Two this weekend:
Unknown
The Lincoln Lawyer
Both pretty good films to watch, entertaining enough, but simply preposterous storylines that require a family pack suspension of disbelief. 7/10 for both.
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Two this weekend:
Unknown
The Lincoln Lawyer
Both pretty good films to watch, entertaining enough, but simply preposterous storylines that require a family pack suspension of disbelief. 7/10 for both.
I really liked Unknown, not a big Liam but he was good in this like in Taken
Just posted Winter's Bone back to Lovefilm.
good film but can't quite see where all the hype about it seems to have come from.
Oh yes and I may have bought the 5 planet of the Apes films on Blu-ray (£20 in HMV and I lurve 'em to pieces) and ended up watching a couple of these as well.
griffo104 wrote:
My fave's the second one. Great series as a whole though :)Quote:
Oh yes and I may have bought the 5 planet of the Apes films on Blu-ray (£20 in HMV and I lurve 'em to pieces) and ended up watching a couple of these as well.
I just watched two Leonardo diCaprio films: Blood Diamond and Body of Lies. Both are highly recommended.
Agreed. Try Inception and make it a threesome.Quote:
Originally Posted by sburrell
lol, i just got that from LoveFilm! I'm looking forward to it - I'm especially pleased to see Ellen Page in a mainstream Hollywood film. She was great in Juno, and before that in Trailer Park Boys, a Canadian mockumentary on life in a trailer park - also highly recommended!
watched Thor Blu Ray rip last night
wasnt impressed, I'll stick with Iron Man !
I don't suppose you recorded it did you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
I would have love to have seen it, but alas I don't have sky, or a TV, and I was at another folk festival when it was shown!
I was at the festival, and according to a friend of mine apparently you can see me prominently a few times.... (but then I am 6'4" and for one of the days I was wearing a very bright yellow tshirt!)
No I didn't record it - if it comes around again I will but not sure how I would get a copy to you - I could transfer it to VHS!....but you don't have a telly to watch it on...:)Quote:
Originally Posted by DanJennings
Ah never mind chap.... I thought you might have one of those fancy new DVD recorders.... but thanks anyway!Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
not feeling so great today due to nasal issues so decided to stretch out on the sofa and watch RED on blu ray - I love this film
Watched The Town on Blu-ray last night.
thoroughly enjoyed it although thought is slightly a little too derivative of Heat if truth be told, not enought to be the same but..
Another decent film directed by Affleck.
'Psych-Out' Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern..loverly Susan Strasberg
Pink Floyd night on BBC 4 tomorrow night..think it's all repeats but I haven't seen them..Live at Pompie is worth watching if you haven't seen it..stunning gig IMO with THE best version of Echoes out there IMO.
I just watched the final season of The Wire - good grief, I couldn't believe it could actually improve on the first four, but it did! If anyone here has not seen this epic serial - don't delay, rent today!
And I'm just watching the last of Terminator - The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Rather good series and a shame it was cancelled. Still, Spooks is back next Sunday :yay:
I guess you have both seasons Martin? I do agree it's pretty good, kind of filled in a few gaps very well indeed :)Quote:
Originally Posted by MartinT
I do indeed, and that's it now. The first two films were superb (and a very good working of a convoluted timeline) and I enjoyed the series.
Not to mention that Lena Heady is quite stunningly gorgeous.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WYnixuoR7m...ena+Headey.jpg
Just FYI: at least one season of Spooks is available free on BlinkBox, possibly two. Have to pay for t'rest tho. :(
united 93 :(:scratch:
Aye, i must admit that when i first sat down to watch the first season it did take a while to get used to the new actors ;) All of about one episode if i remember correctly, after that it just kind of melded together...
I was also impressed by the acting of Summer Glau, though i just couln't get Serenity & i haven't managed to watch the whole film yet :scratch: Ok perhaps she's a female Keanu Reeves & needs to be put in some kind of wooden position to work, good as a female terminator though - time will tell i guess :eyebrows:
Lena Heady is definately more attractive than Linda Hamilton, even though they aren't too much different looks wise... +1 :)
I loved Firefly and Serenity. Really different and good to watch, with interesting interactions between the main characters and the strange 'space cowboys' slant to them. The opening sequence in Serenity is brilliant!Quote:
Originally Posted by Reid Malenfant
I've seen them all, Simon. The new series is on Sunday 9pm BBC One HD. One of the best British drama series ever :)Quote:
Originally Posted by sburrell
I agree, Martin, Firefly and Serenity are excellent. Joss Whedon is a great screenwriter/director, and I was a _big_ fan of BTVS in the day. The episode, "Once More, With Feeling," is so good I sometimes wonder how so much talent can exist in just one man. Firefly - man, shame it was cancelled, but the network was apparently a little dismayed at some of its underlying (and not-so-underlying) messages, buggered around with its schedule and the episode order, then axed it. Boo! Hence Serenity, which is a fitting end to the serial - and yes, what an opening sequence!
Must get round to watching Dollhouse one of these days, another of Joss Whedon's short-lived ventures.
Oh, yeah, and Jonboy: why the head-scratching over United '93? Could you elaborate? I thought it was an efficient and largely non-melodramatic portrayal of the events.
This afternoon:
The Trip .
