What DVD / Video did you watch last night ?

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

yeh, but you're a hyped-up splatterfan looking for kicks, innit?

Not really. I put off watching it for years because I was told it was so brutal (same with Ichi the killer, which I also loved) . It' just so tradgicaly funny. Lady vengence is good too and a beautiful film, just a bit long.
Did you watch the fade to B&W or the full colour?

 

[Dubversion]

Did you watch the fade to B&W or the full colour?

full colour.. Why, explain the other version..

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Sounds like a hong kong disk. I wish I had bought the J disk it when I saw it in a cheap shop in Mitaka. I knew I would regret it, and I'm not going back until christmas now.

Checked it out and yes, it is a Hong Kong version. Something like Mei An/Ah (can't remember) Entertainment.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

finally got round to Lady Vengeance. What a beautiful, moving movie. It's amazing to see the director's style change with each movie in the trilogy.

The full colour version or the one that goes to B&W?


Sorry, just noticed Atomic's already asked that question

 

[Dubversion]

The full colour version or the one that goes to B&W?

We've done this, 4 posts ago. God, you're impatient

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Parky always wanted his vengeance films to fade to B&W as they got darker and darker. He couldn't get the technology/money to do it on Mr Vengeance (instead going for slightly washed out colour throughout) and I'm not sure if he even wanted to do it for old boy. Anyway it was always the original intention for it to fade out in Lady Vengeance so that all the blood at the end was just deep black.
The Korean DVD has both versions but the fade to B&W is considered the 'directors cut'.

 

[Dubversion]

The Korean DVD has both versions but the fade to B&W is considered the 'directors cut'.

is that the only difference (not that it's not an important one.. )

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

is that the only difference (not that it's not an important one.. )

Yes.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

We've done this, 4 posts ago. God, you're impatient

I know. Bad trait of mine

You should watch the fade to B&W version as well

PS: I think the director had been wanting to do a B&W version before but budget restrictions etc.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

PS: I think the director had been wanting to do a B&W version before but budget restrictions etc.

Four posts too late again.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Four posts too late again.

That's because my system is seizing up so it actually posts the post God knows how long after I press "submit reply"


Anyway, did you see my post about City of Lost Souls?

I'm never buying Hong Kong Mei An Entertainment Videos again

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

That's because my system is seizing up so it actually posts the post God knows how long after I press "submit reply"


Anyway, did you see my post about City of Lost Souls?

I'm never buying Hong Kong Mei An Entertainment Videos again

Yes I did, I try to stear clear of the HK DVDs but to be honest some have been really great of late. Yokai Daisenso (also from wow) for under a tenner was a great set of disks and all the extras (and there is plenty of them) are subbed.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Yes I did, I try to stear clear of the HK DVDs but to be honest some have been really great of late. Yokai Daisenso (also from wow) for under a tenner was a great set of disks and all the extras (and there is plenty of them) are subbed.

Could have told me that ages ago

 

[Jim2k5]

Demolition Man last nighyt on Channel 5 wicked movie

 

[ViolentPanda]

just finished watching Man on Fire, fucking brilliant film recomended to all.

You should read the book (by A.J. Quinnell), it's way better than the film.

 

[Orang Utan]

Japanese Story - very beautifully filmed and acted, especially by Toni Colette. Not the best film to watch on a come down though...

 

[CharlieAddict]

Japanese Story - very beautifully filmed and acted, especially by Toni Colette. Not the best film to watch on a come down though...

i can't stand that film though toni collette is a great actor.

saw mean creek last night, a film i've been meaning to see for ages. turned out to be rubbish. terrible pace.

 

[Dubversion]

The Island.

contender for top 10 Worst Films Ever Made.

what an appalling piece of shit, didn't work on a SINGLE level. Plot totally cobbled together from every bit of dystopian sci-fi ever, retina-searing product placement throughout, no script, obligatory identikit-Buscemi role, and Johannson and McGregor just.. running through expensive sets.

utter, utter, UTTER filth.

 

[Orang Utan]

i can't stand that film though toni collette is a great actor.

What didn't you like about it?

 

[CharlieAddict]

What didn't you like about it?

i just didn't believe in their relationship.
and how emotionally attached they had become.

and the bit when he dies...seemed to drag on forever.

you seen 'last life in the universe?'

now that was more of a believable relationship.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

The Island.

contender for top 10 Worst Films Ever Made.

what an appalling piece of shit, didn't work on a SINGLE level. Plot totally cobbled together from every bit of dystopian sci-fi ever, retina-searing product placement throughout, no script, obligatory identikit-Buscemi role, and Johannson and McGregor just.. running through expensive sets.

utter, utter, UTTER filth.

I thought it was a perfectly good scifi idea that was Michael Bayed to death instead of going for a fun jaunt down some moral issue avenues.

 

[Dubversion]

i've tidied that up for you

I thought it was a perfectly good scifi idea - stolen from The Village, The Matrix etc - that was Michael Bayed to death instead of going for a fun jaunt down some moral issue avenues which it stole wholesale from Logan's Run and Gattaca.

 

[belboid]

stolen from The Village, The Matrix etc -

actually stolen from the original film called The Island -but which Bay, et al, refused to accredit or acknowledge at all - until they were forced to.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

i've tidied that up for you

Not fair, the Ewan that was dieing was in a bit of a moral quandary that I found quite fun. Nothing Logan about that.

Don't get me wrong I hated it, but I was lucky enough to see an early press screening, so not only did I not have to shell any money out on such a piss poor film, I got to see all the journos laughing all the way though and rubbing their hands.

What a waste of money, all those stupid explosions. Mind you if I wish for sci-fi and moral issues I might get another code 46.

 

[Dubversion]

actually stolen from the original film called The Island -but which Bay, et al, refused to accredit or acknowledge at all - until they were forced to.

ah, didn't know that. Did the previous film predate Logan's Run? I mean, LR isn't a GREAT film but it shaped most of The Island. Especially all the bloody running.

In fact, The Island would have benefitted from a Peter Ustinov character. Replace Steve Buscemi with, I dunno, Stephen Fry in a big beard and bearskin

 

[belboid]

cant remember the exact dae - fairly sure its after LR but before Gatacca, Matrix, Village. It was a really low budget job that got almost no release - so, presumably, Bay (or whoever) thought they could get away with it.

 

[Dubversion]

anyway, as long as we can all agree the Island is filth (with Suplex's caveats grudgingly acknowledged) and move on

 

[elevendayempire]

The Crow. Bit OTT Gothy-fantasy for me, but it was fun to play spot-the-bits-where-they-cut-around-the-dead-lead-actor. Also, it's starting to look a bit dated. And the Big Baddy looks like Neil out of The Young Ones.

SG

 

[maya]

?!?

"Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS"

and the less than fortunate follow-up: "Ilsa, Harem Guardian Of the Sheiks"-

(yeah, i need to get out more...
wasn't me that rented those, though...)

 

[Reno]

"Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS"

and the less than fortunate follow-up: "Ilsa, Harem Guardian Of the Sheiks"-

(yeah, i need to get out more...
wasn't me that rented those, though...)

Class !

I've never actually seen the film but I did once go to a Halloween party dressed as her.