What DVD / Video did you watch last night ?

[Clintons Cat]

Oldboy, A man is abducted and incarcerated for fifteen years,during which time he is framed for the murder of his wife,upon release he is give five days to work out who did it and why.

Think Saw meets the Running Man

Reccomended

Flightplan

For all extents and purposes this might as well have been called PanicRoom 2
As Jodie Foster combines the duties of battling international hijackers with searching for her missing daughter.

Not Reccomended

 

[Wide Eyed Angel]

harold and kumar get the munchies, along the lines of dude, where's my car? and enjoyable for it

 

[mhendo]

harold and kumar get the munchies, along the lines of dude, where's my car? and enjoyable for it

Here in North America, that film is called Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle.

I really enjoyed it, despite (or perhaps because of) it silliness.

 

[Moggy]

Oldboy...

Think Saw meets the Running Man

I think thats the worst and most innacruate description that anyone's ever come up with for Oldboy!!

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Not on DVD, but watched the original King Kong yesterday, downloaded it.

Can't believe I had never watched it before. Pretty good camp fun, but I reckon the remake will actually be better.

 

[Wide Eyed Angel]

Here in North America, that film is called Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle.

I really enjoyed it, despite (or perhaps because of) it silliness.

i heard that but cause there's no white castle here they renamed it, made me think of evolution when i heard that, like it's all one giant advert. heheh, maximum product placement!? but yeah it is good enjoyable fun

 

[bushphobia]

bubba hotep.

nobody fucks with the king!

Man i love this film to bits. Funniest thing in it is Ossie Davis going on about the mummy sucking souls out of peoples assholes. who woulda thunk that a film about old people at a retirement home would be so angaging.

 

[mhendo]

i heard that but cause there's no white castle here they renamed it, made me think of evolution when i heard that, like it's all one giant advert. heheh, maximum product placement!? but yeah it is good enjoyable fun

Funny thing is, i usually hate product placement and advertising in films, but it didn't worry me with this. Part of the reason, i suppose, is that White Castle is a relatively small chain, confined to fairly specific parts of the US, and has nothing like the all-pervading advertising or cultural impact of McDonalds or Burger King.

bubba hotep.

nobody fucks with the king!

Man i love this film to bits. Funniest thing in it is Ossie Davis going on about the mummy sucking souls out of peoples assholes. who woulda thunk that a film about old people at a retirement home would be so engaging.

This film is a cult classic, and i keep meaning to get it because i've heard such good things about it. The star, Bruce Campbell, has made something of a career starring in campy B-flicks and horror movies, all the way back to his starring role in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead.

In our house, we watched The Princess Bride last night. I must admit, i was a bit dubious about the whole thing, but it really is engaging and funny, with an especially great performance from Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya.

After that was over, we switched on PBS and caught Roy Orbison and Friends: Black and White Night. What an amazing show! It's from 1987, and features Orbison in concert with a bunch of other big names, like Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt, k.d. lang, and Jackson Browne. But the show is all about Roy, and the others are clearly there as a tribute to him. You can see the admiration in Springsteen's eyes as he plays alongside the legend. All shot in smoky black and white at the famous Cocoanut Grove Nightclub in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. I'm going to order it so i can have a copy of my own.

 

[walktome]

Shawshank Redemption

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

bubba hotep.

nobody fucks with the king!

.

Nice little film, I thought the music was great.


For me last night it was zombie madness and rock and roll with

Wild Zero.

I fucking love this film and it just gets better with repeat watching. It's like they just didn't care what they were making as long as they looked cool.
Cutting a UFO in half with a guitar sword *brilliant.

 

[cyberfairy]

Nice little film, I thought the music was great.


For me last night it was zombie madness and rock and roll with

Wild Zero.

I fucking love this film and it just gets better with repeat watching. It's like they just didn't care what they were making as long as they looked cool.
Cutting a UFO in half with a guitar sword *brilliant.

that looks like a wonderful film Where can you get it?
I am about to watch 'the happiness of the katikuris' again for some more Japanese rock n roll zombie fun

 

[Wide Eyed Angel]

In our house, we watched The Princess Bride last night. I must admit, i was a bit dubious about the whole thing, but it really is engaging and funny, with an especially great performance from Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya.

we watched this a while back, likewise i was unsure at the prospect, i think it might have been the title that was putting me off. all was forgiven by the end though!

spent a lot of yesterday being impatient with tv's repeating of series 3 of 24 so watched episodes 7-12, always get so tempted into just putting one more on and before you know it the disk is over!

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

that looks like a wonderful film Where can you get it?
I am about to watch 'the happiness of the katikuris' again for some more Japanese rock n roll zombie fun

The Japanese copy has english subs but you can get it in the UK from arts magic.

Katikuris is also ace but then I pretty much love all of Miikes films.
The bird people in china and Kishiwada shonen gurentai are truly stand out.

 

[cyberfairy]

The Japanese copy has english subs but you can get it in the UK from arts magic.

Katikuris is also ace but then I pretty much love all of Miikes films.
The bird people in china and Kishiwada shonen gurentai are truly stand out.

