What DVD have you just watched?

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Originally posted by JamieL_v2:
'Delicatessen' Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro, a really fun film.

Saw that at the cinema when it was released. Maybe time for another viewing.

Now some family viewing with the kids.

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Originally posted by Frank Abela:
Call me silly but we just had a blast watching Hitch...

Hitch was fun and witty. Cool movie

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I can't agree. I found it very entertaining and will watch it again at some point in the future. I recommend it. Each to their own, eh?

The movie is well done.
I mean well directed, nice sets etc
But i still think that movies like "A bridge too far" are better despite the age.

Not for the faint of heart.

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Originally posted by Haim Ronen:

Fantastic film. A little violent, but that is the nature of the characters. The three central performance are a joy to watch.

Last night, again with great performances from Jack Nicholson and Karen Black.

Just stated 'True Blood' season 1, really impressed so far. Alan Ball, writer of 'American Beauty' and maker of 'Six Feet Under' is keeping his standards up.

It look to be about vampires in a near future USA, but it seems to be more about integration of the races in the deep South of the USA in the 50/60s.

Spike Jonze said that he didn't set out to make a children's movie, but rather a movie about childhood. I think the movie succeeds brilliantly on both counts.

Just ordered

Bad Day At Black Rock. [Spencer Tracey].

and

Scott Of The Antarctic. [John Mills].

Some great viewing in store!

ATB from George

I hope you rolled a fat one?

Previously mentioned on here, it's a very good film.

I got half-way through the book in dribs and drabs so could never really get into it and I gave up. It did, however, give me an insight into what I should expect from the film and I ended up enjoying it. Very good, and well acted too.

After some recommendations on here and reading some good reviews, I thought I'd give it a go. Very enjoyable, well worth the 4 quid!

One of my favorite movies. The haunting soundtrack now sounds exquisite through my DAC.

Two films with a rather different feel even if only separated by seven years. One Ealing, and the other Hollywood.

Bad Day At Black Rock [1955] is very terse and all the better for actually being quite short. It packs a punch like few US made films. It has English characteristics of being tense like mad, and also quite understated. A thriller with Spencer Tracy in the lead role. It is more about what might happen than what actually does ... Tremendous.

Scott Of The Antarctic [1948] is a surprisingly unsentimental retelling of the doomed attempt the reach the South Pole and return, with John Mills making a very fine assumption of Scott.

It is interesting that without comment as such the film underlined the amazingly quixotic judgment shown by Scott, in choice of methods [motors and ponies rather than Huskies] and the actual members of the team. It also does not fail to show the haphazard marking of the route and the fuel and food dumps. This and Scott’s failure to adequately judge and over-engineer a significant safety margin [of food provision as well as fuel] leave the film being rather unsentimentally honest about the failings in Scott's leadership that had the potential from the first for the disaster that ensued. Amundsen may not have appeared to the English as a gentleman, but he was the leader more possessed of a deep understanding of humanity, though he was a very hard man, entirely devoid of sentimentallity. His team returned having left more than half the provisions laid, down unused. He valued the lives of his men above any other aspect than actually winning the race - and a race it was. Sadly Hjalmar Johansen subsequently committed suicide, unable to cope with the magnitude of what had been undertaken - unable to settle to a normal life again - but that can hardly be laid at Amundsen's door.

Fascinating period retelling of history that is a long way from the re-written Scott diaries had been for the previous generation. JM Barrie of Peter Pan fame, who prepared the diaries [with massive reworking of the text] for publication, was both a master of spin and a master of the Fairy-tale as well.

ATB from George

Markah, glad you enjoyed 'The Dish', just a lovely way to pass a couple of hours.

George I know we are in complete agreement on 'Bad Day At Black Rock'. Have you seen Spencer Tracey in 'Judgement at Nurenberg'? A lot of great performances from all the cast in that film. I must track it down on DVD.

Last night I started watching 'The Wire' for the second time, the first for my partner.


I am sure I would not be alone saying this is one of the finest TV series ever made.

Some find the dialogue a little daunting with the heavy use of slang, but it is well written and if you do not quite understand the meanings the first time you hear a term, they will be repeated in such a way that they start to make sense, but do not destroy the realism of the show.

Producer, writer and former journalist David Simon wears his politics on his sleeve, and some will definitely find this uncomfortable viewing, as indeed I did in one of the series where you see some of the effects drug culture and urban decay has on the very young, but seeing drug dealing from both those trying to control it, and also those for who deal the drugs, and for whom it is simply the the only way they can see to make a living makes a fascinating series.

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George I know we are in complete agreement on 'Bad Day At Black Rock'. Have you seen Spencer Tracey in 'Judgement at Nurenberg'? A lot of great performances from all the cast in that film. I must track it down on DVD.

Dear Jamie,

I have seen the Nurenberg film at HMV very reasonably priced. I will pick it up next time I am there. After reminding myself what a great performance Tracey brings to "Bad Day At Black Rock," I am hooked. I often shy away from US based films on the topic of the War, but am now hopeful of something deeper than than the usual style!

ATB from George

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Originally posted by winkyincanada:

Not bad but some parts of it are sheer Hollywood.

Highly recommended.

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Originally posted by Haim Ronen:

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Originally posted by winkyincanada:

Not bad but some parts of it are sheer Hollywood.

Were you expecting much different? I thought it was OK, but I liked Jarhead a lot more.