though. Spending near on an hour in bag end is just taking the fucking liberty
 
Red Lights.

FFS - What a load of old shite! A complete waste of time, money and talent.

DeNiro continues to plummet......will he ever be good again?

I blame Thatcher!
 
I had friends round and we tried to watch Stitches (not my suggestion), the clown horror film with Ross Noble but it was so shit, we gave up 20 minutes in.

Then I showed them Grabbers and the second time round I liked it even better. I now think it is worthy of comparison with Tremors, with likeable characters, great gags, well executed monster sequences, a great premise and surprisingly beautiful cinematography. Shame the distributers just threw this film away, it is so much better than most horror/monster movies that get a theatrical release. The lead actress Ruth Bradley deserves to be a star.
 
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