What DVD / Video did you watch last night ?

[thetreehugger]

Coppola's Rumble Fish. Or rather half of it as my missus fell asleep

 

[likewise]

"Dark Water" was great but the mushy ending blew it. Sorry, but horror shouldn't have a sentimental ending.

The Japanese are doing some good horror at the mo, I reckon. They've got suspense and creepiness properly down (Ringu, Dark Water, The Eye - serious build-ups), plus some very nasty little special effects that have not much to do with blood and a lot to do with uncomfortably surreal images that stick in your noggin. The sentimentality might be because they've got a certain flavour of ghost story in their tradition that changes their idea of what 'horror' is.

And then they've got a whole bunch of pure gory-scary stuff too, apparently... still haven't got the balls to watch 'Audition' or 'Ichi the Killer', but working on it...

Apparently there's a Chinese piss-take of Japanese horror movies called 'My Left Eye Sees Ghosts', and that is something I would love to see...

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

First episode, season two of the Sopranos.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I watched Stuck On You. Farrelly brothers comedy about conjoined twins... More or less what you'd expect. I quite liked it though... Had a few moments of out and out hilarity...

Hugely distasteful, mind you...

 

[walktome]

I watched that almost a year ago and I can't say I liked it very much. It just didn't seem funny at the time.

 

[Sunray]

The entire 2nd and 3rd series of Farscape.

See those perfectly formed squares over there, they are very similar to the current shape of my eyes, just the wrong colour.

 

[likewise]

The entire 2nd and 3rd series of Farscape.

See those perfectly formed squares over there, they are very similar to the current shape of my eyes, just the wrong colour.

Nice thing about Farscape is it's as far from the squeaky-clean 'let's hold hands and hide our weapons behind our backs and tidy up the universe' Star Trek as you can get... everyone's gloriously selfish and anti-social, and *argues with each other ALL THE TIME*. Ace.

== Runs and picks up Sunray's eyes. Kinda nobbles them back into shape.

There you go. Don't say I din't do nothin' for nobody.

 

[Groucho]

Roman Polanski's The Pianist.
Hitchcock's The Birds.

 

[Bleep]

Dr Strangelove.

forgotten what a good film it is.

 

[Elpenor]

Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me.

Not as bad as I remember it being

 

[Loki]

Hair - a fantastic musical.

 

[maya]

..i'm sitting here really *trying* to watch "Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory",...but it's late late night,and my brain can't really cope with all the technicolor madness...!! ...might go to bed now... night, y'all..!!
(great film,btw!)

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I watched a whole load of DVDs yesterday - in monging mode. First Highlander (not as good as I remembered it, but still entertaining), then Pocahontas (my mrs wanted to watch it - disney what else can i say)... then roxanne (great film, can't believe I've never seen it before. that scene in the bar has gone straight into my all time favourite comedy bits), and finally a very cheesy rom-com type film called What A Girl Wants (the Mrs loved it).

 

[colbhoy]

I watched Some Like it Hot - great stuff for a Friday night!

Have seen it loads of times but got the Special Edition DVD for my birthday in the summer and finally got round to watching it off disc. I may watch the extras this afternoon - am I alone in NEVER watching the extras before I have watched the film, even if it is a film I have seen often?

 

[Loki]

1984 - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087803/

Orwell's deep and gritty vision of the future.

 

[Ryazan]

The delightful romantic comedy 'Kovcheg' or The Ark.

 

[andy2002]

Van Helsing - started off pretty well, but soon devolved into a highly contrived and silly special effects fest, many of which weren't actually that good. Just about worth it for the Brides of Dracula, who completely stole the show IMHO.

 

[BEARBOT]

"polyester" by john waters...and of course "meet the feebels" which of course stars erm puppets but its not like any muppet movie u have seen

 

[Loki]

Westworld - classic 1970s sf.

 

[maya]

"A Nightmare Before Christmas" - Tim Burton...
(had been looking forward to see this,but surprisingly i found it really really dire and/or boring... (a sign of me getting prematurely old -@24!-,or just a sign of the film being slightly overrated?
...i don't know...maybe it was because it was all ugly puppets and because it didn't have Johhny Depp in it..!! )

 

[Dillinger4]

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

and it was excellent.

 

[Groucho]

I thought Nightmare before xmas was great. I have it on video. It is also my sister's favourite film that hasn't got Johnny Depp in it!

Last night I started to watch Le Viol du Vampire on dvd. b/w French with english subtitles. 1968. Three female 'vampires' are visited by three friends who want to both study the women and free them from the belief that they are vampires...then, in the second half they come back to life and they really are vampires and ...
But there was a revolt and the film had to be switched off just after the vampiresses had been fencing in see-through dresses at night in front of a bonfire.

"Cult director Jean Rollin's first feature mixes existentialism and vampirism, with the added ingredient of chaos. Originally made as a short, it was expanded to feature legth with the dead cast inexplicably returning to life half way through (having been killed off in the original) Le Viol Du Vampire is a masterpiece of the bizarre, mixing blood, a naked woman in a convertable, coffins and some fencing, semi-naked nymphs in a fragmented mellee."

"Highly decorative fetishistic eroticism" Aurum Horror Film Encyclopedia


Quality stuff!

 

[Groucho]

Van Helsing - started off pretty well, but soon devolved into a highly contrived and silly special effects fest, many of which weren't actually that good. Just about worth it for the Brides of Dracula, who completely stole the show IMHO.

Yeah, I saw it at the cinema and have to agree it was crap. A travesty and not worthy of the vampire genre. The brides were ok; if they had eaten VH in their first encounter the film would have been vastly better imo.
The worst Dracula ever.

 

[Elpenor]

I watched 12 Monkeys. What happens immediately after Bruce Willis gets shot, as thats when the disc failed

Thought it was a bit at first but eventually got the hang of it

 

[dolly's gal]

the recruit. possibly the worst film ever made. possibly.

 

[Juice Terry]

Belleville Rendezvous - Sumptuous French animation with some of the classiest artwork I've seen in a while. Loved the big tall ships Loads of subtle hidden meaning and the best screen dog ever in Bruno. Big thumbs up.

 

[fishfingerer]

Devil's Backbone. Stunning beautifully shot supernatural drama set in a Spanish orphanage at the end of the civil war. Directed by Guillermo del Toro. If anyone's seen it could they tell me if the clockwork frog thing had any significance please.

 

[G. Fieendish]

Ghost In The Shell OVA "Stand Alone Complex" pts 1-4

 

[Orang Utan]

I've just rented Faces Of Death 2.
I may regret it.

 

[Elpenor]

X-Men and Fantasia (the original).