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

4.3.2.1: It's Pulp Fiction meets Sex & The City in this tale of four young women who get caught up in a London diamond heist. You see the same chain of events from each characters' different perspective and writer/co-director Noel Clarke utilises the structure to cleverly toy with the viewer's expectations. Each individual section works pretty well although only a couple of the lead characters are genuinely engaging. Clarke wears his influences on his sleeve a bit too much and the attempts at appealing to US audiences are clumsy but this is still pretty good fun.
 
I went through my brother's Will Ferell box-set in recent days, including Anchorman, Talladega Nights and Blades of Glory. The first was shite, but the other two did actually have some funny moments.
 
Valley of the Dolls... i got this a bit mixed up, i thought it was a Russ Meyer trash film but actually it is a really long melodrama about the showbusiness scene in 1950s america. quite good i guess, probably quite inventive at the time, it was a bit like watching Dallas or something though.
 
I watched Goal. It was the story of a mexican american kid who wants to play for newcastle united. Proper, proper cheese from start to finish. Alan Shearer was in it.
 
The Night of the Hunter on a glorious Criterion Blu-ray on my projector. One of the greatest films ever made, looking more beautiful than ever. No doubt that this was a huge influence on David Lynch.
 
I've got that on my desk right now AS :D

Watched the first half of Inception, pretty good, looking forward to the second half :)
 
Tenebrae – Dario Argento's twist-laden slasher flick. There are a couple of brilliant horror moments and the '80s synth soundtrack is ace.
 
City Girl, Murnau's last silent film and his penultimate film before he died. Not quite in the same league as Sunrise, but still an amazing film. Interesting how he shifted from expressionism to a much more naturalistic style, with much of the film shot on location in rural settings in a way that anticipates Terrence Malick's films, especially Days of Heaven. Murnau's premature death in a car accident is one of the most tragic to film history.
 
Hunter Prey A nice little low budget sci-fi movie from earlier this year. A group of stormtroopers are transporting the last known survivor from a planet the Empire recently destroyed when they crash land their spaceship in a remote part of the planet Tatooine. They must recapture their prisoner before the rescue ship arrives.
Well OK they aren't Stormtroopers and they aren't on Tatooine but this film has a bit of a ep IV feel about it.
 
DotCommunist said:
I watched Goal. It was the story of a mexican american kid who wants to play for newcastle united. Proper, proper cheese from start to finish. Alan Shearer was in it.
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:D Even in real life he talks like a bad actor trying to play himself. Did he act? It's almost like he might just cancel himself out!
 
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