What DVD / Video did you watch last night ?

[andy2002]

The Aviator – can't remember the last time I enjoyed a Scorsese flick as much, probably Casino or even Good Fellas. Can't believe it was beaten by the vastly inferior Million Dollar Baby in the Oscar stakes. I think Di Caprio is brilliant in it, too, but frequently upstaged by Cate Blanchett as Katherine Hepburn.

 

[Orang Utan]

Troy - utter crap - good death at the beginning but overblown badly acted, shockingly scripted nonsense for the rest of it.

Layer Cake - I quite enjoyed this - heaps better than a Richie - much more intelligent and complex than most crime capers. And it features a fantastic beating in my local greasy spoon near work.

 

[Juice Terry]

Ley Lines

Third film in Takashi Miike's Shinjuku trilogy, definitely the best of the three and possibly my favourite of all Miike's films. The way its shot is genius, starting off with all long shots and dark badly lit scenes meaning you hardly get a good look at any of the characters, as the film builds and reaches a climax the camera gets closer in, everything gets brighter and matches your feelings and growing afinity for the foursome.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Ley Lines

Third film in Takashi Miike's Shinjuku trilogy, definitely the best of the three and possibly my favourite of all Miike's films. The way its shot is genius, starting off with all long shots and dark badly lit scenes meaning you hardly get a good look at any of the characters, as the film builds and reaches a climax the camera gets closer in, everything gets brighter and matches your feelings and growing afinity for the foursome.

I love Miike and worship him like a cinema god but none of his shinjuku trilogy are among his best. For trilogies and Takashi I'd back dead or alive 1=yuck 2=eh? and 3=what the fuck??? did you see them turn into the giant cock for a head robot and rape the evil gay pervert???!!

Can't wait for Ely Roths Hostel I don't know how much input Miike had though.
Off to Japan for Christmas so hopefully I can check out Yôkai daisensô. I've probably missed the cinema run but I might catch the DVD release, looks like a good un.

 

[Juice Terry]

I love Miike and worship him like a cinema god but none of his shinjuku trilogy are among his best. For trilogies and Takashi I'd back dead or alive 1=yuck 2=eh? and 3=what the fuck??? did you see them turn into the giant cock for a head robot and rape the evil gay pervert???!!

Can't wait for Ely Roths Hostel I don't know how much input Miike had though.
Off to Japan for Christmas so hopefully I can check out Yôkai daisensô. I've probably missed the cinema run but I might catch the DVD release, looks like a good un.

Dead or Alive next on my rental list. Looking good.

 

[andy2002]

DIG! – brilliant "rockumentary" centring on the friendship/rivalry between the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre. It's hilarious but you can't help feeling a little bit of sympathy for Anton Newcombe, the BJM's seriously fucked up frontman. His drug intake, messiah complex and self-destructive behaviour make Pete Doherty look like the Archbishop of Canterbury.

 

[maya]

Daisies, which is a brilliant Czechoslovakian film from 1968 or such, and is about two girls sitting around at home doing absolutely nothing...it got banned by the communist regime though

 

[Moggy]

I love Miike and worship him like a cinema god but none of his shinjuku trilogy are among his best. For trilogies and Takashi I'd back dead or alive 1=yuck 2=eh? and 3=what the fuck??? did you see them turn into the giant cock for a head robot and rape the evil gay pervert???!!

Am still waiting for Tartan to release Dead or Alive 3 over here (and i cannae be arsed with imported dvds unless i REALLY have to)

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Dead or Alive next on my rental list. Looking good.

Sadly you can't get Final in the UK and the US copy is shit.

If you can get the Auz Boxset and watch em again and again.
The bird people in china, kishiwada shonen gurentai , Zebraman, Izo, ichi the killer, blues harp gozu and visitor Q are all brilliant. Visitor Q breaks just about every taboo - incest, drug abuse, lactating fetish, necrophilia, prostitution, child murder.

Great bits include the dad sexing his prostitute daughter, dead woman shitting on dad while he's fucking her (at first he thinks its a miracle of nature and he made a dead woman wet), Mother spraying her breast milk drenching the kitchen and the 'saw saw saw saw saw saw saw' the day says with glee as he saws a schoolboys head with a hack saw

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Am still waiting for Tartan to release Dead or Alive 3 over here (and i cannae be arsed with imported dvds unless i REALLY have to)

The australian box set is really really cheap, I got mine at ezydvd.com.au for sod all as I recall.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

i just watched oldboy ... pritty damn good.... some nice action (Stop! Hammer time!) and an intreting plot

i must say i did guess the twist really early on ... but then i am a sick and twisted individual

 

[Moggy]

*SPOILERS*

Well the twist is 'fairly' obvious considering you don't hear anything else about the daughter throughout the film.

The scene of the fight down the corridor is incredible considering it was all done in one take.


EDIT: Atomic Suplex, the trilogy boxset from there comes to a total of £40 (including shipping/insurance) Is the 'Final' good then?

EDIT 2: BUT, ezydvd DOES have the spec. ed. of Bad Boy Bubby, which i've been dying to watch for ages

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

sorta spoiler

i guessed it just before her gets the adress for the daughter so that sorta threw me off pace.

i was wondering about the end ... seeing as the chair has steps in the snmow walking aways from it .. i'm wondering if this means he considers himself the monster and has retained all the memories? hence his mad twisted smile

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

sorta spoiler

i guessed it just before her gets the adress for the daughter so that sorta threw me off pace.

i was wondering about the end ... seeing as the chair has steps in the snmow walking aways from it .. i'm wondering if this means he considers himself the monster and has retained all the memories? hence his mad twisted smile

I think everybody in the universe guessed it at the begining and were thrown off by the letter, that's how you are supposed follow it.

cool film but Sympathy for mr vengence has more lasting appeal for me. Looking forward to Lady Vengence to compleate the trilogy. Actualy I think the Korean DVD comes out tomorrow. I Quite like Park Chan Wooks part of the three extreames too.

