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
State of Play
Power and corruption, with the privatisation of the US military as the background.
Crowe plays a successful journalist, with an old friend who is now a congressman. This congressman is now looking into the ramifications of pumping large sums of money into private companies to pay for military operations; and they are not being passive in response.
Solid performances all round and kept me engaged throughout.
M
Power and corruption, with the privatisation of the US military as the background.
Crowe plays a successful journalist, with an old friend who is now a congressman. This congressman is now looking into the ramifications of pumping large sums of money into private companies to pay for military operations; and they are not being passive in response.
Solid performances all round and kept me engaged throughout.
M
This show is HILARIOUS! Great writing, voice acting and interesting aesthetic. It reminds me of what an old radio show might have sounded like. I can't wait for the new season!
I finally got round to watching this last night. A film to be enjoyed when you're clear-headed!
Superbly imaginative with great pace and action, and a very intriguing yet satisfying end.
Finally finished the ten drama episodes, but still have the documentaries to watch.
Good, but the subject matter did not lend itself to such a strong narrative as 'Band of Brothers'. Still high quality television. The Okinawa episode had some disturbing scenes, as did the real footage of the invasion of the island on Jeremy Isaacs 'The World at War'.
Not sure it is something I will watch again, but did make me want to get out 'Band of Brothers' again.
Our first Blu-Ray movies, the documentary Earth and Dark Knight, 2-4-£20 @ HMV.
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Earlier watched Harry Brown, from Sky Anytime
Great film! Agreed!
"I learned to drive on Grand Theft Auto"
Stunning architecture...warm cosy interiors…
décor to die for…
and the rest of film is okay too!
Starring…..
Julie Harris as Eleanor Vance
Claire Bloom as Theodora
Richard Johnson as Dr. Markway
Russ Tamblyn as Luke Sanderson
Directed by… Robert Wise
Audio................... 1.0 Mono
Aspect Ratio....... Wide scream / Black & White
Programme Content & Photography © 1963 Turner Entertainment Co.
~<>~Actually I do rather enjoy this film, the absence of a man in a fake rubber monster suit achieves much greater credibility, realism, and seriousness.
My only criticisms are the slightly unimaginative music score considering the material that was around in the 60’s, although getting this wrong could have lost the film it's wonderful creepy feel…
The actor Russ Tamblyn has all the living charm of a Thunderbirds puppet -
and ‘Irritating Git’ comes to mind.
but considering this was probably a low budget movie done with some care and with the best intentions perhaps it’s foibles should be forgiven…
Debs
Decided to get a few cinema 'summer' movies in courtesy of LoveFilm:
Percy Jackson & The Lightening Thief
Confession time: On holiday last year I ran out of books, and went through three of these, which my younger daughter had bought with her .....and?
Well, I like the central conceit, that the Greek Gods have transferred their seat of operations to New York, as the 'heart' of western civilisation; and no, I don't want to get into a philosophical debate!
The stories had heart, and were well written teenage page-turners.
In contrast, the film lacks heart. There seems to be a view in much of Hollywood that a film FOR teenagers need to star teenagers and completely centre round them. So the central characters are all increased, or decreased, in age to hit what they probably saw as the age diametric of the potential audience.
More fundamentally for me the film failed to communicate ANY real emotion. When a major event occurs it seems to have no impact on the main protagonist. As the film moved forward I felt NO connection with the action, and cared not a jot what was happening to the characters.
Steve Coogan is totally mis-cast as Hades.
The only positive thing I would say about the film is that it does have high production values, and I felt truly sorry for the obvious skills that were wasted producing some imaginative and well rendered back drops.
As it happens the film did enough business that there may well be a part II.
4/10
Prince of Persia
My hopes for this were even lower the Mr Jackson, a film based on a computer game!
Well, I was wrong. The film was directed by Mike Newell and has a good cast, and a very reasonable script. This is the sort of thing I would have LOVED as a 12 year old, and am not so long in the tooth that I can't sit and just enjoy the character interplay and action that is served up.
Jake G. puts on a really rather good English accent, Gemma A. is feisty and Ben Kingsley appears to enjoy himself enormously.
6.5/10
Cop Out
Bruce WIllis is a poice buddy movie, BUT directed by Kevin Smith?
Well I loved Dogma, and so will always make room to see KSs films, does this measure up? Well, no - not really.
Bruce does Bruce. Tracy Morgan is engaging, doing some nice riffs on well known film dialogue,but never feels like is IS a policeman.
