What DVD / Video did you watch last night ?
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Sleeper is funny when viewed as what it is - a slapstick comedy poking fun at the New York intelligentsia of the 1970s through the 'hip' medium of a dystopian scienxce fiction movie.
The bit with the giant chicken and banana skin is pure genius. So is the orgasmatron and the orb. But it isn't really funny.
Apparently Allen wrote a three-hour film with the first 90 minutes was set in present-day New York, but the studio wouldn't finance the whole thing.
Best remembered fondly, but never seen again IMO.
I'm in my thirties Me and Agent Sparrow watched 'Maid In Manhattan' today cos one of her flatmates had it. It was absolute crap. 
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The Corporation
3 hour Canadian made Documentary about the role of the Corporation in modern capitalist society, I liked it, very well made but could have been more indepth.
For example in part 2, they covered the collusion between Corporations and Fascist gouverments. The example they used was the obvious one, American companies doing deals with the German Nazi gouverment (IBM etc). Which in its own right was a good piece of journalism, but other less obvious and less crassly emotive collousion could have been examined also, because lets face it, it goes on all the time.
Part 1, where they took the premise that if a corporation is an individual under law, what sort of individual are they was amusing (Corporation is a psychopath!).
The conclusions where sound, but there was a "what can we do about it" part which was a bit lame to be honest, and echoed what Social Democrats have always said.
Still, worth a watch, copies available to any that want it
3 hour Canadian made Documentary about the role of the Corporation in modern capitalist society, I liked it, very well made but could have been more indepth.
For example in part 2, they covered the collusion between Corporations and Fascist gouverments. The example they used was the obvious one, American companies doing deals with the German Nazi gouverment (IBM etc). Which in its own right was a good piece of journalism, but other less obvious and less crassly emotive collousion could have been examined also, because lets face it, it goes on all the time.
Part 1, where they took the premise that if a corporation is an individual under law, what sort of individual are they was amusing (Corporation is a psychopath!).
The conclusions where sound, but there was a "what can we do about it" part which was a bit lame to be honest, and echoed what Social Democrats have always said.
Still, worth a watch, copies available to any that want it
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Assplotations by Aurora Snow. Well impressed with it, will get the other ones in the series now.
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genshiken episode 8
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"Game Over: Kasparov & the Machine" (1997).
A docco about the prolly the greatest chess player in history, Gary Kasparov in his 1997 match against IBM's supercomputer Deep Blue, the greatest chess computer ever designed. V. well madfe docco that should deffo appeal to chess fans like Justin and computer buffs. I think it has wider appeal too.
Also I was surprised to see the rented DVD let me install Fritz, the strongest commercially available chess program. I've yet to survive past 30 moves at Fritz's "club level"
A docco about the prolly the greatest chess player in history, Gary Kasparov in his 1997 match against IBM's supercomputer Deep Blue, the greatest chess computer ever designed. V. well madfe docco that should deffo appeal to chess fans like Justin and computer buffs. I think it has wider appeal too.
Also I was surprised to see the rented DVD let me install Fritz, the strongest commercially available chess program. I've yet to survive past 30 moves at Fritz's "club level"
G. Fieendish
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Last night's Dvd Viewing....
Disc 1 of the Doctor Who "Lost In Time" boxset, showing the some of the surviving Hartnell/Troughton episodes, that escaped being erased in the 60's, & Mamoru Oshii's Avalon, about a girl who plays a addictive & illegal Massive multi user On-line Role Playing Game (MMORG) called Avalon, who goes "Ghosthunting" within the Game....
Grimley
P.S Loki, about the DVD you were watching last night, (Game Over), did it make any reference to Kasparov's "Cheating", as reportedly, the demands he gave to the organisers of the matches were such, were Deep Blue/Red a
Human player not a computer,as a result, it would be continously protesting to the referee about Kasparov's conduct...
Disc 1 of the Doctor Who "Lost In Time" boxset, showing the some of the surviving Hartnell/Troughton episodes, that escaped being erased in the 60's, & Mamoru Oshii's Avalon, about a girl who plays a addictive & illegal Massive multi user On-line Role Playing Game (MMORG) called Avalon, who goes "Ghosthunting" within the Game....
Grimley
P.S Loki, about the DVD you were watching last night, (Game Over), did it make any reference to Kasparov's "Cheating", as reportedly, the demands he gave to the organisers of the matches were such, were Deep Blue/Red a
Human player not a computer,as a result, it would be continously protesting to the referee about Kasparov's conduct...
I found Spiderman 2 to be like the film equivalent of sweets - nice while you're watching it, but afterwards it seems utterly forgettable. The other day I watched Batman Returns for the first time since 1992 - now THAT is how to make a superhero film! Awesome stuff, and good for adults as much as children. IMO Burton's two Batman films are way superior to any of the recent superhero films. Although the two X Men films aren't bad.
Last night I watched The Believer - pretty good film, although I was slightly sceptical about the subject matter. Would anyone really go against their beliefs so much that they would join a group radically hating them? Surely they would just get involved with some kind of secular organisation?
Last night I watched The Believer - pretty good film, although I was slightly sceptical about the subject matter. Would anyone really go against their beliefs so much that they would join a group radically hating them? Surely they would just get involved with some kind of secular organisation?
Richard Linklater's 'Waking Life': features an assortment of dudes, professors and local characters all rambling and ranting philosophically about the nature of our consciousness. A film that's probably a whole lot more engaging if your stoned.
Basically, it's 'Slacker' remade using a really dreamy animation process called rotoscoping.
Full of a bit too many ideas to process in one go. I liked it though...
Basically, it's 'Slacker' remade using a really dreamy animation process called rotoscoping.
Full of a bit too many ideas to process in one go. I liked it though...
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Semi-lame retro-styled future noir (cf Bladerunner, Brazil etc) starts off asking important questions about where genetics will lead us into the future, but ends with a heavy-handed message that 'you can do it if you really wanna'. Skips the real thorny issues such as eugenics based on the notion of 'race' by throwing in the odd black or asian face, but not in a speaking part, obviously
Semi-lame retro-styled future noir (cf Bladerunner, Brazil etc) starts off asking important questions about where genetics will lead us into the future, but ends with a heavy-handed message that 'you can do it if you really wanna'. Skips the real thorny issues such as eugenics based on the notion of 'race' by throwing in the odd black or asian face, but not in a speaking part, obviously
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Kill Bill Vol 2. Not as good as the first, but the fight scene with Daryl Hannah is excellent. Also, the music.
Sunspots said:Richard Linklater's 'Waking Life': features an assortment of dudes, professors and local characters all rambling and ranting philosophically about the nature of our consciousness. A film that's probably a whole lot more engaging if your stoned.
Basically, it's 'Slacker' remade using a really dreamy animation process called rotoscoping.
Full of a bit too many ideas to process in one go. I liked it though...
thoroughly enjoyed that, especially when i kind of stopped trying too hard to follow it and just let it wash over me
last night i watched the whole of Black Books Series 1 (
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