What DVD / Video did you watch last night ?

[Johnny Canuck3]

Constantine.

I liked the first hour, but then it sort of turns into Blade.

Keanu was ok, like they wrote the role to conform with his acting abilities.

 

[girasol]

Papillon

... an old time favorite!

(I like the book too )

 

[jeff_leigh]

Munich - not as gripping as i thiought it would be

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

New Battlestar Galactica season 2.

I don't want to sound like a sci fi nerd but this just gets better and better. I really wouldn't have bothered with this if my friend hadn't made me start watching it.

Forget the original series, this is some dark shit.

the mini series had a baby's neck being snapped and almost everyone being killed.

Series one had the president deciding to leave some children to die and almost everyone dieing again. (not to mention a million naked cylon boomers, yum)

But this season so far is even better. Whoo hoo.

 

[Shreddy]

Searching for Debra Winger - a documentary made by a simpering Rosanna Arquette. Not sure exactly what the point was that she was trying to make, but it came across as a load of slightly ageing, pseudy, botoxed luvvies moaning about the paucity of decent parts for actresses who are no longer 21.

They seemed completely unaware of the irony that they were all cookie-cutter size 6/8 blondes with very pretty faces, who had played as much part in their youths in perpetuating the stereotypes that help to create the demand for eternal youth and beauty in movies that they were complaining about, now that they were no longer benefiting from it personally.

Without a doubt, the most accurate description of this film I've read anywhere.

I'm STILL asking myself: "Was my life so bland and mediocre at one point that I actually gave this 90mins. of my life?"

 

[LM17]

Napoloeon Dynamite - very funny film!

 

[rennie]

Sideways! excellent film

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Munich - not as gripping as i thiought it would be

I agree. Quite dull, I thought.

 

[rennie]

I agree. Quite dull, I thought.

and very long too.

 

[belboid]

Harry Potter & te Goblet of Fire - pretty damn average

Went the Day Well - absolutely bloody marvellous. Thora Hird's meisterwerk!

 

[Dubversion]

The Muppet Show clip programme from Saturday.

utter rubbish, totally missed opportunity. Fuck all Muppetty goodness, far too much of Christopher fucking Eccleston and Twiggy talking about what the Muppets meant to them. WE DON'T CARE. WE WANT BEAKER.

Although the little eulogy /song scene for Henson did make me a little, erm, racked of throat

 

[Wide Eyed Angel]

Tarnation. Self indulgent documentary but a sad tale non the less, and very odd.

 

[Juice Terry]

On a Clear Day - Great little sentimental film about a redundant scottish shipbuilder deciding to swim the channel.

The Business - I like Danny Dyer but he couldn't rescue this very average paint by numbers gangster flick.

 

[belboid]

The Muppet Show clip programme from Saturday.

utter rubbish, totally missed opportunity. Fuck all Muppetty goodness, far too much of Christopher fucking Eccleston and Twiggy talking about what the Muppets meant to them. WE DON'T CARE. WE WANT BEAKER.

Although the little eulogy /song scene for Henson did make me a little, erm, racked of throat

shit, i meant to watch that just for the Alice Cooper and the whoever it was doing Fever - both stunning (assuming the memory I have from being 11 is absolutely correct, cant see why it wouldnt be). Hmmm, they must be online somewhere...

 

[belboid]

Caputuring the Friedmans last night - seem to be making a habit of massively depressing monday night films!

One seriously fucked up family, in a even more seriously fucked up situation. Sme of those cops should have been shot for the damage they caused to that town.

 

[tastebud]

I watched Dolls. (Japanese). I really liked it. Very slow, calm and romantic (in a pathological and impossible fictitious sense mind).

Incredibly sweet and beautiful (but tragically so).
Not much in the way of dialogue but that wasn't a problem for me because visually it was completely lovely and the lack of dialogue suited the feel of the film well.

(A great portrayal of guilt if anyone's interested).

