What DVD / Video did you watch last night ?

[Cloud]

Straightheads

Oh dear...

Sex, more sex, violence, Danny Dwyer in his usual role of playing someone who's just had a kicking, rape, more sex, revenge involving fucking someone up the arse with a sniper rifle all finished off with a dollop of violence.

Shite

 

[Orang Utan]

Fuck me. I had no idea.
Managed about half of it on a flight a few months ago - just utter tripe.

The money, I know - but really, how do you go from things like Black Hawk Down, Thelma & Louise & Gladiator etc to this dog shit. I mean, it wasn't even filmed very well

He's only made 2 good films and one of those is heavily flawed.

 

[CharlieAddict]

He's only made 2 good films and one of those is heavily flawed.

you mean alien and bladerunner?

didn't you like legend, haannibal, black hawk down?

 

[Orang Utan]

No! Especially Black Hawk Down!

 

[Pie 1]

He's only made 2 good films and one of those is heavily flawed.

I was thinking more of the quality of the overall production tbh, But that's not very clear, sorry.

BHD & Gladiator may be top draw Hollowood fodder, but no matter what you think of them, there is no denying how brilliantly made they are. Scott's trademark is for breathtaking cinematography etc.
I was just suprised to find him behind what can only be described as turgid 'made for tv' dross.

As for his '2' films I'll go for Alien & Thelma & Louise

 

[Dubversion]

watched eps 7,8,9 of Season 3 of the Wire

building up nicely

 

[Pie 1]

building up nicely

Isn't it just.
I'm up to E4. Avon's not a happy bunny is he?

 

[foo]

Ronin

how come DeNiro keeps saying 'bloke'. i thought americans didn't use that word.

 

[Orang Utan]

BHD & Gladiator may be top draw Hollowood fodder, but no matter what you think of them, there is no denying how brilliantly made they are. Scott's trademark is for breathtaking cinematography etc.
I was just suprised to find him behind what can only be described as turgid 'made for tv' dross.

Have you seen White Squall and GI Jane?

 

[purves grundy]

Ronin

how come DeNiro keeps saying 'bloke'. i thought americans didn't use that word.

Did you find it as rubbish as me i.e. quite rubbish?

 

[Pie 1]

Have you seen White Squall and GI Jane?

Point taken

 

[Orang Utan]

Belle De Jour, not as good or as funny, as The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgoisie, but amusing all the same
Even Dwarves Started Small - bizarre early Herzog film with a bunch of dwarves overtaking an unidentitified institution in what looks like Lanzarote, smashing things up, abusing animals and laughing eerily. That's about it. Bizarre. Also contains possibly the world's first documented ghost riding

 

[Dubversion]

more Season 3 Wire. Nearly there.

and yes, the gay club spot

 

[jeff_leigh]

Big Doll House - got a flash of Pam Griers tit

 

[sojourner]

Japanese Story


Wow. Brilliant story. Can't say more, but would love to!

 

[Reno]

Japanese Story


Wow. Brilliant story. Can't say more, but would love to!

Yes, it's great isn't it. Seems to be about one thing for the first half and then takes a sharp turn and becomes about something completely different.

 

[sojourner]

Yes, it's great isn't it. Seems to be about one thing for the first half and then takes a sharp turn and becomes about something completely different.

Yup

It's fair to say my jaw hit the floor

Toni Collette is fantastic isn't she?

 

[Orang Utan]

Is that the Australian one with Toni Collette in the desert? If so, two thumbs up from me - it made water come from my eyes

 

[Yetman]

Hot Fuzz

Very good. Bit long though

 

[N_igma]

Father Ted. Season 2.

Never get bored of this.

 

[sojourner]

Is that the Australian one with Toni Collette in the desert? If so, two thumbs up from me - it made water come from my eyes

Yep

Me too

 

[jeff_leigh]

Sweet Sweetbacks Badassss Song

 

[corporate whore]

A Touch of Evil. Quality, with reservations about Chuck Heston done up as a Mexican..

 

[CharlieAddict]

atonement - tragedy of circumstance. the lack of time. the wanting of a shared space between two lovers. the reality of it all.

great film.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Arashi no yoru ni

think of it as bambi meets the odd couple

the story of a friendship between a goat and a wolf..

nice film... fine for all ages... one thing i noticed is that a lot of the animation looked quite american (lanscapes and some of the movement) quite possibly inspired by the classic stuff like road runner etc

though the wolf pack had blatant yakuza styling to it as well as other anime aspects


also the wolf had one thick dialect de yansu

 

[Reno]

Arashi no yoru ni

think of it as bambi meets the odd couple

That sounds nice

I had friends round for a DVD evening and we watched And Soon the Darkness, an excellent British thriller from 1970 by the team behind The Avengers, Blood and Black Lace, another super stylish 60's Giallo thriller by Mario Bava about a serial killer bumping off models in a fashion house and The Machinist, which I'd seen before, but which holds up rather well the second time round.

 

[Orang Utan]

I watched Circus Of Horrors - a lurid tale from the company that made Peeping Tom, starring Anton Diffring (everyone's favourite Nazi in a ridiculous amount of war movies) as a plastic surgeon who goes undercover in a circus after an operation goes wrong. Great stuff!
I also saw Saw 3 - rubbish!

 

[Jambooboo]

The Champ (the Jon Voight remake).

Haven't watched it in maybe ten years - I remembered it with great affection so I looked it up. I had shivers running down my spine in the final scene, though I surprisingly didn't blub.

 

[May Kasahara]

Whenever I see that film (invariably on a Sunday afternoon) I always swear I'm not going to cry, and I always do

 

[fear-n-loathing]

godfather part 2 gonna watch teh 3rd one later