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

Crazy Heart.

Not at all bad, great performance from jeff bridges, but I wasn't exactly convinced that Maggie G would really go into a relationship with him.
 
Watched all series one of Eastbound and Down last week which i really quite enjoyed, and on Friday i watched Hard Target for the first time since i was a young lad (still not without its charm :D )
 
The Prophecy 3

Not as good as Prophecy 1, but saved by Christopher Walken being Christopher Walken and some excellent catholic imagery violence
 
He was the only decent thing in Balls of Fury. Christ that was terrible. I think it was perhaps made for someone like Jack Black, but he pulled out?
 
Watched a BBC programme, Terror! Robespiere and the French Revolution. It was a drama-documentary with a thread of alternating commentary running through it, which was sort of like a "for and against" debate (on revolutionary violence) between Simon Schama and Slavoj Zizek. In the dramatised parts it was interesting to see the appearance of Herbertist ally and urban-poor representative Collot d'Herbois (played by Spider from Corrie), portrayed as a blood-thirsty rabble rouser after given a place on the dictatorship's Committee for Public Safety. Although with my sketchy knowledge of the time, he survived the Thermidor only to be fucked off, and was partly involved with putting an end to (Gracchus) Francois-Noel Babeuf's proto-communist line of Jacobinism. Zizek's voice made me laugh and Schama came across as a pompous tit.

The programme makes me want to dust off the books I have on the 19th century Russian version of the Jacobin tradition, with the likes of Pyotr Nikitich Tkachev and his own Kommisiya Obschestvennaya Bezopasnosty.
 
Hardware: Killer cyborg on the loose in a well-realised, post-apocalyptic American city. Hardly a great lost sci-fi classic (it all gets a bit silly towards the end) but it's certainly watchable enough.
 
I started watching Enter The Void, the first 10 minutes of were absolutely brilliant, even the very very start before anything happens and its just black for ages then BLAM and epileptics nightmare :cool:

I turned it off though as I had the DVD which wasnt doing it justice. This needs a big screen and blu-ray, which I'll have later on tonight :cool:

Love Gaspar Noe's highly original approach to film making. Fucking ace.
 
UI've just grabbed a tonne of stuff from Cinematik.
Stuff includes:
Stella Does Tricks (Looks horrible :()
Un Prophète
Antichrist
The Limits of Control
Anonyma - Eine Frau in Berlin
10 Rillington Place SE
Hurt Locker

There's a few other bits as well. Going to be busy for a while with that lot though :)
 
Oh by the way as I didnt watch ETV I stuck on 'Dreams' by a Japanese director.......erm......couldnt get into it. Meant to be fantastic apparently. Far too arty/japanese/nice for me
 
Yetman said:
Oh by the way as I didnt watch ETV I stuck on 'Dreams' by a Japanese director.......erm......couldnt get into it. Meant to be fantastic apparently. Far too arty/japanese/nice for me
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Dreams is generally considered to be Akira Kurosawa's worst film.
 
Reno said:
Dreams is generally considered to be Akira Kurosawa's worst film.
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I can totally believe that. Was waiting for something to happen.

Proof that whilst dreams may be interesting to the dreamer, to other people they're pretty boring.
 
Yetman said:
I can totally believe that. Was waiting for something to happen.

Proof that whilst dreams may be interesting to the dreamer, to other people they're pretty boring.
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I watched a film called 'Dreams that money can buy' by Hans Richter the other day and came to the same conclusion!
 
Yetman said:
I can totally believe that. Was waiting for something to happen.

Proof that whilst dreams may be interesting to the dreamer, to other people they're pretty boring.
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I agree, there is nothing more boring than someone telling you their dream and this is the cinematic equivalent of it. Kurosawa has made a lot of great films, but this isn't one of them.
 
Seance on a Wet Afternoon - I finally found a copy of this 60s brit thriller starring Richard Attenborough and Kim Stanley and it was well worth it. Superb film.
 
Kick-Ass: Hugely entertaining (Chloe Moretz owns every scene she's in), but it isn't quite as good as the comic-book it's based on.
 
Agreed. I can't usually watch Cage but I've watched Kick Ass three times now, I forget it's him with the costume and all. It's a mint film.
 
Blueberry (2004), A psychedelic western starring Vincent Cassel, Michael Madsen & Juliette Lewis. One of the most visually stunning films I've seen in quite a while. The last 20 mins is trippy as hell.
 
The Power of Salad a documentary about the band Lightning Bolt. which is really good and i discovered that band from the all tomorrow's parties dvd witch i watched the other day and also enjoyed.
 
Chip Barm said:
Agreed. I can't usually watch Cage but I've watched Kick Ass three times now, I forget it's him with the costume and all. It's a mint film.
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I enjoyed it i have to say......

we never get tired of saying
"Nicholas Cage.......why the long face?"


anyhoo just watched Splice................bit odd really but quite enjoyable
 
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