Urban75 Home About Offline BrixtonBuzz Contact

What DVD / Video did you watch last night ?

Status
Not open for further replies.
Battlestar Galactica – the mini-series that launched the new version of the show. Excellent stuff, am now hooked.
 
Not actually last night but Friday, I watched Scarface for the first time. Good movie, Pacino is superb as Tony Montana.
 
Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke, utterly astounding. Far and away the best documentary I've seen in years. Really reminds you just why George Bush must must must die painfully and horribly. And fucking Barbara too.
 
Watched ‘Hard Candy’ – Fascinating but left me with a few questions.

1 Did she really do the surgery (if not, why all the blood?)
2 What was the story with the murdered girl? Did he do it?
3 Why did he agree to do what she wanted in the end and what did his ex-girlfriend have to do with his decision?

A very unusual film though, and some great acting.
 
Inside Job, with Denzel Washington etc.

It's Spike Lee doing 40's noir, no pun intended.

Some of the dialogue made me want to punch Spike in the head, but still entertaining overall.
 
Johnny Canuck2 said:
Inside Job, with Denzel Washington etc.

It's Spike Lee doing 40's noir, no pun intended.

Some of the dialogue made me want to punch Spike in the head, but still entertaining overall.

I believe it's called Inside Man...
 
Director's Cut of the Wicker Man.

It was ace - the original was hacked to pieces when British Lion changed hands before the release so there were lots of scenes in that I hadn't seen before. Some snails shagging, I think a lot more singing of rude pagan songs and Christopher Lee banging on about apples etc etc.

The documentary in the extras reveals that the original negative is most likely buried under the M3 as it was built near the studio and the cuttings archives had to be chucked out as the land was needed for the motorway. Along with the cuttings, the film was accidentally binned too so the remaster had to be done from, I think, a viewing copy (my techie knowledge got a bit lost here).

I'd forgotten how funny it was - loads of the extras were locals and they didn't half get stuck in - I reckon the League of Gentlemen pilfered heavily from it :D Plus they filmed a spring time film in november in Scotland and had to get the cast to suck ice cubes so their breath didn't condense :eek:

I was sort of right I think:

The first obvious port of call was the vaults at British Lion's Shepperton studio. The reply that came back was dispiriting - all they had was the Short Version negative - the original 368 cans of raw location footage had been destroyed (according to the famous rumour it was used as landfill in the nearby M3 motorway; more likely it was thrown away as a standard review-of-holdings procedure). Attention now turned to trying to find the negative of the original Long Version that had been prepared by Hardy before the Deeley-enforced cuts. Shepperton replied in the negative about this, too. Hardy then remembered the early print that had been sent to Roger Corman. A phone call soon confirmed that Corman still had the print - probably the only copy of this version in the world! A dupe was made and Hardy set about reconstructing his original cut for a special American re-release.

http://www.steve-p.org/wm/
 
AND. Edward Woodward got weed on by a goat above him when they were filming the wicker man scene - it was a bit scared, but don't worry kids - they didn't burn any animals, just gave them a little vertigo.
 
PieEye said:
don't worry kids - they didn't burn any animals, just gave them a little vertigo.
<Calls RSPCA>

I watched the first three episodes of Entourage (Season01) and after some dubious dialogue and shit acting the TV series is really growing on me.

Its based on Mark Walberg's first forays into the film business.
 
WHat?

That sounds like the most tenuous premise ever? Does the main character keep taking his trousers off? God, I forgot he used to do that - and he always seemed to be wearing massive cycling shorts underneath.....
 
PieEye said:
WHat?

That sounds like the most tenuous premise ever?

Nah its actually quite good.

Some Info:

Link

HBO Website said:
[The series] takes a look at the day-to-day life of Vincent (Vince) Chase, a hot young actor in modern-day Hollywood, and his entourage. He's brought with him from their hometown in Queens, NY: manager Eric, half-brother Drama, and friend Turtle. The series draws on the experiences of industry insiders to illustrate both the heady excesses of today's celebrity lifestyle, as well as the difficulty of finding love and success in the fast track of show biz. Now that the boys are getting used to the perks of stardom, Eric, along with superagent Ari, keep Vince's star rising while making sound decisions for a long-lasting career in a world of fleeting fame.
 
Yeah, it’s funny in places.

In one episode the half-brother is practicing the Vagina Monologues for an acting class.
 
Aguirre, Wrath Of God - first time I've seen a Herzog I think :oops: magnificent - Kinski's just mental - he doesn't really have to do much but stare and shout a bit but he's electrifying
Lilja 4-Ever - also fantastic but mega grim - prepare to get very very angry watching this. Moodyson is clearly a talent to watch - fluid but kinetic visual style great with actors (e4sp kids), brilliant use of music (even though it's Rammstein and dodgy eurodance in Lilja - he must be talented to make a trance remix if Alphaville's Forever Young poignant) Best use of product placement ever (;))
(anyone seen his first film, Fucking Amal?)
 
watch swordfish last night and intending on watching Monster House tonight, dont know what ot expect from it, swordfish is amazing though i love it.
 
Species (1-3).

A true throwback to the orriginal science fiction movies (an excuse to dress women in very little and stare at them).

Suit 1: So, what do we spend the money on
Suit 2: Well we could hire better actors, or improve the script a bit
Suit 1: Yeah, that might be a good idea, looks a bit shit at the moment.
Suit 3: Hang on a second, we need more oil for the nude shots of Natasha.
Suit 1: You're telling me we can either get a decent script or oil up Natasha Henstridge?
Suit 2: Fine, i'll lay off some more staff and get someone down to the cash and carry.

Science seems to have passed all three of these films by, the pointless gore is rather unimpressive and i don't know about the rest of you, but seeing a person being ripped apart while making love is probably going to require even more therapy time than sitting through an entire showing of the sixth day. All in all the films failed to impress, although Natasha Henstridge's cleavage certainly did.
 
Bob_the_lost said:
Science seems to have passed all three of these films by, the pointless gore is rather unimpressive and i don't know about the rest of you, but seeing a person being ripped apart while making love is probably going to require even more therapy time than sitting through an entire showing of the sixth day. All in all the films failed to impress, although Natasha Henstridge's cleavage certainly did.

Did you notice her amazing disappearing knickers in the second film? Now you see them, now you don't. :D

I've been working veeery slowly through the second series of Battlestar Galactica. Top banana.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top Bottom