What DVD / Video did you watch last night ?

[upsidedownwalrus]

I watched Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade last ngiht. Scandalously my girlfriend had never seen any of them until the other day.

It remains one of the best ever hokum-adventure type films, by far the best of the trilogy, and probably one of the best third films in a trilogy ever too...

 

[MightyAphrodite]

i watched a dvd screener of 'the terminal' tom hanks new film - and i have to say i really liked it

 

[Poi E]

"Open Range" starring and directed by Kevin Costner. Very, very good western with Costner putting in a great turn as the anti-hero cowboy. Great production values and the final shootout-wow, never seen anything like it.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Me and mate watched more xtras from the Two Towers Special Edition DVD. We've been doing this on and off for over a couple of weeks now!

 

[shoddysolutions]

Mulholland Drive... I don't understand what was going on.... but was enjoyable, none the less.

Cowboy: Well, just stop for a little second and think about it. Will ya do that for me?

Adam Kesher: Okay, I'm thinking.

Cowboy: No. You're too busy being a smart aleck to be thinkin'. Now I want ya to think and quit bein' such a smart aleck. Can ya do that for me?

 

[Orang Utan]

Elephant - incredible, a long time since a film affected me so deeply
Tonight I am going to watch Sex Lives Of The Potato Men and Mystic River

 

[bingobowden]

The Happiness Of The Katakuris - excellent bit of Takashi Miike madness.

 

[cynical_bastard]

Gay Niggers From Outer Space

Odd film, really

 

[SubZeroCat]

Mean Girls at the cinema for some light hearted American comedy

Crap film, funny moments

 

[crissy]

Runaway Jury

Not sure which i like better the book or film

 

[kaya]

Time Bandits

 

[Juice Terry]

Anatamie 2 - German medical student joins secret society of doctors who experiment on themsleves trying to create the perfect body with muscle implants. Overtones of nazis creating a master race. Our hero is eventually rescued by a gang of philipino nurses. This film just shouldn't work for so many reasons but I really enjoyed it. Great camera work and some really funny moments.

Rosetta - Palme d'Or 1999. Suffocating and puzzling story of a french girl living in a trailer park looking after her alcoholic mother. Feels like you're holding your breath while you watch her life unravel.

 

[shoddysolutions]

American Splendour

Grumpy obsessive-compulsive college dropout relives the tedium of his boring job as a file clerk by writing comic book stories based on his own experiences and achieves notoriety as a result. Very similar vibe to 'Ghost World', some funny moments but overall fairly dull movie.

 

[Poi E]

"Blood Simple" and "Fargo" over the weekend. Interesting to see the development of the Coens' work.

 

[bingobowden]

House Of 1000 Corpses

 

[ChrisC]

I watched Amelie, which wasn't bad.

 

[Poi E]

Watched "The Quiet American" with Michael Caine and Brendan Fraser. Excellent performances on the part of both leads and good characterisations. Overall a good adaptation of the book, although it seemed to ignore some of the books commentary on English mores of the 1950s in preference to a more direct criticism of American foreign policy. Competition for possession of Vietnam was brought out; competition for the possession of Phuong, the female love interest, was not. Still pleasing, and interesting to note how relevant Graham Greene's novel is today.

 

[bmd]

Fear X which was by a country mile the worst film I've ever seen. Revolves around the conversation between a killer and the killee's (?) husband. You wait the whole boring film for this conversation and it's....erm....well, a word hasn't been invented for how utterly shite it is.

My mates and me ended up having a big argument about whose fault it was that we'd got the film out, which was a lot more entertaining than the film.

 

[bmd]

Elephant - incredible, a long time since a film affected me so deeply
Tonight I am going to watch Sex Lives Of The Potato Men and Mystic River

Is Elephant the one about schoolkids shooting other schoolkids?

So what did you think of Mystic River? I'm guessing Sex Lives Of The Potato Men was an instant classic?

 

[Orang Utan]

That's the Elephant I saw, yes.
Sex Lives was really really bad - I only watched it so I could see a mate in the credits (she was a 'painter' on set).
Mystic River was excellent - great acting, masterly directing, but as usual with Eastwood, he makes you feal morally queasy.

 

[Choc]

recent films i saw were:

at the height of summer -very gentle japanese family story (3 sisters etc oh and one brother too), very nice!

8 mile- i quite enjoyed this film really.

the english drug-scene movie i can't remember the name of at the mo (mother on diet pills etc)-classic!

1 french film from the library (i can't remember the name of) which wasn't too entertaining anyway.

tonight the sweet hereafter- ???

(i love watching films)

 

[ck]

After watching "Reality Bites" at the weekend (dated , yet with a good cast) , I braved watching "Along Came Polly" again because of the Ben Stiller connection , and couldn't believe it when I actually found myself laughing out loud. Anniston is pretty wooden though.
Stiller can really get on my nerves at times ; he just seems to do roles where he has to keep a straight face while all hell is breaking loose around him in a slapstick manner. Other times , I laugh along. Very odd...

