What DVD / Video did you watch last night ?

[Grandma Death]

That's dead good that! But not quite as sinister as I had hoped. I think you would have to be a very high level chess player to truly understand Kasparovs point.

I was lucky enough to play Deep bules little brother Deeper Blue once. . . . .

. . . . . .It wipped my ass good and proper.

Personally I think IBM cheated....what do you think?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Personally I think IBM cheated....what do you think?

Well Kasparov was happy about losing to deep blue before so it did seem a bit odd, but then he does seem to be a little bit of a mentalist.

I think I would have to watch it again (I saw it about two years ago now) but as I recall I was boringly on the fence.

 

[Grandma Death]

Well Kasparov was happy about losing to deep blue before so it did seem a bit odd, but then he does seem to be a little bit of a mentalist.

I think I would have to watch it again (I saw it about two years ago now) but as I recall I was boringly on the fence.

I was amazed how cloak and dagger IBM were in not allowing access to Deep Blue or the print outs at all. I do think Kasparov is/was a bit unhinged but when you look at what was at stake and how much financially IBM made from the game it did lead me to believe that they were underhand about the whole thing.

If you want to see the film again PM me your address and i'll send you my copy-it can only be watched on your PC though.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

just finished watching X it was really rather harsh and i cried i little ... but it was very beutifull.... but i still have yet to find out why clamp love tokyo tower so much


as for Kasparov vs deep blue it was very close and it was quite posibly the atmosphere that got to kasprov rather than the actual performance of the computer ... plus they did overload the machine with kasparov games so it knew his style and would probably have not performed so well against another chess master

plus it would be really fucked if you challenged it to go as the the masive amounts of possible states is too much for current computers... mind you it would hand you your arse on a plate if you challened it to othello

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

just finished watching X it was really rather harsh and i cried i little ... but it was very beutifull.... but i still have yet to find out why clamp love tokyo tower so much


as for Kasparov vs deep blue it was very close and it was quite posibly the atmosphere that got to kasprov rather than the actual performance of the computer ... plus they did overload the machine with kasparov games so it knew his style and would probably have not performed so well against another chess master

plus it would be really fucked if you challenged it to go as the the masive amounts of possible states is too much for current computers... mind you it would hand you your arse on a plate if you challened it to othello

I watched X a few years back now when I used to get free anime, and I have to admit I nearly cried too, but not I suspect for the same reasons you did.
Dull as dishwater.

Quite surprised so many people have watched the Kasparov DVD doc.
Just out of interest my Vic 20 would beat me hands down on level 0.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

X is rather oddly paced i must admit and it won't be going in my favorites pile but it is a nice bit of work by CLAMp and should be tresured


as for computer based cherss games ... i started playing agaisnts a chess master but by the end of the game i was playing a picture of a chimp in a hat



i beat the chimp

 

[Jo/Joe]

Watched The Sacrifce last night. What a fantastc film.

 

[Wide Eyed Angel]

there's something about mary, the light relief i was looking for, though it's not in the same humour league as team america!

 

[foamy]

Sin City - looked amazing but was disappointed by the dialogue... cue breathy voice over in bad and inconsistant accent....

 

[butchersapron]

La Terra Trema - worthy but a bit dull and overlong - didn't have the same spark or fight that other Italian ne-realist films of the period have. Worth a look though.

 

[Dubversion]

watched the first episode of Northern Exposure Season Two.

YAY!

 

[kyser_soze]

Sin City - looked amazing but was disappointed by the dialogue... cue breathy voice over in bad and inconsistant accent....

Sin City is like a model - pretty but vacuous.

Apparently Rodrgiuez/Miller are supposed to be making Hard Boiled next which will open up entirely new frontiers in thin plots, violence and piles of corpses...

 

[rennie]

I went to the Ritzy and watched Land mines: a love story about a couple who were both disabled after stepping on mines in Afghanistan and their struggle to survive. pretty heartbreaking and harrowing pictures of maimed limbs.

 

[foamy]

Sin City is like a model - pretty but vacuous.

i like that! i said it was like a boy's titanic - good fighting but terrible dialogue. that didnt go down well

 

[Jo/Joe]

Ong Bak - extraordinary martial arts skills.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Ong Bak - extraordinary martial arts skills.

Tony Jar is amazing.

The Producers follow up 'born to fight' is pretty good too (but not as good). This time there are guns and trucks too! Jar is not in it mind.

 

[maya]

walkabout (nic roeg)

 

[siarc]

^ that's a very fine film, i must get around to catching up with some other roeg

 

[maya]

^ that's a very fine film, i must get around to catching up with some other roeg

yeah a beautiful film, nice mood throughout, important issue raised.

the music sounded great at the time (in the middle of the night, slightly drunk),
amazed to find out that it was actually by john barry, as it sounded nothing like him whatsoever (at least according to my limited memories)

 

[Moggy]

Tom Yum Goong - Prachya Pinkaew's second film (Ong-Bak being his first) and Tony Jaa's second 'proper' onscreen performance. Very, very good; action that easily rival's Ong-Bak, although equally a bit light on story and has some pretty shit supporting actors. Still, an incredible watch

Machuca - An incredible Chilean film from last year, set in Chile in 1973 during Pinochet's coup to power; the story is about how two 11 year olds lives are affected during this period. A truly gorgeous film (and apparently the first Chilean film to ever tackle the subject of the Pinochet era ).

 

[butchersapron]

I've got Machuca on DVD for next week - -and no, it's first to have effective western relase and disto. Not the first made.

 

[Moggy]

Yeah, i didn't think it could possibly be the first made (hence the ) but i'm sure that's what i read somewhere. Anyway, your way makes much more sense

 

[mhendo]

Just finished watching The Handmaid's Tale, an adaptation of Margaret Atwood's book, starring Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall, Aidan Quinn, and Elizabeth McGovern.

Given the time constraints, and the quality of Atwood's novel, i thought they did a very good job of bringing it to the screen.

 

[Jo/Joe]

Tom Yum Goong - Prachya Pinkaew's second film (Ong-Bak being his first) and Tony Jaa's second 'proper' onscreen performance.

Cinema?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

walkabout (nic roeg)

Great film great soundtrack.

 

[Moggy]

Cinema?

No, i don't expect it to even get a cinema release here in the UK until later next year (the US isn't even getting it till next december), but it's available on the net if you know where to look (since its been out in Thailand and other eastern countries since August).

 

[Wide Eyed Angel]

2001 a space odysey

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Just finished watching The Handmaid's Tale, an adaptation of Margaret Atwood's book, starring Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall, Aidan Quinn, and Elizabeth McGovern.

Given the time constraints, and the quality of Atwood's novel, i thought they did a very good job of bringing it to the screen.

I haven't read the book, but I quite liked this film. A bit disturbing though...

 

[Jo/Joe]

Waiting for Guffman.

 

[fishfingerer]

Waiting for Guffman.

Great film. Worth watching just for the Nothing Ever Happens On Mars and Stool Boom tunes.