Last DVD you watched?
07-23-10, 07:15 AM
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Re: Last DVD you watched?
4 episodes of The X-Files (S9): Underneath, Improbable (w/ Burt Reynolds - skipped through parts in this one, couldn't stand the lameass music), Scary Monsters, and Jump The Shark (the Lone Gunmen bite the big one).
Seems like in and amongst a few really good episodes, there are more than a few lemons in this last season. -kd5-
Seems like in and amongst a few really good episodes, there are more than a few lemons in this last season. -kd5-
07-23-10, 07:40 AM
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Re: Last DVD you watched?
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07-23-10, 08:28 AM
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Re: Last DVD you watched?
I really enjoyed it. Love Neil Gaiman's comics, and his novels have been in my to-read pile for like 15 years.
07-24-10, 01:36 AM
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Over the past couple of weeks:
Jacques Tati's TRAFIC (1971): while still charming and funny this is a rather dark (for a Hulot movie) comedy in which Tati has given up and holds the madness of modernization up to viewers' face. Taken as the tail end of a trilogy that started with "Mon Oncle" and continued with "Playtime" (both better flicks) "Trafic" is a nice bookend to Hulot's on-screen antics.
Rewatched Nic Roeg's BAD TIMING (1980): gets better and better, and the Criterion extras (Theresa Russell still looks damn sexy) are icing on the cake. You will believe Art Garfunkel can fracking act!
EDGE OF SANITY (1989): Anthony Perkins gives a subdued and nuanced performance as Dr. Jekyll, then he (with director Gérard Kikoïne staging/lighting up the sets and actors like a made-for-premium-cable mid-80's movie) goes buck-wild with a take of 'Jack' Hyde that resembles Iggy Pop high on crack. Neat twist on the overdone R.L. Stevenson novel, but the scenes where Perkins channels Leonard Nimoy were the best.
IN THE FOOTSTEPS ON MR. HULOT (1989): made-for-French-TV documentary (included in the now OOP Criterion DVD of "Trafic") about Jacques Tati made by his daughter that's pretty cut and dry (clip, clip, clip) but gets by on the charm of its subject matter. Personal highlight: Tati making an appearance on the 'Steve Allen Show' in the mid-50's to promote "Mon Oncle" in America.
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: THE MOVIE (1996): still the best tool to introduce someone to the show that hasn't a clue what it's about. While vastly inferior to the better episodes from the show a few riffs ('your co-pilots will be Claud Rains and Harvey the Rabbit', the whole 'recognize me now Ruth?' gag
) always manage to make me laugh out loud.
MST3K: DEVIL FISH (1998/1984): figures that as soon as I watch my DVD-R traded version Shout! Factory announces they're releasing it next: http://www.mst3kinfo.com/?p=6492. The movie's terrible editing constantly calls attention to itself; entire sequences (particularly the first 20 minutes) have scenes fading into/dissolving out of each other without rhyme or reason, prompting M&TB's to giggle often and Tom Servo to utter the immortal quip 'just because you can edit doesn't mean you should' (Amen!).
HALF-BAKED (1998): Bob Saget steals the movie with a super-filthy cameo and half-a-dozen recognizable names (Jon Stewart, Willie Nelson, Jerry Garcia, etc.) drop by for their minute or two of fun. Guillermo Diaz (the Mexican drug dealer on Showtime's "Weeds") was better than Chappelle and Breuer with his ridiculously hilarious role of Scarface. As a whole though this one runs out of steam way before it's 80 minutes are up. My HD-DVD started skipping so I had to finish it on the DVD side of the combo.
MST3K #1013: DIABOLIK (1999/1968): odd final experiment with which to end the series, which both feels appropirate (it is a goofy-ass movie) and inadequate (there was real coin put behind those sets/talent). The host segments ('To Earth,' the call-back heavy final host segment, etc.) stand tall and make one really feel the loss of the show.
