What DVD / Video did you watch last night ?

[N2Oboy]

The Godfather II.
It was aces and I'm going to have to watch it again and then once more witht the commentry.

 

[g force]

Insomnia (the original one). Quality film, very dark, much better than the remake - Skarsgaard's policeman came across as pretty fucked up and sinister.

 

[Dubversion]

I watched American Splendour, about Harvey Pekar the comic book bloke.

It was proper funny.

hello. i am a NERRDDD.



great film.

 

[belboid]

episode 2 of the first series of Buffy.

expect me to make very dull posts on this thread for the next 142 days or so

 

[Random One]

Originally Posted by little loaf

i've never seen confessions of a dangerous mind, but i know it was written by charlie kaufman - how could it be boring?!

it was so slow and i never really cared about the main character...and it should have had alot more clever bits like it did near the end with the coffee switching.


American Splendour is a class film

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

For my sins, last night I watched "US Marshalls", which I actually quite enjoyed. Although the Fugitive was far better.

Tonight I'm going to watch either Monsoon Wedding, The Gods Must Be Crazy 1 or 2, or Beijing Bicycle.

Tis great being in the land of 50p DVDs...

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Starship Troopers 2

Absolutely shite, avoid at all costs if you enjoyed the original.

Shit!

My housemates were watching that the other day. It looked utter crud.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

i watched Return Of The King on Monday. lord alone knows why - closure, i guess - and it was toss. honestly - i'm not just being iconoclastic but it just didn't know when to fucking end. it could have easily been an hour shorter (i have nothing against long movies as the content justifies the footage)..

wank.

Rubbish, it was amazing.

I personally can't wait for the extended cut which will be an hour LONGER!

(given that the first two ees have been an improvement on the cinema cuts)

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Thank fuck somebody has finally agreed with my opinion of return of the King . IMHO the last half hour pretty much ruined the entire trilogy for me Peter Jackson should go back to making good films like Bad Taste and Brain Dead

And last night I watched Gangs of New York !

OK, admittedly the "jumping around on the bed" bit was somewhat unnecessary, but it would have been scandalous if they'd missed out the Grey Havens. Its an essential part of the book that Frodo doesn't just live happily ever after.

I quite like GONY. i know most people think it was shite.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

The Pianist, about how the Jews were treated in Warsaw by the Nazi's during the 2nd World War. Utterly heartbreaking film, makes it all the harder to understand what the fuck is going on in Israel today.

A quality film.

 

[Poi E]

Watched "Top Gun". Never realised at the tender age of 13 that it was full of homo-erotic themes. Whaddya know.

 

[Diamond]

I saw Bangkok Dangerous last night. It's a Thai film in the style of the Asian gangland/assassin genre but it's also a brilliantly done take on the tragedy genre (with a lot of shakespearean devices). The main character is a deaf mute assassin of incredible skill. Consequently the film is shot in a kind of filtered fashion to represent his dislocation from the world. Essentially he meets a beautiful store attendant who he falls in love with which confronts him with a choice of trying to live in the world or outside of it.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

A good Thai film I'd recommend that I watched about 2 weeks ago is Nang Nak. Its a version of an ancient Thai horror story, which has been filmed about 20 times, but this one is conisdered the best (1999). A really beautiful film, which is fairly rare for horror...

 

[silentNate]

I watched Van Helsing- absolute shite, hysterically bad

 

[bingobowden]

I watched Requiem For A Dream. Excellent stuff.

 

[ck]

"The Score" with De Niro , Edward Norton and Marlon Brando. Enjoyable thriller which passed me by on it's theatrical release.

 

[Spud u like]

Tremors 4 - Not as bad as you might think! alot better than Starship troopers 2!!!! ( My girlfriends choices,the muppet!)

 

[killer b]

hitchhike - franco nero & david hess playing to type, but still one of the most edge-of-your-seat films i've seen in some years. Loads of scenes been lifted by other films too - jeeperz creepers and kill bill to name but two.

& a morricone soundtrack so good i had to rob it from a mate this afternoon...

 

[Iam]

Just watched Chris Rock: Never Scared.

 

[kaya]

The previous night I watched a borrowed dvd of 'O Brother where art thou'. I'm a massive Coen brothers fan but this will need repeated viewing (I couldn't understand the strong deep south accents for a while). The one line that I do remember went something like "thank god your mama died giving birth, if she'd seen ya she would've died o' shame""

I love the Coens, but was really disappointed when this one came out. But I haven't seen it since and my boyfriend assures me that it gets better after the second viewing. Didn't even bother to see "Intolerable Cruelty"

 

[lyra_k]

Searching for Debra Winger - a documentary made by a simpering Rosanna Arquette. Not sure exactly what the point was that she was trying to make, but it came across as a load of slightly ageing, pseudy, botoxed luvvies moaning about the paucity of decent parts for actresses who are no longer 21.

They seemed completely unaware of the irony that they were all cookie-cutter size 6/8 blondes with very pretty faces, who had played as much part in their youths in perpetuating the stereotypes that help to create the demand for eternal youth and beauty in movies that they were complaining about, now that they were no longer benefiting from it personally.

 

[Kamandi]

I watched The Kingdom - Lars Von Trier's mini-series that the shite Stephen King version is based - it is of course immeasuarably superior - but I think I have only half of it - anyone got the second half?

I've been looking for this for a couple of years at least; I don't think that it exists in english on DVD. Its not listed on the
IMDB anyway. I have the sneaky suspicion that it may not be any good. Nothing to back this up except a feeling, so don't take my ignorant word for it. I loved the first one and I agree, the US version completely missed the point, but no big suprise there.

 

[feyr]

watched Girl with the peral earing, and love actually. both ok films but not great

tonight its a choice between city of god, 21 grams or once upon a time in mexico

 

[Solitarian]

Haven't watched anything but Amazon has just shipped my long-awaited City Of God DVD. I've read that it's brilliant as I missed it when the local indie theatres were screening it 2 years ago.

Finally, the wait is over

Actually, I watched No Man's Land a few nights back. Brilliant dark comedy that I'll disclose nothing further about.

 

[Random One]

Pirates of The Carribean

 

[belboid]

I love the Coens, but was really disappointed when this one came out. But I haven't seen it since and my boyfriend assures me that it gets better after the second viewing. Didn't even bother to see "Intolerable Cruelty"

you're weird, its a fucking great film straight off!

me - another 3 episodes of buffy......

 

[DarthSydodyas]

Not last nite, but some of my recent viewings:

Sexy Beast
Wasabi Alternate title: Wasabi - The Japanese Dip That Kicks Like a Mule
Les Rivières pourpres

 

[ck]

Over the weekend :

"Man On The Moon" with Jim Carrey. Very interesting film , with Carrey playing the part of Andy Kaufman well. I'm still no closer to knowing the real Andy Kaufman though ; was he actually ever actually funny or just a complete loon ?

"Yeah Right !" / "Hot Chocolate" (again ! ; skateboard gold...)

Finished off with the start of "The Sting" , with Robert Redford and Paul Newman. Hopefully I'll finish watching it tonight ; I don't think I've ever seen it before (?!) Seems pretty good , but dated so far...

 

[Juice Terry]

Recent viewings include:-

Hidden Fortress, How is Toshiro Mifune.

Big Wednesday - Triple good coming of age 70's surfer pic, "Is that Matt Johnson?"

Confidence - ok, but these grifter movies are just getting predictable now. Matchstick Men was way better.

 

[g force]

This weekend:

Taxi and Taxi 2, Nikita and The Dark Crystal