What DVD have you just watched?

Re-watched "Dead men don't wear plaid" last night.

A must for everyone who likes the classic film noir private eye movies. A black and white puzzle with a lot of old stars mixed-in the new action. Do you recognise them all? Great one liners

http://imdb.com/title/tt0083798/
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dead_men_dont_wear_plaid/

Hilarious, but nothing to show off you equipment.

Hi guys;

I know it ain't a new one, but a few nights back I watched blood diamond. The movie has some very nice acting and is emotionally charged. It sheds light on a part of the world often ignored. It was one of the better movies I had seen in a while. Of course, there is that "the Americans come to save the world" attitude towards the end but not to the point that ruins the movie. I highly recommend it.

What finished me off was a DVD, not music, or a weeks's work or even a drink of beer/vodka/wine, or two!

I would have been fine but the actors were speaking with an accent! ZzZzZzzzzzz! Or so it seems ...

George

Time to find the PG!

Hi all;

Watched this last night. Great sound effects. The speech needed a bit more concentration to follow than most movies on my system. Good enough story line and great action. Very fun to watch regardless of the fact that all the camera men in the movie appear to be over-caffeinated. lol. Very fun... I recommend it if an action movie floats your boat.

Falsely Accused - Lisa Hartman Black
First Do No Harm - Meryl Streep
Two - "True Life" DVDs, both very good - newspaper freebies.

Yesterday:

followed by:

Ratatouille - what a BLAST!

Watched "Into the Wild "last night excellent movie well worth the effort Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters who shape his life, wonderful soundtrack too from Eddie Vedder

"Danger Man SE for Christmas - box set."

Hi ROTF,

Just finished disc 1 tonight, excellent acting from PMG and good story lines.

Accompanying book is very good too.

Enjoy

ATB

Chris N

The Riddle Of The Sands (Rank) Classic based on the Erskine Childers novel re events prior to WW1. Story set in the Fresian Islands. Recommended.
Paul.

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Originally posted by Analogue:
"Danger Man SE for Christmas - box set."

Hi ROTF,

Just finished disc 1 tonight, excellent acting from PMG and good story lines.

Accompanying book is very good too.

Enjoy

ATB

Chris N

Hi Chris

Have worked my way through a lot of the episodes and agree with you that PMG is at his brilliant best throughout. The story-lines are superb and the whole series set a standard that is to be envied.

I've also been watching some John Gregson Gideon's Way DVDs and, once again, am enthralled by the quality of the stories and acting. You also see lots of now familiar actors in minor roles: John Hurt and Geoffrey Palmer for instance. Interestingly the music used in Gideon's Way is identical to that used in The Saint and some episodes of Danger Man.

Enjoy the rest of your Danger Man set.

ATB Rotf

Just gave my father the entire story's dvds for birthday.
Getting a fast revision.

Hi all...

I just watched this on the new projector. Lots of my friends had bashed this movie and said it sucks. I disagree! Great acting on behalf of Will Smith. The story line, although simple, conveys a nice tail of the will to survive as a basic human instinct. Reminded me for a while of "cast away" starring Tom Hanks. A good movie

Read the book by Matherson much better than the movie !....Jim

My partner's daughter came over last night so we had a very gentle diet of movies. "Ratatouille" followed by the Disney "101 Dalamations". Both brilliant examples of the animationist's art, produced by totally different processes of course, but both able to communicate at various levels. I thought the rat movie was great - a blast as Frank A observed last week in fact.

In the last week we've watched three films, none of which I really fancied but all turned out to be quite excellent!
"Cars", just so observant, great characters, terrific animation too.

"Ratatouille", as mentioned above a truly superb film with a great & unusual story.

Last night, "Thirty Days of Night" on Blu Ray. My wife's a vampire junkie & so we settled down for the usual old tosh. A superior horror with some truly scary vampires, unrelenting action and an intelligent ending. Recommended. But don't take the dogs out for a walk in the dark after watching it!

No Country For Old Men.

On the surface it seems twisted in nature but the subplot is very thought provoking and it is beautifully filmed. In my opinion very worthy of the praise it has received. I did have to watch the final 10 minutes over and was glad I did.

Moulin Rouge!

Utterly insane, and a brilliant soundtrack!

Not good.. Not very bad either. If you wanna kill time then why not. Better than going to work! Has decent graphics. Will be watching "cars" in a couple of days

We have enjoyed yet again (upscaled)'The Sound Of Music' Indy trilogy (upscaled) AND 'The Pirates Of The Caribbean' trilogy (£36 amazon uk etc)on Blu-ray via Sony PS3.

Just finished "Crimson Tide" for the umpteenth time. Very strong performances by Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman. Looks good too up-resed by the Panasonic player into the Panasonic plasma screen. And the sound fab through the 2 channel Naim rig.

Last night. "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" on a recent remaster. They don't often make films that good, more's the pity.

And on rental I had "Days of Glory". Every bit as good as "Saving Private Ryan" imho.

Planet Terror last week: Entertaining film, even with the slightly annoying artificial blemishes to give it an old fashioned cert X feel.Well acted [even Tarrantino's cameo performance didn't ruin it].It's a bit like Shaun of the Dead", only with more guns and gore.
Planning on watching "Zodiac" this evening