What DVD / Video did you watch last night ?

[Orang Utan]

I've just had three days off watching undemanding popcorn fare:
The Hills Have Eyes (remake) - very disappointing cos I like Switchblade Romance - it was the antithesis to it - no horror, no tension, nothing worthy of a horror film really
Alien Versus Predator - dreadful but typical PW Anderson fare - almost worth it for the production design, but not quite.
The Sum Of All Fears - borderline offensive thriller about the nuking of Baltimore with That Wanker: Ben Affleck - it was shit, not enough tension and takes ages to get going - it wasn't my choice alright?
State Of Play - Paul Abbott's political thriller for the BBC - didn't watch it when it was on the telly - all the above films were supposed to be nail-biting suspense films, but failed woefully - this is spot on, though I didn't get the ending (if someone else has seen this, please explain via PM cos I don't want to spoil it for anyone else). David Yates, who directed it, also did the excellent Sex Traffic, so he is a director to watch, though I see he's doing the next Harry Potter. Hmmm.
ETA - I've just looked at IMdB and no wonder I didn't get then ending of State Of Play - there's another three episodes! D'oh!

 

[Orang Utan]

Oh and I finished season 3 of The Wire - fucking devastating - can anyone get me a snide copy of series 4?

 

[dada]

little miss sunshine

wonderful film.
made me smile.
love how they trashed the beauty pageant. lol!!!!

 

[Sunspots]

Slaughterhouse Five

 

[Reno]

Two 70's/early 80's star vehicles featuring some camp hilarity and choice fashion moments:

"Mahogany" starring Diana Ross as an aspiring fashion designer and model being stalked by psychotic closet case Anthony Perkins and "The Fan", starring Lauren Bacall as a fading movie star being stalked by psychotic closet case Michael Biehn.

 

[CharlieAddict]

little miss sunshine

wonderful film.
made me smile.
love how they trashed the beauty pageant. lol!!!!

yeah, i saw this the other day too.
grandpa is the greatest!!

The Hills Have Eyes (remake) - very disappointing cos I like Switchblade Romance - it was the antithesis to it - no horror, no tension, nothing worthy of a horror film really

this film sickened me.
i love horrors but the remake was unwatchable.
overly and offensively violent.


saw another HK gangsta flick - 'wo hu.'
pretty good...

 

[Orang Utan]

I barely flinched at Hills Have Eyes - didn't think it was anything to write home about, violence-wise or horror-wise.

 

[Badgers]

Film 4:

Long Kiss Goodnight = crap
Sin-Eater = Crap

4 .5 hours of my life wasted

 

[moonsi til]

I watched The Da Vinci Code....I thought it was Ok....I watched it on my own and was a little worried that I was going to have nightmares due to that ghost guy......*shudder*...

 

[Dubversion]

A Bout De Souffle, finally

hard to have an opinion about it really, because you know so much about it anyway. It's SO 'french new wave', it's almost camp now ("what's your ambition?", "I want to become immortal.... and then die") but it was certainly enjoyable, and the leads were great. I dunno, it's impossible nearly 50 years later to appreciate the editing etc for the impact it must have had. But yeh, it was fun

 

[dada]

yeah, i saw this the other day too.
grandpa is the greatest!!

yea, his character cracked me up...
'have sex with lots and lots of women. not just one, but a lot of them!'

saw another HK gangsta flick - 'wo hu.'
pretty good...

what do you do with them vcds after you watched them?
may i borrow some? only the good ones though.

 

[May Kasahara]

Finished our rewatch of series 1 of The Wire - Mr K has lately got into it, so I've been watching it again with him which has been fucking awesome. Not only do I now have a fellow Wire addict to discuss it with (so satisfying!), but I also got so much out of it the second time around that I just couldn't have picked up on the initial watch...this shit is just flawless. Best tv series ever IMO.

And now we get to embark upon series 2 together, knowing there's another two series after that! Pure bliss.

 

[CharlieAddict]

what do you do with them vcds after you watched them?
may i borrow some? only the good ones though.

out of 400 HK dollars worth of VCDs, i think you'd only enjoy one!
lend it to you next time...

saw 'the edukators' over the w/end.
a little preachy but overall good.
not use to german movies...