 

[bingobowden]

Belleville Rendez-Vous.

Excellent French animated film, with a great soundtrack.

 

[Structaural]

Belleville Rendez-Vous.

loved that animation - especially the bendoverbackwards Waiter! Superb.

recently saw:

Anger Management - okay didn't really laugh very much. Bit of a vehicle for Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson. A few good bits but generally ridiculous.

Ken Park (dutch version - completely uncensored) - Heavy film, wish it had been censored - watching a guy toss-off whilst a cord is wrapped around his neck was a little bit too much esp. the zoom in on his cum dripping cock. Pretty depressing though. Tiffany Loos - what a honey.

Last night saw Gang Tapes. Great film, dogme style. Good look into LA gang culture. The film follows a bunch of crips using a camcorder the youngest member picked up in a car jacking (the film starts with a middle class white family visiting various LA tourist attractions before switching to the gangbangers in a pretty funny scene). Some great dialogue and scary moments. A little like Menace to Society but a lot more real and believable. One guy: 'Serial' is fucking scary all the time...

 

[hotvans]

dead end - scared me silly - wont spoil it but the end was a relief

 

[Firky]

ZenTV - Ninja Cuts Fantastic to kick back with a smoke and watch with a few mates

The ZenTV DVD has twice the capacity of a normal DVD, containing as it does 35 promo videos from the label, a fifteen minute audiovisual mix and a 30 minutes audio mix from Hexstatic. And as if that wasn’t enough, the DVD has a state-of-the-art menu system which means you can watch the videos either in the order we intended, randomly, or chronologically from the oldest to the newest or the newest to the oldest. You can also look up any specific act and check out their videos and album art. Or just leave a gallery of some of Ninja’s finest covers running in the corner of the room as a kind of ambient art installation dahlink… Mwah.

Tracklisting

ZENDV85PAL DVD (PAL Version):
01 Funki Porcini - What Are You Looking At?

o2 Jaga Jazzist - Animal Chin

03 Mr Scruff - Sweetsmoke

04 Coldcut & Hexstatic - Timber

05 Hexstatic - Auto

06 Amon Tobin - Verbal

07 Bonobo - Pick Up

08 The Herbaliser - Missing Suitcase

09 Skalpel - Sculpture

10 Funki Porcini - Atomic Kitchen

11 DJ Vadim - Its On

12 Blockhead - Insomniacs Olympics

13 Hexstatic - Ninja Tune

14 Wagon Christ - Receiver

15 Jaga Jazzist - Day

16 Coldcut - DJ Set

17 Coldcut - More Beats & Pieces

18 Mr Scruff - Get A Move On

19 Funki Porcini - Rockit Soul

20 Amon Tobin - 4 Ton Mantis

21 Coldcut & Hexstatic - Natural Rhythm

22 Kid Koala - Basin Street Blues

23 Cinematic Orchestra - All That You Give

24 The Herbaliser - Something Wicked

25 Sesame Street feat. Pointer Sisters - Pinball Number Count (DJ Food edit 2003)

26 Flanger - Options In The Fire

27 Animals On Wheels - Never In And Never Out

28 Neotropic - Sunflower Girl

29 Coldcut - Re:volution

30 Pest - Chicken Spit

31 The Herbaliser - Wall Crawling Giant Insect Breaks

32 Bonobo - Flutter

33 Homelife - Flying Wonders

34 Mr Scruff - Honeydew

35 Kid Koala - Fender Bender

36 Hexstatic Video mash-up (15 minutes)

37 Exclusive audio mix (60 minutes)

38 Album Sleeve Gallery

 

[Fidel]

Shriek 2 funnier than I expected followed by Shaun of the Dad, dead pan humour with some chcukling out loud lines in it.

 

[shoddysolutions]

Fight Club

Surprisingly true to the original book, except for the Hollywood en<cock> ding. A thoroughly modern, gothic horror fable disguised as a love story in the form of a psychotic episode.

 

[pinkychukkles]

Watched Deliverance with ck on Tuesday night and then The Sting last night.

Thought Deliverance was a bit over-rated tbh, although I can understand why it could have been so shocking at the time. That 'Duelin' Banjos' bit of music tends to stick in your head for some time afterwards though....

The Sting was an engrossing caper, quite enjoyable. Lots of twists and turns.

Got Mean Streets to watch before returning the DVDs on Sat; it's Scorcese's first picture and I'm getting out all the films that I haven't seen that are mentioned in Peter Biskind's book Easy Riders Raging Bulls which is a quality read.

 

[alco]

We watched Adaptation 'cos of the Kauffman thing despite both of us normally passionately hating Nicholas Cage. Adaptation is excellent. Very original and hillariously funny. Almost as good as Eternal Sunshine ...