 

[oooomegrapes]

Heathers - 80s tastic!

 

[rennie]

Heathers - 80s tastic!

great film!

 

[Dubversion]

just tried to watch - at last - La Dolce Vita. maybe it's because i'm full of Benylin and feel like shit, but I just couldn't stay awake. It looks beautiful, it's wonderfully made, but i got the feeling after the first few (very fragmented) scenes that it set out its stall very quickly - Rome's decadence, lack of moral centre, blah blah blah - and nothing much else was likely to unfold.

 

[Dubversion]

yesterday I watched the Bertolluci movie The Dreamers, which was a bit meh...
some Northern Exposure last night, and then this morning I watched Barton Fink for the first time in ages. Forgot what a strange and wonderful film this is. Quite unlike the rest of the Coen Bros' canon

 

[Orang Utan]

just tried to watch - at last - La Dolce Vita. maybe it's because i'm full of Benylin and feel like shit, but I just couldn't stay awake. It looks beautiful, it's wonderfully made, but i got the feeling after the first few (very fragmented) scenes that it set out its stall very quickly - Rome's decadence, lack of moral centre, blah blah blah - and nothing much else was likely to unfold.

It does go on a bit.

 

[Dubversion]

Good - maybe you saw if for what it was then.
I can't remember who, but a lot of people on here didn't like it because of its portrayal of women as either angels or whores or its lack of postive role models.
But it's a comic book movie dealing in archetypes innit?


Did you spot the Dworkinlike judge?

i was one of the naysayers - not because of the sexual politics but simply because once you get over the way it looks, there's fuck all going on..

 

[Orang Utan]

i was one of the naysayers - not because of the sexual politics but simply because once you get over the way it looks, there's fuck all going on..

Apart from some ace violence.

 

[rennie]

yesterday I watched the Bertolluci movie The Dreamers, which was a bit meh...
some Northern Exposure last night, and then this morning I watched Barton Fink for the first time in ages. Forgot what a strange and wonderful film this is. Quite unlike the rest of the Coen Bros' canon

When i watched the dreamers i just wanted to end. quickly.

 

[Dubversion]

even that got very dull. It does look brilliant, but it just had nothing else going for it. The acting - Clive fucking Owen in particular - was dire, as was the script. And i know it was a pulp comic thing, i'm judging it on its own terms, not looking for Cassavetes.,.

 

[belboid]

Clive Owen.....never gonna win an Oscar unless he has to play a tree is he?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Enjoyed it immensely.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I watched Hotel Rwanda a couple of nights ago.

Makes you realize that that Paul guy from the hotel was sort of like Oskar Schindler, but he'll never get the same kind of media coverage.

It was a good movie, quite powerful, but a bit Hollywood. The actual horror of the place must have been about a thousand times worse.

 

[jeff_leigh]

Makes you realize that that Paul guy from the hotel was sort of like Oskar Schindler, but he'll never get the same kind of media coverage.

It was a good movie, quite powerful, but a bit Hollywood. The actual horror of the place must have been about a thousand times worse.

Amen to that johnny

 

[Reno]

I watched Hotel Rwanda a couple of nights ago.

Makes you realize that that Paul guy from the hotel was sort of like Oskar Schindler, but he'll never get the same kind of media coverage.

It was a good movie, quite powerful, but a bit Hollywood. The actual horror of the place must have been about a thousand times worse.

I think the intention was for the film to work both as education and entertainment to get as wide an audience as possible and not to make it so violent that younger viewers could go and see it too. As such it worked very well and as I much preferred it to Schindler's List, where Spielberg's pretensions as a filmmaker got in the way of subject matter.

Currently there is another film out about the Rwandan genocide called Shooting Dogs, which is more explicitly violent and has a much bleaker outcome than Hotel Rwanda. Unlike Hotel Rwanda it is a fictionalised account of real events which concentrates on white missionaries instead of African characters, which is a shame, but it is still quite powerful.