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Smokin Aces. (slight spoliers)

I was really looking forward to this but it was a tottal mess. Some cool bits and some nice Afleck death .

Too much waffle too. Massive amounts of dialogue to explain the film at the begining and the end. It all felt sloppy.

Still, I think I have a soft spot for it somehow.

 

[elevendayempire]

Smokin Aces. (slight spoliers)

I was really looking forward to this but it was a tottal mess. Some cool bits and some nice Afleck death .

Too much waffle too. Massive amounts of dialogue to explain the film at the begining and the end. It all felt sloppy.

Still, I think I have a soft spot for it somehow.

Liar. You watched Battlestar Galactica while touching yourself inappropriately.

SG

 

[SubZeroCat]

I watched Lilya-4-Ever with my housemate. I welled up, she cried. It's awfully depressing and upsetting, mainly because it is all too realistic, but it has guts.

I felt that it addressed a lot of problems at once but in a well orchestrated way - poverty, sex slavery, grooming, politics, relationships etc.

 

[Dubversion]

just watched Glengarry Glen Ross - very stagey, very self-conscious somehow, but some good performances (even from Spacey) and Pacino in a good spin on his usual scenery-chewing style

 

[Grandma Death]

Casion Royale and the Devil Wears Prada. Both incredibly average movies.

 

[Grandma Death]

just watched Glengarry Glen Ross - very stagey, very self-conscious somehow, but some good performances (even from Spacey) and Pacino in a good spin on his usual scenery-chewing style

One of my favourite films. For me jack lemmon steals the show-great performance.

 

[ramjamclub]

with spoiler

little miss sunshine

wonderful film.
made me smile.
love how they trashed the beauty pageant. lol!!!!

you might want to put a slight spoiler note on this

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Casion Royale and the Devil Wears Prada. Both incredibly average movies.

I turned Casino Royale off after 5 minutes.



Try 'This is England'

I really liked it, though some bits were hard to watch. Not because they were super violent or anything just uneasy viewing. Somehow it felt like a rathe honest film even if I'm not too sure what I mean by that.

 

[foamy]

The Wind That Shakes The Barley - it made me uncharacteristically hide behind my hands, maybe in hindsight it wasnt a great sunday evening before bed film

World Trade Centre - i was actually surprised by this, how it seemed quite futile. But i love the Marine

 

[foamy]

The Sentinel - ok for a kind of 'turn your brain off' afternoon. i really should put better films on my lovefilm list but i've seen so mand DVDs i dont know what to choose

 

[corporate whore]

36 - quality French copper corruption flick with a fantastically moustachioed Gerard Depardieu and the oh-so-cool Danny Autiel

C'est tres bon.

 

[Orang Utan]

Deathwatch - poor WW1-horror film set in a haunted trench

The Last House On Dead End Street - one of the most notorious banned 'video nasties' - absolutely no artistic merit whatsoever - not particularly disturbing either, just really really bad - though there is a strange bit in which a pornographer is forced to fellate a dildo made from a deer's hoof

Hallam Foe - Jamie Bell starrer about a disturbed voyeur - poor overall but some great location footage of the rooftops of Edinburgh

I'm Not Scared - great little Italian film about a country boy who discovers that people in his home village have kidnapped a rich boy and are keeping him in a hole in the ground

 

[Belushi]

Got round to watching Pans Labyrinth last night, best film I've watched in a long time. Absolutely magical, a film about fantasy rather than a fantasy film, full of allegories and metaphor.

 

[Dante]

Ronin, forgot how good that car chase was

Shadow boxer -Helen Mirren and Cuba Gooding Jr having sex...um....

Lost in Space - pure camp fun, well actually no, it was a bit crap. should have remmeberd that

The Negotiator hadn't seen that in an age, but tis dead good.

 

[Orang Utan]

Oh, and I watched Good Night And Good Luck - bit dull, lots of smoking

 

[Dante]

think that Goodnight Goodluck is a great film, though i cant stop chain smoking when i watch it. Ed Murrow has a lot to answer for

 

[May Kasahara]

I'm Not Scared - great little Italian film about a country boy who discovers that people in his home village have kidnapped a rich boy and are keeping him in a hole in the ground

I've borrowed this off a mate and it's awaiting watchment at the moment. Have you read the book? It's fucking brilliant.