Haven't seen those ones...found 'Happiness of the Katikuris' after a long fruitless search of London and the net in Blockbusters in Bath

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Haven't seen those ones...found 'Happiness of the Katikuris' after a long fruitless search of London and the net in Blockbusters in Bath

Really, it's a regular tartan relelase, I've seen it all over the place.

The bird people in china and Kishiwada shonen gurentai (I think this is called young thugs nostalga in the US) can be got in US DVD from arts magic.
Just click on amazon uk and you should be able to get them.

Both films are slightly rare non violent Miike Takashi. Thats not to say that all his violent films aren't still mental/brilliant/beautiful.

 

[cyberfairy]

Really, it's a regular tartan relelase, I've seen it all over the place.

The bird people in china and Kishiwada shonen gurentai (I think this is called young thugs nostalga in the US) can be got in US DVD from arts magic.
Just click on amazon uk and you should be able to get them.

Both films are slightly rare non violent Miike Takashi. Thats not to say that all his violent films aren't still mental/brilliant/beautiful.

Ahh but i was trying to get it for under a tenner
cheers for the tips, not a huge fan of violence so will def check those two out in particular...

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Ahh but i was trying to get it for under a tenner
cheers for the tips, not a huge fan of violence so will def check those two out in particular...

Ah yes I do that as well.

Try

http://www.find-dvd.co.uk/index.htm

You can click for region 1 as well if you like. Amazon sellers can like cairmanUSA are usualy under a tenner.

Kishiwada Shonen Gurentai is Miikes personal favorate.

 

[andy2002]

The Spielberg/Cruise 'War Of The Worlds' - not bad at all, actually, and although the plot takes a few liberties with the source material, most of the important stuff remains just about intact (the red weed, the ending etc). Even the US setting works pretty well and the tripods themselves are satisfyingly scary, although, disappointingly, they don't go 'Ooooo Laaaaaa'.

 

[Ryazan]

And....

 

[Ryazan]

Which was a bit shit.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Which was a bit shit.

I looks it.

 

[walktome]

Coffee and Cigarettes

 

[PHo]

Napolean Dynamite,

weird film, as in weirdly filmed, but pretty good with some well funny bits in it, like whenever napolean runs ROFL!

worth a look

 

[jayeola]

"Meet the Fockers". Ben Stiller and Robert De Nero. Mildy amusing comedy.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

sharkskin man and peach hip girl

a trip into comic madness a yakuza steals some money then goes on the run from the people sent after him and bumps into a girl trying to escape her life. all the charactors are wonderfully insane and althogh the film goes a little strange at parts i definatly unjoyed it

 

[goldenecitrone]

Wings of Desire - Wim Wenders. Beautiful film, always brings a tear to my nose.

 

[kyser_soze]

Creature Comforts Series 1&2.

Very funny indeed.

 

[Moggy]

Takeshi Kitano's "Brother" - was alright as far as his films go, definitely had its weak points though, most notably the unecessary scene where Omar Epp's character finds the money; the film should have ended after the previous scene (not gonna spoil it, but it shouldn't be a surprise given Kitano's films/endings).

Some very mediocre acting from the american actors.

On the plus side, it's only £3.97 from Amazon

 

[shoddysolutions]

Blockbuster has improved its selection recently.

Machuca

Santiago, Chile, 1973. A middle class boy attending private school is introduced to a new pupil from a poor background who has a very different lifestyle to their own. Their friendship blossoms despite their differences and offers each of them a glimpse of the other's lifestyle, but the events unfolding around them are to have a devastating effect on both of their lives.

A touching story which offers the opportunity to view the events surrounding the military coup through the eyes of a child and therefore with some objectivity.

7.5/10

Life Is A Miracle

A barmy love story about a Bosnian Serb railway engineer married to a barmy opera singer. The wife disappears with a spivvy Hungarian cymbalist, while his son is sent away to join the army just as the country explodes into full-blown civil war. After his son is captured by the Bosnian enemy, a helpful neighbour brings the engineer a captured nurse to offer in exchange for his son. They soon become close, but when his wife returns unexpectedly the engineer faces a difficult choice.

A war film without battle scenes, this surreal romp successfully captures the chaos that engulfed Bosnia during the first half of the 1990s with a series of over-the-top vignettes featuring even more over-the-top characters, some breathtaking scenery and a suicidal, lovelorn ass.

7/10

 

[belboid]

finsihed off the last season of Deadwood - dear god that programmes good! Pure bloody genius, if a little confusing in places, like I think it was Wolcott left hagning at the end there....

then there was Holy Smoke - a load of complete codswallop starring Kate Winslett & Harvey keitel.. Written & directed by the campions, it really should have been good. Or at the very leastm interesting. But it was stupid anodyne ruhbbish, almost daring to make various points aboput the nature of love and belief and that kind of thing, but settling for getting Katie into the nudie & peeing herself.

Fortunately we could round the evening off with the magnificent, superlative, ingenious Killdozer

The film from which the legendary band took there name, and the two are equally worthy. A seering indictment of the crushing of the working-class by dead labour, the rise of the machine, and much more general silliness. Bloody marvellous.