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What DVD / Video did you watch last night ?
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did she? Annie's ace
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
House Of Sand And Fog - tragic melodrama involving a dispute over ownership of a house. Very well acted, beautifully shot, horribly glum and depressing, but it doesn't quite work for me.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
S1 E5 of The Soprano’s – this is the one where Tony and Meadow are in Maine looking at colleges and Carmela is at home entertaining Father Mike (?) Love, for example, the forbidden-loved pair alone with the storm and lightening outside contributing the ‘forces of nature’ cliché, the 2 ‘made’ gangsters oblivious in gangster world hunting each other, the contrasting drunks Father (religious ‘Father’) and (Soprano) daughter . . . suddenly, I’m seeing an awful lot of depth - probably me just waking up.
I’m new to The Soprano’s and, from what has been said, I suppose I’ve been waiting to be hooked. In this episode it feels like a level of quality has been hit, the shapes and symmetries, the various approaches to humour, the situational observations, the lies, deceptions, a playful script, subtle, clever direction – ooh, the hand-held shots circling/dancing around Carmela and Father Mike . . . Also, the way wife disarms husband with the crack about the Thorn Birds . . . I suppose we’re still scene-setting for everything that follows but it feels like something substantial is coming together now.
I know it can’t match The Wire but hopeful it’s going to take the edge off the downer from S4 0f The Wire ending.
To repeat, watching this level of entertainment on demand, in DVD quality, episode-by-episode right through from start to finish seriously enhances what is already outstanding. Loving it, all the way 'til Christmas.
I’m new to The Soprano’s and, from what has been said, I suppose I’ve been waiting to be hooked. In this episode it feels like a level of quality has been hit, the shapes and symmetries, the various approaches to humour, the situational observations, the lies, deceptions, a playful script, subtle, clever direction – ooh, the hand-held shots circling/dancing around Carmela and Father Mike . . . Also, the way wife disarms husband with the crack about the Thorn Birds . . . I suppose we’re still scene-setting for everything that follows but it feels like something substantial is coming together now.
I know it can’t match The Wire but hopeful it’s going to take the edge off the downer from S4 0f The Wire ending.
To repeat, watching this level of entertainment on demand, in DVD quality, episode-by-episode right through from start to finish seriously enhances what is already outstanding. Loving it, all the way 'til Christmas.
elevendayempire
Registered Loofah
The Wire and Dexter. Woo!
SG
SG
purves grundy
ambient clown remix
Mulholland Drive
I think I understood it. Lovely to watch, though.
*nips off to Wikipedia*
I think I understood it. Lovely to watch, though.
*nips off to Wikipedia*
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
purves grundy said:
Then you're either on medication or should be.corporate whore
oh, thought you were dead
Perfume.
Is alright, without pulling up any trees.
Alan Rickman always watchable. Hoffman fairly laughable.
Nicely shot.
Lead actor a shoe-in for the Ian Brown biopic.
Ladykiller:
Tunekiller:
Is alright, without pulling up any trees.
Alan Rickman always watchable. Hoffman fairly laughable.
Nicely shot.
Lead actor a shoe-in for the Ian Brown biopic.
Ladykiller:
Tunekiller:
purves grundy
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OK OK, I didn't. It's nothing to be embarrassed about, then?London_Calling said:
purves grundy
ambient clown remix
It was the last 30 minutes that threw me, actually.Reno said:
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
My guess is the idea is to enjoy the ride and allow any ideas that chance your way to . . . oxidise, maybe.
Maybe it even distracts if you go in search of conventional conclusions. But hey, whatdoI know.
Maybe it even distracts if you go in search of conventional conclusions. But hey, whatdoI know.
Reno
The In Kraut
purves grundy said:
In short (SPOILERAMA):
It's generally considered that the Naomi Watts character is a washed up failure of an actress who had her girlfriend killed by a hitman when she left her to marry a successful director. To repress that horrific reality, she then escaped into an imaginative world where she was a rising star who was involved in an adventurous romance with the women she still loved but in real life had had killed. The main bulk of the film consists of her fantasy life, which in the end is revealed to have been a sham.
Lynch did something similar in Lost Highway where Bill Pullman's character murdered his adulterous wife and then metamorphosed into a completely different person to escape that reality, until it also all comes crashing down on him at the end.
Lynch's films are perfectly enjoyable without an explanation as much of the pleasure comes from the many offbeat details and their often episodic nature, but in their own way most of them do tend to make sense on a narative level.
CharlieAddict
nekomimi rocks!!!
life without me - a very insightful narrative on how a terminally ill woman lives her final moments. loved it.
purves grundy
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ThanksReno said:
CharlieAddict
nekomimi rocks!!!
employee of the month - this film would have been okay if it wasn't for jessica simpson.
The Groke
hot hail/Paging Dr. Beat
sojourner said:Simps the movie
Better than I thought it would be, but was lacking any mention of Sideshow Bob. Loved the Green Day thing, esp the American Idiot - Funeral Version
Spiderpig
I watched this last night too and was quite disappointed.
For all of you who have seen the "spiderpig" bit, this is the funniest part of the whole film.
It's not bad, but it's not great and when you have been watching the show for 15 years, it is hard to stomach the 48th Marge-leaving-Homer-Homer-Winning-her-back-scenario.
I expected a little more.
the Stiff documentary that was on BBC4 a while back - excellent.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
The Wire S4 - eps1-4
Shit, there's still situations and moments in S4 that are in the book, it's that rich
Shit, there's still situations and moments in S4 that are in the book, it's that rich
ie the book the series is based on?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Oops, sorry, I'm still asleep, the book I meant was Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets by David Simon - the series Homicide: Life On The Streets was based on it, but it's so detailed, that there's still incidents and even characters in The Wire that come from the bookDubversion said:
Orang Utan said:
ah, I thought the Wire was based on its own book, if you see what I mean. Is it a good read then?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Yeah, it's fascinatingDubversion said:
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I think The Wire was also inspired in some part by The Corner, also written by David Simon - this was later adapted as a mini-series by HBO and has a lot of the cast of The Wire in it, as Homicide did. And Oz.
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