What DVD / Video did you watch last night ?

[dada]

watched '84 charing cross road' the other night.
what a charming and delightful film.
throughout the films, some of their letters were read word by word.
anyone read the book?
an emotional love affair or purely friendship?

 

[Leica]

anyone read the book?

Yes, it's a lovely little book

 

[dada]

Yes, it's a lovely little book

cool.
planning to get a copy.

 

[Iam]

The Pursuit of Happyness

Boring.

 

[tastebud]

Dead Man's Shoes. Good. Not a masterpiece or anything but definitely good.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Dead or Alive 2. Brilliant and nuts.

 

[Orang Utan]

Dead Man's Shoes. Good. Not a masterpiece or anything but definitely good.

I saw This Is England again last night and it certainly is a masterpiece - such a warm, moving, tragic, funny film

 

[Orang Utan]

Also saw The Day After Tomorrow, which is utterly ludicrous, but as with all Emmerich films, eminently watcable - there's a great cheesy moment in which the American flag freezes - just like the moment in ID4 where the White House blows up.
Then I watched The Beat My Heart Skipped which was great too.

 

[Dubversion]

Dead Man's Shoes. Good. Not a masterpiece or anything but definitely good.

that's the most non-commital reaction i've ever seen to this film

 

[tastebud]

that's the most non-commital reaction i've ever seen to this film

the reason is that i always seem to watch really depressing or awful films, then come on this thread to complain about them. so today I thought I'd change this.

 

[Dubversion]

the reason is that i always seem to watch really depressing or awful films, then come on this thread to complain about them. so today I thought I'd change this.

true, true... it's an odd one to start with. First time i saw it, i was left in a mess and swore i'd never watch it again.

the SECOND time i watched it, it was even worse

 

[tastebud]

true, true... it's an odd one to start with. First time i saw it, i was left in a mess and swore i'd never watch it again.

the SECOND time i watched it, it was even worse

I was totally ready for it I think. *puffs out chest* But yeah, I don't think I'd watch it again.

 

[Orang Utan]

true, true... it's an odd one to start with. First time i saw it, i was left in a mess and swore i'd never watch it again.

the SECOND time i watched it, it was even worse

Hey Dub, swap you Deadwood Season 2 for This Is England?
Can give it to PieEye on Thursday?

 

[Dubversion]

Hey Dub, swap you Deadwood Season 2 for This Is England?
Can give it to PieEye on Thursday?

it's a d-d-d-deal

 

[SubZeroCat]

I watched 24hr Party People on Saturday night and it was good.

I did see it at the cinema when it came out but I was ridiculously pissed and stoned so couldn't remember a thing. Second time round I was on the booze, ganja and k but I remember everything

It made me want to take lots and lots and lots of drugs

 

[May Kasahara]

Day of the Triffids - the BBC series, not the film. It was ace. There's something about the way everyone in 70s/early 80s drama is constantly boozing and fagging away in response to their problems that's weirdly enjoyable.

 

[Juice Terry]

Brick, this one confused me somewhat I initially thought it was crap but it kind of grew on me, turning the subtitles on helped as the 1930's gangster speak merged with modern day californian teenage accents was at first very hard to understand.

Atomised, was really enjoying this take on two brothers fucked up sexuality but then the DVD impoded halfway through so I'm gonna have to rent another copy.

The Wire season 2 eps 1 & 2, didn't think it could get any better than the first series. I was wrong.

 

[Pieface]

I was totally ready for it I think. *puffs out chest* But yeah, I don't think I'd watch it again.

you sound like you're in training to watch The World's Most Depressing Film

I wonder what the world's most depressing film is?

Dead Man's Shoes is certainly up there. I gasped and wailed at the key moment in the plot.

 

[Orang Utan]

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind is pretty depressing
Requiem For A Dream is more so.
But I bet there are better candidates.

Oh, Shoah would probably win it.

 

[Pieface]

No! Eternal Sunshine is OPTIMISTIC!!

He goes back and does it all over again because love is worth it!!!

 

[Orang Utan]

That's not how I saw it at the time - I didn't see it as worth it - just that you might as well go along with it all cos there's nothing else to do - that's what depressed me
I need to watch it again cos I'm a happier person now

 

[Dubversion]

Come & See is the single most depressing thing I've ever seen, but Dead Man's Shoes is a contender.

And Eternal Sunshine - i'm not sure it's optimistic as such, more fatalist. But certainly not depressing. It's about accepting that pain is part of life, stuff like that, which isn't really optimistic. A beautiful movie, either way.

 

[Dubversion]

That's not how I saw it at the time - I didn't see it as worth it - just that you might as well go along with it all cos there's nothing else to do - that's what depressed me
I need to watch it again cos I'm a happier person now

i watched it after a bad break-up and it was really upsetting, but NOT depressing. You do it because love is so wonderful that the pain is worth it.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I didn't think Dead Man's Shoes was that depressing. At least I have watched it more than once.

I thought Lilja 4 Ever was possibly the most depressing thing I have seen.

 

[Dubversion]

I didn't think Dead Man's Shoes was that depressing. At least I have watched it more than once.

really? i found it horrible. I think when you watch splatter / revenge movies from the states, they're so stylised - and the people in them both totally unrealistic AND from a totally different culture in many ways - that it doesn't seem in any sense realistic, so you can find it amusing.

Dead Man's Shoes was full of people we all know - small time small town arseholes, stoners and losers. So it all seemed much closer to home and disturbing for all that

 

[robotsimon]

My vote for the most depressing film goes to Hundstage (Dog Days). This snippet of a review on IMDB sums it up well:

Here are few characters, whose life paths constantly interlock in a little city in tragic coincidences. The old widower with his dog. The mad hitch-hiking girl, whose hobby is exasperating her companions with useless chatter. The middle-aged couple, whose only daughter had died in an accident some time ago and who hardly speak to each other, despite their living in the same house. The hysterical guy, torturing his girl, who works in a strip club. The aging woman who gets bullied by her macho-looking hairy boyfriend. Everyone is unhappy and that's the simple keynote. But almost no one stirs up sympathy. The world is sweaty, dried-up, brutal, senseless. And all the kindness it can provide is epitomized in the final strip-tease that the elderly maid is doing for the old man with the dog.

The dog is certainly already poisoned to that time. The mad girl is raped. The aging woman is humiliated.

It's a laugh a minute . . .

 

[tastebud]

you sound like you're in training to watch The World's Most Depressing Film

I wonder what the world's most depressing film is?

Dead Man's Shoes is certainly up there. I gasped and wailed at the key moment in the plot.

I just hid. I'm getting good at hiding now.

 

[Rainingstairs]

I just hid. I'm getting good at hiding now.

monster is pretty depressing. uhg.

anyway, watched A Tout De Suite last night.
it was ok. wish there were more shots of spain, morocco and greece, but the sex made up for that.

then i watched this documentary on Bukowski. MAN he's got one ugly mug.

 

[sojourner]

Jesus christ. I've been looking at this thread for a while now, thinking 'I haven't watched a new film for a while' and suddenly realised why. My daughter's been hoarding the last rental dvd we had since before xmas!!!!!

 

[Pieface]

then i watched this documentary on Bukowski. MAN he's got one ugly mug.

I saw one on him at the ICA a couple of years ago - it was interesting. He came across ok until he was shown pissed, lashing out at his girlfriend while being interviewed.

But what a voice - I love hearing him do his own poems.