What DVD / Video did you watch last night ?

[Dubversion]

episode 11, series 1, the Wire.

then the disc borked

 

[corporate whore]

Trading Places - a fine, fine film that I'll watch whenever it's on.

The Business - a dreaful pile of shite that I never want to see again.

 

[purves grundy]

Breaking and Entering - totally fucking abysmal

 

[mr_eko]

babel - really enjoyed this lots of strong performances especially from the Japanese girl and it's also got an wicked soundtrack I can see (or hear) why it won the Oscar

 

[G. Fieendish]

Region 1 copy of Gundam 0083 - War In The Pocket

 

[Random One]

The Messengers-crap

 

[purves grundy]

Little Miss Sunshine

Oh yes! I usually avoid feel-good films, and road trip films, so a fee-good road trip film....hmmm... But as others av said, it's a corker. I really felt for the characters, and loved the way it took the piss out of the whole disturbing beauty pageant thing.

 

[mhendo]

Little Miss Sunshine

Oh yes! I usually avoid feel-good films, and road trip films, so a fee-good road trip film....hmmm... But as others av said, it's a corker. I really felt for the characters, and loved the way it took the piss out of the whole disturbing beauty pageant thing.

I loved that film.

I watched The Illusionist.

Beautifully shot, with lovely sets. Paul Giamatti was excellent, Ed Norton gave a rather understated but typically professional performance, and Jessica Biel and Rufus Sewell were good.

The movie itself (plot, character development, etc.) was pretty good, but not great. I enjoyed it, but it's not going in the "must watch again" pile.

 

[Grandma Death]

Severance. What a fucking waste of an hour & half of my life

I fucking hate danny dyer

 

[fuzzy felt]

dog the bounter hunter - the wedding special.

should i get out more?

 

[thefishdead]

Peep show series 1-4. Never seen it before but it deserves the praise it gets.

Shooter with Mark Walberg. Good dumb action. Felt like an eigthies throwback. Bit below par for Antoine faque though. Doing for the money I'm sure.

Outfoxed. V good doc about Fox news and its agenda.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

The first Rambo film. Never seen it before. Was pleasantly surprised. Thought it was just endless brutal machinegunning. Turned out to be a surprisingly taut and well thought out thriller. Well, relative to my expectations, at any rate.

 

[Random One]

Severance. What a fucking waste of an hour & half of my life

I fucking hate danny dyer

yeah i agree with that....although there were a few cool gruesome bits but that was about as good as it got imo

 

[bellator]

Remake of the Wicker Man. I've never laughed out loud so much in ages, twas really funny!!

 

[sojourner]

Stranger Than Fiction

Really rather enjoyed this - playful pokes at literature, film and experiment

 

[Voley]

Tenacious D - The Pick Of Destiny.

Ideal viewing after two bottles of Shiraz.

'Tommy' was on telly after. That was equally funny but for very different reasons.

 

[sojourner]

Transamerica. Touching, although a bit clumsy in places

 

[Dubversion]

Election - cool little movie

 

[Juice Terry]

some Deadwoodz, series 2 is about 10 times better than series 1.

 

[Orang Utan]

Shogun Assassin - hilarious Monty Python blood spurting chop socky

 

[chazegee]

Someone just bought me the Martin Scorsese on the Blues box set.

And that sho' feel good, yessir.

 

[CharlieAddict]

The Fountain -

oh my god.
i'm in love with this film...fuckin' amazing!!!!!

edited to add:

at first, it's seems to be an impossible narrative to film but the end result is a visual fuckfest of emotions...

 

[Reno]

Rabid Dogs, excellent Italian thriller by Mario Bava from the 70's.

 

[Orang Utan]

Volver - I enjoyed it - quite moving and you liked all the characters who were all acted very well and it was well shot and prod designed etc etc. BUT...I dunno - this is only the second Almodovar film I've seen (the other is All About My Mother) and although they both made me weep a few manly tears, I still thought that I was missing what others seem to have seen in his films - they're melodramatic and rather forgettable IMO - like a superior Odyssey true life story that you used to get in the afternoons on the telly.

 

[Reno]

Volver - I enjoyed it - quite moving and you liked all the characters who were all acted very well and it was well shot and prod designed etc etc. BUT...I dunno - this is only the second Almodovar film I've seen (the other is All About My Mother) and although they both made me weep a few manly tears, I still thought that I was missing what others seem to have seen in his films - they're melodramatic and rather forgettable IMO - like a superior Odyssey true life story that you used to get in the afternoons on the telly.

I just think they are perfect examples of a director at the hight of his game where camera, editing, acting and art direction all work perfectly together. For those who are into these things, his films also bounce off the more subversive Hollywood melodrama's from the fifties and they are as much a celebration of the power of cinema as they are a celebration of life and women. This is what distinguishes them from some crappy telly movie.

There was a transitionary period between his early work and his more polished later films when I lost interest in Almodovar's films, but now I think he is one of the greatest director working.

 

[corporate whore]

Zidane - A 21st Century Portrait.

A meditative study of the great man, with some lovely ambient sound work & tunes by Mogwai.

Restful.

 

[ramjamclub]

one to watch

A good thriller, very 24 though
The sentinel

 

[Sunspots]

The Sorcerers

The Year Of The Sex Olympics

 

[rekil]

A nice rock'n'roll lady gave me Guitar Wolf's Wild Zero fillum on video but I haven't got a vcr or a telly.

 

[thefishdead]

Series two of Prison break. Not genius but keeping me entertained.
Series one of Millennium. V good show that disappeared off the radar soon after it was cancelled.
Series one of the Lakes. Writings as brilliant as you'd expect from Jimmy McGovern but the depressing plot wears me down.