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

Did you not watch A Field in England? I was hoping someone else was going to say they enjoyed it.

I intend to rewatch it in the next week or so. I did enjoy it, just maybe didnt follow it as well as i could have due the previous nights exertions.
 
Kiss of the Damned, one of several recent, affectionate indie retro genre films (it's in the style of Amer and Beyond the Black Rainbow, though less experimental and more straightforward). This is a homage to Jean Rollin style 70s Euro vampire films and despite being a contemporary take on it, it gets the score, acting style and cheesy dialogue just right, while still working as a well above average vampire film on its own terms. Good fun and it was directed by Xan Cassavetes the daughter of two of my all time movie legends, John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands. It's good to see that she's got talent without her film even remotely resembling the work of her parents.
 
A couple recently: A Good Day To Die Hard. This series is done - stick a fork in it.

Road Of No Return - produced by David Carradine and Michael Madsen.

Four hitmen hired to kill drug kingpins take the time to adopt a little orphan girl.

The hitmen: Whitey, Blackie, Foreigner, and Indian.
 
The Car, the silly but fun 70s horror film about a possessed car which basically is Jaws on wheels. From a time when shit films still were kind of good.
 
Superman, the kebab cut

Great- I'd forgotten how traumatic it is to see a depowered superman take a kicking in the diner, and then cheered when he went back and delivered a beating to the bully boy at the end.

Some excellent zod as well, making the president of the usa kneel before him. No post 90's ironiscism there. General Zod was a bona fide 100% supervillain

Louis Lane smoking in the office! The cheif puffing a cigar! Jimmy nearly calling Zod a son of a bitch!

happy days

I don't think it can ever replace Quest for Peace in my heart as the best superman film but it was pretty good.

Shamefully its been so long since I saw the original release that I din't notice what donner cut had added or taken away.

Kneel before Zod
 
Superman, the kebab cut

Great- I'd forgotten how traumatic it is to see a depowered superman take a kicking in the diner, and then cheered when he went back and delivered a beating to the bully boy at the end.

Some excellent zod as well, making the president of the usa kneel before him. No post 90's ironiscism there. General Zod was a bona fide 100% supervillain

Louis Lane smoking in the office! The cheif puffing a cigar! Jimmy nearly calling Zod a son of a bitch!

happy days

I don't think it can ever replace Quest for Peace in my heart as the best superman film but it was pretty good.

Shamefully its been so long since I saw the original release that I din't notice what donner cut had added or taken away.

Kneel before Zod

I watched the two versions back-to-back when I got the Blu-ray set and they are really quite different films and much of the character motivation makes a lot more sense in the Donner cut. And all the silly slapstick has gone, which is especially obvious in the big battle scene in Metropolis which now feels like there is something at stake, rather than like Lester just having a laugh. I'd find it difficult to watch the Lester version again now.
 
Just for a laugh- "Inspector Rex", austrian detective series about a clever police dog and his human assistant... or is it the other way around? :confused: Proper string of unintentionally funny moments- kind of like Lassie, but with cops... I can't believe this was intended for grown-ups? Really, really odd... :D
 
I watched the two versions back-to-back when I got the Blu-ray set and they are really quite different films and much of the character motivation makes a lot more sense in the Donner cut. And all the silly slapstick has gone, which is especially obvious in the big battle scene in Metropolis which now feels like there is something at stake, rather than like Lester just having a laugh. I'd find it difficult to watch the Lester version again now.
all three baddies appear to be wearing red lippy. Maybe there is a thing about the phantom zone that makes peoples mouths red
 
Watched the final Sopranos episode on Tuesday having watched it all from the beginning starting a couple of months ago.

Nothing else on TV quite touches it, including Breaking Bad & The Wire. It's so good. "Epic" doesn't really do it justice.

From what I've heard of Sopranos...it sounds like Spartacus: Blood and Sand with clothes on and less killing.
 
The lady baddie is also quite fun, plays it as close to domme as you can in family fayre

Nicking everybodies badges, stripes and that.
 
Man of Steel, first half

Krypton has science so advanced its indistinguishable from magic but they still haven't conquered the pain of childbirth?
 
Watched the final Sopranos episode on Tuesday having watched it all from the beginning starting a couple of months ago.

Nothing else on TV quite touches it, including Breaking Bad & The Wire. It's so good. "Epic" doesn't really do it justice.
Yep. Best thing on telly ever for me.
 
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