What DVD have you just watched?
Posted by: u5227470736789439 on 27 November 2005
Just about to watch the secong half of 'The Odessa File.'
All the best from Fredrik
All the best from Fredrik
Posted on: 26 December 2007 by RichardM
Posted on: 26 December 2007 by Mr Underhill
The Simpsons Movie
I don't really enjoy The Simpsons that much, although my younger daughter is building quiet a collection. Surprised myself by finding this funny ...and in spectacular 2D.
Court Jester
Classic with Danny Kay on top form. Required viewing!
I don't really enjoy The Simpsons that much, although my younger daughter is building quiet a collection. Surprised myself by finding this funny ...and in spectacular 2D.
Court Jester
Classic with Danny Kay on top form. Required viewing!
Posted on: 27 December 2007 by Analogue
Recieved Danger Man SE for Christmas - box set.
This covers all 47, 50min episodes.
Patrick McGoohan at his best.
Started watching disc 1 on Christmas Day.
This covers all 47, 50min episodes.
Patrick McGoohan at his best.
Started watching disc 1 on Christmas Day.
Posted on: 27 December 2007 by u5227470736789439
Over the holidays I watched,
"Murder At The Gallop," "Murder She Said," and "Murder Ahoy!" All from Rutherford as Marple.
"Mr And Mrs Smith." [Incomprehesisible to me, but there it is].
"300," which also made no sense. I was fortunate to have had Ancient History as a siubject at scholl, and as Captain Erikson [Jack Hawkins] says in "The Cruel Sea," "Where the linkage?"
ATB from George
PS: Before Christmas I saw "Leon, The Professional," which seemed to have something going for it, but too much blood as well.
"Murder At The Gallop," "Murder She Said," and "Murder Ahoy!" All from Rutherford as Marple.
"Mr And Mrs Smith." [Incomprehesisible to me, but there it is].
"300," which also made no sense. I was fortunate to have had Ancient History as a siubject at scholl, and as Captain Erikson [Jack Hawkins] says in "The Cruel Sea," "Where the linkage?"
ATB from George
PS: Before Christmas I saw "Leon, The Professional," which seemed to have something going for it, but too much blood as well.
Posted on: 27 December 2007 by John G.
Mr. Bean's Holiday
Hilarious family movie.
Hilarious family movie.
Posted on: 27 December 2007 by Guido Fawkes
quote:Originally posted by Analogue:
Recieved Danger Man SE for Christmas - box set.
This covers all 47, 50min episodes.
Patrick McGoohan at his best.
Started watching disc 1 on Christmas Day.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention - I didn't know this wonderful series was available on DVD. I have first series on DVD and 8 episodes of the 50 minutes series on video. I ordered it immediately I read your post.
Superb - thank you
ATB Rotf
Posted on: 27 December 2007 by AlanM
Celine and Julie go boating - well, you did ask !
(and I enjoyed it
)
(and I enjoyed it
)Posted on: 28 December 2007 by Analogue
quote:Originally posted by ROTF:quote:Originally posted by Analogue:
Recieved Danger Man SE for Christmas - box set.
This covers all 47, 50min episodes.
Patrick McGoohan at his best.
Started watching disc 1 on Christmas Day.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention - I didn't know this wonderful series was available on DVD. I have first series on DVD and 8 episodes of the 50 minutes series on video. I ordered it immediately I read your post.
Superb - thank you
ATB Rotf
ROTF, enjoy - entertainment at it's best.
I hope you have not been overcharged for the box set.
I got mine for about £54 from:-
www.bensonsworld.co.uk
ATB
Chris N
Posted on: 30 December 2007 by Mr Underhill
Downfall
A reconstruction of the final days of Hitler.
A powerful piece of cinema that shows the deconstruction of people caught within a situation where they have very limited control, and no future.
The people portrayed are a mixture of the ordinary and the truly awful, yet even the awful are not cyphers, but fully fleshed characters - which makes their decisions and actions even more terrible.
My wife & I found this film very effecting. The portrayal of a civilisation on the brink of destruction opens some interesting thoughts about our own predicament - dancing on the edge of disaster.
Highly recommended.
A reconstruction of the final days of Hitler.
A powerful piece of cinema that shows the deconstruction of people caught within a situation where they have very limited control, and no future.
The people portrayed are a mixture of the ordinary and the truly awful, yet even the awful are not cyphers, but fully fleshed characters - which makes their decisions and actions even more terrible.
My wife & I found this film very effecting. The portrayal of a civilisation on the brink of destruction opens some interesting thoughts about our own predicament - dancing on the edge of disaster.