I get the feeling that Smith was aiming for an updated 'Lethal Weapon', but really the only thing that struck me was that the humour was almost straight from American Pie, reinforced by the presence of Seann Scott, seemingly reprising his role of Stifler! Didn't really sit well for me.
5/10
How to Train Your Dragon
Reviewed above by me, and thought it was OK. Well, it has really grown on me, I'd definitely recommend it.
Percy Jackson & The Lightening Thief
Confession time: On holiday last year I ran out of books, and went through three of these, which my younger daughter had bought with her .....and?
Well, I like the central conceit, that the Greek Gods have transferred their seat of operations to New York, as the 'heart' of western civilisation; and no, I don't want to get into a philosophical debate!
The stories had heart, and were well written teenage page-turners.
In contrast, the film lacks heart. There seems to be a view in much of Hollywood that a film FOR teenagers need to star teenagers and completely centre round them. So the central characters are all increased, or decreased, in age to hit what they probably saw as the age diametric of the potential audience.
More fundamentally for me the film failed to communicate ANY real emotion. When a major event occurs it seems to have no impact on the main protagonist. As the film moved forward I felt NO connection with the action, and cared not a jot what was happening to the characters.
Steve Coogan is totally mis-cast as Hades.
The only positive thing I would say about the film is that it does have high production values, and I felt truly sorry for the obvious skills that were wasted producing some imaginative and well rendered back drops.
As it happens the film did enough business that there may well be a part II.
4/10
Prince of Persia
My hopes for this were even lower the Mr Jackson, a film based on a computer game!
Well, I was wrong. The film was directed by Mike Newell and has a good cast, and a very reasonable script. This is the sort of thing I would have LOVED as a 12 year old, and am not so long in the tooth that I can't sit and just enjoy the character interplay and action that is served up.
Jake G. puts on a really rather good English accent, Gemma A. is feisty and Ben Kingsley appears to enjoy himself enormously.
6.5/10
Cop Out
Bruce WIllis is a poice buddy movie, BUT directed by Kevin Smith?
Well I loved Dogma, and so will always make room to see KSs films, does this measure up? Well, no - not really.
Bruce does Bruce. Tracy Morgan is engaging, doing some nice riffs on well known film dialogue,but never feels like is IS a policeman.
I get the feeling that Smith was aiming for an updated 'Lethal Weapon', but really the only thing that struck me was that the humour was almost straight from American Pie, reinforced by the presence of Seann Scott, seemingly reprising his role of Stifler! Didn't really sit well for me.
5/10
How to Train Your Dragon
Reviewed above by me, and thought it was OK. Well, it has really grown on me, I'd definitely recommend it.
A bit of tourism, though I wonder how authentic it is to modern London. Being a native New Yorker it was always easy to tell what was authentic and what was fake on the US show but with this one I have no clue. It is also the first British show I have had difficulty understanding at first. One interesting aspect of the show is that because I've forgotten the plots of the original shows and I'm not in tune with the finer details of the British perspective on guilt and innocence, the verdicts are occasionally surprising.
Having started to watch BluRays I have decided that, on the whole, I am not going to replace what I have - the quality through the Oppo is very good. BUT, I did decide to buy:
Star Trek Season 1 BR
This box set retains the original 4:3, BUT:
1. The special effects have been updated;
2. The music has been re-recorded;
3. The picture has been cleaned and repaired;
4. The soundtrack has been remastered as 7.1
..and?
I am very impressed. The picture has been cleaned to good effect, and the special effects, although updated, fit in perfectly; you don't feel that you have been watching something that has been 'dropped in' to an old series, but that this is what they would have produced had the technology been available to them.
If you are a bit of a trekkie this is a worthwhile purchase.
M
Star Trek Season 1 BR
This box set retains the original 4:3, BUT:
1. The special effects have been updated;
2. The music has been re-recorded;
3. The picture has been cleaned and repaired;
4. The soundtrack has been remastered as 7.1
..and?
I am very impressed. The picture has been cleaned to good effect, and the special effects, although updated, fit in perfectly; you don't feel that you have been watching something that has been 'dropped in' to an old series, but that this is what they would have produced had the technology been available to them.
If you are a bit of a trekkie this is a worthwhile purchase.
M
Just finished season one. Such good escapist entertainment!
Quote Hook: "Such good escapist entertainment!"
We couldn't suspend belief enough for this series, bit like A - Team for adults.
We couldn't suspend belief enough for this series, bit like A - Team for adults.