What DVD / Video did you watch last night ?
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Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
Last Days, Gus Van Sant's take on Kurt Cobain.
Nicely shot, well-acted but very boring and, in the end, more than a little pointless.
Nicely shot, well-acted but very boring and, in the end, more than a little pointless.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Hard to watch innit?
Heneke is doing a US remake of it - I doubt it will be improved - it'll be like Sluizer's UR remake of The Vanishing
Heneke is doing a US remake of it - I doubt it will be improved - it'll be like Sluizer's UR remake of The Vanishing
Funny Games was yikkky but will fit nicely into this torture-porn phase popular cinema is going through now if they redo it. In fact, the original Funny Games probably won't be graphic enough so they'll ruin it by showing everything instead of leaving it to suggestion.
I watched Jamon Jamon. It was ok - weird, silly and mainly about Penelope Cruz's tits. I won't watch it ever again.
I watched Jamon Jamon. It was ok - weird, silly and mainly about Penelope Cruz's tits. I won't watch it ever again.
makes me think of scream or something 
purves grundy
ambient clown remix
Borat - all I hoped it would be. Good to have the genius Peter Baynham lending a hand with the production.
Thank You For Smoking - simplistic shite. Great idea, poorly written.
Garden State - couldn't see why people make such a fuss about this film. Found it rather dreary dull.
Thank You For Smoking - simplistic shite. Great idea, poorly written.
Garden State - couldn't see why people make such a fuss about this film. Found it rather dreary dull.
Grandma Death
Reconfiguring & Reconstructing
Started watching 'Looking After Jo Jo' again-its a video to DVD conversion I bought of E bay. Not a bad copy actually and great to watch such a quality drama again.
Toto Le Heros
I hadn't seen it in about 10 years and remember once thinking it was my favourite film.
I found it on DVD, and watched it with Pie Face.
I think it might still be my favourite film.
If there's one movie I could try and make everyone watch once, this is it.
I hadn't seen it in about 10 years and remember once thinking it was my favourite film.
I found it on DVD, and watched it with Pie Face.
I think it might still be my favourite film.
If there's one movie I could try and make everyone watch once, this is it.
Juice Terry
rama lama fa fa fa
Seqeustro Express
Tasty little kidnapping drama from Caracas. Gangstas getting their revenge on rich kids.
Anyone fancy a game of Venezuelan Roulette?
Tasty little kidnapping drama from Caracas. Gangstas getting their revenge on rich kids.
Anyone fancy a game of Venezuelan Roulette?
CharlieAddict
nekomimi rocks!!!
mark kerr, the smashing machine (US, 2003).
i'm not really a sports documentary fan but loved this as much as 'murderball.'
loads of fighting, japanese ring girls and opiate abuse. true story too. good stuff.
i'm not really a sports documentary fan but loved this as much as 'murderball.'
loads of fighting, japanese ring girls and opiate abuse. true story too. good stuff.
purves grundy
ambient clown remix
Someone gave me 2 DVDs of 12 Cohen brothers films. Last night I watched The Ladykillers - very funny - and I shall proceed to watch the rest of them over the weekend 
purves grundy
ambient clown remix
Actually, last night I went for Land of the Dead instead. Absolutely dreadful - were zombie films always that bad or is that just particularly shite? I'm sure I remember Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead being fucking brilliant 
Same director an'all init?
Same director an'all init?
purves grundy
ambient clown remix
Yeah, I watched that a few weeks back. Good stuff, quite touchingmhendo said:
Yeah another vote for the Weather Man here. Quite good film, I thought. I like Cage when he does these kind of roles. He must be the only 'cheesy action' actor who has also done some really top rate acting - stuff like this, Adaptation, Leaving Las Vegas etc.
purves grundy said:Someone gave me 2 DVDs of 12 Cohen brothers films. Last night I watched The Ladykillers - very funny - and I shall proceed to watch the rest of them over the weekend
Ah, the good old Asian DVDs with nine million films on, eh...
Pie Face has gone off riding so I've got the TV to myself.. so do I watch The Long Good Friday, Once Upon A Time In Mexico or The Ballad Of Cable Hogue?
purves grundy
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spot on! And they've been excellent quality recentlyRenegadeDog said:
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I didn't watch anything, I just got pissed and fell asleep
That's a strange comment.purves grundy said:
I thought it was excellent and extremely funny.
The screenplay has been nominated by the Writers Guild of America as one of the 5 best adapted screenplays of 2006, so the professionals certainly don't consider the writing poor http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1516
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association have nominated it as one of the 5 best Musicals or Comedies of the year as well.
http://www.hfpa.org/nominations/index.html
LDR
kiwitanga
We watched Lost in Translation last night. I found the plot really boring and also the characters really depressing. However, I thought the film was visually brilliant and the acting superb.
I think I would have have enjoyed it more with the sound off and some music playing instead.
I think I would have have enjoyed it more with the sound off and some music playing instead.
LD Rudeboy said:We watched Lost in Translation last night. I found the plot really boring and also the characters really depressing. However, I thought the film was visually brilliant and the acting superb.
I think I would have have enjoyed it more with the sound off and some music playing instead.
I dunno if 'boring' is fair, but surely the whole point of the film is that the two characters are stuck in a kind of limbo, nothing to do, nothing happening, drifting through a twilight hotel-bound world...
And the music in the film is brilliant too, so no need to turn it down
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kiwitanga
That's what I found depressing. They were in a wonderful city but spent most of their time doing nothing. I understand that they felt stuck and a bit lost and I know that's the feeling the movie was trying to get across but I just found the plot boring and a little predictable too. I found myself wanting it to hurry up and end about halfway through.Dubversion said:
But I agree you're right about the music.
jeff_leigh
What happened to Dubversion ?
Julie said:
I never got round to watching this as I felt it would have a patch on the original John Frankenheimer version made in 62 with the Korean war and the McCarthy era "Reds under the beds" paranoia still fresh in everyone psyche
There is a list of films that I must see that I never got round to. Last night I finally ticked one of those off my list.
Man Bites Dog was not that enjoyable to watch. I didn't find any of it funny (as some people said it was in places) and there were a couple of scenes that I found a bit difficult to watch (the killing of the child and the rape specifically). Maybe the juxtaposition of the violence and humour just don't work for me.
I understand though how important the film was and it's central point ...so I guess for that it must be applauded, especially when put into context how it was made.
Man Bites Dog was not that enjoyable to watch. I didn't find any of it funny (as some people said it was in places) and there were a couple of scenes that I found a bit difficult to watch (the killing of the child and the rape specifically). Maybe the juxtaposition of the violence and humour just don't work for me.
I understand though how important the film was and it's central point ...so I guess for that it must be applauded, especially when put into context how it was made.
jeff_leigh
What happened to Dubversion ?
zed said:
I found some of it funny, the bit where he gave the a fright after noticing her heart medication and saved himself a bullet and his reference to killing an Arab guy and burying him in a concrete block "Facing Mecca of course"
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