David Cronenberg's A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE (2005): a disappointment, especially since it marked the first collaboration between Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen. Good actors stuck playing variations of troubled Douglas Silk character types that have their world turned upside by very simplistic storyline coincidences. Only William Hurt seems to realize that everything in the movie (including his character) is happening in slow-motion and at a reduced speed (dialogue, movement, beats of action, etc.) so he hams it up (to great comedic effect) while the rest of the cast soldier on. Not Cronenberg's finest.
THE JACKET (2005): On a friend's recommendation (and plea to keep an open mind) I watched this forgotten mid-Y2K thriller that has more than a passing resemblance to 1990's "Jacob's Ladder." The movie's premise (a restraining jacket as a gateway to the future?), editing and multiple past/present/future storylines work against the audience since it's easy to dismiss the 'future' scenes of 2007 (featuring Keira Knightley as the potential key to Brody's character's salvation) as hallucinations inside Jack's drugged-out/tortured head. If you give equal weight to the 'future' '07 scenes as to the present-day '92 scenes "The Jacket" ain't half bad. Will watch again, maybe in a different order (the 'future' scenes first) to see if altering the chronology of "The Jacket" actually improves it.
Jacques Tati's TRAFIC (1971): while still charming and funny this is a rather dark (for a Hulot movie) comedy in which Tati has given up and holds the madness of modernization up to viewers' face. Taken as the tail end of a trilogy that started with "Mon Oncle" and continued with "Playtime" (both better flicks) "Trafic" is a nice bookend to Hulot's on-screen antics.
Rewatched Nic Roeg's BAD TIMING (1980): gets better and better, and the Criterion extras (Theresa Russell still looks damn sexy) are icing on the cake. You will believe Art Garfunkel can fracking act!
EDGE OF SANITY (1989): Anthony Perkins gives a subdued and nuanced performance as Dr. Jekyll, then he (with director Gérard Kikoïne staging/lighting up the sets and actors like a made-for-premium-cable mid-80's movie) goes buck-wild with a take of 'Jack' Hyde that resembles Iggy Pop high on crack. Neat twist on the overdone R.L. Stevenson novel, but the scenes where Perkins channels Leonard Nimoy were the best.
IN THE FOOTSTEPS ON MR. HULOT (1989): made-for-French-TV documentary (included in the now OOP Criterion DVD of "Trafic") about Jacques Tati made by his daughter that's pretty cut and dry (clip, clip, clip) but gets by on the charm of its subject matter. Personal highlight: Tati making an appearance on the 'Steve Allen Show' in the mid-50's to promote "Mon Oncle" in America.
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: THE MOVIE (1996): still the best tool to introduce someone to the show that hasn't a clue what it's about. While vastly inferior to the better episodes from the show a few riffs ('your co-pilots will be Claud Rains and Harvey the Rabbit', the whole 'recognize me now Ruth?' gag
) always manage to make me laugh out loud. MST3K: DEVIL FISH (1998/1984): figures that as soon as I watch my DVD-R traded version Shout! Factory announces they're releasing it next: http://www.mst3kinfo.com/?p=6492. The movie's terrible editing constantly calls attention to itself; entire sequences (particularly the first 20 minutes) have scenes fading into/dissolving out of each other without rhyme or reason, prompting M&TB's to giggle often and Tom Servo to utter the immortal quip 'just because you can edit doesn't mean you should' (Amen!).
HALF-BAKED (1998): Bob Saget steals the movie with a super-filthy cameo and half-a-dozen recognizable names (Jon Stewart, Willie Nelson, Jerry Garcia, etc.) drop by for their minute or two of fun. Guillermo Diaz (the Mexican drug dealer on Showtime's "Weeds") was better than Chappelle and Breuer with his ridiculously hilarious role of Scarface. As a whole though this one runs out of steam way before it's 80 minutes are up. My HD-DVD started skipping so I had to finish it on the DVD side of the combo.
MST3K #1013: DIABOLIK (1999/1968): odd final experiment with which to end the series, which both feels appropirate (it is a goofy-ass movie) and inadequate (there was real coin put behind those sets/talent). The host segments ('To Earth,' the call-back heavy final host segment, etc.) stand tall and make one really feel the loss of the show.
