What DVD / Video did you watch last night ?

[May Kasahara]

I watched Kill Bill part 2 on the telly, and enjoyed it more than I thought I would, going by the number of lukewarm reviews I've read. So what if there was less fighting - I thought it was really interesting the way all the relationships were unpicked. And tbh I would watch Uma Thurman playing that character in any situation, so happy all round really.

 

[Badgers]

The Idiots


Interesting film in many ways

^ ^ Understatement!!!!

I saw it a long time ago but it stayed in my mind for a while

Last night I watched Stealing Beauty on Film Four which was pretty good....

Liv Tyler is quite cute isn't she?

 

[Dubversion]

I liked it all the way through until Nirvana came along - didn't find it dull at all, but I'd not seen any of the footage before. They also seemed to skip quite a few years in the 80s

yeh, there's another film to be made covering that. From Bad Brains to Nirvana, with more Fugazi plus The Minutemen (how the fuck the film didn't mention them i don't know because they pretty much re-energised punk in the US), Husker Du, Big Black, Butthole Surfers, straight edge / early (proper) emo etc etc etc.

Agnostic Front really were cunts, but Henry was so funny - "Hardcore is what happens when the guy in the parking lot who says 'fuck, YEAH' gets a guitar"

 

[Orang Utan]

^yes, that basically covered the punk that I listened to and had the most impact on me.

 

[gaijingirl]

We watched mean streets - it was absolutely shit.

 

[Reno]

Idaho Transfer, obscure low budget sci-fi film from the early 70's about time travelling hippies and directed by Peter Fonda. Weird, slow, frequently incomprehensible.

 

[Dubversion]

We watched mean streets - it was absolutely shit.

you're KIDDING?

that film is sheer genius

 

[gaijingirl]

you're KIDDING?

that film is sheer genius

Freudian slip (or wishful thinking) - I meant Green Street.

 

[Dubversion]

phew!!!!

<puts GG back on Xmas card list>

 

[gaijingirl]

phew!!!!

<puts GG back on Xmas card list>

*awaits Christmas with interest*

 

[Dubversion]

the list is purely theoretical

 

[sojourner]

^ ^ Understatement!!!!

I know...but I couldn't think of something to say about it that wouldn't spoil it There was THAT one point though, where I blinked and had to replay just in case I was seeing things!!!

 

[Orang Utan]

In America (directed by Jim Sheridan) - I chose this because it had Paddy Considine and Samantha Morton in it and it starts off well, but descends into schmaltzy weepy melodrama - it's about an Irish family who emigrate to Manhattan after a family tragedy. Manhattan seems to be populated by friendly snowball throwing junkies and generous and welcoming neighbours, but maybe it is really like that after all! However, what lifts the film a little are amazing performances from the two leads and, most notably the two little girls who play the couple's daughters. Djimon Hounsou is great too, but it is a processed cheesefest. <wipes manly tear from eye, a bit of grit must have got lodged in there, bloody contacts>

 

[rollinder]

just watched an episode of the Clangers - The Bags - now that was random. Song appears in the sky as grumpy balls of cotton wool and I've been spending far to much time on Urban the mention of a jewled lady bag made me laugh - I blame those threads.

 

[Dubversion]

Ghost Rider.

was occasionally enjoyable bollocks but eventually was just bollocks.

It's also definitely part of a post-Sin City version of cinema, where EVERYTHING gets CGI-ed to try and disguise the bits they had to CGI, if that makes sense.
not very good.

 

[Pie 1]

Blood Diamond.

Well, that was 2 hours of my fucking life.

 

[corporate whore]

That Johnny Cash movie - oh the melodrama!

Thought Whackin' Phoenix was OK-ish as the MiB, but Reese Witherspoon... good to see the Academy giving out statues for the ability to look cute in gingham and saying y'all..

"Oh Jowny, I'll not be marryin' yew - won't you think of yaw lil girls, Jowny.."

Kinda reminded me of that Elvis film with Kurt Russell..

 

[Reno]

The Illusionist. Why did I bother ? I hate magicians ! They are only marginally less irritating than mimes and clowns. Just as with The Prestige you'd have to be blind and deaf not to see the "surprise" plot twist coming long before the film ends. I also hated how the film quite clearly employed rather poor CGI for it's "illusions" making the whole thing a cheat from the start.

 

[bmd]

The Illusionist. Why did I bother ? I hate magicians ! They are only marginally less irritating than mimes and clowns. Just as with The Prestige you'd have to be blind and deaf not to see the "surprise" plot twist coming long before the film ends. I also hated how the film quite clearly employed rather poor CGI for it's "illusions" making the whole thing a cheat from the start.

I thought The Illusionist was wholly shit whereas The Prestige was a bit shit but I still liked it.

I watched Little Fish, possibly the best film about how drugs fuck with lives that I've ever seen.

 

[oddworld]

I watched Little Fish, possibly the best film about how drugs fuck with lives that I've ever seen.

Oooh I've wanted to see this for ages , its got Cate Blanchett in it.

I'm gonna order it , only £4.99 on Play at mo.

 

[bmd]

Oooh I've wanted to see this for ages , its got Cate Blanchett in it.

I'm gonna order it , only £4.99 on Play at mo.

Well worth a fiver imo. Cate is great in it, as are the rest of the cast, all the performances are solid.

 

[TheNegotiator]

I watched Neoplian Dianomite BOLLOX

 

[Badgers]

American History X

 

[Dubversion]

American History X

shit, isn't it?

 

[Badgers]

shit, isn't it?

Meh..

I am mixed on it

 

[Dubversion]

lemme guess - you loved the first half but thought the 2nd half spunked it away on easy answers, sentimentality and simplistic characterisation?

 

[Balbi]

House - season one

 

[foamy]

Notes on a Scandal - really disappointed in this having read the book first (what a surprise!)

The Page Turner - was ok but not worth watching again really.

Last King Of Scotland - was good but a bit gorey for befroe bed time! actually wasnt as blown away by it as i had expected to be with all the hype surrounding it....

 

[Badgers]

lemme guess - you loved the first half but thought the 2nd half spunked it away on easy answers, sentimentality and simplistic characterisation?

Spot on...

It is not a fun film and has some good parts to it but could have been a LOT better. Just done my DVD collection to death so am now going through the more second rate stuff.

Hopefully my new stock will be arriving today

 

[Dubversion]

well, as has been much discussed, the original director Tony Kaye made a much darker movie but the studio forced the movie to be reshot or recut (with Norton at the helm), hence the wank ending where Norton meets a nice coloured chap in prison and realises those negroes are lovely after all and naziism is BAD.