What DVD / Video did you watch last night ?
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mhendo
Aussie in San Francisco
Watched a few movies over the past couple of days.
Ocean's Eleven (recent Soderbergh version)
It was exactly what i expected: slick, good-looking, fun, and lacking any real substance.
The Producers (original Mel Brooks)
Lots of fun, great performances, but stil not as good as Blazing Saddles. I don't know why they bothered making a new version of this film (with Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane), but it's been getting awful reviews, and i don't think i'll bother seeing it. The original is all i need.
Charlotte Gray
Great-looking movie, with beautiful scenery and costuming. Cate Blanchet was, as usual, both talented and beautiful, and the movie was pretty good.
Ocean's Eleven (recent Soderbergh version)
It was exactly what i expected: slick, good-looking, fun, and lacking any real substance.
The Producers (original Mel Brooks)
Lots of fun, great performances, but stil not as good as Blazing Saddles. I don't know why they bothered making a new version of this film (with Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane), but it's been getting awful reviews, and i don't think i'll bother seeing it. The original is all i need.
Charlotte Gray
Great-looking movie, with beautiful scenery and costuming. Cate Blanchet was, as usual, both talented and beautiful, and the movie was pretty good.
Magneze said:Iemanja is making me watch watching Bridget Jones, The Edge of Reason.It's so bad, we may poke our own eyes out.
Hehe, I ended up watching this with Mrs Pie once - It's like a bad accident - you don't really want to look but you just can't help it.
Speaking of poking your eyes out, we nearly came to the same option whist watching Mullholland Drive last night.
I fear that even over enthusiastic 1st year film students might have muttered a 'oh, for fucks sake' at the end of it.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Finally got round to watching Sideways.
excellent
excellent
shoddysolutions
back by dope demand
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
I revisited this having bought the DVD in one of HMV's "three for £18" offers. I think all of Clint's film's had kind of amalgamated in my mind, as I thought this was the one with the watch ("When the chimes end ...") but that must have been "For a Few Dollars More". I also thought the big civil war battle was from another movie ("Outlaw Josey Wales") but it turns out it was this one all along.
Shot in Italy and Spain, Leone evokes the Wild West of legend through clever use of both close-up and sweeping, panoramic views of barren, arid landscape. The title's three protagonists all turn in fine performances, especially Eli Wallach as the morally bankrupt Tuco.
Looks like i'll have to watch them all again now
I revisited this having bought the DVD in one of HMV's "three for £18" offers. I think all of Clint's film's had kind of amalgamated in my mind, as I thought this was the one with the watch ("When the chimes end ...") but that must have been "For a Few Dollars More". I also thought the big civil war battle was from another movie ("Outlaw Josey Wales") but it turns out it was this one all along.
Shot in Italy and Spain, Leone evokes the Wild West of legend through clever use of both close-up and sweeping, panoramic views of barren, arid landscape. The title's three protagonists all turn in fine performances, especially Eli Wallach as the morally bankrupt Tuco.
Looks like i'll have to watch them all again now
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Indeed it is.rubbershoes said:
I watched 'Sex and Fury' a pinky violence film. The Kanji on the disk revealed that it was actually called 'butterfly' but I guess the title 'sex and fury' could shift more copies in the west and anyway it is also a fairly accurate sum up of the movie in question.
Was it a good film? probably not, but was it a cool film? hell yeah!!!
Great soundtrack and camerawork that prove that Tarentio is just a big copycat.
(lot's of titties too, but to be honest the nudie bits slowed the film down unless it was nudie fighting)
electrogirl
dignity is overrated
Brief Encounter
It was ace, I liked the structure of it, coming from her perspective, but the characters were pretty unsympathetic.
It was ace, I liked the structure of it, coming from her perspective, but the characters were pretty unsympathetic.
Mrs Bradley
wears the trousers
Wallace & Gromit in "The Curse of the Wererabbit" - bought it for the kids really, but it is just unmissable and totally fab 
i watched it two more times actually. a bit clunky perhaps because it was a very low budget film. for me this just made it all the more great. if it had been a super-expensive film i'm not sure i could've enjoyed the films messages so much.shoddysolutions said:It was a very enjoyable film indeed. I felt the script was a bit clunky in places and it did stretch reality somewhat. I was drawn by its theme of youthful idealism vs. middle-aged complacency (could be 'cos i am now in my late 30s myself) and felt that it struck the right balance.
***SPOILER ALERT***
I'm also a sucker for a happy ending
i thought the acting was superb actually. the awkwardness/romance between jule and whassisname was very believeable and incredibly lovely.
i fell in love.
the themes idealism and age i found mildly depressing when i thought about it afterwards though. i think his account of what happens as people get older; ideals gradually diminishing was way too common to be anything but depressing.
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i just got before sunrise.
so i've basically broken the rules of this thread. tonight i shall be watching before sunrise.
i'm looking forward to it.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
The other half of John Woo's The Killer
Can't believe how bad the subtitling is, or the dubbing, but they were one or the other were unbelieveably bad. Really put me off the film
Can't believe how bad the subtitling is, or the dubbing, but they were one or the other were unbelieveably bad. Really put me off the film
girasol
Addicted to handstands!
The digibox is on the blink, so we're watching this for a bit(my son and I):
I found this treasure at the supermarket for £4.99, oh, I forgot how stupid it was! Batman running aroung trying to dispose of a bomb while trying to avoid nuns, prams, ducks in the water, a couple snogging, sailors... Holy Costume Party! The nonsense, it's brilliant!
I found this treasure at the supermarket for £4.99, oh, I forgot how stupid it was! Batman running aroung trying to dispose of a bomb while trying to avoid nuns, prams, ducks in the water, a couple snogging, sailors... Holy Costume Party! The nonsense, it's brilliant!
King Kong on DVD. It's utter wanky bab. I think i'll use the disc as a drinks coaster so it isn't a complete waste of money.
I started watching Before Sunset. I liked Before Sunrise. The relationship between them was pretty believeable which surprised me. I felt like I'd met him a few times. They definitely seem more likeable in the second one though. They were both successfully annoying in the first one.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
You, me and everyone we know
i liked it a lot but i'm too thick to have any idea what it's about
i liked it a lot but i'm too thick to have any idea what it's about
I got my new copy of Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky- the BBC adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's 1930's London based trilogy of different perspectives of the same story. The third one was the best for me, the story of Ella, a decent adaptation of the Plains of Cement. It seems that the actress Sally Hawkins was born for the part, or Patrick Hamilton himself had written the part for her; she portrayed the plain barmaid Ella so well, it made her situation of tortured loneliness and unrequited love so complete in it's impact , even if it was painful to watch. Something decent from the BBC for a change.
I watched Buffalo Soldiers earlier. Fucking excellent film.
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