What DVD / Video did you watch last night ?

[Juice Terry]

Shiri - good action-packed film but if you want a film about North/South Korea, JSA's much better

I just watched Tae Guk Gi, a bit like Saving Private Ryan but in Korean, overly sentimental in parts but does a good job of asking what the hell everyone is fighting for.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I just watched Tae Guk Gi, a bit like Saving Private Ryan but in Korean, overly sentimental in parts but does a good job of asking what the hell everyone is fighting for.

Is that also known as Brother? Or is it Brotherhood?

 

[Juice Terry]

Is that also known as Brother? Or is it Brotherhood?

Yeah thats it, Tae Guk Gi = Brotherhood

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Yeah thats it, Tae Guk Gi = Brotherhood

It's already in my Amazon basket

Is it the 3 disk edition?

 

[Juice Terry]

It's already in my Amazon basket

Is it the 3 disk edition?

I rented mine from Screenselect, it was only one disc. I made a backup copy in case of fire so if you want it for free PM me?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I rented mine from Screenselect, it was only one disc. I made a backup copy in case of fire so if you want it for free PM me?

Very generous of you, but I'd like to get the 3 disk edition. Will have to wait a while though 'cos I've already got about 15-20 DVDs in my basket.

 

[bluestreak]

woo. i watched a dvd last night for the first time in ages!

it was the first three episodes of blackadder the first.

AND!!!!

i've now got a dvd drive on my pc so i can watch dvds from the privacy of my own bed.





has anyone got any dvds i can borrow?

 

[Wide Eyed Angel]

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, i liked greatly, thought the erasing was really well portrayed

 

[Juice Terry]

Shinjuku Triad Society, fairly standard Yakuza movie with a few moments of Miike madness thrown in for good measure. Blow jobs, buggery and ultra violence.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Shinjuku Triad Society, fairly standard Yakuza movie with a few moments of Miike madness thrown in for good measure. Blow jobs, buggery and ultra violence.

No bodily fluids then?

 

[jbob]

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zizou. Quirky, well acted, nicely shot and directed, but overall nothing amazing.

 

[jbob]

no - sadly it isnt in the LoveFilm selection*! Have got Lilya 4ever & Hole in my Heart on order tho.

& Assasination of nixon, should I not bother with that then dya think?



(*aah, its also known as Show Me Love - now bidding for it on ebay)

Don't bother with Hole in my heart, it really is as bad as they say, trust me. Show me Love, Together and Lilya 4ever are three of the best films made in recent times; perhaps he was trying too hard on the controversy with Hole in my Heart. It really is shockingly bad.

 

[jbob]

First time I saw it on channel 4 late at night, it was being marketed as yet another exercise in Japanese cop/Yakuza violence (and I've talked to a few people before who were put off watching the film for the same reason), which is possibly the worst way of advertising this film I can imagine. Sure. it's full of some quite astonishingly violent sequences, but they are never ever glorified, and if anything the film is more about Nishi dealing with the guilt of his own violent tendencies and their unfortunate consequences. It's just another example of Hollywood's arrogance that Kitano didn't win an Oscar for it - it's as close to perfect as I can imagine a movie being. Not a single wasted shot, not a single wasted line of dialogue, no patronisation - just an absorbing story littered with incredibly well portrayed characters. Simple and hauntingly beautiful. Hopefully, in time, Kitano will be realised as one of Japan's great filmmakers (better than Kurosawa IMHO). Hana-bi is Kitano's magnum opus, and if he ever tops this film I will be in heaven.

P.S. on reading IMDB I was also shocked to learn that Kitano also painted all the pictures (which are a major part of the movie BTW) and composed a portion of the score. Is there anything this man can't do?!

P.P.S. Hana-bi is sometimes referred to as Fireworks, but IIRC it literally translates to "fire-flower", which is a kinda double meaning on Kitano's character.

If you consider yourself a fan of cinema, you owe it to yourself to see this film. It's quite simply a work of art.

---Make sure you MISS 'Getting Any'. Perhaps Japanese humour loses something in translation (no pun intended). Or perhaps this film's simply not very funny. Strange as there's such subtle humour in all of his films, particularly Sonatine, Hana-Bi and Zatoichi.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

i wouldn't particularly use the word subtle when refering to the humor in some of those films

 

[jbob]

I think the whole 'utter boredom of gangsters' scenario of Sonatine is subtle, admittedly how they relieve their boredom is not. But thinking about it, you do have a point....

 

[walktome]

The Miser's Heart for an assignment.

 

[MightyAphrodite]

not a movie really...but a documentary at 3am this morning when i slept for an hour then woke back up

"Imagine: John Lennon" on HBO Signature


it was alright....i guess for 3am.

 

[maya]

not a movie really...but a documentary at 3am this morning when i slept for an hour then woke back up

"Imagine: John Lennon" on HBO Signature


it was alright....i guess for 3am.

you shoulda switched on TCM, they were showing "Eye Of The Devil"...at 3am

 

[MightyAphrodite]

you shoulda switched on TCM, they were showing "Eye Of The Devil"...at 3am

innit


(although the footage from the 'beatle mania' days was sort of interesting...i mean people were going completely insane!...)

and i totally LOVE/D their northern accents...

(i love the northern accent )


so i left it there ...

 

[Orangesanlemons]

Like a lot of other people (I suspect) I watched 'La Haine' again. Stone cold classic. Seeing scenes in colour on the extras was weird - didn't realize that the whole film was shot in colour and converted back to black and white again...

 

[Wide Eyed Angel]

airplane! just so i could see where the 'don't call me shirley' line came from really.

lost episodes 13-15, it's so hard to stop watching them once you start!

 

[walktome]

Hide and Seek. Any horror movie with Dakota Fanning does not go over well with me. Especially when my mom, who is sitting next to me, screams at every little noise.

 

[Ryazan]

Airplane!

airplane! just so i could see where the 'don't call me shirley' line came from really.

lost episodes 13-15, it's so hard to stop watching them once you start!

Not with that awful "drink problem"?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

A movie called Sideways. It caused a stir at the Academy Awards last year, and I can see why. It's a self indulgent film telling a story that was probably instantly recognizable to thousands of wannabes and ex-wannabes in Hollywood.

It's about the failed writer and his second rate actor friend and their journey of self discovery through California wine country. And it's almost 2 1/2 hours long.

 

[passenger]

i know im going to get stick for this but i thought sin city was poo poo

a real let down

 

[Clintons Cat]

Brotherhood (Taegukgi)

The best film i have seen in ages.

I just watched Tae Guk Gi, a bit like Saving Private Ryan but in Korean, overly sentimental in parts but does a good job of asking what the hell everyone is fighting for.

To be honest i thought it was a bit more like full metal jacket meets all quiet on the western front.

 

[Red Faction]

Green Street
but it had an annoying box at the bottom that was all blurry
presumably where the chinese subtitles used to be
i really liked it tho
just a shame
1) the hobbits sister is SO fucking stupid trying to get herself killed- what a fucking idiot
and 2) that millwall cunt didnt die instead

 

[butchersapron]

But it was shit. Really really shit.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

An American friend has it and says it's really good. But Americans probably aren't the best judges of a film about english hooligans...

 

[butchersapron]

A great Korean DVD called 'Over Censorious Bastard - lots of blood, guts, and boredom - the hero changed the story so he won in the end no matter what the other characters did. Interesting idea.