David Cronenberg's A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE (2005): a disappointment, especially since it marked the first collaboration between Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen. Good actors stuck playing variations of troubled Douglas Silk character types that have their world turned upside by very simplistic storyline coincidences. Only William Hurt seems to realize that everything in the movie (including his character) is happening in slow-motion and at a reduced speed (dialogue, movement, beats of action, etc.) so he hams it up (to great comedic effect) while the rest of the cast soldier on. Not Cronenberg's finest.
THE JACKET (2005): On a friend's recommendation (and plea to keep an open mind) I watched this forgotten mid-Y2K thriller that has more than a passing resemblance to 1990's "Jacob's Ladder." The movie's premise (a restraining jacket as a gateway to the future?), editing and multiple past/present/future storylines work against the audience since it's easy to dismiss the 'future' scenes of 2007 (featuring Keira Knightley as the potential key to Brody's character's salvation) as hallucinations inside Jack's drugged-out/tortured head. If you give equal weight to the 'future' '07 scenes as to the present-day '92 scenes "The Jacket" ain't half bad. Will watch again, maybe in a different order (the 'future' scenes first) to see if altering the chronology of "The Jacket" actually improves it.
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07-24-10, 01:45 AM
#2287
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Re: Last DVD you watched?
Road Trip Beer Pong.. meh..
Moon Decent.. Liked it up until a plot change. The short film "Whistle" on that disc was good.
Moon Decent.. Liked it up until a plot change. The short film "Whistle" on that disc was good.
07-24-10, 07:47 PM
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Re: Last DVD you watched?
A Man Escaped or: The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth
07-24-10, 09:36 PM
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Re: Last DVD you watched?
Grandma's Boy
07-25-10, 07:18 AM
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Re: Last DVD you watched?
Watched the last 3 episodes of The X-Files (from S9): Release, Sunshine Days, and the double-length final episode of the series: The Truth.
I'm actually sad this series is over, my wife & I truly enjoyed watching this again. We'll have the latest movie, I Want To Believe, to watch (which unfortunately has nothing to do with the unfinished storyline), but unless they finally film the movie that all X-Philes want to see, the film that finally answers the questions left behind by the series, The X-Files will be done (until the next time). -kd5-
I'm actually sad this series is over, my wife & I truly enjoyed watching this again. We'll have the latest movie, I Want To Believe, to watch (which unfortunately has nothing to do with the unfinished storyline), but unless they finally film the movie that all X-Philes want to see, the film that finally answers the questions left behind by the series, The X-Files will be done (until the next time). -kd5-
07-25-10, 07:27 AM
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Goldfinger (1964) - [Blu-ray]
Hey I'm a big bond (SC) fan like the next guy, so I really was looking for the ultimate remaster in this disc. Picture is a 9 out of 10 on my calibrated samsung 7series lcd hooked up w/samsung BR player with hdmi. The sound however was like 40% of what my cable hd programming puts out on other bond movies that i recorded! i.e., i can have my vol at a 15 and be pretty satisfied while not bugging the neighbors but this disc at over 25 or so and still not feeling it. That was a big letdowm since my 7.1 sony receiver couldn't save the sound from this disc. HD-sound..meh! it did'nt perform and my equipment is not to blame! So know that going in!
Hey I'm a big bond (SC) fan like the next guy, so I really was looking for the ultimate remaster in this disc. Picture is a 9 out of 10 on my calibrated samsung 7series lcd hooked up w/samsung BR player with hdmi. The sound however was like 40% of what my cable hd programming puts out on other bond movies that i recorded! i.e., i can have my vol at a 15 and be pretty satisfied while not bugging the neighbors but this disc at over 25 or so and still not feeling it. That was a big letdowm since my 7.1 sony receiver couldn't save the sound from this disc. HD-sound..meh! it did'nt perform and my equipment is not to blame! So know that going in!
07-25-10, 12:56 PM
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The Phenix City Story - There's probably only about 3 of us that even own this set, but for those 3 this film is a real clunker IMO. I have no clue why its in a set like this, there are zero noir elements to the film. It takes the docudrama approach & does so in the most boring tedious fashion possible.