What DVD / Video did you watch last night ?

[ramjamclub]

chikentikkamasala

double post, hell u75 is snail slow the last couple of days. more than 30 secs to load a page

 

[ramjamclub]

chickentikkamasala

If you want a chaotic film this is one to watch. It was all over the place. Looked and felt like a first time director out of film academy.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0449000/
Watched it last night and then realised it was a gay film. Hadn't read the (in Dutch) synopsis properly. Terrible acting, very chaotic

posted on another thread, I know.

 

[gaijingirl]

Watched The Devil's Backbone - alone at home (not a good idea! )

It's just bloody amazing. Loved it, tempted to watch it again straight away!

Have got An Inconvenient Truth to watch next but will prolly watch an Almodovar tonight to keep the Spanish theme up and running.

 

[Yetman]

Once Were Warriors - shit acting but decent enough storyline

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Watched The Devil's Backbone - alone at home (not a good idea! ).

I forgot I had this on DVD. It didn't look that amazing from the trailer but by this recomendation I guess I should have a go this weekend.

 

[Reno]

Watched The Devil's Backbone - alone at home (not a good idea! )

It's just bloody amazing. Loved it, tempted to watch it again straight away!

Have got An Inconvenient Truth to watch next but will prolly watch an Almodovar tonight to keep the Spanish theme up and running.

Maybe it's because I saw it a few years before, but I prefer The Devil's Backbone to Pan's Labyrinth. I thought the later film went over much of the same ground with less complexity and I preferred the genuinely spooky ghost boy to the slightly rubbery fairy tale creatures whose movements reminded me too often of twee mime artists. The earlier film also struck me as having more interesting adult characters and relationships and the scene with the explosion is absolutely stunning, there is nothing to equal it in any of Del Toro's other films. Not that I didn't like Pan's Labyrinth too, but I think it has become somewhat overrated and isn't quite as deep as some people make it out to be.

 

[gaijingirl]

What I really liked about it was (SPOILER ALERT) at the end when Jacinto is being pulled under by Santi I was thinking ....NOOOOOOO THE GOLD!!! In another film Santi may have rescued the gold to give to the remaining orphans - but not in this, the ghosts helped but the orphans, ultimately, whilst they escaped with their lives were clearly heading out into a wilderness beyond which was a war! It was not a happy ending really. But there was SO much to the film. I'm still thinking about it now - especially the significance of the "devil's backbone" itself. Brill film. I'm not sure which I like more - this one certainly felt a bit darker to me - but that may have been as I watched it alone on the sofa from under a blanket - it was really quite frightening!!

 

[sojourner]

Bread and Roses


Good stuff

 

[Pie 1]

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

This reminded me that I'd still not seen this.
Watched it last night and really enjoyed it - thought the stagey/play feel was done well & Jack Lemmon was great.

 

[Bazza]

My girlfriend came back from a business trip with loads of free DVDs for me including the Trials of Life and Blue Planet box sets (David Attenborough). So, I watched the first episode of Trials of Life.

I love David Attenborough, I now have almost all the dvds!!

 

[Orang Utan]

28 Weeks Later - better than the original, though with a rather ludicrous plot, but it's a zombie movie for fuck's sake. Pretty intense. Chilodren Of Men - best British sci-fi in years. Brillianty paced, brilliantly shot, brilliantly realised. Best last line of a character ever. Best car chase ever.

 

[Orang Utan]

oh, and Clerks 2 - well, it's pretty funny I guess.

 

[Bazza]

You watched 3 dvds last night?

 

[Orang Utan]

2, saw 28 Weeks Later at the cinema, though it's not unusual for me to watch 3. Been off work this week, so seen about 10 so far

 

[Pie 1]

Chilodren Of Men - brilliantly shot, brilliantly realised.

The attention to detail, production design wise, is an absolute joy.
& that 10 minute single camera shot following him through the camp is amazing too.

 

[Bazza]

2, saw 28 Weeks Later at the cinema, though it's not unusual for me to watch 3. Been off work this week, so seen about 10 so far

Fair enough. You must be a smoker.

I was off work last week, went to the cinema which had only 4 other people in it. It was super.

 

[Orang Utan]

Why must I be a smoker?

 

[CharlieAddict]

a scanner darkly - was so looking forward to see this...and got disappointed as usual. rubbish. boring. too much dialogue.

 

[foamy]

King Kong - i had to leave it a long time before seeing this but i'm glad i eventually did. My favourite bit has got to be the Diplodocus's all falling over each other

 

[Orang Utan]

The penisworms are the best

 

[foamy]

the ones with teeth?
i liked it when they ate the guy head first, gave me an idea for a hat design....

 

[Bazza]

Why must I be a smoker?

Forget it. Only commented because I wouldn't be able to watch 3 films in a day unless I'd smoked.

 

[Orang Utan]

Forget it. Only commented because I wouldn't be able to watch 3 films in a day unless I'd smoked.

What a strange thing to say! What's watching telly/cinema got to do with smoking?

 

[Bazza]

Stop it. You're making me feel like a right pothead. Speaking personally, I don't have the patience to watch 3 films in the day unless I was very relaxed, however, I appreciate that plenty of others don't have this issue.

 

[CharlieAddict]

i'd love to watch 3 films a day...i reckon i could watch 5 or 6 a day...
and if that was a job, it'd be the coolest one ever.

 

[Bazza]

It's definitley my attention span that's the problem here then.

 

[Orang Utan]

Stop it. You're making me feel like a right pothead. Speaking personally, I don't have the patience to watch 3 films in the day unless I was very relaxed, however, I appreciate that plenty of others don't have this issue.

Oh, that kind of smoking
I'm not usually stoned when watching films, as I tend to forget I've watched em

 

[CharlieAddict]

It's definitley my attention span that's the problem here then.

hang on...you smoke and watch films?
don't you get confused?
smoking...does it improve your attention span?
cos when i smoke and watch a film (especially a drama or a complex sci-fi), i do lose the plot.

 

[LDR]

I watched Spiderman III yesterday and I thought it was a big pile of shit.

 

[Bazza]

hang on...you smoke and watch films?
don't you get confused?
smoking...does it improve your attention span?
cos when i smoke and watch a film (especially a drama or a complex sci-fi), i do lose the plot.

Yes. No, I don't get confused and I certainly follow the plot. If not, I wouldn't smoke.

It doesn't increase my attention span, it just ensures I don't get bored sitting down.

One film I can do. Just not three in a day.