Highly recommended.
Posted on: 30 December 2007 by RichardM
Posted on: 01 January 2008 by Mr Underhill
Apocalypto
Got to say that I HATE the way Gibson mangles history - and so I am not fond of his movies ....but this I enjoyed.
A very straight forward story arc - that I found tremendously effective.
Personally I would have cut the 'premonitions' scene.
This is one I have bought.
M
Got to say that I HATE the way Gibson mangles history - and so I am not fond of his movies ....but this I enjoyed.
A very straight forward story arc - that I found tremendously effective.
Personally I would have cut the 'premonitions' scene.
This is one I have bought.
M
Posted on: 01 January 2008 by Steeve
quote:Originally posted by AlanM:
Celine and Julie go boating - well, you did ask !
(and I enjoyed it
So did I Alan - it's an excellent, albeit it somewhat confusing, film!
Steeve
Posted on: 02 January 2008 by Chris Kelly
Last night we watched "Casino", which for me is shoulder to shoulder with "Goodfellas" as the pinnacle of Scorcese's film making.
Posted on: 02 January 2008 by Guido Fawkes
quote:Originally posted by Analogue:quote:Originally posted by ROTF:quote:Originally posted by Analogue:
Recieved Danger Man SE for Christmas - box set.
This covers all 47, 50min episodes.
Patrick McGoohan at his best.
Started watching disc 1 on Christmas Day.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention - I didn't know this wonderful series was available on DVD. I have first series on DVD and 8 episodes of the 50 minutes series on video. I ordered it immediately I read your post.
Superb - thank you
ATB Rotf
ROTF, enjoy - entertainment at it's best.
I hope you have not been overcharged for the box set.
I got mine for about £54 from:-
www.bensonsworld.co.uk
ATB
Chris N
Hi Chris
Mine cost £54.45 from the Amazon and just arrived - so I'll be watching tonight and, at a couple of episodes a week, for the rest of year - much better than modern TV (IMHO).
ATB Rotf
Posted on: 02 January 2008 by Frank Abela
I was given the Tin box DVD edition of Blade Runner.
The Final Cut is an excellent transfer although I felt it wasn't quite as well paced as the more usual Director's Cut. The picture quality is better than the Director's Cut and the sound quality is excellent. I find myself wondering what a BluRay edition would look like, given the amount of work done on the thing.
The extras are an interesting document on the subject too. Very happy with this Christmas present...!
The Final Cut is an excellent transfer although I felt it wasn't quite as well paced as the more usual Director's Cut. The picture quality is better than the Director's Cut and the sound quality is excellent. I find myself wondering what a BluRay edition would look like, given the amount of work done on the thing.
The extras are an interesting document on the subject too. Very happy with this Christmas present...!
Posted on: 02 January 2008 by Frank Abela
Spiderman 3 - I liked this a lot when it came out on the big screen and the DVD is well put together too. I'm a sci-fi fan and rather enjoy the Spidey stuff...
Posted on: 02 January 2008 by Analogue
quote:Originally posted by ROTF:quote:Originally posted by Analogue:quote:Originally posted by ROTF:quote:Originally posted by Analogue:
Recieved Danger Man SE for Christmas - box set.
This covers all 47, 50min episodes.
Patrick McGoohan at his best.
Started watching disc 1 on Christmas Day.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention - I didn't know this wonderful series was available on DVD. I have first series on DVD and 8 episodes of the 50 minutes series on video. I ordered it immediately I read your post.
Superb - thank you
ATB Rotf
ROTF, enjoy - entertainment at it's best.
I hope you have not been overcharged for the box set.
I got mine for about £54 from:-
www.bensonsworld.co.uk
ATB
Chris N
Hi Chris
Mine cost £54.45 from the Amazon and just arrived - so I'll be watching tonight and, at a couple of episodes a week, for the rest of year - much better than modern TV (IMHO).
ATB Rotf
Hi ROTF,
Just finished disc1 tonight, excellent acting from PMG and good story lines.
Accompaning book is very good too.
Enjoy
ATB
Chris N
Posted on: 04 January 2008 by Adam Meredith
American Gangster - Denzel Washington giving another mannered performance in a slow and ultimately pointless Scott (Ridley this time) film, again. Russell Crowe looks pretty good but perhaps only in comparison.
300 - fairly stylish celebration of death and killing - difficult to see the point really. More bearable than Sin City.
Danny Boyle's "Sunshine". If you liked the original Solaris - you still won't like this.
