What DVD have you just watched?

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Body Heat I'd forgotten just how good this film is.

Very enjoyable!

That's an old favourite of mine. There should be time to do a sequel now, where William Hurt is out of prison and looking up Kathleen Turner!

JohanR

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Originally posted by GFFJ:
A film called The Thing, which is a supernatural suspense type jobby.

Not good, and scary without a reasonable reason for being so.

I like films that uplift in the way the music of Bach and Haydn do ...

ATB from George

More a science-fiction than supernatural theme if it's "The Thing" (with Kurt Russell and some excellent special effects) I know.

Methinks you're too gentle a soul for this genré of film George...

Kurt Russell in it, yes.

It was a loaner, so not one to get for myself on DVD unlike the other one which I was given at the same time, A Knight's Tale, which is touched with good humour.

ATB from George

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Originally posted by jazzfan:

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Originally posted by Musicmad:
Body Heat I'd forgotten just how good this film is.

Very enjoyable!

Just watched this one for the second time earlier today (I first saw it 4-5 years ago). The twist at the end is really something and it features great performances by all the leading characters.

Watch this it's based on this superb Movie

Great movie, with great soundtrack.

"The Reader" on bluray


very good movie. Directed nicely, excellent acting, thought provoking plot

An okay Michael Caine film that's well worth watching when it comes around on the telly.
This DVD can start to gather dust on my shelf now.

nymph

Never Let Go - one of a Peter Sellers triple boxed set and interesting rather than good.

A young Adam Faith is rebellious and agonised, Sellers darkly threatening and Richard Todd almost unwatchable in his weakness and indecision.

I find British films from this period interesting in themselves - almost regardless of merit. Great sheepskin coat.

Deep things... and I like Forrest Whitaker very much...

Whisky Galore!

Huge fun!!! Bought this afternoon.

ATB from George

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Originally posted by Adam Meredith:
Never Let Go - one of a Peter Sellers triple boxed set and interesting rather than good.

A young Adam Faith is rebellious and agonised, Sellers darkly threatening and Richard Todd almost unwatchable in his weakness and indecision.

I find British films from this period interesting in themselves - almost regardless of merit. Great sheepskin coat.

With a fantastic music score by the young John Barry ... you can hear slight references to themes he used a couple of years later in From Russia With Love.

Flags Of Our Fathers - 2/10

Incoherent mess. Had the story been told in a straightforward way (a la 1950s or 1960s) then it could have been very effective but I felt nothing for the protagonists.

I'm not sure I can be bothered to watch the companion film, now.

A very good film, don't know how much is fact and fiction, but it's jolly interesting.

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Benjamin Button.

I know many didn't like this film but I did. Little things like his hair and aging process weren't quite right. But the story and thoughts about loss of love and family were right on. I'm in the middle of all that with my 87 yo parents.

Alice Neel
She's a cranky old woman with one hell of a story, great painter, wish I could get to be that good.

Some mixed reviews ,but I thought both 1&2 were excellent recommended!

Seabiscuit.

Lovely film watched in the company of my niece and her mother, after they returned from Cornish holiday to Norfolk, stopping off in Worcester to rest.

My niece has just finished her A-levels and hopes to go to University to read Marine Biology.

ATB from George

Not on DVD but on telly last night.

What a brilliant lovely film.
And a true story.
Stu

I love that film Stu!

One of the best.

ATB from George

this wigged me out, I had heard about the artist I didn't know about all the other stuff. I do art but I could never do the intricate stuff he does.

I enjoyed Sideways in the theater, nice to have entertainment with a story and not a lot of action and crashes. but them I'm 55, I like a good story and conversation.

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Originally posted by mudwolf:
I enjoyed Sideways in the theater, nice to have entertainment with a story and not a lot of action and crashes. but them I'm 55, I like a good story and conversation.

At 55 I bet you are glad they let you in.

Seabiscuit.

Bought last Friday week, and watched that evening.

I was in company. This evening, alon, the film has such a sad, noble and life enhancing spirit that I suppose it probably becomes my favourite fim bar none.

It is probably partly a question of having grown up with horses, and also a little horse, a mare who was too small to race, but still raced, and broke down, but survived to become a wonderfully kind natured brood mare. She was my pet - no one else's horse at all, and i learned to deal with horses from her.

She was a feisty beast and butter in my hands all at once and from her I learned the indomitable spirit that a great horse can have.

Among the animals only a dog has the same incredible and unreasinable bravery and nobilit

Sorry I am signing off now, convulsing