DVD recommendations

[hummingbird]

I thought maybe you lovely people could recommend some goodies for me to watch over Xmas. Something that I may have overlooked or never even heard of. I usually enjoy sci-fi, arthouse drama, clever dark/psychological thrillers, dystopian, black comedy, little independent movies.

Any suggestions?

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[Jonsmad]

Memento. Cypher. Outland.

[hummingbird]

Sorry, I kind of switched off as soon as I heard the words ‘Jim Carrey’.
What were we talking about, again?

[JamesTC]

What about Westworld, bloody good film that, the end scared the shit out of me as a kid. I should get that on DVD actually.

[Seb Patrick]

I’m not who you think I am. I’m the King of Siam. I’ve got a bald head, my name is Yul Brynner, and I am a famous movie star. Perhaps you saw me in Westworld. I acted like a robotic cowboy. It was my best role, I cannot deny I felt right home deep inside that electronic carcass.

[hummingbird]

Seb’s never been mistaken for Yul Brynner, he’s not bald and his head doesn’t glimmer.

[p2p_productions]

This might be worth picking up on DVD in a few years time…

[mick]

[redhead85]

‘Die Well Hard’. I’d buy it.

[redhead85]

‘Die Well Hard’. I’d buy it.

[redhead85]

I thought I’d buy it so much it was worth mentioning twice

[p2p_productions]

Can’t believe they’re seriously looking to make a word-for-word remake with Kay in the lead. Hope it happens, though. Could be fantastic. :)

[Ben Paddon]

I bloody hate Peter Kay.

But I’d watch it.

[Ian Symes]

Can?t believe they?re seriously looking to make a word-for-word remake with Kay in the lead. Hope it happens, though. Could be fantastic. :)

Surely Peter Kay wouldn’t trot out an unoriginal, minimum-effort, insubstantial cash-in, based on someone else’s work and not his own, just to make money? Oh.

[Pete Part Three]

Who remembers grey dog poo?

[si]

>DVD recommendations

Hyperdrive.

[p2p_productions]

>Surely Peter Kay wouldn?t trot out an unoriginal, minimum-effort, insubstantial cash-in, based on someone else?s work and not his own, just to make money? Oh.

But of course, all movies are there to make money. If when released, one happens to make the world a better place, or achieve anything other than recouping its budget – that’s generally considered a bonus to investors. I mean, Kay makes money – hence Fox’s apparent willingness to allow him to ‘remake’ a longstanding action/comedy franchise, singlehanded. As long as it isn’t just ninety minutes of him, Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman jogging on a treadmill to the tune of ‘Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow’, this could potentially be worth watching… He seems sincere about doing a good job with it, at least.

Also coming soon… Jackass 3D!

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=61311

[si]

You want a DVD recommendation? Rob Brydon’s ‘Director’s Commentary’, because it’s fucking marvellous. Hidden away, late night, ITV it was, but brilliant all the same.

[Ian Symes]

But of course, all movies are there to make money.

From a studio’s point of view, maybe. But if that’s the creator’s motivation, then the creator is a cunt.

[Seb Patrick]

You want a DVD recommendation? Rob Brydon?s ?Director?s Commentary?, because it?s fucking marvellous. Hidden away, late night, ITV it was, but brilliant all the same.

No it wasn’t. A single joke stretched out over a series, and one which Adam Buxton had already done much better in single-sketch chunks.

[p2p_productions]

>From a studio?s point of view, maybe. But if that?s the creator?s motivation, then the creator is a cunt.

Someone once suggested this is where the biggest difference between films and movies collide. It’s just a shift of emphasis where art and money are concerned. Sad I know, but one could argue, entirely necessary for future (and past) big budget classics. Saying that, Blair Witch and Paranormal Activity might argue differently…

[Carlito]

Director’s Commentary is brilliant.

[hummingbird]

> ninety minutes of him, Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman jogging on a treadmill to the tune of ?Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow?

I’d pay good money to see that

[p2p_productions]

>I?d pay good money to see that

Actually… it could make for an interesting end credits sequence. ;)

[genericnerdyusername]

I showed Comet Quest to a friend of mine and he said it was rubbish, but that’s okay because he’s wrong. Has anyone here seen it? The kids’ film about Mark Twain flying in this erm…well, flying machine looking for this comet. I loved it as a kid but maybe that’s why I love it now. I need a subjective opinion*! But yeah I recommend this film if only for the creepy scene with Satan creating his own world, based on that Twain tale about, erm, well the same thing round about. I forgot the name of it though! I’m so helpful, I know.

*Objective opinions will be acceptable if they are positive :)

[Arlene Rimmer BSc SSc]

>I showed Comet Quest to a friend of mine and he said it was rubbish, but that?s okay because he?s wrong. Has anyone here seen it? The kids? film about Mark Twain flying in this erm?well, flying machine looking for this comet.

Round my neck of the continental United States, it’s called The Adventures of Mark Twain and yes, it is quite fun kids’ fare, despite scenes like this. Or possibly because of them. I was a rather strange child.

>…that Twain tale about, erm, well the same thing round about. I forgot the name of it though!

As the clip I posted should tell you, it’s called The Mysterious Stranger. From what I recall reading of it, it’s either a book or damn close in length to one (I read it in a Twain omnibus edition, and didn’t finish it), and while it’s broadly similar to the clip in the themes it deals with, stylistically they’re terribly different.

[peas_and_corn]

What about Red Dwarf? It has a Vampire!

[si]

You want a DVD recommendation? Rob Brydon?s ?Director?s Commentary?, because it?s fucking marvellous. Hidden away, late night, ITV it was, but brilliant all the same.

No it wasn?t. A single joke stretched out over a series, and one which Adam Buxton had already done much better in single-sketch chunks.

I won’t lie. You’ve hurt me, Sebastian.

Director?s Commentary is brilliant.

Thank you Carl.

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