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What DVD / Video did you watch last night ?

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jugularvein said:
loser :p

i get my adrenalin kicks from sky diving and climbing mountains
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I parascended by running off a mountain with a parachute and floating down 3500 feet for 45 minutes in Olu Deniz, Turkey over the bay, 2 weeks ago. And I did spiral tricks to feel the G -force.And 7 weeks ago I had a long-lasting free adrenalin surge on my way to work c/o of Germaine Lindsey. :p So I think I am entitled to kick back with Jack with impugnity. Up yer bum.

:p :p
 
Yesterday I watched a Swedish film called 'Anglagard' ( House of Angels) and it was ace. About a small conservative village being thrown into disarray when the landowner dies and leaves everything to a biker cabaret artiste grand daughter whom nobody knew existed.


Tonight I am ging to watch Sin City, has anyone seen this?
 
I just watched Don't Look Back, which is a movie about Bob Dylan in London in 1965. It was pretty good. It was mostly a combination of concert footage, interviews, and him fooling around playing instruments with Joan Baez and Bob Neuwirth. He was just basically followed around with a camera the whole time.
 
Lost in Translation - enjoyed it but was distracted due to doing other stuff at the time so a reviewing required :)
 
watched the DVD of Head On (Gegen Die Wand) which was as utterly brilliant the second time round. Germano-Turkish culture clash goth sex n drugs but with a lot to say and some brilliant performances.
 
dunno if it's shit, but it's certainly over-rated and lacking any real substance. once you get over how good it looks, it's boring
 
Dead Man's Shoes

Wonderfully dark low budget revenge brit flick from David Meadows and Paddy Considine. Considine seems to be one of those actors who just has that magic ingredient on screen I can't get enough off.

"God will forgive them. He'll forgive them and allow them into Heaven. I can't live with that." :cool:

Just watch this film its brilliant.
 
Juice Terry said:
Dead Man's Shoes

Wonderfully dark low budget revenge brit flick from David Meadows and Paddy Considine. Considine seems to be one of those actors who just has that magic ingredient on screen I can't get enough off.

"God will forgive them. He'll forgive them and allow them into Heaven. I can't live with that." :cool:

Just watch this film its brilliant.
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Yeah, I watched this the other day. Its a really good film.
 
Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions back to back.

Matrix Reloaded: I tried to watch this twice before, but abandoned ship, it was just such a disappointment after the brilliance of The Matrix. This time I decided to avoid comparisons and it is actually quite a good action movie on its own although it drags in places.

Matrix Revolutions: Oh, dear. I only persevered to see what the ending was. And it wasn't worth it.
 
finally got round to watching Come and See (idi i smotri)

Utterly mindbogglingly superb. Every other war film pales into insiginifcance next to this utter horror.
 
Ratcatcher

If being grim was a sport, Lynne Ramsay would be in the national team, and a contender for an Olympic gold medal. That said, she does not wallow self-indulgently in misery but delivers it a matter-of-fact, almost incidental way, and it is filmed so beautifully that she can almost be forgiven.

Ratcatcher charts the events following a tragic accident and in particular the impact it has on one young boy. Its setting is the urban squalor of Glasgow during the bin men's strike of the 70s and it is shot with unique visual style and flair. Following the initial tragedy, the central character is exposed to more brutal events that slowly and surely increase the emotional distance between himself and those around him. The boy's inablity to connect with anyone around him leads inevitably to a tragic conclusion.

Feel good fans should steer well clear, and don't expect a happy ending. :(
 
Belushi said:
First one, haven't seen the second yet but someone told me the set up is completely different?
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Not entirely different, the focus just changes slightly from "the towers" to "the docks". Not as gripping as the first series but still very good.

3rd Series is where it really gets interesting.
 
Double Indemnity (1944)

Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler teamed up to deliver this classic of film noir, credited with creating the mould from which all future femmes fatales were cast.

Insurance agent Walter Neffs (Fred MacMurray) falls for Phyllis Deitrichson (Barbara Stanwyck), the beautiful and flirtatious wife of a client. Together they hatch a plot to rid Phyllis of her husband and cash in his newly acquired accident policy. Everything goes according to plan until Neffs' colleague gets a hunch that something's not right ...

The studios were allegedly nervous about releasing the film, concerned that audiences may not be able to cope with such an extreme character. Thankfully, they released it anyway, and the duplicitous ice maiden became an essential ingredient in virtually every succesful noir movie.

MacMurray's acting is laughably wooden, but Edward G Robinson shines in a supporting role as Neff's colleague and mentor, while Stanwyck puts in a convincing performance as the cold, calculating Phyllis. The plot is not too challenging, but meanders enough to keep things interesting.
 
The Battle of Algiers.

Absolute masterpice of a film, unbeatable really.

'Give us your bombers, and we'll give you our baskets' - brilliant!

Only fault was the awful subtitling (whole sentences blatantly missed out) & the facrt that this (USUK) version cuts 15 minutes from the original - mostly of scenes of torture by the French.

Still, an unmissable masterpice tho.
 
A Very Long Engagement

As you'd expect from Jeunet a visually stunning film, with the trademark filters. The 'action' of the war well filmed, and trenches looked pretty realistuic but it ain't a war film and thankfully it was dispersed by his trademark humour. Great acting and some fatnastic lines, particularly the battle between Dominique Pinon's uncle and the postman.

Much better than the reviews made it out to be - it's essentially about Audrey Tatou's character searching for her fiance, who's presumed dead after being sent out in to no man's land for self mutilation. Really it didn't matter whether she found him (no spoliers ;) ), it was the emotion of the search that's at the core of the film. Nice ending too.

The subtitles were a bit offy in place - they really should find someone who knows French slang and regional terms better to reflect some of the humour and banter between the chracters. And it even had Jody Foster with a passable french accent too :eek:
 
The Machinist. Good film, great perfromance from Christian Bale (i thought i was skinny :eek: ). Kind of guessed the ending though after the DVD box said it was a cross between Fight Club & Memento which was rather stupid of them.
 
starfish said:
The Machinist. Good film, great perfromance from Christian Bale (i thought i was skinny :eek: ). Kind of guessed the ending though after the DVD box said it was a cross between Fight Club & Memento which was rather stupid of them.
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well, I don't think I'll bother watching now either then!
 
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