JSA is another goody but the english speaking parts let it down a little.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

*SPOILERS*


The scene of the fight down the corridor is incredible considering it was all done in one take.


EDIT: Atomic Suplex, the trilogy boxset from there comes to a total of £40 (including shipping/insurance) Is the 'Final' good then?

EDIT 2: BUT, ezydvd DOES have the spec. ed. of Bad Boy Bubby, which i've been dying to watch for ages

That hall scene was supposed to have loads of close ups, I can't remember why they weren't put in, probably because it looked super cool. It is a cool film.

£40 for three DVDs shipped from the other side of the world, sounds like a bargain to me. I think I paid more like £32 when I got them. The Auz final is currently the only version that is anamorphic and without burnt in Japanese subs.

I really like it because it is mental but it's probably not what you would call a good film. It looks a bit cheap because it supposed to be the future but they obviously don't have a lot of cash. That's what I like about Miike, even if he does a duff film he does it so crazy that it actually becomes a good film. Even the incredibly rubbish 'silver' is fun, its nice to watch a film simply for the fact that it doesn't follow the usual path of a film. Final is worth getting just for the end.
Plus box sets are cool.

Actually Andromedia is pretty crap and just crap.

PS Thanks for the heads up on the Bad Boy Bubby, great film, I wonder if it still stands up.

 

[Moggy]

Yeah, have been looking for Bad Boy Bubby for aaaages, shame its never been properly released outside of Australia. Will probably pass up getting the DOA box-set since i've already got the first two on Tartan, would like to see it at some point though, although the second one left me scratching my head a bit

Still haven't seen Three Extremes though, must get round to it at some point.

Also, if you wait till next february, i hear Sympathy For Lady Vengeance should get a limited cinema release here in the uk

Or if you really can't wait there have been subbed versions doing the rounds on the net for some time now. Although i don't condon such things of course

 

[Stigmata]

Phantasm IV: Oblivion.

Low budget tour de force.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Yeah, have been looking for Bad Boy Bubby for aaaages, shame its never been properly released outside of Australia. Will probably pass up getting the DOA box-set since i've already got the first two on Tartan, would like to see it at some point though, although the second one left me scratching my head a bit

Still haven't seen Three Extremes though, must get round to it at some point.

Also, if you wait till next february, i hear Sympathy For Lady Vengeance should get a limited cinema release here in the uk

Or if you really can't wait there have been subbed versions doing the rounds on the net for some time now. Although i don't condon such things of course

I won't be able to resist the Korean DVD as they are always a pretty limited run and the first editions are often the best (the first old boy Korean disk is wonderful) It comes with two versions of the film, one full colour as in the cinema and one that fades to black and white as originally intended. This was also supposed to happen in sympathy for Mr Vengence but proved too costly.

I will probably still go to the cinema to see it again anyway if it's any good (should be)

PS. If you though DOA birds was a head scratcher than Final might be a bit too much.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

JSA is another goody but the english speaking parts let it down a little.

One of my top five foreign films this year. Would agree with you though about the spoken English

 

[Moggy]

PS. If you though DOA birds was a head scratcher than Final might be a bit too much.

Yeah well i wasnt in the errrr soberest of states when i watched it, and haven't gotten round to putting it on again yet

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

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...

Bird People in China is a beautiful film and Young Thugs Nostalgia isn't nearly as violent as it sounds

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I think everybody in the universe guessed it at the begining and were thrown off by the letter, that's how you are supposed follow it.

'scuse me for sounding stupid but how do I know when it comes out if I'm buying the Korean version?

 

[belboid]

Napoleon Dynamite.


The dance made it worth watching, but there wasn't really much going for it until then. Distinctly average.

 

[Orang Utan]

Napoleon Dynamite.


The dance made it worth watching, but there wasn't really much going for it until then. Distinctly average.

FREAKIN' IDIOT!

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

One of my top five foreign films this year. Would agree with you though about the spoken English

This year?? That films five years old. Has it only just come out in the UK? wow.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

'scuse me for sounding stupid but how do I know when it comes out if I'm buying the Korean version?

The Korean version of old boy??? or do you mean Lady Vengence? Just look on a Korean DVD website like koreandvds.com and check out the pre order date. Korean DVDs are usualy pretty cheap good quality and most have english subs.

Bird People in China and Young Thugs Nostalgia are super double great miike films. Sadly the chinese BPIC disk isn't anamorphic and the US disk has sync problems. The guys from paradice is another of Miikes not so violent films that gets overlooked.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

This year?? That films five years old. Has it only just come out in the UK? wow.

Sorry, should have said that I had watched this year

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The Korean version of old boy??? or do you mean Lady Vengence? Just look on a Korean DVD website like koreandvds.com and check out the pre order date. Korean DVDs are usualy pretty cheap good quality and most have english subs.

Well all my Korean language films have English subtitles.

What I mean is, besides the Region and sometimes different covers... er, not explaining myself very well here am I?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

What I mean is, besides the Region and sometimes different covers... er, not explaining myself very well here am I?

No not really. I have no idea what you are on about.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

No not really. I have no idea what you are on about.

So this is the Korean version yes?

http://global.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.aspx/pid-1004060258/code-k/section-videos/

This is the Hong Kong version yes?

http://global.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.aspx/pid-1004100117/code-c/section-videos/

So what's this? A poster for the film? Korean version for Korean speakers or what?

http://www.twitchfilm.net/archives/004084.html