Entertaining and watched without a sense of duty:
The Bourne Ultimatum - not my favourite in this excellent franchise but good and fast paced all the same. It may be the 'flu, but I cannot remember a jot of the plot but it was fun to watch and I'll be looking forward to running it through a proper home cinema system - maybe then I'll be able to make out the dialogue.
Ratatouille - weird idea - an American film about Good Food AND Loveable French Characters - oh, and rats in the kitchen. Not played for big laughs but watchable and the "message (? we should, er, like rats) is easy to swallow. The children liked it but expected more 'umere.
The winner - "Hot Fuzz".
Apart from some over-gruesome inserts a very clever and well-crafted comedy with excellent performances from everyone (and it does seem to include every one) involved.
300 - fairly stylish celebration of death and killing - difficult to see the point really. More bearable than Sin City.
Danny Boyle's "Sunshine". If you liked the original Solaris - you still won't like this.
Entertaining and watched without a sense of duty:
The Bourne Ultimatum - not my favourite in this excellent franchise but good and fast paced all the same. It may be the 'flu, but I cannot remember a jot of the plot but it was fun to watch and I'll be looking forward to running it through a proper home cinema system - maybe then I'll be able to make out the dialogue.
Ratatouille - weird idea - an American film about Good Food AND Loveable French Characters - oh, and rats in the kitchen. Not played for big laughs but watchable and the "message (? we should, er, like rats) is easy to swallow. The children liked it but expected more 'umere.
The winner - "Hot Fuzz".
Apart from some over-gruesome inserts a very clever and well-crafted comedy with excellent performances from everyone (and it does seem to include every one) involved.
Posted on: 04 January 2008 by u5227470736789439
Saw "Hot Fuzz," before Christmas. Funny and more ...
ATB from George
ATB from George
Posted on: 04 January 2008 by Mr Underhill
quote:Originally posted by GFFJ:
Saw "Hot Fuzz," before Christmas. Funny and more ...
ATB from George
Hi George,
Saw it at the cinema and we all enjoyed it. What I found as funny was the reaction of some American reviewers who found the 'switch' from comedy to 'action' off-putting!
M
Posted on: 04 January 2008 by Adam Meredith
quote:Originally posted by GFFJ:
Funny and more ...
It gets that weird Royston Vasey, Ledbury, Bourton-on-the Water feel perfectly.
Posted on: 04 January 2008 by u5227470736789439
Careful! I know Ledbury very well! I know Bromyard just as well and that really is weird!
They had the Annual Secret Policmen's Balls there! I grew up exactly between the two between 1961 an 1980! I also knew the Chairmen [both ladies] of the Magistrates in both places.
Royston Vasey, my foot!
ATB from George
They had the Annual Secret Policmen's Balls there! I grew up exactly between the two between 1961 an 1980! I also knew the Chairmen [both ladies] of the Magistrates in both places.
Royston Vasey, my foot!
ATB from George
Posted on: 05 January 2008 by AlanM
Last Night was:
Followed swiftly by:
Both from the Quadrilogy box set.
Followed swiftly by:
Both from the Quadrilogy box set.
Posted on: 06 January 2008 by Guido Fawkes
quote:Originally posted by Analogue:quote:Originally posted by ROTF:quote:Originally posted by Analogue:quote:Originally posted by ROTF:quote:Originally posted by Analogue:
Recieved Danger Man SE for Christmas - box set.
This covers all 47, 50min episodes.
Patrick McGoohan at his best.
Started watching disc 1 on Christmas Day.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention - I didn't know this wonderful series was available on DVD. I have first series on DVD and 8 episodes of the 50 minutes series on video. I ordered it immediately I read your post.
Superb - thank you
ATB Rotf
ROTF, enjoy - entertainment at it's best.
I hope you have not been overcharged for the box set.
I got mine for about £54 from:-
www.bensonsworld.co.uk
ATB
Chris N
Hi Chris
Mine cost £54.45 from the Amazon and just arrived - so I'll be watching tonight and, at a couple of episodes a week, for the rest of year - much better than modern TV (IMHO).
ATB Rotf
Hi ROTF,
Just finished disc1 tonight, excellent acting from PMG and good story lines.
Accompaning book is very good too.
Enjoy
ATB
Chris N
Hi Chris - I've watched the first four episodes and they are wonderful. The stories are really good and PMG's acting is outstanding. I love the location shots too; brings back memories.
A what a super theme tune - please click here
Do you remember this introduction to the first series - please click here
Watch out for Colony Three - one of the episodes I have on VHS - this is an absolute classic.
ATB Rotf
Posted on: 06 January 2008 by BigH47
The Wall, or is it a music DVD?