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: 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?
Posted on: 07 January 2008 by Analogue
quote:Originally posted by ROTF:
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Hi Rotf,
I must admit that i forgot the theme tune to series 1, but like the "Prisoner" intro, "High Wire" is one of those tunes one does not tend to forget from series 2.
Thanks for the heads-up on Colony 3.
ATB
Chris
Posted on: 07 January 2008 by Reginald Halliday
Posted on: 07 January 2008 by ryan_d
Alan,
promptly followed by some nightmares.....those 2 are the best suspense/horror films ever made imho.
Absolutely great.
Ryan
promptly followed by some nightmares.....those 2 are the best suspense/horror films ever made imho.
Absolutely great.
Ryan
Posted on: 07 January 2008 by ryan_d
Just been watching 'The Empire Strikes Back'. My fav of the first 3 Star Wars movies.
Ryan
Ryan
Posted on: 09 January 2008 by Billy Rubin
2001: A Space Odyssey (new MGM release on Blu-ray).
Beautiful - even after 40 years.
BR
Beautiful - even after 40 years.
BR
Posted on: 10 January 2008 by Martin M
Well here goes:
The Lives of Others: as good as the plaudits say.
Pierrepoint: An excellent film about Albert Pierrepoint, the British hangman.
Thank You for Smoking: Pretty good film about the sleazy world of marketing.
Volver: One for the wife...Excellent Almodover chick-flick!
Apocolypto: Unusual amongst Mel Gibson films in a) not having Mel in it b) not being a vile waste of time
Pan's Labyrinth: Rather good, screwed up fairytale crossed with a war story. Not for kids...
La Vie En Rose: Excellent film about Edith Piaf. What a life! Superb performance from Marion Cotillard.
Small Faces: The ying for Trainspotting's yang and just as good.
City of God (Cidade de Deus): Flat out excellent film about gangland Rio. Feels like Pulp Fiction, but is a better film and has a funkier soundtrack.
Making their way up the 'in' pile: Iraq in Fragments, The Motorcycle Diaries, The Night of the Sunflowers. Historias Minimas and Fail SAFE
The Lives of Others: as good as the plaudits say.
Pierrepoint: An excellent film about Albert Pierrepoint, the British hangman.
Thank You for Smoking: Pretty good film about the sleazy world of marketing.
Volver: One for the wife...Excellent Almodover chick-flick!
Apocolypto: Unusual amongst Mel Gibson films in a) not having Mel in it b) not being a vile waste of time
Pan's Labyrinth: Rather good, screwed up fairytale crossed with a war story. Not for kids...
La Vie En Rose: Excellent film about Edith Piaf. What a life! Superb performance from Marion Cotillard.
Small Faces: The ying for Trainspotting's yang and just as good.
City of God (Cidade de Deus): Flat out excellent film about gangland Rio. Feels like Pulp Fiction, but is a better film and has a funkier soundtrack.
Making their way up the 'in' pile: Iraq in Fragments, The Motorcycle Diaries, The Night of the Sunflowers. Historias Minimas and Fail SAFE
Posted on: 11 January 2008 by Chris Kelly
Last night "Man On Fire", yet another Denzel Wasington/Tony Scott effort. Aside from some exceptionally irritating camerawork/effects, and subtitles sometimes being added over dialogue in English, it was palatable enough for a wet Thursday evening.