I got Firefly in a sale many moons ago now - think I paid £13 for the whole series. bought it as it looked interesting and really enjoyed it. thought the film was pretty decent as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by MartinT
Never realised at the time that I got the series that it had been cancelled in the US without all the episodes being shown. Really confused as to why it never took off as I thought it was frsh and had a good slant on the usual sci-fi theme as you mention with the cowboy feel to it.
Just completed a re-visit of season 2 of The Sopranos - my favourite season - I love Ritchie Aprile - for me he was the best of Tony's enemies. 'And don't give me those Manson lamps!'
The scene in which Paulie Walnuts visits the psychic and discovers that he is being trailed by the ghosts of all the people he has whacked over the years is incredibly funny. Brilliant series just a shame it is no more...:(
I liked his ending :)
I still think they end the series right with that great ending.
I loved the look on his face when Janis put a hole in him! Ah, she is her mother's daughter I suppose. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
First time round you really don't see it coming - and neither did he!Quote:
Originally Posted by Canetoad
Yesterday, just before the end of the Floyd 'fest' on BBC4, I switched over to BBC2 to watch 'The Draughtsman's Contract' , a film by director Peter Greenaway
Greenaway, whose films are always wierd, disturbing, thoughtful and beautifully filmed. I've seen most of them, and they are always worth watching:
The Draughtsman's Contract
Drowning by Numbers
The Belly of an Architect
A Zed and Two Noughts
The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover
Prospero's Books
The Pillow Book
I'm a big Greenaway fan. Drowning By Numbers is my favourite, with the Draughtman's Contract a close second. It truly is a beautiful film. The Cook, The Thief is a startling and disturbing film, a bit Tarantino if I'm honest! I think he became a little too 'knowing' by the time he made that one... Nyman's music always works so well in the context of a film, more so than when abstracted into a standalone musical release.
Last night on Film4:
Battleship Potempkin dir. Sergei Eisenstein. (B&W, 1925)
Beautifully shot and beautifully restored. A classic of world cinema.
Ok, i couldn't resist it... Star Wars episode 1 - The Phantom Menace on blu ray...
The Senitype 9 disc set arrived today..
2560 x 1080P on my TV, OMG :stalks: Sound is out of this world to :eyebrows:
Might have to have one a day :cool:
What a great film Barry and I totally agree with your comments :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
I saw The Battleship Potempkin ballet at the Kirov, St Petersburg (then Leningrad). How many people can say that? Crazy stuff :eyebrows:
I can't Martin, though I did see Giselle there in the late '80s.Quote:
Originally Posted by MartinT
Regards
Fantastic place, isn't it? For me, it was the being there that counted rather than that distinctly odd ballet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Yes it is. I'm not big on classical ballet (prefer modern works), but the sense of occasion and ,as you say, 'being there' made it a 'must do'. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by MartinT
Off to enjoy Star Wars - Attack Of The Clones :)
By the way, going on the first blu ray i watched yesterday of The Phantom Menace, these BD issues should be superb! I guess the real test will be when i watch the first of the original trilogy though (A New Hope) ;)
Off to enjoy Star Wars - Revenge Of The Sith :eyebrows: I did say one a day... Actually i did try & watch this last night, i got through 40 minutes & thought i'd better hit the sack ;)
All 3 films of the new trilogy are superb. There is virtually no grain to distract from the picture, just the way i like it. The pictures themselves, well i wanted to see film number 3 having enjoyed the first & second so much...
Superb on blu ray :cool: 10/10 without a doubt!
I am very tempted by them ! and it's payday on Monday !!
Watched an excellent pirate dvd copy of Troll Hunter....not a bad movie IMO and somehow quite original.
Ok, so this CD is about to end & i'm going to be powering up the BD player for Star Wars - A New Hope... The original Star Wars :)
If this BD looks good then the whole lot should as this is the earliest release, like all the others it'll be watched on my TV as it's 2.35:1, it might be scaled to 2560 x 1080 but i know it'll show up more problems if there are any :eyebrows:
See you guys & girls tomorrow, hope you all have a great weekend :cool:
I was meant to be off out tonight but it was knocked on the head earlier... No loss ;)
Growing OP - Hilarious and very well done.
I was very impressed with Star Wars - A New Hope on blu ray :) There were only a few scenes where grain was evident & these generally occured in high contrast scenes (sky & desert). No trace of digital noise reduction to clean things up, everything is vastly more detailed...
I guess the whole set is as good as it's going to get :eyebrows:
Off to watch the one a day Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back ;) I love blu ray (done right) :)
I got the new Blu-ray / DVD BFI release of Barbet Schroeder's 'More', music by Floyd, always a favourite of mine. Great 'Making of' doc, and the foreign language subtitles aren't burnt in on this version (thank you BFI!). Having watched the BR transfer yet but I've thoroughly enjoyed watching it again (again again!) on DVD. Well worth getting hold of if you are a fan of the late sixties counter-culture or c. 1969 Floyd...
Obscured by Clouds and Zabriskie Point are also worth pursuing for Floyd music.
'Touch of Evil' with Orson Welles. First time I have ever seen this film which is considered a minor classic and is referenced in so many other movies. Don't know how it has avoided me for so long but what a fantastic film with brilliant performances and a haunting atmosphere. They don't make 'em like this anymore, more's the pity.
'The Man Who Fell to Earth'. Has aged surprisingly well, but definitely too long at about two and a quarter hours.