What DVD / Video did you watch last night ?

[butchersapron]

Bresson's Mouchette. Very good, inlcuding some classic sonambulant acting. I now know exactly where the Dardenne's Rosetta came from.

 

[oi2002]

The Vikings mainly because Ernest Borgnine was in it; Ern is my kind of guy. Pure hokum.

Tony Curtis wears a miniskirt worthy of Beyonce for the first part of the movie.

 

[belboid]

Alice Cooper - Welcome to my Nightmare (with Vincent Price)

My first bit torrent movie - and bloody brilliant it is too!

 

[Orang Utan]

The Woodsman with Kevin Bacon. I thought it treated it's subject matter quite well, although I think it will always be difficult to portray accurately. Bacon is great, a much better actor then most of his peers, e.g. Penn.

I thought it was pretty good too, but I was somewhat perturbed by the suggestion that the paedophile Bacon was concerned about was somehow a worse paedophile than himself cos he was after boys, not girls

 

[Jo/Joe]

I don't thibk that was the reason. I think he recognised that his condition was wrong, and let out a bit of his inner rage on the guy, who he also probably considered to be taking child abuse further then him. In a sense, he might have been trying to beat up what he didn't want to be.

 

[belboid]

Revengers Tragedy - by Alex Cox with Christopher Ecclestone & Eddie Izzard.

Top stuff, a Jacobean tragedy with a whole heap of zest panach style and blood.

Fuller review at http://urbanfilmreview.blogspot.com/

 

[crissy]

Ive been making my way through the new Dr Who series.

I'm not sure which i prefer, the new series or the originals

 

[Wide Eyed Angel]

freeze frame. stuck it out to the bitter end, it won't be being watched again in a hurry. the way lee evans spoke annoyed me

 

[passenger]

Ancor man had its moments some very funny indeed but no really me

 

[oi2002]

Ichi The Killer, mostly from behind the sofa.

 

[Leica]

The Girl Can't Help It

 

[MightyAphrodite]

The Aviator...i've been meaning to watch it for ages, just got around to it...surpisingly i thought it was quite good...

i was more interested to see the bits about ava gardner as my gran (mam's mam) and her sisters went to high school with her at a place called rock ridge...they kept in touch from time to time, up until my gran died in 1983...so it was interesting for me to watch i suppose....

but i ended up pretty interested in the whole howard hughes story, too bad they made it mostly about his OCD , and didn't focus as much on other things they should/could have....but it wasnt that bad at all.

 

[Pie 1]

I 'heart' Huckabees.

Mmmm. Can't decide if I liked it all that much or not.
Ultimately, I think it was trying too hard for that Charlie Kaufmanesque sort of The Royal Tenenbaums territory and didn't really pull it off.

One thing was certain though, Jude Law was rubbish. He's really not a very good actor is he?

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I 'heart' Huckabees.

Mmmm. Can't decide if I liked it all that much or not.
Ultimately, I think it was trying too hard for that Charlie Kaufmanesque sort of The Royal Tenenbaums territory and didn't really pull it off.

One thing was certain though, Jude Law was rubbish. He's really not a very good actor is he?

I loved it. Actually enjoyed it much more than Royal Tenenbaums.

Jude Law wasn't great, I agree, but the rest of it made up for that.

The film really reminded me of some people i know in real life and the bollocks we chat when we're hanging out in the park or whatever.

 

[mhendo]

I 'heart' Huckabees.

I've been hesitant about seeing this. It just seemed a little too twee.

I watched Bend It Like Beckham. Despite the fact that the ending was as predictable as English rain, i thought it was a charming movie.

 

[shoddysolutions]

The Patsy

Utter bilgewater comedy featuring Jerry Lewis, who taught Jim Carrey everything he knows, ie how to pull funny faces and walk funny. Lewis plays a bellboy (again) who becomes the subject of a devious plot by a dead comedian's production team to keep their gravy train going. Lewis's apparent sincerity begins to intrigue the youngest female on the team, at which point I started falling asleep and switched it off. Pants, pants, pants.

 

[stdPikachu]

the ending was as predictable as English rain

I can tell you're a foreigner

I tried to watch The Godfather again last night, and for about the seventh time was bored to tears about 45 minutes into it, and gave up.

 

[mhendo]

I can tell you're a foreigner

True enough, although when i lived in England it was the locals who complained more than anyone about the weather.

 

[mhendo]

And i tend to agree with you about the Godfather movie. I much preferred the book.

 

[STFC]

Hamburger Hill. I love Vietnam war films, but I found this one sadly lacking. Repetetive and no real character development.

 

[belboid]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

still as good on secoind viewing - we tried to get the in-laws to watch it, but they fell aslepp. aah well, there loss.

 

[mhendo]

First six episodes of Six Feet Under.

One of the best TV shows i've ever seen, with great stories, brilliant performances, quirky humour, and some tear-jerking moments.

 

[Juice Terry]

Visitor Q - Found it a bit disappointing really, I'm having a bit of a Miike season round my house!

Loved Agitator, Ichi, Katakuris and City of Lost Souls but this one just didn't do it for me at all.

 

[jeff_leigh]

Time Bandits

 

[Jo/Joe]

Les Diaboliques.

 

[lucy5]

Drop dead fred

 

[walktome]

Drop dead fred

Ooh, that used to be one of my favourite movies when I was a kid!

 

[EatMoreChips]

Um, the second chunk of the new Doctor Who series. We're a bit behind over here.

 

[butchersapron]

A very thoughtful Spanish Film called Butterfly's Tongue - about a young boy growing up in the few years from the coming of the Republic to the Popular Front and the revolution (guess what he's supposed to represent!) and his developing relationships with adults, the world (in many senses) and truth. Highly recomended.

 

[G. Fieendish]

The Goodies 4 disc Boxset....