What DVD / Video did you watch last night ?

[Julie]

Munich.

Boooooooooooooooring.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

It was, wasn't it. Bloody boring.

 

[Thimble Queen]

Crouching Tiger for the millionth time

 

[jammer]

The assasination of richard nixon..

best bit:when he tried to convince the black panthers to change their name to the "the zebras" to attract whites to their movement.
sean penn is class

 

[colbhoy]

The French Connection - outstanding movie.

 

[tastebud]

In The Mood For Love. Twas very good.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

In The Mood For Love. Twas very good.

I actualy prefer 2046 but I think Im in the minorty.

 

[Sunspots]

Jesus' Son

Again.

 

[Fenian]

Unbreakable. Second time.

 

[Reno]

Unbreakable. Second time.

When I watched Unbreakable for the second time I felt silly for having liked it the first time round.

 

[belboid]

Jesus' Son

Again.

this better be good, I've just gone and blown £3.99 on it! (as well as £48 on other similarly priced bargains...)

 

[IPRN]

The Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

 

[Julie]

It was, wasn't it. Bloody boring.

Yep.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Samaritan Girl

A kim ki duk film. WTF is he on?

I think this is one of his stranger ones. Don't get me wrong the others are pretty strange but this just has a strange no story story.

 

[Skim]

Watched two good films at the weekend after a period of arthouse letdowns.

The first was Polyester, which was trashy as hell and quite stomach-churning because we got the scratch 'n' sniff card along with the DVD

Also watched Raging Bull on Saturday night – great photography, less great character development. But I've never been much of a De Niro fan, tbh.

 

[IPRN]

The Filth And The Fury.

 

[sojourner]

King Kong...and some ingrained soppiness in me had me crying again at the end

Me and my daughter had a theory though, that it could actually be Butch Kong, cos there's no proof that Kong is male.

 

[Sunspots]

this better be good, I've just gone and blown £3.99 on it! (as well as £48 on other similarly priced bargains...)

£3.99?!! A bargain, indeed.

Loosely-connected vignettes, some funny, some sad, each one bringing the lead character a little closer to redemption.

It meanders in a dreamy way, and it's a bit rose-tinted, but I can't help loving it to bits. Great soundtrack too. Hope you enjoy it.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Another Kim ki Duk. Spring Summer Autum Winter and Spring again.

Lovely looking but a bit dull at the end. I'm sure the whole thing was a metafore.

3 iron is his best and I kind of missed the long shot bitter sweet ends od samaritan girl and bay guy.

 

[May Kasahara]

While on a drifty comedown from last night's spannerfest, the whole 1st series of Black Books (again).

 

[Dubversion]

Battle Royal 2 -oh dear prepare for disapointment. Ricky Tekiuchi is good though.

you weren't fucking kidding. what a dreadful dreadful piece of shite. It was like a Children's Film Foundation movie with more corpses. "it's all about friends.. there are 6.3 billion types of peace in the world.. " jesus, it was AWFUL.

and as Pie Face pointed out, the teacher should have been played by Peter Serafinowicz (sp?) - IDENTICAL voice

 

[Juice Terry]

Lords of Dogtown - Fantastic 70s skateboard history lesson, redresses the imbalance surrounding Jay Adams life created by Peralta in the Dogtown documentary. Surely the coolest dude to ever step on a skateboard.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

and as Pie Face pointed out, the teacher should have been played by Peter Serafinowicz (sp?) - IDENTICAL voice

Aw don't be mean I love ricki tekiuchi, he is in full miike takashi mode for battle royal 2 which I thought was pretty good, and the intro grpahic was pretty cool too. The film was sooo shite though, such a cop out after the neck things go off in the water. Then what the fuck are they all fighting for? Good up until the EMP.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

you weren't fucking kidding. what a dreadful dreadful piece of shite. It was like a Children's Film Foundation movie with more corpses. "it's all about friends.. there are 6.3 billion types of peace in the world.. " jesus, it was AWFUL.

and as Pie Face pointed out, the teacher should have been played by Peter Serafinowicz (sp?) - IDENTICAL voice

Agree, overly long and shite. Even if it was half the length it would have still been shite. Dunno how I managed to stay awake watching it

 

[Dubversion]

watched the first Infernal Affairs movie last night, which was very good indeed although initially a little hard to follow. I think this was because the leap from the young gang members being inducted through that weird trailer-style intro into the movie proper left us confused as to who was triad and who wasn't, it took a while to suss it all out but when we did it was fantastic. Anybody watch the alternate ending? bloody awful

are the others any 'cop' (heh, see what i did there?)

 

[Orang Utan]

Together - fantastically well-balanced comedy about life in a Swedish commune. Very funny.
Hotel Rwanda - a good drama but a little too Hollywood for such a serious subject matter - great acting though.
Revenge Of The Sith - for fucks sake George, give it up. You can't direct - face up to it! You can't even cast good actors, let alone write a decent script. Beyond awful. Possiblt the worst of the lot.

 

[purves grundy]

Capote. Great!!

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

watched the first Infernal Affairs movie last night, which was very good indeed although initially a little hard to follow. I think this was because the leap from the young gang members being inducted through that weird trailer-style intro into the movie proper left us confused as to who was triad and who wasn't, it took a while to suss it all out but when we did it was fantastic. Anybody watch the alternate ending? bloody awful

are the others any 'cop' (heh, see what i did there?)

Loved all of these films. Watched them one night after another after picking them all up for a fiver on CD wow. There is a great box set that has a version of all the films in order of the events that I would quite like to see.

Oddly I was going to watch 1 again last night too but watched 3 iron by Kim Ki Duk again instead beacause the wife had never seen it. (great BTW)

IA was a bit of a pain in the arse to watch first time because they changed the actors for the sake of a gap of only 9 years, I didn't know who the fuck was who for a while. IA 2 is the same.

Three great films there. Can't remember the alt ending but I seem to remember it being crap.

 

[CharlieAddict]

mysterious skin - such a complex story to tell but gregg araki does a splendid job. a great film that jumps out and smacks ya in the face.

 

[jodal]

Together - fantastically well-balanced comedy about life in a Swedish commune. Very funny.

I watched Lila Says (Lucas Moodyson) the follow on from Together. I was fairly involved throughout but its nowhere near as good as his previous films.
Show Me Love (Fucking Amal) is still one of the best debut films from any director ever imho.