What DVD / Video did you watch last night ?

[jodal]

drugs are bad, m'kay?

i also snuck in Criminal, with that Reilly fella, Maggie Gyllenhaal (sp?) and Diego Luna. a reasonable remake of a Latin American original, basically just a crime/fraud caper with a 'sting' twist. quite well done.

I hated Nine Queens so will most likely give this remake a miss, despite the presence of lovely Maggie Gyllenhaal.

 

[ChrisFilter]

Endless Summer 2

 

[Pieface]

Are you some sort of secret Australian, Filter? Please don't tell me that's a surf film....

 

[Pieface]

Vera Drake - I liked it. Those good old plucky plebs

That got on my wick really badly when I went to see it. It's the constant snivelling. I'm sure Imelda Staunton's performance was fantastic but the film was gruelling for all the wrong reasons - usually it's the content with Mike Leigh that gets you....but her character really, really irritated me.

 

[shakespearegirl]

Closer - Jude Law, Clive Owen, Julia Roberts
Terrible terrible terrible, cliche of all things bad in British films

 

[Poi E]

Are you some sort of secret Australian, Filter? Please don't tell me that's a surf film....

What's wrong with a surf film, maaaate?

Not seen the second. The first was great.

 

[mwgdrwg]

Constantine.

Lots of money spent on effects, but a really bad film.

 

[tastebud]

million dollar baby.
not my choice from blockbuster.
vaguely entertaining: a mix between billy elliott & rocky, i reckon.
sad ending, but perhaps just because life is a little bit sad this week.

 

[onemonkey]

yes - and i thought it was going to be about babies

 

[passenger]

Vera Drake - I liked it. Those good old plucky plebs

wicked film, "nice cup of tea fred "

 

[Truly Topcat]

I watched Essex Boys and Ricky Gervais 'Animals.'

Both entertaining in their own different ways....

 

[jeff_leigh]

The Incredibles

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

The Spanish Prisoner - poorly acted, reasonably obvious too, if you've seen The Sting, but it passed the time nicely.

I really liked this. Although I haven't seen the Sting...

 

[herman]

http://imdb.com/title/tt0151239/

Kolobos- Not a bad film, attempted to push all the right buttons for the genre. Cinematography was reminicent of early Dario Argento, the plot was not that different from My Little Eye, but added elements from Cube and more generic slasher fare (scream, halloween etc).

 

[Loki]

Across the Andes by Frog starring Michael Palin, co-written with Terry Jones. It's one of Palin's Ripping Yarns, every episode brilliant comedy.

 

[jeff_leigh]

Starship Troopers -

 

[Juice Terry]

Live Flesh.

Another superb offering from Almodovar, probably the first of his films to show his more rounded and polished recent style. Fantastic portrayal of Spain growing up fast after Franco.

 

[shakespearegirl]

Somersault - Australian film, really good and worth a watch

 

[rubbershoes]

That got on my wick really badly when I went to see it. It's the constant snivelling. I'm sure Imelda Staunton's performance was fantastic but the film was gruelling for all the wrong reasons - usually it's the content with Mike Leigh that gets you....but her character really, really irritated me.

She's just a poor imitation of Mrs Overall

 

[belboid]

I really liked this. Although I haven't seen the Sting...

problem with Mamet stuff is that it often doesn't really seem to matter who the actors are, you can close your eyes and you wont miss anything. Some nice twists, but too many silly ones. didn't convince me like Glengarry Glenross, or Oleanna.

Still better than the one he did for Hannibal tho!

 

[maya]

The Holy Mountain-
never gets past that misogynistic scene with a billionaire fingering his mother's mumified corpse to see whether its gonna rain...utter toss

(last time i ripped the vcr out of the player and threw it out the window- now i stopped the dvd and threw it in the "donation for the salvation army" bin- might confuse some pious souls )

 

[boing!]

Oh Brother Where Art Thou - love that film

 

[jigsaw]

Sahara!

Bad acting, Bad directing, Bad production, Shite script......

But Hey! I lurved it

 

[maldwyn]

Broken Blossoms (1919 D. W. Griffith) with Lillian Gish.
Set in Limehouse a Chinese chap falls for the adopted fifteen year old daughter of Battling Burrows a xenophobic prize-fighter.

Shockingly middle-class sub-titles.

 

[Poi E]

Bad acting, Bad directing, Bad production, Shite script......

But Hey! I lurved it

Agree, wonderfully crap, and it looked like the cast thought so too. Grins being barely concealed.

 

[shoddysolutions]

Brass Eye

Twisted genius. Funny and shocking.

Michael Grade, then chief executive of Channel 4, repeatedly intervened to demand edits to episodes of Brass Eye, and rescheduled some shows for sensitivity. This interference outraged Morris, who responded by inserting into one episode a subliminal message stating, "Grade is a cunt". [2] As another insult to Grade, Morris supposedly wrote to Nelson Mandela telling him that Grade campaigned for him to be kept in prison, and protested upon his release. He also wrote to musician Paul Simon, claiming that Grade always considered Art Garfunkel the more talented of the duo.

 

[Poi E]

"Lifeforce". Dug it out again. Mad as a meat-axe Steve Railsback, a gorgeous naked alien vampire bird and London being wiped out.

 

[Major Tom]

"Lifeforce". Dug it out again. Mad as a meat-axe Steve Railsback, a gorgeous naked alien vampire bird and London being wiped out.

I saw it not long ago - excellent film - ever read the book by Colin Wilson?

Last night I mainly watched the Exorcist with the director's commentary on.

 

[Poi E]

I saw it not long ago - excellent film - ever read the book by Colin Wilson?

No, will check it out. "The Space Vampires", wasn't it? It's funny, but the film should be terrible, so many digressions, plot holes, silly moments, but it manages to be a great roller-coaster ride nonetheless.

 

[undercurrents]

I watched Mark Thomas Political comedy DVD

In crystal clear sound and vision, the TV comedian reveals the inside story on how he upset the U.S secret service by putting a bounty on the life of President Bush. Mark also displays how he obtained police surveillance images of himself. Watch the DVD and find out why the funny man was forced to sing for his life underneath a busload of East London arms dealers. Dodge wildy as he takes a potshots at foxhunters, advertisers, and a host of multi-national corporations.

Bonus extras included on the DVD include 'Reach for the Sky'- exploring the activism against UK aviation expansion. The award winning documentary 'Globalisation and the Media' is also included. The film explores both the mainstream and the alternative media coverage of protests. Interviews include Indymedia reporters, CNN president Chris Cramer and The Guardian journalist George Monbiot.

The comic will take you on a mind bending trip through Scotland, go naught to sixty in India, and help you discover what 'the real thing' is in Columbia.
This is a DVD not to be missed. Only a limited number have been made so get them while they are hot!